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That study you linked was done in animals, and I have a feeling it was dug up to support the notion that keto is in any way shape or form, good for you.

Great, now let’s stop pretending that meat dairy and eggs are health foods and that low carb high fat diets are ideal for you, particularly here on the usually-scientific HN. We’ve known of a direct causal link between high saturated fat intake and heart disease for years but this study (published in 2016 by the way) should be the nail in the coffin on the idea that high saturated animal fat is healthy.

What we need is to stop consuming animals and animal products, or we’ll keep having economy destroying pandemics. Not to mention the obvious problem that farming is horrendous for the animals. Animals aren’t some inanimate object.

Great, meat SHOULD cost a fortune. The actual cost of meat is not what you pay for it, the only reason it’s even affordable is because the taxpayer shoulders the burden of the farm subsidies. Cut those out and a $5 Big Mac would cost almost $15.

Add to that the environmental impact, insane water usage, and the fact that meat production will continue to destroy economies through pandemics, and it should cost 10-15x more than it does now.

Clever move to make the slide transition timeout juuust a tad too fast to read, further driving home the point that carousels are a shit way to present information.

I’ve been using this for quite a while, and recently I’ve run into the trouble that the fire base account was overcapacity. Not sure if it’s been fixed since then, but I’ve had to use the QR code instead of the automatic detection. Still, really nice tool.

I am big into video games, and a couple of years ago I found a blog that really resonated with me. Same type of games that I want to play, and they were all fairly old. A couple of years ago I stopped playing modern video games and just kind of stuck in the past, and didn’t have anyone to talk about them with, so I’d comment on this blog I used to read about older games and made some good friends that way.

Eventually I want to talk about my own gaming experiences, but mostly I wanted a place to log my thoughts about games I was playing, games that were coming out, and basically have a place that I could go to to trigger my own happy nostalgic thoughts experiences, but mostly I wanted a place to log my thoughts about games I was playing, games that were coming out, and basically have a place that I could go to to trigger my own happy nostalgic thoughts.

I’ll be honest, I really wish I had chosen a different name, but I bought the WordPress plan already so I settled on https://www.nostalgiatrigger.com. It doesn’t roll off the tongue nor would it be the average person’s cup of tea, but for the 5-6 people who comment and leave feedback, it’s a cool little community.

Anyway, this is just my experience and it doesn’t really answer the OPs original questions. If I go back and read my old material, it really comes off as pretentious and just overall atrocious, so to probably echo what everybody else is saying here, the trick is to just write as much as possible and don’t try to focus on things like length or flow on the first time through. In fact don’t even worry about editing anything, the editor will highlight any misspellings or grammatical errors, so let your mind go into stream of consciousness mode, just to get ideas down on paper.

Oh! And a recent tip for something that I’ve started doing a few months ago (typically while writing down initial thoughts while I’m playing a game for the first time), I leave Notes open on my phone so I can easily tap the microphone and speak sentences straight into a first draft. I realized that I spent the most time trying to figure out how to phrase certain things on the first draft, so by getting out actual well formed sentences as they came to me while I was playing a game, I was essentially removing the hardest part of writing from the equation.

I’ve been running this blog for about five or six years now, and also did some longform game review writing I’ve been running this blog for about five or six years now, and also did some longform game review writing on https://www.thewellredmage.com a few years back, and getting started on a blank canvas is always the hardest part. So whatever works for you, try taking YOUR “hardest part” out of the equation.

Totally, it's a dangerous path to tread. Suddenly your potential worth as having you as an employee is tied to how small of a shanty you live in.

"Whoa, this guy's resume says he has 20 years experience and lives in a box down by the river, wonder if we he'll take a $7,000 salary?"

Let people do whatever they want

Agreed. See, the funny thing here is you're pissed because I'm "pushing my views on every god damn post about remote work", when I see the exact opposite. Every post, everyone is against remote work. Those people do the exact same damn thing as you think I'm doing, which is "we should all be in the office 100%!"

