I’m guessing this is a piefed problem (I’m not a user there) but Lemmy.world has been great for me. My suggestion is using lemmy.world and dabbling in piefed. Piefed will need a bit of time I’m assuming.

What I’m talking about but maybe didn’t do a very good job of explaining is metabolic adaptation. It can take months before your body adjusts, before you figure out what calorie deficit is needed and it varies wildly from person to person. Our brains can burn calories to be more creative or slow down to preserve ideal body weight. Which can negate a wide amount of calorie usage. https://www.sydney.edu.au/news-opinion/news/2023/07/05/its-time-to-bust-the-calories-in-calories-out-weight-loss-myth.html

The big difference is the effect of a calorie for each person differs. How the body chooses to burn a calorie differs. If person A reduces their diet by 3000 calories in a week they might lose a pound. Person B might not. CICO is literally thermodynamics, you’re very right. How our bodies react to thermodynamics varies quite a bit.

That absolutely makes sense. Friendica isn’t exactly the friendliest to get going.

Since you very likely did the research, what brought you to Humhub instead of Friendica?

There was a lot of adrenaline needed to get through it. I very much don’t suggest anyone ever do it.

I once worked for 32 hours straight in a print shop to get a project out the door. Print shops (especially then) were fucking insane pressure cookers. The same intensity as an ER only stupid because instead of lives being on the line it was money. A lot of money, but just money. Early 00’s, everything was output on film back then. Had a weird error in an image that was used throughout a catalog. Normally, you could send a working signature through to the press, but the image was in every signature except the cover. I tried every possible trick I knew to get it to work, output film to test it, back to the drawing board. But yeah, 32 hours straight on this one thing. Finished up at around 4am, drove home but just kind of kept driving. Slightly delirious. Parked on top of a ridge off the shoulder and watched the sun come up. Went home and slept for I don’t even know how long.

Data centers will consume…

No, data centers that are slated to be built say they’ll consume. If they don’t get built because they run out of funding or the bubble bursts, then they won’t consume. They’re trying really fucking hard to make fetch happen.

My Boomer mom wouldn’t even show up to my sporting events. I feel taking a bullet isn’t in the cards.

He’s using Darth Vader logic. Classic.

That’s federal immunity. Doesn’t apply to state crimes.

The Man Who Invented Christmas has quickly become a favorite. I’ve always been a sucker for A Christmas Carol and love every iteration of it. Especially the Muppets and Scrooged. But this is a new take on it with the focus on the writing of the book. “And Tiny Tim who DID NOT die…”

It’s thought that al pastor came about because of Lebanese refugees in Mexico. So yeah, pretty much exactly.

New friend-making skill acquired!

Seriously, who wouldn’t do this if we could?

Get under your desk with your hands on your head. Get inside a fridge from the 40’s or earlier. Do a journal entry. Make a pose that will leave future scientists confused as hell.

Be interested = be interesting. Go do shit. Any shit. Join social causes. Figure out what you’re passionate about and figure out how to join others in doing it. People are attracted to passion. If what you’re interested in doesn’t have any social avenues where you’re at, start it up. Create a Facebook page or group for it (or something better than Facebook but it’s unfortunately the most useful in my area).

He’s like the mesothelioma of sexual partners.

It was a good video and I knew nothing of that bit of history. That asshole cyclist reminded me so much of my Jr High environmental science teacher. The same kind of magnanimous attitude.