Gathering6678

TL;DR don't tell people something you don't want leaked?

China has been successful (I guess?) in switching to WPS for civil servants and state-owned companies employees. As long as you don't have to worry about 100% compatibility with MS Office, you have a lot of options. But if you are working with others using MS Office, you will get things like font issues in Word and Powerpoint, and financial models in Excel is just hopeless.

That's not what I said.

I can't say about the price (it is actually relatively affordable in China even without insurance), but my personal experience is: if your daily cost involves a significant amount of food and beverages, taking GLP-1 can offset some of that. I no longer have the constant craving for comfort food. Contrary to some other GLP-1 users, I still like my drinks, but it wasn't excessive to begin with.

I know, and I tried, but I just couldn't. I have every respect for those who can lose weight on their own through exercise and calorie control. It is just really hard for me. I was on a diet for half a year or so before quitting, and I actually lost probably 7-8% of my weight, but it had a detrimental effect on my mental health: every afternoon I was craving food so much that I couldn't focus on anything else. Knowing that this has to be long-term, it was simply not going to work.

I use GLP-1 to control my weight, which was obese according to the BMI before taking it. I don't really care about the other benefits that may or may not be true or relevant to me, but I am deeply convinced that controlling my weight is massively beneficial for my long-term health and completely overweighs all my concerns about side effects.

I don't think this is true: drag increases with the square of velocity, so that's close to double the drag from 150 to 200, and I believe somewhere above 60/70 mph, aerodynamic drag starts to overtake road resistance as the main friction source, i.e. it takes significantly more horsepower to be able to do 200 than 150.

Purelymail (mentioned in the post) works very nice for me for now.

This is bs. It is admitedly difficult to become a Chinese citizen, but a huge number of foreigners work in China, especially in tech, higher education, etc. Also, Hong Kong is another good place to find a job if you want to increase personal exposure to China without having to learn Mandarin.

Of course it is not common at all, and my fear is probably very ill-founded and irrational. It's just the idea of dying from ... well, the raw form of randomness, scares me. I'm not scared of flying, for example, even though the pilot may very well f up, and they do f up from time to time. But if the pilot is throwing D100's for each flight, and if there is a streak of 50 1's, the next flight will be doomed - I won't be flying at all.

The scariest part for me is: it can just form randomly in one's body, and there's no way to tell until it's too late.

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Never managed to get one myself, but Framework laptops could be your thing as well?

I definitely struggle at playing using artistic pieces. I had one set when I was a kid: it was so much more difficult to recognize patterns with its metal pieces: sometimes I even couldn't distinguish black from white.

But they were pretty as hell, and I absolutely loved it.