LordMayor

Back-paying furloughed federal employees after a shutdown predates Trump, FYI. That’s been the policy for a long time. It was made a law during Trump’s first term.

Of course, now they are threatening to not back pay them or, at least, omitting language about back pay from letters to furloughed employees.

Really shows the limits of AI. It’s orders of magnitude faster to go through the Earth.

I’d choose M, V, T.

Streamed pirated games and ignored the lawsuit. Made stupid threats “I own the streets”.

Not feeling sorry for this guy.

Pretty sure Pets.com had earnings, too.

I would have, too, but would have said something more absurd. Like, go off about how the NYC economy is going to be ruined by aliens and at the end talk about putting them back in their spaceships and shooting them into the sun. Start plausible then go bat shit crazy. See how much they print.

Would be funny if they were Canadian.

I don’t think it’s unreasonable to want to avoid your MIL. I also think it’s reasonable for your wife to maintain the relationship.

Can you use her visit as excuse to take a vacation—alone or with friends—or visit your family? Given the circumstances, I think avoidance is a perfectly valid option. Get some you time if your wife is cool with it.

They’re disputing false claims? So they’re saying there are true claims of massive data breach?

And there’s another reason I don’t hang out with people who boil their hot dogs.

Waiting for a toilet seat to be delivered is really more efficient than getting one in the mean time while you’re already away from home in your car? Or out to dinner near the home store?

Only IF you drive and it’s the only thing you go shopping for and the only reason to drive.

If you really can’t plan your shopping trips efficiently then, maybe.

Walk. Bike. Stop on the way home from work.

I can understand Amazon or other online stores for some things but toilet seats?

Come on people. At a physical store you can actually touch a toilet seat and know what it feels like. I guarantee no one needs a particular brand of toilet seat. Also, toilets seats are relatively dense. It’s environmentally unfriendly to have them shipped home.

This applies to many products.

FYI, most Mullvad exit nodes are blocked by big services.

You have to try different ones to find one that works. I have found just a couple that work for, for example, Netflix or Reddit.

Proton and PIA seemed to be easier, I think they have more exits and/or rotate the IP addresses of the exits.

I like Mullvad as a company better so I use them.

Odds on Trump appointing her to the DoJ?

And, my point is that calling this research pointless is just wrong because it answers à different question.

I’m not disagreeing that the question that you want answered should be studied. It should. But, the fact that this research doesn’t answer your question doesn’t make it pointless.

It’s perfectly valid research to study whether the results are different between animal-based and plant-based supplements. I didn’t go through the citations but they say:

Recent evidence suggests that both animal and plant proteins support strength and hypertrophy gains when paired with resistance training and adequate protein intake

which sounds like the research you’re asking for has already been done.

That doesn’t make it pointless.

There is something to be learned from this. Using a control would answer a different question.

That’s not how science works. You do experiments even to find out if it is pointless.

But, yes, they should have a control group.

Doesn’t matter. The point of the research was to determine if there was a difference between animal and plant based protein supplements for adding muscle. The results would apply to anyone.

They’ll complain of AI being woke for not making porn but when they do get an AI for making porn they use it for BBC and twinks.

Right, for the average person, protein supplements are unnecessary as long as they are healthy and eat well.

Athletes (and people with body dysmorphia 😬) might struggle to get enough protein in their diet. But, far too many people think they’re in a position that would warrant supplements when just a little attention to diet is sufficient.