TheRealKuni

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[–] TheRealKuni@piefed.social 43 points 6 days ago (14 children)

When you gain weight your fat cells grow, and when you lose weight they shrink. You don't actually gain and lose fat cells the way people think.

But as my doctor explained to me, if they get big enough, they divide. Then even if you lose weight, you have fat cells hanging around who think they should be holding onto more fat than they are. So your body will want to be fat, and will enforce that with cravings.

It’s why it’s extremely hard to lose a large amount of weight and leave it off. I’m on my third major attempt now.

[–] TheRealKuni@piefed.social 64 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

It really shouldn’t surprise me when judges make the obvious right calls, but at this point any good news is worth celebrating.

[–] TheRealKuni@piefed.social 4 points 1 week ago

I read it on the shitter! It’s a small, porcelain world. 🤣

[–] TheRealKuni@piefed.social 4 points 1 week ago

I never actually saw the show. But the theme song is burned into my brain.

[–] TheRealKuni@piefed.social 6 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Man I’m sorry but the scansion on this is awful.

[–] TheRealKuni@piefed.social 2 points 1 week ago

Do you weigh several thousand kilograms?

[–] TheRealKuni@piefed.social 3 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Believe it or not the headline says “sunCREAMS” but I also read it as “sunscream” and thought maybe it was a knockoff Decepticon.

[–] TheRealKuni@piefed.social -3 points 1 week ago

Hydrogen infrastructure can be built out similarly to petrol infrastructure, whereas EV infrastructure requires a robust power grid. That is, it would be easier to set up hydrogen refueling in some of the places Toyota operates than EV charging.

The good news is, Toyota isn’t doing hydrogen combustion but rather power generation. So they’re still relying on EV motors, just powered by hydrogen fuel cells rather than by batteries. In fact, they can be called FCEVs (fuel cell electric vehicles) as opposed to BEVs (battery electric vehicles).

I don’t think there’s anything wrong with multiple solutions. BEV makes far more sense for me as a consumer than a hydrogen vehicle would, but that doesn’t mean there can’t be a place for hydrogen.

The sector where I think FCEVs could be most useful (in the short term anyway) is trucking. Refueling at speeds similar to petrol or diesel, but the torque advantages of electric motors. And building out infrastructure for trucking is an easier proposition than for everyone driving a car. Refueling of long-haul trucks is done already largely separate from the average car.

[–] TheRealKuni@piefed.social 16 points 1 week ago

And that he didn’t tell this to graduating diplomats, whom would see through this peaceful transition

In this sentence, “who/whom” is acting as the subject of the clause “who/whom would see through this peaceful transition” and thus should be in the nominative case “who.”

Easiest way to know when to use “whom” is to replace the word with “he/him” and follow the “m.” If “he” makes more sense, use “who.” If “him” makes more sense, use “whom.”

And if you’re not sure, just use “who.” It’ll stand out a lot less if it’s wrong, since “whom” is gradually falling out of use.

[–] TheRealKuni@piefed.social 39 points 1 week ago (28 children)

given that the public now has no way to remove leadership that's running a war this badly.

What? David is holding his own against Goliath, but that’s “running a war this badly”?

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