Viruses until they reach their plateau of course.

My theory is that consuming sugar makes you more hungry. You can eat until you're full, but if you eat desert or a sugary snack a little later, it makes you feel less full and you can eat more. As if your brain notices the sugar source and switches into "full loading mode" and craves more of this historically rare resource.

> And yet most obese people are no more addicted to food than you are addicted to oxygen...

Most obese people seem to be addicted to sugary food, soft drings, desert and all that, which then triggers more eating.

In addition, it might be a gut bacteria thing. If your gut is used to processing lots of sugar, you crave it even more and fighting your gut microbiome requires way too much impulse control and moderation.

The solution might be to recognize this mechanism, remove all sugar from the diet and find a way to control impulses for a few weeks until the gut bacteria changed.

Drinking water and chewing sugar-free gum helps me to remove food cravings temporarily with no downsides. But... I have a normal weight.

Before that it was radial keratotomy which my Mom had. Maybe it is apocryphal but she told me they discovered it when a Russian someone got exploded glass in their eye and it improved their vision.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radial_keratotomy

Yeah I find this interesting too. A methyl group separates the street drug meth from the prescribed drug amphetamine. The main role that methyl group plays is the way it crosses the blood brain barrier. During the process of crossing the methyl group is lost. Which means with both meth and regular amphetamine the chemical that reaches your brain is the same.

I wonder if the dimethyl plays the same role here. Allowing it to cross the blood brain barrier faster

A cooking class won't eliminate the raw meat on your bare hand

How can someone tell, in an audio recording of a man being eaten by a bear, that at one specific point, you are hearing his arm being separated from his body? I'd like to think that he narrated it while it was happening. But imma call BS on this one.

If anything I suspect booze reduces suicide numbers. For some people it's an escape that makes life tolerable.

I'm thinking of a book whose title eludes me at present. It's by a doctor, talking about their ER experience. One of their frequent fliers--and one time he talked a bit about why. He had been a sniper in Afghanistan (Afghani, fighting the Russians), he drank to keep from killing himself because of the horrors he had experienced.

Well-written, at least he had writing to fall back on. There's a humour just under the surface in his reflections.

From Wikipedia: His pro career spanned 7 years from 2005-2012. He earned $247,686 in prize money. He made it to a few grand slams, even playing Novak at the US Open, although he retired from the match in the second set due to food poisoning!

> Not to mention MINIX is hidden away in almost every modern Intel CPU as part of its Management Engine.

Sometimes I wonder how the world would be today if MINIX was distributed with a FLOSS license similar to Linux. I think the Linus Torvalds vs Andrew Tanenbaum debate could have been a pivotal moment in tech history by the way MINIX missed a huge opportunity to step up in the history.

The "n" sound denoting negative seems deeply ingrained in English (and also in this native English speaker). So Finnish "niin" for affirmative took a very long time to get used to, and to actually begin using. It just felt wrong.