First, I never said that everyone should be remote. Never said it once. I think we need flexibility, ie. the option to work from home. But the people who really don't like remote work, seem to despise the people who do. It's never been more apparent than this thread - either people are with me 100%, or want me dead.

The conclusion here is that everyone is totally insane, that's my takeaway.

See, now this sounds awesome. Everyone's getting offended for sport but what I'm referring to is the fact that we have a huge portion of the US who sits in a car all day and night, clogging up highways and polluting the air.

You bike to and from work? That's fantastic, if I could do that I'd be in the office a few days a week too, as I also road bike. But so many people don't do that.

It would probably help the discussion if you didn't straw-man the people who don't want to work from home and dismiss their perspectives out of hand.

Wasn't doing that at all. People who want to go to the office and don't have an hourslong commute in traffic aren't the people I'm referring to. I'm referring to the people who have hourslong commutes sitting in traffic. People who are close to their jobs and want to go in, great, it's the fact that a huge percentage of the country drives to work. If you don't commute far to get to work, or perhaps don't even own a car, then I'm not talking about you.

Sounds like process needs to be changed on a higher level, not that an ever-growing population needs a slavish devotion to sitting in ever-growing levels of traffic.

I'm always reading about job openings throughout my country (or world, for that matter) that offer 100% remote positions, and initially the huge difference in salary was pretty jarring. Then I hopped on Trulia for some less populated (not rural, but certainly not close-to-the-city-suburbs), and realized the mortgage for a house twice my size would cost the property taxes I pay now. Literally talking about a $25,000/year difference in just the mortgage. In other words, what I pay just in property taxes annually here, is how much a house costs annually that's double the size, there.

Suddenly I didn't mind seeing zeroes falling off the salary.

There's also a huge difference between recklessly doing all of these things, and responsibly doing these things. Not necessarily 130mph wheelies, but lane-splitting is perfectly safe as well as practical, when done at a normal speed and practicing good distancing. It's far more dangerous to be sandwiched between two idiots staring at their phones in traffic.

Most if not all of the inherent danger of motorcycles is due to the existence of cars, driven by distracted people. You can mitigate just about all risk of riding a motorcycle. When I want to be an idiot on two wheels, I'll go mountain biking, or downhilling, or ride my dirt bike. On the street I keep my ass as safe as possible.

Same here! Minecraft captured the hearts and minds of nearly every demographic, even with "rudimentary" blocky graphics. Never would have happened it went for realism.

Lately I've been playing this great mountain biking game called Lonely Mountains: Downhill that uses this gorgeous minimalist aesthetic. I'm also playing Trails in the Sky on the PSP. Those graphics just age beautifully.

Sometimes the simpler, the better.

I finally finished a little convenience tool I made for fetching lyrics for your currently playing Spotify song, called Spotify Karaoke.

Currently I'm working on an Electron app for automatically importing/managing screenshots and recordings from your Nintendo Switch, off the SD card. It matches the file name IDs (Nintendo uses these seemingly random IDs for each game) with the actual game name, moves it into a custom folder structure, etc.

https://github.com/gedrick/SpotifyKaraoke (live)

https://github.com/gedrick/nintendo-switch-screenshot-manage... (still a WIP)

Damn. Totally missed that, and in hindsight it's now obvious. Don't I feel like a dope :(

You can appreciate the technology behind it, but once the graphics in a game (which you play to escape real life) begin to mimic real life, it can feel underwhelming.

For instance, a game like Okami on PS2 is far more impressive to me than some 4K tech demo. When it comes down to actually playing a game, I don't give a shit about the polygon count, I give a shit if it's fun to play.

Every time motorcycles come up in any topic ever, you can tell within the first three words of a post if the author has even the faintest idea of how to ride. It's very frustrating when people who don't even drive try to tell me how the laws should be to "make me safer", despite the fact that virtually all of the danger while riding a motorcycle responsibly stems from the fact that damn near everyone driving a car in 2020 is staring at their phone more often than not.

