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  • Weight Loss drugs could save airlines $580 million a year in fuel costs - Dexerto

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  • The side effects they're finding are that it unexpectedly prevents Alzheimer's symptoms and other neurodegenerative issues, influences the brain to want to drink less alcohol and smoke/vape/chew less nicotine, and helps with chronic pain.

    The point, though, is that it makes metabolic changes by having people eat less. Pointing out problems with drugs that increase resting metabolic rate (so that they burn more calories without exercising) or decrease absorption of macronutrients in digestion (so that they take in fewer calories from the same food) doesn't really inform how we look at these behavior-altering and desire-altering drugs. They're losing weight by eating less, not by interrupting the relationship between eating and net caloric intake.

  • Weight Loss drugs could save airlines $580 million a year in fuel costs - Dexerto

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  • It makes them eat less which they even can ignore

    What are you talking about? If they're eating less, then it's working at changing the behavior. What is there to "ignore" at that point?

  • Why are they different shapes?

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  • Whoops, didn't realize you were talking about industrial scale. I guess that makes sense, and I would have no idea which type of bread uses cheaper equipment.

  • Why are they different shapes?

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  • Making bread on a flat surface allows you to minimize costs of entry (not only don't you need the forms which are relatively cheap, you can go with simpler/cheaper ovens), and this kind of bread has a more pronounced crust, which many people like.

    Crusts like this generally require a lot of steam in the oven, and steam ovens are usually much more expensive than non-steam ovens.

    If you want a homemade loaf that can actually produce the type of bubbly crust you expect in certain types of European style breads, you'll have to trap a lot of steam where you're baking it, often by containing it in a Dutch oven.

    And shaping/forming a loaf that stays tall when being baked on a flat surface takes skill, lots of practice and experience.

  • How the regime in Iran jams Starlink and what people could do

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  • You'd never get Kessler syndrome at Starlink altitudes.

    Starlink satellites orbit at around 550km, and get dragged by the little bit of atmosphere that is at that altitude. Each collision might make more debris, but the conservation of momentum means that any debris that gets kicked to a lower orbit will probably burn up on the atmosphere while any debris that gets kicked to a higher altitude will be smaller mass and therefore cause less damage on the next collision after that.

    Collisions can still happen, but the runaway conditions where debris begets debris won't happen at those orbital velocities and altitude.

  • Weight Loss drugs could save airlines $580 million a year in fuel costs - Dexerto

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  • Because the overhead of weighing passengers and their luggage for every flight would completely wreck the logistics and make it both unpleasant to fly and unprofitable to operate.

  • Weight Loss drugs could save airlines $580 million a year in fuel costs - Dexerto

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  • Obesity has long term complications, too. And we know them to be bad.

  • Weight Loss drugs could save airlines $580 million a year in fuel costs - Dexerto

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  • No, the drug changes the habits. It quiets down food noise in the brain (not always thinking about food), and shifts people's tastes/preferences in food. It doesn't change how the body processes food, it changes how the brain wants food. So the habits change pretty quickly.

  • What are the fastest moving objects with some mass in everyday life?

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  • The crack of a bullwhip is caused by the tip exceeding the speed of sound, around 750 mph/1250 kph.

  • What are the fastest moving objects with some mass in everyday life?

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  • Well then you are lost!

  • Excuse me while I make my cold brew..

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  • I weigh my coffee/water to keep the brew ratio the same

    Yeah, I developed my current routine by weighing, but because I use literally the same containers every morning I can eyeball the amount of beans or water in those containers and know that I'm basically at the ratio I used to measure. Maybe tomorrow I'll eyeball it, and then measure, to confirm I'm still calibrated at the right level.

  • Excuse me while I make my cold brew..

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  • That's why I love cooking communities. A lot of things really do just boil down to technique, and a substantial amount of the equipment necessary is commodity grade where almost any brand performs the same.

  • What do I do?

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    1. Don't feed wild animals. For this rule, the particular type of food doesn't matter. Wild animals are harmed from human feeding, even if the food is nutritionally beneficial to them.
    2. Bread spoils fast, and spoiled foods in the environment can make a lot of animals sick.
    3. Bread doesn't contain the nutrients that many birds need, so birds (especially young birds) that eat too much bread at the expense of not eating other foods might become unhealthy from deficiencies on other fronts.

    I point out these three distinct reasons because the overall points being made don't make it OK to feed wild ducks peas or whatever else. For farmed animals, though, farmers will want the overall nutritional profile to meet some standard, at which point old bread and other scraps could very well be part of a broader diet, in a way that manages household waste.

  • What events do you think would make it into the song We Didn't Start the Fire if it was extended into today?

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  • Yeah that's probably true of all Fallout Boy songs generally.

  • I can't be the only one who learned this the hard way

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  • I can believe that Korean food has gotten spicier in the last 30 years, but I think it's worth noting that Korean food was already plenty spicy before any of those financial crises, much more so than Japanese food, and all but a few specific Chinese regions.

  • MFW I wake up to find Lemmy feeds full of USA stuff

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  • You misunderstand, riding trains increases the amount of shitposting capacity one has.

  • The boy who was relentlessly bullied by his uncle

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  • It was a funny joke, a fun juxtaposition of the child's book already under discussion, and a contentious and violent period in recent UK history.

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  • Is this...an adaptation of the Yao Ming meme I haven't seen in about 15 years?

  • What are some unique things that sucks about getting old?

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  • Making sure not to bring that energy everywhere takes a bit of practice.

    I remember an interview of Quincy Jones where he was just shit talking popular music of that time (maybe early 2010s), and ran through a bunch of examples, basically explaining where every musical element (particular chord progressions, instrumental combinations, beats/rhythms, etc.) that made it into whatever current popular song, was first pioneered by some recording artist he had worked with in some earlier decade.

    He obviously knew a ton about music, from classical to jazz to pop to hip hop to country, but it was an interesting glimpse into the mind of a person who was basically saying "I've realized there's nothing new to me anymore."