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the "Python-stans"

I think the term "Pythonistas" is more widely used

you may need to question your choice of language if you start hitting performance ceilings.

Developers should also question if a "fast" language like Rust is really needed, if implementing a feature takes longer than it would in Python.

I don't like bloat in general, but sometimes it can be worth spinning up a few extra instances to get to market faster. If Python lets you implement a feature a month earlier, the new sales may even cover the additional infrastructure costs.

Once you reach a certain scale you may need to rewrite parts of your system anyway, because the assumptions you made are often wrong.

Unfortunately, for those who are obese no amount of diet or exercise will give them the "perfect" body.

I see many who were overweight lose weight and get ripped, while others have no chance to reach that far. Someone with a BMI of 40 has basically ruined their body and while they may look better with a shirt, they will keep it on while on the beach because of the excessive skin.

The reward and motivation for a person with a few pounds extra and a truly obese person are simply too different. Someone who has not reached whatever weight threshold that fits their body type has a chance to look "normal", while the more obese person will reach a point where losing more weight has less impact even after plastic surgery.

Alternative A can have the opposite effect. Unhappy people tend to eat more.

Perhaps it is a "motivator" for people to stop gaining weight by controlling their diet before they are too obese, but once you are obese I think it has mostly negative effects.

Losing significant weight is incredibly hard, and gets harder the more you want to lose. If you have lost 20kg (with great benefits to health) and are still made fun of because you are still above average weight it will have a negative effect and the weight will quickly be gained back

being in shape used to (usually) demonstrate discipline.

Putting on weight may demonstrate a lack of discipline or awareness, but those losing weight should not be treated as only undisciplined. Scientific research shows that obesity changes the body in ways that actively work against you when you decide to lose weight. You may be able to loose the first pounds with "discipline", but it becomes increasingly harder the more you lose. Once you have lost a few pounds, the body actively works against you to get back to what it thinks should be the baseline.

Coincidentally we have one of the highest life expectancies in the world

Those numbers are relying on how long the older generation lives. If the younger people are physically more active, how do you know that they will also live as long? It could be that modern expectations of what a "healthy" body should look like takes it too far, and that you will end up with a shorter life.

I see a lot of former athletes dying in their 60s/70s from heart failures and other conditions. Perhaps the body has limits to how much abuse it can take.