Came to say the same. G’mork!

Clonezilla is great, and simplifies the use of dd

Just because a rock falls down doesn’t mean it “naturally follows” that some rocks fall upward too. There is no way to invoke a system that stores excess energy as fat if there is no excess. Could some energy that is actually needed get stored as fat? Okay, but… Not for long, as the body would need energy, since it isn’t getting calories. Unless it is getting calories from food.

I went from 175lbs to 125lbs in four months during divorce proceedings. My metabolism didn’t change. I wasn’t on a new miracle drug. I was depressed and didn’t eat, and I took up running a 3.2mi circuit around the bay where I live.

To your point, I bet OP’s diet would help you bulk up, just not likely with muscle. Chow a few gallons of ice cream each week. Eat American fast food three to ten times a week. Put cheese on everything. Ignore the “added sugars” part of the nutrition label. My weekly intake fits in a single shopping bag. I doubt OP can say the same. They weigh 2.5 times my weight.

Willpower is much harder to muster for a whole year, and its exceedingly difficult to avoid bad calories in this country.

ETA: Ozempic isn’t prescribed because doctors found patients whose bodies are non-conformant to the basic principles of caloric intake. It’s because doctors know patients have no willpower, and its likely the only way they will accept to lose weight.

And our bodies are just machines. We can’t create fat if were using the calories we consume. I don’t really get anyone who “tries” to lose weight for years. If you keep putting more food in your body than you need, your body converts it to fat. The idea of since “strange reason” that a body won’t lose weight is silly. There’s just no way for a body to keep weight on unless they are taking in more calories than they are using. So if OP can’t bear to eat less, they need to get really active. There really isn’t a mystery here. Its math. If you only add to the equation, the figure only increases. This is a willpower issue. … Or maybe we found the one obese American whose body defies caloric mathematics.

That was a fun scroll. Will be interesting to watch this play out.

When President Donald Trump ordered strikes on Iran last summer, he and his administration repeatedly declared that the attacks had obliterated the Middle Eastern country’s nuclear program and set back its ability to make a nuclear weapon for years.

In the immediate runup to Saturday’s strikes with Israel on Iran, however, Trump and members of his administration began issuing more urgent warnings about Iran’s nuclear ambitions. It was among the shifting — and often openly contradictory — messages sent on Iran.

After widespread protests erupted in Iran in January, for example, Trump repeatedly threatened military strikes — only to back off after he said he was assured Tehran had halted killing protesters and not carried out planned executions — except international observers say the death toll from a crackdown over the protests exceeded 7,000. At the same time, following years of scoffing at, and openly campaigning against, the idea that previous conservatives administrations had been advocates for “regime change” missions, Trump seemed to change his mind and warm to the idea.

In the aftermath of Saturday’s attacks, the president and other officials have offered multiple reasons they said the latest strikes on Iran were necessary — some of which conflict with what they said over the past eight months.

After the strikes last summer

—“THE NUCLEAR SITES IN IRAN ARE COMPLETELY DESTROYED!” — Trump in a June 24, 2025, post on Truth Social.

—“Based on everything we have seen — and I’ve seen it all — our bombing campaign obliterated Iran’s ability to create nuclear weapons.” — Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth to CNN in a June 25, 2025, story

—“The precision strikes perfectly hit their targets and destroyed Iran’s nuclear facilities, resulting in the total obliteration of Iran’s ability to create a nuclear weapon.” — The White House in a June 25, 2025, press release.

Charge backs aren’t just granted arbitrarily though. I spent almost $1k on getting my wheels refurbished. When I got them back, they had done more damage rather than repair them, and now the wheels cause major vibration.

Visa denied the charge back because a “service was provided.” Despite the owner telling me on a recorded call that he’d never refund me or make it right, and sending over forty pictures of before and after. I’m out the money and Visa couldn’t care less.

So… Journalists just push stories without an editor reviewing them? I always assumed publications like Ars had someone in the Gandalf role (you shall not pass!) making sure articles were “correct” in many ways. … Guess not?

And her middle finger back

I saw the same “barely” articles you mentioned that reference the CST as a source. They didn’t actually describe the event the way your discussion partner did. She supposedly stepped in front of his car, and his grabbing her arm seems more out of frustration. He didn’t save her from an accident. He was the driver of the car that would have hit her. He avoided an accident, got out of his car, grabbed the girl and “lectured” her. Seems like a slightly harsher consequence than necessary, but it does sound like an assault of some degree.

That said, I help people – and even in public!!!

ACAB

These are the people we are trusting to defuse tense situations, yet when faced with peaceful children on their spare time, only know one single tool for every situation: violence.

No. A Mac becomes a non-personal computer. And NPC…?

Make sure the twig … Uhhmm… I hope those rats are… Sighhhh. I got nothing. This timeline truly is the worst timeline. Like, my beard only grows into a goatee now.

Also this is my first post after 3 years here, so let me know if anything needs to be fixed

We need a better president and house of representatives. No wonder it’s so fucked up if you’ve been gone three years. Get on it and get this fixed ASAP, please.

This is correct. The folks adding these trackers to their sites usually have little to zero tech knowledge. They see a plugin or other way to provide them with the metrics they think they need and its “so easy” to use tag manager or the Facebook pixel.

I knew someone working for a nonprofit that was building out a form for indigenous troubled families, and they used both google and meta tools. Their intended cohort actively avoided it based on their initial finding that it was tracking them (they apparently had a tech person on their side of the table). This prompted a whole board level meeting, which resulted in the removal of the trackers, which were later re-added in another,less skeevy way, after the data they wanted stopped flowing) and the immediate enrollment in the program by hundreds of families.

In the end, they decided they need those tools, as alternatives were to clunky for them. Google and Meta make it seem easy for you, since they have much to gain and little to lose by making their data collection tools easy to implement. I went round and round with my friend about how bad this was, and they got it, but their higher-ups overrode them.

And Meta and Google lived happily ever after…

I had the same trouble a little while back, with the same fix. https://lemmy.world/post/41492140

How would you know what that feels like?

I feel this in my soul. ((HUGZ)) From a fellow pecked hen.

I get that. Our cats eat on a schedule. The slower eater goes first, and the vacuum cleaner one does extra tricks to delay him more. The we watch them to prevent theft. It only takes about five minutes of our time. Or veterinarian tells us our cats are “lean and healthy; I wish all our patients looked this good.” That, along with seeing them do parkour all over the house is more than enough to keep us on this path.

Isn’t VirtualBox an Oracle property now? Fuck VirtualBox.