technology Technology Microsoft begins cracking down on people dodging Windows 11's system requirements
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    Fighting with Windows 11 introduced me to Linux Mint, which works perfectly! I'm not an OS geek, so I really don't care about the OS -- it's just the thing I deal with on the way to Firefox.

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  • technology Technology Microsoft's draconian Windows 11 restrictions will send an estimated 240 million PCs to the landfill when Windows 10 hits end of life in 2025
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    My 76 y/o spouse loves Linux Mint. The 2017-bought desktop was deemed insufficient for Windows 11 and now runs Mint.

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  • mildlyinfuriating Mildly Infuriating Windows 10 keeps bugging me to use a Microsoft account
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    This appeared this week on our home Windows 10 machine as well for the one account that does not use a Microsoft account. It's a new behavior.

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  • technology Technology Microsoft is killing WordPad in Windows after 28 years
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    This is very upsetting to me–more as a point of principle than in fact–but I appreciate that it doesn’t bother younger generations at all.

    I am in a support group with over 100 senior citizens in it. Getting a file with a *.rtf extension used to be a thing, but it hasn't been a thing in years. I do get *.doc and *.docx files so they're probably getting lured into Office like you said even before Wordpad is removed.

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    That’s why downvote buttons exist?

    No (and not downvoted) ... it's about controlling visibility.

    https://join-lemmy.org/docs/users/03-votes-and-ranking.html

    My take: Upvote the stuff other people should see. Downvote the stuff that should have never been here at all. You don't have to agree or disagree, you can even have no opinion. But if you find it worthwhile to others, upvote it. Detrimental, downvote it.

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  • technology Technology What’s the best printer in terms of no DRM/Open source
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    ET-2800 does have a USB connection and linux drivers

    I have the ET-2720 which I like but appears to have been discontinued.

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    I've had one for a year. I print a lot, in color, and I'm impressed.

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  • news News This Texas town has about 250 people. It has 50 sworn police officers.
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  • startrek Star Trek Pinball FX Releases Classic ‘Star Trek: The Next Generation’ Table DLC
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    All the Williams titles are pretty terrific. Pinball FX (Zen) has done a good job with these.

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  • finance Finance Why is check fraud suddenly rampant?
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    We (76 and 60) shop with our plastic (credit, never debit). Next cash if it is hand-to-hand, or we can get a receipt. Otherwise check, but we don't carry a checkbook. I may do PayPal, Venmo, or Zelle, but only if I know you personally -- if you're dealing with my spouse, you'd better take a check or plastic or wait for me.

    to the detriment of literally everyone else.

    How so? It's an option. The other option may be "no sale." We grew up on these and we understand them. All the high-tech ways are ever-changing, and we're never sure where we stand with them.

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  • finance Finance Why is check fraud suddenly rampant?
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    Suddenly? Nothing sudden about it been going around for years.

    From the article:

    [In 2022], banks issued about 680,000 reports of check fraud, nearly double what they reported in 2021. And one expert predicted total check fraud will hit $24 billion in losses this year, roughly twice what it was just five years ago.

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  • technology Technology The flying car completes first ever inter-city flight (Official Video)
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    This video has 7.6M views and was posted 2 years ago

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  • personalfinance Personal Finance Is Congress Going to Kill Credit Card Rewards?
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    This really has very little to do with consumers and everything to do with a tug of war between processors, banks and businesses.

    Sounds right. It's not like there is some lobby of consumers out there writing legislation like this. And the last ones to ever write legislation are legislators.

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  • asklemmy Asklemmy Is there a difference between exploitation and monetization?
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    A lot of the comments so far are trying to stay with the negative connotation to exploitation. You exploit your comfortable shoes to walk further each day. You exploit the microwave oven's ability to more quickly warm your coffee than the stove.

    This is the same with discrimination. You choose the raspberry danish over the cheese danish. This is you practicing discrimination, and it's fine.

    Any evil in it comes from abuse or impact to yourself with respect to others, that second definition of exploitation in the OP.

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    Personal Finance funchords 1 year ago 100%
    Retirement Calculator that uses Retirement Date Mutual Funds

    Our (spouse and I) are in a few of these funds. Is there a retirement calculator that figures out projections of these always-adjusting funds? The Fidelity "Monte Carlo" simulation seems to not adjust with them even though these funds do.

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    politics politics The GOP has a master plan to criminalize LGBTQ people
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    according to what Congress decides

    That's the rub. We have checks-and-balance and -- from the 10,000 foot level -- the current president is the enforcer/executor and, as such, has discretion with how to prioritize his efforts among existing and new laws.

    When Congress makes an agency and tucks it into the Executive Branch, the president is the top of that org chart. Project 2025, in a nutshell, says that assignment gives the president the right to decide how much to do that business -- including abstaining to prioritize it. This view is consistent with how other government administration works, who may decide that due to a recession we don't focus on enforcement on fishing boats this year -- for example.

    It may even be the case that no reason has to be given to abstain from giving a duty attention or funding. "Because they elected me and I say so," for example.

    This would provide a check-and-balance against Congress making disagreeable laws.

    Now Congress should still make those laws if they're sure they're right, because doing so would say how a thing is to be done and limit a president's power to do it differently, but the president seems to me to have the power to say whether and if a thing shall be done when it is placed within the Executive Branch (therefore, within presidential purview).

    We have a judiciary that has been pulled rightward, and we shouldn't be surprised if we see more decisions aligned with Project 2025 from here on out.

    Even if Project 2025 is right on the law, we have not being doing business that way for decades -- especially with federal agencies we consider independent by tradition or expectation. If we want to keep doing business the way that we are, we need to make sure our laws and any new constitutional amendments that need to be written are made. Even if we get an upright and generally good person as president, the points made in Project 2025 should be addressed.

