I am a much smaller frame, 5’11 @ 180 lbs. When I quit drinking, I was up to 250lbs for a bit, but I just stopped eating as much and I lost the weight. Even when I got a belly a time or two before that, I never went on a diet: I adjusted my habits completely. (Or just drank more black coffee… Not a healthy option, but it was an option that suppressed hunger and got me out of the get-hungry-more-because-I-was-eating-more cycle.)

These days, I just run. Cardio can really suck ass at times, but it works wonders. Once you get into extended aerobic exercise, your body has to burn fat for energy at higher rates. (I am absolutely lacking on the anaerobic side of things except for the sprints I do every week.)

Big, small, tall or short, your body needs protein. It needs more protein when you work out. Whey protein is the “gold standard”, but usually because it’s effective and usually a good value. Hydrolyzed protein is easier for your body to take in because it’s (essentially) partially digested proteins. (It’s easier on my stomach as well, which is why I take it.)

I would speculate that your protein intake calculation is not going to be near what you think it will be, or even close to what the interwebs will tell you (it’s all weight based calculations) until you get your fat to muscle ratio closer to whatever a “normal” ratio is so take that into account.

You didn’t ask for any opinion of mine, so take this with a grain of salt. It’s just my thoughts on supplementation in general, but you do you.

My method for adjusting any system is to establish a stable baseline first, before all else. If the system is stabilizing or going through massive changes, tuning that system for performance is the last thing on my list.

Supplements didn’t make sense to me until I actually started to need them and had some kind of stable system to work with after months of learning to run again. By all means, supplement but supplement when it is measurably effective. (Protein powder is expensive for what it is, and you shouldn’t just literally piss it out if your body doesn’t need it.)

Your description aligns perfectly with his past behavior and it isn’t an anomaly. What you are likely seeing are instance bans where users are banned from multiple communities because of actions his fragile snowflake ass considered hostile. (I was instance banned from .ml for comments on another instance, I speculate. I had already blocked .ml before my ban so I didn’t even notice.)

What really confuses me is that he spends a fuck ton of time developing Lemmy as a free and open platform for the world, but runs one of the most restrictive instances on Lemmy. (The irony, is that he is following the exact pattern of how communism can never evolve past a dictatorship. Hommie is also a fairly rabid tankie.)

The fuck hasn’t realized that if he has to spend so much time banning people it might actually be him that’s the problem. Alas, no. You cannot tell a tankie they are wrong because it simply doesn’t compute.

Nobody said anything about taking a shower.

Companies these days do what is right for their shareholders and if Claude makes money, or appears to make money, then the shareholders are happy.

You are supposed to eat the pie, not have someone rub it all over your bits, but you do you, friend. Far be it from me to kink-shame.

Who votes for the Supreme Leaders of North Korea? The prime minister?

Japan seems to be having more success: https://www.futura-sciences.com/en/this-new-japanese-weapon-can-neutralize-the-fastest-machine-ever-created_17488/

Still, the technical challenges are exactly the same. While I can’t find many more details, it being ship mounted is a significant step forward and it seems to imply that some of the more serious issues have been solved. (A demonstration is just a demonstration and anything other than it being able to hit a target ship is just speculation.)

The art of war is extremely complex and there is no way to cover everything in one Lemmy comment.

However, I can summarize: An attacker or defender simply needs to prevent the opposing side from being able to support a war.

While there are thousands of different things that can support war, it usually boils down to raw manpower, food/supplies, weapons, energy, logistics and communications. Failing to defend, or not having the capability to replenish/repair those things is usually a quick game-over as those items are highly dependent on the other. Anything that supports those key items is a target of the enemy, so those are the things that are stockpiled, fortified or should be rebuilt quickly.

There are some fairly beast defense lines just past Pokrovsk the Ukraine has had plenty of time to build. Hopefully it works as advertised.

Both Russia and Iran build the drones, even if Russia is building the majority now. (I would speculate that the Iranian versions are much better quality.)

000, 666 and 900-999 are invalid area numbers and any digit group of all zeros is also invalid. Thanks for playing!

From the research papers I have read, psychedelics introduce a degree of neuroplasticity that allows psychotherapy to more effective. (I cannot speak to what types of psychotherapy would be more effective than another as I do not know or understand the differences.)

I attribute my use of psychedelics to helping me through my alcohol addiction. While it wasn’t guided therapy, it was still very controlled and allowed me to “rewrite” how I interpreted feelings and how I handled a variety of different situations. My hallucinations allowed my feelings to become more tangible and physical. I felt I had the opportunity to think differently about difficult parts of my life.

I suspect proper guidance is similar to what I did to myself: Have a person describe situations and the therapist proposes different ways to interpret those situations. The brain is able to physically form new pathways and sidestep old behaviors.

I am making a slightly different point and have a bias to this perspective: https://www.legis.iowa.gov/docs/publications/SD/19230.pdf

I am saying that an SSN can be part of a larger validation scheme, not the only key to the castle. Specifically for government sites, SSNs can be linked to IRS data to verify places of last residence. A person generally needs to verify multiple items that are referenced by the SSN before basic authentication can be established and set by the user. (This is part of the full Authentication, Authorization and Access Control triad.)

An SSN is just a broad level identifier. If you look at many laws around the release of SSNs, the redaction is usually in place to prevent the linking of different documents and other data points.

If I released my SSN in this chat, I could be fully doxxed in a matter of seconds. It’s mainly because there are many legal systems in place that use an SSN as a primary key, of sorts. (It’s a bit more than that, as SSNs can be duplicated in some circumstances.)

So to say, at a high level, an SSN is considered private is absolutely correct. However, it’s so easily referenced and obtainable it really isn’t fully private either.

If I was to generate a full list of every possible SSN in the US (which I have done, multiple times), that list is effectively useless to anyone who obtains a copy of it. So, by itself, an SSN is effectively public.

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SSNs are generally considered public information but how the SSN is linked to other information is usually the more difficult bit to find and it’s generally pay-walled. (Any jackass with a business license and a credit card can usually buy background check information for ‘hiring’.)

But no, it shouldn’t be solely used for authentication. That is just dumb. However, it can be used as part of a larger verification and validation scheme while building authentication/authorization profiles. In most systems that I have seen that use full or partial SSNs, it is always linked to several other identifiers that need to match.

Update: “Blur” will not save and will revert to “Hide”. “Show” seems to save.

Random other settings not being saved, like seeing down votes on posts. That one is weird. It takes a while to revert, but it always eventually will.

69% of developers report losing 8+ hours weekly to inefficiencies—20% of their time (Atlassian, 2024)

Yep. If there is any company that knows what it takes to drive inefficiencies, it’s Atlassian. (Fuck them and their software.)

If you think that’s crazy, you need to read this: https://www.arebirdsreal.com/

Mods still catch quite a bit of spam, which needs to be removed. Mods should also be able to manage their communities as they see fit unless they break the instance rules. It’s not ideal to have comment removal, but it’s what we got. (TBH, it seems you underestimate the dedication to shit posting that some trolls have.)

I also just watched this PBS video: https://youtu.be/HxpkOym11pw