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Maybe everyone can just stay home for a month, but actually this time, then the virus will be gone in time for September.

Have you eaten many burgers like that yourself? The real answer is dopamine - eat a few of those and your brain will quickly work out it's a pretty solid source of all carbs, fats, proteins, even reasonably abundant in vitamins and minerals too. Low effort, high reward. If you haven't had one before, that same response wont quite be there yet.

But also the vast mix of tastes - burger, cheese and sauce all have that full rich umami taste, the slightly cooked bread sweetens things up a bit, the lettuce and onions keep it fresh and juicy, the kilogram of salt doesn't hurt either.

I dunno, the current trend this century is a rapid downturn in poverty, conflict and carbon emissions, and we're pretty near all those stereotypical future things, electric cars, AI automation, VR, Mars travel...
The next generation will either just keep that momentum going or go full conservative and mess it all up.

Kinda wonder where they live, cause that can make a big difference. The people in some cities/countries are much easier than others, or if they just live in a small unhappening town, opportunities will be severely limited.

No one is going to give you a loan of $1 million dollars if you're not already comfortably rich.

catIRL posted...

I read the study, and it seemed to conclude that the protests had two populations to them: those who stayed home, and those who attended the protests. The amount of people who stayed home was increased by the protests (those in this population did so for e.g. afraid of violence), and they saw a decrease in COVID-19 cases. The ones who attended the protests seemed to have increased cases of COVID-19, but these were "on net" the same of the ones that stayed home. The conclusion seemed to imply that the protests impacted the amount of COVID-19 cases in each of these populations differently, but on the whole, protesting counties still had the same number of cases as the control, non-protesting counties.

From the conclusion:

I would be interested to know if anyone else read the study and what their conclusions on the study were. I am not a scientist or economist by trade, so it would be good to know if I explained this correctly.

That's seems pretty spot on as a summary. Makes both sides of the argument kind of correct too - it's true that mass protests will spread the virus and have potential to increase or even spike the number of new infections (and probably true that some people will now die as a result of them), but also true that in this case the total number did not rise, because the lower spread from more people staying at home as a reaction effectively cancelled it out.

I wish it was possible to see the exact effect of there not being any protests but also having the same number of people staying at home.

Probably, it's a contagious virus that spreads when people are in close proximity. And with 1.5 million active cases in the US just now, you'd only need 150 people in a group for a >50% chance that one has it.

Though, even with a reasonable spread of infection in the protests themselves, they wouldn't cause a noticeable spike right away, besides maybe slightly slowing a downward trend. But long term, if say only two people at a protest infect another ten, that's ten new branches of infection that could have been avoided, particularly if the same people are visiting multiple protests.

You hit on it in the first post - respect for other people. Or rather lack of it.

Cause even mass gatherings for positive reasons are very likely resulting in the deaths of others just now.

Causes the diabetus. As that Harvard link mentions artificial sweeteners disrupt your reactivity to insulin, with increased consumption correlated with risk of metabolic diseases, including diabetes.

Sugar though doesn't cause diabetes, that's a total myth, although excess sugar can help make you fat, as an indirect risk factor. Either way just have some. Don't be drinking litres a day.

There's a bunch of surveys on this type of thing. Even though there's a fair bit of variation by location, age, gender (though that's probably men/women over/under reporting), average is typically 5 - 10. There's no data to say 35 is particularly common.

It only came out yesterday, they all haven't finished it.

Surely you had seen a fat person and wondered what was going on there?

As a collection of the 66 books they could find at the time it was compiled that made reference to Jesus or the earlier religion he's associated with.

Seems like they're desperate to form their own distinct identity. Like 10 years ago it seemed millennials were still trying to live a similar life to the older generations, slowly realising that everything's a bit harder and way more expensive now. Maybe they think if they can reject the millennial stereotype they can save themselves from the same fate.

Comments are asking why theres the same number of dislikes 10 months ago - maybe cat-hating bots?

joe40001 posted...

I'll try fish oil and vitamin D, hopefully that's most of it.

What antidepressants were you on? Are you happy now?

Magnesium is a common deficiency and supposedly can have a positive effect on depression. Might be worth giving it a shot too.
Don't get magnesium oxide though, as it's not easily absorbed - try magnesium citrate or lactate instead.

That's a whole lot of faith in humanity.

Neutral in thought or neutral in action? Cause obviously thinking that the police shouldn't be killing a disproportionate number of black people is the right side of the issue, but if you take action by joining physical protests that help spread a virus that kills a disproportionate number of black people, are you still on the right side? Are you then neutral for not taking part?

But you're also right that one person can't hold the weight of every issue, and there are thousands of them worthy of a protest. The current protests are a good opportunity to take a stance, but I can't imagine the same people will be protesting police brutality in Brazil, Jamaica or Venezuela next, where it's much worse than in the US. Now that you've read and know about this too, and probably think it's bad, but not going to protest or even post a thing on instagram about it, is that you being neutral?