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  • technology Technology NSA Orders Employees to Spy “With Dignity and Respect”
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    In 2023? 😞

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  • politics politics The GOP has a master plan to criminalize LGBTQ people
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    I don't know that I fit any of those label, neatly, but I've always been skeptical of the idea that the president is not in charge of everything under the Executive Branch.

    Keep in mind I'm not in charge of anything and I'm not right about anything! I'm nobody here.

    If Congress wants an independent agency, they need to create it and put it under themselves, not under the executive branch (so it seems to me). So even if Trump does not get into office (and let's make sure that he doesn't) Project 2025 is still going to be out there and it may be legally right in some important respects. Not paying attention to this reality is how we lost something like Roe v Wade ... What the Supreme Court can give, it can take away. There is no such thing as "never going to happen".

    Please defeat Trump and Trumpism, but take this concept of Project 2025 seriously beyond Trump.

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  • til Today I Learned TIL The Katy Freeway in Houston, TX was expanded in 2008 to 26 lanes (one of the widest in the world) and 5 years later had longer peak travel times than before the expansion
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    and it’s generally directly supported by rider fares instead of petitioning for government tax money.

    Fares alone do not pay the bills. Buses are always subsidized (which is totally fine IMO. Every fine metro area has a good transit system, and it should be affordable to all who would want to use it.)

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    trains and busses that actually work and get people where they need to go with minimal hassle and a reasonable cost

    Trains predate cars and busses have always been with us since the car. People have voted -- with their cars.

    The Interstate Highway System started in the 1950s. Population has more than doubled since then. Of course, we have more traffic, we have more people!

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  • stoicism Stoicism Quote of the Day from Marcus Aurelius
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    Thanks.

    By the way, that's not Marcus but The Enchirideon (by Epictetus), 33.1

    Marcus undoubtedly owned a copy of this. It may have something to do with Meditations 3.05

    In action be neither grudging, nor selfish, nor ill-advised, nor constrained. Let not your thought be adorned with overmuch nicety. Be not a babbler or a busybody. Let the God within direct you as a manly being, as an elder, a statesman, a Roman, and a ruler, standing prepared like one who awaits the recall from life, in marching order; requiring neither an oath nor the testimony of any man. And withal, be cheerful, and independent of the assistance and the peace that comes from others; for, it is a man's duty to stand upright, self-supporting, not supported.

    or Meditations 10:16

    Discourse no more of what a good man should be; but be one.

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    Star Trek funchords 1 year ago 100%
    A funny The Cage production story from MAJEL BARRETT

    Susan Oliver was playing a green-skinned Orion slave girl, but I had to test her makeup because she was too expensive and I was under contract already; I was cheap, they had to pay me anyway. The makeup they put on me was green as green can be, but they kept on sending out the rushes and we would get it back for the next day, and there I was just as pink and rosy as could possibly be. This went on for three days until they finally called the lab and said, “What do we do? We’re trying to get it green.” And they said, “You want that? We’ve been color-correcting.” Excerpt from: The Fifty-Year Mission: The First 25 Years

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    asklemmy Asklemmy Have you ever downvoted your own post/comment?
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    Yes. When somebody else has a better take and I want it to be the top comment, I will downvote mine.

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  • technology Technology Return-to-office orders look like a way for rich, work-obsessed CEOs to grab power back from employees
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    cook and sous chef

    Mad respect from me. I can't think of a more difficult job, you have to keep up, you have to juggle orders were some things are easy and some things are hard, you have to deal with the temperature and the standing and the moving. This is a tough, tough job!

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    A new study by human resources and payroll services platform Gusto Inc. shows smaller companies that have embraced remote work cite higher performance, better employee retention and strong corporate culture built on a foundation of flexibility. As small companies compete with deep-pocketed giants for talent, those gains could provide an edge.

    “SMBs are increasingly looking to extend the flexibility that their workforce enjoys,” said Gusto Economist Liz Wilke. “Not only to attract them, but to keep them less stressed, more able to manage their lives, and to build a culture and a team that works for them.”

    Companies that started in the past three years are 31% remote and 46% hybrid for their workforces, far higher percentages than more-established companies. Only 22% of younger companies are fully in the office, according to Gusto. Overall, companies that were 100% on-site before the pandemic are split between hybrid work and being fully in the office, with 8% fully remote.

    from: https://www.bizjournals.com/bizjournals/news/2023/06/13/remote-work-small-business-success-tips.html (paywalled, unfortunately)

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    Nobody is forcing anybody -- freedom is in the freedom to abstain, and all of us can abstain from working for an employer that demands RTO. There are plenty of remote jobs remote roles are possible, and the smaller the company, the better the job because you (as the individual among fewer) are valued. Big companies don't care and don't have to care.

    It's probably another fact missing from this article, but while larger companies are doing RTO, smaller companies are not. Larger companies are making a mistake here, most likely. They've got problems and are blaming remote work rather than innovating. Smaller companies are nimble.

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    This is terrible reporting, emotional, practically yellow. Two academics are quoted. The article and headline tell you how you should feel about this. This should have never gotten past the editor's desk.

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  • asklemmy Asklemmy What are your hobbies, and are they real fun to you? If yes, why are they really fun to you?
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    Barbershop quartet singing (ala The Barbershop Harmony Society). Instant friends and such satisfaction to hear yourself lending a note into four-part chords. (It's the basis of my username.)

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  • personalfinance Personal Finance Do you think we will ever have affordable housing again in our lifetime?
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    I (age 60) remember buying my condo in 1991 or so, interest rates about 7% with a VA-guaranteed loan. My parent's first mortgage was 2% or 3% but my mom, a Realtor, said those days were permanently gone. (They weren't. I had that in the house I bought in 2010.) But it felt forever at the time, and she thought it would be forever.

    Nothing is forever. It may crash, but something else we can't imagine might happen too. I think we all agree the present situation is unsustainable.

