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@robryk I literally watched a cop video where a bunch of cops arrested someone and claimed the reason was resisting arrest. Its something ive seen in random cop videos half a dozen times.

@condalmo

Exactly and thus proving me rcorrect, thank you.

As you describe it this does **not** limit the use of preferred names and pronouns.

In fact the opposite, it ensures that an employees speech can not be limited and compelled with regard to pronouns and names.

It also provides a **protection** for transpeople as it does allow someone to force an employee (or through a law) to use a persons legal name, meaning if a transperson has changed their name the employee is forced to address them properly.

@georgetakei

Ahh i remember this book well, it is required reading in high school.

Cops will say with a perfectly straight face "You are being arrested for resisting arrest"... lawl

If Jack Black's beard gets any bigger he is going to have to quit acting and become a System Admin!

I never understood how cereal killers even exist. You cant even kill something if it isnt alive. I never met any brand of cereal you could kill!

@thor

> i'm aware of ketones as an alternative energy source to glucose, but wasn't aware they could also be converted to fat.

Not only is it possible but the pathway happens directly int he mitochondria. Essentially the keytone interacts with ATP to produce fatty acids and the process goes both ways. When we burn fat it is **always** through more or less the same pathway as burning protein. That is when we burn fat we convert it to keytones, not sugar.

Oddly enough it is sugar that has a one way relationship, while it can be converted into fat when we break down fat it wont convert back to sugar but instead will be in its ketone form (methyl-CoA if you want to get specific if memory serves)

> lab studies in animals suggest that we tend to consume less food if it's rich in protein though.

This is absolutely correct, but it isnt related to inefficiencies or an inability to get fat off of it. ITs due what i explained earlier, since protein and fat are both non-sugar energy sources they dont result in insulin. Insulin tells your body "turn all the sugar in my blood to fat and make me feel hungry again", so naturally the more sugar you get the more you will eat. Protein also has a synergistic effect with carbs, it slows downt he absorption of protein causing your sugar spike to be flattened over a longer period. Since insulin is triggered based on max blood sugar if this spike is below a certain level it wont triggewr an insulin event and will mitigate hunger as well even through its effect on the carbs.

> most foods have a rather modest protein content. it makes sense to focus a bit more on it than the others. that's also what i was instructed to do after my weight loss surgery.

Focusing your diet on fats and protein while minimizing carbs is an effective and proven approach to dieting. I am not disagreeing with your conclusions about protein being healthier, i am just disagreeing with the logic you used to get there to try to help you to better understand the process behind it all.

> my small intestine is shorter than normal because a significant part of it was removed as part of weight loss surgery. my ability to digest carbohydrates, particularly sugar, has been reduced considerably.

I am not a doctor so i wont comment on the pros and cons here or anything. But yea that adds up and makes sense along with many of the gastrosurgeries that may be used. If its effective for you or not I cant say but it works for many.

> of the two remaining macronutrients, protein is the less calorie dense one.

Calorie density is a poor way to view the issue IMO. Fiber is the least calorie dense, but you will never feel satisfied, and if you dont get enough fat protein wont m=satisfy you either. Also too high a protein count is very bad for your liver. If you truely eat all protein and little fat your body wont be able to process it into ketones or fat fast enough. The result is that a small amount will start to pass through yoru kidneys and it is **extremely** bad for your kidneys once you get to a certain extreme.

Long story short a low carb diet should have moderate protein and no more and largely be focused on fat for calories. Ideally healthy fats like omegas.

@thor yes thats correct, fat and protein minimally effect blood sugar because they dont use sugar to get energy. They use ketones to produce usable energy which is a different pathway.

@thor Your body will always burn fat and carbs first. But it will also convert proteins to ketones and use those for energy after it burns whatever carbs and far is availible to it or if protein is in excess and is to be stored for later.

If you dont lift weights and have no muscle to repair the protein wont go to making new muscle, it will be stored as fat.

