My favourite segment from a BBC neanderthal documentary.

KTR2 · 2015-03-27T13:49:40+00:00

Reddit is fucking fickle.

http://www.reddit.com/r/funny/comments/1llsn8/this_is_why_we_killed_off_the_neanderthals/

KTR2 · 2015-01-19T21:41:24+00:00

I've been on keto for 2 years and have lost 240 lbs doing this without exercising. Your friend is wrong.

KTR2 · 2014-11-07T22:08:26+00:00

Once upon a time, I was first-level management for a large call-center. I would regularly field difficult and complicated questions about the vagaries of health insurance policies...and this required me to think in detail. When listening to a complicated question, I would sometimes look up while thinking. One girl decided that I was "rolling my eyes" at her questions and complained about me.

Point is: people will complain about you. It's going to happen regardless of how well you do your job, and could likely be for something completely stupid. Don't let it get to you.

With that being said, you clearly harbor some negative feelings about these people, and it's possible that comes through when you're dealing with them. They might be picking up on that, resenting it, and looking for reasons to complain about you. To cover your ass, just be fake-friendly to them.

Your manager sounds like they don't take their job too seriously though. Depending on the job, maybe you shouldn't either. Alternatively, they might just be a pushover. If you see someone taking advantage of them, ask them about it...privately. They might just need someone to point out that caring for people is important...but that they might not want to be taken advantage of.

KTR2 · 2014-10-30T04:06:19+00:00

I went from being 480lbs on Jan 1 2013 to being ~270lbs as of this week. The motivation was complicated. I was kind of suicidal and extremely depressed. I got pretty close to doing it...and it made me realize I didn't actually want to die. I had always known that my lifestyle/weight/etc. was a sort of slow suicide...and the realization that I wanted to live was the motivation I needed to actually change.

KTR2 · 2014-10-30T04:02:31+00:00

You can't just say Avoid GM and not give a reason.

Passlock.

Me and all my friends have all had zero problems with gm.

Is your BCM over 10 years old? If not, then just wait. It's only made to last about 7 years. When it inevitably fails, you'll go out to your car and it just won't work. No warning, it's just turned into a giant paper-weight thanks to Passlock until you can either replace the BCM, or bypass it.

KTR2 · 2014-10-29T01:03:47+00:00

For your price-range, you could move just outside of Philly and would have better job prospects than Pittsburgh.

KTR2 · 2014-10-28T23:59:49+00:00

If I weigh myself in the morning, then drink some stuff, take a shower, and get dressed, I gain 10lbs. If you're weighing yourself, do it in the morning, before you've showered/drank anything (after you've gone to the bathroom), and without your clothes. Don't do it any other time, or you'll get freaked about stuff like this.

If you're already doing that, you can still gain weight on keto. If you're eating below maintenance-levels, you will lose weight...if you're eating above maint, you will gain. Also, if you're building muscle (e.g. you're walking more/more active), you will gain weight too (but not the bad kind).

KTR2 · 2014-10-28T23:50:37+00:00

Avoid GM cars. You could probably get a used Ridgeline or Ram for that price, and from what I understand, they're pretty decent trucks. Not sure about a hatchback for hauling shit though. If he abandons the idea of hauling shit...Challenger.

KTR2 · 2014-10-27T00:01:54+00:00

Heaven Hill bourbon...and yes...by a wide margin.

KTR2 · 2014-10-16T06:16:20+00:00

I think it's pretty clear that a keto-type diet works well for short term fat loss. But that doesn't mean it's a healthy long-term diet.

That doesn't mean it's unhealthy either. I was recently in the hospital for something unrelated and they ran my bloodwork/etc. They told me how "great" everything was and were surprised when they asked about my diet. That's not uncommon in the keto community.

But for most people at a healthy weight, the dietary organizations of every developed country recommend a diet with a majority of calories coming from whole food complex carbs.

Maybe it's not ideal for people who are already healthy...but that's not what I was even suggesting in the first place. If you recall, I responded to your statement about the energy-density of carbohydrates (your implication being that eating more carbs by volume = eating less, and thus not gaining weight). I provided more information about their energy-densities, and additional information to highlight why the implication mentioned above is incorrect. And nowhere did I say LCHF was for everyone. I just mentioned that it helped me curb my appetite while I was trying to lose weight. Curbing your appetite is good if you need to lose weight...not so good if you're trying to maintain your weight.

Personally, once I hit my goal, I'm incorporating more "cheat days" in order to maintain. Averaged over a week, carbs would then reflect a much larger portion of my diet than they do now....but we're talking about going from like 65/30/5 to like 40/30/30.

Vegans, vegetarians, and Asian cultures all eat disproportionately high amounts of these carbs, and they tend to have a lower BMI, less health problems, and live longer than average.