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  • personalfinance Personal Finance Do you use a credit card? Why or why not?
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    I use a credit card because our laws in the USA protect credit-card purchases better than they do debit-card and other electronic purchases.

    Although I use a credit card with revolving credit, I always pay the full balance each month. In this way, it acts as a debit card, but I get the benefits of a credit card. I have to remember to pay it on time, but I can set up autopay even for that.

    My credit union (a kind of non-profit bank owned by its members) is the issuer of the card, and it gives a 2% cash award for credit-card usage.

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  • news News Russia's first lunar mission in 47 years smashes into the moon in failure
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    The result of about half of recent lander missions from Earth is failure.

    The USA hasn't tried one recently.

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_missions_to_the_Moon

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    How to get Started Losing Weight (A guide)

    My first post about this was [here](https://www.reddit.com/r/loseit/comments/3didtl/how_to_get_started_using_myfitnesspal/). I and others got together and created the Quick Start Guide currently on Reddit. We need a Lemmy version, so this is my attempt at this blending ideas from the two. *Suggestions welcome.* **NOTE:** This guide is meant for **adults who have completed puberty** years ago. Teenagers should start with their doctors, as they have additional considerations not included in this guide. ## *Our habits are our destiny.* Since our current habits led to being overweight, and our habits in the future will maintain our desired weight, this needs to be a gradual effort to change habits. It's not a quick "diet" or a complete shift to a new way of living. Instead, it's about fine-tuning and modifying what we currently eat. We can lose weight and maintain it by adjusting our favorite foods, flavors, and the way we usually do things. By personalizing the approach, we're more likely to stick with it and successfully make these habit changes. # How to get Started Losing Weight To lose weight, your body needs to burn more calories than it gets from the food you eat. When this happens, you'll gradually lose weight over time. This idea is often talked about using the term "Calories in, Calories out," or CICO. The part of the equation that deals with the food you eat, which is the "Calories In" side, is the one you can control the most. It's the most important focus when you're trying to lose weight. This guide is a simple way to get started with weight loss. # The Plan ## Perfect is never required. Don't procrastinate for the ideal moment to begin because it might never arrive. Don't assume you'll feel more driven tomorrow, as motivation will always be inconsistent. Waiting until you have all the answers is also a trap, as that day might not show up either. You don't have to find the flawless diet or exercise routine. Start now and adapt as you move forward. Download a calorie tracking app. Any of these will do: - Cronometer - FitBit - Lifesum - LoseIt! - Macrofactor - MyFitnesspal - MyNetDiary - Nutritionix Track - Yazio * Enter your current stats as part of the sign-up process * Choose conservatively for normal daily activities (If you exercise, you can add it in separately for more accuracy. Do this conservatively, too.) * For the first week, set your goal to *Maintain my Current Weight*. Your goal for this first week is just to get in the habit of logging. ## Week 1: Commit to Logging Your Food For this week, just write down what you eat every day. Don't worry about calories yet. Get used to it: check food labels, *actually* weigh and measure your food and drinks, and keep track of how many calories you're having using a calorie tracker. Buy and use a digital kitchen food scale and good measuring cups to measure portions, at least for the first couple months of counting. You can also [use your hand to estimate portion sizes](https://www.google.com/search?q=Use+Your+Hand+to+Estimate+Your+Portions) as well as [common objects](https://www.google.com/search?q=Use+Common+Objects+to+Estimate+Your+Portions). You will be calibrating your eyes to do this more quickly later, but for several weeks use these tools as often as you are able. Starting this week, make sure to log your activities every day, and expect frustrations. These first weeks are hardest. Life has its twists and turns, and plans can shift. Remember, it's completely fine, and it is not happening so fast we can't adapt! Just keep track of things. As long as you're keeping a record, you're still in the game. Even if you're dealing with a crisis, the moment you log your next meal, you're right back on track. Don't worry about the high or low totals occasionally, steering towards our right habits are more important. Don't give up. Your log is a tool, not a critic. The aim isn't a flawless log; it's about having the details that will help you understand and manage your longer-term eating and weight. [[Further Reading: Studies Show that Logging Helps Lose Weight]](https://www.health.harvard.edu/blog/why-keep-a-food-diary-2019013115855) ## Week 2: Setting our weight-loss goal rate Now that you are used to logging, you can start focusing on a calorie goal. Enter at most -1 lb/week or -500g/week weight loss into the tracker, and it will provide you with a calorie goal. During this week, aim to stay within 100 calories of this target, but don't stress if you occasionally go a bit above or below. The goal is to balance it out over time. In the upcoming weeks, you'll gradually make progress towards reaching this goal. If you haven't already, take progress pictures of yourself, and start recording your weight every day. Remember that your weight will fluctuate quite a bit day to day, so enter your weight into your calorie tracker to see the long term trend. ## Week 3 and beyond: Small, doable improvements To make weight loss last, your strategy should be something you can keep up with over time. It's better to make small, steady adjustments that help you form healthier eating habits. While making big changes might bring quick scale results initially, it doesn't make habit changes nor fit your long-term life. Temporary measures only have temporary results. Stick with YOUR life and tuning YOUR habits. ### Tip: Subtract by adding It is easier to replace things than to eliminate them. A few examples: - Aim to take a 20-minute walk on a few days this week. Grow this slowly. - Swap out your usual nightly snack of chips for either air-popped popcorn or an apple. - Choose a vegetable as a replacement for one of the sides during dinner. - When visiting a restaurant, preview the menu online and opt for a healthier menu choice. Use your logs from the previous couple of weeks to see where you can make small changes to get closer to your calorie goal. Look for the "low-hanging fruit" that give you more calories for smaller changes. ## Only you can lose this weight, but you are not alone Lean on the community for advice and support, and give some support of your own. It feels less alone when we do this together. # How to Stick with It ## Make the good choices the easy choices Losing weight requires self-control, yet it's best if you don't have to rely on it too much. Make sure you always have healthy, low-calorie, and filling foods ready to go. Some examples include apples, oranges, berries, cut-up vegetable snacks and light popcorn. Keep these foods easily accessible at the front of your fridge. Avoid buying big packages of unhealthy snacks. If you want something less healthy, just buy a small portion from a convenience store. It's easier to use self-control once while shopping than to resist temptations throughout the week at home. ## You don't have to go hungry You should eat the calories you're aiming for without feeling hungry all the time. When you're not hungry, it's easier to make smart choices. If you have to go slower in your progress, that's okay; it's better to go slow than to quit. Eating more satisfying foods can help, like those with more fat, protein, and fiber. Foods with simple sugars are less satisfying and might even make you want to eat more. While both are natural forces, cravings and hunger are different. We should always eat enough, so if it makes sense that we are actually needing food, we should eat. To identify if you are craving, think about if you would eat an apple or other healthy vegetable. If not, it is a craving. Sometimes it's still the right answer to feed the craving, but it may not need a full meal or a large serving. ### Plan Ahead, but Variety is Important We get our nutritional coverage by varying our food daily. Many of us have a simple go-to meal, but the other meals in our day are varied. This makes sure we get our essential minerals and vitamins, fatty acids and enzymes. # When Things Go Wrong Keep tracking through the skid. Everything else is rather optional and opportunistic, but if we're tracking, then we haven't quit. Most important is not quitting.

