I’m genuinely amazed that the hill you chose to die on is whether or not the weight loss studies, that specifically targeted obese patients, which measured their results in weight loss, with the stated goal of reversing diabetes via addressing obesity, are in fact about addressing obesity.

Studies, btw, not study. Lots of interesting stuff in this article if you actually bother to read it. Some of them even have obesity in the title, if that’s really the only important thing to you.

Anyway, your continued refusal to answer the question you are directly being asked is noted, as is your repetition of the false assertions I have already addressed. I wholeheartedly support your initiative to leave this conversation. Cheers

Sorry, but you’re simply incorrect about the facts. Pretending that this isn’t explicitly about weightloss when the article says as much in plain language makes me question whether or not you’re participating in this discussion in good faith. Yes it is in the context of treating diabetes, specifically the type caused by obesity, and the goal of the replacement diet is to address the obesity.

And I would once again ask for specific evidence about the effectiveness of government sponsored obesity interventions in the last 40 years. “They actually want to address the problem” is not evidence that they have done so or will anytime soon. The point of contention here is not their motivation or trustworthiness, but their effectiveness. Insisting that we “better understand the entire biochemistry of the body” is also not evidence of an effective obesity intervention.

Also extremely disingenuous to “shoo away” this point by saying they “actually get results”, when the only “results” you have provided are pasted paragraphs from this very article which only references short term testing on total meal replacement diets (which is not new information) that also acknowledges it hasn’t worked in the long term (which is also not new information).

I will say once again as I have said in literally every comment in this thread, since much of your criticism of my point seems to be dependent on ignoring this, that the problem here is not in what someone and their doctor decide to do together to treat their obesity. It’s a problem of public messaging and context. We simply can’t have headlines going around implying that shake and soup diets have achieved some advanced status considering the damage similar diet schemes have caused and continue to cause. The messaging needs to be done very carefully because we live in the real world where sensationalism can cause real harm.

I think the NHS can do better now than private industry scams from 40 years ago

I don’t mean to sound confrontational at all, but sincerely, why do you think that? Correct me if I’m wrong but there isn’t any evidence that government programs in general have ever been effective in reversing the obesity epidemic. Our medical knowledge has increased over the last 40 years yes, but nonetheless worldwide obesity has been on the rise and is accelerating.

Not to suggest that we should just give up, quite the opposite. All I mean to say is that yes of course an 800 calorie total meal replacement shake system results in short term weight loss. With predictable regain when patients eventually stop. We’ve been through all of this before. As I said the nuance here will be with the medical supervision, but the extreme damage to the general public’s perception of weight loss caused by decades of misleading and contradictory information cannot be overlooked.

I just don’t want people to see these preliminary results and then go off thinking they should try a cabbage broth diet for a few weeks, or some other such silliness. I don’t really see how the two can be un-conflated in the absence of specific cautionary messaging.

My initial reaction to this headline was

what the fuck? That’s a terrible idea

And after reading it I feel the same way. We’ve already been through this in the 80s with the all liquid diet scams. The inevitable result is that you regain everything when you start eating normally again. The article itself even mentions this outright.

There’s a ton of nuance to this if weight loss is urgently needed and the diet is prescribed by a doctor. I just hope people don’t skim the headline and set themselves up for yet another round of futile diet scams.

So awesome!!

I wish musicians actually got paid lol

Plus extremely boring, because you’re not doing anything remotely sounding graceful

It’s something every single musician has to go through.

Actually it’s something everyone has to go through when learning anything.

Would you also quit learning a second language because you can’t immediately have a full conversation with a native speaker? Quit working out because you don’t start with the ability to do pull-ups? Quit any game you try if you don’t win your first match?

The excitement is in seeing yourself progress from the point of being a complete beginner. You are depriving yourself of a great joy by abandoning the project at the first sign of any friction

Must suck being one of the only people smart enough to be offended by it

Does anyone seriously believe

Yes. My assumption is of course that this shower thought is presenting a numerical fact, and that everyone upvoting believes it in a literal sense.

So like. Hear me out.

What if, even if you were not personally affected, you still heard about crowdstrike because of the coverage?

I’m an ICT professional with 40 years experience and I’d never heard of them

But you have heard of them now, right? Kind of like that

It’s not about being in your thirties. What you are experiencing is depression.

You’re rationalizing and justifying your depression by associating it with age and portraying it as an unavoidable rite of passage. I don’t say this to try and change the course of your life, I just think it’s worth addressing your demons by their real names. It makes everything a lot easier, even if you really do decide in the end not to fight them.

Just my 2c, wishing all the best to you

In an ideal world there would be no one. It would just be a bunch of opossums

Surprised by how much he adores the game, I usually expect super harsh criticism no matter what lol.

