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byMrKaos
2026 @10:08AM
(#65941894)
Attached to: Ozempic is Reshaping the Fast Food Industry
Is everything ok at home? I was making a joke about how "Ozempic" sounds like "Olympic" FFS and then pointing out what worked for me. My Achilles tendon has ruptured four times this year and I CAN'T work out right now even though I want to, I have to fast to control my weight.
Happy for you, but fuck off. If it were that simple, we'd have a lot less fatties.
Junk food companies pour billions of dollars into marketing and employ teams of psychologist to get people to eat. If we had less advertising, we'd have a lot less fatties is probably a more reasonable argument.
It's easier to quit smoking/heroin/cocaine/opiates than to lose weight and keep it off
Having withdrawn from opiates I can tell you that working off the weight I gained is not comparable.
Many have it worse than me.
Fuck dude - my sibling is morbidly obese and I'm mostly lean - can you explain the genetics of that?
Telling the GLP-1 patients you're not fat because you skip breakfast is like bragging to people in a cancer ward that you're cancer-free without chemo.
No it isn't. Being fat isn't cancer, it's being fat. Some people have excuses and others have reasons but to compare being fat to cancer is a lie designed to draw people into your hopelessness by telling them there is nothing they can do.
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byMrKaos
2026 @04:48PM
(#65940426)
Attached to: Ozempic is Reshaping the Fast Food Industry
An Ozempic Assleet.
On a more serious note I use small bouts of fasting, like skipping a meal, which helps in keeping both under control. You also get mental clarity. This helped me avoid the diabetes my siblings acquired.
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byMrKaos
26 @05:00PM
(#65930166)
Attached to: 'Star Wars' Boss Kathleen Kennedy Steps Down From Lucasfilm
Can pay their respect's appropriately.
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byMrKaos
26 @09:11PM
(#65904699)
Attached to: GNOME and Firefox Consider Disabling Middle Click Paste By Default
Their attitude is so bad that random, well-intentioned devs are driven to near insanity from glancing run-ins with them: https://felipec.wordpress.com/...
And Firefox is a rudderless empty vessel that's been adrift for years.
Thanks, that also explains why gnome terminal bug of detaching and reattaching bash sessions has not worked since 2018. I liked Gnome because it was uncluttered (at least in Mint) but the downhill progression in usability is what I've noticed.
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byMrKaos
26 @08:57PM
(#65904663)
Attached to: GNOME and Firefox Consider Disabling Middle Click Paste By Default
But Windows doesn't have it (and MacOS doesn't even have the concept of multiple buttons)
Windows Terminal has this feature and you can enable it in the settings. If you want it in the desktop you can add X11 functionality and it will work. I've done both because it is probably one of the most useful computing features apart form workspaces. As I recall it works in MAC if you enable X11 functionality - but it's been a few years since I used Mac everyday.
lets all sink to the highest common factor so that everyone can suffer.
You mean raise your standards and learn something new.
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byMrKaos
26 @08:48PM
(#65904647)
Attached to: GNOME and Firefox Consider Disabling Middle Click Paste By Default
One of the best features of Unix is cut-and-paste with only using the mouse.
AND ctrl-c + ctrl-v (or command for you) still works so you get two cut and paste buffers. Asides for workspaces it's probably the most useful used feature for me.
It's seems this is a trend to dumb down power user features so that GUIs become a productivity obstacle appealing to the lowest common denominator of "entry" level users.
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byMrKaos
2026 @08:42AM
(#65898857)
Attached to: Reading is a Vice
Let's try that again.
""reading not as a public duty but as a private pleasure, sometimes even a vice,""
Well, I guess I'd start with telling him to stop trying to "trick" people - even kids - into doing what he wants?
Doesn't mean it isn't true or that he's wrong. He's hardly going to trick kids into reading his article, to trick them. I think reading is the vehicle into learning things in your life that unlocks what you'd really love to do.
It's a routine fault of progressives AND evangelical conservatives: this inherent sense of moral certainty, .
It seems that the only two sides of politics that exist is the agonist and the antagonist. Left and Right have become obsolete as a consequence of their absolute polarization.
Reading I'd say is symptomatic of intelligence. So what we really want are people who value intelligence, who value reason. Reading will more or less automatically follow.
Intelligence can manifest in different ways unrelated to reading, math, music, painting for example. I'd also say that language could be considered a limiter of intelligence when you're restricted to words. I seen high intelligence is as much of a curse as a blessing, thinking can be addictive especially if you have hard emotions that you're avoiding feeling.
I'll be honest, I don't think 'reading' alone is inherently magical. reasoning citizen we NEED in our Republic.
Well, that any democracy needs, not just ours.
I can tell you from reading thousands of pages of proposed Acts of law; it's a fucking tedious slog that takes weeks out of your life and is absolutely vital component of a functioning democracy - way better than just voting. What's magical is the patience to do it or face the consequences of not doing it. The best way to solve that problem is log onto your government's page where laws are proposed and start reading AND writing about a portion of law that interests you.
That's what democracy needs.
Reasoning adults need to be able to hold in their heads a fundamental RESPECT for the other person's ideas. Even if they don't agree.
Freedom of speech carrys with it an inherent responsibility to figure out what the reality is and make a judgement call. Respect is earned if someone can be civil, polite while they express that freedom.
What if they read actually-scandalous texts (according to Kirsch's orthodoxy) like something by Charlie Kirk? The Art of the Deal?
Hopefully it's something that really offends them.
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byMrKaos
2026 @12:34AM
(#65898395)
Attached to: Reading is a Vice
opps - That's not the comment I wanted to make.
