Does up=off for British light switches? That’s unhinged

Also, never gonna apologize for omitting pointless, silent letters from words. If the English wanted to maintain control of their language, they shouldn’t have colonized half the world.

Yeah. No.

As much as science knows anything, it knows that having too much body fat is bad for your health. Even the article you just linked states weight loss as its goal.

BMI is a crappy measure of body fat, fair; bodybuilders and athletes often have very high BMIs while having very little fat, but it’s not “arbitrary” either. Doesn’t matter much, since we have tools to measure body fat percentage directly. No need to use BMI at all.

Also note that article says to eat less “processed” food, but doesn’t explain what that actually means. Is bread processed? How about a salad? How much dressing do I have to add to lettuce before it counts as “processed”? No answers here.

There’s something to be said for the caloric availability of any given food, but it’s pretty silly to say that you shouldn’t consider them at all. People who are trying to lose weight need some measure of how much they’re eating so they can be sure they’re eating less. Until we have a better one, calories aren’t going anywhere.

As for exercise, it is definitely important, but it simply isn’t realistic to out-train a bad diet. It’s not at all reasonable to say that exercise is more important for weight loss, and anyone who’s actually lost a ton of weight will tell you as much.

An obesity crisis will do that

Southerner here, no cafe or coffee shop would think twice about a black coffee, or cream only with no sugar.

Diners generally only pour the coffee, you fix it up however you want.

Individuals may give you grief of they’re making you coffee in their home, but that’s particular to them.

You’re right about NY, though. Very different vibe.

Idk, I grew up fat in the US and everyone around me made damn sure I never forgot it.

Fat people don’t tend to be any kinder to other fat people, in my experience.

I’ve met a guy who no shit said this to me as if it was a justification for Israel’s actions in Gaza.

Debian and learn to use the nix package manager for your bleeding edge stuff

Just keep him away from the horsey sauce

Yeah, it’s a pretty deep pit of depression. I suspect most people who consider themselves blackpilled are clinically depressed. Not at all useful. But then again, neither is being judgmental of them.

I wish police would simply enforce noise ordinances

Easier said than done, unfortunately. They need sound meters to do anything reliably, and then there’s the issue of catching them. Even slow, inefficient bikes tend to be much faster and more maneuverable than patrol cars, so motorcyclists are quite a bit more likely to run. Especially the ones that are already violating noise ordinances.

It used to bother me, but now I rationalize to myself that shrimp poop is basically just sand anyway.

If you psych yourself out about the details of eating another animal then it’s pretty much always disgusting.

If you’re a racist it’s occasionally useful to throw another, more obvious racist under the bus to build up your own cover.

Fuck both these people.

Hey now, let’s be fair!

It’s entirely possible he rigorously prepared and that was genuinely the best he could do.

Jesus Christ, this feels like it crossed a line even for him

It could be either; he thinks he won or he knows he lost and has no hope of improving.

Fwiw I think the few undecideds that are left probably saw what they needed to make their decision last night.

So… Still unacceptably low. Got it.

Every time a right wing pundit talks about the left wing hive mind it’s a clear tell that they have no understanding of their political rivals at all…

Is it? Only pure water will actually freeze at 0c. Rain, puddles, lakes, etc aren’t all that pure… And we’re talking about ambient air temps here. The air can be below freezing and it can still rain. And you can get snow/hail above freezing…

Knowing the freezing point is just one factor. Knowing it’s generally around 30F is pretty much always close enough (not that remembering 32 is actually very difficult)

Edit: also water only freezes at 0c if it’s at sea level… I really don’t think 0°=freezing is the huge advantage that celcius stans think it is.

I can’t spell it properly without autocorrect

This is genuinely the most inconvenient thing about Fahrenheit

In point of fact Americans have gotten impressive results out of far more complicated metrics than metric. It’s not a matter of understanding, it’s a matter of pride. And of not having to buy all new tools.