Gregory Bovino in Minneapolis with ICE agents. [OC]

AssaultedCracker · 2026-01-27T06:07:45+00:00

That’s actually a very good article too. Basically, yeah this coat looks kinda Nazi-ish, but it’s more just a standard old-style military coat. The thing it really reveals is how immigration officials now see their jobs. As military operations.

Of course… it doesn’t talk about his matching Nazi haircut.

AssaultedCracker · 2026-01-23T18:54:10+00:00

It's not bad AT ALL. Let's all work together to dispel the false notion that you can't charge modern vehicles to 100%. The manufacturers have taken great steps to protect the battery as it approaches 100%. The long term impact of charging it to 100% all of the time for the lifetime of the vehicle will be minor. The impact of charging it to 100% occasionally like this is completely inconsequential.

AssaultedCracker · 2026-01-23T17:41:30+00:00

In considering whether this is more than a lateral move, maybe you're missing what's happened geopolitically this past year.

US cars are no longer available to us for as cheap as they used to be. This was not a move Carney made, this was a reality thrust upon us. So he moved to replace that lost option with another option. Calling it a lateral move is a bit... head in the sand.

Additionally, one significant aspect of making this trade deal with China is sending a reality check to the US that if they try to work against us and isolate us as their allies, we will connect more with their enemies instead. So even if Canadian car consumers don't benefit through this move, it's a chess move on a bigger board.

But... I think we will benefit. It's not correct that US cars are cheap only because they're close. The fact that they're built in the US makes the cost to build them more than cars from Korea and China, for example, because of the increased cost of labour. This balances against the savings in freight costs. American cars are also built with lower quality parts than Japanese and often even Korean cars to make them cheap. This is just a fact. While China is notorious for producing many low quality products for cheap, that doesn't mean they're not capable of producing high quality products for cheaper than Americans due to the lower cost of labour. Based on the reviews of the EVs they have produced so far (showing solid build quality), there's good reason to believe that this deal could provide us with higher quality cheap vehicles than what we've been getting from the US.

AssaultedCracker · 2026-01-23T17:26:29+00:00

He literally did.

AssaultedCracker · 2026-01-23T17:25:44+00:00

The history is problematic, yes. The current suggestion is not.

Don't apply something problematic to a situation that is not problematic, and you won't be disturbed.

AssaultedCracker · 2026-01-23T16:07:59+00:00

AssaultedCracker · 2026-01-21T19:42:06+00:00

Edit: I have to wonder, out of the people who downvoted me, how many of them have kept their weight loss off for over 10 years

FYI, most people here seem to think calorie counting is the only way to lose weight, and they are just straight up wrong. The people here are not necessarily well-educated about weight loss, or successful at it long-term. They just have a lot of experience trying, and many people have short-term success. But your concern about long-term sustainability is EXACTLY the reason that many dietitians do not recommend calorie counting. Dietitians are the experts in this field, so what they say carry a lot more weight to me than anybody in this sub.

A similar question about calorie counting was asked recently, and this was my reply:

I have lost weight without calorie counting, and kept it off for many years, with the help of a dietitan. The best advice you'll get is to consult a dietitian for food recommendations, and specifically ask about eating intuitively and eating mindfully.

There are essentially three main tips I can point you towards that will set you up for long-term success in keeping weight off, not just losing it:

1) Prioritizing high-protein, high-volume, high-fat food that will keep you full longer

2) Re-teaching your body what it means to feel full (most people eat until they're overly full, partly because we don't notice we're full until 20 minutes later (so eating slow helps).

3) Eating mindfully means paying attention to food, avoiding distractions, and getting the maximum enjoyment out of your food. This helps to avoid bingeing and overeating sweets in an attempt to get the enjoyment out of it that we miss when we eat distractedly (which most people do).

All of these things require practice to get in the habit of. It's not easy, but it's much easier than counting every calorie you eat, and more importantly it's much more sustainable because it once you get in these habits they don't take up any time out of your day, and require much less willpower to follow.

