Wait! I had the x51v! That’s probably why I loved it so much. With the two batteries and stand to charge them both. (Or was it three?) I can understand the desire to get one for nostalgia.
For some reason my strongest memory is using it in the dentists office.
My previous device had been a Sony Clie peg-tg50/u (which in some ways was great, but lacking built in WiFi… however I used to save web pages on my laptop and put them on it to read later). But that once fell out of my pocket on a lawn tractor, went through the blades, came out with some nicks but was otherwise fine.
I have fond memories of worms and an rts on that. (The stylus was both great and horrible for that ).
In memory what really was just amazing to me at the time: great fast mp3 player(better on the Sony)
The ability to play videos.
On the dell, the web browser probably wasn’t great, but in my memory I still remembering thinking it was the bees knees. My laptop at the time was a Toshiba Satellite with a pentium 4, 512mbs of ram, and a 16mb GeForce card. Which to me, was pretty darn amazing. (Except for its tendency to every 6-8 months become unable to boot suddenly, needing windows to be reinstalled from Toshibas 4(?) re install discs on an increasingly broken disc drive. This of course was partially more frustrating due to my limited computer skills at that time… which were more comfortable overclocking AMD K6-2s with jumper settings)
Yeah those NAV buttons drove me nuts. Such a wart on an otherwise great upgrade. Wm5 had one handed navigation and you didn't have to worry about a dead battery wiping your applications.
Some call it "phoning it in", some call it "working sustainably and avoiding burnout". It's fine to "phone it in" for the daily grind if it helps you maintain your reserves for actual emergencies. As the author point out, early Facebook instead instilled a "sense of urgency" which means everything is treated as an emergency all the time, which just means nothing is.
Prior to the decision, anerican colleges were allowed to admit who ever they want so they could have a diverse student body regardless of academic standing.
It's why there was a common joke about being, " native American" as your golden ticket to the ivy leagues.
With the strike down, it refocuses admissions solely on academic performance which was what they used to be based on before the 1960s.
"During the 2022–2023 global outbreak of clade II, transmission between people was almost exclusively via sexual contact".
But saying you can't be sexually promiscuous is a quick way to be down d00ted here.
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71.8% effective which means you have a 29% chance of STILL catching it and it's only good for 2 years so those who got jabbed up during the last out break need to be re-upped.
Hate all you want down d00ters, the moral of the story is: don't have lots of anonymous gay sex partners. It's not homophobic to point out that fact that MSM groups have the highest rates of STDs. They have it for a reason.
If you're using ozempic or any other form of semiglutide , you'll want to keep and prioritize a high protein diet to reduce or eliminate the muscle wasting that the drug causes.
Nothing worse than losing weight but most of the weight loss was muscle mass.
My impression from watching various people debating studies on the topic, is that even more important than protein is physical activity, when it comes to stopping muscle loss. Someone sitting in a box eating nothing for a month will come away from it with all sorts of health issues compared to someone who walks for half an hour and otherwise lives normally, despite the second person supposedly having higher energy and nutritional needs. Physical activity is a powerful signal to the body to maintain itself. This is why the health of bedridden people looks like a horrible feedback loop that destroys them.
Another issue that makes me wary is that normally when fasting, there’s an initial period of being hungry, followed by adaption and minimal/no hunger. After a few weeks (or longer if there are special circumstances), hunger should eventually return, and this is your signal to start eating again regardless of plans. What concerns me is that Ozempic may prevent the return of hunger signal. I could see this leading to malnutrition, which another post already mentioned in a different way.
In the UK those products are only available to people with a BMI > 30. If you have 20 or 30 kg to lose it is simply not true that most of the weight loss is muscle mass. The fat is visible and the fat loss is also visible. You might lose a bit of muscle mass, and doing exercise at the same time is good. But between the loss of a bit of muscle mass during the diet vs remaining obese, it is an easy trade off from a health point of view.
I'll admit, I have a fascination with Greco Roman antiquities and Hellenic /Roman astrology is one of them. To be able to enjoy the literature and culture of the era and the archetypes expressed, understanding how this all works helps a great deal.
As such, I know a fair amount of astrology from a Greco Roman perspective and by extension all the way up to medieval astrology. Yeah plz I find it fascinating.
With that said, the vast majority of western astrology is done using new age psychological nonsense that was literally made up by hippies during the 60s. It is completely divorced from the tradition that was developed and refined from the Chaldeans (aka Babylonians), Greeks, Arabs, and Europeans and as such doesn't make any sense against the system that was developed and refined over at least a thousand years.
A good astrologer won't say with precision that X is going to happen (like you will meet the love of your life or pass the test), they'll give their predictions in archetypes and give a range of outcomes that fall under those archetypes.
Take for example the meaning of the 9th house, the 9th house represents far away travel, religion, higher education, and publishing. These are all desperate subjects from one another and need to be considered in a predictoon against the backdrop of your life.
