Is everything ok at home? I was making a joke about how "Ozempic" sounds like "Olympic" FFS and then pointing out what worked for me. My Achilles tendon has ruptured four times this year and I CAN'T work out right now even though I want to, I have to fast to control my weight.

Junk food companies pour billions of dollars into marketing and employ teams of psychologist to get people to eat. If we had less advertising, we'd have a lot less fatties is probably a more reasonable argument.

Having withdrawn from opiates I can tell you that working off the weight I gained is not comparable.

Fuck dude - my sibling is morbidly obese and I'm mostly lean - can you explain the genetics of that?

No it isn't. Being fat isn't cancer, it's being fat. Some people have excuses and others have reasons but to compare being fat to cancer is a lie designed to draw people into your hopelessness by telling them there is nothing they can do.

An Ozempic Assleet.

On a more serious note I use small bouts of fasting, like skipping a meal, which helps in keeping both under control. You also get mental clarity. This helped me avoid the diabetes my siblings acquired.

Can pay their respect's appropriately.

The TVs now monitor what you watch, and sell that data. But (by law) you can disable the monitoring. It's hard to find the settings, but the TVs have setting to turn off monitoring.

No premium seats for cross-country or international flights? Then I won't be flying anymore. No thanks to the MISERY of being stuck sitting upright in a seat, often late at night, unable to recline or sleep, for 5+ hours at a time. And no thanks to the MISERABLE gate waiting area, which also has no place to recline. Economy flying is an AWFUL experience. NO THANKS.

Thanks, that also explains why gnome terminal bug of detaching and reattaching bash sessions has not worked since 2018. I liked Gnome because it was uncluttered (at least in Mint) but the downhill progression in usability is what I've noticed.

Windows Terminal has this feature and you can enable it in the settings. If you want it in the desktop you can add X11 functionality and it will work. I've done both because it is probably one of the most useful computing features apart form workspaces. As I recall it works in MAC if you enable X11 functionality - but it's been a few years since I used Mac everyday.

You mean raise your standards and learn something new.

AND ctrl-c + ctrl-v (or command for you) still works so you get two cut and paste buffers. Asides for workspaces it's probably the most useful used feature for me.

It's seems this is a trend to dumb down power user features so that GUIs become a productivity obstacle appealing to the lowest common denominator of "entry" level users.

Let's try that again.

Doesn't mean it isn't true or that he's wrong. He's hardly going to trick kids into reading his article, to trick them. I think reading is the vehicle into learning things in your life that unlocks what you'd really love to do.

It seems that the only two sides of politics that exist is the agonist and the antagonist. Left and Right have become obsolete as a consequence of their absolute polarization.

Intelligence can manifest in different ways unrelated to reading, math, music, painting for example. I'd also say that language could be considered a limiter of intelligence when you're restricted to words. I seen high intelligence is as much of a curse as a blessing, thinking can be addictive especially if you have hard emotions that you're avoiding feeling.

I can tell you from reading thousands of pages of proposed Acts of law; it's a fucking tedious slog that takes weeks out of your life and is absolutely vital component of a functioning democracy - way better than just voting. What's magical is the patience to do it or face the consequences of not doing it. The best way to solve that problem is log onto your government's page where laws are proposed and start reading AND writing about a portion of law that interests you.

That's what democracy needs.

Freedom of speech carrys with it an inherent responsibility to figure out what the reality is and make a judgement call. Respect is earned if someone can be civil, polite while they express that freedom.

Hopefully it's something that really offends them.

opps - That's not the comment I wanted to make.

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I didn't know "The Expanse" was based on books, however I can say the TBP books are excellent. Great to see the Chinese producing Sci Fi that (mostly) transcends borders.

Yeah - great books there 52/2. Bear is certainly one of the greats R.I.P, up there with Clarke. One book Bear wrote "City at the end of Time" seemed to be a homage to Clarke's "City and the Stars" which was one of my favorites.

Then there were the Killer B's (Brin, Bear and Benford) who I think expanded Asimov's Foundation - not sure if that's what Apple are playing though as I haven't read Foundation or his Robot series -- yet.

We can't talk about Bear though without mentioning "Eon" which is probably one of the greatest Sci Fi books ever written. I know it's a big call, Eternity, Forge of God and Anvil of Stars are of similar quality - but also much of his stuff from Star Trek to the back story for Halo took both of those into hard sci fi territory.

No, it's a challenge finding decent Sci Fi after consuming the greats. Reynolds, Hamilton, Reed also write good science fiction that's worth checking out.

Similar age to me. I started on comic books, a stack as big as I was, then sci fi books, then electronics, then computing which made me the geek I am today!

It could be you dissociating because of something you are reading, I've had similar experiences. It's worth looking into - you never know what it will uncover for you.

I'm usually too engrossed to care, however I have had a few people come up to me and comment that I was actually reading a real book and then asked me about it. So it can oddly be a way to meet people, especially if they've read the book.