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  • Musk: more politically oriented than just money now, had aligned himself with a very large part of the population that thinks at a minimum that even if some people need to transition for their own health, society retains the right to consider their pre-transition history to still be part of reality

    Zuckerberg: profit driven, is aligning Facebook etc with the political reality in America and the real prospect of being fined or embargoed by a Trump administration, would flip back if a democrat won in 2028

    Rowling: belongs to a British generation of certain age where trans people are superficially accepted BUT regards their pre-trans history to be something still relevant. That's where this started and it escalated / deteriorated from there E.g. compassionate to a degree and willing to entertain the "fiction" that a biological man is now a women for the sake of that person's mental health: see them at the shops presenting female? carry on as normal.. talk to them? use their current name and pronouns out of politeness.. BUT.. if they want to access a female shelter, draw a line.. if they want to teach young children, risk assess them including their pre-trans gender and history etc. Rowling then got into increasingly fractious arguments on Twitter, largely arising from other people she followed and liked and what the trans community inferred from that. At that point she doubled down declaring advocates on Twitter to be increasingly hysterical and deluded whilst simultaneously insisting she would treat trans people humanely in person. She's then lashed out in numerous ways including in her writings aligning herself with increasingly extreme anti-trans people. FWIW, I think she would have carried on being a mildly tolerant (if dated) person of a certain age had she just stayed off Twitter entirely. But lashing out, being misinterpreted and misinterpreting others had led her to spiral down into viciousness and bitterness.

  • Exercise in someone not particularly fit is also likely to trigger a stress response and their appetite will overcompensate. Exercise is good - everyone should be doing it - but for fat loss is pointless unless eating is well under control.

  • The human body is absurdly efficient. Fat weight is tackled by reducing calorie intake (using whatever tactic works for you). Exercise only makes a small difference by comparison.

    Edit: for example, you could jog for almost an hour to burn approx 460 calories. Or you could just not eat 1 cinnamon swirl krispy kreme. Ate two at the family BBQ? You just gave your body enough fuel to light jog for 2 hours. A large vanilla milkshake has enough fuel to keep you jogging for an hour and a half. Stop overeating first or gym weightloss is useless.

  • I suppose they're both highly charged and make specific points with the goal of providing illuminated information

  • Thanks

    Am in the UK so am safe from that for the time being..

  • I find it's more often than not 'heavyweight' texts, especially on history articles where really really niche researchers have books or papers on the matter. That's useful. But I'm generally more after what a professor would assign first year students as an introduction to The Romantics or English Painters. Sometimes Wikipedia has that, sometimes it has "Brush techniques employed by Turner in the summer of 1798 by Prof George Bannister, Prof Rodger Walker et al."

  • Pretty much what I do. Sometimes I find the list isn't public or the course is more niche than in interested in.

  • Thank you, never seen that before

    • People who thought Tyler Durden was cool
    • Almost everything about Starship Troopers
    • people who think Bickle (Taxi Driver) is a hero
  • Have you considered putting your gaming pc in one of the storage freezers? /s

  • Make sure it's a blind test ;)

  • The visual difference of the minimoon and supermoon is not that great, see here but hold your phone at arms length. This is the maximum difference (taken 6 months apart) that the moon ever is relative to itself. In practice, from one night to the next or one month to the next the difference is barely noticeable.

    When people say "the moon was huge tonight" what they are generally seeing is the moon illusion

    The reference to seasons is badly worded, but what I was referring to is that the earths seasons have nothing to do with how close to the sun it is

  • no, it's not. it's a meta analysis of multiple double blind studies. multiple

    “For the children described as sugar-sensitive, there were no significant differences among the three diets in any of 39 behavioral and cognitive variables. For the preschool children, only 4 of the 31 measures differed significantly among the three diets, and there was no consistent pattern in the differences that were observed.”

    if you did the same with cyanide you would be able to conclude that "taking cyanide and being dead is positively correlated" even if there were other causes of death. in this wide summary of multiple double blind experiements, there is no correlation between sugar intake and child behaviour. that's not to say kids don't act up and get hyper, but it's other causes, most signficantly parents just underestimate how hard kids find it to regulate themselves when having treats of any sort (non-sugar included) or being in a party atmosphere with friends.

  • I listed it because it's one of the things I would sworn by too having seen it first hand. However when you conduct a double blind experiment, kids still get excited at parties / treats / days out / when their friends are over when there's no sugar in the treats.

    https://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/medical-myths-does-sugar-make-children-hyperactive

    In otherwords as parents we massively underestimate how excited or crazy kids can get just because they're excited and not because of something in their bloodstream..

  • No. At least, it's not the general cause of 'middle age spread'.

    The base metabolic rate refers to how your individual cells respire when at rest. And a brain cell in 20 year old respires much the same way as a brain cell in a 45 year old. Same for all other organs. There is a gradual decline but it's on the order a single percents.

    Organs and tissue at rest respire at different rates, so some of the change people notice is due to change in body composition. Muscle at rest burns twice the calories as fat however this is still only a minor contribution.

    Base metabolic rate doesn't vary much at all. The vast difference in daily calories consumed as one ages is general activity level.

    Overall metabolic rate = base rate (varies a little on body composition) + calories burned in general activity (varies a lot)

    People typically are less active between 20 and 40. This is not just sport but also lifestyle. People become more efficient in their habits as they age. They drive instead of biking or walking. They sit in the sun on holiday with nice food and wine rather than dancing all night. Etc

    Lifestyle choice is the primary cause of excess calorie intake and 'middle age spread'. Not "my metabolism that I can't do anything about".

    • that putting the thermostat up higher will heat the house up quicker (edit: I have in mind a bog standard UK home thermostat)
    • that sugary sweets make kids act "hyper"
    • that the moon's apparent size is due to how close it is to earth (same for seasons and the sun)
    • that your base metabolic rate slows as you age and is primarily responsible for you putting weight on in middle age
  • We’re not here to fuck spiders

    Borrowing this one

  • Assuming that all non-white people are illegal immigrants is called "racism". (Stupid too, but mostly racism)

  • I'm neither. Things could be worse in the UK, could be better. It's bad, but "ok".

  • A lot of market speculation is based on forecast profit. If new info = lower profits that means exit your position asap.