42 months for killing someone over an unpaid bill seems like a light sentence to me… this is under the assumption the party is the one who decided not to pay, article doesn’t seem to provide much info

So the movement you’re referring to is “health at every size” and various studies have shown that following it leads to overall better physical health outcomes compared to “traditional” weight loss/dieting. Here’s a short article with links to various studies: https://education.nationalgeographic.org/resource/health-every-size/#

The movement isn’t promoting that everyone is healthy at every size but that weight and health may not be causal as people seem to believe (research shows they can be correlated but the methods behind it have also been quite flawed and do not consider a vast majority of covariates that have been previously identifed as having negative relationships with health). Unfortunately, we live in a society (mostly US but also all Western nations) that pushes the idea that only one body type is “healthy” and that our body shape/type is largely within out control and neither of those are previous statements are true. In fact, these ideals have been shown to be negatively correlated with physical and mental health and can be a major contribution to disordered eating and associated symptoms/behaviors.

Its requiring the app to read the article

I interpreted the article to mean that the developers are suing the crowd funding platform. It appears that the platform hasn’t given the majority of the money that was crowd sourced to the developers.

I’m finishing up a PhD in psychology and it is definitely not black and white as you present. Psychology is first and foremost an extremely broad category of specialties (ranging from more biological aspects such as neuropsych to more behavioral and social aspects). Based on your post, I assume something more in the clinical/behavioral realm is where you’re looking.

Again, very grey, even in a diagnosis as supposedly well understood as depression, we still have almost no understanding of etiology nor exact treatment for an individual. Depressive disorders as a group has a lot of diagnoses and subtypes that we can classify (and schools of thinking that believe this is important, ones that thing it doesn’t matter, and ones trying to push a more dimensional approach to thinking about it, among many others). Even with a single diagnosis of major depressive disorder we can have recurrent, single episode, severity specifiers, symptom modifiers, etc. and among those more “specific” diagnoses, individal symptom presentation may be completely different with minimal overlap. Due to this variability, we also don’t have a one diagnosis, one treatment look at things. In total, psychological treatments have about a ~60% efficacy (when I say this, I’m thinking mostly CBT/ADM, DeRubeis et al., 2005). There’s a lot of research looking into personalization of treatment and its mostly come out with no significant solutions.

I realize I went off on a complete tangent but I absolutely love this field and can talk all day. Overall, I think marketing and psychology as very similar fields. At their cores, its about understanding human behavior, just differences in how to apply that understanding.

How long have you had these neons and what are your current water parameters?

Neons tend to be mass bred/produced now and aren’t always the healthiest when they arrive in the pet stores. So if they’re new, they may just unfortunately be dying and then your other fish may eat the bodies before you find it.

Similarly, if water parameters aren’t great they could be dying from that and same end result.

I doubt your pleco is catching and eating any neons. If any of your fish are likely culprits, I’d think its the eels, esp since I believe they’re nocturnal hunters? But I’ve never kept eels myself and don’t have much knowledge regarding that.

Edit: I just went to see your other post and it appears the other “eel” is a bichir. If it is indeed a fish eating your neons, that’s the likeliest culprit

Ah ok, so the tank wasn’t cycled then. Cycling is essentially getting beneficial bacteria to start living in your tank and reducing the waste chemicals produced by aquatic life to a less harmful chemical (nitrogen cycle). Essentially the idea is you’d continuously introduce some sort of ammonia into the tank and monitor the water until it drops to 0.

This seems to be a good article to get started: https://www.freshwatersystems.com/blogs/blog/how-to-cycle-a-fish-tank

I’m sorry for the loss of your fish though. Aquariums can have a bit of a learning curve and we have all made mistakes. I hope this’ll be a sad but good learning experience and that you’ll continue to explore this hobby!

Assuming this is cantonese style steamed fish, its a soy sauce based sauce for extra flavor. The way I usually do it is to pour some soy sauce over the fish, layer fresh aromatics (green onion, garlic, ginger, cilantro) on the fish then heat up some oil to smoking and pour over the aromatics to release the fat soluble flavors and lightly toast some of the fresh aromatics

I care for most of my carnivores (bladderworts, sundews, VFTs, mexican and temperate pings) in the same way which is just letting them sit in a tray of distilled, RO, or rain water. From my experience, they all like more light than you think and sundews in particular (your D. aliciae for example) actually stop producing dew when they don’t get enough light. I’m not sure what the intention of the leca is but I don’t generally use it unless for aroids that want more airflow for their roots.

