Somehow this thread turned out to be both entertaining and rather wholesome, it’s appreciated.
Thanks for sharing that Froggy. Deathwing is one of my favorite heroes in Hots, even if he’s a bit niche.
I was expecting more flaming when I made the thread which definitely would have made things spicy due to my responses to that.
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I would flame you, but I respect you too much!
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Alex also got updated.
Go to the end of the video.
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Ah, yes, I saw those. I logged in to check out the prepatch
Alex is a hero I love, but also hate. Played with clueless players who refuse to use safe heal circles makes her so frustrating to play. Only Auriel comes in a distant second in healers for this reason. At least now after her many reworks it’s easy enough to produce your own energy with her to heal.
*A shout out also to old man Cain, for those weird players who avoid all potions and even dodge potions when you throw them directly at them!
what TV show would that be? I haven’t owned a TV since 2007; please educate me
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hundreds of thousands die due to obesity related illnesses and we just spent two years of “stay inside, close the gyms and parks, liquor stores and pot shops are ok” and it was in the headlines, and nobody cares. Your opinion is irrelevant.
you have provided no citations (again), posted implied connections, and ran off on tangents instead of trying to support you claim.
The internet is a source of countless bits of information so you could at least pretend you ran a search that backs your claim instead of assuming the issue is anyone else that doesn’t agree with you.
Yea, if someone runs a search for “how many die to malpractice” you’re going to see a parroted number that claims “3rd highest deaths” and points at a ‘study’, if even that much.
The numbers purported – if anyone actually bothers to check sources (the whole point of having them) are Exaggerations because there’s motives in ‘scaring people’ that don’t know any better. Someone grabs a ‘study’ for a case on injuries, and then extrapolates that to the whole population and runs an article with it.
Take-home message:
-A popular claim that medical error is the third leading cause of death in the United States originated in a 2016 back-of-the-envelope analysis published in the British Medical Journal
-This ranking is an exaggeration that was arrived at by combining a small number of studies done in populations that were not meant to be representative of the entire U.S. population and that were not designed to prove a link between a medical error and death
-The claim is often used by proponents of alternative medicine to scare people away from medical care.
" when we look beyond the scary headline of medical errors as the third leading cause of death, is an analysis of studies that were never meant to look at deaths caused by medical errors, often reporting a very small number of deaths from populations that are not generalizable to the whole of the United States, and being combined in a crude way. The BMJ ’s higher estimate of preventable deaths due to medical error—440,000 patients a year—translates to 62% of all hospital deaths…"
If you follow that link, it explains that some of the sources used for articles that claim several thousand die come from figures that involve populations of a dozen affected.
First, these medical error estimates were extrapolated by magnitudes, with only a few dozen purported medical error deaths closely reviewed in the underlying data. Second, most of the studies were performed without the intention of gathering a sample generalizable to the entire US population. Third, the figures seem to imply a causal relationship between medical errors and deaths, though the methods for determining whether an error led to a patient’s death and whether the error was truly preventable were not well-defined in the data. Fourth, neither estimate utilized any established meta-analytic methodology or guidelines for combining data from dissimilar studies, but rather reported simple or weighted arithmetic means. Finally, the largest estimate of 440,000 preventable deaths was only achieved by applying an arbitrary 200% multiplier to the author’s own calculation to account for presumed underreporting.
Is there an issue of misclassification or underreported concerns in various ‘medical’ fields? Yes. Are you likely to see the 250 - 400k posted on websites that advertise legal action as a way to stir up business? Yes.
Are 62% of patient deaths caused by preventable malpractice? No
Knowing how to cut out curt click-bait memes and process the implication of conspiracy rants is part of what gives ‘value’ to someone’s opinion. Otherwise, anyone can claim whatever they want and act like it’s ‘true’.
“you might want to put a bit more into critical thinking before replying with more hallow parroting.”
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Yeah, last I checked the top 5 composed of vascular diseases like MI, CVA, HTN, atherosclerosis, as well as T2DM and cancer. I think DVT was up there too.
nah, my grandmother died of malpractice. Dismiss it as anecdotal, idc. Leave me another long reply with links to stuff on the internet that i should totally trust because follow the science not the money, etc etc. 70% of the US is overweight; tell me thats not malpractice from the medical establishment and fitness industry, and the regulatory agencies in charge of the aforementioned.
Provide lots of citations, please. I’ll be grading this next week when i sit down at my desk again.
Who u calling a nerd?
#nerdgirlftw
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It’s not. You apparently don’t seem to actually know what ‘malpractice’ entails, nor do you seem to know the difference between cause and correlation or a number of other c’-alteration I could use cuz the capacity for you reading this already ended… Not that you’ll actually linger on enough specifics to convey something useful if I had.
You’ll find better information on why people don’t go to doctors, avoid taking advise/medications and finding it cost prohibitive to have better medical care in their life. The sort of families that are curbed by costs also tend to be forced to eat cheap junk and have increased stresses, don’t get sufficient rest, and then try to compensate with other substances that both adversely affect their finances and their health. A number of people do not put in enough weekly of cardio, and it’s not ‘malpractice’ that americans are obese and neglect exercise.
