I'm just trying to get a grasp of the numbers in the survery:
Nearly 15% have *never* eaten a sugary food?
On average, only eating red meat two times a week?
But at the same time, only 4 servings of fruit/vegetables, so where do all their calories come from?
Maybe the 16 units of alcohol a week? Yikes.


The survery also said that they only measured activity over a week and then drew conclusions based on cancer rates years later.

Reddit can and does ban people for absolutely nothing.
I posted on there trying to figure out why my Synology NAS was only letting me use 16 TB even when using much larger drives and 64-bit hardware, got an irrelevant lecture about gigabytes vs gibibytes and some negative karma, then found my account permanently suspended without explanation or recourse soon after, and that was the only thing that was even remotely controversial that I ever posted there.

The answer (in case it matters) to my question was that a volume storage limit is set on creation even if moved over to a 64-bit system, so when I created it on an old-old 32-bit NAS, the limit was set at 16TB. The people on Reddit didn't actually figure that out, and banned me, instead.

I am Spectrum instead of Comcast, but I've dealt with Comcast before. Frankly, I'm a bit surprised that my current $50/month introductory rate is actually $50. Comcast would have crammed in at least a few fees in there to get it up.
It's still cable, though, and my upload rate is pretty slow, and it seems to have frequent micro-drops in service. My phone likes to nag me when there's a break in wifi internet access.
No major outages so far, at least. My last address was CenturyLink, and that had multiple outages of over a week.

Whenever I see articles like this, I always think, if you have enough money for a giant house that they're calling a typical living room, why is so little of it spent on a TV? It's only with pushing both of those to an extreme do they get headlines like this.
I haven't even considered a 27" TV since the CRT days.

Please. The camera portion keeps on getting more overgrown and unsightly, while things like battery capacity are thrown to the wayside. I don't know who it's for, but the new designs are actively ugly.

The really big thing here, at least the way I see it, is rental stores and libraries, where it is much more likely that any (legit) game a consumer gets from there has passed through many hands and is more likely to cause issues. We're also only a few months into the generation, and I see a lot of "infected" cartridges and unusable second-hand systems in the future. Nintendo isn't just trying to shut down the used market. Nintendo is trying to shut down the library.

That's also a big use case for me. Sometimes you just want a block of text with none of the extra formatting applied.

At current prices and interest rates, where I live (in Utah, which is supposedly low-COL 'flyover' territory) the median single-family home listing is around $700,000, which would take a family income of around $270,000 to be 'affordable' by conventional measurements. Getting into a top-level university seems like a bargain compared to that. Only 10% more than being able to afford a median home!

Do I make anywhere near that... dear god, no. Even with how much everything else has gone up, I'm still spending close to double on rent+utilities vs every other spending category combined, and it's in-line with a normal apartment... and my landlord is forcing me to move because he's not extracting enough from me and the next place is almost definitely going to cost more.

How do I afford it? Uh... rice, oatmeal, and maybe a cardboard box if I lose my income. Housing costs basically doubled once Covid hit, and I'm paying a whole lot more for a whole lot less than I had before.

And probably wouldn't cause any kind of uproar, either.

I believe that people were getting upset about autotune in music, instead? But I suppose on a very base level, the two are similar, but this does sound less intrusive.

When something like a Taco Bell Chalupa (which isn't a lot of food) costs $6 and a nearby counter-serve authentic taco place can sell me a variety of items for the same $6 with not only vastly superior quality but larger portions, as well, I have to wonder how Taco Bell even stays in business, especially as Taco Bell has gone with uncomfortable 'modern' design elements that make even being in the building unpleasant. Of course, I don't expect the local place to be able to keep doing what they're doing, but it's a much better alternative, for now.

I'm as much for ending the change as anyone else, but just, scientifically, how is summer sunlight at 4 AM a good thing, on any level?

Later sunsets in the winter seem like a good thing all-around, and more impactful than early morning light, IMO, and any loss of morning light seems less significant than the sleep-disrupting impact to of extremely early light in the summer.

//And I'm tired of the privileged viewpoint of 'it doesn't matter what the clocks say' Most people have their schedules dictated to them regardless of personal preferences, so the numbers on the clock very much matter for all but the privileged few. That's a "let them eat cake" argument if I ever heard one.

If life/work balance gives workers no time for families, and insane housing costs make having even a stable environment untenable, how would they even manage it?

If a company, say, Monster Cable, doesn't release a product in a category other than, let's say... cables, for a period of over 5 years, should that mean that shouldn't have a legal ground to stand on when a mom & pop laundromat uses the word 'monster' in their name? I really don't understand how this stuff works, since I clearly see a 007 movie in 2021, a rerelease of a 007 game (Goldeneye) in 2023, a TV series in 2023, and a whole website with a ton of merch in a wide variety of categories, from plastic models to board games, to stationary.

And both are rather frustrating. It's of course frustrating when looking for a job, but it's also very frustrating when on a team that's looking to increase headcount, and the manager is continually 'I kind of liked that person, but I'm not sure...' for months on end as we keep going through candidates and they don't want to outright reject the good-but-not-sure-if-good-enough applicants, all the while the team is short manpower it sorely needs.

But he's rich. Shouldn't that reduce the sentence down to 6 months or so at a glorified golf club for fellow billionaires? Maybe a little longer if he wants to complete the end-of-season golf tournament.