I don't know about nerdy enough but I found "The song of Achilles" by Madeline Miller so romantic!
We all know the story of Achilles of course, but I found this book very refreshing because the one speaking is Patroclus. Beautiful ending.
I have the feeling you were born and raised in the US and have never experienced life outside your own town/ city and just spew your opinion about places and situations you know absolutely nothing about. So let me enlighten your narrow anglo vision a bit:
Have you ever lived through something like what is described in the article?
Have you ever experienced what a narcoestado entails?
Have you ever been in a protest along searching mothers outside Palacio Nacional because ten thousand people disappeared in your country due to organized crime for this fool to keep having breakfast saying "they only want to destabilize my regime" and not even acknowledge your presence?
Have you ever been blackmailed and had to pay organized crime to keep your business open for this president to say "abrazos, no balazos" ( hugs, not bullets)?
Has anyone from your family been kidnapped for ransom money? If so, did you get help from governement agencies?
With all of the above, how would you feel about your president saying the things in the article?
I have experienced all of the above scenarios so kindly, stfu.
He is a demagogue through and through, all his term has been a joke and he has been fluffed up by his minions telling him what a wonderful man he is. Barf!
Whoa! Lots of assumptions there, pal. Projection much?
I never said it was cheating or a shortcut, that was all you.
I never said people like you should die.
You do you and good if it has worked so far, but that does not mean that it is going to work for every single person who gets this suggested by their doctor.
That does not mean that every person getting this surgery comes out of it scot free forever, look at the data.
Sorry to burst your bubble.
Calling me judgemental is not te flex you think it is.
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Yes, but also that weightloss from bariatric surgery comes with many unhealthy side effects:
Dumping; calcium, Iron, folate, vitamin A, B1,B12,D malabsortion; malnutrition, ulcers, refractory late dumping; increased risk of postoperative abuse of alcohol; depression; anxiety; increased mortality from suicide (so much for decreased mortality for not being fat anymore); more risk of colorectal cancer; Barret's oesophagus (premalignant condition for oesophageal adenocarcinoma), etc.
So how come this is healthier for someone? Is it a case or choosing a poison? How come anesthesia is a risk for life saving surgeries for fat people but that risk evaporates when it comes to bariatric procedures?
So which is it?
"We want you thinner" or "We want you healhy"?
Spot on comment.
"But, but, but obesity" Yeah correlation is not causation, when will people get off of the better than thou train.
Being healthy is more than just how much people weight and it baffles me that so many comments here are tone deaf about how it is not as easy as CICO and criticize people who live in larger bodies.
I like buying and owning some stuff, sure, but not being able to do so doesn't not make me go/feel insane.
Sometimes guilt creeps in but then I remember I am allowed to own and enjoy things that have no other purpose than to be enjoyed.
I don't come from money, lived a very frugal life with my parents and while I went to private school all the way through college it was through scholarships and what not.
So maybe I am justifying myself, which is fine too, but now that I can have a bit of extra change and not be a starving student I know there are some stuff that I am willing to buy for whatever reason. This will not make me poorer or richer.
ETA: Mostly try to find something you enjoy, not something that feels like a chore. Also, diet and fit culture are like poison so I would advice to find true compassionate professionals to help you out in your search.
Yes in my case
BUT I had to find the right exercise for me as well as the best time of day to do it.
I now do it everyday and have done so for 17+ years. Sometimes I pepper some different stuff here and there, but nothing crazy.
Also, food. The correct meals for me have made all the difference in the world in how I feel. This also includes some extra minerals that my body needs.
Mix tapes all the way! Sometimes even recording straight from radio shows praying the host wouldn't speak during my recording.
The only album I bought in an original cassette was "August and everything after" by the Counting Crows. I played that tape every single morning going to school for like a year.
@Thewhizard I just read Carrion Comfort's prologue (Literally, is all I have read) and I am hooked! It looks like I am going to enjoy the hell out of this book.
I am gladly going to share my most guarded secret regarding succulents, obligatory "I-am-not-in-the-usa" disclaimer. I live in a place near the tropics but with very cold winters.no snow though.
Neglect is your friend. I forget to water mine all the time, if I find gnats or whatever on one just spray it lightly with rubbing alcohol or pinesol, etc.
Specifically for propagating: Cut your petals/leaves clean off of the mother plant. I use my hands but you can use a pair of very clean scissors, then put them in an empty terracota pod no moisture and leave them be until they can "heal" the "wound", sort of like scarring (spelling?) Then when you start seeing tiny little roots THEN place them on moist soil and proceed to ignore so they start doing their thing.
My soil mix is 70 or 80% mineral material and the rest regular dirt.
Hope this helps
If they are not my close friends or family, something generic like wine, nice tea, chocolate, baby plant is fine.
If they are close to me, I love giving them something I know they can use for their favorite activity or hobbie but never related to their job or school. For example I would not gift my kid something for school, that is a need and not an actual gift.
I am not a biologist but could you please share the name and author of the book? Sounds liek something I'd enjoy TIA