It’s surpassingly difficult to get people to press three keys at the same time on a computer keyboard. Is it that hard?
It must be, because some people it takes them minutes to get it. I understand — I grew up with computers and I also have been trained on piano. But still, press and hold three keys at once doesn’t seem that puzzlingly complex, does it?
In a way, I have a lot of respect for vegans. It takes deep commitment to actively harm yourself and your children (if you have any) for an ahistorical and scientifically-unsupported mode of living.
Of course, the pseudo-monasticism and deprivation is part of the appeal. Seems to satisfy some deep human need.
Beware of the “Halo Effect” – when a food has “perceived healthfulness”, but in reality, is a calorie bomb.
Such as:
Salads loaded with dressings and croutons
Anything with avocados
Nuts and nut butters
Trail mix
Etc etc etc
— Jason Helmes (@anymanfitness) June 17, 2019
Yeah. I see Fat Acceptance types say things like, “I only eat a handful of nuts a few times a day as a snack, and my regular meals.”
An adult-size handful of nuts, depending on the nut and the hand, is 200-500 calories! So, eating a few handfuls a day means that you’ve met your daily calorie limit already without any other meal. Nuts are highly caloric, as are “salads” loaded with bacon, dressing, hard-boiled eggs, etc. A lot of people eat supposed healthy food to complete excess and then claim they have no idea why they can’t lose weight, and claim to only be eating a few hundred calories a day because they have no idea the energy density of the food they eat.
Sometimes, I eat a few ounces of nuts and a piece of cheese or two for lunch. I’ve had people comment incredulously, “That’s all you’re eating?”
Indeed, that’s all I am eating, because that’s 600 damn calories right there. That’s enough for anyone’s lunch.
Absurd portion sizes and lack of knowledge (and lack of wanting to possess knowledge) of energy density in foods dooms many people to eating 3,000 calories a day when they think they are eating 1,000.
Unlike what scientists claim, there is an easy proof that there are and can be marked and longstanding differences between generations.
For instance, those who experienced the Great Depression. My grandparents lived through that era and their approach to food and waste in general was markedly different than that of their children or my generation (despite my parents being a lot poorer than they were). My grandfather absolutely refused to let any food that was possibly edible be thrown away — either you’d eat it, or he would. It did not matter how unappetizing it was, or how foul-tasting, or if it was just the rind. They’d both do things like wash aluminum foil and re-use items that I don’t really consider reusable.
Now, scientists claim there are no differences but even a cursory glance at that generation finds remarkable and persistent divergences in thought, approach to life problems, and general attitudes.
Science is valuable and useful and I don’t intend to besmirch it too much. But it leads to a lot of people (including me) to distrust it when ridiculously obvious real world phenomena are claimed to not exist, and we are told that we are complete fools for believing in them.
I trusted cloud services to store my data.
Always a mistake. I recommend cloud services as only a tertiary backup, as they are unreliable long term and prone to getting hacked.
First backup: local hard drive or USB stick.
Second backup: USB stick or hard drive stored at work or somewhere else secure, like a safe deposit box or trusted friend’s home.
Third backup: cloud service.
Having a primary backup in a cloud service is not far from just flushing the data down the toilet. Using the cloud service as a primary data repository with no backup at all — well, just consider that data lost already.
The below is not even close. Fat isn’t even as dense as ballistic gel, because it is designed to be about as dense as human muscle. On average, the density of fat is 0.9 g/mL. The density of muscle is 1.1 g/mL.
Therefore, a 9mm round would penetrate about 12 to 20 inches into human fat, depending on the type of round, distance, etc. Yet more Fat Acceptance delusional BS. The sad part is that many probably see and believe this.
The motto of the modern left should be, “Come for the sanctimony, stay for the stale ideas!”
Lesson from a pre-Roe vs. Wade experience: Men cannot be silent on abortion rights.
I agree, but many feminists (I see it everywhere online) tell men that they should express no opinions on these matters at all, and it’s intrusive to do so as it’s a women’s issue. I think this drives many men away from expressing support for abortion and women’s rights in general. I know it makes me less likely to speak up, though I still do.
Not sure why the women doing this don’t realize it’s extremely counterproductive and destructive to any hope of bettering things, but there you go.
Twitter is showing that it won’t even try to distinguish hate speech from the efforts to oppose it.
Hey, all ya’ll remember oh, not that long ago at all, when I said that liberals would be victimized by censorship even worse than the right? Yeah?
Predicting the predictable is predictably easy.
There will come soft rain and the smell of the ground,
And swallows circling with their shimmering sound;
And frogs in the pools singing at night,
And wild plum-trees in tremulous white;
Robins will wear their feathery fire
Whistling their whims on a low fence-wire;
And not one will know of the war, not one
Will care at last when it is done.
Not one would mind, neither bird nor tree
If mankind perished utterly;
And Spring herself, when she woke at dawn,
Would scarcely know that we were gone.
-Sarah Teasdale, “There Will Come Soft Rains”
Oh, I forgot, I did set one personal weightlifting record fairly recently.
I did 3 x 105 pounds overhead barbell presses. Not bad for someone at 160 pounds bodyweight.
LAX is the world’s worst airport.
It truly is. I’ve been to a lot of airports. LAX is not the bottom of the barrel; it’s the barrel after someone goes to town on it with a poop cannon. When I fly I deliberately avoid LAX if I can manage it at all, and the few times I’ve been there I’ve deeply regretted it.
Will climate change kill everyone — or just lots and lots of people?
Bad analysis and lack of systems thinking. Climate change alone has zero existential risk for humanity. However, episodes like climate change lead to wars. Arguably, some wars have already largely been driven by climate change. Wars between major power can lead to nuclear exchanges. Nuclear exchanges then lead to extinction.
Who knows how likely that is? I do not. But I do know the probability with climate change has increased and will increase even more in the future. It is truly an existential risk that this sort of facile, superficial analysis completely ignores.
Systems thinkers are rare. Vox certainly has none of them, mired as they are in centrist delusions of technocratic soteriology.
How to Forgive Someone Who Has Wronged You.
As you are standing over their grave, dirt and blood still drying on your hands, mutter, “I forgive you for making me dig this damn hole in the ground.”
Done.
Fascinating that the clear Twitter nutrition consensus is: meat good; sugar, flour and seed oils bad. Yet I’ve never seen a mainstream media article that says the same. The divide between passion-driven Twitter and corporate-driven media appears vast and unbridgeable.
— Brad Lemley (@BradCLemley) June 14, 2019
Where there is a lot of money involved, the media will be (mostly) against the science and best practices for as long as is tenable. Right now large food companies buy a whole lot of advertising. The media, especially in its attenuated state, is not able to resist this onslaught of cash.
For another obvious example of where obviously wrong information is peddled all the time due to monetary incentives is economics (Laffer curve, trickle-down economics, nearly all the rest incl. Kevin Drum’s BS), but that is not nearly the only one.
Money determines truth — or at least “truth.”