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    loseit LoseIt: Lose the Fat The psychological weight loss strategy | Laurie Coots
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    I see your point. Perhaps so, we can also see that she has now used that experience and is distributing her experience for free and publicly on a video like this.

    She weighed 300 pounds, and is exposing that fact publicly. It is a fact that most people would be embarrassed about. She disclosed that she was an over-eater, a fact that some people might judge negatively.

    With data that is freely available and tools that are free for us to use, most of us can mimic her methods and achieve the same success.

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  • asklemmy Asklemmy Fill in the blank: I cannot complete the task(s) of __________ without listening to music.
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    Working out with weights

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    [Text from the video (her story, not my story)]

    So, that was me in 2006. I weighed over 300 pounds. I had triglycerides of 500, and I had just been diagnosed with type 2 diabetes.

    Now, type 2 diabetes is when your body doesn't use insulin properly, and I like to imagine it as this sugar sludge going through my bloodstream to the soundtrack of "Jaws." Like 29 million other Americans, I was sent home with a diet, a prescription, and a little booklet about my disease. As I dug into it, I learned a dirty little truth – two, actually.

    The first says that in America, if you're diagnosed with type 2 diabetes, you carry the same health risk as somebody who's already had one heart attack. The second is that the object of the game, unlike cancer or anything else, is to manage your diabetes, not cure you. So, your doctors will work very, very hard to try to prevent complications that might ruin the quality of your life or kill you.

    I knew that this was not going to work for me. I was a hard-charging type-A global executive, and managing my diabetes was not going to be an option. So, I enlisted the help of the people at Canyon Ranch in the medical department, who I knew were a little bit more ambitious.

    And here's what we learned on a lesson on a journey that actually took us five years. I learned that even though I was 300 pounds and had type 2 diabetes, my body was absolutely perfect the way it was – for the way I was feeding it, the way I was moving it, and the way I was resting it. Quite frankly, if I wanted a different body or I wanted different health, I had to change the equation somehow.

    The second thing I learned was that if I imagined my future healthy self and started living that life now – what kinds of foods I would eat, how many calories I would need to maintain a healthy weight for a lifetime – that would be the way I would achieve my goal. I had to come up with strategies that I could live with for two days, two weeks, two months, two years.

    Now, when you do this and you live this way, interesting things happen – like magic. You wake up two years later and you're almost at your goal. I learned that I had to keep track of everything. So, I used iPhone apps like "Lose It!" and I used my UP band to track how much sleep I was getting and how much exercise I was getting along the way. And this really helped me to keep the game kind of rational instead of emotional the way it can get.

    This was a big war. I had to break this down to the smallest battle I could win every day because I have a short attention span. I had to take it down to the cellular level – what would make my cells happier and healthier every single day. And with every drop of glucose or every drop of blood I fed into my glucose meter, I could tell immediately if I was moving in the right direction. I became my own science experiment, and I learned a lot.

    For example, when I didn't sleep or I jumped time zones or took a red-eye, my blood sugar was 20 points higher the next day and I craved carbohydrates. Well, I didn't need to eat; what I needed was a nap. Portions were always my biggest downfall. I come from the land of all-you-can-eat shrimp and endless platters of pasta. When somebody showed me what a real single portion of something was, it was a huge disconnect for me. So, I needed to really figure out how to do that.

    I started eating with smaller plates, eating with chopsticks to eat more slowly, and I promised myself I could have anything I wanted as long as I ate it with a knife and a fork. Trust me, it feels ridiculous to eat a Snickers bar like this, but it helped me be more conscious of what I was eating.

    I learned to be in perpetual motion all day, every day – looking for ways to move and to fidget because fidgeting can burn 200-300 calories a day. I counted steps, I got a standing desk, and I learned that my one hour of walking every day was as good for my head as it was for my body.

    And finally, life's too short to live without ice cream. When I was first diagnosed, I made a list of all my favorite foods, and I went and did a glycemic index with my glucose meter of each one. Then I went back to each food and I tweaked it, adding a little fat, removing a little sugar, until everything fit in my plan. And now, I plan for a perfect scoop of premium ice cream every day. What I learned is that, given half a shot, your body will recover. It's an amazing adaptive machine, self-healing. Mine did.

