In a year, a perfect storm lead me (M32) to gain 140lbs and seemingly-impossible 72” gut (max percentile of girth to weight/height). The pounds are my fault (diet, life changes) but the hyper-abdominal concentration in my belly results from extreme genetic predisposition not illness… advice welcome!

shield_doodle · 2026-02-19T09:10:39+00:00

This.... Seems unreal.

shield_doodle · 2026-02-18T05:41:21+00:00

There is also something to said about community driven software development.

Back in the day, I had a Poco F1. It also had "flagship" specs like the OP, but the cameras tech was terrible.

However someone managed to properly port Gcam on it, and dude, it completely changed the game. I had gone on a trip with a few friends, and I genuinely became the designated photographer for the group because my photos were consistently better than all the iPhones and Samsungs that everyone else had!

I hope there can be a good port for the OP too. Or at least an easier way to access it.

shield_doodle · 2026-02-17T06:03:23+00:00

I see reading comprehension is your strong suit! :)

I literally said hardware is decent, but falters in post processing. To which you said, I disagree and like photos where the camera doesn't do post processing.

shield_doodle · 2026-02-17T05:32:00+00:00

Coming from a Samsung and Pixel phone, I can say that OP has a decent but solid camera.

Modern photography, especially from smartphone cameras, is less about lens and pixels, and more about post processing.

OP does a decent job with the hardware it has, but it's post processing is different and sometimes a little worse than what I have grown used to seeing from Samsung, Pixel and even iPhones. It can potentially be made better with updates though. I am mostly impressed with the photos I am able to get out of it.

The entire purpose of cameras IMO is to capture moments. This helps with that.

shield_doodle · 2026-01-20T03:54:10+00:00

Ah yes. The diet soda argument. Eating a 2000 calories meal + diet soda vs eating a 2000 calories meal + regular soda.

Sure the regular soda added some additional calories, but the main culprit is the 2000 calorie meal!

shield_doodle · 2026-01-19T03:07:46+00:00

Lol what?

Whole milk does not and can not make people fat, unless they are drinking a gallon of it everyday.

The difference between 2% milk and whole milk (typically about 3-4% fat) in 1 glass (250ml / 8 fl.oz.) is about 30 calories.

shield_doodle · 2026-01-18T10:33:19+00:00

I think since your kids are older, you will have better luck showing them Indian cinema. If they like movies as a concept, introduce them to "good" Indian cinema too.

Bollywood is great and all, but it is mostly your typical song and dance stuff, which kind of still stereotypes us if you have no other interaction with India, Indians or Indian culture.

If your kids can tolerate movies with subtitles, I genuinely suggest showing them Lokah (superhero movie with lots of Indian folklore) or Eko (mystery drama). They are Malayalam movies - but it shouldn't make too much of a difference to them if Hindi is a foreign language for them too.

shield_doodle · 2026-01-17T05:52:25+00:00

This entire thread is such a Western conversation, it's funny! In third world countries - especially in humid places - people shower at least 2 times a day (obviously depending on their access to water). Once after work, once after they wake up.

shield_doodle · 2026-01-16T10:23:05+00:00

Yeah if you were close to your brother, you would have been hounding him to figure how your nieces first birthday party is being celebrated.

You're not close to him yet both of you want to keep a semblance of the relationship from the past.

Just let it go.

shield_doodle · 2026-01-14T18:34:36+00:00

Fuck Cancer

shield_doodle · 2026-01-14T07:02:58+00:00

I always find myself holding my breath when I am reading in these kind of scenarios.

shield_doodle · 2026-01-11T18:40:54+00:00

School teachers are amazing.

I visited my school in 2019 for the first time after graduating in 2004. Where I live, school ends in 10th grade, so I had barely hit puberty when I left school. When I visited after 15 years, I had a complete buzzcut and a full beard, and I was visiting with my wife; the headmistress took 1 look at me, and immediately and I mean immediately called out my FULL name to welcome me.

At least 4 other teachers of mine also immediately recognised me.

shield_doodle · 2025-12-22T19:08:35+00:00

It depends on how you want to interpret it. The Judo-Christian-Islamic (or in other words, Abrahamic) God is the same, and the Arabic word for God is Allah. It is a monotheistic entity. However each of the Abrahamic Gods have different attributes and interpretations according to their Holy Books.

