I once attended a wedding in the States once and I still distinctly remember the wedding cake. It was the worst cake I ever had.

It was pretty, mind you. But the texture sucked and it tasted like sugar and fat and nothing else. It was embarrassingly bad. For some reason none of the Americans present saw anything wrong with this monstrosity.

A wedding cake celebrates one of the most important moments of two people's lives. It's ridiculously expensive. And Americans either fully accept that it's a barely edible piece of decoration or they actually have no standards regarding baked goods at all.

(The success of Twinkies does suggest a most unhappy conclusion here...)

Sounds easy but we're deep in "draw the rest of the fucking owl" territory here.

For some people the threshold for healthy eating habits is low. I have to actively try to gain weight and I can handle slight hunger well so for me very little would have to change on a diet.

That person I mentioned, on the other hand, has to pre-plan their nutrition for a week down to the macronutrients of each single meal, just like a bodybuilder. A planning mistake will most likely result in binge eating. And yes, they would eat half a loaf of full-grain bread at night if nothing else was there.

So for someone like them advice like "have some self control and don't buy junk food" is about as helpful as "have you tried not being poor". Getting their endocrine system and gut microbiome to accept anything below maintenance calories is a long and nontrivial journey.

True. Also don't underestimate your gut microbiome. Those bacteria and fungi can have a distressing amount of control over you and if your microbiome is out of whack it can make it much more difficult to develop decent eating habits.

Unfortunately people respond differently to hunger.

Someone I know is trying to lose weight. Problem is, if they go ~100 kcal below maintenance they turn into a stress eater. ~200 below and they are unable to stop themselves from eating 400 kcal worth of food straight or of the fridge at night. All that on top of being hangry all day.

So losing weight means balancing the diet very carefully because that's not much space between eating enough to maintain the weight and eating so little that hunger overrides reason and overcompensates.

For other people going below maintenance is just kinda uncomfortable but easily doable for a couple days. Advice like "just eat less" actually works for them without having to make a whole science out of it.

The sentence length is not the problem here. The problem is that the judge has established legal precedent for "upgrading" a crime to terrorism. Secretly at that, without informing the defense or jury.

So now any crime can get you punished under terrorism statutes at the judge's discretion and the judge can announce that after the jury has delivered a verdict. That's not how a justice system should work.

I hope that the defense will move for a mistrial and win. Not that I think the perpetrators should walk free; they certainly seem to be guilty. But they should be convicted under the correct statutes for their crimes.

He wanted to mess with the Borg. He designed a ship to mess with the Borg. They didn't show up in his part of the woods so he demonstrated what happens when someone has a ship designed to mess with the Borg.

In my case I wasn't paying enough attention to where water had pooled in the tracks cars had worn into the road. Gentle taps on the brake handles were enough to decouple my scooter's wheels from the road and give me a two kilometer braking distance. Yikes.

"Hell" sound like an accurate description. I wouldn't want to live in such a place as an adult, much less a minor.

Getting hurt a little bit is very useful.

I've forgotten about plenty of situations where things could've gone wrong but didn't but I can still vividly remember accidentally hitting myself in the dick with my bike handle.

(Since I know someone will want to know: I misjudged my speed and the impact a wet wheel had on my braking power. When I noticed I was going too fast to take a corner I braked and the front brake locked the wheel immediately. Inertia did the rest.)

That and a (thankfully merely scary) run-in with aquaplaning a few years later taught me to be wary of wet driving conditions, especially of braking in them.

The problem is not that you lose that theoretical job, it's that they have one. Mind you, it's also a problem if they don't have one. In this socio-theoretical framework anything immigrants do or not do is a problem.

Companies, meanwhile, are only at fault for anything if they're foreign and not multinational corporations.

That is... a rather byzantine list of requirements to get a captcha service to work as opposed to just running a Firefox derivative with tracking protection on standard and a default-configuration uBO (which is the specific configuration that led to the 100 repetitions, not some kind of recommendation).

Please not hCaptcha. It's basically guaranteed to generate infinite loops.