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Nice article!

Here's another on how to make your bash scripts more robust: https://www.davidpashley.com/articles/writing-robust-shell-scripts/

Getting into the habit of starting my scripts with set -ue has saved me a lot of time

"ReTruths"... good grief

I don't have a dog, but seeing a happy dog is a sure way to brighten my day!

Social media is terrible for this too. Spend any time on tiktok or youtube and it will at least try to serve you some light "men today have it so hard and it's women's fault" content. I imagine that if you bite, the algorithm will ramp it up.

Incels probably need industrial strength therapy, not grooming. The mindset that they world owes them a woman, and that it's somehow women's fault that they're celibate, is deeply toxic

There are people with a similar woman-hating mindset who are successful at attracting women, which might make them happier, but not better.

I suspect people are just good at identifying incels

I remember a bunch of people seeming sincere about it, and a lot of money was wasted on it, including from companies like apple.

I never understood why. It was so obviously a doomed idea from day 1

The only amazing thing about the metaverse was that some people believed the hype, and that people paid to promote it could do it with a straight face.

I remember a lot of fanboys who just uncritically believe whatever the latest hype is. The problem for the metaverse is that those people move on quickly and are probaly all talking about "AI" nowadays

Kinda inverts inverted the causality of Netflix starting their own production and other companies pulling their licences. Netflix started their own production to survive the licences getting pulled, which was inevitable as soon as Netflix looked profitable.

They didn't get greedy, they probably started out greedy, ran a good service to grab market share, then had to make moves to defend against the predictable greed of the incumbents.

It's greedy turtles all the way down

Here's a study that seems to support your theory a bit: https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC5885842/

It's both a behavioural issue and a complex bodily disorder with many external factors...

Biologically, weight is pretty much an effect of calories in and calories out. If you lock someone up and give them too little food, they'll generally get thin. The body can't create fat if you don't feed it and it can't work without burning energy. Physics.

But losing weight when you're not locked in a cell with someone else controlling your food availability is really hard. Not eating when you're hungry is hard. The facility of getting healthy food that makes it easier is socio-economical. etc

It's like running a marathon is "just" about starting to run and not stopping until you reach the finish line. It's trivial on one level, really hard on another. It's simple physics AND a complex web of genetic factors, motivation, knowledge, upbringing, etc

So most people are technically and biologically capable of losing weight, but most people are also practically and statistically not very successful at it.

Most popular diets work under controlled conditions, for the people who adhere to them; but most popular diets also don't work in practice, as it's too hard for people to diet for the rest of their life.

Behavioural ≠ easy