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Can you say shibboleth
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    Wait until you find out that primer, as in a small tutorial or short teaching material, is pronounced with a short i sound like is found in "fin," "mix," and "fringe."

    Primmer.

    That one really boiled my noodle recently.

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  • Obesity has become the most common form of malnutrition in the majority of countries
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    It's not just that we eat "too much" but also that we're eating too much non-nutritive foods. The United States has entirely too many so-called "food deserts" where people are unable to purchase healthy foods

    https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Food_desert

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  • Trump Offers Court a $100 Million Bond to Pause a $454 Million Judgment
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    That's what kills me. This guy could have lived out the rest of his days banging pornstars and defrauding investors and no one would have raised an eyebrow until the posthumous Netflix documentary, but no, he had to go and accept the most public job in the country.

    He chose this.

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  • SimCity 4 modders are cracking its deepest recesses in ever greater numbers, enabling extensive new changes
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    Yeah, fuck EA. Even the Sims 3 which came out in 2009 is still $20 for just the base game. All 19 DLCs are also $20. But wait, you can get the game and all the DLC packaged in a bundle for the low low price of just $190 (on Steam).

    Absolutely ridiculous even without considering that you need an EA account to play legitimately which is a whole other pile of crap.

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    Games are too WOKE these days! [PS1 startup sound]
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    The OP is intended to describe FF7 but tbh it also applies to 13, 12, 10 (although you're taking down megareligion instead of megacorporation), and possibly also 8 and 9 which I haven't played but have confirmed with light research that there are furries

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  • Trump hawks $399 branded shoes at 'Sneaker Con,' a day after a $355 million ruling against him
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    There are indeed many forms of money laundering which are considered illegal in America, and it is absolutely illegal if someone is accepting funds derived from illicit activity or sanctioned entities (like Russia). The government and most financial institutions generally take the stance that there are very few good reasons to obscure the ultimate source of funds, and so tend to be very risk-averse with such activity.

    The trick is in confirming anything illicit is going on when there are potentially dozens of steps and borders in between the source and the recipient.

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  • How did you lose weight?
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    The first thing you said here is pretty spot on for me. Losing weight is largely a psychological battle, so giving people a simple task list doesn't always work.

    What we need to understand is that "losing weight" goes against our biological programming. We have evolved over millenia to crave carbohydrates (sugars) and fats because they are ready sources of energy, and to only undertake strenuous physical activity if absolutely necessary. In developed nations today neither of these leads to very healthy living, so we need to actively fight against our reptile brains to stay healthy.

    As you said, consistency is key. You don't get healthy by working out 9 hours one day only and eating salad for a week, you get healthy by making small, manageable healthy choices every day.

    Try doing a little more exercise this week than you did last week. You can increase time, intensity, or frequency of whatever your chosen activity is. Try deprogramming your need for ultra-sweet foods by limiting your sugar intake and always try to consume fiber with your sugars (raw fruits are great for this.)

    Little by little you will see beneficial changes

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    Caution when using Spotify for audiobooks

    Tl;Dr Spotify turned shuffle on after I closed the app then later resumed my listening leaving me wildly confused and possibly with some major spoilers. Check before you resume listening. I did a longer road trip this weekend and decided it'd be a good time to get through some of the books in my backlog. Unfortunately, not only was I hit with my audiobook listening limit (15 hours per month, apparently), which is not something I remember Spotify advertising very clearly in the app, but also Spotify decided to turn on shuffle on my return trip. Since I was paying attention to the road I honestly thought that perhaps the author had decided to go with a disjointed narrative for the latter half of the book, but when I got home I found that I had inadvertently listened to a few later chapters, and now I'm a little upset about it. The book was The Luckiest Girl Alive if anyone was curious (honestly the jumpy timeline narrative kind of worked, it was just a little confusing). If you're new to this one, it comes with a pretty big content warning just fyi. I guess I'll be finishing it next month when I have more listening hours on Spotify.

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    I like shopping in book stores. There's something about wandering the aisles and waiting for a book to jump out at you that I can't get shopping online. Unfortunately, whenever I compare the price of a book Amazon has every in-person store beat, often pricing their offerings 30%-50% lower (or around $10/book in my experience) even when I go to a large chain like Barnes and Noble. How is it that Amazon is able to afford to offer the books so much cheaper and also support all of the infrastructure involved in shipping it to my doorstep compared with in-person stores?

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