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What do your daily meals look like each day?

I do more of a 5 meal thing lately. I became very regimented over the last couple years.

Morning is a 2 hour procession of water, protein coffee, regular coffee, and oatmeal.

Late morning is a piece of Ezekiel toast with a light cream cheese spread and either smoked salmon or sliced chicken breast on it.

Early afternoon is often a full or half banana. Late afternoon is protein drink and either a banana or a rice cake with honey. These two mini meals bookend my workout.

Dinner is the wild card. Chicken, salmon, shrimp, scallops, tuna.. all fair game. Usually with a vegetable and a an egg or half avocado.

Then my night snack is usually Greek yogurt with something mixed in. Mix ins range from Stur to blueberries to peanut butter.. just depends on the day. I’ve also been known to do a hard boiled egg or two instead.

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While they have other not-friendly practices, Apple does well on the software side. The iPhone 8, going on 6 years old this September, is still running the latest version of iOS.

I've been away from Android for a while now. Is it still the case that there is a lot of fragmentation and updates end prematurely? Or is there another OS / software you're thinking about?

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More US auto buyers are turning to hybrids as sales of electric vehicles slow

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Regarding the first two, I find charging my EV at home means I rarely have to consider public charging. I’ve started to find stopping at the gas station way more inconvenient.

When I lived in the city, I maintained charge with a standard 120v outlet. In a rural area, I am doing well with a 240v (15a).

12 hour+ road trips are the only thing I hesitate on much anymore — sometimes I love the EV road trip, and other times I’m just looking to make good time.

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I’m not an expert, so take this as far as you’d like — reading has real benefits to our brains such as improving vocabulary, improving critical thinking skills, and improving focus. I don’t think short form videos give us the same brain benefits.

Here’s an article from Piedmont health on the benefits of reading. I haven’t seen such an article for short form videos, but am open to it if there is one.

https://www.piedmont.org/living-real-change/health-benefits-of-reading

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Growing a personality

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And a politician he is, willing to be bought in exchange for political capital.

Stealing from my comment in a different thread:

I’m still upset with Buttigieg for his pre-Super-Tuesday drop out. He joined the establishment to rally against Sanders. In doing so, he became part of what’s wrong with the party.

While I don’t think poorly of him as a person per se, he is also just another politician.

In contrast, I see folks like Sanders and AOC as real agents of change.

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I’m about to throw my entire Pihole out the window

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Irrelevant, unless your pihole is running on your DHCP server. Does the server running pihole have a statically assigned IP that is within the DHCP range being assigned to other devices?

Static addresses should be outside of your DHCP range, ideally. If you can’t change the range, and assuming sequential handouts of IPs from your router among other things, you can try setting the server’s static IP to a bigger number.

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More states expect schools to keep trans girls off girls teams as K-12 classes resume

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Are there really zero stakes? Does the work a child does in K-12 not impact their opportunities post K-12?

Sex has been a long-standing issue in organized sport. The IOC has their own challenges with it, even.

Club sports, as opposed to organized sports, are more of the “for fun / zero stakes” type of sport IMO.

I wish the issue was more black and white, but holy cow is it a tough one when you dig your heels in.

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Conservatives go to red states and liberals go to blue as the country grows more polarized

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I heard it put something like this once:

We used to all live around each other, and on the weekends we’d go to the bowling alley and have to listen to each other. It didn’t matter if I agreed with who was talkin, and it didn’t matter if they agreed with me. We talked. We argued. And then we bowled and had fun.

Today, we talk, we argue, and, after the “fuck off”, we get angrier at each other.