This is not uncommon across the border in the Indian territory of Jammu and Kashmir. Some years have seen dozens of connectivity blackouts with the stated goals of maintaining peace and order or disrupting terrorism.
> just in Kashmir where India cuts off all internet as a means of control over the population
Just for perspective, the government would likely claim that there have been multiple violent/deadly attacks over years/decades, often against the Indian army.
I am not going to comment on anything as to who is right or wrong beyond this because I barely know enough about the whole situation. All I know is that it is too complex for a single comment.
I take it that your point is the opposite, but it's still a good one: the Blitz would have gone VERY differently had there been AA guns on every rooftop. It'd get pretty expensive for bombers to plunge into the Channel and pilots thrown into a POW camp.
But the result wouldn't have been AA guns on every rooftop. The UK's capacity to produce AA guns wouldn't have increased. Their economy was already focused entirely on the war. The result would have just been a lack of planning on how to actually make effective use of the resources available.
And there would not have been any advancements on the radars used in "Chain Home", because "Your place got bombed because you didn't defend it well enough, nothing we can do"
This is a forever problem. It’s difficult to judge the competency or skill of a professional without also being a professional in the same space. Word of mouth is the usual solution.
Another approach is to pick a few lawyers (read things they’ve written, online reviews, etc.) then do intro calls and pick the one who clicks best. Do a couple of low stakes projects with them to feel out their competency.
I’ll note that it can be worthwhile to match the professional to the task. No reason to pay top dollar to a specialist if all you need is some common boilerplate that any lawyer can do. You’ll also need to line up separate commercial and criminal lawyers.
Well... when we were like cave men and calories were hard to get, hunger pangs make more sense from an evolutionary standpoint.
But now, through farming technologies, food has never been more abundant. Yes we've saved people from dying of famine, but then the corn producers grew so much more corn that were beyond America's daily dietary need, they then could use much of it for HFCS, say. Or you know, Taco Bell's fourthmeal.
With these drugs, is there any mechanism at work beyond "patients have a lower appetite and eat less food"?
I've only read a few papers and articles but what I've seen is that all of the hormone triggering leads to 1) decreased appetite 2) slowed gastric emptying which also decreases appetite.
Patients lose weight due to eating less but usually regain the weight when stopping the drug since they then go back to their normal level of eating.
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Are these drugs fixing/replacing a system failure where people don't feel satiated normally?
Can the same effect be replicated by eating a higher fiber and higher fat diet with more whole foods to feel full longer and slow gastric emptying?
GLP-1 affects a lot of systems beyond just appetite and gastric emptying. For instance it acts in the pancreas to promote insulin secretion. GLP-1 receptors are also found in a lot of other tissues, including heart, tongue, adipose, muscles, bones, kidneys, liver and lungs. The effects of GLP-1 in these tissues are an area of intense research.
> With these drugs, is there any mechanism at work beyond "patients have a lower appetite and eat less food"?
Those are definitely the key routes, but I suspect from my experience (and so the do the drug companies!) that there's some kind of mediation of reward system going on there too. Simply put: I no longer get a massive dopamine hit from sugary food. A candy bar still tastes great, but I don't immediately want to eat another one like I used to, even if I'm genuinely hungry. My addictive response to food is gone.
My favourite foods still taste great, I just no longer have to expend all of my energy in not having three portions.
> Can the same effect be replicated by eating a higher fiber and higher fat diet with more whole foods to feel full longer and slow gastric emptying?
No. Like many people who've been on a perpetual diet, I have tried -- at length -- virtually every style of eating known to man. The food noise always comes back. Even before I started, I was eating very healthily as a base-line, mostly vegetables, mostly vegan, mostly whole foods, tracking my fiber to make sure it was high. But I've also tried and sustained for many months keto, paleo, "slow carb", all sorts.
- Another study - there was a 16% weight loss for those that received semaglutide/diet/exercise/counseling versus a loss of 5% for placebo those that received diet/exercise/counseling without semaglutide.
But they didn't control for calories, so it may just be proving that dietary adherence with the medication is better than without.
> Are these drugs fixing/replacing a system failure where people don't feel satiated normally?
> Can the same effect be replicated by eating a higher fiber and higher fat diet with more whole foods to feel full longer and slow gastric emptying?
I think it simply takes a long time for your body to adjust back to where it should be after a period of extended binging and these drugs make it happen much faster. The only time I consistently lost weight in my life was when I lived in a food desert and had no car and not much money, so I was forced to only buy the cheapest vegetables and meats (usually chicken) and make what I could out of that and make it last for the week. Even then it took more than 6 months before I felt normal eating that way.
Of course, it's extremely easy to fall off the wagon when your body works this way too. Even a day can wipe out weeks of gains and you can always 'relapse' even after months of doing the right thing, and end up stagnating or completely reversing any progress you've made. In a way it seems that food is the most addictive drug of all. You can easily quit alcohol, cigarettes, hard drugs with a couple weeks of willpower (and I have multiple times). You can't ever stop eating food if you want to be around to experience life.
There was a user here who wanted to do AGI research. They left their job and went all-in studying then tried networking and applying to labs. After being unsuccessful in those applications, they went all-in building an algorithmic trading business and made enough money to start their own research lab.
I haven't read Behave and childhood trauma can definitely have lasting impacts but I am also inspired by some of the older folks I have known with what seem like bottomless wells of joy.
There's a cynical broken person out there for every one of them, they aren't the norm, but some of these people went through terrible shit as children or throughout their lives but they're still happy and grateful for what they did end up having.
Also, some of the happiest people I know come from some of the worst starting environments. This is definitely survivorship bias because these people made it out to become happy but there's some thread between the two around grit and expectations then finding joy in the most basic things.
It’s one of the reason I appreciate Dabo Swinney’s life story so much. He had an awful childhood, broken home, poor as dirt, his mom shared his bed in college because they were so poor.
And yet, he’s one of the most optimistic and successful leaders out there determined to show people that their conditions do not define them.
Survivorship bias is strong. We only hear about the ones who 'make it'. Little more than footnotes for the countless who don't. Normies believe some people don't deserve a good life.
Sadly she didn't give one, however.. if you live near the CSZ like I do, then check your city to see who does their flood maps, and then call that office. For my area specifically they had a whole branch devoted to earthquakes called the earthquake office or something.
I picked her brain for about an hour, asking about all different questions about liklihood of tsunami, how far inland, I asked her stuff about my foundation and my house etc.
Id say it would be worthwhile to try and call your local office.
Not to be confused with the actual mid-Atlantic (Philadelphia/Baltimore) accent which is basically the aggressive opposite of the transatlantic accent.
Some of this might be your expectation of housing costs? A 220k mortgage, even at 7.5% interest, is still affordable on a 130k salary. This works out to < 25% of your after-tax income which is pretty average or maybe lower than average (unsure if most affordability stats are quoting pre or post-tax income).
The 220k is the value of the mortgage and not the original purchase price; there was most likely a downpayment at time of purchase. Or, they recently renewed their mortgage and the remaining amount owing is 220k.
It's been that way for almost a hundred years. It's not so scary when interest rates and values have stayed relatively steady (as they have in most of the post-ww2 era in inflation-adjusted terms). All that seems to have fallen apart around the year 2000 (when interest rates were made lower than they should have been).
