DakRalter

That's a myth about the flavour. Although TIL they do smell strongly like artificial banana flavour.

It's really not that hard. I gave my ex my Mastodon url and he signed up so he could follow me. He didn't even know what Mastodon or the Fediverse is.

It only gets complicated when federation gets janky, eg on my Mastodon.social account I can see so many more posts that I can on my main instance. In fact, I sometimes can't even see some of my own .social posts unless I login via that account on tusky, then open as my main account. Even though the instances are federated. I have the same issue here with this account and my alt feddit.uk account. I can see comments/communities on one instance that I can't see on another.

One other interesting thing is brown fat. Dr Karl told this story loads of times on the 5live science podcast, so it's bound to be in one of the 2010 or 2011 episodes.

Iirc: a group of women went to Antarctica and put on a lot of body fat beforehand. But even after that, the cold was enough to make their bodies turn their white fat into brown fat and they lost a ton of weight.

Not the Dr Karl episode: https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/articles/5nrBw8X5NhXxv04J7H1vn2J/the-body-fat-that-can-make-you-thin

So the answer is live somewhere freezing for a bit if you want to lose weight.

(In my case, for some reason eating chocolate helps keep my tummy fat down. I ballooned after giving it up, even though the rest of my diet was the same.)

My understanding is that humans pretty much use about the same amount of calories a day, whether sedentary or not. If you spend more on exercise, your body spends less on other things.

https://www.science.org/content/article/scientist-busts-myths-about-how-humans-burn-calories-and-why

The amount your body uses just to stay alive dwarfs what you'd burn from adding cycling to your day.

Edited to add the "much" that I somehow deleted.

If you did that in my part of London, someone would just nick the bike :(

I read it as being aimed at the kind of people who put "EMF blocking" stickers on their phones.

In my area of London, I'd say 80-90% of cyclists think red lights don't apply to them. I've even been sworn at by another cyclist for stopping at a traffic light.

The illegal ebike users are the worst. My ex saw one hit a woman with two kids, because he just zoomed past a red when it was green man at the crossing.

Cyclists are the reason I've gone back to public transport. I actually felt safer on my cycle commute on the high road with cars, than I did on dedicated cycle lanes 😞

You Winsome, you lose some.

Being stuck in a traffic jam (that you're only contributing to) counts as freedom, whereas on a bike, you can just wheel your bike past the jam then be on your merry way.

Who has more freedom again?

It really does surprise me that letting a metal box insulating you from the world is what carbrains consider tough and FREE, whereas a bike, that you power with your OWN LEGS is sissy and WOKE! They have it so backwards!

Living in London all my life, we grew up in a car-less household and my dad would do nearly all of the food shopping for our family of 6 himself (7 for a while when my uncle lived with us while he was studying), carrying it all home on the bus. I am still car-free and can get my shopping home using the bus or my bike on the way home from work. If you can't do that in your city, then that's the fault of your city's planners. It's a failure of providing good public transport.

Now go look up how she even got British citizenship in the first place, and what she says about asylum seekers and immigrants. Hypocrite of the lowest order.

In my experience cycling in London, it wouldn't be a bike lane without some doofus walking on it 😅