    I lost over 110 pounds. I now have a perfect lipid profile. I have had a healthy, normal blood sugar without medication for more than five years. I am no longer a type 2 diabetic. [Pause for applause] So, thank you very much.

    So, if any of you have a health issue that you need to deal with or a life change you need to deal with, I urge you to imagine your healthy future self and start living that life now. Break your journey down into little battles you can win. Become your own science experiment and come up with strategies that will last for two days or two years. And most of all, you need to start eating like your life depends on it because it does.

    (Transcript auto-generated by YouTube. Punctuation and paragraphs by ChatGPT.)

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    Movies and TV Shows funchords 1 year ago 84%
    Infinity (1996) www.youtube.com

    I recommend this. I found this rather unknown flick looking for something to watch with my YouTube Premium subscription. Rotten Tomatoes had it [on their list](https://editorial.rottentomatoes.com/guide/best-free-youtube-movies/). *Infinity* was directed and starred Matthew Broderick and was written by his mother, Patricia Broderick. With a $5 million budget, it earned less than $200,000 at the box office. The younger years of Nobel Prize-winning genius Richard Feynman is the background to this underrated love story. I don't know how these things work, but the ending credits make it look like a Broderick family indie project. Despite being formatted for a 4:3 TV, some of the New Mexico exteriors are lovely! [Free on YouTube Premium or with ads](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bb15oTBRlUQ) [Rotten Tomatoes](https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/1072683-infinity) 63% [IMDb](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0116635/) 6.1/10

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    loseit LoseIt: Lose the Fat The psychological weight loss strategy | Laurie Coots
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    All of this resonates with me.

    It didn't dawn on me right away that living like I was already at goal weight would result in goal weight in 2-3 years; that realization came later.

    Like her, I had diabetes type 2 and was losing from a weight of 300 lb. The diabetes has gone away and I've been free of it for 8 years. I weighed in this morning at 172.

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  • technology Technology Robbing Delivery Robots Is Now a Thing
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    I would disagree about your average because it’s brought down by people working multiple jobs

    No, as these are the numbers reported by worker's themselves (Robert Whaples's research) and not by their disparate employers. But looking at it as you suggested, it comes out to 34.3 hours.

    Here are two more views on it:

    https://ourworldindata.org/working-more-than-ever (world trends)

    https://www.stlouisfed.org/publications/regional-economist/january-2007/working-hard-or-hardly-working-the-evolution-of-leisure-in-the-united-states [dated]

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    The unemployment rates in the USA and Canada are both far below norms. These robots aren't taking anyone's irreplaceable job. Of all the things they are (ugly, intrusive, annoying), one of the things they're not doing is driving up unemployment. At worst, someone has to change jobs.

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    yet work more than any other time in history.

    My impression is that we're the most leisurely, per capita, than we've ever been. The average workweek now is 34 hours, down from 60-70 in the 1850s.

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    Unfortunately, I'm finding Lemmy 2023 just as shallow as Reddit 2023.

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  • startrek Star Trek Star Trek Just Weirdly Revived a Very Old Gene Roddenberry Original Series Idea
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    I've convinced myself that using his name practically in the title is about marketing. People watched it just because his name was on it.

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  • startrek Star Trek M*A*S*H in space?
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    One of Roddenberry's first series was called The Lieutenant which aired on NBC for a season -- until it was canceled due to a falling out between the Marines and the network over a race-based episode that nobody wanted but Roddenberry forced through (too preachy they worried). Episodes of this are available on YouTube and you will see some of the Trek stars that appeared in Where No Man has Gone Before.

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    World’s largest study shows the more you walk, the lower your risk of death, even if you walk fewer than 5,000 steps https://www.eurekalert.org/news-releases/997859

    World’s largest study shows the more you walk, the lower your risk of death, even if you walk fewer than 5,000 steps

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    Eating Your Way to Happiness | Ocean Robbins | TEDxAlexanderPark https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s47uAMakba0

    This is a 13 to 14 minute **TEDx** Talk by Ocean Robbins, a grandson of the Baskin-Robbins family, arguably the biggest names in ice cream. Quote: *What if we ask, not "What do we want NOW?" but "What do we want MOST?"* -- Ocean Robbins from **Eating Your Way to Happiness | Ocean Robbins | TEDxAlexanderPark** Edit: TEDx

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    De-Lurk: what's your story?

    Hello to my friends who are winning at losing! So what's your story? Are you just starting? Are you in the middle of your journey? Are you taking a pause? Are you in the final rounds? Have you been keeping it off for a while? Is this strictly a fat loss effort or are you working on fitness too? Any other self-improvement things going on right now? Are you doing this just with behavioral modification? Are you being assisted with some of the latest medications or surgeries available to us now? Let's get to know each other!

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    Just for today

    This was passed out at my [TOPS](http://www.tops.org/) meeting ... *** # Just for Today Just for today - I will stay on my diet. Just for today - I will write down everything I eat. Just for today - I will count calories and measure my food. Just for today - I will busy myself during my difficult times. Just for today - I will take the time to think about what I do before I do it. Just for today - I will be in control of the emotions that send me into the kitchen time and time again, searching for something that isn't there. Just for today - I will act like the intelligent person that I am, realizing that I am not perfect and that I can fail without the world coming to an end. AND IF I FAIL?. . . . . Well, just for today I will pickup the pieces and try again. *TOPS NEWS*, June 1981 *** Hope it helps someone... if even just for today.

