On Wegovy(semaglutide) I haven't noticed any change in my binges or impulsiveness. Slightly worse(not dramatic) depressive episodes but that's about it.
Semaglutide has a warning about not being suitable for folks with depression. I don't think I've seen any changes to my moods. I'm type-II bipolar and if anything my depression episodes are slightly worse now.
Funny, after semaglutide I developed moderate arthritis in my MTP(foot) joint.
I wonder if it was gout because it seemed to come on fast. They say semaglutide shouldn't cause gout but I'm not convinced. It has some very weird effects on my hydration. I drink a fair amount of water, but specifically at night I now have to urinate a dozen times throughout the night and wake up with my mouth almost dried shut.
I've lost 10% of my bodyweight(probably >1/3 muscle, sadly) which is great and it's taking the load off my joints, but man this foot thing is a bummer. I need to find a sports Dr because most foot docs seem to take the "just stop running/hiking and switch to biking/swimming" approach which doesn't work for me.
That kind of damage takes many years. Do you have scans from prior years? I also discovered I have arthritis in the ankle recently and there were no pain symptoms, only joint instability and issues higher up on the leg. This was probably caused by either genetics or ankle trauma from childhood that eventually reared its head in my 30s.
My last x-ray in 11/2022 was perfect. Good joint spacing and no degenerative changes. That's over 3 years ago now though.
One thing I think changed for me was that I switched to WFH full-time and wearing crocs all day. My arches subsequently collapsed. I have joint stiffness now as well, but the x-ray didn't show anything so I think it's perhaps sinus tarsi pain from the compression due to over-pronation.
With most resources, it’s usually not that they literally can’t be found, but that the cheap sources are gone. If tungsten costs 20x as much to extract, it doesn’t matter that it technically exists, a lot of users are just not going to be able to afford it.
The article says the US currently imports about 10,000 tons of tungsten per year, and has no active production, so that's also its current usage.
Tungsten costs about $200/kg [0]
So the total US tungsten usage is $2 billion/year.
If the price goes up 20x overnight, and nobody changes their purchasing behaviours, that costs US businesses, consumers and
government $38 billion.
That's a lot of money for most people, but it's being spread over a wide base.
For a comparison, the US uses about 20 million barrels of oil per day [1] or 7 billion per year. So a 20x shock in tungsten would be roughly equivalent to oil prices going up $5/barrel. In fact oil fluctuates by that much most quarters [2], if not most months. People complain a little when it goes up, but it takes more than that to really have a noticeable effect on the economy.
A 2x or 5x price increase - a huge shock in any context - would be problematic for a few companies, but really business as usual for the US as a whole.
There's also a lot of them because many people live in cities.
Also many online communities driven by user moderation are controlled by folks with a lot of time to participate and skewed against certain segments of society. Online views often skew wildly from real life.
I've basically given up trying to find community online. Talking with real people is so much more rewarding and less frustrating.
The urbanists are vocal online because of something they're unsatisfied with in their life - if you talk to them and dig into it, they're complaining about a lack, a lack that they think would be filled if they could just afford to live in NY or Europe (because they assume everyone in NY lives like Friends or something).
If instead of trying to solve loneliness through urban development they dedicated their efforts to "touching grass/concrete" and got to know their community - suddenly they'd discover they have the power to urbanize - but do they still have the desire?
It would appeal to naive technofetishists, the same crowd of investors enamored by many of Elon's other impossible schemes.
The moon mfg makes significantly more sense than the hilarious plan to establish a permanent Mars base in the next 50 years, but that's not saying much.
You'd expect subsidies to drop as supply chains mature and economies of scale kick in. What about subsidies to inputs like electricity, aluminum, batteries, etc?
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