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What Is Intermittent Fasting

February 10, 2021

intermittent fasting

Intermittent fasting is simply eating within certain windows of time. It is NOT starving yourself like some people think. At one point I was doing an 18 hour fast with the 6 hour eating period. With the way my schedule was at the time, I would start my first meal around 11am and stop around 6pm or so (depended on the day). Like most people, I hated going to sleep hungry so I pushed my window further into the day because I could tolerate being hungry in the morning but I could not tolerate it while trying to sleep. Like some other people have already stated, your body WILL adjust and every day it becomes easier and easier.

Why Don’t Police Just Shoot The Arms or Legs Or Fire a Warning Shot to Dissuade an Armed Suspect?

February 1, 2021

why don't police just shoot legs

When you pull out a gun to stop someone else with a gun, the goal is to achieve a result as quickly as possible. Everyone agrees on that. But where the confusion comes from is what results look like. Shooting someone in the arm or leg is really, really hard. Hell – shooting someone in the chest is hard, especially when both parties are moving and shooting at each other. But besides hard, the leg doesnt give us what we want.

Why Do Stalin and Mao’s Atrocities Receive Less Attention Than Hitler’s?

January 27, 2021

hitler vs stalin and mao

Two things: specificity and deliberateness. When the Final Solution was put into action at the height of WWII, it was with a view to wiping out entire classes of people – Jews, gypsies, homosexuals, and the disabled, to name a few.

The Nazis undertook this work with a level of planning that was unprecedented in human history and has never been matched since. They made an earnest attempt to kill every single Jew in occupied Europe using all the techniques and technologies of the industrial age.

Why Do Pro Baseball Players Require So Much More Minor League Time Compared To Other Major Sports?

January 26, 2021

minor league baseball

Well one thing is the way the game is played. With football, it is such a physical sport that you dont have time really develop guys because of the beatings those guys take week in and week out. Running backs typically fall apart when they hit the 30 year old mark. The only positions where you can be successful for a long time are qbs and kickers because they do not typically take a beating. College is basically the minors for football. You dont have the body or time to go from college to the minors to develop because one hit in football and your career is done. With baseball you can see guys playing well into their 40’s so they have time to develop their game before going pro.

What’s It Like To Be Knocked Out in an MMA Fight?

January 20, 2021

whats it liked to be knocked out

Interviewer: Anderson Silva, what is worse, getting knocked out in the UFC or giving 200 interviews explaining why it happened?

Silva: Getting knocked out I guess.

Interviewer: Is it worse than people asking about it? Like I’m doing again and again and again…

Silva: No no, there will always be questions. Fans, people, they want to know what happened, but being knocked out is worse because you can’t remember. There is just a blackout, and then when you wake up you’re like, “Uh? What Happened? The fight is over?” And the ref says, “Yeah, it’s over and you lost.” “But how?” Then the ref says, “you got knocked out” “BUT HOW?” The ref then answers, “You took a big shot and fell to the mat.”

What Do Chefs Do Aside From Cooking?

January 11, 2021

what do chefs do besides cooking

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Let me eliminate all the cooking (of which I, and most chefs, do very little) and all the things concerning direct supervision of cooking.

In the morning I do a stock muster and make sure we have everything we need to make it through the day. I read my team’s notes and the front of the house notes and try to understand what I need to order to have it here in a timeframe that allows me to never run out and nothing to come too early and spoil.

What Is The Singularity In A Black Hole?

January 8, 2021

what is the singularity in a black hole

Why is it that when you push two pieces of wood together, they don’t smush together and become one smaller piece of wood? Because the atoms that make up the pieces of wood push against each other, repel each other. They want to own their own little bit of space. They resist being smushed.

But they can only push back so hard. With enough force, you *can* smush atoms together, breaking them down into smaller things. Those smaller things also don’t want to be smushed together, but with enough force, they will too. Everything will, with enough force.

Why Do Chinese Restaurants All Look And Taste The Same?

January 6, 2021

(photo: “Chinese Restaurants, DC” by xtopher1974)

If Chinese Takeouts were a franchise they would be the largest franchise in America. There are more than 40,000 Chinese takeout restaurants, which is almost three times more than McDonalds 15,000. They take little space if needed and are versatile where they fit. They’re perfect for low rent areas. The purpose of them looking cheap and the same is that you know exactly what you’re getting – a greasy meal for under $10. This is critical to their business, because they want you to know that they’ve got fortune cookies, egg rolls, and fried chicken over rice even if none of these are actually Chinese.

Do Police Officers Struggle With Becoming Bitter Toward the Public?

January 4, 2021

do police get bitter towards the public

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Yes. This is particularly a problem when the officer is dealing with a group who he perceives is always making work for him.

The city where I worked was a tourist destination with lots of money and liquor in the mix. It drew a disproportionate share of people who are now called “homeless” (we usually referred to them as “vagrants” or “drunks”) who would panhandle, buy, or otherwise acquire alcohol, and get drunk in parks and other public places. They had very low standards of hygiene, occasionally fought (not very effectively) with officers, and committed many petty offenses that took a great deal of time and resources to deal with.

Why Do Teenagers Feel The Need To Act “Cool” Around Their Parents?

December 24, 2020

teenagers acting cool

Sincerity is vulnerable and teens already feel plenty vulnerable.

Also, if you drop the act around your parents, you are acknowledging that it’s an act. Some kids are okay with that because they’re aware of social masking and code switching, consciously or otherwise. Other kids, especially kids who might be struggling socially or are trying to “discover” themselves, would resist the idea that their more popular, more well-liked self is just an “act” and feel pressured to keep it up 24/7, because they assume all the other “cool” kids are naturally like that, too.