I can’t pretend to know such fear but it’s horrifying there are people like that

I like that, “don’t skip gut day”

Fiber is too hard to explain.

My teen is an athlete and very much into muscle building. He tracks macros, eats more calories than the rest of us (and still lost weight as a freshman with unlimited meal plan), and always looks for more sources of lean protein or omega 3’s.

But when I try to explain the importance of fiber, “I don’t get constipated and don’t need to shit more so why should I care?” Maybe it’s my problem not knowing how to reply to that in a way that communicates the importance

It’s sad that my first reaction was “are we sure we’re posting “scientific” results from the us govt?”, and my second reaction was was “phew, 15 years old so it should be true”

But it is old data and I’d like to know if anything has changed.

• Maybe there’s trends: I eat more vegetables than I did back then although still nowhere near enough.
• Marketing has generated a lot more fiber claims for things like breads and cereals. Is that real? Enough to make a difference?

So for me personally I eat more veggies although still not enough and the bread and cereal I eat talks a lot about fiber. Are there any such trends and are they enough to make any difference?

Sure but the point was that nat allows you to choose private addresses that are by default not routed: the NAT becomes the only way internet traffic can reach your devices

Just wait until the day ipv6 is finally adopted readily and we’ll have this same argument about whether IPv6 addresses are a security feature when a /64 is too big a range to scan

Back in my day, that was the assumption: every device would get its own public IP. Now get off my lawn

Ok thanks. I think I mainly misunderstood the premise

Wtf

Can you expand on that? Not asking for more personal Info than you want to share but how do people weaponize that? How shitty our our fellow human beings?

I feel a bit out of the loop standing here on my white CIS (is that even the right term?) privilege thinking people are getting better over time because I wouldn’t experience or even notice such things

Voting is key. People could have taken the ACA as the new normal and voted progressive so we could start moving to something more progressive. Instead we voted regressive.

Can never seem to shift society at all left before it gets shoved hard right again

Hate to say it but blaming doctors is another part of class war. Let’s blame everything on high doctor salaries so insurance companies, PBMs, pharmaceutical research companies, etc can still make huge profits at the cost of the most expensive healthcare system in the workd

Levi’s is a brand where I noticed size differences, even with identical pants, where the only difference is country of manufacture

Maybe it’s your brand and source. I see sizes becoming less consistent, more brand specific. Men’s sizes used to be consistent but now it depends on brand.

• I get brands known for being over resized, because I need them and they’re more comfortable
• a lot of “normal” brands I have to size up, and ts still less comfortable
• others, notably cheap or souvenir t-shirts I might size up twice, or it may not be comfortable at any labelled size

However I’m taller than average which is part of it. For a cheap brand with no tall sizes, I might size up twice, it might even be hanging off me as oversized, yet way too short

I would have three, but my router company way oversold their capabilities. Ideally

1. WiFi for my devices
2. WiFi for “smart devices
3. Guest WiFi

Yet somehow my WiFi only allows two and there’s no segmented networks

About 6-7

Have you seen Sears?

That has problems too ….

• Do you need to work to get your income, because how else you filing income tax
• income taxes are once per year: what if you have financial disaster after April 15?
• there’s a needy segment of the population where filing tax forms is unlikely or impossible.

Sure, no one should be forced at that point. But if they want to, everyone should have the opportunity free. And you’re right there would need to be some sort of safeguard against idiots wasting our money.

But we all benefit from from a better educated population. It’s a crime that free public education has remained at high school level when civilization has gotten much more complex.

And part of this should be that college is not “job training”. Yes our society benefits from people learning how to think or better understand many things which are not directly connected to profitability

Every attempt to make something idiot creates a bigger idiot

While I totally see the point this is already “solved” in that they shouldn’t have high beams on in the first place.

Pedestrians and cyclists are tough because drivers don’t think to toggle their high beams, even If they see pedestrians and auto-high beams aren’t any better. We’re out of luck

In my neighborhood we have very narrow streets and where there are sidewalks not pavement right next to the street. I never thought I’d appreciate the small amount of separation a standard sidewalk give but it actually does make a difference in how blinded your u are by traffic. But the bottom Line is similar to yours: this is a high density neighborhood with streetlights where no one should use high beams to begin with. Realistically there are several Poorly placed houses whose owners are probably even more frustrated