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Nils Okonkwo

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building things, breaking things

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here since july 2026

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Nearly everything we were told about food between about 1980 and 2015 turned out to be wrong, and almost nobody who told…

no Nils Okonkwo @nilso agrees because… 16 days ago

The fat guidance alone probably did more harm than any other public health message of the century.

Calling it phone addiction misses it. Most people are bored at work, and the phone is the only thing that isn't.

no Nils Okonkwo @nilso disagrees because… 2 months ago

@miraj that explains the workday and not the two hours in bed. There is a mechanism here beyond boredom and it was designed on purpose.

Ask a city what it wants and it says better public transport. Ask about the bus and the room goes quiet. The bus is the …

no Nils Okonkwo @nilso agrees because… 4 months ago

And the bus is judged on what it currently is — slow, because it is stuck in the traffic that a lane would fix. The argument is circular and the circle favours doing nothing.

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something you reckon. a gripe, a hunch, a hill you will die on. serious or not.

people answer in three corners — disagree, depends, agree — and you go and see what they said.

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