Definitely do both if you need to, but don’t under estimate exercise. I went from 10.5st to 9.5st just doing couch to 5km and then continuing to run 5km 3 times a week, no other dietary changes.

Running for half an hour burns about 400 calories. 1 hour of running, 800. 3 runs a week can burn a day’s worth of calories. Don’t understate the impact exercise has.

Hopefully staying fit, making some new memories with friends, making music, appreciating the time I’ve got here as much as I can.

Agreed on period variation. I remember my teacher telling everyone women didn’t lose more than a teaspoon of blood over the course of a period and I was so confused because I could be sitting over the toilet and losing a teaspoon’s worth in 2 minutes. But no, apparently I was misjudging the amount.

I felt vindicated when I later bought a mooncup and it would fill up in an hour 😆

Speak for yourself.

I’ve literally never had this, could be country specific? I’m in the UK.

If YT ads weren’t so fucking intrusive, people might actually put up with them. But there’s so many, they’re so long and they interrupt the video at such awkward times. In the UK terrestrial TV would usually have a video every 15 minutes at the very most, so the amount you have to sit through on YT feels unbearable.

Mine doesn’t do this, and even if it did you’d have to keep moving it back to hit “record”.

A lot of people send voice messages now, so you’d normally record/play them that way.

I’ve never heard a speaker phone that’s louder than voice level, I don’t understand this.

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In some countries they are also used for missing people, train crashes, terrorist attacks, pandemic quarantine rule changes. I’m not opposed to getting this information, but I am opposed to it not being optional.

And I have zero trust in our current government and could absolutely see it being misused down the line. But, for now, they can be turned off here.

It’s just a fact, I don’t think it needs to be funny or clever.

Rishi Sunak also just promised to ensure cars will be able to drive through heavily populated areas indefinitely and has pushed back plans to introduce electric-only cars. He absolutely does not care about peoples’ health.

I think it should always be optional. We don’t have to have our TVs on 25/7. I’m certainly no tinfoil hat wearer but I don’t think the government should have access to our private spaces at all times unless we consent to it.

I’m in the UK and we can disable them here 🤷🏻‍♀️

As I said, it’s probably perception, though I don’t understand your last point.

I had to blacklist words like “trump” on reddit, it was too much.

I suppose there is fear of it being abused (think 1984 telescreens you’re unable to turn off)? There was a test recently here in the UK and we had the same fears discussed. The noise was pretty awful so I just turned it off, but maybe people don’t realise you can disable it.

Yes it could just be the perception. In American films and TV everyone seems to have a lawyer, there’s the whole “lawyer up” reddit meme and I’ve been given so much advice on reddit about things I should/shouldn’t do to avoid getting sued (like sweeping the pavement outside my house! This seems to come up so often). The only time I know of people using solicitors here regularly are to buy houses and to finalise divorce.