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This, unironically.

This is correlation. Corn (or high fructose corn syrup) is a common ingredient in ultra processed foods, which we already know are the cause of the obesity epidemic. Pre-Colombian societies ate plenty of corn.

It’s also not just about sugar as some other comments have suggested. Humans are built to eats carbs and some tribal people even today get a huge amount of calories from honey without any obesity.

The problem is the way sugar (and fat and other ingredients) are processed in industrial food production. Studies have shown that if you give people food that contains the exact same proportion of fats and sugars, in whole food and junk food form, people will eat more of the junk food. This is the problem. Whole foods are generally all fine.

They don’t suffocate. Whales breathe air. The most common cause of death for stranded whales is dehydration as they get too hot out of the water.

Hitler’s mother, for those considering it: https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/4/45/Klara_Polz_Hitler.jpg

The Real Engineering video used as an example here is excellent.

Good luck with being debt trapped to China.

Mario Kart.

The Lake District is further from London than Wales, but plenty of tourists go there. The problem with Wales is that it’s just less tourist-friendly. The Lakes has been a popular tourist spot from more than a century and is really geared up for it, with loads of nice pubs and cafes and shops and all that. Same in Cornwall. It’s not like Wales is the only choice for nice countryside.

We’re speaking English.

Barely

Definitely. Make it halloumi and ain’t nobody got a problem.

How well does wireless CarPlay work?

Here in the UK everyone just uses WhatsApp or maybe Messenger for some stuff. Even my 80yo mother uses WhatsApp, so it’s obviously not that difficult. I think it stems from data being cheaper than SMS (and media messages) back in the day and WhatsApp being more innovative with group chats, internet voice/video calls, etc.

I also lived in Hong Kong for many years and it was the same there, with everyone using WhatsApp or WeChat.

As far as I can tell, only Americans still use SMS as their main messaging system.

People are even worse at training their cats.

Delete the YouTube app and open links in a browser that blocks YT ads, like Brave.

I just can't get past the name of KeepAss...

It’s worth pointing out that you don’t need to go overboard with exercise. A brisk 20-minute morning walk and a few minutes of body-weight exercises (push ups, squats) is all you really need to do for physical health. To lose weight, eating healthier is the only effective option — no fad diets, just more whole foods and less junk.

Cycling can also be a great social activity. You can have a nice chatty ride to a coffee shop or something a bit more competitive, depending on your preference. And it’s easy to find a group at your level, no matter your fitness.

My dogs would shit themselves if a robot started vacuuming. I mean, they shit themselves when I do it, so I can only imagine…

Probably some British designer trying to understand metric…