JediWing

So downing a bucket or two of chicken wings felt good to the last wing? I doubt it

Well there's your problem. You're failing to believe and listen to the people who actually experience the problem, and insist that it simply can't be true.

I would overeat because the pleasure signals never stopped.

But sure, over 40% of Americans are obese and it's a personal moral failing, not something systemic.

Again some discipline would go a long way rather than a pill

I lost about 40lb 10 years ago through diet and exercise. I did intense exercises at least 3x a week, and watched what I ate strictly.

Guess what: it all came back and then some, because I was white knuckling my way through life, and it was unsustainable.

You know nothing about my level of discipline, so you ought not comment on it.

Let's see where all this medication puts this generation down the road

My bet is longer and healthier lives.

Agreed, but teachers can't be expected to be the only ones providing this help.

Other public institutions outside the school system need to be in place to support the parents who are stressed and overworked and barely have time to parent.

And their right to be helped stops at the line where they're causing harm to the learning of others.

Discipline in schools isn't and cannot be about holistically reforming the problem kids, it's about making sure those who want to learn can.

You can't dump the entirety of systemic poverty, racism, mental health, etc. on the education system and expect it to work well.

It's also in large part profit motive. You can bet there are corporations licking their chips at the thought of opening cut-rate schools and raking in the profits. They can also incorporate all sorts of corporate propaganda that their parent companies want them to inject.

The profit motive belongs far far away from education.

It's sad but I largely agree.

The complicated part is the "why" of their behavior, which can range from an antisocial personality disorder, to not getting enough attention at home.

Sadly many of the cause of behavior problems is from systemic issues like poverty, or poor mental health services across the country.

The bottom line is that neither the kids nor the teachers want to, or deserve to, deal with the byproduct of other failed systems.

The failed systems should be fixed, and services provided to these kids to the extent possible, but OUTSIDE of a classroom setting.

The cost of past failures can't be borne by the students and teachers in the public school system.

This is absolutely a huge factor, if not the biggest factor in education: kids who are actively disruptive and harmful to the learning of others being kept in with other kids, draining all of the attention from the teacher.

The causes and solutions are not as simple as "these kids are bad, kick them out of school", but any solution needs to involve kids who aren't disruptive and WANT to learn getting an environment conducive to that.

People can most certainly believe in a collective moral code that is, at times, at odds with the laws of their country, and simultaneously not dictated by a central religious authority.

Desiring the state to more closely model one's personal moral code isn't a signifier that people are placing the state at the "moral center", it's an indicator that they want those with a monopoly on violence to act in accord with what they believe is right.

I do believe the collective moral codes are drifting from those dictated by religions, but I hardly think that is a bad thing, given the rigidity and absolutism of many religions.

Why do you need to have a constant "perception" of government outside of election day?

Because you leave yourself more susceptible to recency bias, and the prevailing media narrative on election day rather than continually evaluating the actions politicians take in real-time with proper context, evaluating the raw facts for yourself.

I believe studies have mostly shown significant rebound upon cessation, but statistically it's been below 100% weight regain.

Some anecdotes have people ceasing and getting heavier, but I don't think that's been shown at a population level.

I will step in to be the "it's not so bad" coming forward.

I get stomach upset and a bit of reflux when I overeat, but that makes total sense given the goal of the medicine.

Honestly the metformin I was prescribed at the same time as semaglutide makes me feel worse more consistently, and even that is tolerable.

I say go for it OOP. It shouldn't cause any permanent damage trying it out.

They're permanent as long as you keep taking them, like blood pressure medicines or statins.

Suggesting lifestyle change as a cure for obesity presupposes that obese people simply lack the knowledge of what must be done.

The real struggle is in the doing.

Many tout "listen to your body" as a solution, or "think about how junk food makes you feel" as one of the go-to solutions in "lifestyle change".

For the first time in my life I was able to adhere to this advice, because I'm on semaglutide.

My body now actually is telling me that too much junk food feels bad.

Before now, it actually felt VERY VERY GOOD to eat nearly unlimited junk food.

There is something going on in my body that prevents the proper signaling of "too much food feels bad", and this medicine corrects that for me and countless others.

I for one am glad that SVB depositors were made whole and thus I was able to continue to get a paycheck.

Getting a Slack from the CEO on Saturday night saying basically "we *should* be able to pay you this week, I think" is fairly nerve wracking.

There's an argument to be made that this is a constructive dismissal, and would thus qualify for any benefits that a termination would entail, but I'm sure that type of legal wrangling is not what the people at Schwab will want to deal with.

If it were me, I would simply continue working from home until my access and/or paycheck were cut off.

The smartphone had multiple killer apps: web browsing, maps when you needed them most instead of having to print MapQuest directions, and device consolidation (iPod, cell phone, GPS, and web browser all in one!)

The touch interface elegantly solved the problem of not having a full keyboard and mouse.

