One of the initial things Palemoon did was strip out a bunch of accessibility features because they didn't want to bother supporting them. I've never looked at them again after that. Kudos if they're actually trying to do better now, but the way they started was doomed.

Other industries advertise their quantity discounts and those are normally real discounts since bundling higher quantities together has cheaper per-unit processing/shipping. The airlines are being sneaky about these price chances and there's no inherent discount in multiple people flying together. The backend processing of one person vs multiple people is the same. Now maybe if they were advertising it as a bundled discount for groups, but they're not. This practice isn't being advertised, it's not a promotion. Thus it's fine to flame them for their greedy money grab. All their actions point to it being a money grab.

And you don't even need to have committed a crime to have a criminal record. Ever been finger printed (like as a kid in case you were ever kidnapped or fell into a monster infected quicksand pit with your detached hand sitting on top)? You have a criminal record. Ever got pulled over? Criminal record. Ever had someone make a random complaint about you to the police, regardless of if they every contacted you about it or not? Criminal record.

A criminal record only means the police have a file about you, meaning they interacted with you more than a "Hi" as you walked by. That what the media means when they say "criminal record".

That would be horrible. It takes resources to digest something. If you create something the body craves, people with significantly overeat it trying to meet that craving yet failing as it isn't proving the expected nutrients. Worse, it takes more nutrients to digest that empty food so you'd simply get worse and worse eating that fake food.

Actually we already have that. It's called flavoring. That's why your beef soup tastes like beef and why people eat half a bag of Doritos at once (umami and salty thus mimicking meat yet without the nutrients your body expects from meat).

If you want endlessly eat whatever without getting fat, you have to stop swallowing what you chew.

Fat that isn't digested by your bile ends up blasting out your ass. If you're eating a significant amount of fat and you haven't given your bile production the time to ramp up, you're not storing the vast majority of those calories. Similar to how your urine will start getting sweet when you gain insulin issues. Anything above your max storage rate isn't kept. Though that storage rate is dynamic.

Granted they'd still be counted as calories out even though you didn't burn them. CICO is very hard to measure.

Obesity has spread far too quickly for genetics to be it's main cause.

Genetic studies are often biased towards genetic causes. Many overlook lifestyle. It's completely reasonable that someone who grew up with parents providing them a fattening diet maintained that lifestyle throughout adulthood and someone with parents using a healthier diet maintained that way of living. Genetics might not have anything to do with that yet so many claim that it's all genetics.

Until they can point to specific genes as well as what triggers those genes to become active, genetic claims are usually suspect.

Sounds like you're over exercising thus your body down regulated a bunch of its systems. There's a lag for that to happen and a lag for it to stop. Until it stops you'll gain weight when eating a normal amount. Have you checked your sperm count, reduced your sexual drive, or did your period stop? The immune system and reproductive systems are the first and main systems that get suppressed when your body is energy restricted.

If you're eating carbs then 10lbs of your weight is water weight. 175lb to 190lb would be nearly all water weight from carbs if that's the main thing you changed.

You didn't mention your height. If you're under 6 ft then 190 is still overweight. Weigh scales aren't great at calculating body fat, especially if you work out.

Why is the parent rated insightful? It's simply wrong. Worse, it tells people they have no control over themselves thus implying they should give up trying to lose weight rather than find good information.

Calories in, calories out (CICO) 'works'. It's a law of physics. Matter/energy doesn't randomly appear or disappear. The problem is people have very little control over CO. You lose weight by spending time in a ketogenic state (when your body is pulling energy from your fat stores rather than the glucose from your recent meals). The two easiest ways to do that are either a long term ketogenic diet or water-only fasting (stupidly named as you're fasting from food, not water). You can workout to get into a ketogenic state faster, but if that workout burns above around 200 cal, your body will dynamically down regulate it's systems to spend 200 cal less that day. You have an energy set point it tries to reach each day with a wiggle room of roughly 200 cal above and below that. There are tons of studies and a few books about this.

The above is the physics of your metabolism. There's also nutritional cravings. If you're low on a nutrient your body will crave foods that taste/smell like they have it even if you've eaten enough energy. Artificial/Natural flavorings trick your body into thinking a food has something it doesn't. You'll crave that food more and more as you try to extract a nutrient it doesn't have. That's the 2nd reason people can't stop themselves from overeating. (1st is insulin swings, 3rd is carb addiction / emotional eating). There's also a few things (PUFAs?) which mess up how your body uses energy as well as some hormonal problems, like a messed up thyroid, with cause weight control problems too.

