el_abuelo @ el_abuelo @lemmy.ml

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The majority of US citizens do not fall into those categories, and for that reason I see it as an unnecessary procedure that is more cultural than scientific.

Not so dramatically you can not wear a condom. So given you're going to strap up anyway, what's the benefit to having surgery on your genitals?

You're forgetting that communal showers is a thing

Don't they get charged that? As in it gets deducted from their slave wages.

I think you've got some things twisted here, you certainly can eat more than you burn.

For example my maintenance calorie level is around 1400 a day. I work a sedentary job and do moderate exercise 5 times a week. The low amount of calories I need to maintain my weight was surprising - I always went by the RDA of 2-2.5k - no surprise I was slowly gaining weight over the years.

I can easily blow past 1400 without even thinking about it. I drink about 500 cals of milk a day alone. No carbs in that yet I'm already 1/3 of my limit and I've not even had that 1000cal tub of ice cream.

Protein is harder to overeat because it's lower calorie per gram and its harder to digest so we feel fuller for longer.

If cutting out carbs works for you then crack on! It's all about just finding the diet that works for you because trying to do something too painful will unlikely result in meaningful lifelong changes.

All diets offer the same thing: less calories in than you burn.

There's no secret sauce here...it's just about finding ways you can change your lifestyle to reduce calories in.

Exercise is good for you for many reasons, but you can't outrun the spoon. The effort required to burn 1000 calories is significantly higher than the effort required to not eat the 1000 calories.

The thing that worked for me was tracking my calories every day. Didn't aim to change what I ate...but when I saw the realities of the calories rich food I was eating I made simple choices to switch it out for low calories. Fibre and Protein are your friend in this fight.

Also doesn't help that the USA political spectrum consists of "right" and "far right" so while they may call it "left" it's only left compared to the far right.

Welcome to the party pal - where you get downvoted because you thought the word used to marginalise gay people had fallen out of favour...along with poof and bender.

So we're still using nonce then?

Look at fancy pants over here with like 1.5hrs to spare every day.

I love how readily people are to say shit like "bad programmer". I bet most the time the person saying it is either not even a "programmer" or is so average they feel the need to belittle others.

Who even uses the word "programmer" to describe a contemporary software engineer anyway? I don't think that job really exists anymore.

So because they messed up, they're not a sensible developer? Jeez...I sure wouldn't like to work with you.

Mistakes are part of life, especially when your job is solving problems, and thus you can be both a sensible developer and still make mistakes.

If you're not making mistakes, you're not trying hard enough.

Can you give some examples? I'd love to discover some gems.

Word of warning - I usually find that movies on rotten tomatoes with low critic scores and high audience scores are hitting the midweek sweet spot for me. Low cerebral requirement, high distraction. If you get me.

I think a careful balance needs to be found somehow.

Speaking only from my own experience: I have never touched C, and that is undoubtedly because of its legal status...while I smoked for more than half my life, undoubtedly because of the tobacco industry's highly effective influence through the 20th Century.

I remember when cigarette brands were ubiquitous at sports events and media. Race cars, movie stars, sport stars, soldiers...pubs, clubs, planes, trains and automobiles. It was everywhere - killing people in horrificly slow and painful ways, making everything and everyone stink, staining our hands, clothes, walls, teeth and facial hair, littering our town centres and countrysides alike. And this was all happening with our eyes wide open - it wasn't ignorance. It's only through decades of government intervention through health campaigns, law changes and huge taxation that the tobacco industry's grip finally weakened enough for us all to realise the horror we had walked into with our eyes open. Slowly, some parts of the world have managed to walk it back and smoking is now in the minority, but you only have to look at vaping to see how ready corporate greed is to take advantage of our influential children.

I'm not saying the above to scare people into thinking legalising cocaine would be the same - I am just highlighting what happens when the corporate world is allowed to act with impunity. I don't think it'd be long before cocaine was back in coca cola.

On the other hand, "the war on drugs" seems to do more harm than good.

So can we trust governments to properly litigate and control legal and responsible distribution? I don't know the answer, and I have no solutions...but the stakes are high - and so while I hope for change, I am also wary of it.

That's why this is a news article, it's really quite impressive in terms of both weight gained and weight lost.

And as an ex smoker I can tell you, cigarettes aren't very good at keeping you skinny.

When the problem is too much of something, the solution is less of it. Make of that what you will.

So are we just downvoting things we don't want to hear now?

As a non-US citizen I'm curious to know the arguments for both sides...just sticking my fingers in my ears and singing "la la la can't hear you" ain't gonna change the result...no matter which way it goes.

So, for the curious, why is this reply wrong? Do we think a republican weighted Scotus that overturned Roe v Wade would allow their sponsor to get ruled out of the election?

But this time, they mean it!