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    How I stretched a Voila!-brand skillet meal and improved its nutrition at the same time.

    cross-posted from: https://lemmy.sdf.org/post/1422052 > We enjoy the Voila! Three Cheese Chicken from Birds Eye $6.49 But we add our own additional frozen vegetables (plain, 1 pound, Italian blend) and cubed boneless skinless chicken (marinated for a day, then cooked and cubed) to make it come out to about $2.25 per serving (4) and about 300 Calories. > > For $2.50 in the added ingredients, double the yield and improves the carbs, sodium, and protein. The calories are virtually identical. > > The 21 ounce Birds-Eye package says that it serves three, but in practice we find that it serves two. Add your own generic frozen veggies and cubed cooked chicken and you serve four. > > * [Original half-package nutrition](https://i.imgur.com/HeQvc8o.png) > * [Stretched-recipe nutrition](https://i.imgur.com/9Xz3ulM.png) > > * [Recipe](https://i.imgur.com/I2bkAOo.png)

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    How I stretched a Voila!-brand skillet meal and improved its nutrition at the same time.

    cross-posted from: https://lemmy.sdf.org/post/1422052 > We enjoy the Voila! Three Cheese Chicken from Birds Eye $6.49 But we add our own additional frozen vegetables (plain, 1 pound, Italian blend) and cubed boneless skinless chicken (marinated for a day, then cooked and cubed) to make it come out to about $2.25 per serving (4) and about 300 Calories. > > For $2.50 in the added ingredients, double the yield and improves the carbs, sodium, and protein. The calories are virtually identical. > > The 21 ounce Birds-Eye package says that it serves three, but in practice we find that it serves two. Add your own generic frozen veggies and cubed cooked chicken and you serve four. > > * [Original half-package nutrition](https://i.imgur.com/HeQvc8o.png) > * [Stretched-recipe nutrition](https://i.imgur.com/9Xz3ulM.png) > > * [Recipe](https://i.imgur.com/I2bkAOo.png)

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    Frugal funchords 1 year ago 100%
    How I stretched a Voila!-brand skillet meal and improved its nutrition at the same time.

    cross-posted from: https://lemmy.sdf.org/post/1422052 > We enjoy the Voila! Three Cheese Chicken from Birds Eye $6.49 But we add our own additional frozen vegetables (plain, 1 pound, Italian blend) and cubed boneless skinless chicken (marinated for a day, then cooked and cubed) to make it come out to about $2.25 per serving (4) and about 300 Calories. > > For $2.50 in the added ingredients, double the yield and improves the carbs, sodium, and protein. The calories are virtually identical. > > The 21 ounce Birds-Eye package says that it serves three, but in practice we find that it serves two. Add your own generic frozen veggies and cubed cooked chicken and you serve four. > > * [Original half-package nutrition](https://i.imgur.com/HeQvc8o.png) > * [Stretched-recipe nutrition](https://i.imgur.com/9Xz3ulM.png) > > * [Recipe](https://i.imgur.com/I2bkAOo.png)

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    How I stretched a Voila!-brand skillet meal and improved its nutrition at the same time.

    We enjoy the Voila! Three Cheese Chicken from Birds Eye $6.49 But we add our own additional frozen vegetables (plain, 1 pound, Italian blend) and cubed boneless skinless chicken (marinated for a day, then cooked and cubed) to make it come out to about $2.25 per serving (4) and about 300 Calories. For $2.50 in the added ingredients, double the yield and improves the carbs, sodium, and protein. The calories are virtually identical. The 21 ounce Birds-Eye package says that it serves three, but in practice we find that it serves two. Add your own generic frozen veggies and cubed cooked chicken and you serve four. * [Original half-package nutrition](https://i.imgur.com/HeQvc8o.png) * [Stretched-recipe nutrition](https://i.imgur.com/9Xz3ulM.png) * [Recipe](https://i.imgur.com/I2bkAOo.png)

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    How American Food Has Changed Over the Last 50 Years www.aarp.org

    This article gives a history of how our food environment changed in recent decades, just as our waistlines started to increase.

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    Local Hero (1983) www.youtube.com

    This enchanting comedy takes place in Scotland and America, and is full of character quirks that are engaging and charming. The humor is infectious. It was nearly two hours well spent with people who were fascinating and made you smile and laugh, and appreciate a life different than your own. Burt Lancaster has a supporting role in this in a character unlike any I've ever seen from him. To say that it is out there a bit is to foreshadow, and I won't spoil it (and the role didn't spoil it, either). I subscribe to You-Tube Premium and this was one of the free movies that came with the deal. There have been two DVD releases of this title so your local library probably has it too. On Rotten Tomatoes, the Critics universally loved this movie and the Audience Score agreed 87%.

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    Exercise may or may not help you lose weight and keep it off – here's the evidence for both sides of the debate theconversation.com

    This is an excellent article highlighting both sides of the divide... - on one side, the classical *Physical Activity Level* view that we can add up exercise calories from the *Compendium Of Exercise Activities* in the same way as we add up calories in; and - on the other, observations and some controlled studies that show that exercise calories eventually settle down to be in a relatively constrained range, or at least far diminished from what the caloric estimates of the activity say that they should be Starting from 298 lb, about 135 kg, I walked for exercise and when MyFitnessPal awarded calories for that exercise, I ate them. Despite eating them, I lost weight at the predicted range and sometimes better than the predicted rate in MFP profile. But after 9 months, it was apparent that all of that walking was paying off less and less. In part, it made sense, because I was walking around a much smaller body by then (having lost 105 lb or about 45 kg). But now, 9 years later, my exercise which has remained active moves the needle slightly. My present day TDEE and my calculated TDEE for a sedentary body with my stats are very nearly the same. Of course, moving around burns more calories than not moving at all. The constrained model does not argue that. It's simply indicates that there are compensatory shifts in energy that result in a overall calorie output that is far less than we think it ought to be based on our calculators and our fitness watches. None of this should be interpreted to say that we should not exercise for our body's fitness and health. And like I said up top, it did help me during the weight loss phase as far as I could tell. We certainly cannot diet our body strong, and exercise can even function as an appetite suppressant. Many of us have already been looking at these exercise calories reported by our wearables with some huge grain of salt. This article explains why.