Not taking into account the above items as well as social pressure means people will regain their lost weight. That's doesn't mean their weight loss failed, it means they got fat again. If you fall off a ladder and break your arm, you get that healed. If 2 years later you fall off again and break your arm again, that doesn't mean your 1st healing failed and your arm was broken the entire time. You broke it twice. You can get fat multiple times too. Our society has significant peer pressure towards eating and doing things that get you fat. Exercise is the least effective weight loss method due to how your metabolism works. Anyone talking about exercise for weight loss is someone worth ignoring.

You don't hear much about this because there's no money behind it. No one is advertising how to do weight loss properly because there's nothing to buy except some very cheap salts (you need to maintain your electrolytes if water fasting for over 2 days and a multivitamin if doing it for months. Longest zero-food fast was 2 years). But it's all there in the science and research if you look for it. Just because something isn't blasted into your face from the media doesn't mean it doesn't exist. If your only information for a topic comes from mass media, you are significantly misinformed about that topic.

I went to the Rochester Institute of Technology, a private university. Each time they increased tuition they told us it was so they could give us more financial aid thus making the school more affordable. So there's the answer. College tuition has increased in order to reduce the cost of attending.

That actually sounds useful. However how it's being implemented is not. If this was plug-in based so when you've finally gotten around to organizing your family photos you can load a bunch of related plugins and complete the task more efficiently, that would be awesome. Instead it looks like Microsoft is forcing their preferred AI options on you and they're always there. So Microsoft has to decide what is important enough to everyone (and their bottom line) and only clutter the menu with those options. No toggling. No customization.

I want to say "when right clicking on a file selection containing at least ABC file types, show the X option". Then "X option calls Y script". Some Linux file managers have extensions, but there's a lot you have to do to write one rather than just registering a file type, name, and script in some table or directory. I think there was a window manager which had customizable menu options like that?

If you're a tab hoarder some of Firefox's design problems stand out. Close or open too many tabs too quickly and FF will peg your system load. It seems like it's saving the entire browser state when you make minor changes, so when that browser state is larger and you make multiple chances before it finishes saving the last one, the UI freezes until it catches up. Granted 5 years ago it would just crash in those cases, so in that respect it has gotten a lot better.

While I do use Firefox, I hate it at the same time. My Downloads folder is cluttered with random PDFs because of the fucking stupid change they made to the Open or Download feature. The guy who made that change said the downloads toolbar wasn't being used enough and his change increased its usage thus it was a good change. Forcing people to use that popup menu to delete files they previously didn't have to delete isn't a UX improvement.

Firefox also has the worst Print to PDF rendering and it forcing you to use the website's specified page size and orientation is a sinful restriction they added as a feature. There's so many minor annoyances like that. Tiny things that used to work fine then they intentionally broke because everyone else was doing it the new way or to met some twisted metric. So yeah, Firefox updates are frustrating but the other browsers do the same bullshit too.

When I discovered the bluetooth connection didn't work it was right before I was leaving for a trip. I skimmed the nearby businesses and they didn't have any multi-socket 12v adapters that looked like they'd fit. Bolt's only 12v socket is inside the front center console dash and there's not a lot of space around it. Looking at adapters online now, there are a bunch with wire leads which'll give you more room. One of those might work, I'll look into it. Thanks.

I hadn't thought of using ChatGPT to prototype hardware projects. Thanks for the insight.

I too have a Bolt (2023 EUV) and you can't use a bluetooth audio transmitter with them. Bolt requires the pairing device to enter in a code. The BT transmitters can't do that. Your only options are a radio transmitter or connecting your audio player as a mic to a spare phone then connecting that phone to the Bolt.

Personally I can't use the radio transmitter option as my dashcam is connected to the cigarette lighter. After decades of use I had to give up my Clip+ mp3 player with Rockbox and go with the iPhone VLC app which has major sorting issues when playing non-single file audiobooks, randomly forgets it's playback location when closed/killed, doesn't pause during direction notifications (which for some stupid reason are significantly louder and Apple won't let you change that), and you can't seek forward/backwards while driving.

I'm not buying such a crippled car again if I can manage it. Their trivial lack of an AUX port and annoying BT design makes longer commutes and trips significantly more annoying.

My other pet peeve, why the fuck doesn't the battery meter have a % number? It forces you to count tick marks if you want know your charge level. Argh! Modern UIs are complete failures.

A carnivore diet significantly reduces inflammation, but I don't think that's what the poster was going for...

The not sitting still is more from diet than anything else. Switch to a carnivore diet for a few months and you'll be amazed at how that calms your mind down while making it sharper. You can handle sitting patiently again without needing to fidget and can pay attention to media that doesn't cut scenes every couple of seconds.