Those things are ADHD honeypots. I have never experienced something that is so close to hard drugs before.

I study mechatronics in Germany and I don’t avoid it. I have yet to meet a single person who is avoiding it. I have made tremendous progress learning with it. But that is mostly the case because my professors refuse to give solutions for the seminars. Learning is probably the only real advantage that I have seen yet. If you don’t use it for cheating or shorcuts, which is of course a huge problem. But getting answers to problems, getting to ask specific follow up questions and most of all researching and getting to the right information faster (through external links from AI) has made studying much more efficient and enjoyable for me.

I don’t like the impact on society AI is having bur personally it has really helped me so far. (discounting the looming bubble crises and the market effect it is having on memory f.e.)

I think it’s an interesting fantasy to entertain. But you have to be careful not to use it to compensate for feeling like a bad parent when you fail at more mundane but real ways to care for you kids. I only say this because anyone I have ever heard say this more than once, gave me the impression to be compensating for something. Because they were not really in the best of life circumstances with their family. I include my own parents in this, who often madw hypotheticals like this, but were and are never there for me when I actually need them. So I try not to boast about hypotheticals with my own kid.

But you do raise an interesting point with the abandonment of pets.

I would 100%. But I will add my opinion to this statement.

Taking a bullet ist such an extremely rare circumstance (especially if you live in a safe country) it will never ever happen in my life. It’s just a cheap statement to make yourself feel good. And I despise it when parents say it who I don’t feel make a good effort to support their kids in day to day life. Your kid does not benefit from a hypothetical life sacrifice. It benefits from your daily support, work and effort as a parent every day though.

This seems very specific to the USA.

Crying in german. Multiple friends of mine who live in city centers of huge cities still have 16Mbit connections.

Yeah laws or very specialized tools/Maschines can get crazy, but I think our lawmakers are also trolling sometimes with the long titles.

The most german thing is to read that no problem at the first try. But our language is cheating with the combining words thing.

https://www.ray-ban.com/germany/electronics/RW4006ray-ban | meta wayfarer-schwarz/8056597988377

Yes they do

Terrible headline.

Lol this would actually be legal in germany. If you are severely disabled you can get a prescription prostitute paid for by your healthcare provider. Makes sense if you ask me, everyone need some human connection.

Sony has never been a consumer friendly brand. This is a bad move.

In my personal experience people judge it to be more like 25-100%. But I stand by 200kcal being nothing. It’s not a make it or break it kind of difference. 200kcal more doesn’t make someone obese or even fat. If you over eat by 200kcal a day it will take a long time to get fat and you will have years to intervene with a slight change that will fix it. And that would only be in the most extreme case. For most people we are talking about much less than 200kcal. If you have actually only a differnce of let’s say 50kcal from the median and cite that as a reason for being over or underweight it’s just wrong. But I have seen people use it as a reason so many times.

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/15534426/

“In humans, the coefficient of variation in the components of total daily energy expenditure is around 5-8% for resting metabolic rate.”

That is nothing. That means the most extreme examples of this would be 200-300kcal. It’s often just used as an excuse for a bad diet. And people believing in this myth is hindering them in making informed decisions.

You can see this in the netherlands. Barely any cars on the road compared to germany. I sometimes need to deliver items there for work and it’s so much nicer to drive there. Also you are always punctual because traffic is so predictable.

The effects are not significant. They barely make a dent in what you can eat. Thyroid and other illnesses impacts appetite though.

Fast metabolism isn’t even a thing really. It has been proven to be pretty insignificant.

Yourjokebutworse

Schwalbe at least takes old tires back to recycle them. I can hand mine in at my bike shop. Maybe other brands have something similar.

Jesus christ that is appaling. What stupid fucking vehicles.