Ah that explains the locked posts with hundreds of upvotes getting locked with zero explanation in the comments.

From what I’ve read (may be wrong) a lot of people revert back to their old habits once they’re off these drugs. Lifestyle changes are the only legitimate way to improve your health without negative long term side effects.

I used to do food delivery for Uber/DD/Grubhub, etc. so I kind of know how it goes… I also never use Uber personally except for the few times I’ve been to foreign countries without good public transport, so this is the first time I’ve seen asshole behavior on the customer side of Uber.

I’m well aware of how shitty they are to their drivers. I remember getting $4usd orders some days. It just makes me feel ill knowing that he probably got a shitty cut of the full bill, and I can’t tip him what I feel is fair.

Yeah… This is the same solution as the guy who suggested carrying cash. I went to tip after leaving the Uber. At least I know for next time but this just gives me more reasons to dislike Uber.

Valid solution, but I just checked the app and there’s no way for me to contact the driver and there is no Venmo listed on his profile.

And knowing Uber, I doubt they would even allow drivers to provide links to tip them externally.

Agreed, but in this situation I was out of the car before opening the app to tip. If I had known beforehand, I definitely would’ve given him cash.

Do we still not know what’s going on with this guy???

Saved this because it really speaks to me

Back when people said stuff like “Minecraft has terrible graphics!”… So they downloaded the most uncanny ultra-realistic 2046x2046 resolution texture packs to prove them wrong. 😎

Are you eating these unseasoned straight out of the water they boiled in or was this taken during the process of cooking? Because I’d suggest some spices. Can make potatoes & eggs taste a lot of different ways with a few spices.

Egg or potato salad is decent & cheap if you can get your hands on some extra ingredients. Egg Salad Sandwich used to be one of my go-tos and you can literally make it with just egg and mayo/mustard if you wanted to (but I’d recommend adding spices & pickle)

Would add beans to your list of things to eat since they’re also pretty cheap, filling, and would help you out with protein, which from your post, it sounds like you may be lacking.

Well that’s some good info to have in general. Think I’m okay with using DDNS but this is good to know.

Ok great, this sounds exactly like what I’m looking for. Have seen the term DDNS used before but didn’t know it was for this. Thanks!

I think my Pihole blocked the paywall so I copied the article:

Wheat, apples and carrots are half as nutritious as they were in the 1960s, a new study has suggested.

Due to declining soil quality the nutrients in fruit and vegetables have also drastically declined.

The study, by researchers at Deep Science Ventures (DSV), found twice the number of fruit and vegetables need to be eaten today to get the same level of minerals such as potassium, magnesium or copper than 60 years ago.

Researchers found food such as cereals and bread, as well as carrots, apples and peas had lost 20 to 50 per cent of several key nutrients.

But reduced nutrients in crops combined with the rise of GLP-1 weight-loss drugs, such as Ozempic and Mounjaro, could push around 5 million UK working-age adults below safe levels of essential vitamins and minerals, experts warn.

Due to declining soil quality the nutrients in fruit and vegetables have also drastically declined, researchers warn (Getty)

"For sixty years we’ve measured food security in calories and tonnes per hectare, and on those measures we’ve done remarkably well. But we’ve been quietly hollowing out what’s inside our food,” Will Summers, senior associate, climate at DSV said.

“As weight-loss drugs mean people eat less, the nutritional quality of every bite starts to matter much more. The good news is that we already have the tools to fix this, in breeding, soil health, markets and policy. What’s been missing is the recognition that this problem is worth measuring and solving at its source."

The study argues that decades of breeding and farming to increase yield have reduced many nutrients in crops.

Cereal yields per hectare are up 215 per cent since the 1960s, and undernutrition in the developing world has fallen from 35 per cent to 12 per cent.

But study authors warn more than 2 billion people still have at least one clinical micronutrient deficiency. This is well documented in countries including the UK and US, where diets can be high in calories but still low in nutrients such as selenium and folate.

