Kyle_The_G

This is just straight up dangerous

Just like most of his plans. The spa, the tunnel, buck a beer... all short-sighted and focussed on legacy instead of actual helpful policy.

I'm just tired of everyone asking for my money. Rent/mortgage: insane. Groceries: insane. Transportation: insane. Phone/internet: insane. I think people realized they can just charge whatever they want and get away with it so thats whats happened, everyone is squeezing every last penny out of everyone. If everyone starts doing that then theres not much left over and yeah, people feel like shit. They did everything right and its just not enough. Thats the world now.

I came here after they banned 3rd party apps, never looked back!

I could go for personal quad copters. Imagine leaving work early on a friday and packing up the oll' whirly bird and heading up to the cottage? that would be awesome.

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10144565/ Here's a good start on "NNS"/non nutritional sweeteners.

Honestly its probably not a very big impact, its more of a "its possible" sort of thing.

Its a really interesting field!

Ya thats a fair point!

ya I did a lit review for my thesis a few years back, plenty of papers on microbes metabolizing these compounds, shouldn't be hard to find.

FYI there is no such thing as truly "zero calorie". Sure, we can't use aspartame and those "0 calorie" sweeteners for energy BUT our gut microbes can metabolize those compounds into products that we can then use for energy. So one way or another you're still taking in calories. Now do you gain more energy from straight sugar vs the sweeteners? I have no idea, I haven't studied this in years. I just like to bring up that little bit of trivia whenever anyone brings up zero calorie drinks in conversation :)

well we can't have that now can we?

I prefer RPG, interesting narratives and "experiences". I also used to be really into multiplayer games like halo 3, MW2, battlefield 4/bad company2 and even rainbow 6 siege. Whats turned me off of all that is aggressive monetization and super competitive sweat fests. It feels like all the fun/soul in those "good oll' days" games just isn't there anymore. Peak fun for me was maxed out halo 3 custom games and they just don't make them like that anymore.

well yeah. In this world that we live in money is freedom and if you don't have it your options are severely limited. For those that don't have it it getting it is the only thing that matters.