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- Comment on 5 days ago:
Nothing. But what you raised was bound to become a concern to someone at some point in the conversation.
- Comment on 5 days ago:
No it is not but it was bound for the issue to be raised.
- Comment on 5 days ago:
Depends on the amount of sugar added to it.
- Comment on 5 days ago:
You made me smile with that line on the humans looking around and thinking in different ways to eat the landscape.
You are correct, our ancestors ate whenever and whatever they could but we are not our ancestors. We’ve developed and went above and beyond those constraints.
And this is not to deny your point. I can easily withstand an entire day with a single meal, like many others, but it is not pleasant. And it is very well understood how keeping a schedule for eating, properly, is benefitial.
- Comment on 5 days ago:
I have. I have a few relatives that either suffered or suffer of diabetes and besides watching what and how much they eat, every single one keeps a life as close to normal as possible.
- Comment on 5 days ago:
True. Every person is unique.
- Comment on 5 days ago:
I can only reply with sitting down and stopping to eat, instead of the opposite. Keeping a schedule. Avoid junk food.
I’m quoting my doctor here.
Unless there is a need for a special regime, it is what I have been advised for decades.
- Comment on 5 days ago:
I’m going to have to disagree with you.
Having a full stomach and a regular blood sugar level is what translates into satiety. If not, discomfort sets in. People on full IV nourishment report hunger and thirst. There has to be some reason behind it.
And I have to wonder if not allowing the digestion to run to its course before eating more won’t cause ill effects.
- Comment on 5 days ago:
What you’re describing in closer to what muslim endure during Ramadan, which is fasting, by definition.
If you feel fine with such regimen, good, but how adequate for common practice can it be?
My own anecdotal observation tells me the “grazer” (not a word I enjoy using) tends to put on a lot of weight. That constant eating is putting unnecessary calories into the body, regardless they eating “healthy” snacks.
- Comment on 5 days ago:
I’m not going to disagree with you on that remark. I pay attention to the supermarket shelves and it does seem a lot of snacks are taking room previously available to basic food items.
Protein bars, protein powders, granolas, dehydrated this and that, nut mixes, etc.
The real food is going. Somewhere. I can feed myself out of this, in a pinch, but I hardly consider it food.
- Comment on 5 days ago:
I abused the word there. Pica, in my language, is often used colloquially to address someone that is constantly eating, not out of need but by impulse.
- Comment on 5 days ago:
Grazing sounds like a sure way to gain weight and fast. By not putting in on one sitting a full meal, capable of sustaining for a given amount of time, we’ll constantly adding to our mouth this and that. It makes harder to tally how much is eaten in one day.
And not eating between meals can not be considered intermitent fasting? We have a meal and abstain from eating until the next. It is quite intuitive, as far as I understand the notion.
- Comment on Why do people get mad at you for using Wikipedia, but treat Google and AI chatbots like they're gospel? 5 days ago:
My personal take?
Funneling.
This was a class on Social Psychology and even the books for the class were not to be read in full. Instead, only excerpts were to be consulted.
That creates a huge context gap. Drills in narrow concepts. Does not foster thinking and relation of concepts and ideas.
The teacher was creating a low effort class, easily manageable, with little to no opposition to her methods and ideas.
- Comment on 5 days ago:
Mid morning, mid afternoon… I resembles pica or just boredom eating.
- Comment on 5 days ago:
It’s about stopping and making a proper break from the whatever we might be doing. Stop to read a book, when at work, talk a bit with my family. Just stop to exist, I think.
- Comment on 5 days ago:
Intermittent fasting? Grazing?
Please elaborate.
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- Comment on Why do people get mad at you for using Wikipedia, but treat Google and AI chatbots like they're gospel? 5 days ago:
I had a teacher forbidding Wikipedia as a study source and a class formed by over 80 students quietly aquiesced. It took one question of why wasn’t Wikipedia a valid source for general context to help in forming a broad stroke idea on a subject to nearly make the teacher go into a fit on how it was inacurate and unproperly revised. Wich was not the point.
- Comment on porch of geese 1 week ago:
The two languages split and diverged into the forms they currently have due to the people living in the territories.
Portugal developed a more nasal and closed speech, where vowels are commonly swallowed or nasal, closer to celtic speech roots, while spanish maintaned its more open speech structure, with every vowel clearly marked.
It’s easy for a portuguese to follow spanish and brazillian while the opposite is often not. The european portuguese is denser, more compact and even faster for the majority of time. By comparison, spanish and brazilian are slower paced and open.
- Comment on What hot af take do you have that you think you will be HORRIBLY executed and shunned from society for? 1 week ago:
Humans are the true orcs. Our biology is border line insane when compared with the rest of the animals on this planet. Perhaps if we were aware that we are the orcs we might be able to move on to higher goals.
