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BMI is an objectively terrible individual health metric, it's is literally just weight / height². It measures neither body fat nor visceral fat, cannot distinguish muscle from adipose tissue, says nothing about fat distribution, fitness, metabolic health, or organ function, and its interpretation varies with age, sex, ethnicity and body composition.

And these aren't merely hypothetical bodybuilder edge cases. A systematic review found BMI had only ~50% sensitivity for detecting obesity when compared with body-fat reference methods—i.e. it missed roughly half the people classified as obese by adiposity.

More importantly, the 2025 Lancet Commission on clinical obesity explicitly recommended that BMI be used only as a population-level risk surrogate or screening tool, not as an individual measure of health. For individual assessment they recommend actually confirming excess adiposity with waist measurements or direct body-fat measurement.

Which is basically what this study is demonstrating again: where the fat is contains substantially more useful cardiovascular information than the number you get from dividing someone's mass by the square of their height.

As usual Zuckerberg is talking out of both sides of his mouth. On one hand he's releasing open-weight, commodity grade models while gating their frontier models behind facebook apps. You'll be able to have your cake, but won't be able to eat it.

That’s nice, but what are they shooting? Peas? Water? I’m curious.

Nonsense, if you tolerate disinformation you get more disinformation. Countries that fail to address it will fall and the world will be worse off because of it. The right to free speech does not include the right to a free platform or free promotion.

Not all jobs require hiring smart people, in fact for some jobs, hiring a smart person is a liability, law enforcement for instance.

Compared to the aircraft it replaced, it's actually safer and much more capable.

What do you mean by "pretend ecological issues?" Climate control isn't an ideology it's a necessity created by failed policies. Climate change doesn't care about your political or economic ideology.

Workers should be entitled to a minimum wage, business expense reimbursements, employee benefits, rest breaks, and all the other benefits afforded to employees under California state law. AB5 is a good law and should be implemented Federally.

A recent poll suggests that seventy percent of Americans think enacting new gun control laws should take precedence over protecting ownership rights. So a larger portion of the country does agree with this.

It seems pretty likely that a vasculatory inflammatory virus that also infects the immune system will have lasting, long-term damaging effects on your organs and cardiovascular system.

Considering the amount of fraud and theft in the crypto community, a little regulation could be a good thing. Normal people want good regulations to protect them from bad actors. That's the point of good governance.

"Totally justified" given the costs and consequences of the alternative.