TheSambassador

I love how lush and vibrant it looks. As a tall person, I hate that it looks impossible to actually walk down the sidewalk.

I think these types of moral questions aren't actually that useful, because the actual problem at the heart of it (and at most things) is the difference in power.

Instead of asking "what age should temporary prostitution be legal," maybe we should ask "why have we concentrated so much excess power in the hands of this one guy who can drop a life changing payment for a one time service and still have plenty left over? Does it really make sense to try to come up with an arbitrary age that we've decided you're immune to coersion?

This entire moral quandary doesn't really exist in the (admittedly idealistic) world where power isn't so unequally distributed.

Over COVID, we started a bad/cult movie night that I streamed over Discord. Streaming via Twitch/Youtube would get copyright struck immediately. Streaming over Discord worked, but you have no real control over stream quality, and often the stream quality is based on the person with the worst connection. You also are locked to 30/60 FPS, which sometimes causes small frame weirdness when most movies are at 24.

An easy, self hosted solution is exactly what I wanted at the time. I played with setting up a streaming server but it ended up being too much of a headache at the time.

There's a ton of valid reasons to self host. Just because you can't think of any doesn't mean it's pointless.

So what's the point of posting it? If it's so obvious and all that you really need to know, why are so many people still fat?

The unsaid part of "it's simple, it's just calories in calories out" is the implied "and people who don't get this are just lazy/dumb/it's a moral failing." Maybe this isn't what you are intending, but it is kinda at the root of a lot of hate that fat people get.

The discussion around weight is changing because we're starting to look into and understand the psychological components of weight, IN ADDITION TO the actual phsysiological processes of weight loss. Lots of "normal" day to day tips and "common sense" is being investigated and debunked. Shit is hard and complicated. Food is being engineered to be addictive. Some people literally don't have easy access to healthy food.

It's definitely hard to know when being overly enthusiastic ends and when love bombing begins. I agree that it isn't always necessarily malicious but, as with most everything, clear open communication is the solution.

Call it whatever you want, it's just an enjoyable new sport that a lot of people like. I'll never get why people feel superior about not liking something that other people like.

The US version was severely bungled, especially in the cutting of the runtime to a 30 minute timeslot from 60. They made that decision AFTER filming it, so they edited down full episodes to half their length.

I think everyone agrees that Reggie Watts was not a great choice for the Taskmaster, but I do think a US version could work with the right group. It has to find it's own voice though, and be given room to grow, which is hard for US TV.

It's basically a cross between tennis and ping pong. The court is smaller, you play with a whiffle-ball type ball and hard paddle. There's a spot right by the net called the "kitchen" where you can't stand in while you volley.

It's honestly just a fun game. It's easier to pick up than tennis, and it's more fun to play doubles. It's also a little less physically taxing, it's a really nice level of activity. Give it a shot sometime.

It's one thing for a politician to say whatever to get elected and then go the opposite way. Actually changing positions based on new information and what you think is what voters need is exactly what a politician SHOULD do. I never get this complaint... I guess it's just that people don't trust that politicians are ever genuine?

I don't necessarily disagree, and everyone is different, but you should consider that it's not just you that changes. You change WITH your partner. You grow TOGETHER. I am absolutely different than I was 10 years ago, and so is she, but that doesn't mean that we're no longer compatible. Our growth contributed to each other's growth.

I do think people should be maybe... less attached? You should regularly evaluate your relationship to see if it's working. Shared interests aren't even always necessary (as long as they at least show interest in what you like and vice versa). But that is very hard and many people would rather not be alone.

A friend of mine had some unexpected health issues, and lost a ton of weight. They looked good before and after, but they were really uncomfortable when people would "compliment" them on their "weight loss". It wasn't something that they had tried to do, and it was a reminder of the health problems that they'd been struggling with.

I think complimenting someone's body AFTER they've told you they've been working on it (or if it's obvious they've been working on it, say with muscle gain) is totally fine, but their experience really changed my mind on those types of compliments.

Sometimes something that you'd think was 100% a compliment can have other effects. My friend wasn't necessarily upset at the people who thought they were complementing them, but the best compliments are for who a person is and how they make the world around them better.

Science reporting is a major related problem for sure. Science "journalism" is often barely more than reporting on a sentence in the abstract and then putting opinions about what that means. They report on single studies that show tiny effect sizes, and then use that to say things like "people who eat potatoes are better at pickleball" and often ignore statistical significance and effect size. Then they'll do the same thing with a study that says the opposite, and we wonder why people don't understand or trust science.