greatdrams23

greatdrams23 t1_ja8cjou wrote

In the UK, stores get the recipes from TV food programs in advance so they can stock up. If 5 million watch Gordon Ramsey cook avacados, that will mean stores will sell more.

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greatdrams23 t1_ja4nenn wrote

Every incremental step forward requires an exponential growth in computer power.

If you double computer power every couple of years, you can make a small step forward. There will be no giant leap.

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greatdrams23 t1_ja10ffg wrote

"By much the same logic, if something is made illegal now, that doesn't mean you can be charged for doing it when it was still legal"

This 'reverse' case is not the same Logic in reverse.

If something was PREVIOUSLY LEGAL but now illegal, then it would be wrong to convict retrospectively, because that person kept to the law.

But...

If something was PREVIOUSLY ILLEGAL but now legalised, then their conviction was THEN first, but CONTINUED punishment means you continue to punish a person for something that is now deemed legal.

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greatdrams23 t1_j9zjfmh wrote

You can play with any number of people (two is enough, even one person with a wall)

You can play anywhere (street, field, car park, small garden, beach)

You can play with zero equipment (tin can, any ball, school children often play with tennis balls, anything you can kick).

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greatdrams23 t1_j9xtujd wrote

I worked with a child who was literally starving to death and couldn't eat for more than a minute a day (complicated reasons, parents refused tube feeding and courts were siding with the parents, at least temporarily.).

The medical advice was to feed the highest calorie creamy dessert we could find to get the most calories inside her in the shortest time.

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greatdrams23 t1_j2eag3j wrote

A weight gain of 47 pounds in a year is huge, yet it is only 2oz gain per day. 2oz is about 1/30th of your intake. So, it's not the mass of what you eat, it is the parts you retain

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greatdrams23 t1_j1q1y3k wrote

Pete Townshend predicted in 1970, only he called it The Grid. This included great social disharmony brought about by young people sitting at home and never going out, but instead communicating over the grid. "Teenage wasteland".

Also Horizontal Man by William Spencer, 1965.

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