Something that says, "leather daddy"?

The law, in its majestic equality, forbids the rich and poor alike to sleep under bridges, to beg in the streets, and to steal bread.

A system of fair rules does not always lead to fair outcomes, if the rules don't accommodate the asymmetry in capacity, motivation, resources, etc.

A lot of calorie expenditure is determined by hormones, and for a typical person, resting metabolism is a significant percentage of total calorie burn.

Some people respond poorly to dietary interventions because they end up with lower resting metabolic rate. Sometimes it shows up in the form of a person who is always feeling cold or exhausted.

Others have high stress hormones, which throw all sorts of metabolic loops out of wack.

And other hormones affect appetite or satiety after eating, so the biological disadvantage (whether genetic or environmental or both) sometimes comes in the form of greater difficulty with portion control or willpower compared to others. That's not a direct effect on calories in versus calories out, but it does have an indirect effect on overall success with a weight loss program, and it's grounded in an actual physical/physiological/biological difference between individuals.

Those are classic symptoms of hypothyroidism, which can be diagnosed with blood tests.

The endocrine system is fascinating.

Muscle mass is directly tied to how much you use the muscle.

I'd describe it more as a loose correlation rather than "directly tied." There's the obvious example of sex differences, where a typical untrained woman will not respond as quickly to weight training as a typical untrained man of similar size. There's a lot of individual variation, too, and more recent research is revealing new insights into high and low responders to resistance training. See, for example, this review.

I learned to be less of a dick to others about this stuff when I learned I was an outlier high responder in muscle strength and growth, getting much better results from near identical workouts with some of my friends. Realizing that I was lucky helped me extend some more grace to others.

Obesity is a modern epidemic, and we didn't all suddenly mutate. Environmental factors are much more impactful.

But not everyone got equally obese, even in the same environments, during these time periods. What portion of the population was predisposed to extra large impacts of unhealthy foods, sedentary lifestyles, external stressors, etc., when those environmental factors weren't as prevalent?

So for completeness, it's a bunch of feedback loops between genetic factors, epigenetic factors, and environmental factors, including cultural/social factors. Some genetic factors make it harder or easier in the environments we live in (and some environments make it harder or easier).

Are you talking about the same thing? The parent comment is talking about how this single threads post has 12.7k upvotes. If you're looking at daily active users, threads has about 150M, compared to lemmy.world's 13.2k monthly active users.

In my suburban high school social world, before cell phones:

• Loitering around shopping malls
• Showing up to the movie theater an hour or two before the movie we all agreed to watch together, and then an hour or two after.
• Parks and playgrounds if the weather was ok
• Cafes, diners, restaurants where lingering was tolerated, even for those who didn't order anything.
• Local sporting events (usually high school or rec league teams).

A lot of these still exist in some degree, but the loss of malls and movie theaters has really put a damper on things, and the rise of cell phones has deemphasized the need for in person interactions with peers (rather than following an influencer on social media).

Y'all have never been to court ordered alcoholics anonymous meetings and it shows.

Reinhold Niebuhr wrote the first known version of the Serenity Prayer, and it's been through a few revisions just by popular word of mouth or even literal Hallmark greeting cards, but the version they say at AA meetings is:

God, grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change, the courage to change the things I can, and the wisdom to know the difference.

The basic principle can be decoupled from the religious origins and still be a useful approach to life. Learn not to stress about the things not in your control, while still taking control of the influence you do have.

There's some evidence that healthy low carb diets are more effective than healthy low fat diets at changing the ratio of visceral fat to subcutaneous fat.

And another meta study suggests that it's more effective to exercise more (even if you end up eating more) than to solely restrict calorie consumption.

People are allowed to have their own preferences different from mine, but I'm always thrown off by the number of comments on the internet who insist they don't care about boob size.

Personally, I'm like the fake straight persona that Captain Holt puts on in Brooklyn 99: "I see a pair of thick, weighty breasts and all logic flies out the window."

Plastic injection molding doesn't require a lot of hands, but it does require a relatively skilled supervision of the process and the assembly line.

As a result, plastic toys aren't a good candidate for child labor. It's just not cost effective compared to automated systems.

Stuffed toys, though, may benefit from tiny fingers doing fine stitching, so maybe that would've been a better candidate for comics like this.

I'm imagining a set of big naturals

I don't understand any dog barks

That's obviously false. Any dog owner knows when their dog is begging for help getting something out of reach or being let in/out of a gate, which barks mean "hey someone's at the door" or "squirrel" and which yelps mean pain. Beyond that, growls and body language can communicate quite a bit, too.

City planners in the 60s favored male trees for this reason. Then air pollution and a warming climate, mixed with all that extra pollen, gave rise to a huge increase in seasonal allergies in urban areas.

In an episode of Nathan Fielder's Nathan for You, he once convinced a haunted house to try a gimmick that it starts off normal, but halfway in the staff and management freak out that one of the staff accidentally touched a guest, pulls them aside out of the haunted house into normal lighting, and a whole biohazard suit team and ambulance has to quarantine the guest for a bit in a series of escalating interactions that they've contracted some highly contagious and deadly disease, before they reveal that it was all part of the haunted house.

Then a real lawyer is waiting at the end asking if they want to sue for emotional distress, because Nathan Fielder wants the haunted house to drum up publicity that it was so scary that they've been sued for it.

Isn't she just...Italian?

He was constructing his own languages and scripts in his teens, after having learned Anglo Saxon and Latin (and seeing how those fed into modern English), plus Esperanto.

He traveled all over Europe in the summers between university semesters, taking in the different landscapes, cultures, and languages.

He was a British Army Officer for World War I, leading units consisting of men from different backgrounds (class, education, trade) from his own. He devised a code system to bypass Army censors to keep his wife updated on his location and movements. And he experienced the horrors of being in the front lines of one of the most horrific wars in history.

Then after the war he became an accomplished academic, worked on the Oxford English Dictionary, specialized in Middle English and Old English translations, and translated several major works (including the definitive translation of Gawain and the Green Knight).

So by the time he started formally working on Lord of the Rings, he had built up such a rich set of experiences, skillsets, and knowledge that everything he knew was going into that world building.

No way a 25-year-old could have written Lord of the Rings. He needed 20+ years of adult experience to get to the point where he could write it.

Oysters have made the switch between poor people food and rich people food quite a few times. Tuna has made the switch in my lifetime. It probably has something to do with how easy they are to harvest/catch when plentiful versus the results of overfishing, and how delicate the food is in the supply chain.

Plain bread doesn't have sufficient water activity to support bacterial growth.

Focaccia is generally bread with oils/fats (oils aren't water so they don't contribute to water activity).

Sweetened pastries have more water in them, but have most of the water bound to sugar molecules so that there's not enough water activity to support bacterial growth.

But pizza has a water-based sauce on the crust, and often has moist toppings. That's why some pizzas become soggy over time. That's enough water activity to support microbial growth, including some microbes that cause illness. So pizza should be refrigerated.