The amount of assumptions in your post are downright comical. I'm overweight, borderline obese, and in my 40s. And I'm very very aware of how hard it is to lose weight, as I fight the good fight every single damn day. It's taken me the better part of a year to trim off 20 pounds while consigning myself to a diet of mostly salads and a ton of biking. And I can very easily lose a great deal of those gains with a single cheat weekend or literally any vacation. Losing weight is hard because the human body is efficient. You don't have to binge eat to gain weight. Even eating just when your body says "feed me something" is often enough to cause steady gains. That's the point. That is why it's hard to keep weight off. Because the struggle literally never stops. Most people diet a bit, lose some weight, and then want to go back to "life as normal", not knowing that "normal" means "weight gain." True weight loss requires lifestyle changes and an acceptance of a little discomfort, and most people don't want to or can't put up with. How many people do you know that eat a couple of salads as their only caloric intake for the day and bike at least an hour a day? Of the people you know who do that, how many do you know that would be willing to maintain that for life? Don't go spouting bullshit at me when you don't even know the lifestyles these people you're claiming are trying to lose weight are engaging in.

At the end of the day, people want some semblance of comfort. They want to enjoy a donut, or a piece of cake, or a soda. They don't want to feel hungry all the time or constrain themselves to nuts and berries for months on end. They want to eat a prepared meal instead of a pile of leaves. People don't want to permanently alter their diet to something borderline uncomfortable. That is your answer as to why weight loss isn't sustained. It requires people accepting a bit more misery into their lives permanently. I fucking hate salads. I fucking hate biking. I fucking hate not picking up something to eat immediately when I feel hungry. Yet I've been doing it for the better part of a year now. Because I hate dying more.

I have a question for you. Did you work a food service or retail job while you were in college?

Actually...yes. Hell I was working in the food service industry when I was 16yrs old going forward....why do you ask?

I know it is en vogue to trash on trans youth in organized sports. But how many actual, concrete examples of "men dominating their daughters sports" can you actually produce? I know it is not zero, but is it even as many as 10 trans girls below Division I NCAA level that are affecting outcomes in competition? And even if it was more than 10, I don't see how that qualifies as "suffering under the tyranny

Even 1 is too many

I"m just glad there's no "push" for EV "motorcycles".....

I love my ICE bike.....and hopefully will till the end of my days.

Can't wait for summer heat to lift a bit and good Fall riding weather hits.....

We're already there. The average city commuter can easily just do a single fast charge once a week, and unlike a gas car, you can just find a charger that's near something else you'd be doing anyway, like at a grocery store, mall, or down town, and your total 'charging time,' defined as 'the amount of time you, personally, have to devote to the process once you roll up to the dispenser' is 'thirty seconds to plug the car in and tap your payment card' and 'thirty seconds to unplug the car and close the charging port.'

I'm curious, where do you live where all these public places like grocery stores, malls and "down town" have chargers out for public use?

Certainly no where I've lived or travel regularly.....

All is that is needed for mass adoption of electric cars in the USA, is to open the market to China, with no tariffs. If America is so great, let them in. I was born in Minnesota, and am an American, but I do not agree with these Tariffs, and Musk, and Trump. So... Open up the markets. Let the free markets decide what is best for consumers.

Sorry, but FUCK CHINA.

They are our enemy and giving them yet another foothold in our economy and infrastructure is just a BAD idea all around.

For me....the SOUND of the M is half the fun, it lets you know when you're typing, etc.

Silent is a deal killer for me on this one.

It's basically like how an electric motorcycle has exactly NO lure for me and most people that ride bikes....the sounds, smells, rumble and vibrations are half the fun of the experience.....I WANT to change gears manually, etc...makes you feel more connected.

To me, same with the keyboard....sounds and feel give me a large part of the experience.

Just wait a few months, it WILL be the entire Western internet like this.

They are currently trying to ban and censor and block the entire internet for the entire West, by any means necessary.

Too many users on too many platforms have been noticing about who actually controls the West and banning individual accounts or entire platforms is not going to curb that anymore. So they ban the entire internet for the West.

Alphabet can absorb way more fines than prison sentences.

Hopefully they won't be Evil.

According to your link, that relies almost entirely on thorium, which is 400 times more abundant than U-235.

If we rely solely on uranium, we'll run out in only ten million years. Then what?

That's with lithium, not sodium.

It's still early, but this is the stupidest thing I've read so far today.

Have you ever actually used a battery?

Well, we're not gonna run out of sodium.

Tesla cars have nine external cameras.

These trucks have twelve.

They have far better visibility than a human driver.

Self-driving vehicles aren't perfect, but that isn't a reasonable standard.

What matters is that they have a better safety record than human drivers.

These trucks are even safer than other SDVs because they're driving fixed routes that have been mapped, with every sign and marker in the database.

They're also safer than human drivers because they drive slower. Human-driven trucks usually drive the speed limit, which is 75 mph on the Texas portion of I-45. A self-driving truck will go slower to minimize fuel consumption, so 55 mph. A truck going 75 has nearly twice the kinetic energy.