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Oh lord yes

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We all get fat from genetics. Genes are directly responsible for converting blood sugar to fat.

Every aspect of weight, including influences on behavior, are caused by genes. Without genes, there'd be no learned behavior, it isn't a chicken and egg situation.

Excess calories are converted to fat. Fasting is required to speed the reverse. Apparently, prolonged exposure to shivering cold will speed fat loss, too.

Genes create the environment where calorie intake is preferred over a calorie deficit. Genes create a body which seeks food as a primary reinforced behavior - "taste, experience, and feeding" is the title of a behavioral psychology text.

losing weight is hard, your brain, as expressed by your genes, doesn't want to do it. There is no experience more personally triumphant in this overweight society, than getting an actual handle on your weight.

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Resistance is futile

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Yeah, getting away from ads after a lifetime's exposure just highlights how disruptive they are when you see them again. Especially since most have negative value to the consumer.

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"Linux? Those guys who like to talk about themselves?"

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I was wondering, the timing was a sore point for bsd users back in the day. But linux had the upper hand because it was built on pc, spoke the language, so to speak. The groundswell was immense because all the hobbyists already understood the boot stack and the machine code. I don't disagree but it is "coulda woulda shoulda".

If they had ported to 386 a few years earlier, linus probably would be a bsd enthusiast. It is also possible the window that drove him there could have persisted well past bsd on 386. Who knows.

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‘I don’t think we should have billionaires’: mayor Zohran Mamdani in his own words

simple solution, tax rate goes up by margins based on the standard deviation from the last year's income mean. for income more than one standard deviation above the mean, your tax rate for that margin is the percentile rank of your income compared to the last year's incomes. something like that would be fair. then mandate certain percentages be spent on education, welfare, etc. anything left over in the budget from the last year gets split evenly among all taxpayers.