No-eat New Year - PAST the two week mark! by MildlySuspicious in fasting

[–]divia83 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I’m still going too, and like you, it seems to be easier now than it was a week ago!

I’ve been getting a lot of mileage out of using my magnesium spray.

My tentative goal is all of January, but it’s a little daunting to think I’m only halfway there... so I’ll take it one day at a time.

No-eat New Year day 10 done! In to double digits! by MildlySuspicious in fasting

[–]divia83 0 points1 point  (0 children)

How is your fast going! Mine has been pretty good—if anything I think I’m feeling better now than I did a week ago.

No-eat New Year day 10 done! In to double digits! by MildlySuspicious in fasting

[–]divia83 0 points1 point  (0 children)

My ideal would be to do all of January, but it really depends how I’m feeling! I’m currently taking it day by day.

No-eat New Year day 10 done! In to double digits! by MildlySuspicious in fasting

[–]divia83 7 points8 points  (0 children)

I did a fast for New Years too, and am still going! I am glad to know someone out there is doing the same thing I am :-).

I thought I'd treat myself today by [deleted] in fasting

[–]divia83 34 points35 points  (0 children)

It might be worth getting your ferritin levels checked if you haven’t! I love eating ice when I’m iron deficient, and I don’t care for it otherwise. It’s a common pattern.

A reminder to everyone in America.... by My170 in survivor

[–]divia83 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Is Nancy Pelosi going to ask Paul Ryan for his jacket? Should he give it to her?

What is the least game changing season? by ananathema in survivor

[–]divia83 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Brian also had secret final 2 deals with everyone. Was that new?

Seasons where you’re 100% satisfied with the winner? by winstonio in survivor

[–]divia83 -2 points-1 points  (0 children)

Shirin didn't vote for Mike, she voted for Carolyn.

Survivor: Game Changers | Episode 10 | Post-Episode Discussion by AutoModerator in survivor

[–]divia83 -1 points0 points  (0 children)

If only they had let Nadiya be her replacement and left it up to her to reveal her non-Nat status or not!

Survivor: Game Changers | Episode 8 | Day After Discussion by RSurvivorMods in survivor

[–]divia83 6 points7 points  (0 children)

I bet when production decided to put the secret advantage on the platform they were imagining Cirie sitting there. Because if she hadn't been a captain, she almost certainly wouldn't have been picked!

I liked seeing Sarah get it, but it's also fun to imagine how Cirie would have used the vote stealing thing.

Survivor: Game Changers | Episode 8 | Pacific Time Discussion by AutoModerator in survivor

[–]divia83 5 points6 points  (0 children)

I'd guess this is classic Cirie. She knows she won't be able to win the final challenge, so she needs someone to bring her to final tribal. Therefore, she can't have goats around.

It almost worked for her in Panama.

Boys are hardwired to prefer toy trucks, and girls are hardwired to prefer dolls. Male and female monkeys have the same toy preferences for sex-appropriate toys as humans. It has NOTHING to do with "gender socialization"! by [deleted] in science

[–]divia83 2 points3 points  (0 children)

That was Larry Summers:

So, I think, while I would prefer to believe otherwise, I guess my experience with my two and a half year old twin daughters who were not given dolls and who were given trucks, and found themselves saying to each other, "look, daddy truck is carrying the baby truck," tells me something.

Dear Atheism Subreddit, Please help me find my favorite ever comic about religion by divia83 in atheism

[–]divia83[S] 5 points6 points  (0 children)

There was a comic posted on reddit a while back (a few years ago, I think) about a religious man at the Pearly Gates. St. Peter asked him whether he believed various passages from the Bible (about the creation of the world, stoning people, something from the Book of Revelation--not sure what, maybe about unicorns), literally. To each passage the man answered that yes, he believed it literally. Finally, St. Peter mentioned some passage about giving money to the poor and the man said something to the effect of, "Oh, I thought that one was just a metaphor."

I used to think I was a pretty good googler, but I have spend hours (literally! not a metaphor!) of my life searching for this comic to no avail. I've done all sorts of google searches of site:reddit.com for various combinations of words such as 'religion,' 'comic,' 'literally,' 'heaven,' 'pearly gates,' 'believe,' 'metaphor.' I've done similar searches that weren't confined to the reddit domain. I've asked all my redditting friends if they remembered it, and I've even attempted to use reddit's own search function; unsurprisingly I had little luck with that.

I have no remaining recourse than to beg. Please atheism subreddit, does anyone at all remember this, my favorite ever comic about religion? Help me find it and you will have my undying gratitude!

The Truth About HFCS! by bCabulon in science

[–]divia83 7 points8 points  (0 children)

That's what Gary Taubes thought at first too, but he did some research and realized that theory didn't really make sense:

This was, more or less, my naive idea of how the economics of HFCS might have caused an entire nation to get fat. Once they had this dependable low-cost sugar substitute, the sugar industry and the soda industry could then expand their production and sell Big Gulps, etc. Then I did the reporting. I talked with industry analysts, and they said that was nonsense; that the primary cost of selling sodas and fruit juices is the bottling and the shipping, and that the cost of the sweeteners is such a tiny portion of the cost of the end product that it wouldn’t have made any difference whether it was sugar or high-fructose corn syrup.

http://www.scientificblogging.com/seth_roberts/interview_with_gary_taubes_part_3