In the end any talk about which type of energy source is used first is pointless, the amount of energy your body needs is determined by your activity, and your body will burn what it needs to get that energy and will always store the rest as fat if there is no active protein being needed.

The reason body builders can eat massive calories and not get fat is not their focus on protein, but rather the fact that weight lifting over long periods burns tons of energy and therefore they can eat a lot and still have a deficit.

@beardalaxy

> not saying it didn't happen, but considering it's on CNN and they've legitimately been caught faking stuff for news stories, not to mention sued for defamation, i just can't believe whatever comes out of them.

CNN has little credibility, but I'm not going to get a video of the same nonsense over and over again... it happened, they were violent, full stop.

> i have seen footage of an officer literally opening up the barricade to let people get to the capitol so they aren't entirely guiltless either. if the capitol police were allowing them to get closer that's on them.

Even the left has admitted from very early on that the barricade was moved. But while thats fine to raise that question it doesnt change the fact that most people there knew the situation, knew they werent allowed there, and were being actively destructive and violent. Saying "they moved a barricade somewhere" when there are clear videos of police creating lines to keep people out while they are being attacked and rushed, and people destroying doors and windows to get in, you really cant sell the narrative of it being sme peaceful gathering.

I mean hell even the wide shots fromt he day show clearly illegal and destructive riots en mass.

> there were probably and most definitely some violent people there. it's already been proven that one of the dudes had shown up at BLM/Antifa riots before (the crazy guy with the face paint). there was some antifa guy from utah, forgot his name but he was stirring up shit there and from the people i've heard who were also there they didn't buy it because they knew who he was.

Antifa certainly have plenty fo violence to their name. And I wouldnt even be surprised if there were a very small number there for whatever reason. But playing this off as a BLM antifa thingis really bonkers. We all know the overwhelming majority were there to support Trump, that much is very obvious and trying to create a conspiracy around it to negate that fact doesnt help anyone.

> even in those BLM riots i wouldn't doubt if there were instigators that didn't believe in the cause, just to stir up chaos. paid or otherwise. we already know about the random piles of bricks. the suits have a vested interest in keeping people divided as much as possible. divide and conquer.

I dont doubt that is true too, but regardless of any instigators trying to rally the crowd, in the end the crowd is responsible for their own violence. I likewise dont evben blame Trump for it, I blame the people.

@not_br549 @jeff @BlinkRape

Shout out to that time in 5th grade I was told I was going to meet Tim Allen and when I finally did I was disapointed it was the astronaut and not the TV star...

I can only imagine the guys reaction to see a kid unimpressed by the fact that he had literally been in space.

@SolSoCoG ahh nice, glad you got that sorted then. OpenWRT is pretty great :)

@olives Technology, like alcohol, is both the source of, and solution to, all of life's problems.

@SolSoCoG thats probably just due to an IP conflict or somethign that can likely be fixed.

@thor when you say protein quality... quality in what way? What are the measurable objective ways a protein of higher quality is superior?

> the calorie content of protein is the same as that of carbs, about 4 kcal/g, but those calories don't make you fat. they build muscle and other tissues. so if you're counting calories to lose body fat, the calories from protein can be subtracted from the total.

This one is a bit complicated, not to say your wrong, but its less direct than all that.

Calories are calories and if you eat more calories than you burn you gain weight. That si just as true of protein calories as it is of carb calories.

The difference is in your insulin response, which effects how quickly you get hungry. The effect of insulin from carbs will make you get hungry much faster and ultimately cause you to eat more calories (Well that and it is quicker to digest). The end result is if you eat carbs you tend to eat more calories and thus tend to get fat.

@Thanh_Le As a pro-gun person I wonder what you might think their motivation is? I think most just hate guns are are motivated to eliminate them. Many people arent hiding that fact though (Except maybe the politicians)

@bonifartius

Haha good point. Men cant have opinions, says a man, as he makes his opinion clear on the issue in the same breath.

@realcaseyrollins

@thor in general vegan diets will have a hard time getting particularly high protein levels. You can do it but if your trying to really maximize it while minimizing carbs youll have a tricky time.