The ultimate vision for these headsets is not yet realized: to unintrusively overlay enriched visual information over our surroundings. This doesn't hit the unintrusively piece by a longshot, nor are the apps that realize this vision even announced.

Vision Pro does, however, provide a first step platform to develop those apps when the tech does shrink to an everyday wearer.

What I don't understand is how anyone who has read the Dobbs decision sees it as even handed and reasonable.

Ignoring stare decisis with the flimsy "history and tradition" argument is farcical, considering the jurisprudence it was overturning was in place for about 1/5 of the nation's history.

The legitimacy of the court is in question because the court is at this point another political branch .

This is because the legislature is going full scorched earth in their "advise and consent" powers as a weapon.

Reform is needed.

I think "as a kid" is the operative phrase here. Nothing will ever live up to that nostalgia.

That's not to discount the criticisms or "feel" you get from the game, but it's worth noting that nothing lives up to our childhood favorites.

Working with date/times in python made me miss Joda-Time/Java time libraries. For my money it's the most well designed date/time API I've worked with.

There certainly are, I'm just pointing out that much of the software that is charging a subscription is doing so to more closely structure their revenue to their expenditures.

Continually running a service with its own recurring costs with additional improvements (SaaS) justifies a subscription, because your product is constantly improving, and constantly incurring costs.

A one-time car purchase costs the car company some capex upfront. They actually incur more cost running whatever DRM servers lock these motors down to prop up this extortionary business model.

or, crazy thought, pass the cost savings of not having to manage multiple trimlines onto the consumer instead of trying to make a quick buck by artificially borking the motor.

Condolences to the affected Dropboxers. I think the silver lining for all of you is that amidst this turmoil, you're well positioned just by having Dropbox on your resume.

As someone laid off 2 weeks ago from a company with much less notoriety, I cringe at the idea of having to now compete with 500 of you.

Good luck out there.

Exactly this. Unless the sum of payroll cut roughly equals the increase of interest payments in their debt load, I call absolute BS on the "challenging market dynamics".

They're just following the trend, or listening to the ridiculous demands of investors following the trend.

Yep, truly taking responsibility = returning comp to the company to keep more of these people on.

No, it doesn't seem fair at all.

The employer should provide severance. Their act of removing a person's livelihood can have devastating consequences for the individual.

The employee shouldn't have to give notice, and forcing someone to PAY a fee to NOT work is forcing them to choose between wage theft and indentured servitude.

By and large, losing one employee won't make or break a company (and if it does, it should have given them more equity and/or autonomy to have a stake and sense of power to change some of the reasons they're leaving).

My understanding of "don't cite Wikipedia" is the same for "don't cite the Encyclopedia". By failing to use a primary source, you're subjecting yourself to the interpretation and biases of someone who has already ingested the source material and formed an opinion.

It's a great place to orient yourself on a piece of subject matter, though! And I certainly agree that the dreck that makes up 95% of Google results should certainly not be cited academically.

That is a bold claim. In my experience school gave me exposure to subjects I would not have thought or been interested to explore on my own, and put structure around dedicated learning time.

I have kids. I send them to school. They are learning!

You might have a leg to stand on if your argument weren't so incredibly absolutist. I could certainly concede that American schools may be a less than optimal way to learn with some outmoded practices. There are certainly variances in educational quality.

But school rarely helps with learning? School almost always harms learning? I reject those claims as false on their face.

Interesting that what's likely a light attempt at comedy by a developer is treated with the uptmost seriousness by a major city local paper.

Kidney donations are optional. As is reproducing.

Which is exactly my point. If you aren't required to give away your 2nd kidney for the life of another, why draw the distinction that a pregnant woman must rent her uterus for what many don't even consider a life?

If we as a society can't teach our young

Not all who abort a fetus are young. Nor is "teach"ing about "consequences of their action" a valid reason to outlaw a medical procedure. We don't refuse to set and cast the broken bones of children because we want to "teach them the consequences of their actions". To the contrary, that would be cruel!

This is a paternalistic and condescending attitude that infantilizes every single person who has received, sought to receive, or explored the option of abortion.

We teach women the "consequences of their actions", believe me! They know because the "consequences" you want to "teach" about fall disproportionately on women, despite the fact that the act you're implicitly moralizing about is the consequence of both a man and a woman.

what good are we doing them?

We are mitigating the harm (a lifetime commitment, and medical risks) that comes from a mistake. That is the good we are doing them.

This is a tremendous ask for someone to put their health and body on the line (not only of death but lasting health issues, minor or major) for an unwanted pregnancy.

Would you be in favor of compulsory kidney donations? If not, what is the moral distinction between that and forcing someone to carry a child to term?

Want to make sure I understand: you think white males are disadvantaged at FAANG?

What is the basis for thinking this, and have you weighed any difficulties for white males against the difficulties of other groups?