Hi, I’m in that category of “too poor” because I went the choice of an educator. There may or not be a significant correlation between how much a country values their teachers, and how knowledgeable their populace will be 
There’s a growing misinformation campaign where people refuse to actually find out about anything, learn how ‘proof’ works, and instead get clickbait ‘science’ from bad podcasts and radio advertisements. Instead of actually enforcing medical reforms and curbing the issues of cost, personal, and patient compliance, the US voted for a system that makes things worse, reinforces fear of ‘socialism’, and pads the pockets of the select big pharm while people caught up in the middle pay more for what they already had.
It’s almost like the sort of grievances that stymie how people perform in this game also affects how they conduct themselves outside of it 
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#rekt
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You don’t need cardio to lose weight, nor do you need expensive foods also. Obesity is simply when you eat more than you burn. If your body naturally without exercise burns 2000 calories, and you eat 2500 you’ll gain weight. Doesn’t matter if it’s McDonald’s or some “expensive, healthier foods you make at home (like seasoned grilled fish fillet, green beans and rice).
Obesity (normally) is tied to how much you eat.
What you eat is tied to things like hypertension, high cholesterol, diabetes, heart disease, fatty liver disease, and such. You can have these diseases and not be obese.
There was actually an experiment where someone ate only McDonald’s (cheap unhealthy food) and lost weight. My point is that you don’t need to be wealthy to be at a healthy weight.
Stress, sleep, and such are on the minor side as those aren’t directly tied to your weight, only slightly affect it. Not nearly as much as calories you consume (from whatever source).
It’s not all economics. Obesity is a thing because people are not told or properly taught how weight loss/gain works, so people form inaccurate assumptions on how weight loss works. Too much of that happens and people sell these “weight loss secrets” that are complete bogus, or withhold information about it either because they want you to buy their product or because they don’t even know how it works themselves. It’s very easy to understand weight loss and it’s simple. Burn more calories than you eat.
Yes there are medical conditions that can make weight loss more difficult, like diabetes, but if you look at insulin for diabetics… which is crucial for managing sugar, it’s being sold at expensive prices. It might not technically be malpractice, but still an issue with the healthcare system.
Blaming it on financial status because “healthy foods” are “expensive” shows you don’t know what you’re talking about.
While McDonald’s is unhealthy and you can still lose weight eating it, fresh produce is very cheap while also healthy.
I agree but I do disagree with this statement.
Sleep is paramount to weight loss in not only improving your metabolism but it’s also the period in time where the body makes the most physiological modifications.
Though, I do agree that ultimately weight loss comes down to input<output but obviously, it’s more complicated than that. I won’t go into the weeds with that since your point was to prove that you can lose weight on a poor diet. This is true.
However, it’s much harder to lose weight on a poor diet so that demographic will typically lack the discipline to pull it off. For instance, if you’re on a 2k calorie a day diet and you require less than 2k to lose weight based on your biological parameters (such as metabolism, age, size, etc). A single burger from Sonic is almost 1k calories with cheese/bacon options exceeding 1k.
How many people are disciplined enough to eat a single burger and then not eat for the rest of the day since they just expended about or over half of their daily allotment of calories.
Those on a healthy diet can eat more which helps with appetite suppression. If your diet is healthy, you can afford to eat 3 times a day and still land below 2k but on a poor diet, you can only afford to have that one or two cheeseburgers. Additionally, junk food increases the odds of developing hyperlipidemia (high fat/cholesterol in the blood) which then leads to narrowing of the arteries which then leads to hypertension which then leads to atherosclerosis which then leads to CVA or MI.
Finally, I think the biggest advantage many unhealthy people forego is exercise, mostly in the form of weight lifting. Base metabolic rate (BMR) dictates how much energy your body spends daily and a muscular person will have a higher BMR than an obese patient with little to no physical activity. That’s why weightlifters eat so much and never get fat because their BMR is so high. You can unlock 1k+ in calorie allotments just by being in shape and the best part is that it exerts effects even when you’re out of the gym. That means your BMR is working for you even when you’re browsing the forums on the pot so it’s an excellent tool to upgrade since you spend more time out of the gym than in the gym.
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Are you attracted to males or not, and in that context how sexy do you think Wrathion is, and do you feel sadness that he probably will never join the Nexus?
A sonic cheeseburger is both cheaper in price and calories, 500-700. There are also other options besides sonic. For example, Taco Bell allows you to have 3 crunchy tacos (each 170 calories) which will both fill you up, at least it should, and not be heavy in calories (510). McDonald’s allows you to have 2 small chicken sandwiches at about 600-700 Cals and feel pretty full. 600-700 is about 1/3 of your calorie intake. Combine that with diet soda instead of regular and it can totally be done.
The main issue people have when losing weight is that they feel they have to eat a completely different diet, then quit that diet because they don’t like how it tastes and so they crave something they completely stopped eating. It makes relapses happen more often. If you lower the calories you eat, while eating the same diet, you’ll lose weight.
Aside from that, if you wanted healthier options… they aren’t so expensive to where someone who is low class financially is “forced to eat cheap junk”. Produce is cheap, canned/boxed goods are cheap. There are many good options at completely doable prices, even through this inflated economy that hopefully won’t last forever.
As for working out, sure it’s objectively helpful… but not needed for weight loss.
And sleep is also somewhat beneficial but not necessary for weight loss like calorie management is.
Now before someone says it, I’m not saying people shouldn’t get good sleep or exercise, but that weight loss is tied to other things more important than those.
why do i have zero binches