Lenny may be the least talented dog of all time.
We saw a mama raccoon teaching a baby how to dig through stuff in our backyard one night. They live under our cast-iron tub. My wife is not a fan of them scratching around while she’s taking a bath.
At one point we had a lot of outside cats (we adopted a litter that was abandoned) and left cat food outside and would have raccoons visit every night to eat whatever cat food was leftover. We saw family of raccoons grow up. We could feed them by hand. If you held out a piece of cat food they would grab it with their hand/paw.
Thread is great but I think it gets misinterpreted. The implied takeaway is that YTF was simply uneducated about food and metabolism. That was only true to some degree and it’s the same narrative pushed by OOT incels in basically every thread. The same people that couldn’t handle AOC in a contest. So while the psychology of his eating behavior was fascinating, it’s really only part of the story. It wasn’t like once he figured it out he was on the fast path to a Fitness magazine cover. Dude had to battle it every day and wound up losing in the end. The other problem is that the result of the thread is too broadly applied: not everyone has the same problem as YTF.
My eyebrows nearly shot off the top of my head at this, because:
This. Do you imagine that if you swapped American babies with European ones for a few years, the American obesity problem would resolve itself? The fact that there’s a difference between Americans and other OECD countries in this regard is evidence that environmental effects are more powerful, at least in aggregate, than any individual capacity to make choices.
“Making choices” always turns out to be without any explanatory power, and the reason it has no explanatory power is that it is an incoherent idea. My behaviour is the product of the operation of my brain, which is a complex electrical circuit, basically. Where in this am “I” and what is this “making choices”? Am I some kind of ghost in the machine who can prod electrons as they whiz past and thus alter the result of the electrical activity in the brain?
https://mobile.twitter.com/AdamCSharp/status/1286553450302636033
https://mobile.twitter.com/AdamCSharp/status/1286608874305462272
I’m told throwing a punch after a fight is russian
A chocolate teapot - for us Brits :)
I’m not really sure which thread this belongs in, so I will just stick it here.
I know people fell snake-bit over 2016 and are wary of polls, but it’s not like pollsters haven’t been updating their methodology. In retrospect, Bernie’s Michigan miracle in the primaries was a sign that something may have been off four years ago and this wasn’t repeated in 2020.
Here’s a story about how polling organizations have been working on adjusting their models to be more accurate.
Hungary going full Putin - democracy in name only. This is basically what happened to any last independent media in Russia.
Orban was ruling by decree not so long ago. That got removed by parliament pretty recently. However, all he needs now is for the health minister to rule covid worthy of state of emergency and never remove it. Then it’s rule by decree for good.
This was my research interest before my academic career was derailed (by a disease that affects metabolism no less). That’s the reason I feel like the YTF thread is gold. He was very open and honest about his thought process regarding food in a way that most people are not. From my perspective, one of the most interesting things he said was probably the most banal: the rigidity with which he believed certain foods must be paired together. I can’t remember the exact meal but it was something like “You can’t have steak without potatoes, silly!”
I was specifically interested in trying to suss this part out but never got there. I like your model of neocortex and lower brain function. Most of the eating behavior research I’m familiar with focuses on purely psychological phenomena with inadequate appreciation for what’s going on underneath. It’s really tough to beat your vagus nerve and hypothalamus, so I think identifying those triggers, as you’ve done, is the first step in actually gaining control with CBT or nudging. Are you familiar with sham feeding?
Does anyone know what’s going on with this? 2020 is just wild.
https://twitter.com/joel_schectman/status/1286689325976084480?s=20
https://mobile.twitter.com/MrDanZak/status/1286481327433355264
https://mobile.twitter.com/MrDanZak/status/1286482431005143041
Phew!!
Wouldn’t it be way more likely that this debris is from a previous earth-based civilization instead of something from outside the solar system?
Not that either is likely, but no and not even close imo.
This is boilerplate UFO “reporting” same article is posted somewhere every few years for decades. It’s nonsense.
That’s what they want you to think! Wake up!
It took me a few seconds, but that’s good.