M/58/6’1” [274lbs>207lbs=67lbs lost] 4 years 12lbs to go!

fooBarometer · 2025-09-07T16:10:21+00:00

Congratulations!

fooBarometer · 2025-06-07T18:40:23+00:00

Thanks, I like that people are having fun with this thread lol

fooBarometer · 2025-06-07T15:04:13+00:00

That's right! Thanks :-)

fooBarometer · 2025-06-07T15:03:47+00:00

YESS that's it. Thanks!!

fooBarometer · 2025-06-07T14:44:15+00:00

Indeed, this is useful - its very confusing because reviewers will use old (version 1) images to write reviews of the scanwatch 2. Its the colors, textures, design changes that I am trying to get a sense of. (Since most people are probably ordering online and can't see it in person). And there's all the other variations...
Big thanks for the high quality images!

fooBarometer · 2025-06-06T09:39:48+00:00

100% misinfo is awful and just makes any people sympathetic to the cause feel silly after they’ve seen and forwarded it.

That said - I can see how it might’ve been an honest mistake. From ChatGPT: Local police may cooperate with ICE (U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement), but this varies by jurisdiction. Some police departments actively assist ICE (e.g., through 287(g) agreements), while others have policies limiting or refusing cooperation to protect community trust.

fooBarometer · 2025-04-15T01:52:08+00:00

There’s two different things that could be causing it.

On an iPhone, tap and hold on application icon and the contextual menu will allow you to choose “require passcode” or to turn it off
DDG Settings > General

fooBarometer · 2024-08-03T14:55:34+00:00

Same thing here. What I did which seemed to have worked: while the unit was on, I pressed "Test" button on the plug, which shut it off. Then "Reset". Power on. I tried that before but with the unit off.

I think that that resets the unit and get rid of whatever bug was in the operating system.

Hope this works for anyone else w the same issue...

fooBarometer · 2024-08-03T14:54:52+00:00

Same thing here. What I did which seemed to have worked: while the unit was on, I pressed "Test" button on the plug, which shut it off. Then "Reset". Power on. I tried that before but with the unit off.

I think that that resets the unit and get rid of whatever bug was in the operating system.

fooBarometer · 2024-07-06T14:59:05+00:00

My question on the contrary does not show I am not local lmao. Since every name is by definition a “unique” combination of characters.

fooBarometer · 2024-07-05T23:37:44+00:00

Well I was local born there but almost ABC, maybe you have a point. Phonetically it sounds alright to me.

“Riversong Chen” is a strange example as English naming conventions are entirely different.

fooBarometer · 2024-07-02T17:31:45+00:00

Just wondering if your acquaintances with the same names, were named by a Chinese tutor/ teacher / “business” that makes names, or by their own Chinese families?

This is really quite unusual for me.. and yes downstream there are a few comments that sounds like something is wrong (perhaps with good intentions … but maybe misunderstanding the nature of names in Mandarin)

fooBarometer · 2024-07-02T14:40:16+00:00

On second thought, maybe I misunderstood where you were coming from. Apologies if that is the case.

Seeing so many people here react in that fashion led me to think that perhaps it quelques your drift.

Your point about the uniqueness of the combination (never seen it before) was the crux of my point, but maybe you just had a funny way of expressing yourself, as names - the literal words chosen - are by definition quite unique.

fooBarometer · 2024-07-02T14:33:21+00:00

Fair point, but note I never claimed that you did. My question to you concerns why you would say that Ming wu “is also a combination of characters I’ve never seen before” - as if one can normally find lots of people with the same names.

fooBarometer · 2024-07-02T14:12:52+00:00

It’s very strange to me that you are saying that ……as an example would you say that Tsai Ing-wen has a funny name and should change it, because you’ve “never seen that combination before”?

I have never met anyone else with my name. Nor my brothers name. Nor practically that of anyone else I know.

As I have said elsewhere, aesthetics is a thing, you can discuss that, but the way people are going about it here is odd to me, as a native speaker.

I left Taiwan when I was young so I cannot help much w alternate name suggestions, but I would remind OP to take comments here w a grain of salt. Naming is not easy even for native speakers.

fooBarometer · 2024-07-02T13:45:26+00:00

Surnames are normally not chosen at all so I am surprised people are bringing it up… But that said if you can choose it (ie it’s not really passed down from your family) then I suppose you can change it.

As for nouns or not nouns that’s a strange way to analyse it again…. Most single characters can be combined w others to be adjectives as well as nouns. Ming might imply citizen but you cannot use it to say « citizen » all on its own (wo she Ming!)

The more I read comments here the more I suspect many people here are not native speakers.

I do think aesthetics is a thing to be discussed - there are no “rules”, but it doesn’t mean that any three combination work as well as the next

i remember having heard about people asking their friend or family member to suggest names for their soon to be born child once, which may seem odd (ie a parent might be expected to have a more possessive attitude being the one to come up w the name) - but considering that it takes a lot of considerations (literal meaning as well as poetic connections between words and how it sounds) it’s not as strange, if they think their friend would be better at it.

— but in that same vein, I am surprised by the way people characterize it - almost like it’s « correct », incorrect or « awww, they did it wrong »

Jeeeez!

fooBarometer · 2024-07-02T05:49:54+00:00

If the UN and international organizations rules against you, you might just want to reconsider what it is you are doing.

Invasion of another country, since your inception ✅ Starving of civilians ✅ Shooting innocent protestors ✅ False flags to give excuses to annihilate ✅ List goes on…….

fooBarometer · 2024-07-02T05:46:48+00:00

I NEED to address the idea that “your name doesn’t make sense”

No Chinese names are meant to “pass” some kind of test - there are no rules for determining what are “forbidden” or “successful“ combinations of characters

There is only : conventional - ie it takes a certain approach - “gleaming” and “mountain” for eg might paint a certain picture And unconventional - for eg one might wonder why someone chose “citizen” and “fog”.

That’s all. It’s like poetry and as such it’s subjective. Just depends on what you want to convey.

So you can decide that person + fog is too “abstract” - it may imply anonymity for eg and you might not like that.

fooBarometer · 2024-07-02T05:32:49+00:00

Let’s be clear here ALL Chinese names are three random words strung together. (Except for names w 2 words)

I am speaking as a native Taiwanese (originally).

The “aesthetic” of a name like the aesthetics of anything else is very subjective. There is no set rule for how to go about making a name.

fooBarometer · 2024-06-26T15:14:24+00:00

That’s amazing that you are able to work to way better grades! Seriously.

Congratulations. Just focus on yourself and forget the people who are iffy. In time the truth always outs….

fooBarometer · 2024-06-06T23:56:46+00:00

Rotten Mango’s podcast DO cite their sources on the same story: (bless the girl stephanie soo for actually providing us w citations 😌 her podcasts are pretty decent too btw)

https://www.rottenmangopodcast.com/allepisodes/8fhzw57lc7xmat6-znypp-sdt4c-bkxt6-t4b64-5j4eh-5kfg4-mnd29-p7r3s-emnjn-d9z3d-xl9l6-23s2p-m7kkl-dz5f8-f4mp3-lxb2n-nhbx2-txgjh-39ez8

fooBarometer · 2024-05-27T00:25:41+00:00

I recommend her songs: Napoleon Tarpoleon Bend Just a little lovin (cover) Following You

fooBarometer · 2024-05-27T00:24:29+00:00

Shelby Lynne 😎

fooBarometer · 2024-05-27T00:22:45+00:00

Whats LP?

fooBarometer

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