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  1. I know you're trolling, but allow me to bite: Vegan doctrine doesn't include fasting, moreover, vegans love carbs and get fat if they don't also afford a nutrition coach. Muslims don't know the first thing about fasting, Ramadan is a joke: not even water during daytime, only to eat triple the normal daily amount all night long is NOT intermittent fasting, it's binge eating with a cooldown phase.

    Keto and fasting (comes naturally, the hunger just goes away) for the win, and you can keep eating those steaks. But throw away the potato.

  2. Re: Should be simple enough to try it on animals f on States Turn To an Unproven Method of Execution: Nitrogen Gas (nytimes.com) · · Score: 1

    And why not simply use carbon monoxide (CO), instead? It's even cheaper to make, there is no panic nor suffocation, but you just fall asleep, to never wake up again. And if injections are too costly, why not just inject air into the bloodstream (that would probably be a horrible death, but electrocution is not exactly euthanasia either), or cut some arteries and let them bleed to death?

  3. Re:Something smells funny about this decision on German Supreme Court Rules Ad Blockers Legal (faz.net) · · Score: 1

    The company that developed AdBlock has its offices in or near Cologne, so that is indeed the perfect court (or, your only option) if you want to sue them, so what?

  4. Re: In before... on Jack White Bans Cellphones At Concerts For '100% Human Experience' (nme.com) · · Score: 1

    Type 1 diabetes is rare, and type 2 diabetes is the more common syndrome, growing rapidly among your fellow citizens, strongly correlated to their ever growing waist diameters, which is the type I was obviously talking about. Feel free to correct me if I'm wrong.

    If there is, as you say, "cumulative damage from high blood sugar and the danger of passing out *or dying* from low blood sugar," then simply going keto will probably remove that danger from your life. Keep those glucose levels low in the first place.

  5. Re:I hope your genetics cause you diabetes. on Jack White Bans Cellphones At Concerts For '100% Human Experience' (nme.com) · · Score: 1

    Can't help you if you can't read or fail to realize that I was talking about the acquired type of diabetes, or type 2, which is lifestyle related. Thanks for all the hate, though.

  6. Re: In before... on Jack White Bans Cellphones At Concerts For '100% Human Experience' (nme.com) · · Score: 1

    What? The guy you're replying to seems to know more than you about diabetes if you have to bring up an anecdote of (your words) a rare-ass form of it just to prove his point in the end: diabetics are, on the whole, more commonly whales than dolphins. Get over it.

    And to the person that needs to bring all that equipment to a two hour concert: Have your dinner before going to the venue, measure your glucose level, pop your Insulin accordingly, and you're going to be fine for the next hours (unless you actively try to kill yourself by slurping lots of softdrinks or beer while you're there, but maybe, just maybe, that same lack of self discipline is what brought you your metabolic syndrome in the first place).

  7. Not meteorites on Almost All Bronze Age Artifacts Were Made From Meteorite Iron (sciencealert.com) · · Score: 4, Funny

    New studies suggest that all the ancient weaponry actually came from loot boxes that the alien cult named Activision spread all over the inhabited world in order to extract revenue from planet Earth. Not content with microtransactions in the form of animal teeth and leather, it taught their subjects how to make shiny coins from metallic stones.

    Just saying.

  8. Those numbers are fine with me but ... on Earth Will Likely Be Much Warmer In 2100 Than We Anticipated, Scientists Warn (vice.com) · · Score: 1

    I am not denying human influence on climate change, or even the numbers in TFA, but predictions about what happens 80 years from now are rather funny if you take into account that just one major volcano outbreak (read: mount Fuji, the Vesuvian supervolcano system, Yellowstone, or the unpronouceable Icelandic ones) can turn those numbers upon their heads and throw us into a long nuclear winter. And the probabilty is high for at least one of those popping within our lifetimes.

  9. Dang those shape-shifting children's faces! on 10-Year-Old Boy Cracks the Face ID On Both Parents' IPhone X (wired.com) · · Score: 4, Funny

    Kids as skeleton keys, that would be so funny if it weren't the security desaster it actually is. What remains to be shown now is that a random group of, say, 10 children with no relation to an iPhonX (previous...) owner has a more than 10% chance of unlocking Face ID.

  10. Re:e-Golf is almost perfect on Volkswagen To Spend Over $40 Billion on Electric and Self-Driving Cars (reuters.com) · · Score: 1

    The only problem is that it has a 201 km range and the cottage is 250 km (like, within 10m of that number).

    Beware. You should NEVER ever confuse a spec number with real world mileage, especially not from a company like Volkswagen (and I'm from Germany, trust me). You will only get that range out of the car under optimal conditions, in maybe late spring / early summer, with no interior heating or AC running, no headlights drawing power, and so on.

    My imagination fails me when I try to picture the actual range you'll get in wintertime. In Canada? During our mild European winters, the effective range of a Nissan Leaf is notorious to halve.

