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by Afton 7y ago
Reminder that you want to avoid the suing not just for the risk of actual loss, but for the cost of defense.
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by Afton 7y ago
I initially did a 'dirty carnivore' type diet for around 18 months. I took it up because of the fairly extreme praise that a family member for the diet, and its effects on her mental and physical well-being. In the end, I lost a b
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by Afton 7y ago
The thing to remember is that in Montreal, roughly 1/2 the population are native English speakers, and most of the other half has serious ESL skills. When I lived there, it basically a faux pas to mangle your french, since the person
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by Afton 8y ago
One study. 1 minute vs 5 minute rest periods. One dimension of the study (MPS), over 28 hours post exercise. No idea if this is relevant after the first workout, or the second, or the first week. This is pop science. The actual study might
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by Afton 8y ago
Beginners in the first month or two are mostly just learning the motions. 90s rest is fine. Once you're a few months in, and you've progressed all the weights significantly from your untrained starting point, then 90s seems like a
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by Afton 8y ago
You claim not to be angry, but you are engaging in a very bad-faith version of a discussion. You generate straw-men in each discussion and read everything in the worst possible way. There is literally no point in me continuing to discuss t
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by Afton 8y ago
Much as appreciate your point, this is not a helpful way to frame the discussion. Name calling and insulting isn't helpful.
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by Afton 8y ago
> grawprog 49 minutes ago | parent | on: Dehumanization of cyclists predicts self-reported ... >> As a cyclist, I get to decide if I'm a pedestrian or a vehicle. I can pop on/off my bike at will > Keywords there bein
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by Afton 8y ago
As a cyclist, I get to decide if I'm a pedestrian or a vehicle. I can pop on/off my bike at will. I can ride on the road, then ride up a ramp onto the sidewalk for 4 blocks, then back onto the road. Different rules and expectation
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by Afton 8y ago
Ostensibly, it's a place where multiple people sign up to buy something, so that you get bulk prices. In my experience it's been much more about trying to get you to buy for the same or more than you can get on Amazon using '
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by Afton 8y ago
I don't know what to say. It's not a global media conspiracy. For decades there have been actual fat acceptance activists and communities. Good luck.
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by Afton 8y ago
I'm glad you are willing to come out and state your positions clearly. For that I thank you. I disagree with essentially everything you have said. While SIS may not be a panacea, they are definitely on the right track.
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by Afton 8y ago
I don't know what you think you are proving here. I accept everything you just wrote and agree with it 100 percent (except for detox. I think I would say for heroin we now have buprenorphine which might be useful way to manage this spe
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by Afton 8y ago
> They're making an entire movement to justify why they're lazy and undisciplined. Congratulations. You are literally the reason why this movement exists.
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by Afton 8y ago
Some people will use it for that. Others won't.
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by Afton 8y ago
It is an opportunity to say "Ok, we can't stop these people from doing heroin. But we can make it as safe as possible, and we can provide a vector for additional health care interventions". It also means that you aren't
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by Afton 8y ago
I think you are seeing what I'm trying to say. It's not like most fat people are not aware that they're fat, and not aware that that is a problem. They are just exhausted with trying to change it. Particularly for people wh
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by Afton 8y ago
No, people say these things. This is cherry-picking as well. Again, lots of fat-acceptance people aren't stupid , they have just decided to pick their battles.
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by Afton 8y ago
Why do you think I'm fat? I'm not > Irrelevant. It is not more healthy to be fat than it is to be not-fat because it's hard. Acceptance is not going to change a damn thing about the health risks inherent with being fat. Yo
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by Afton 8y ago
What do you think Safe Injection sites are, if not exactly that?
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by Afton 8y ago
It's really not. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fat_acceptance_movement
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by Afton 8y ago
HAES is not BS. Here's the deal. For lots and lots of people, being not fat is very very hard. So hard, that even though there is enormous social pressure that they've had basically from ~12 years old to however old they are, they
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by Afton 8y ago
Wouldn't generally work in Seattle, where you need to move at least a block. Also, it's a liability nightmare if something bad happens. Seems like a poor mechanism to avoid a few minutes work...
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by Afton 8y ago
I believe you, but do you have a source?
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by Afton 8y ago
Go see a sleep doctor. 'Premature arousal' is the term for what I think you're describing. You wake up too early, and can't go back to sleep. There can be a few different things that cause this, so there's no one-s
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by Afton 8y ago
https://mentalfloss.com/article/52151/it-duck-tape-or-duct-t...
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by Afton 8y ago
E-bikes are flattening terrain. Source: I live in Seattle, am an avid biker, and those Lime e-bikes are everywhere . People who wouldn't dream of biking because of the hills are now out on casual errands with those things.
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by Afton 8y ago
Agreed. It also pre-loads the calorie deficit. If you eat in the morning, you haven't accomplished anything until you fail to eat at night. In my case, hunger is one of the few things that can cause almost complete insomnia (like, lie
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by Afton 8y ago
Earplugs and brown noise. I can just, if I concentrate, make out _that there are people talking_. But since I completely can't parse it, it doesn't disturb me. The earplugs mean that I can listen to it at a much greater volume tha
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by Afton 8y ago
https://youtu.be/rkz1ItKLAvk?t=247 also https://youtu.be/rkz1ItKLAvk?t=492

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