Well, that escalated quickly and for no apparent reason.

There are a lot of us who still care about weight and/or tracking calories beyond functional fitness or purely having sufficient lean muscle mass to prevent osteopenia. Some have struggled with body fat in the past, struggled with eating disorders, have hormonal issues interfere with hunger and satiety signals, take medications that do the same, etc. Or even actors who need to rapidly change body composition for a role.

Personally, I have a hell of a sweet tooth and would snack an extra 500 kcal/day if I didn't track my intake. That wouldn't affect my deadlift, but I'd need a larger lifting belt and I don't want my body to go there. Tracking my macros also helps me make sure I get enough protein, esp. after heavy lifting days. And for me, tracking calories is the difference between sorta fitting in a commercial airplane seat and wishing they'd let me buy a second seat.

I respect Mark Rippetoe (and do recommend his book), but sometimes it helps to focus on nutrition as well as fitness and strength training. Rippetoe himself addresses this (briefly) in Starting Strength where he encourages lifters to eat more protein, novices to drink lots of milk, and heavier people to eat fewer carbs.

Congratulations on being able to lift so much you never have to think about what you eat, though. You're very fortunate.

Sounds like user error if you're trying to use Windows as a communication system.

Yes, just like the ridiculously low (briefly negative) oil prices in 2020 had nothing to do with "drill baby, drill" Republican policies. Oil prices were low because global demand was incredibly low due to a global pandemic and widespread lockdowns.

The economy has been rapidly recovering from the pandemic, leading to increased demand for oil. There have also been some supply disruptions, some of which have also been caused by the pandemic.

You can see the macro trends really clearly in global Brent crude prices here https://www.statista.com/stati... . The EIA also has prices back to 1986 here if you're interested.

But if you'd like to ignore global events and cherry-pick some dates, crude oil prices increased 198% under Trump from April 2020 to January 2021. They only increased 35% under Biden's presidency until Russia began its invasion of Ukraine.

It's been a while since I read the original study, but I'm pretty sure that was addressed. Yes, shading canals with a flat roof is cheaper than solar panels, but it is still quite expensive and has fewer benefits to offset those costs. A lot of those costs are labor and transportation, and incremental infrastructure upgrades like this are hard to get funded.

If you're going to build solar power generation anyways, there are some huge benefits to doing it over canals:
- You get all the benefits to the canals from covering them
- Solar panels generate more electricity because they run cooler
- Minimal land use costs compared to purchasing agricultural land to convert to solar power production
- More in the actual study

In other words, there are actually synergistic benefits from covering canals with solar panels vs. just covering canals or just installing solar panels. Doing both should be more profitable and more economically beneficial to the state.

The low sperm count won't be a concern, since they won't be able to get it up.

On the nuclear engineering and design levels, sure.

But when you start talking about people problems like a poorly functioning bureaucracy leading to bad decision making, using inferior materials to save costs in construction, poor training of operators, etc.? Those are repeatable failures that transcend designs. They also clearly apply to any other large engineering project. It's not unreasonable for people to believe similar human failures can lead to other catastrophic incidents.

Personally, I'll be more supportive of nuclear when nuclear operators no longer need the Price-Anderson Act and waste is actively being dealt with better.

us-east-2 isn't so bad. us-east-1 had better latency from most of South America than sa-east-1 last I checked, so there's also that.

But yeah, it's good advice to not put too many eggs in the us-east-1 basket.

I mean, I agree with you, but worth pointing out that Tumblr sold for $1.1B. So the lesson here should be "sell your company to suckers before you ban adult content".

100%. I can't believe they communicated this way. Unfortunately, even doctors have fallen for this and are discouraging patients from getting tested.

I know of three different vaccinated people who complained to doctors about COVID symptoms and were explicitly told not to bother getting tested after requesting a test. One person even had extensive contact with a known positive case!

Trump also called COVID a hoax and didn't have any real evidence to backup his self-contradictory claim that China created the virus to hurt him/America. Add in his racism and ability to corrupt just about every agency in the executive branch, and you can understand why some people might dismiss everything he says as bullshit designed to rile his base. Unfortunately, reduced trust in the US Government is the cost of installing a serial liar as POTUS to try to pwn the libs.

I just don't understand how conservatives can simultaneous believe this is an insidious Chinese weapon against the West *and* a harmless hoax virus. If we ultimately prove this was an accidental lab leak, can we agree that:
1) the virus is real
2) the virus is deadly
3) the virus was not intentionally released

It seems relevant, given "boasting" about recently being "at the Capitol" on the side of an attempted insurrection (and quite possibly actively part of it) is relevant. News reports about police killing unarmed men frequently cite previous and unrelated criminal conduct. News reports about significant crimes also frequently cite suspects' previous crimes. Why should this be different?

It's not an accident that Amazon was the target. Trump and his mob have been targeting Jeff Bezos over the Washington Post's coverage of Trump for years. I doubt the dumb attempted terrorist was a deranged GCP or Azure fanboi.

If Trump wants his name to stop being connected to vicious acts, he should stop encouraging them.

Without some independent audits of his finances, including tax returns, I'm not sure we should agree with that. From leaks about his tax returns, it looks like he's probably lost money just about every year of his life.

Do huge loans from Russian oligarchs make him financially independent or more financially dependent than most?

Any millionaire in the US paying > 50% in income taxes should find a new tax advisor.

If you criminalize drugs, I want no taxpayer money going to detention centers and law enforcement. Also, no taxpayer funded drug-sniffing dogs and no more parole officers.

You know, no government interference in your life and all that.

I'd be curious how you define "wealth" if you don't think wealth helped you have access to the web site or the significant time to poll it until you got an appointment.

From watching friends and family go through the process, difficulty getting an appointment after becoming eligible seems to be pretty strongly correlated with computer literacy.

I turned them down, but I had a few opportunities to cut in line and get a vaccine before I was eligible. Wealth did not directly give me access, but having a wealthy and privileged social network sure did.