Does it work? It's a bit like the weather, I can say this range of things under this archetype will happen on X date at X time. That's pretty much it.
If you're interested in the subject, the best primer book I can recommend is the study office and fortune by Chris Brennan which can be found on Amazon in print and ebook format. It's written as a college level text with citations and will give you the historical background and practical foundations to understand the classical philosophy that underpins the basis of the tradition.
Anywho, I expect a good roasting and some down d00ts for my interest in t is subject.
> A good astrologer won't say with precision that X is going to happen
> Does it work? It's a bit like the weather, I can say this range of things under this archetype will happen on X date at X time. That's pretty much it.
If it was like the weather, then it would predict the odds of specific things.
Sitting on an archetype is like saying "it's summer" when you want to know if it's going to rain.
> Anywho, I expect a good roasting and some down d00ts for my interest in t is subject.
With all due respect, no one needed these loans. The belief that you HAVE to go to college led us into this mess and now we have highly paid tradesmen making more while we have coders sitting idle.
It's time to eliminate student loans entirely, hard cap student visas, tax college endowments, and remove higher education non profit status and let the higher education industrial complex collapse in on itself.
It's become a leviathan of highly paid over credentialed demigods with dubious benefit.
Don't international students subsidize domestic students because they pay much higher tuition? I'm not sure how reducing their numbers would be a good thing, at least for domestic students.
>tax college endowments
Endowments come from donations, not tuition, and if anything they subsidize the tuition. At best taxing them would be breaking the piggy bank for a one time cash infusion.
>remove higher education non profit status
Eliminating non-profit status won't matter when the institutions are blowing all that revenue on bloated staff.
>and let the higher education industrial complex collapse in on itself.
Based on this and your other suggestions, it seems like you're more interested in smashing the "higher education industrial complex" rather than fixing it.
Colleges prefer international students because they pay full tuition without any aid whatsoever. Eliminating student loans would then encourage colleges to seek students abroad and lobby for their entry into the country. See Canada.
Endowments are almost entirely used for dubious things like sports and football programs which have a nebulous educational value at best and a negative impact at worst. If you were aware of the industry (which you're not down d00ter) you'd know that there are efforts by the government to already start taxing sports and football programs in particular because of how much money these programs bring in.
Eliminating the non profit status allows business taxes to be collected from bloated college programs, sports, and more.
The goal is to return higher education to its pre 1960s status of being affordable from basic income and not a 4 year long resort with learning sprinkled on top.
>Colleges prefer international students because they pay full tuition without any aid whatsoever. Eliminating student loans would then encourage colleges to seek students abroad and lobby for their entry into the country. See Canada.
How is that bad? Should we ban work visas as well because they encourage companies to lobby for workers to immigrate to the US? Maybe we should ban state sponsorship for education as well, because that would encourage students and parents to lobby for tuition subsidies.
>Endowments are almost entirely used for dubious things like sports and football programs which have a nebulous educational value at best and a negative impact at worst. If you were aware of the industry (which you're not down d00ter) you'd know that there are efforts by the government to already start taxing sports and football programs in particular because of how much money these programs bring in.
The logical conclusion for that would be "ban/tax sports programs", not "tax endowments".
>Eliminating the non profit status allows business taxes to be collected from bloated college programs, sports, and more.
This doesn't address my previous comment. Taxes are collected on profit. If they're indeed "bloated", then there wouldn't be much profit to collect from in the first place, because all the money is being spent on bloat.
It's "bad" because the venn diagram of the people who scoff at higher education AND think immigration into our country is a fundamentally bad thing is almost a perfect circle.
We should not hard cap student visas. Getting all the smartest people from around the world to come join America should be our goal (I mean, every country should compete for the most talented people, and we shouldn’t unilaterally give up on that).
Students not paying these loans only hurts the students and it's partly a debt slavery mechanism that the government will use to deny social security and maybe Medicare later on.
Exogenous testosterone doesn't help in events like track and field. Maybe sprinting but there are better tools for the job.
But your comment does touch up on something else which is the fact that men and women very much have biological differences that are complimentary to our survival as a species and trying to ignore or say they don't exist smacks the face of reality hard.
But the linked article indeed touches upon a unique edge case and it's something that these games will need to address, the 3rd option. Unfortunately by genetics these "intersex" people are not men OR women, they are aberrations and unique which I would say should preclude them from competing entirely because they aren't technically men or women.
If their sex linked genetics gives them an advantage over women but not men, why should they be restricted from competing against men? That seems unnecessary and cruel.
Because they're neither men nor women. I bet there are physically disabled people who want to compete in no handicap competitions not deemed by the ableist term "special" yet they are forced into that and worse have to accept the obvious that it isn't possible.
Sadly, we live in a cruel and unfair world and coming to acceptance of that is called growing up.
Great devices overall. I've been tempted to pick one of these up for nostalgia purposes. Truly peak PDAs.