My father-in-law hates that I ride a street bike, and he frequently texts and drives. I'm like, you are directly creating the scenario for me which you are warning me about. The complete lack of realization of this makes my eyes bleed.

I've ridden a motorcycle for years, seen countless riders, and yet never once have I seen a single person ride down the highway at 300mph with the front wheel at 12 o'clock like (apparently) everyone else in the world. People really seem to hate motorcyclists because "oh I saw one time on Facebook in some video where a guy wheelied his bike" blah blah blah. All those events are, are anecdotes.

Bikes a) take up less space, b) don't cause traffic jams, c) are only more unsafe than cars because of people in cars not paying attention. Funnily enough, bad behavior on a bike is regarded as 10x worse than bad behavior in a car, despite the fact that a distracted driver in a car can easily cause 10x the damage, and that no one on a motorcycle is scrolling through their Instagram feed while riding. Let's be realistic - more people are distracted in cars than on motorcycles because you need all of your limbs to operate a bike.

You say you've seen someone pulling a wheelie and it "needs to be banned" (it already is illegal, so I don't know what your plan is here), well I have seen easily hundreds of distracted drivers of cars who can actually end my life because of their actions. No one in a car is going to get killed by a motorcycle, but the exact opposite happens all the time.

It’s price too high and isn’t fun enough to be considered a recreational purchase.

Basically my thoughts. Not nearly enough for the price. I think the same thing when I see those Crossbows ripping around. The (2) passengers both wearing helmets, probably unable to have a simple conversation due to the wind-blast (unless you put a Sena in there or something), and it just doesn't seem all that fun.

I also ride motorcycles and dirt bikes so I'm definitely pretty biased, but smaller and more fuel efficient vehicles make me happy either way, and I'd prefer for them to succeed. The (lack of) fun factor isn't a beef I have with them, but one that others might have who a) want a new vehicle, b) don't want a motorcycle, and c) want to save money on fuel and take up less space.

These three-wheeled vehicles always make me think the same thing, "all the risk of a motorcycle, with none of the fun." They don't exactly have good cargo space, so storage isn't the focus - is the whole point space savings and fuel efficiency?

A novel idea, I guess it comes down to price in this case.

EDIT: I say "fuel efficiency" referring to the fact that there are gasoline-fueled versions of this same type of vehicle. I realize the Solo is battery powered.

What I meant was, fat adds to the flavor, and blows up the calories, in turn making you fuller and thus you think you got a good value for your dollar.

First and foremost, upon returning to this thread after a few hours, I’m stoked how many people I got to say the word “dong”. Anyway.

Nowadays it would probably be easier than ever to detect certain shapes? I don’t know, we have artificial intelligence that can detect all sorts of things, male genitalia probably that hard to detect.

I remember quite a while back, Chat Roulette song improv was a big thing. It was the guy in the hoodie - PianoChatImprov on Youtube. I just looked it up and, wow, that was 10 years ago.

This was also before Chat Roulette became nothing but dongs.

In what year, 2004? A single ad can take up that much space.

Really nice work. I had a lot of fun in that. Others have already mentioned the Backspace = page back issue where you could easily lose progress, but I played all the way through :) No need to purchase however as I already know SQL quite well. But really well done.

This makes a lot of sense, actually. Definitely great for learning.

You could do it the way Duolingo does it - on desktop, it allows for "Hard Mode", where it lets you type the responses freely. On mobile however, it doesn't let you do that (unless you're using the app).

There's definitely an obsession with a good value in America, so everything you find in a restaurant is ultra high in calories. Even seemingly innocuous foods are probably sauteed in pounds of butter and made as criminally unhealthy as possible. It's like they're engineered to make you fat.

That being said, if you're looking to stay inside your clothes while visiting America, avoid eating at restaurants entirely.

There's a difference between being able to eat meat, and requiring meat. Sure we can eat it and we won't die, but we'll certainly be losing years off our life.

The science doesn't lie - you can thrive for a lifetime on only plants, but you won't get far on a lifetime of only meat.