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byMrKaos
2026 @12:33AM
(#65898393)
Attached to: Reading is a Vice
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"Kirsch says to stop treating reading as civic medicine. "It would be better to describe reading not as a public duty but as a private pleasure, sometimes even a vice,""
Well, I guess I'd start with telling him to stop trying to "trick" people - even kids - into doing what he wants?
It's a routine fault of progressives AND evangelical conservatives: this inherent sense of moral certainty, and the instinctive justification that "pretty much anything goes because I'm doing it to HELP you".
Reading (or more specifically, the desire to read, as there are tons of people with impairments that get in the way of literally reading a book) I'd say is symptomatic of intelligence. So what we really want are people who value intelligence, who value reason. Reading will more or less automatically follow.
I'll be honest, I don't think 'reading' alone is inherently magical. Reading the sports page, or some fantasy smut about milking male minotaurs - they may both be enjoyable, but neither is going to make someone the kind of constructive, reasoning citizen we NEED in our Republic.
Well, that any democracy needs, not just ours.
Of course, then we get back to the 'certainty'. Reasoning adults need to be able to hold in their heads a fundamental RESPECT for the other person's ideas. Even if they don't agree.
So here's the funny bit for me. Kirsch suggests that we trick kids into thinking reading is scandalous, a vice. Is that really what he wants? What if they read actually-scandalous texts (according to Kirsch's orthodoxy) like something by Charlie Kirk? The Art of the Deal? Would he be as intrinsically delighted with "people reading" then?
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byMrKaos
2026 @12:28AM
(#65898389)
Attached to: Reading is a Vice
I just can't get into what people consider good sci-fi such as The Expanse series. And forget about the Three Body Problem.
I didn't know "The Expanse" was based on books, however I can say the TBP books are excellent. Great to see the Chinese producing Sci Fi that (mostly) transcends borders.
The last books of such type I remember purchasing were Darwin's Radio and Darwin's Children by Greg Baer. At the same time, I can't get into his other works.
Yeah - great books there 52/2. Bear is certainly one of the greats R.I.P, up there with Clarke. One book Bear wrote "City at the end of Time" seemed to be a homage to Clarke's "City and the Stars" which was one of my favorites.
Then there were the Killer B's (Brin, Bear and Benford) who I think expanded Asimov's Foundation - not sure if that's what Apple are playing though as I haven't read Foundation or his Robot series -- yet.
We can't talk about Bear though without mentioning "Eon" which is probably one of the greatest Sci Fi books ever written. I know it's a big call, Eternity, Forge of God and Anvil of Stars are of similar quality - but also much of his stuff from Star Trek to the back story for Halo took both of those into hard sci fi territory.
I'm sure this has to do with my tastes changing, but considering the number of books out there and how often I'm looking, one would think I would be able to find more.
No, it's a challenge finding decent Sci Fi after consuming the greats. Reynolds, Hamilton, Reed also write good science fiction that's worth checking out.
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byMrKaos
26 @11:19PM
(#65898327)
Attached to: Reading is a Vice
urge to read early, by the time I was three...
Similar age to me. I started on comic books, a stack as big as I was, then sci fi books, then electronics, then computing which made me the geek I am today!
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byMrKaos
26 @11:14PM
(#65898323)
Attached to: Reading is a Vice
The problem is that I have to reread a page multiple times because my brain will just go blank part way through reading the page.
It could be you dissociating because of something you are reading, I've had similar experiences. It's worth looking into - you never know what it will uncover for you.
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byMrKaos
26 @11:08PM
(#65898315)
Attached to: Reading is a Vice
I really wonder why people say if they see someone in public reading a real book
I'm usually too engrossed to care, however I have had a few people come up to me and comment that I was actually reading a real book and then asked me about it. So it can oddly be a way to meet people, especially if they've read the book.
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byMrKaos
26 @11:03PM
(#65898313)
Attached to: Reading is a Vice
For me, reading for pleasure is one of the best things in life. I live an 8-minute walk from a great public library and I borrow on average about 100 books per year and I read most of them (give up on maybe 5 or 6 a year.)
That's fantastic, I wish I had the time, I only get through about 18-30 a year reading over breakfast, which is mostly studying. My rate climbs when I'm on vacation which is when I have a chance to read some Sci Fi for pleasure, so you're really living a readers dream there.
Reading doesn't hurt my eyes or give me a headache the way sitting in front of a device or TV does.
Yes - I get lower levels of fatigue with paper as well. I can't remember where I read the study on retention rates where plain old paper books still rule around 80-90%, screens are around 25-30%. Apparently it's due to the amount of energy the visual cortex spend on determining a character. Paper has a hard outline between black and white whereas screens have digital noise (we all know as dither) that causes the brain to have to determine what the character is. That's why real books on paper are my choice for all technical reading.
It's such a good point you raised though, reminding me of eye care experiences I had to do so I could keep reading. I had many cervical spine issues which is *still* taking a lot of work with physio therapists and chiropractors to resolve. I was getting double vision - but only in one eye - that was affecting my reading and causing concern that soon I would not be able to see the page.
The treatments started to relieve the symptoms but the headaches were getting worse. I started using some eyedrops called "Liquid MSM drops" with > 15% MSM which stung a lot however something started happening in the double vision eye and over the course of a few month (with the help of some minor surgery from a doctor) a sebaceous cist the size of a chik pea was removed from behind my eye - I was so sick.
Combined with the above the headaches have been slowly fading, eyesight has been improving and slowly getting sharper.
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byMrKaos
26 @10:20PM
(#65898263)
Attached to: Reading is a Vice
aggghh. ...OF... Bradbury
Hilarious that you grammar policed yourself after the Bradbury reference. PKD is a great author too.
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