"I wanted to use public transportation to avoid the pollution of using a personal car, but public transportation was made unavailable to me in part because of the actions of defendants." Compare defendant Chevron's role in the present case to the role of Chevron (then called Standard Oil of California) and Phillips Petroleum in the demise of streetcars in transit systems in California.

That depends on the country's takings law. I'm more familiar with the United States Constitution, which provides: "nor shall private property be taken for public use, without just compensation." Canada's Expropriation Act (fact sheet) likewise guarantees market value to the property owner.

"software that doesn't allow you to shoot yourself in the foot if you're determined"

I can think of some: Retail video game console operating systems.

Three words whose first consonant sound is /r/ and refer to subjects taught in primary school are reading, writing, and arithmetic.

The Ethereum blockchain's "Merge", switching from proof of work to proof of stake, freed up all the GPUs for the generative AI boom.

This article claims that the camera requirement exists to support Windows Hello authentication. How would Microsoft's Windows Hello or Apple's Face ID work without a camera? Or what other means of quickly authenticating the user to the operating system and to the external passkey/password store would you recommend instead?

The only downside I can think of is that low-end Windows laptops could become a lot more expensive to support display and 40 Gbps on all ports. This could drive laptop makers toward an operating system with even more restricted functionality: ChromeOS.

Incidentally, there was such a discovery. 'It's not wrong that "[facepalming man with brown skin emoji]".length = 7' by Henri Sivonen came out in September 2019. It explains the difference among code units, code points, and extended grapheme clusters, the difference among UTF-8, UTF-16, and UTF-32, the difference among JavaScript, Python 3, and Rust length semantics, and the difference among storage, display width, and arbitrary quotas that are roughly fair across languages.

Strong diasgree on that. I’ve had great results from uploading my schema, uploading a query to optimize (multiple joins, multiple subqueries, etc., that kind of thing), describing the output set I want and letting it come up with a query.

I would actually say I’ve had the _best_ luck with SQL.

Yeah, that's what's worked for me in maintenance. I no longer weigh myself every day but I do at least several times a week. If I get too high, I know to slam on the brakes for a couple of days (at least).

My wife, OTOH, she can't do that. Seeing her weight every day emotionally impacts her, and she eats emotionally.

I couldn't agree more. It's a real struggle to avoid crap at grocery stores. If you stick the produce section and the meat sections, you're in good shape. Once you start hitting the prepared foods, the frozen dinners, the candy aisle, the soda aisle, the chips and crackers aisle, it is really very hard to eat healthily.

I read through the rest of the comments under this article and I saw your name pop up frequently. I'm sorry you're having such bad weight and health problems, and I hope you're able to make some progress.

Wikipedia: https://ancillary-proxy.atarimworker.io?url=https%3A%2F%2Fen.wikipedia.org%2Fwiki%2FGlucagon-like_peptide-1

NIH https://ancillary-proxy.atarimworker.io?url=https%3A%2F%2Fpmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov%2Farticles%2FPMC4119845%2F

Beyond the scientific facts, if you read anything that people who take these drugs say, you'll find that turning off the "food noise" is perhaps the most central theme. So yeah, GLP-1 drugs do suppress appetite.

I'm not arguing against exercise, but with GLP-1 drugs, you literally do not need to exercise to lose weight.

In my late 20s, I lost about 60 lbs of weight, almost entirely through a small number of dietary changes--zero beverages other than water and unsweetened coffee, zero french fries, zero bagged snack foods, zero going out to eat for lunch. I also practiced intermittent fasting, sporadically, for 24 hours. I didn't change my exercising at all.

Now, since I lost the weight, I've taken up more exercise (bike, jog, lift) and I've maintained a steady weight for almost 15 years now.

Bodybuilders say "abs are made in the kitchen, not the gym." They've got a point.

Cheaper, but not easier.

I'm a "Calories In, Calories out" type guy, but it does seem accurate to say that there is a large percentage of the human population--worldwide--that cannot adapt to modern lifestyle, work types, and food availability. It galls me to say it, but keeping a percentage of the population on appetite suppresants may be the most cost-effective way to control obesity worldwide.

Obesity is skyrocketing around the world. In France, traditionally considered a healthy country, in 2020, 47% of adults have a BMI greater than 25. As of 2014, 24% of French adults have an obese BMI of 30+. (https://ancillary-proxy.atarimworker.io?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.thelocal.fr%2F20250527%2Fhow-serious-is-frances-obesity-problem / https://ancillary-proxy.atarimworker.io?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.ameli.fr%2Fparis%2Fassure%2Fsante%2Fthemes%2Fsurpoids-obesite-adulte%2Fdefinition-causes-risques / https://ancillary-proxy.atarimworker.io?url=https%3A%2F%2Fen.wikipedia.org%2Fwiki%2FObesity_in_France). France today is similar to the United States of maybe 20-30 years ago. Let's hope the trendline changes!

Obesity is surging in India, China, even Africa.

Another factor of obesity, particular in the United States, is that it's strongly correlated with race. Blacks, Hispanics, and Native Americans are all more than twice as likely to be obese as whites, and east Asians have very low obesity rates (though this too is changing). Again, if medicine can help narrow some of the health disparities and improve eating patterns, IMHO, it's probably a good thing.