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byPleaseThink
22, 2026 @07:44PM
(#65943162)
Attached to: Weight-Loss Drugs Could Save US Airlines $580 Million Per Year
The online sites giving you prescriptions for weightless drugs are not doing those checks.
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byPleaseThink
22, 2026 @07:42PM
(#65943158)
Attached to: Weight-Loss Drugs Could Save US Airlines $580 Million Per Year
Really poor because the dietary advice is very poor. The fact that exercise was mentioned and continues to be mentioned as a primary way to lose weight lets you know the person doesn't know what they're talking about. Exercise makes your poor nutrition even worse. That's completely ignoring the fact that you don't have the energy to exercise if your health is poor, so it's a non-starter anyway.
The best way to no longer to be fat is water-only fasting (means no food not no water). Ozempic only gets you half of the way there. If you used it once to get started on your fast (you're only hungry for the first 2-3 days then you feel fine) it would be awesome. But instead people take it continually and eat minor amounts of food throughout that time. By doing that they're starving instead of fasting and the body handles it differently. You're losing muscle and not getting enough nutrition. When fully fasting, your body increases growth hormones to maintain that muscle mass. The lack of digestion reduces the amount of nutrients you need low enough that recycling damaged tissue is good enough for the short to medium term. You'll want some vitamins if you're fasting for more than a few weeks at a time. You'll lose half a pound of fat per day.
The other way to lose weight is to tweak your ratios so calories from protein are below 9% of your total intake. That causes some hormonal shifts which cause you to lose weight. However you have to be eating enough. If you're under eating, your body might instead see it as starving and you won't maintain that loss as it tries to hold onto every calorie it can get.
Those are the two easiest ways to lose weight. You have to dig really deep to find any information about them.
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byPleaseThink
22, 2026 @07:21PM
(#65943128)
Attached to: Blue Origin's Satellite Internet Network TeraWave Will Move Data At 6 Tbps
> Have I missed anything?
Yes, burning the satellites up on reentry damages the ozone layer and has other negative effects on the atmosphere. There was a group studying that. DOGE killed them and any path towards regulating or redesigning satellites to avoid causing that type of damage.
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byPleaseThink
22, 2026 @07:14PM
(#65943114)
Attached to: Moderna Curbing Investments in Vaccine Trials Due To US Backlash, CEO Says
Musk gets away with a ton of fraud. He would have done far worse under a D administration.
Remember that study saying burning up satellites in the atmosphere damages the ozone layer? As head of DOGE he killed it and prevented any further research or policy relating to it. If not, D's would be on a path now to ban privately owned, mega satellite constellations. His Starlink company would be dying and facing a bunch of fraud lawsuits for not providing services they were paid for. Instead we have more constellations going up and those companies will now also push back against anything that threatens those investments.
There's stories like that for all of his companies. The current admin is pro fraud so lots of fraudsters are doing what they can to keep it going. Sadly unlike in fairy tales, crime/fraud does pay.
180570760
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byPleaseThink
2, 2026 @07:34PM
(#65919652)
Attached to: How Markdown Took Over the World
Exactly. The lists are messed up. There's no way to reference another list entry. Since the numbering is automatic (it ignores the numbers you use in the text) you can't write "Take the part from step 12 and do XYZ" as you have no control over what entry #12 is numbered as. Thus there needs to be some way to reference list positions and there isn't. Further, the lists are just basic numbers. Nested lists are also basic numbers, meaning no 5.a.12, so if you have a nested lists that span multiple pages it's very difficult to find 3.2.5. You have to measure indentation to figure out what group the current entry's single digit refers too. Then you have to scan backwards through the pages to see if the 2 you're looking at is 2.2 or 3.2. It's huge gap in the specification if you're doing something meaningful in the format rather than short blurbs. People learn it for the short blurbs then decide to adopt it as the one format for everything and it turns into a maintenance nightmare.
I had to write a converter to convert other formats into markdown and markdown into different formats. I don't remember them all, but there's lots of little edge cases that aren't handled well. Things get strange when you start nesting elements too. I'm not sure if the common libraries are buggy or it was the format itself, but that really doesn't matter. If the implementations have bugs and missing edge cases then it doesn't matter if the format itself is pure as you can't use it properly. After that project I'll never recommend markdown. It has tons of hidden flaws.
180570694
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byPleaseThink
2, 2026 @07:12PM
(#65919614)
Attached to: How Markdown Took Over the World
It also doesn't support comments. Or at least you can put in comments but you can't read them in and output them again. Last I checked a couple years ago there were no YAML libraries that supported writing comments. If you can't read in a file then output the exact same file, that file format is a non-starter. Though to be fair XML can't do that either (whitespace characters between attributes are normalized).
