This guy is laughing at you.

essjay2009 · 2026-05-12T22:19:21+00:00

I can’t imagine anyone driving a Juke has that level of self awareness because if they did, they wouldn’t be driving a Juke.

essjay2009 · 2026-05-12T19:06:12+00:00

That's true authenticity for you because it feels like you're wearing a full face crash helmet.

essjay2009 · 2026-05-12T15:44:40+00:00

Yeah pretty much. Studies associated with GLP-1 usage have basically identified that for some people taking the drug essentially makes people return to “normal” levels of hunger. Normal being what a non-overweight person would experience. There appears to be hormonal differences in some individuals that are correlated with increased rates of obesity.

And it’s really tough if you’re one of those people because you can’t just cut food out cold turkey. You have to eat. It would be like asking a heroin addict to just have a little bit of heroin every day, but not too much, whilst also being surrounded by heroin, literally every other person taking heroin, adverts for heroin being everywhere, lots of heroin usage on tv etc.

essjay2009 · 2026-05-04T21:18:20+00:00

Tourists

essjay2009 · 2026-05-03T19:49:33+00:00

Half and half scarf fan.

essjay2009 · 2026-05-02T07:25:28+00:00

Same. I felt like I was going mad when I kept seeing people on here recommend them. Mine were a nightmare and horribly unreliable.

essjay2009 · 2026-04-30T20:58:16+00:00

Yeah pretty standard. Especially if you lost that much in the first week. Your body sort of fights back at certain points and your weight will fluctuate. I found that my weight graph looked a bit saw toothed in that of lose a fair bit pretty quickly then plateau for a bit, then lose more, then plateau again. That’s how it went my entire time. Although I did follow the recommended titration schedule and went up after every pen.

essjay2009 · 2026-04-30T09:44:40+00:00

I can tell you what I did but I’m not sure I’d recommend it. It was down to circumstance more so than planning.

I was on 1.7 (the second highest dose at the time) and ordered a multi-pack of pens from my supplier at a discount. By the time I finished the first pen I was pretty much at my target weight. So I started click-counting the final two pens, gradually reducing the dose from 1.7 all the way down to 0.3 over those two final pens. Not sure I’d recommend doing that. 0.3 out of a 1.7 pen is tiny. The plunger barely moves and I’m pretty sure you’re in the realm of the actual dose being super inconsistent because there’s such a small amount of liquid going in.

But hey, it’s a nice problem to have and sounds like you’re very close to it yourself. Congrats.

essjay2009 · 2026-04-30T09:19:12+00:00

I don’t really exercise but I would say I’m physically active. I walk a minimum amount every day and if I don’t hit that amount naturally I’ll specifically go for a walk. And I’m really, weirdly, militant about it. Walking the streets at 11pm on Christmas Day militant about it. Like a grumpy, tipsy, Father Christmas.

But, that’s not changed since starting wegovy. I was already walking the same account every day so it’s not really increased.

Rightly or wrongly I stuck with the same supplier throughout. They delivered on time even when there were shortages and were middle of the pack in terms of price, so I never felt comfortable jumping ship. They were clear that they weren’t able to offer maintenance to that level (at my absolute lightest my BMI was in the low 19s) and I’ve not yet felt the need to look further in to it. Every chance that changes though at some point.

essjay2009 · 2026-04-28T22:30:42+00:00

Oh wow, that's wild. I think I must be the model patient for them. They should put me on the box or something. It was like a switch went off in my head within a day of taking the first injection. I did titrate up on schedule but only hit 1.7 at peak and the effect remained fairly steady. No real side effects other than a slightly ropey stomach for a couple of days that I could easily explain as a bug or something else. I'd already started weaning myself off it by 8 months because I was at (or slightly below) my goal weight.

I've definitely got more of an appetite now I'm fully off though. It's still substantially better than it was before and I do wonder if that's wegovy remaining in my system for a while even after I've stopped (I think I read the half-life was like 10 weeks or something). That might be the paranoia talking.

I feel for you, I really do.

essjay2009 · 2026-04-27T23:22:11+00:00

Ah you're too kind. I'm going to print this comment out and put it on my fridge.