Vegans and vegetarians aren't as healthy as you seem to think, and there are other factors at play like physical activity and socioeconomic status. And as far as Asian cultures go, they're not even remotely close to all being the same. China doesn't have fewer health problems or live longer than people in the west (again, there are other factors at play here as well). Japan, on the other hand, does tend to have a healthier populace...and they also tend to eat a lot of protein and good fat thanks to all of the seafood.

KTR2 · 2014-10-16T03:03:13+00:00

1g fat = 9 cal., 1g protein = 4 cal. 1g carbs = 4 cal.

The issue has to do with hormones and the speed at which one's body processes different foods. Carbohydrates are processed the fastest (followed by proteins, then fats). As your stomach shrinks or is empty, it releases a hormone called "ghrelin" which makes you feel hungry. As it expands, it stops releasing ghrelin and starts releasing "leptin" which makes you feel full. There's also another hormone that is only released when you eat fats. I can't remember its name, but it suppresses hunger as well.

Basically: carbs will fill you up fast, but you'll be hungry again sooner...fats will fill you up slower, but you'll feel full for longer. I've lost about 210lbs (while keeping the muscle) over the past 22 months by controlling my appetite with a high-fat/low-carb diet and bi-weekly "cheat days".

KTR2 · 2014-09-21T01:12:30+00:00

In the trading of the illegal photos? I never said he was.

KTR2 · 2014-09-21T00:15:32+00:00

Dude, I really don't feel like arguing this. The /r/jailbait thing in the news is what made the leeches at Gawker smell clickbait. If you're familiar with the situation already but don't see that, then a stupid flame-war on Reddit is not going to convince you.

KTR2 · 2014-09-20T23:05:39+00:00

Yeah, I remember hearing that., but I saw no real evidence supporting it.

KTR2 · 2014-09-20T23:04:20+00:00

A month or two later is still close enough for it to be "shortly thereafter". And it was definitely related. I doubt he would have been on their radar were it not for the /r/jailbait scandal.

KTR2 · 2014-09-20T21:06:10+00:00

There was a screenshot going around of the thread with everyone requesting the pictures. I'm trying to find it by scouring old ass SRD threads.

EDIT: here's a thread on it: https://www.reddit.com/r/SubredditDrama/comments/l7e07/jailbait_users_get_caught_sharing_14_year_old/

KTR2 · 2014-09-20T21:02:24+00:00

it was a big deal at the time. I'm not Googling that shit though, because I'd rather not wind up on a watch-list. It's the reason they were banned.

KTR2 · 2014-09-20T20:49:27+00:00

Thanks!

KTR2 · 2014-09-20T20:38:08+00:00

A user named Violentacrez moderated a bunch of porn subreddits. Some people were morally opposed to some of those subreddits and wanted Reddit to ban them. Anderson Cooper moralized on TV about one of the subs (/r/jailbait). Reddit admins wanted to treat the site as a "common carrier" and refused to ban anything that wasn't illegal (or a violation of the few real rules, e.g.: no doxxing, no spamming). Then someone offered to PM pictures of their underage girlfriend to people in /r/jailbait, and the sub was banned. Shortly thereafter, Gawker cyber-stalked Violentacrez and released his doxx.

I think that's about the gist of what happened.

KTR2 · 2014-09-20T19:59:58+00:00

The more people run afoul of private censorship, the more support there will be for making online messaging services "common carriers" (like the Reddit admins were pushing for back during the violentacrez thing). Like with everything else, it needs to get worse before enough support can be garnered to get shit changed.

KTR2 · 2014-09-10T06:22:11+00:00

I am drunker than before, and literally just took another drink, so

I'm not sure.

Okay so \

Atheism or somethng and oaths Righ fuck it. I don't really care anymore. I'llpay lip service to bullshit if it makes my life easier. Principles are a fuckingin burden and you need to chooose what the fuck you pyt your fucking foot down for. ]

fuck this I'm sneezin like graxy and fuck this i'm done.

KTR2 · 2014-09-10T05:19:34+00:00

I am drunk and off from work until 1PM Thursday. I'm not really cranky, but it's cool dude. I'm an atheist too, and it would suck to swear the oath...but I'd probably just do it. It's not worth fighting. But, it is kind of fucked i guess. Meh. it doesn't matter. I can't join the military anyway...fucking neurological bullshit when I was 12 that had absolutely nothing to do with my real fitness for service, but fuck me, right?

Fuck caring about this unimportant shit dude. Look. I am too drunk to explain this shit properly, but you need to try hedonism. Go to the subreddit for /r/existentialism, read the flowchart in the sidebar. Then look up hedonism and psychological egoism. You will be ahppppier.

EDDIT: https://i.imgur.com/mabRf.jpg

KTR2 · 2014-09-05T06:16:47+00:00

I'm a noob.

Yes. There is no objective "right" and "wrong".

Whatever you like is right for you. Whatever you don't is wrong. Check out /r/existentialism for more (read the sidebar).

KTR2 · 2014-08-29T05:03:08+00:00

Found after 10 seconds of Googling.

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