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byPleaseThink
2, 2026 @04:53PM
(#65919202)
Attached to: Why It Is Difficult To Resize Windows on MacOS 26
There is no pre-installed GUI to change border thickness. The pointer sets are linked to your overall theme and you can't select, view, nor change individual parts of the sets. Windows 95 let you change all of that and far more from only two, easy to use GUI windows. Modern Linux GUIs seem to require you to learn a custom, HTML based theming language and edit those files raw.
Oh, and after I finished looking at those settings on my laptop I got a crash report: "marco crashed with SIGSEGV in meta_display_set_cursor_theme()"
The UI lag was referring to older computers. I was talking about old people and it used to be common for programs to hang for a moment. It still happens a lot for me on Firefox, or when opening a folder with a lot of files in them, or opening a file with a ton of lines in it, or a file with just one long line, or, or, or... The PC is spec-ed for 3D modeling and uses a SSD. The lag does matter if it causes you to miss-click. That used to be common, which is why older people don't like when they're forced to click on invisible elements. Since resizing uses invisible zones, it's relevant. Do you want to create well designed software for everyone or do you just design software for yourself and say fuck you to everyone else?
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byPleaseThink
2, 2026 @02:44PM
(#65918812)
Attached to: Why It Is Difficult To Resize Windows on MacOS 26
How is a line, that keeps the text of one window from looking like it runs into another window, distracting?
180569362
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byPleaseThink
2, 2026 @02:42PM
(#65918802)
Attached to: Why It Is Difficult To Resize Windows on MacOS 26
Yes, large ZONES. However the resize TARGET is often very small. On Ubuntu Mate it's 2 pixels on my desktop (which is scaled 200% so the default is probably 1 pixel). The target is the UI element you aim your mouse at. That's the visible window border. The resize zone only extends PAST that target and very annoyingly not before it. If I look closely there's a shadow along the edge of the window (not visible with darker windows/wallpaper behind it) and that entire shadow is the resize zone.
But it's still a horrible UI. When you pass the window border it looks like you're about to click on the element behind the current window. Miss the hard-to-see zone by a pixel and you just triggered something you didn't want in another window, possibly something not undoable. Older users are risk adverse so they don't want to click outside of the window for any reason, even if the mouse pointer changed (which due to UI lag isn't always trustworthy). It feels risky. Keep your pointer inside the window to avoid that risk and you can't resize because the border is too thin.
If they want to keep this outside-the-window zone, then they need updated mouse pointers. The pointers are all specifically designed to look like you're grabbing a vertical/horizontal border and dragging it. Since the invisible zones are outside the border, that's no longer appropriate. Instead the pointers should be like you're pushing the window smaller or stretching it larger. You need to change the user's mental action from dragging to squeezing/stretching. You squeeze things from the outside so it's natural that you'd place the cursor outside the visible window border to do so. One could make an argument for any outside-the-window mouse press paired with dragging the mouse into the border should push/shrink the window in that direction. That negates the whole 'zone/target' size argument. Those two changes together (zone and pointer) can be claimed as an attempt at improving the UX of windows. Making only the border/zone change means it was done purely for looks with no regard to the UX and thus is a bad change.
Thankfully I don't need to care much about this as the Alt shortcut key make resizing windows trivially easy in Linux, but when I can't use Alt it's incredibility annoying.
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byPleaseThink
2, 2026 @01:57PM
(#65918666)
Attached to: Exercise is as Effective as Medication in Treating Depression, Study Finds
That's why you can use headphone and/or watch TVs at the gym. Accomplish two time wasting things at once and you can justify each by pretending you're being efficient with your time.
Or think like a rich bastard. Record yourself at the gym and put it online as a 'workout with me' small business. Now your gym membership becomes a business expense and you can tell everyone you're a business owner. Get financing. Using AI to change the backgrounds of your few workout videos and re-post them. Now you can sit at home while your newly automated business brings in enough funds to not die. In 3 years sell the business to a real workout-with-me company and retire. ...Actually, I'm surprised AI generated workouts aren't a big thing yet. They probably will be soon (good luck twisting yourself into an impossible yoga pose). You probably have at most two years to cash in on this idea. Pay me royalties?
180569096
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byPleaseThink
2, 2026 @01:40PM
(#65918606)
Attached to: Exercise is as Effective as Medication in Treating Depression, Study Finds
Correct. But it's more and more looking like inflammation or an inflammation-related effect. All of the random depression treatments are also anti-inflammatory or high-energy use.
Magnesium cured my multi-decades long clinical depression. That treatment is take magnesium supplements for 3 weeks and you'll either be cured or not. My depression simply faded away around week 2 and now it's impossible for me to dwell in those oddly comforting yet depressive thoughts. When depressed, it feels 'good' to wallow in your depression. My brain simply can't do that anymore. I can't get stuck in that mental state. My suicidal ideation is completely gone. My brain simply doesn't generate those thoughts anymore. I'll daydream about something else instead. I no longer take magnesium and the depression hasn't come back, so was I just nutrient deprived that whole time? A stressful event used up a critical nutrient and nature evolved for some of us to kill ourselves off to ensure rest of the group will have enough? That can't be true for all cases since the magnesium treatment is only 40% effective. There has to be other causes of depression too.
