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Slightly tangential, but does anyone have a good crash course intro guide to ad ops?

"But your depression isn't /real/ depression^(tm)"

Stop it with the depression olympics nonsense. That doesn't help anyone. Your depression isn't an identity and it can't be appropriated.

Furthermore, while you think you're putting out a defense of those with /real/ deression^(tm), you may actually be doing harm, because you might cause those with depression to feel even worse as they could start thinking of themselves as impostors.

Fundamental algorithms are like elegant math equations. Like a fine wine, they taste better without a mountain of sugar in an absurd college party concoction involving 5 other alcohols and some pineapple for shirts and giggles.

Disagree. With regard to fundamental algorithms, I think it's objectively easier to read with single letter variables.

They're not making an argument about whether women are on par with men in terms of physical performance. They're making an argument along the lines that it's not abnormal for women to be conscripted along side men.

The determination for duties that would be performed based on physical fitness is to be had after conscription.

Steroids are not recommended in boys still going through puberty. The surge in testosterone from the puberty itself is enough to provide this effect, because you take advantage of peak test production to produce more muscular nuclei.

This is probably also why my chest is overdeveloped compared to my back, because I was doing hundreds of pushups back then while neglected any sense of balance sadly.

I may be mistaken, but I don't think there's dairy in the carnivore diet. Just meat, organs, and maybe bone marrow? Also, I'm not sure why you would think that burger buns and potato chips are so irresistible as to doubt people don't eat those things?

Spam robo calls consist of more than just spoofed numbers. Maybe you've been blessed with good luck in that regard, but I receive both variants of spam.

I've stopped answering my phone completely unless the number is in my contacts. If I plan to communicate with anyone (recruiters, etc.) I make it explicit that I won't answer their call unless they give me the number they'll be calling from ahead of time, and then I tell them I'll place them in my contacts with that number.

My hope is that this is training these individuals to be more aware of the issue, assuming they've forgotten about it due to being desensitized or using some paid caller ID spam service that not everyone has access to for lack of funds.

I've also long turned off my voice mail; it's just a waste of time.

I don't know. To be honest, I'm a tad curious. The prospect of memes comparing him to Johnny Sins and subsequent bezos / Amazon porn parodies seems humorous.

Probably more to do with the fact that there's so much high quality porn on the internet that we're honestly desensitized to amateur quality celeb nudes. Briefly intriguing, but overall rather "meh?"

Granted, I could just be projecting, but I don't think I'm alone here.

This isn't new. There was an episode of Scrubs that brought up patient donations.

"And who’s moving in right now to pick through the scraps? Hedge funds. They’ve destroyed several papers, and are working their way through some biggies like the Denver Post."

Uh, wat? Am I mistaken, or does that not make sense? Since when are hedge funds involved in corporate plundering? I think he's getting "hedge fund" confused with private equity and venture capital, no?

That being said, is it that the venture capital firms are picking through the scraps or that these web media companies are not grown organically, which is why we're seeing massive layoffs. They operate mostly on venture capital and haven't been making a profit ... at least not directly; who knows what stories have been generated for the sake of some other business dealings elsewhere; a sort of accounting trick where losses are incurred in one area for the sake of profit in another area.

Conspiratorial? Yeah, but not unlikely.

EDIT: To add on to this, lately these brands have been tarnished, so perhaps one could speculate that those wielding the venture capital are downsizing to work on new brands going into the 2020 election season; brands not tainted by a loss of trust.

Honestly, I have no clue. That's a question for the security experts on Twitter.

Don't tell me; tell the folks on Twitter. I was surprised as well. Quite a few of them took the "You don't need to code" side.

#NotAllSecurityExperts

Only pointing that out, because apparently this was a big deal on Twitter a couple weeks back, where one group of experts were arguing that you weren't a real security expert without being able to code, and the other group arguing the contrary.

I'm not a hoarder; I just see the potential for a future use that I don't quite know of for these cardboard boxes and paper rolls. Never know when you'll need a lot of cardboard ...

Dark roasts are easier on the stomach than light roasts as the roasting process reduces the acidity of the resultant brew.

We can call it "Sidar"; play on the word cider, and the logo for the company or brand would be a jar of cider with an eye floating in it.

Can you cite a source or describe what you mean by "our creativity"?

Is that like when I hear a British person speak and I just want to smother them in hugs and squeeze their cheeks saying "YOU'RE SO ADORABLE!"?

EDIT: Joking about self control aside, I don't think I'll stop smiling for a long while afterwards if I ever visit England.

Oh yeah, I was more referring to the string of events that led to the realization that you might need a brain scan vs. just being prescribed something. I imagine there is an interesting story to be told here regarding your experiences with the medical system leading up to that point?

I don't mean to prod too much; just curious.

Wouldn't it be simpler to have a Terms of Service that voids the warranty of code being misused by bypassing the given API?

I mean, not every software problem has to be solved with software.

What problem do private fields solve?

How did you find out about the size of your amygdala?

Just want to note for the record that I wasn't making a quality claim about aspirin; just noting additional information regarding salicylic acid.

Yes. Also the active ingredient in Wart remover, though at higher concentrations (2% for stridex and 17% for wart remover). Good at melting skin I guess.

My comment wasn't against not eating / drinking sweet thing things. My comment was anti-anti-sweet things (which is not the same as pro-sweet things in certain systems of logic)

One doesn't need to have an addiction to sweet things to want to enjoy sweet things every once in a while, though I admit that "addictions" to sweet things exist (namely my father, whom I have a hard time breaking him away from that addiction).

The point was mainly that there is a certain brand of health and fitness that says one must suffer / become a stoic ascetic in order to make progress, and it's this brand of health and fitness that is counter productive. Yes, maybe it works for many people, but it doesn't work for everyone.

I'm perfectly happy living a rather Spartan life; my 70 year old father is not and it's very difficult to change his stubborn mind.

Another way of putting it is that if you say that the only way to health and fitness is to climb over this 50 ft. wall, then you're going to get far fewer people actually putting in the effort to do so. Artificial Sweeteners are the large hand holds on the climbing wall, before they're ready to switch over.

And yes, if your goal is body recomposition, then macronutrition and caloric intake is far more important than this "artificial sweeteners make you fatter" voodoo magic nonsense.

This is an important note. Thank you for pointing this out. It seems like a lot of people here are arguing that this study reaffirms prior studies, when in reality I think they were thinking of this study as the one being re-affirmed without realizing it.

The difference is that one choice of sweetener is inherently bad for those trying to lose weight, while the other choice of sweetener puts the burden of fault for weight gain on a lack of self control.

We're humans. Not wanting to eat bitter food all the time is natural and should not be faulted. Losing weight shouldn't have to be a strenuous ascetic chore, so choosing to consume something sweet isn't the mental failing; the mental failing is choosing to choose something calorically and macro-nutritionally incorrect for one's body recomposition goals.