  11. Re:"Full screen" LOL on Apple Could Launch Two New Full-Screen iPhones Next Year (theverge.com) · · Score: 1

    You might only be the fake Tim Cook, but you shouldn't do his dirty work, anyway. They do indeed show the ugly notch like they are proud of it, but they don't show and instead talk down the black rim. Useless screen area, you say? Like the iPhone X has plenty of? The X has less usable screen real estate than the iPhone 8+, don't forget that. Developers can't use the topmost and downmost sections, and those rounded corners are giving everyone headaches, but go on and keep talking out of your ass... ;-)

  12. Re:"Full screen" LOL on Apple Could Launch Two New Full-Screen iPhones Next Year (theverge.com) · · Score: 1

    Additionally, you'll have to subtract the thick black rim around the screen from the 'full screen experience'. Who do they think they are fooling?

  13. Quark already is my daily energy source, ... on 'Quark Fusion' Produces Eight Times More Energy Than Nuclear Fusion (futurism.com) · · Score: 1

    ... and I'll agree that Quark fusion is even better. I tend to fuse it with fresh fruits or berries, some linseed and one drop of honey.

    Ref.: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quark_(dairy_product)/

    Irradiated foods, on the other side, tend to wear me out, so the headline seems about correct.

  14. I have never cracked a screen, either, but all my colleagues' iPhones are ornamented by spiderweb cracks. Not surprising if you consider how people are holding their smartphones nowadays, in front of their mouths, gripping them at the bottom only with the top angling away. Just one bump in the road or a little push from a fellow pedestrian, and DOWN it goes.

  15. 'Brightest display ever tested' also is a blatant lie (or plainly ignorant) if you consider that the Note 8 already has double that brightness. In related news, I think it can be considered poetic justice that 'the most durable glass ever' (in Apple-speak) proves to be the most fragile and breakable ever in real world testing. Apple friends should remember this reality check whenever Tim Cook drops his infamous superlatives from now on.

  16. Re:No study needed just look at us tells the story on Poor Diet Is a Factor In One In Five Deaths, Global Disease Study Reveals (theguardian.com) · · Score: 2

    many would rather just get a pill then actually get healthy.

    [chuckle] If you still think we grammar nazis don't have a point, please take note of the example above. It means the opposite of what the poster meant to write.

  17. Re:Why keep encouraging third world reproduction? on Poor Diet Is a Factor In One In Five Deaths, Global Disease Study Reveals (theguardian.com) · · Score: 1

    Dear Sirs, I am Nigerian Prince Enoma and I have proposition to make to you. In order to keep Nigerian populace from starving I will transfer US $ 2 billion onto your account, which must then be forwarded to food supply union of your country. You will, and I promise you this, Sir, keep the change of 2 million, which will make you and your family not starving but very fat as well, because your country food very good for becoming fat. Please await further details in next mail, please SIR!

  18. Re:But... on Navy Unveils First Active Laser Weapon In Persian Gulf (cnn.com) · · Score: 1

    Adjusting and calibrating that mirror would be quite the fun, considering the beam is invisible. "Sir, we just sank two fishing boats, and the beam is still nowhere near that Iranian missile silo!"

  19. No, but more like any recent Samsung phone (read: newer than four years).

  20. Re:Since he agrees with Trump... on Buzz Aldrin To NASA: Retire the International Space Station ASAP To Reach Mars (space.com) · · Score: 1

    Going hungry is not the same as starving. The American two thirds obesity rate should tell you as much. Plus, you can obviously very well be extremely poor, and extremely fat.

    No child needs to starve, though, but that is just a matter of food distribution that doesn't take billions of dollars.

  21. I can neither confirm nor deny that. But in terms of relation of turds to units produced, Tesla surely seems worse, for now. Certainly unworthy of a luxury brand, but Tesla still is a very young company, so I will give them that.

  22. I live in BMW and Daimler country, and I can tell you, there are numerous faults with various models of each maker. No cracked A-pillars that I know of, but especially BMW is commonly referred to here as Bring-Mich-Werkstatt, meaning 'bring me to a service station'. The build quality of the Mini is atrocious. And Benz cars will happily rust away early if you let them. Don't get me started on Volkswagen and their camshaft drive chains that give out prematurely, leading to a catastrophic engine failure, or their faulty automated gear boxes... Tesla build quality still has a way to go, though, I'm not disputing that. Their customers are basically beta testers at this point, and that is already bad enough a practice in the software field, and absolutely unacceptable for car makers.

  23. Re:How on Stylebooks Finally Embrace the Single 'They' (cjr.org) · · Score: 1

    Let me second this. Every one of the several million reviews and discussions of the Matrix movies is now wrong (read as: politically incorrect) after the fact as long as the Wachowski *Brothers* are merely mentioned.

  24. Re:chip on your shoulder on YouTube Loses Major Advertisers Over Offensive Videos (rollingstone.com) · · Score: 1

    no one wants to be in contact with a person who is visibly sweating in public

    Apart from, of course, developers, developers, developers.

  25. In that case Google better put them into the API. These functions clearly are available under Firefox, I'm using an add-on that puts them (among many more, e.g. Close Left Tabs, Mute Tab, Duplicate Tab and so on) into the context menu, it's called Tab Mix Plus. I use these functions all the time and have no idea why Google would want to cripple Chrome even more.