This is a beautiful thought; however, it doesn’t prove that social problems are unsolvable. Despite the political bitterness so prevalent today, historically, we are on a good social trajectory with better understanding of our biases and prejudices.

Sure, they don’t sleep yet they are able to assemble complex electrical equipment. Perfect reasonable, no need to question. I’ve also always believed it when told there are people who work three full time jobs. What amazing people!

When you factor in the CO2 absorbing grass the rudiments eat, the contribution drops to about 0.5%.

Hack it with a microscope and a lot of reading.

This site is about finding solutions to hard problems, not just throwing your hands up in the air and accepting them. There are other sires for that.

Of course the US has backdoors. What they are buying is the power to fight US enemies. Not US friends or the US itself.

Ensemble averaging has not worked well for me when it comes to dieting. I’m at a point where I’ve found what works well for me: high protein Mediterranean eat when I’m hungry. I tried skipping breakfast and wound up being skinny-fat. I tried keto and got fat and muscular. You might fit cleanly into a bin, like me, you might not.

What is "skinny-fat"? Is it an issue of uncontrolled weight fluctuations?

It means your BMI is “normal”, but it’s normal because you lack muscle to offset having more fat than ideal.

I believe it's using "fat" as a catch-all term for an unhealthy body composition. You appear skinny but lack muscle. I don't think you necessarily have to have "hidden" excess fat to be called this term.

Thinner and softer; noodle arms. You can be thin or lean, but skinny-fat is marked by soft muscle.

Typically it's more like thin but with poor muscle definition. Not overweight but not fit.

But assuming the gp was exercising with weights etc, they might mean that they felt they weren't overweight but were carrying excess fat in certain areas, or considered themselves bloated.

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It’s absolutely crazy bonds are being bought at negative real rates but large sums of money must be parked somewhere by huge funds. Plus they often have bond to equity to commodity to fixed asset mandates so they have to enter what they know to be money losing positions.

What's also interesting this time is the relationship between bond markets and modern ETFs.

Especially in Europe, ETFs can be synthetic. In some cases this means they're made up of generic filler material (e.g. German bunds), with some secret hobo spices (derivatives) to provide the ETF's specific flavouring.

Because of 10 years of central bank buying, all these bonds have been priced to perfection for deflationary scenarios. And as the world is mostly calibrated for small, well-announced yield changes, I wonder what an unexpected discontinuous "jerk" in yields would do to such ETFs.

We should take this with a grain of salt because your reputation is tied to his. This is the cascade effect that occurs when someone very powerful behaves inappropriately-the people below them must defend it to protect what they have.

Having come from acedemia, I disagree with just about everything in this post. People do care about conflicts of interest and when very powerful people are being reviewed, they get greater leeway because of the power of retribution.