Fridge is always empty. Want snacks? Too bad, only water available, nothing you can do at 2AM
24/7 gym open so I have no excuses
No alcohol, only espressos. No snacks, only lunch + maybe dinner, sometimes meat, if there are sugar cravings only honey on rice cakes.
Lost 22 kilos since October with 7 more to go, everything is so sweet to me at this stage and I have no need for sugar.
Most significant life improvement I have ever had, even better than using vim + tmux
As someone in their 40s who writes code for a living, I've discovered that eating three reasonable-sized meals is actually way too many calories for me. These days, I often only drink water till lunch.
> even better than using vim + tmux
Indeed, I'm confident that exercise provides long-term returns that exceed even this dynamic duo.
Does the existence of a seat-belt suppress the "natural heightened attention" (whatever this is) of the driver?
> There isn't any risk for someone giving their money to a badly-managed corporation, so they do it without thinking
I have no insight to the institutions I give my money to; if they operate on American soil, I "understand" that they have been regulated and brought up to standard by the State.
The fact that a consumer depositing their money in the bank has to do "due diligence" or needs to be blamed when the institution (company?) goes belly up is laughable.
> Does the existence of a seat-belt suppress the "natural heightened attention" (whatever this is) of the driver?
No. If there is a crash the driver will still be involved in the crash. Seatbelts are a risk-reduction technique, FDIC is risk transfer.
> I have no insight to the institutions I give my money to...
The good news is you're pretty normal. However the observation is you're enabling a bunch of rather untrustworthy people who don't care about your interests and it is pretty easy to imagine that story ending worse than if you were in a position where you either demanded some insight or didn't give them money.
> Does the existence of a seat-belt suppress the "natural heightened attention" (whatever this is) of the driver?
I love this analogy. It neatly highlights that an individual, no matter how "attentive" can still be acted on by external forces. And also, implies that said individual is always affected by those around them, because they share their environment with others.
I find that same have difficult grasping these points, at times.
Frankly, every time an American colleague comes swinging with free marketeering "ideologies" and the naturality of "people are not stupid they can do their own due diligence" it is these kind of stories I show them.
If the American society is a low-trust one, this is one of the reasons why.
> The optics of equating a terrorist organization on the one hand with a democratic state with functioning judicial system and accountability for any crimes committed on the other hand by putting them in the same press release is pretty bad for the court.
What's pretty bad is attempts to discredit the ICC by those who oppose it's decisions.
> I'm all for investigating if there were any orders of directly targeting civilians being given to the Israeli military, etc, but that's a pretty far fetched assumption in my opinion. On the other side you have what's a pretty clear case of a large scale terror attack against innocent civilians.
No you are not; Your pro-genocide stance is nauseating.
> In addition, why doesn't the ICC look into Egypt's conduct of refusing to allow civilians to flee from this conflict?
Whataboutism and deflection from the issue at hand must not and will not be tolerated.
Things are being sold in the US that should not be sold.
US has created businesses out of Universities and Health meaning you can buy things that should be offered to you by the state; people need more money to stay afloat in the US, more jobs sure are going to get you more GDP.
And if we go regional in EU, I bet you can have a better life in Portugal or Greece than Alabama, Mississippi or pretty much the whole South.
>I bet you can have a better life in Portugal or Greece than Alabama, Mississippi
Most people need to earn money through labor, and earning money is much easier in Alabama or Mississippi than in Portugal or Greece unless you have one of those jobs where it does not matter where in the world you live as long as the internet connectivity is reliable.
Some are going be tempted to reply that that might be true for people whose earning target is sufficiently high, but for just earning the median income, Portugal or Greece is easier. I disagree: I say it applies all along the continuum of incomes.
If you are disabled (unable to earn money) or have all the money you will ever need (as savings), then yeah, you can have a better life in Portugal or Greece.
>And if we go regional in EU, I bet you can have a better life in Portugal or Greece
Provided you have a job and a job that pays well enough to be able to afford a decent life. All this rhetoric about european health insurance and job security is good but it is good today. Will it be good tomorrow? unlikely, as the EU faces the same demographic crisis as most of the developed world. Mind you, i'm not advocating for US-style free markets running amok and turning healthcare into a for-profit service but there is a good argument to be made about certain positives of the USA's economic structures.
Remember, when the chips are down, you cannot eat the architecture or social services in europe. Those things cannot be exchanged for money.
> All this rhetoric about european health insurance and job security is good but it is good today. Will it be good tomorrow?
In Croatia it already went down the drain years ago. People who never needed hospital treatments in their adult life have absolutely no clue at what the'll get into. Frequent misdiagnosis, waiting lists for years in advance to even see a specialist - not even to have a surgery, no responsiblity, 30 year old methods and knowledge etc.
Doctors themselves are disgruntled and are complaining about low salaries how they whould be paid much more if they were in the States or say Germany etc. Which is simply ridiculous because they're highest paid profession over here and frankly any other worker would be paid more if it was working abroad.
This is the only profession over here where its completely legal to work in both a public hospital/clinic and work in a private clinic/practice at the same time. So it quickly came down to: "oh you see, the waiting list for your life-saving urgent surgery is 2 years, but if you come to my/friend's practice will sort you out in no time at all, we accept all payment options". Or "Sorry the waiting list is very long, but I'm the one who makes it wink wink".
So this quickly devolved to "why would I give two shits what happens in my public hospital (workplace) when they cannot fire me (because they need me)". It also priced out many non well-off people because the Germans and Italians are using these private services too raising the prices.
So the public health services are used now pretty much by friends and families of the people working there and by poor people who have no choice but to take whatever scraps are given to them.
Citizens get screwed over twice; they get no or bad service for the money thats taken from them by force (very high taxes), and they'll have to pay for private care which is very expensive and the private insurance options are actually very poor.
I could go on about job "security" now, but this theme is so painful I'll leave it for another time.
Define “better life.” The median house in every southern state is double the size of the median house in Portugal. In terms of material prosperity there’s no comparison, the American south is vastly richer.
My experience in Europe was if you went to a random restaurants it was better than the US (3-4.3 stars on yelp). But the good restaurants (4.5+) weren't any better. And there's a ton of great food in the south. New Orleans, Atlanta, Houston all have great food scenes.
The American south is known for gardens. They have pretty good food quality if they want it. Many of them do not cook very good food, but they have plenty of ability to get it if they want. Which is to say for some reason more in the South do not value food quality, but for those who do they get it.
Neither food deserts nor rates of food insecurity have anything to do with food quality for those who want and can afford healthy food.
(I would have thought that California has the best food quality in the US because that is where most of the organic fruits and vegetables in the US are grown and the other elements of a healthy diet can be shipped around the world with very little loss of quality.)
I have been trying to do the same, but what troubles me is that I had to pick up anecdotal knowledge and then drilling down and sideways on whatever manufacturing term I came across.
I was not able to find a knowledge path that I could follow, is there a degree out there that lists its textbooks?
It seems to me that any blunder can be described as "brilliant 4D chess move" by those insisting that they did not mess up and it is us who do not see the game.
Based on the events that have been taking place from October 7, neither party is capable for any form of strategizing. Let alone "brilliant 4D chess moves".