Personally Nine Sols hit super good. A bit early to tell, as it’s still brand new, but it might be in my top 5 games of all time. Highly recommended if you’re on the fence

I wish I could somehow muster the energy to be constructive in any way but this is genuinely the ugliest trash I’ve ever seen and I will immediately stop being gay if I see this flag anywhere in public.

Additionally, the company appears to have self plagiarized the shape of the design from their “open/close systems” project, which is available for viewing on their also ugly website

So, a limiter and a compressor are actually the same thing! Just used in different contexts. You can think of a limiter as being a compressor set to extreme values, so that you can guarantee that at no point will the volume go beyond a certain threshold.

So let’s think of like, a guitar string being plucked. It starts out loud and percussive, you get some string noise as well. Then the actual tone is played, starts as loud as it will ever get, then gradually reduces in volume over time naturally as the energy in the string is lost.

Suppose we set the limiter to be a very low threshold, just above the quiet ringing you would hear after like 15 seconds of letting the guitar string resonate. Essentially the limiter will aggressively turn down the volume during the whole beginning, then ease off as the tone naturally quiets.

The final result is that you’ve transformed a sound wave that started out with a large amplitude that gradually got smaller, into one that has a generally uniform amplitude throughout its entire duration! Then, as with all compressors, since you’ve actually reduced the amplitude of the wave, you can now turn the volume waaaaaaay up without clipping out. So now, stuff that used to be quiet is now just as loud as the loudest parts of your recording. A rustling leaf would be played at the same volume as a gunshot.

The issue this creates with vinyl is that carving such an extreme waveform into a physical medium results in a path the needle simply can’t follow accurately.

Imagine an old wooden roller coaster, one in which the cart isn’t attached to the track other than by gravity holding it there. If you included a sudden massive drop when the cart was moving at high speed, it wouldn’t follow the track, it would actually fly off the track briefly as it can only accelerate downward as fast as gravity will allow.

If the needle is the cart, and the carving in the vinyl is the track, these moments of air time will create audible distortion. It’s actually a bit more precarious than that, even, as vinyls actually use not only the up and down components of gravity, but left and right as well. The two tracks superimposed are what allows us to create a stereo image (having distinct sounds in the left and right speakers).

There’s also a ton of other things that can cause distortion, but I don’t want to ramble on forever! The basic rule of thumb is that a vinyl master essentially just has less low end. From what I understand, this is the root of why many people prefer “the sound” of vinyl, they simply prefer a slightly more mid-dominant mix

It’s the opposite, no? Vinyl can’t handle the explosive dynamics common in modern music (especially electronic) due to the skipping issue, so any sharp peaks like that need to be compressed to make the overall mix more mellow

Hey, just wanted to add that it’s not just an optional player-made challenge, but actually an in-game achievement/trophy!

Hey, Outer Wilds super fan here. Bought the game twice, recommend it to everyone, etc.

I’ve seen a couple people bounce off the game because of the space flight, which is totally valid! It’s legitimately very difficult, doubly so if it’s your first time doing a zero G type of thing.

I’ve also seen people thoroughly enjoy the game despite crashing into everything! So that’s possible, too. I wish I knew the secret to making it click, as I think once the story really gets its hooks in you it’s one of the most rewarding experiences out there.

With all that being said, a couple tips:

The autopilot let me crash into stuff blocking its path so I gave up on that too.

Don’t give up on auto pilot! I simply can’t imagine traveling between planets without it.

You just have to keep in mind that the auto pilot isn’t intelligent. When you activate it, it does exactly three things: it lines you up, it accelerates you, then it slows you down to a stop in front of your destination. You have to watch and be willing to interrupt it if it looks like you’re going to crash into a planet or the sun. You also have to make sure you’re reasonably far away from a planet before activating it in the first place. Once you’re there, keep a close eye on your instruments and just guide the ship in slowly until you can land.

Even if you don’t have any obstacles, the auto pilot can still rarely result in a crash in certain scenarios where the planet is orbiting directly at you. This is especially prevalent with the twin planets.

But the game is designed with crashes of all sorts in mind! Make sure to always put your suit on immediately when you first enter it on Timber Hearth. That way you can abandon the ship if necessary. There’s even a working eject button!

I hope things work out, but best of luck no matter what you end up doing!

Right, sorry, to correct my mistake, here is what you actually said

CICO is flatout not the mechanic used.

My sincerest apologies for so severely misrepresenting your words. Have a good rest of your night with your olive oil shots

Yeah it’s pretty wild considering how fervently people buy into it, but if you’re an evidence-driven person keto is not particularly attractive for weight loss unless you just personally enjoy it.

Scroll down a bit, we already have someone who swears the magic is real (and CICO isn’t) because they lost weight on keto, and their partner estimated their calories to be waaaaaay higher than before starting the diet. It’s a very compelling narrative if you come into it wanting keto to be true, which is why there’s almost like a religious fervor built up around it. But it’s never played out that way in an actual study