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Not just salary - H1B are also good at following orders, because if they lose their job, they will get deported.

It’s tragic, but “Nearly all the other patients have type 2.”

Type 2 diabetes is entirely manageable in modern society, and in some cases can be reversed. The article barely mentions that and places responsibility entirely at the feet of the NHS and political funding. That’s not the entire story, is it? To be blunt - there’s people in the UK who are acquiring a disease that could result in amputation, and could be prevented by eating vegetables and going for a walk and they’re saying “nah, I’m good”. Sometimes, it’s not entirely the government’s job.

Humans build with wood - furniture, houses.

Big, old trees have “no value” in capitalism, because they can’t be processed in industrial mills into furniture or house material.

Solution is to cut them down, turn them into paper, and use the land to grow new trees (“See how environmentally friendly we are?”) which can be used for industrial purposes.

It happens wherever there’s old trees and no protection and it makes me so sad. They’ll never grow back. There’s too much pollution, even if we gave them the time.

Station wagons are for mommies in the 1980s; all the cool kids want SUV and pickups.

So car manufacturers made station wagons with upright seating positions and “off road” styling and called them Crossovers.

I honestly don’t think you can go wrong as long as you avoid the battery and robot models (I’m just suspicious of their longevity). I have the blizzard cx1. I’m happy with it; it doesn’t feel as robust as the Mieles from the early 00s that other family members have but I trust/hope that their engineers didn’t overdo the optimization. The hose has a tendency to get twisted and developed a bit of a kink where it goes into the unit.

There is another model that’s smaller, which I would prefer given the choice, because my house is tiny and doesn’t even have closet space for a vacuum.

As far as I know, the Allergy or Pet etc. models are the same, just have some different accessories.

Be aware of bag cost, if you go that route. They capture more dust but I’d go through one every 2 days here.

My problem was probably similar to yours. I just don’t get hungry. In university, I would have some oatmeal for breakfast and cruise through until about 10pm and get some fast food, too often.

My solution was to start working out. I saw my colleagues were all carrying fat bellies and I didn’t want to end up that way. But I also knew that if I wanted to work out, I needed to fuel my body. So every day I just plan my diet like building with Lego, filling out the macros and calories and eat it whether I want to or not. For some people, that’s not a good approach from a mental health perspective, but it works for me.

Start a workout plan (strong lifts 5x5 is a simple starting point without much fluff) and get an app (I strongly suggest MacroFactor - it’s excellent) that tells you how much to eat, and follow it. I went from 58kg to 77kg in a year, and after dieting the somewhat excessive fluffy parts back off I landed at 70kg and looking pretty shredded. The reason i say MacroFactor is because it starts off with an estimate of your caloric needs and based on your dietary intake (non-judgemental - if you miss it, you miss it) and your daily weight, it calculates your caloric and macronutrient needs. It’s based on good scientific research.

As a vegetarian, you probably don’t need to worry nearly as much about getting fibre and vegetables, but it can be harder just because animal products are nutritionally dense. Picture 600 calories of broccoli. Now picture a hamburger. It’s an unfair comparison, but the point is the calorie density is way higher. If you can do eggs and whey it can help. Renaissance Periodization (another good app) has a recent YouTube video about protein sources that’s really good.

Miele makes a good bagless model. But if you don’t have clouds of fur every day like I do, the bag models are a lot better at keeping the dust inside. They’re generally under 500€.

Tire lifetime varies dramatically with the type of tire. I’ve had tires that lasted 10,000 miles and tires that lasted 40,000 miles on the same car and in similar driving conditions. That is a difficult variable to solve for.

Weight in kg x mileage recorded at safety inspection x some factor = tax

Seems like a straightforward calculation.

Except you did the marathon in a world record time, and almost every other time you attempted it, you couldn’t get halfway through at a walking pace.

I’m making extra Easter eggs this year just for you, America.

It’s not the traceability of the phone. It’s the contents of the phone.

The contents of our phones is deeply personal and some courts have ruled that makes them part of the fourth amendment protections, but it’s not made it to the Supreme Court (afaik, ianal) and border patrol doesn’t care as this case makes evident.

The benefit of a burner phone is that you don’t knock out your primary phone in order to remove “incriminating” evidence like that time your friend texted you that Donald Trump is an orange bellend.

They image (parts of, I assume) the phone. Cellebrite is a popular tool. “It’s dead” “no problem, here’s a charge cable”.