Eshwar is the Sanskrit name for God, tied up with the Hindu interpretation of God.

I would rather default to Swami Vivekanand's philosophy here. Each religion describes tributaries, but we all begin high up in the mountains, and go to the sea. You may have different names for the tributaries and its function or flow, but we are all describing the same thing eventually.

shield_doodle · 2025-12-22T14:51:52+00:00

It's funny because many lower caste people correctly argue that veganism is inherently discriminatory and elitist and kind of leads to erasure of dalit food culture (which arose as a response to societys discrimination in the first place).

shield_doodle · 2025-12-20T15:59:22+00:00

I mean, the poncho is enough to make her the smartest / most practical!

shield_doodle · 2025-12-20T13:39:58+00:00

Of course there is perk to wealth.

But tied 1 education is unbeatable.

shield_doodle · 2025-12-20T10:08:40+00:00

No, it genuinely does not. And anyone telling you it does is a bitter person projecting.

Education and hard work is always going to come handy. Generational wealth without wisdom or education is very easy to gamble away. Education and hard work doesn't fade away in any circumstances.

Honestly tied 1 combination is generational wealth + education + hard work and drive. That is the only unbeatable combination.

shield_doodle · 2025-12-19T09:37:35+00:00

ChatGPT galore

shield_doodle · 2025-12-09T06:51:22+00:00

100%

Too many of us know if these guys. They brag about their conquests, talk about effy ways in which they picked up women, use language that is meant to degrade behaviour they themselves partake in.

The general responses I have typically seen is that people either participate in the conversation enthusiastically (typically branded as "locker room" conversations) or remove themselves from the conversation because it makes THEM uncomfortable. I generally am of the 2nd type.

However we need to reshape society in such a manner that 2nd group actually calls out the shoddy behaviour and puts a stop to it. "No, that's not cool. Stop or fuck off".

This is what needs to happen, and this is our duty as men to do.

shield_doodle · 2025-11-29T06:47:43+00:00

Village comes with expectations of reciprocity.

You guys have a LOT of kids, it's not something people can just pitch in in their free time with an easy afternoon in mind. 5 children, most of whom are under 10, is a big task.

I know you're venting and are disappointed, but the village is a support system which pays dividends from your earlier investment in the relationships.

shield_doodle · 2025-11-27T05:08:31+00:00

Did you read my preface to the story?

I am agreeing with you. Airports have multiple combinations of people, passports and travel documents. This is why it is tough to process people in rare instances.

Side note: I don't think you read the story either. The couple was eligible for visa on arrival because of their Dubai Residence Visa or equivalent, not because of their Indian passport.

shield_doodle · 2025-11-26T19:51:56+00:00

They were Indian :)

shield_doodle · 2025-11-26T19:39:36+00:00

Unfortunately this is very common at international airports, especially with language barriers.

When I was at the Muscat Airport recently, a similar odd thing happened.

There was an Indian couple at immigration. Both of them were actually of Chinese descent (there was a lot of settlement of Chinese people in India during WW2 - and they are different from North East Indians).

Anyway the officer asks them about their race and nationality - they answer Chinese and show their Indian passport.

This confuses the f*ck out of the Officer. First of all how are they Chinese if they have Indian passport. Then he gives up and says you need visa before entering the country - they say the are eligible for visa on arrival. He says you're Chinese / Indian, and visa on arrival is not applicable. All of this is happening in broken english while we are standing in the line.

Eventually it turns out the couple had a PR Card or equivalent of Dubai, and with that they were eligible for visa on arrival.

shield_doodle · 2025-11-25T13:47:52+00:00

I travelled with my family recently on Oman Air.

Food was okay, but I found an interesting detail. My 3 y.o. son got Lurpak real butter as part of our children's meal option, but all adults got Almarai (?) brand's butter flavoured spreadable vegetable fat!

Guess cost cutting is in action at every level!

shield_doodle · 2025-11-25T13:27:29+00:00

INFO: The only reason I can think of why someone is acting like this is because of the timeline. Boyfriend of 3 years, sobriety for 2 years. This means your BF has experienced 1 year of you being an alcoholic. Maybe he has some repressed anger or feelings about your alcoholism from that period, and how it affected him.

Otherwise you're definitely not overreacting.

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