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    Movies and TV Shows funchords 1 year ago 83%
    The Nice Guys (2016)

    Currently on Netflix. The movie got nearly universal positive professional reviews and scored a 79% audience rating on Rotten Tomatoes. This movie stars Ryan Gosling and Russell Crowe as investigators of the disappearance of somebody named Amelia (Margaret Qualley). It is very hard to care about anybody in this film as they all pretty much are terrible people. It is practically a farce parade and I kept waiting for someone to care about and any reason to care. Finally after about 60 minutes, I asked my spouse if he was getting into this at all. After about five more minutes he also was in the same space: enough is enough, turn it off.

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    The Four Feathers (2002)

    Last night, I watched *The Four Feathers* movie starring Heath Ledger, Wes Bentley, Djimon Hounsou and Kate Hudson. This is one of those movies that the critics were lukewarm about but the audience seemed to love better than that. Count me among those lovers. It is an exquisitely done period piece based on a novel. Not only is the photography stunning, but the story is well told. The feathers in the title are from an old tradition of shaming cowardice by handing the purported coward a white feather. To say anymore would be moving into spoiler territory. The movie is a little more than two hours, well spent in my opinion. In the USA, I found this on Paramount Plus.

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    Frugal funchords 1 year ago 90%
    Charlotte father says son was detained at Florida airport [for skiplagging] before having to purchase a new ticket https://www.qcnews.com/news/local-news/father-says-son-was-detained-at-airport-before-having-to-purchase-a-new-ticket/

    > The purchased flight was from Gainesville, Florida to New York City with a layover in Charlotte. The plan was for the teen to get off the plane in Charlotte where he lives. [... more in the article ...] I fly rarely these days but skiplagging has always been tempting. Has anyone here done it?

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    In the news: Most patients using weight-loss drugs like Wegovy stop within a year https://www.reuters.com/business/healthcare-pharmaceuticals/most-patients-using-weight-loss-drugs-like-wegovy-stop-within-year-data-show-2023-07-11/

    Article: [Exclusive: Most patients using weight-loss drugs like Wegovy stop within a year, data show](https://www.reuters.com/business/healthcare-pharmaceuticals/most-patients-using-weight-loss-drugs-like-wegovy-stop-within-year-data-show-2023-07-11/) - Reuters, 11 July 2023 [Wayback Link](https://web.archive.org/web/20230711125108/https://www.reuters.com/business/healthcare-pharmaceuticals/most-patients-using-weight-loss-drugs-like-wegovy-stop-within-year-data-show-2023-07-11/) Some lede and pullquotes for basic facts just in case you hit a paywall: > Only about one-third of patients prescribed a popular weight-loss drug like Novo Nordisk’s Wegovy were still taking it a year later [...] > The analysis by [...] reviewed pharmacy and medical claims data for 4,255 people with commercial health plans. They had all received new prescriptions of the drugs from a class known as GLP-1 agonists between January and December 2021, and had a diagnosis of obesity, prediabetes or a body mass index of 30 or higher. > Overall, 32% of the patients were still taking the medicine for weight loss a year after their initial prescription [...] and the results did not differ materially based which of the drugs was prescribed > Patrick Gleason [...] a co-author of the analysis, said this real-world data suggests a substantial drop in adherence compared to what was reported in clinical trials. In trials with adults, Novo found that 6.8% of patients taking Wegovy discontinued treatment due to gastrointestinal problems and other adverse events. > Prime did not ask patients why their prescriptions stopped. [...] All the patients had insurance coverage for GLP-1 drugs. This article is very interesting to me and prompts the question, why are people stopping? Were you prescribed one of these drugs, did you stop taking it?

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    My Google Pixel 6a is a good replacement for the Pixel 3 -- small enough, and great battery life

    I hung on to the Pixel 3 for a very long time because I was very turned off by the thought of carrying any larger of a phone. There simply was nothing on the current market smaller or the same size as the Pixel 3. After I simply had no choice, I did it. I'm pleased to report that the 6a does a good job as a replacement for the 3. It is a little bigger by every dimension: * Pixel 3: 5.73 x 2.69 x 0.31 inches (145.6 x 68.2 x 7.9 mm) * Pixel 6a: 5.99 x 2.83 x 0.35 inches (152.2 x 71.8 x 8.9mm) The pocket feel is the same and I'm quickly used to it. The battery life is amazing compared to the Pixel 3 (2915 mAh vs 4410 mAh). One of the best things, though, was the upgrade path was so easy. Within the hour, everything was synced and in their right places on my screen. There were only a few "Save to Home Screen" Firefox browser shortcuts that I had to recreate. I'm hoping to have this another 2-3 years when I'll buy another Pixel, again hoping for one that is small and comfortable in my pocket.

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    LoseIt: Lose the Fat funchords 1 year ago 100%
    On Weight-Loss Plateaus

