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Oh, I didn't realize that some people want some unsolicited advertisements. Am I an outlier for not wanting any?

One of the most effective diets I'm aware of is the coffee and cigarette diet. Anytime you feel hungry, have a coffee and a cigarette first, then eat a little if you're still hungry.

It has a much better compliance rate that other calorie-restriction diets.

Email is this thing you forgot to check for a month because every time you go there it is mostly spam.

As a society, should we allow private entities to destroy valuable institutions?

We used to have a technology (email) that increased productivity and added value to individual lives. That value has been eliminated by spammers trying to cold-extract money from everyone with an email account.

Spammers killing email is an externality we shouldn't accept, similar to not accept Monsanto killing bald eagles by selling DDT.

Don't get too comfy in your chats, spammers are coming for your discords and slacks next, and that wave will be lead by LLMs.

Can you define the line between spam and telemarketing?

To me those terms are synonymous and both mean unsolicited targeted advertising.

I really dislike the business model of Tinder->Snapchat->OnlyFans conversion.

There might be a lot of fish in the sea, but there's a lot of pollution too.

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Isolation has a feedback that makes it hard to break out of once you're in really deep. The more desperately lonely you are, the worse your social skills.

Strangers are strange when you're a stranger.

The average citizen is more at risk of being the victim of random crime than they are being the victim of a targeted assassination.

Depositing checks with your phone

And it encourages people to leave more quickly if they can take their drink with them.

I also dislike the lack of mugs in coffee shops. Big chains don't have them at all, and local shops you need to specifically ask for it or they assume a paper cup.

I'm often the only person drinking out of a mug in a coffee shop full of people.

But I'm a grumpy old man that doesn't understand today's world, and I accept that. Leaving work to drive to Starbucks and buy a coffee (instead of using the kuerig or espresso machine in the break room) is gen z's version of stepping out for a smoke break.

You can't equate the general sentiment of the nation with the motivations of the killer.

Though it sure would've added a lot to the media hype if the killer was wearing a MAGA hat.

CEOs can be held accountable, look at the former CEO of United Health.

A functional legal system would be better, but as they say, nature finds a way.

Weight training is the single best thing I can do for both my mental and physical health. Even more important than eating healthy.

I've never had a healthcare worker recommend it to me. Why not?

We should teach it in public schools.

Is it a similar artistic style? I had the same feeling when looking at the person-on-a-horse statue, it is very mayan-esque to my naive eyes.

I suppose it's just a de facto rolling 'season' style of release like Fortnight.

I've heard that it's because we need to maintain domestic auto manufacturing capabilities so we can switch to tanks if ever needed.

In today's world, perhaps we should stop giving subsidies to auto manufacturers and start giving them to drone manufacturers.

It's fairly well accepted [citation needed?] that the most effective form of academic education is private tutoring by skilled tutors. We're (possibly) on the cusp of that being accessible to everyone via LLMs.

In that brave new world schools need to shift towards a focus on development of personal character. MDs, at least those that you speak to in person, need to focus on bedside manner.

I just set up an N100 mini computer with OPNsense and couldn't be happier with it as a router

I gave up on Ubiquiti because of the cloud nonsense. Altium is pushing cloud hard (and pushing me to KiCAD). I'm a weirdo for using a mac w/ only a local account (no apple id). I can't buy any new or electric vehicles because they're all 'smart'.

The cloud is artificial, so it must be chemtrails, which explains why modern software feels like its giving me cancer. Wake up sheeple. /s

We have those laws. You return the faulty device to the entity you purchased it from.

I bet some small-time installers that were sourcing on the grey market will go bankrupt because of this.

five-phase reconstruction of the development of the imagery on the disc seems to be the likeliest sequence for the disc’s development. In the earliest version, an elaborately encoded image reflects sophisticated astronomical knowledge. In subsequent stages this was forgotten and replaced by traditional knowledge, which was focused on the interaction of the heavenly bodies and the horizon; and finally, this reduced knowledge gave way to mythology

It's interesting that the oldest part of the artifact has the most advanced astronomical information.

As someone that often eats one large meal a day, I appreciate large portion sizes ar restaurants. If its the only thing I eat that day, a 3000 calorie meal is what I need.

The mode of injestion impacts how addictive something is. Nicotine via gum is less addictive that smoking, which is less addictive than vaping.

The unpleasant experience you describe also helps to limit addictiveness, as does not using two days in a row.

I find caffeine much more addictive than nicotine. We're all different.

My jaw was dropping as I started reading that second paragraph because it's unimaginable that someone would regret an m2 air.

I got a refurb 8gb/256gb m2 air somewhat impulsively when in the market for a use-on-the-couch laptop. It is NICE. My real laptop now never leaves the dock.

Would the blockchain make it easy to prove the source of crypto assets?

Or are crypto holders at risk of being arbitrary robbed by the government if they don't have thorough enough records?

Hedge your bets - drink decaf instead of regular every other day.

Nicotine gum sort of helps for the decaf days. I'm looking for other non-caff stimulant options if anyone has thoughts.

It's sad to see a group of engineering professors having political squabbles involving unethical behavior in response to an ethics complaint.

Ethics are supposed to be a core part of engineering, not too dissimilar from medicine. Good thing those folks are in academia where they can't hurt the rest of us.

This touches on, and then completely ignores, one of the most probable areas of concern - additives. Emulsifiers that disrupt your intestinal lining, artificial dyes/flavors/sweeteners, fillers, consistency changers, and all the other tools in a food chemist's toolbox. Those should be individually investigated and problem ingredients eliminated (e.g brominated vegetable oil).

Also, fiber. The standard american diet is lacking fiber and protein.