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  • It’s because he’s a VIP that they wanted him in person.

    Think about.

    How do you know that he’s really the pope? It’s a phone call. Maybe he has 28 character long randomized strings for secret questions, but maybe it’s actually his family’s dog’s name. The family dog he uses in a favorite homilies that everyone has heard before, and knows the name of.

    Most of Pope Leo’s life is probably among the most researchable in the world right now. Most of the kinds of questions people answer is actually public info if you know where to look.

    The answer is you don’t. At least not on the first call in.

    Chances are it’s going to get escalated and a more senior team is going to get involved that can verify things and get it done.

    But the bank CS rep was in fact protecting him, not screwing him over.
















  • Who exactly is “people like me”?

    Stop making assumptions. Particularly when my comments directly contradict them.

    You’re reading things in my comments that aren’t there.

    And by the way, GPL-1s aren’t some sudden fix. Yes it helps with the appetite and hunger.

    But that comes with other baggage, like needing to monitor for side effects, finding the proper dosage (and keeping on it.)

    It’s certainly not a viable solution at the scale that’s currently necessary. Even so, I’m not seeing anyone here saying traditional weight loss isn’t hard- and I’m certainly not.




  • Whataboutisms are wild.

    Then original comment said that traditional weight loss isn’t a permanent cure.

    Neither are gpl-1s.

    And bringing other medications into it is irrelevant.

    If you want to cure obesity, it needs to be done at a societal level. You have to be Socratic about it. Nobody ever gets past the first easy “but why” to “what causes obesity.”

    And of those who do, no one ever gets past the easy pill, that makes corporations rich.

    The reason the US in particular doesn’t have the political will to press for the societal change we know will solve things is because it hurts profits of corporations like nestle or General Mills (and many of these mega corps are also profiting off the medical issues the fist creates.)

    If GPL1 is the only way it works for you, that’s between you and your doctor, but long term, it’s not a solution. It’s just another subscription making life more expensive than it needs to be