    I got my first plateau, of 9 days (an arbitrary number, there is no official one), in the middle third of my 9-month weight-loss. There were three of them, about 3-4 weeks apart. Don't expect to avoid plateaus. The body is a system of systems and its main composition component is water. When we are very large, we often will have a bodyfat% of 35-45 (Obese male) instead of 18-24 (Normal male). The amount of water our body is using or storing at this present moment is a percentage that is always changing, but it is 60% when we are normal bodyfat% and less when we are higher (bodyfat contains very little water). So, when those upward water fluctuations happen in a body with obesity, they don't affect the downward trend of our fat loss as much as when those fluctuations happen in a body of normal weight. Therefore, someone with a smaller weight body will get plateaus more often than someone with a higher weight body. You may read in articles about the body fighting back against losses. That's true, but if we are tracking and managing our deficit to be both accurate and substantial, then this fighting back doesn't affect us. The hormonal signals of the body defending a set point would normally cause us to eat more if we were depending on those signals. But we, thanks to tracking and measuring our food, are keeping up our deficit despite those signals. So the things to do: 1. Ensure your program is *right* and *tight.* *Right* in that you still have a pronounced deficit (-500 to -1000 against your current TDEE based on your current stats). *Tight* in that your tracking is 100% itemized including the oft-forgotten condiments, cooking oils, salad add-ons and dressings, and all the little things and that those things are well estimated. 2. Occasionally take a 10-14 day period at maintenance. This helps restore order to your metabolism and your psychology. The body, like much of nature, needs tension *and release*. I took 3 such periods in 9 months, usually connected to some travel or major holiday. I kept up on exercise and tracking, all the normal things, but at maintenance calories instead of deficit calories. https://bodyrecomposition.com/fat-loss/the-full-diet-break explains the rationale and how-to. 3. Expect more plateaus more often as you get closer to goal weight. Expecting them helps us be mentally ready. 4. Ride them out. If you're doing all these things, then assign plateaus to the body doing its watery thing. Nothing is wrong. This is expected and healthy. Sometimes it helps to manage our patience with the thought that at goal weight, our effort becomes to maintain one life-long plateau at goal weight. * https://www.mayoclinic.org/healthy-lifestyle/weight-loss/in-depth/weight-loss-plateau/art-20044615 * https://health.clevelandclinic.org/weight-loss-plateau/ Edit: changed rational to rationale

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    Cottage Cheese Makes a Comeback https://www.nytimes.com/2023/07/07/well/eat/cottage-cheese-health-benefits.html?unlocked_article_code=YCLtu16ADLbRvhziMyf4rYr8vcCaWBVmUxrcq7TEQYVUo-kjoqN5lvk--i4PNuEqDa45_G8zuDQ1rwd0RT1YO_CypMDVVTfkT98m2rwuzUrZs7gh6CtxwvNTZ7E2XiA03OU58q92Xl18y2yI8dF7AR1g_czSwsdvm_WEaFzxywkpGkCrWqfRl_zTZ6hPmSO61aJcf0l5Y4NozZ1GmRSgczcwwN_23xr5VxmTEpjdTf1ZOuWN7KRQ6kKV4gI_fZ_bbUvrPDvZSufBewiUqmVXjbqHDNoukdOhTYnHifiZYmXOGukMXihGPkMmn-104koRj-B51jUU8P_ZFkY7PqEGfwNVE_17LrsRtyE&smid=url-share

    For those not in the USA/Canada, [Cottage Cheese](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cottage_cheese) may be known as something else in your country or may not be there at all. Also similar to Curds and Whey, Rögös túró, Requeijão da Beira Baixa, Serra da Estrela, and Katiki Domokou. Over the decades, it's popularity has been fading as flavored and plain yogurts have soared, but now Cottage Cheese is making a comeback!

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    5 years - Keep Off Pounds Sensibly (KOPS) https://imgur.com/a/xXY72mC

    This is the award I received for 5 years of maintenance from [Take Off Pounds Sensibly](https://tops.org/), a old and relatively unknown non-profit, non-commercial support group for weight loss with local chapters (IRL meetings) in the USA and Canada (and, recently, there are some online chapters with no borders). Each year is recognized with a gold number pin and 5-year increments are recognized with a jeweled pin like this. I'm now 8 years maintaining, working on that 10-year pin. I've been attending since 2014.

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    It’s Time to End the Tyranny of Ultra-Processed Food www.wired.com

    cross-posted from: https://kbin.social/m/news/t/121990 > Industrially processed pizzas, cereals, and convenience foods are responsible for a host of diseases. Policymakers and doctors need to lead the food fight.

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    Massachusetts funchords 1 year ago 100%
    Hello from Cape Cod

    Hey, we're all glad you're here visiting us! Please leave your frustrations on the other side of the bridge. You can relax and drive like a local -- slow and cool. Let the winding roads beckon you. Don't ask us for tunnel information. It's for residents only.

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    Eat YOUR foods

    **We should be working in our favorite meals** into our daily diet -- using portion control and our food data to learn how to make them lighter (if necessary). For eating right to be a habit that we keep doing forever, it has to include our favorite foods and our personal and family traditions. Otherwise, it's just another temporary diet that will end in regain once it is over.

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    Recaps, Highlights, Lowlights, Feats of the Day, Self-Commitments, Primal Screams -- How ya doing LoseIt?

    Recapping my week -- logged 7/7 days, doing well staying in the low half of my maintenance leeway, summer humidity is here. Keepin' weight off! Keepin' activity up! Finally stopped ignoring the literal weeds in my literal garden and put in 45 minutes of weeding in lieu of walking -- now 2 days in a row. Fewer steps on the counter but the body still got it (and the garden needed it). Who's lurking? How was your week? Let's hear it!

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    RiF let me participate, even moderate, from my hospital bed

    Back in 2015, I was in the hospital for two weeks, trying not to die (again), and I couldn't have a laptop but I had my phone. Reddit was possible due to RiF. Thanks so much for it.

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    sdfpubnix funchords 1 year ago 95%
    Subscribe pending! (from lemmy.world communities)

    Anyone else have a few communities stuck in "Subscribe pending" for days and days? Does this need manual intervention? (New to Lemmy) Edit 6/28/2023: I went poking around lemmy.world and they're definitely having federation problems that are being discussed in their local communities. It's not a problem with this SDF instance.

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    Trying to connect to community on another server, but 'not found'

    I'm new to lemmy. When I search for !loseit@discuss.tchncs.de I get a `No results.` error. It does exist. Other `discuss.tchncs.de` communities come up when I search just that string. Is it something I'm doing wrong? EDIT: Working now. It seems it just needs time to reach out and do things. Not an intuitive experience at all -- feels broken -- but it eventually does function.

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