As for the ping, if its an agnata mix, then while its in its growing phase, its also fine to keep it in a bit of water. I have mine in a ping mix though which is peat, sand, and turface (I just buy a mix from petflytrap.com). Again, low mineral water so distilled, RO, rainwater, I don’t use any ferts for my carnivores but I know foliar feeding is becoming more popular and root feeding seems to be ok for some sars but I haven’t taken that plunge myself.

Personally, I’d remove all the leca and just put them under some bright lights in a tray of clean low mineral water (if you have a total dissolved solids reader use it, water should have a TDS < 50). They may still suffer and old leaves may die but look out for any new growth and what that looks like. Carnivore leaves are not like other houseplants, they cycle through and die but the crown should be plump, healthy, and puttibg out new growth fairly consistently (unless its a temperate species that needs a hibernation but that’s a different story).

Would you be able to explain what you did to cycle the tank?

Usually one week isn’t long enough to fully cycle a tank, especially since it seems as if it went from 0 life to basically fully stocked overnight. I’m guessing if the tank was cycled, it was cycled for a much smaller load of fish/life and the larger introduction shocked the system and the ammonia is too high.

Looks like you have cyanobacteria, which is a photosynthetic bacteria (sorta like algae but not exactly since its not a plant). So much like others have stated, imbalance of nutrients, photoperiod, and water flow will help prevent it from continuing to be an issue.

Manual removal is going to be important, esp cleaning the substrate with a vacuum tube to get any excess organic matter out. If possible, add in extra flow through a water pump or increasing filtration. I’m not sure what your nutrient input is (whether you fertilize or potentially over feed) but that’s something to consider, usually the suggestion is whatever your tankmates will finish in like a minute or two and do a few feedings a day (unless you have just bottom feeders/shrimp then they wouldn’t finish food that quickly). And light wise, maybe reduce to 4 hours a day until it begins to clear up.

Bright side, because its cyanobacteria, it can also be taken care of with antibiotics like erythromycin, which should be safe for most tankmates, plants, and beneficial bacteria.

One of my favorites is Mandy Lee’s The Art of Escapism Cooking

I think there’s maybe a bit more complexity to the recipes and some require like various set up spice blends or sauces or what have you but the recipes are a lot of fun. There’s a really fun fusion and play element to her recipes and if you like Szechuan food, you’ll get a lot of those flavor profiles.

That’s a cool idea to sorta reclaim space that would otherwise be rather sterile (minus algae and mosquitos). Makes me think how i can try and set up similar things on my, soon to have, rooftop terrace. I don’t think I could set up a sphagnum bog given the heat/sun and my lack of a mass RODI system to keep things moist out here but I’ve been looking into natives that may work well in containers outdoors.

I’d love to see updates, especially with the carnivores!

Obesity can be a risk factor for certain individuals but more research has been pointing towards family history, genetic, and even environmental effects to explain more of the variance for health outcomes over obesity as a standalone variable. It can definitely makes things more complicated but isn’t the single point of health as we’ve made it out to be.

As for the CI/CO, that has also been disproven quite some time ago and continues to perpetuate because it is a simple way to try and understand weight. Here’s another short (non-scientific) article to dive into that: https://immattersacp.org/archives/2021/06/understand-obesity-before-treating-it.htm#:~:text=Treating%2520obesity%2520isn't,be%2520OK%252C%E2%80%9D%2520she%2520said. In short, individuals vary in how their bodies store and utilize calories and calories themselves vary depending on the source. Some bodies do fall under the fairly simple ci/co addage but the majority do not and continuing to understand it from that lens maintains weight stigma, which we also see as a major contributer to negative health outcomes in individuals living in larger bodies.

While I agree that mental health is a primary issue (it is literally my field of study, practice, and research), I also like to try and share some of the more recent findings and understanding in our field, especially as we continue to learn and correct old findings. I apologize that you’re getting so many long messages but I just find it important to try and speak out where I can, especially after working with and treating folks with eating disorders.

Oh finally! I’ve been wanting season 3 info. Such a silly anime

I just happened to let this episode run and caught it. Do any of the other episodes have post-credits..? I feel like i need to go back and check

Its eyes suggests it knows something and is taunting me

I assumed it was bò né

This is so cute and I, for one, welcome any pics and a time lapse gif sounds awesome!

I can’t seem to get froakie…