My annual subscription is finally up next month and then I’m out with an over 1600 day streak. I am sick of the hard push for AI and for how hard they push Max even though I’m already a paid user.
And all that aside, the Italian course just isn’t as developed as other languages. I didn’t realize what I was missing until I saw a friend who used the app for French.
I’m trying out Babbel, which seems to have a bigger focus on actual human voices, and Mango, which I get through my local library.
Just kinda skimmed through because I don’t have an hour right now, but marketing is definitely to blame, they managed to associate high protein content in snacks with “healthy”, so people skip over the rest of the nutrition info because hey it’s high in protein.
Right at the start, the one gram per pound of protein is usually just a recommendation for people trying to build muscle and should also be done in tandem with muscle-building exercise.
I think the obesity comes in with all the protein snacks. You could get 30g of protein from 100g of chicken breast OR you could drink a chocolate milkshake or eat a protein bar, it’s easy to guess what most people will pick. I spent a while looking for protein bars to help me hit my goals and it’s crazy how many of them are 300-400 calories each. Even for people who do exercise a lot and need the protein, that’s really high in calories.
Like cliff builder bars, one bar is 280 calories, 20g protein, but also 30% of the DV of saturated fats and 32% of the DV of sugar. A bar has almost the same amount of sugar (17g) as protein, that’s ridiculous
Her mentions of awk reminded me of a guy at my last job who was an absolute god with awk, but making changes to scripts he made were a nightmare because no one else could figure out what he was doing, and everything crashed and burned from small changes.
I haven’t had boxed Mac and cheese in a while, usually Costco’s premade is a favorite at parties so I have also given up trying to make Mac and cheese myself.
Cracker Barrel and the Walmart brand equivalent have been my family’s favorite for the rare occasion where we make boxed Mac and cheese. I grew up with Kraft, but now it makes me feel sick for a while after. I tried the Cheetos one with some friends once when it was new, expecting it to be terrible, and it really upset our stomachs, I was also pretty grossed out at how neon orange it was.
I have used 1Password with the annual plan for years across various browsers and operating systems and have found it to be perfect for everything I need. I will definitely take a look at Proton though.
I had professors do different wordings for questions throughout college, I never encountered a professor or TA that wouldn’t clarify if asked, and, generally, the amount of confusing questions evened out across all of the versions, especially over a semester. They usually aren’t doing it to trick students, they just want to make it harder for one student to look at someone else’s test.
There is a risk of it negatively impacting students, but encouraging students to ask for clarification helps a ton.
This helped a ton for me, I opened a second savings account for travel/vacation savings and I have thought about opening another checking to separate “fun” money from expenses money.
Some banks make it really easy, where you can freely create sub-accounts for each bucket of money, but it seems like a majority make you apply for each account. In my experience, the application gets instantly approved, but it makes it seem harder and scarier than it really should be.
I’ve had swapping over to an SSD boot on my todo list for a while for sure, at least now I know it is easy to restore from a backup lol