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People are shallow. The computer is their best friend 95% of the time, but they remember the last 5% and how much it cost them more than anything.

I thought that was kind of obvious.

A friend of mine who repairs PCs occasionally finds nothing wrong with them and does the usual "I'll run some maintenance on it" and the client is always happier afterwards. He doesn't charge for stuff unless anything needs to be done.

I think it has just changed so that the media won't report something and then will try and discredit any amateur reports later. The BBC has many large gaps in its reporting at least and seem to favour an almost tabloid approach to some issues.

I'm really glad that there is an industrial use for them.

Blue ones are used, at least around my area, to decorate things.

Thanks for the reply. Interesting theory and one I agree with entirely based on who I know.

I'd love to move out of the UK and will do this if we ever drop out of the EU. Perhaps East of that line.

You're not interpreting it correctly. Go read it again and my other comments. In summary, perhaps a little more concisely:

I'm an outlier. I'm well built but thanks to BMI, I'm classified as obese. I eat a lot of crap as well, probably more than most. That doesn't affect my general health at all.

I'm referring to scientific integrity and application of the scientific method which this entire thread is devoid of. One poster posted with citations from known crackpots and a reddit group of obsessive religious dieters.

Nutrition is complicated. Everyone has an answer. I'm saying there isn't one. Life is a race to the finish line. Whoever gets there last with the most bits still attached wins.

I eat a shit ton of straight sugars, fat and carbs and am technically obese if you consider the rather non-scientific BMI system.

However, I rode 59 miles from London to Brighton on my nice Dawes Ultra Galaxy a couple of months back without any trouble. Last month I had a medical and am, according to doctor "in wonderful shape". Go figure.

Oh right, everything in moderation. That's the win. I eat that stuff when I need it.

I wouldn't cite a bunch of random popular reading health authors and an endocrinologist incapable of using the scientific method in his work. Go read some Feynman and apply some critical thinking and get back to me.

Aware of this. My point was purely derision.

A lot of nutritional fads are indistinguishable from religion. Scales are always balanced, not necessarily visibly.

How's your heart?

No their problems weren't just the lard. It was derision pointed at the unfounded basis of your analysis and the complexity of the human diet, metabolism and relatively limited knowledge of nutrition we have.

/r/keto isn't a valid citation, well no more than /r/spacedicks (NSFW) or the pope. Neither is you losing weight.

Not too much. Coronary heart disease wiped out a big chunk of my family and it wasn't because they ate sugar - it was the lard on toast and chips cooked in lard...

Everything in moderation is probably better advice than a single fact.

I see a lot of that across Europe. I've been dying to do a road trip out that way (from the UK) but it's difficult with three children.

Everyone I've met and spoken to out there has been through some serious shit right up until the late 1990s from wars to genocides. They really are forward thinking because looking back hurts badly.

It might sound cheesy but I have a lot of hope for Europe and most of it comes from the East.

At the same time I'm disgusted at how the media and general population treats our fellow Europeans.

I could say the same about most of the supposed superior replacements.

Everything is dangerous in the hands of idiots. The technology is almost entirely irrelevant to the discussion.