That's really cool, looks a lot more natural than the jumpy fast motion effect old films normally have. I've seen a different one recently that artificially added colour to the film too.

Instead of two large semi-open rooms, just have a larger amount of smaller 1-person rooms.

You're right, it should be a couple of wise and presidential people you have to choose from, but instead it's like, "well with this one it's more likely that the sexual allegations are true, but at least he's a tad less racist" The bar is so low.

Can you vote to re-open nominations? And if so could everybody please do that?

I think they're both pretty good, very fun to play, but overall not quite as good as the first new Tomb Raider or the Uncharteds. They've both got a bit of an open world element to them but they don't really do enough with it and it kinda disrupts the pacing a bit.

It's not bad advice really - your chances of better prospects will typically be higher with physical fitness than with taking a bunch of drugs.

What's up with the all drug obsession in the US anyway?

How much is the laptop?

We're all already brown really, just some much lighter or darker than others.

Same clip, but he finishes the sentence
https://youtube.com/watch?v=o22pLCyj5wI&t=33s

Choco posted...

i hadn't even heard of this shit until idiots on reddit started spamming it in every thread that was remotely related to germany

It's pretty commonly believed in the UK. Lots of people want a German car, cause the engineering is supposedly so good.

The UK generally thinks its better than USA too, but at the same time is also trying its best to crawl down to that same level of perception.

Choco posted...

america has tesla while german carmakers are still stuck in whatever fucking decade

and i've never met a single german who sees the US as "low tech"

like WTF. one of the first things germans will criticize about germany is that our digital infrastructure is fucking non-existant. tons of dead zones. need physical paper for any official form, and you need like 20 official forms just to breathe.

and don't even get me started on our pathetic schools

Yeah I was surprised starting work at a German company recently, when they started celebrating roll-out of their digital transformation, like it's not something every other company already did 10 years ago. Their stereotypes in tech/engineering of being efficient, procedural, robust... they're not true.

Food is like the best thing in the world, and probably the thing that has the biggest impact on your health. Why would you eat cheap if you don't absolutely have to?

Cheater87 posted...

Bernie has it all there, mentally.

Unfortunately he doesn't have the prerequisite sexual assault allegations to be considered for president.

Pythagorass posted...

Yeah. If women don't fit into the neat little box in my head I've made up for them, they're e-sluts and not worth my time

So is this guy joke town or what

Posting about it on youtube is kinda weird, but you are allowed to set your own standards as high or low or specific or obscure as you want.

These articles are always talking about the high incomes and buying houses, but there's always been a small subset of prostitutes, pornstars etc that make a disproportionately large amount. Would be interesting to know the average earnings per account. Or with all the new sign ups if that average is going down - surely there's only so much sad lonely neckbeard $$$ to go around?

LeperMessiahXX posted...

He says the noise from turbines cause cancer. Can noise actually cause cancer? Sadly this is an honest question.

My brother works on turbines for GE, he's never mentioned birds lying dead everywhere. I have to ask him about that tomorrow. I mean I assume it's true, birds fly into my house all the time so I assume they run into the blades quite often as well. I wonder how many are on the ground surrounding the turbines.

The cancer thing is total nonsense - theres no possible mechanism by which turbine noise, which is typically less than traffic, can cause cancer in humans.

Wind turbines do kill some birds, bats too, but it's way less than fossil fuel generation, even adjusting for kWh output. It's also way less than power lines, windows or cats.
https://theness.com/neurologicablog/index.php/update-on-wind-turbines-and-birds/

What is it they're snitching on? Can't C or D without knowing the situation.

Strip clubs at all are pretty weird tbh... like going to a restaurant and paying to just look at the food

Neither really, it's a far more complex issue than just saying one is definitely right, when both are kinda wrong.

Either way, criminalise the buyers and enforce it. The few places that do that seem to result in less overall harm & less trafficking.

All original 7, 8, 9 and 10 are great. 15 is worth a shot too, but not quite as complete a package as I'd say the older ones were.
I think 12 is also available on PS4 now too, which is kind of a different experience - more exploration but less story. Still good though.

You shouldn't insult people over things they can't control, like being really tall or having to wear glasses or being so stupid that you would support Trump.

It's not abnormal really, there's a lot of variety on how big or common weddings tend to be depening on where you live and the general demographics of your family and friend group.

Pop culture also would have you believe they're way more frequent than most people's experiences.

I mean they're both horrible pervs - there's like 300 million people in the country, why argue over two of the worse ones? Bad electoral system.

Not sure people will be more likely to vote for a dumbass just cause he gave them their own money back either. Although, ranting about building a huge wall that was never built seemed to do it last time.

More people voted for her than Trump - America's not ready for proportional representation.

The flu's already infected the whole world, kills like half a million people a year, but there's nothing can be done about it now. The whole panic over corona is that it would be great if we're able to avoid having a second flu type thing around. Think it might be beyond containment now, but still worth trying.