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by mfer 4y ago
I don’t buy fad diets. I also learned that places a western diet goes there are increased healthcare costs. Learned this reading about studies in Barons (which is really for investors). I changed my diet. Eat a lot of food. Am regularly ful
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Do we try to treat/prevent diabetes? The CDC doesn’t tell people about any link or to lose weight if they are obese. I know multiple people being treated for type 2 diabetes. Few of their doctors have talked with them about weight or o
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by mfer 4y ago
I wish we put more energy into preventing Alzheimer’s and sharing what we know. There’s a lot known about populations that barely get it and lifestyles that have reduced occurrences of it. There’s just no/limited money in prevention
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If you look at the health of foods on our bodies, there is a difference between cooking/cutting/seasoning plants and what we do with factory processed foods. Taking things out of context to attack them doesn’t help you or anyone e
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by mfer 4y ago
“Plant based” Is a popular marketing term for processed food. The plant based diet folks will tell you that this is basically junk food. They do this looking at what’s in the food and the science of it. They will tell you to eat plants inst
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by mfer 4y ago
If you lookup the histories of the people making the decisions you’ll see their connections to industry. The chair of the committee who oversees dietary recommendations is listed as a professor. She got that for filling for retirement as a
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by mfer 4y ago
We sleep trained both our kids and their personalities are so different.
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Let’s not forget that administrators who allow views unpopular to some are attacked and harassed with some who will try to destroy their livelihoods and future.
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by mfer 4y ago
Having the controls is great if you’re a technical person who knows what to do with them. 99.9%+ of people aren’t that technical person. Safe defaults need to be used and kept up to date for them.
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by mfer 4y ago
Consider a 5 year old EV with reduced battery power due to age in the winter. This is looking at new. Practically speaking, it gets worse
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by mfer 4y ago
There are a variety of motivations. These include... The biggest is that they are trying to maximize revenue/profits. In controlling the flow of information to people they are in better control of that. A lot has been studied about thi
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by mfer 4y ago
I'm going to disagree with that. It was when business plans from moved from letting users control what they consume to being in control of what users consume.
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by mfer 4y ago
When I was a senior at my university I took a biology class. It was mostly freshmen. The class was lectured by a professor and graded by a teachers assistant who was a PhD student. Being 22 as a senior, I would regularly head out to the bar
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by mfer 4y ago
> it is violently at odds with science What is science in this context? Is it the scientific method? Is it the popular view among scientists as a whole (many of whom are not experts in areas they don't work in)? Is it the view of sc
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by mfer 4y ago
> violently at odds with reality Most of the views people have that they call reality are conclusions drawn from interpreting observations based on assumptions. They aren't repeatedly observable or a case where the observation is sh
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by mfer 4y ago
What I find interesting in all of this is the number of assumptions that are made on all sides. The assumptions are often not documented or discussed. It's easy to look at religion or YEC to pull out the assumptions. Yet, I've fou
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by mfer 4y ago
This touches on how we organize as a society. I know many who travel 20 miles (32 km) or more for work each day. That doesn’t work on a bicycle. Especially during the cold months. It’s larger than a transportation issue
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by mfer 4y ago
Two things strikes me about the article… 1. It oversimplifies too many things. That includes public transit availability, costs, etc 2. It’s US centric. The numbers are based on U.S. numbers. Far too many people think other places are like
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by mfer 4y ago
There's a lot we don't know here. For example: 1. What's the difference in care between where they are at and the sanctuary? That doesn't appear to be stated so we can only make assumptions. 2. The facilities that want t
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by mfer 4y ago
I’ve talked to a lot of people who aren’t comfortable trying even simple things. Even with YouTube videos.
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by mfer 4y ago
An interesting element to this is knowledge and ability to do work on ones own house. In the US it used to be required that men take shop class. It shifted into being offered for both boys and girls for many years. Then it was phased out by
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by mfer 4y ago
Sounds like this piece was written by someone who doesn't really know the space and follows along with Nest marketing. > These leaf springs allowed for the self-configuration of the unit, saving the time and troubleshooting that wou
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by mfer 4y ago
The context we were talking about was repairability. Modern washers and dryers are still fairly repairable. Even at their lower price point when figuring for inflation Cars are getting less repairable. I think most people who’ve worked on c
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by mfer 4y ago
Business values have definitely changed over the years. This has lead to a drastic change in options available to consumers and what they have come to expect. And even in what schools in the US teach. When something is a cultural change...
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> As users begin migrating to the noncommercial fediverse I keep wondering, who pays to run all those servers, handle users on the servers, and for the people to spend time keeping it all up to date? Will it end up with some companies ru
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by mfer 4y ago
If you want something a little further along (with nerdctl/containerd or docker/moby) that runs on mac/win/linux... there's Rancher Desktop [1]. The mac and linux setups are built on Lima. One of the Lima maintainer
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by mfer 4y ago
Twitter was losing millions of dollars each day. It wasn’t profitable or even break even. An engineering culture that’s awesome at a company like that will only last until the money runs out. I’m not supporting what Elon is doing. I’m just
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Who gets to decide what’s good and wrong?
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WSLv2 (which you need for Docker) is a VM. Windows just manages it for you.
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by mfer 4y ago
Running in a VM is there for very good reasons. If you look at where things are going to be installed on the base system, how you can reset the environment, how you deal with variations with other things installed on the host, and more. It&

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