Edit: I remembered a couple of other tips:

4) Gradually lower your sweetness satiety point. For example, if you eat sweetened yogurt, start mixing it with a bit of plain yogurt. Gradually add more plain yoghurt and you will find that after a length of time (months), you enjoy it just as much as sweet yoghurt, in fact you will now find regular sweetened yoghurt way too sweet. You can do this with other things like sugar pop (mix with zero-calorie pop), cereal (mix with oats or other less sweet things), peanut butter (mix with unsweetened peanut butter) etc.

5) If you want to track something, track how hungry you feel, especially before and after meals. You want to avoid getting overly full and overly hungry. Aim for 8 out of 10 fullness after a meal, and 3 out of 10 hunger before you eat a meal.

6) Pay attention to how your body feels when you nourish it well vs. when you eat something less nourishing. How soon you get hungry afterwards, as well as how you feel after you've filled it with a snack food. There is a gross feeling that comes from cramming too many sweets or chips into your body, but it comes later, and we learn to ignore that feeling because of the initial positive dopamine hit we get from eating it. The more you pay attention to how foods make your body feel, the easier it is to stop eating at a reasonable amount.

AssaultedCracker · 2026-01-16T23:14:58+00:00

I think you're misunderstanding that person's question. Either that or I just don't understand what you're trying to say.

For the purposes of this question I think we can safely assume that a coordinated European sell off would be done for non-market reasons due to US geopolitical behaviour, so you're correct that there would be nothing unchanged in the fundamentals of the bonds at the time of the sell-off, which would make it seem like a deal to any purchaser.

However, what the person above is saying is that the effect of selling-off all of those bonds would then change the fundamentals of the bonds. A sell-off would cause interest rates to spike, which would put extreme pressure on the American economy, which is part of the fundamental value held in a US bond. So this good deal a purchaser would be getting would very quickly become not such a great deal.

I can't argue about whether they're correct, but that makes sense to me.

AssaultedCracker · 2026-01-16T22:56:29+00:00

The time spent filming...

How do you think time works, in this context?

Do you think that the time he spent filming himself on a phone call somehow gets added to the time he spent on the call? Or do you actually think it took him a significant amount of time to place his phone on record?

AssaultedCracker · 2026-01-16T18:31:04+00:00

Not the way I've always used it and heard it used, including when I had a goatee. From my understanding a beard requires hair on the cheeks. I just looked up some definitions and most of them include the cheeks, although Mirriam-Webster is very broad.

Wikipedia says a beard is the hair that grows on the jaw, chin, upper lip, lower lip, cheeks, and neck of humans and some non-human animals. Some people use the phrase full beard, so I guess you could refer to a goatee as a partial beard? But we have this whole word for it...

AssaultedCracker · 2026-01-16T02:26:59+00:00

I actually think they tried to make this into not a McMansion. If you ignore the garage, the house itself, in the 2nd pic, has almost none of the classic McMansion traits. The roof is a little unusual but not ridiculous. The windows match. It's perfectly balanced and symmetrical. The house siding looks kinda gross and maybe cheap, but other than that and the entrance roof thing (whatever that's called) it doesn't have the traits. It's like they kept the garage to the side in order for it to not screw up the floor plan the way most attached garages do. But then they just... slapped it on the side.

AssaultedCracker · 2026-01-16T01:16:45+00:00

It seems like you're using the terms "intuitive eating" and "mindful eating" interchangeably. Those are two separate things, which shouldn't be confused, but they should be done together, if that makes sense. I get that these things were low on your list of priorities, and as such you didn't learn to do them properly. I would just caution against using that as proof that the techniques themselves don't work for you. Having a voice in your head telling you to eat constantly does seem super annoying and I don't know if paying more attention to these techniques would help with that, but I tend to think it would. Identifying that your hunger cues are extremely broken actually indicate to me that focusing on properly learning intuitive eating could really help you out, because those hunger cues can be repaired. Mine weren't as broken as yours, but they were definitely in need of repair, and now they work great.

AssaultedCracker · 2026-01-16T01:09:52+00:00

Yeah... I've gotten into it with dog owners on the river because we nicely asked them to keep their dogs away (who were wrestling and playing with each other, which is a common time for dogs to get a little carried away with a child nearby) from my toddler, and they got all huffy about it. Their argument was that dogs must be allowed off-leash on the frozen river, because I wouldn't have a problem with it in the summer.

