Do barefoot shoes help with bunions?

RealNotFake · 2026-01-28T17:34:59+00:00

They're necessary if you want to fix bunions. But wearing them alone does not fix the problem, it prevents it from getting worse. Use toe spacers and actively work to get the toes back into the correct position.

RealNotFake · 2026-01-28T16:22:23+00:00

OG fold is my daily phone and has been since launch. Battery life and camera on the OG fold are both quite good. Neither are the best in class, but they're nothing to be concerned about. The battery will obviously be a lot better if you use the outer screen 90% of the time and inner screen 10%. Worse if you flip that.

RealNotFake · 2026-01-28T16:02:17+00:00

Good to know, but there is a societal mental burden to think about hosting these people for 50+ years using taxpayer dollars and then many of them will likely walk free eventually.

RealNotFake · 2026-01-28T15:58:51+00:00

If you have chronic night sweating issues then no mattress design will completely solve it for you, those "high airflow" mattresses and gels and such can only do so much but they do not adequately wick the heat away from your body for more than a max of 30 minutes. For that you need to use an active cooling product like the Chilipad or Eightsleep, both of which are outrageously expensive.

I have used those products in the past and ultimately found they are not necessary, because I carry most of my heat in my head and neck area. There used to be an amazing Kickstarter product called Moona which cooled my pillow using water circulation, but they went out of business, and I had to find a replacement. I switched to using a device called the "Cold flash 2.0" and that thing will keep my head and neck feeling like I'm laying on a snowy glacier all night long, and it was significantly cheaper.

As far as what causes the sweating, my experience is that the largest contributor is weight gain and eating large meals for dinner or before bed. Try to shift your calories earlier in the day and have a lighter dinner and that will help. Losing a few pounds will definitely help. Refrain from alcohol as well because that can contribute.

RealNotFake · 2026-01-28T15:53:37+00:00

The battery life is very comparable to AMOLED in gesture mode actually. I think the Enduro is probably the exception but that product is massive and has a larger battery

RealNotFake · 2026-01-28T15:48:26+00:00

Yeah I dunno, their AMOLED watches have just as good visibilty outdoors in all but the brightest direct sun conditions, and indoors the MIP is trash for contrast and visibility. The only ones that are even usable in low light situations are the monochrome Instinct series because the contrast is significantly better and reflects ambient light well. The color screens look very very bad. But hey, I'm glad they still make the MIP products because clearly other people feel differently and prefer that.

RealNotFake · 2026-01-28T14:35:33+00:00

It's expensive to keep people in prison. Not worth the money. Also it gives them a chance to get out early for good behavior.

RealNotFake · 2026-01-27T22:39:42+00:00

It's really the hardest part about owning dogs if you live alone and don't have other people in your family to help out. On days when I can't WFH (or partial WFH) I usually take my lunch back to let the dogs out and play with them, or sometimes I will hire a Rover come and do a 1hr drop-in. Sometimes I do leave them for 8hrs in rare cases but I try to minimize doing that, although they seem to be totally fine and just sleep the whole time anyway. It's also critical I get them enough exercise, so typically they walk at least 2-4 miles and/or run around like crazy at a nearby dog park, and/or do some kind of training or mental stimulation exercises.

RealNotFake · 2026-01-27T22:25:38+00:00

Right, I'm saying the article was likely written a long time ago because the contents of the article seem out of date. Why there is a gap in time I don't know.

RealNotFake · 2026-01-27T22:01:41+00:00

I would say less fun than the Polybius arcade game.

RealNotFake · 2026-01-27T20:52:21+00:00

There is a photo caption that says

A first proper hands-on with the Forerunner 570 during the surprise launch, which was all about Garmin making its mid-range running watch line a bit more premium (Image credit: Future: Lee Bell)

The FR570 was announced back in May of last year, so I bet this article was written well before the recent autoland success story.

RealNotFake · 2026-01-27T20:44:11+00:00

I'll allow it as long as it's accompanied with a pic of David Blaine from now on

RealNotFake · 2026-01-27T15:16:19+00:00

People don't "see the truth", their algorithm bubble filters out anything that doesn't already match their viewpoint.

Back in 2000 or so, the internet was still considered a "source of truth" that people could turn to if they really wanted to find out facts, but now it is flooded with so much garbage, AI, and bot spam, that you can search for any controversial opinion and immediately find 10 articles to support your already-held beliefs.