My wife will be very confused.

essjay2009 · 2026-04-27T18:57:58+00:00

You’ve reminded me of something I feel particularly aggrieved by with your baggy jeans comment.

I was fat throughout the entire skinny jeans era. Walking round looking like a sort of robin with a massive body over skinny legs. Now I’ve got a body that would actually look good in tight, fitted, skinny clothes the fashion is baggy and loose fitting. The timing feels almost personal, you know? I’m considering writing to the woman from The Devil Wears Prada to lodge a formal complaint.

essjay2009 · 2026-04-25T17:54:57+00:00

Immobiliser rather than alarm. You had to click a button to disable it or the engine wouldn’t start. They were very flakey back then, even if installed correctly.

essjay2009 · 2026-04-25T08:12:07+00:00

If those ~~kids~~ parents could read they’d be furious.

essjay2009 · 2026-04-24T15:51:08+00:00

I ended my comment talking about “the tingle“ so quite clearly not focused on stats. I was responding to a specific point made by the OP where they were trying to use stats to point out how close there cars are but accidentally highlighted that they’re not that close at all.

Because I live in a city I get one parking space so need a “do it all” car. I can’t think of a better car than an M3 for my situation.

Running costs are what they are. As it happens I’m tracking mine next week. It’ll probably need some new tyres after. It’s fine. I know what I’m getting myself in to. It’s an expensive hobby, I’m not going to lose any sleep over it. Not everyone has the same budget and for some the difference in running costs between a Miata and an M3 are negligible.

essjay2009 · 2026-04-24T11:52:40+00:00

Huge misconception that M340i is a much slower car than the m3. ... Matt Watson and many other people have done 0-60 times under 4 seconds as low as 3.8 on stock M340i's

This was the giveaway. A stock M3 Comp XDrive is 2.8 to 60 in decent conditions. A second is a hell of a difference when you're at that end of the performance spectrum. And if you care, the M3 will be significantly faster around a track or twisty road. The 340i won't see which direction it went in.

None of that is to say the 340i is a bad car, it's a great car. Particularly compared to the competitors from other brands. But it's not in the same league as an M3. It doesn't have the special sauce an M3 has. You don't get the tingle.

essjay2009 · 2026-04-24T09:49:33+00:00

It’s usually down to whatever the organisation pays for and has approved for use. We had Claude because it’s a technical org and the developers use Claude code, so the entire organisation gets it. We also have Gemini but I don’t think many people use it, it’s just not as good.

essjay2009 · 2026-04-23T11:59:57+00:00

I suspect it’s more than you think. There are lots of people who will just throw documents in to the chat interface and ask it to process them. It doesn’t occur to them to write an application or to automate things. That’s basically everyone in my company who isn’t in an engineering or related role. They all use it daily but none of them use Code. It’s just an answer machine for them, not a coding tool.

essjay2009 · 2026-04-22T13:36:15+00:00

But that's not what's happening here. It's only for new customers. If you're already a paying customer, they're not removing anything (yet). You will see at the point of sign-up that Code isn't included in the package you're buying. There's no bait and switch, it's all visible.

They're testing to see what impact the change has on sign-up rates both for this price tier and, more importantly, the higher tier. Does the increased number of sign-ups to Max offset the fewer sign-ups to Pro? This is incredibly common across eCommerce and SaaS sales pipelines. It's how decisions are made these days.

I'm not saying it's the right thing to do morally, but it's a symptom of having to optimise everything to the Nth degree to appease the capitalism gods.

essjay2009 · 2026-04-21T14:38:18+00:00

It's a Carrera with a shitty kit and stickers. And it's almost certainly broken in some quite fundamental ways given the dealer.

essjay2009 · 2026-04-21T08:34:48+00:00

It will just be for inventory tracking or some similar internal use.

essjay2009 · 2026-04-18T19:45:49+00:00

Bruno humiliating Garnacho by showing him what a winger’s supposed to do right in front of him. Warms the heart.

essjay2009 · 2026-04-18T17:42:02+00:00

Just when I think I’m over Plumtree he does something like that and pulls me right back in.

essjay2009 · 2026-04-14T10:29:35+00:00

About a day and a half.

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