FYI, SSRIs tend to be 30% effective and active placebos are also 30%. However SSRIs are different from placebos since placebos work far quicker... If your depression is fixed within the first couple weeks of starting an SSRI, congratulations!, you likely mental-ed your way out of depression (next time use hypnosis). SSRIs do have a side effect of messing with how your body uses magnesium... They also can cause depression when getting off them, so be mindful of that. Just because you feel depressed while stopping them doesn't mean you still need them. It might or it might not.
The high-energy use matters in terms of a metabolic theory. Your body aims to use a certain amount of energy each day. If you spend it running, there's less available energy for other things. That's all fact, not theory. The theory is if you aren't using enough energy on other tasks, your body allocates the excess to your immune system. If you're not sick, that excess immune response causes inflammation. That provides a reason for why getting up and doing something helps with depression, auto-immune issues, and relieving symptoms when you're sick. If you are sick, you tend to stay in bed which gives more resources for your immune system to fight it off. It all makes sense from an evolutionary prospective. Don't move around when injured, don't care about injuries when needing to move out of hostile environments, and it's not safe reproduce in either of those cases (reproductive system is down regulated in both cases. Females have it easier here. An irregular period tells you when you're too far to one of the sides.)
180568862
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byPleaseThink
2, 2026 @12:54PM
(#65918458)
Attached to: Amazon's AI Tool Listed Products from Small Businesses Without Their Knowledge
It's going to be funny when Amazon automatically creates listing from a storefront relisting their eBay store. A ton of eBay listings for new products are just drop ships through Amazon Prime (yay free shipping without the subscription) (probably true by now for Etsy listings as well). Amazon manipulates their prices to drive out competition, so they might temperately lower prices on their Shop Direct listing. Drop sellers also use automatic scrapping software, so their eBay store may switch their order target to the Shop Direct listing. Now we've got a fully automated, unending reselling loop. Will anyone notice?
180568764
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byPleaseThink
2, 2026 @12:38PM
(#65918392)
Attached to: Amazon's AI Tool Listed Products from Small Businesses Without Their Knowledge
That's not trademark infringement nor fraud. Drop shippers (DRers) are selling the name-band item so customers are getting what they ordered. It's only misrepresenting if they claim they're manufacturing the item which almost none are stupid enough to say. They are selling the items as provable by the fact that you sent them money and the product eventually arrives at your door. Apparently Amazon is stupid enough to lie about the products, but they were already lying about products they inventory, so that's not new. Amazon crossed a line by requiring payment to fix those lies. That's extortion. Sane DSers don't do that. They update their listings to reduce their return rates and thus increase their profits. Apparently Amazon thinks they'll make more through extortion and they're probably right. It worked well for companies like DoorDash and Yelp.
You can claim copyright infringement if they're simply reusing the original listing's assets. That does tend to happen frequently because DSers don't want to lie about the product and because they're lazy. Small businesses do tend to care about the copyright and other DSers send infringement notices against each other when one takes the time to better represent the item (most original manufactures are horrible at listing their own products). For larger businesses, they specifically want people to reusing their product assets.
You might not like it, but drop shipping doesn't require any prior relationship between any parties and it's perfectly legal unless a site's Terms of Service say otherwise. And we all know how much we care about those on this site or how any company cares about someone else's TOS. How many companies still ask you to login or provide your password so they can check your account for some reason? That's against every TOS. Automated scanning is against many TOS (not Slashdot, I just checked) and they don't even bother to carve out exceptions for search engines. TOSes are very selectively enforced.
180568572
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byPleaseThink
2, 2026 @12:08PM
(#65918256)
Attached to: Amazon's AI Tool Listed Products from Small Businesses Without Their Knowledge
Drop shipping is okay, not great but okay. It's everywhere and normally unnoticed. However the person drop shipping is supposed to take on the responsibility for the product. Amazon is passing on that responsibility and is engaging in extortion. "We've messed up the description of your product. Give us money to fix it else suffer reputation damage and potentially lose your business due to all the charge backs and fraud claims sent to your payment processor and original store." That's illegal.
180568452
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byPleaseThink
2, 2026 @11:51AM
(#65918180)
Attached to: Amazon's AI Tool Listed Products from Small Businesses Without Their Knowledge
It would temporarily collapse. Most construction related materials and assemblies are drop shipped. Your roofer doesn't keep stacks of shingles in a warehouse. Your window installers don't make their windows. Landscapers don't manage dirt inventory. Etc...
In terms of 'standard' business, unemployment would spike. People turn to drop shipping when they need extra money or have trouble finding a job. They often find success. Those people would all suddenly find themselves without income. You'll tell them to just get a different job. They already tried that.
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