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Despite the article title being technically true but misleading it was an interesting read.

These really are just ankle monitors that were redesigned during the Biden administration to look less obvious to other people to reduce the stigma.

One of the key things I’m curious about is if it really is that hard for someone being monitored to contact an agent. If so they should probably list a phone number on the watch to call.

I’m also curious about whether this is being used by non-ICE agents as a replacement for ankle monitors as well.

There was a paragraph about AI somewhere in the middle.

The AI efficiency narrative provides the perfect cover for these layoffs. Companies can frame headcount reduction as “leveraging AI to increase productivity” or “optimizing for the future of work.” It sounds forward-thinking and strategic rather than admitting they failed to manage performance or simply want to cut costs. Whether AI actually replaces the laid-off workers’ productivity is rarely measured or proven, but the narrative sells well to investors and the media.

I have a big phone in order to display more actual content, not because I want more whitespace.

Scrolling may be easy, but it’s still harder to quickly skim content if you have to scroll more.

I'm not saying things aren't a mess and that some shelves won't go empty.

However, it is worth noting that CEOs also have a vested interest in trying to reduce tariffs. And they would absolutely fearmonger if they thought it would help them.

It’s perfectly logical.

Even if the company doesn’t intentionally have sesame in their product, what if one of their suppliers gives them sesame tainted flour or something?

If they don’t have a ‘May contain sesame’ warning then they might lose tons of money because they have to recall the product later.

The problem here is how lawsuit friendly America is.

Considering the article mentions ReCET and semaglutide, presumably most people in the study weren't resuming the unhealthy diet.

Semaglutide is ozempic. By itself it can be enough to help people get their A1C down through healthier diets.

For me to find the study especially interesting, I'd have to see a comparison between ReCET + semaglutide vs just semaglutide. And upon re-reading I see that's their plan.

“We are currently conducting the EMINENT-2 trial with the same inclusion and exclusion criteria and administration of semaglutide, but with either a sham procedure or ReCET. This study will also include mechanistic assessments to evaluate the underlying mechanism of ReCET.”

was the feeling of hunger due to drastic reduction in portion size?

While that was sometimes the case, it wasn't always so. Sometimes the feeling of hunger was almost random, and certainly stronger than it should have been. This was likely caused by insulin resistance.

When I got out of bed because I was too hungry to go to sleep I didn't always make great food choices. I'd tend to eat a 200-400 calorie 'snack', which felt like it wiped out any progress.

Now that I'm on tirzepatide I still feel hunger and cravings, but I suspect it's more in line with what regular people feel. Even if I haven't eaten much during the evening and am a little hungry at night, it's not the type of hunger that stops me from being able to get to sleep.

Still, I'm happy for you that you found something that works!

Thanks!

I'm honestly in the category of people that have considered weight loss surgery, but I've seen enough problems from that that I've never really wanted to risk the associated problems.

From all the reading I've done it sounds like tirzepatide is almost as effective as weight loss surgery. And people are going to have a hard time convincing me that weight loss surgery is 'safer' than a GLP-1 injection.

I'm with you on this, tirzepatide has been life changing for me. I've struggled with my weight my whole life and I can actually imagine a future where I lose enough that I'm no longer ashamed of my weight.

I've been on tirzepatide for just over a year now. Before that, I managed to lose 6% of my body weight over the previous year. With tirzepatide, I've lost an additional 17% of my body weight, for a total of 23% over two years.

Tirzepatide isn't a magic drug that just makes you lose weight, it simply makes it much easier to avoid overeating.

It makes the difference between being so hungry that I can't fall asleep and having the ability to just go to sleep.

I feel lucky that doesn't bother me when watching his videos.

I can sympathize with you somewhat though, because the Food Wishes channel drives me insane for a similar reason. (Chef John has mentioned he speaks that way for his videos on purpose)

I just finished watching his purple gold video and he looked at, but didn't buy, the vacuum forge for that video.

I'd actually find it cool if he did a shorter video revisiting the purple gold with his additional experience and the new forge to see if he could manage to do it easily at this point.

Water isn't a great example, but decision paralysis at stores from too many options is a thing.

Just as AceJohnny said, the scope of this is entirely different. Restoring a backup for an internal project costs time/resources that the company can easily handle. If it became a problem it would be easy for github to tell their internal projects "No, we're no longer restoring from backups"

Opening up the ability to do that externally would potentially require multiple people working full-time to handle the requests.

"We even offered GitHub financial compensation for any resources required." Considering the tone of the article I think there's a very high risk if github accepted agreed to that we'd see an article titled "Github charges popular open source project $5000 to fix a minor accident"

While I don't know of any washers/dryers with them, heat pumps can be more than 200% efficient, so there's still potential for improvements there in theory.

Though to be honest I agree with your point. A lot of the low hanging fruit for massive gains in efficiency are gone. It's like cars, going from 10 mpg to 20 mpg is a huge difference. Going from 50 mpg to 60 mpg is a much smaller difference.

I don't see how the union was doing any worthwhile work for me back when I was making minimum wage at a grocery store. All I saw was that they wanted to skim hundreds of dollars off my meager paychecks every year.

Nowadays when I work downtown I'll sometimes take a leisurely lunch that involves walking to a restaurant, ordering food, waiting for it, eating it, and then returning. That can take me up to an hour if things are really slow.

Back then I worked in the Safeway deli. I'd often make a sandwich for myself and set it aside, walk around the counter and buy it when lunch started, and then finish eating in 15-20 minutes. And then I'd be stuck sitting around in the break room with nothing to do waiting out the remaining 40 minutes.

Sure I usually read books or watched tv on a little Archos media player. But I would have rather finished work earlier and done that in the comfort of my home.

I like the idea of unions more than the reality.

My first job was earning minimum wage working full-time at Safeway. After working there for about 9 months I quit because I didn't want to pay union dues to join the union. I was already only making minimum wage, it wasn't like the union was improving my salary. The required hour long lunch breaks might have been thanks to the union, but I hated having to take hour long breaks. It left a bad taste in my mouth.

Listening to that episode didn't change my thoughts much. One of the bigger problems I have with unions is that they always want to grow to gain more power/influence. If I'm paying dues I don't want 20% or whatever of those dues to go to what is essentially advertising/marketing.

My ideal union would have low fees, not try to expand into other companies, and would be optional for employees.

Technically as of January 2021 hospitals in the US are supposed to have price transparency now. https://www.cms.gov/hospital-price-transparency

While it's a step in the right direction, most people don't know about it, the accuracy is questionable, what insurance will cover isn't clear, and what random additional fees will be added are unknown.

Where does 4G connection come into play here?

"Key fob remote start has nothing to do with an app, nor does the car or the fob communicate with any servers managed by Toyota."

It sounds like this $8/month charge is for the allowing you to use remote start locally presumably over RF.

Are you sure there’s not similar situations in Europe? I’m sure the healthcare situation over there helps a lot, but it looks like there’s still groups of people living in tents in some places. https://www.politico.eu/article/homelessness-qa-freek-spinne...

I know Japan also has a bunch of homeless people living in tents as well, I’ve seen them riding around collecting cans to recycle for money.