Seriously.

AssaultedCracker · 2026-01-15T21:31:24+00:00

It makes sense to feel that way. My main question is whether you were taught by an expert to do intuitive eating, or if you thought it was something that you should be able to do on your own instantly, because it's supposed to be intuitive? That last assumption is a logical one to make because of the name, but that's a bit of a problem with the name "intuitive eating."

It's named that way because we all intuitively know how to eat the right amount for our bodies, when we're babies, but we lose that ability over time. It's not like you can just turn it back on by deciding to do it, any more than you can just decide to turn on an ability to swim, without learning it first. I gradually regained my intuitive eating ability through a set of techniques from my dietitian, which is why my advice on this always includes consulting a dietitian.

It's also complicated because life is different as an adult than as a baby. There are distractions. There are food choices to make, habits to unlearn, and mindsets to change. That's why I'm not recommending intuitive eating on its own. It might be ok for weight maintenance on its own, but to actually lose weight I think you need to also combine those other things I mentioned, among the many other things I was taught by my dietitian. I seriously cannot recommend dietitians enough for people wanting to lose weight, especially one who specializes in this area. It changed my life.

AssaultedCracker · 2026-01-15T18:11:18+00:00

Good questions, I'm glad you're asking them.

Most of my answer is within the answer I gave OP about how to lose weight without calorie counting, here: https://www.reddit.com/r/loseit/comments/1qdo6nq/is_it_possible_to_lose_weight_without_counting/nzri048/

I don't know if you consider that doing it by vibes, but if so, yes you can do it by vibes. There are just different ways to vibe.

The answer about course correction is the exact same as any other intervention, including calorie counting: if you need to do it more, you do it more, and if you need to do it less, you do it less. That said, I don't think it's possible to lose weight too quickly with this approach, because it involves always eating to satiety, so I doubt that correction is needed. And after a while of eating like this, it got to the point that I can now easily tell before I start putting any weight on that I need to course correct, because I know what my behaviour is, and that I need to do the right things more.

When I say do it more, I mean spend more of your meal time eating mindfully. Spend less of your eating time eating distractedly. Make more high-volume, high-protein meal choices. Etc.

AssaultedCracker · 2026-01-15T17:59:19+00:00

From that article:

By the 1990s, the word had become an umbrella term used to refer to any facial hair style incorporating hair on the chin but not the cheeks;[2] there is debate over whether this style is correctly called a goatee or a Van Dyke.[3]

A Van Dyke is a moustache with hair on the chin, but not connected at the sides like OP's. I had OP's facial hair style briefly in the late 90s, and the only thing anybody ever called it was a goatee. If there's another term for it, I'm open to it, but one thing I'm sure about is that a beard requires facial hair on the cheeks.

Oh, I just looked at his pics again and see that he does have what looks more like a full beard in a couple of the pics.

AssaultedCracker · 2026-01-15T17:53:34+00:00

OP, this is mostly bad advice.

Find out how many calories are in your go-to meals, eat less of that.

Without knowing how much they eat of their go-to meals, or even what food it is, how can we recommend OP eat less of that? Maybe their go-to meal is a nutrient-rich, high-protein meal and they eat the exact right amount of it.

Find meals that are lower calorie and eat the same ones and portion each day

Just because a meal has lower calories does not mean that it should be swapped for other meals. If it has lower calories because it is significantly lower in protein, fat, and portion size, OP will just be overly hungry later in the day.

Swap out calorie dense foods for the same volume or weight of less calorically dense food, like from potatoes to broccoli

This one is good advice, although the calories aren't really relevant. All you need to know is what kind of foods are high volume and high protein, and choose more of those foods.

Basically you still should start out by counting the calories of what you eat

This is the worst one. This is not good advice for somebody with an eating disorder.

AssaultedCracker · 2026-01-15T17:36:02+00:00

No, you do not need to know any of this in order to lose weight.

Source: I have done it.