- Comment on What hot af take do you have that you think you will be HORRIBLY executed and shunned from society for? 1 week ago:
I won’t. I do not have the slightest clue on what you just said.
My take: people are too lazy to think. The majority acts as toddlers, easy to distract and quick to show a temper if their wants, ideas or preconceptions are not met.
Oh, and professional sports should be banned tomorrow. Be active to be social and healthy, not to live under the thumb of sponsors and the scrutiny of fans. Professional sports are also terrible for kids, as the adults already in the sport, acting as coaches or aids are in it to move up the ranks by finding the next talent and showing how good they are.
- Comment on What hot af take do you have that you think you will be HORRIBLY executed and shunned from society for? 1 week ago:
You are actually correct on that point. I’m not in favour of start disbanding societies left and righ but I am fully in favour of dismantling the “democratic system” as it exists today and reshape it to make democracies… Democratic.
- Comment on Bran flakes could be classed as junk food under new healthy eating guidelines 2 weeks ago:
If you manage to ingest and keep down an entire gallon of pure, raw, bee juice, without your body violently and explosively purge it in a very biological way to preserve your existence, I congratulate you.
- Comment on How do you distance yourself from your country when it doesn't represent your views anymore so you won't be viewed by the rest of the world as part of the problem? 2 weeks ago:
You act according to your own thoughts and ethics and denounce whatever it is you dislike in your country.
- Comment on We do not get a choice of how we come into this world or who we came into this world by but how come we can't go out on our own, wouldn't that be a full life doing everything u wanted 2 do? 2 weeks ago:
In practical terms, there is nothing stopping you nor anyone else. To be cold and scynical, someone will clean up the mess afterwards.
But in what form do we want to see such right come into full fruition?
And I am not against the right to dispose of our life as we see fit; I’ve been too close to human misery in sickness and age to be that calous.
- Comment on "Farms use more water than Al data centers" OK, I'll go without Al and you can go without food and we'll see who lasts longer 2 weeks ago:
We can shut down 90% of datacenters today, suffer a slight inconvinience to our lives and keep living.
We have a farm failure…
- Comment on Why exactly are nursing aids paid so poorly? 3 weeks ago:
Congratulations. Through you, we found the exception to the rule. Thank you.
Meanwhile, in my own country, what I replied is completely true and do I wish it wasn’t.
I had my grandmother in an elderly care facility, unfortunately, and I can tell you with no unease the floor workers are paid the minimum wage; if they work the night shift, they get a small increment, usually around 10%, to the base salary. While the board of directors, most of which have no true in the day to day working of the institution, earn at least double that pay, with the director of the institution earning above €3500, for a six hours day of work.
Meanwhile, on the childcare front, I have three separate institutions preying on the local public daycare, which is completely free, charging a rate based on the income of the couples or parents putting their children there, ranging from €60 to more than €200, not including transportation, which alone can be anywhere from €40 to more than €100. A couple earning both parents minimum wage can end up paying more than €300 per month. And the institution gets a stipend for each children from the state.
Although most of these institutions are non profits on paper, workers are paid minimal wage, by default, while directors get lavish pays and service vehicles, replaced yearly, while the other vehicles are run until the wheels fall off.
So, again, thank you. You showed the exception to the rule. And I am glad it exists. But it should be the rule, not the exception.
- Comment on Why exactly are nursing aids paid so poorly? 3 weeks ago:
And that is why child and elderly care should never leave the public domain.
These are essential services nowadays; the wide family support that once existed is crumbling.
Private companies do not care. The company exists to make money and generate profit, at any cost.
If the accounting of one single entity was made public, it would be horrendous to read. The profit margins are huge, the salary gap between floor personel and executives gargantuan.
- Comment on Anon is an introvert 5 weeks ago:
I can feel this to an uncomfortable level.
- Comment on The rich convinced us that taxing them is too complicated but everyday people can be taxed pretty easily 5 weeks ago:
That might be correct in some places but not where I live.
Recurring taxes on property are calculated with the age of houses taken into consideration. This means the property value for taxation actually decreases over time, unless a given area undergoes through a serious development effort that forces property value up. This can reach such extreme cases that it is possible to get away with remodelling a house - as in a single standing building - completely, fully modernize it, and still keep its property value untouched, unless swimming pools and other value increasing additions are put in.
Property value and commercial value are separate and independent concepts. A property appraised for taxation in 100€ can sell for 100 times that value. There will be sale fees taxes applied to the transactions itself, for the buyer, and the seller may have to pay income taxes on the sale, but there are way to skirt most of these.
And then there are rents.
I pay more taxes on my work than a person for the rent they receive by renting property. It used to be a flat rate of 28%, equal to deposit interest and other values, but then someone said if the taxation on rents was to go down, the rents would go down and more home would come into the market. Except it did not happen and instead rent shot up and opaque companies started buying homes to rent from people that could not be bothered to manage what they have and pay their taxes on a yearly basis.
Everyone loses.