Good sources of selenium include wholegrains and Brazil nuts, but with the nutrient density of wheat declining, women would now need to eat four slices of wholemeal bread to get just a third of their recommended daily selenium intake, the report suggests.

Researchers found that fewer than a third of bread-wheat varieties released since the 1960s meet the recommended zinc target, for example.

But the health impacts are serious. Selenium deficiency weakens the immune system and raises the risk of heart disease. A zinc deficiency can impact the skin, hair and immune system.

An Iron deficiency causes fatigue and poor concentration. Low potassium intake can raise stroke risk by up to 21 per cent, and strokes already cost the UK around £26 billion a year.

Sian Ferguson, Trust Executive at The Mark Leonard Trust said: "Healthy soil is the foundation of healthy food. This report shows that rebuilding soil health is one of the few measures that can improve nutrient density, yields and climate resilience all at once, and farmers can do it profitably today.”

Watching this video like I’m starving and watching somebody else eat.

I think the difference with the Fediverse is there is an end. There is old content. You catch up to where you left off. It’s not truly an “infinite scroll” in the way OP is referring to.

With stuff like Reddit, they organize to where it all feels recent, it’s all relevant, and it’s all new. Every time you refresh, new psuedo-random (algorithmic) content takes it’s place. They almost prevent you from seeing old content. The “infinite scroll” is more like “infinite content”.

In this way, they put people in an endless loop. People always have something to find, and because of the infinite scroll, you’ll always have a good chance of finding “rares”. It’s exhausting once you notice it.

At least I can tell I’ve opened Lemmy too many times today because all of the recent posts are marked as read.

What the fuck did you just fucking say about me, you little bitch? I’ll have you know I graduated top of my class in the Navy Seals, and I’ve been involved in numerous secret raids on Al-Quaeda, and I have over 300 confirmed kills. I am trained in gorilla warfare and I’m the top sniper in the entire US armed forces. You are nothing to me but just another target. I will wipe you the fuck out with precision the likes of which has never been seen before on this Earth, mark my fucking words. You think you can get away with saying that shit to me over the Internet? Think again, fucker. As we speak I am contacting my secret network of spies across the USA and your IP is being traced right now so you better prepare for the storm, maggot. The storm that wipes out the pathetic little thing you call your life. You’re fucking dead, kid. I can be anywhere, anytime, and I can kill you in over seven hundred ways, and that’s just with my bare hands. Not only am I extensively trained in unarmed combat, but I have access to the entire arsenal of the United States Marine Corps and I will use it to its full extent to wipe your miserable ass off the face of the continent, you little shit. If only you could have known what unholy retribution your little “clever” comment was about to bring down upon you, maybe you would have held your fucking tongue. But you couldn’t, you didn’t, and now you’re paying the price, you goddamn idiot. I will shit fury all over you and you will drown in it. You’re fucking dead, kiddo.

This picture of a fucking map with a red circle drawn on it has an AI generated content disclosure…? Wtf.

If I’m not wrong, it’s not complicated. But maybe I’m missing something. I don’t think I can easily see in which way you are looking at it in your example. 🫣

I’m looking at it from both ways, because as I said, it’s complicated. Half of the companies you deal with these days are using AI in some form, whether it’s your internet provider, TV manufacturer, local grocery store, etc.

As another example: Your local grocery store used AI to write short descriptions for products for an ad or display. First of all, can you even tell it’s AI from a short description…? And second of all, does that mean buying groceries from that business is funding AI…?

I personally don’t think having a Kagi subscription is considered “funding AI”, especially considering another comment that points out they are transparent about where your subscription goes, but depending on where you draw the line, maybe you would.

I love stuff like this because it makes the internet feel less algorithmic and more like a bunch of monkeys monkeying around.

Well that’s complicated. You are not funding AI development. Kagi is not an AI developer.

Is purchasing product from a company who uses an AI chatbot on their website or to take phonecalls funding AI? I wouldn’t think so, but if enough people are using it, maybe it is…? Guess it really depends on how you look at it.