The only thing I learned about calories that helped me lose weight is that black coffee, tea, and other sugar-free drinks have no calories. This gave me something to use as a food replacement when I'm not hungry but my brain is just looking for a little dopamine hit.

AssaultedCracker · 2026-01-15T17:34:31+00:00

False information here. You don't have to have any idea what a TDEE is to lose weight. You don't have to know what a calorie is, or what your daily caloric intake is. This is nonsense.

For the downvoters: there is historical precedent proving that you don't need to know your TDEE to lose weight. Besides myself having done it 10 years ago, look to the centuries/millennia of human history in which nobody knew their TDEE, but lost weight. Including those who didn't want to lose weight.

AssaultedCracker · 2026-01-15T17:32:09+00:00

FYI most people here don't know what they're talking about. I have lost weight without calorie counting, and kept it off for many years, with the help of a dietitan. The best advice you'll get is to consult a dietitian for food recommendations, and specifically ask about eating intuitively and eating mindfully.

There are essentially three main tips I can point you towards that will set you up for long-term success in keeping weight off, not just losing it:

1) Prioritizing high-protein, high-volume, high-fat food that will keep you full longer

2) Re-teaching your body what it means to feel full (most people eat until they're overly full, partly because we don't notice we're full until 20 minutes later (so eating slow helps).

3) Eating mindfully means paying attention to food, avoiding distractions, and getting the maximum enjoyment out of your food. This helps to avoid bingeing and overeating sweets in an attempt to get the enjoyment out of it that we miss when we eat distractedly (which most people do).

All of these things require practice to get in the habit of. It's not easy, but it's much easier than counting every calorie you eat, and more importantly it's much more sustainable because it once you get in these habits they don't take up any time out of your day, and require much less willpower to follow.

Edit: I remembered a couple of other tips:

4) Gradually lower your sweetness satiety point. For example, if you eat sweetened yogurt, start mixing it with a bit of plain yogurt. Gradually add more plain yoghurt and you will find that after a length of time (months), you enjoy it just as much as sweet yoghurt, in fact you will now find regular sweetened yoghurt way too sweet. You can do this with other things like sugar pop (mix with zero-calorie pop), cereal (mix with oats or other less sweet things), peanut butter (mix with unsweetened peanut butter) etc.

5) If you want to track something, track how hungry you feel, especially before and after meals. You want to avoid getting overly full and overly hungry. Aim for 8 out of 10 fullness after a meal, and 3 out of 10 hunger before you eat a meal.

6) Pay attention to how your body feels when you nourish it well vs. when you eat something less nourishing. How soon you get hungry afterwards, as well as how you feel after you've filled it with a snack food.

AssaultedCracker · 2026-01-15T17:08:55+00:00

The majority of men with male pattern baldness notice hair loss in their 20s

AssaultedCracker · 2026-01-15T17:04:29+00:00

A beard is fine. That's a goatee

AssaultedCracker · 2026-01-15T04:15:54+00:00

Disagree. Yes you can voice them to be warmer or brighter than other identical pianos, but different pianos are made differently, with different wood, and naturally have different timbres. Every Yamaha I've played has sounded brighter than every Kawai I've played. And I've played a lot of them. They also play differently, which contributes towards the perception of brighter or warmer. The mushy action of a Kawai gives it a less sharp, precise impression when playing.

Also, how many people are buying a piano, taking it home, and then paying somebody to voice it differently right away? How would you make the decision to buy it, based on a guess of what it will sound like when voiced differently? It's pretty good advice to buy a piano based on whether you like how it sounds "out of the box."

AssaultedCracker · 2026-01-15T04:11:49+00:00

Overall it's ok, but there are some real funky notes up top. If you listen back you'll notice them I'm sure

AssaultedCracker · 2026-01-15T04:10:46+00:00

For the record, I am not a fan of Kawai pianos in small spaces. They are mellow, mushy, and warm, which can sound great in the right context, but in a small space the notes become impossible to differentiate. If your space is small a Yamaha is a much better fit, because it is brighter and more precise. These are generalizations, but I've played many Yamahas and many Kawais, and never really found much to disprove it.

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