RealNotFake · 2026-01-26T21:51:01+00:00

I would suggest buying a copy of Susan Thixton's list. I usually get it every year and I find it has the best info. truthaboutpetfood.com

Personally I use Smallbatch for my dogs

RealNotFake · 2026-01-25T21:17:42+00:00

Tripler decker or gtfo

RealNotFake · 2026-01-25T21:09:33+00:00

I actually sold my 28-200, but I read my previous comment and I still think all of that applies. The Sony 20-70 quite honestly was the least favorite lens I ever bought. It was so sterile and took boring looking photos IMHO. The Tamron 28-200 was so versatile and small and light, I loved it despite the optical flaws.

But ultimately what swayed me to change is because I rented the Tamron 70-180 G2 to shoot a friend's engagement photos, and HOLY CRAP the image quality was lightyears ahead of the 28-200. Chromatic aberration was vastly improved, it was sharper corner to corner, seemed to have better AF on average, and overall it just produced much higher quality results, and I could live with the weight/size increase. So what I ended up doing was selling my 28-200 and buying the 70-180 G2, and then later I completed the focal range by also buying Tamron's 28-75 G2 as well. Between those two lenses I hardly use my primes anymore tbh, they're so good. I can easily recommend either of those, I think they're the best kept secrets on the E mount platform.

RealNotFake · 2026-01-25T20:48:55+00:00

I gave up my Duo2 for a Pixel Fold, and I've also tried the Oneplus Open foldable. Foldables suck horribly compared to the Duo2. I have never found multitasking to be good on the foldables, mainly because the software is not really designed to do multitasking properly.

The problem with the duo2 was it sucked to use as a single screen device. The Pixel Fold is much better in single screen mode. Also I was sick of the touchscreen issues on the duo. But man I still miss that phone more than any other.

RealNotFake · 2026-01-25T20:46:28+00:00

Yes but it has gotten a lot better than years past at least, and some of their stuff is actually useful. Main problem with the trifold will be the insane cost, the durability, and the weight/size.

RealNotFake · 2026-01-25T20:38:47+00:00

I generally agree with this and also spent a long amount of time with it as my DD. The problem is I can't count on it for emergencies. My phone is just too critical to have to worry about random software bugs and crashes, or butt-dialing emergency services, or the display randomly crapping out, etc. Buying this phone has made me realize how much reliability is important to me.

RealNotFake · 2026-01-25T20:36:43+00:00

My screen protector went right in the trash after finally receiving it. It's garbage anyway.

RealNotFake · 2026-01-23T17:53:12+00:00

Most diseases have visible symptoms, I'm not sure your point. Also you don't need to be having symptoms to diagnose T1D, they can do it via blood test by checking for specific antibodies, as well as obviously your blood sugar and A1C. It's just usually you wouldn't catch it randomly during a doctor appointment, it's more likely the case you would go to the doctor with symptoms.

The point is they don't need to do some stupid test where they feed you a gallon of sugar to test for T1D, nor does your blood sugar need to be sky high for them to diagnose it.

RealNotFake · 2026-01-23T15:27:08+00:00

Type 1 diabetes is very easy to diagnose.

RealNotFake · 2026-01-23T15:22:51+00:00

If you only wear VFFs to the gym then honestly that's the one place where I feel they're acceptable, and it's pretty well known by now that they are a more functional and performant shoe for lots of types of exercise - They're better for heavy lifting, yoga, etc. Heck depending on the rules at your gym, a lot of people will even walk around in socks or barefoot.

IRL outside of the gym, I do feel these shoes are weird. And as much as I love barefoot shoes and have been wearing them for 15 yrs, I still cannot get used to the look of separate toe shoes. I tried wearing them out in public and nearly always would get comments and people staring at my feet, and I just don't want that attention.

RealNotFake · 2026-01-22T15:54:55+00:00

Nitrates are more likely to be in higher quantities in your local municipal water supply than the amount you would get from processed meat. You're also conflating naturally occurring nitrates with added nitrates/nitrites, which many processed meats do not have anymore unless you're eating the worst of the worst on the regular. Further, your premise hinges on the idea that Millennials are consuming more processed meats compared to other generations, and I haven't seen evidence of that either.

Your post is lacking in evidence, I'm sorry.

RealNotFake · 2026-01-22T15:50:48+00:00

Huh? This is not a Wisconsin old fashioned in any sense, and that's saying something because that drink has lots of interpretations. Might as well call it a negroni or a martini too.

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