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  • BubbleMonkey@slrpnk.nettoCool Guides@lemmy.caA cool guide for bikini season
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    3 months ago

    I don’t really care about downvotes, but those of you doing so… you might want to actually look into the research behind it. I picked a couple of random links for it because there’s literally nothing special about any of it, along with an NIH article about brown fat recruitment. The science is solid. It’s not a magic bullet; it’s not a replacement for healthy eating or real exercise; it does work for raw calorie burning and for making your body system more efficient at staying warm through calorie burning long term. That’s what our bodies are made to do. It’s a great calorie balancing supplement with very little actual effort.

    Shivering is a great easy way to burn calories, and increase the rate you burn calories later through beige fat recruitment.

    This should NOT be used to replace healthy eating or proper exercise, but shivering burns gobs of calories to produce heat, and the brown fat (located mostly in your back around neck and shoulders, used just for producing heat from fat) recruits surrounding white fat and transforms it into beige fat (basically converts normal fat into leaky heat-generating fat) to increase the heat generation, and thus calorie burn, of subsequent shivers.

    Here’s some links about it, if you are interested. It may not be actionable in the summer, but if you have a basement floor you can lay on, a tub of cold water, or access to a walk in freezer, you can get a healthy shiver going any time.

    https://www.medicaldaily.com/shivering-more-effective-exercise-15-minutes-shivering-may-burn-more-fat-1-hour-working-out-268555

    https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8341719/

    https://www.discovermagazine.com/health/shiver-yourself-thin-can-being-cold-help-you-lose-weight


  • They don’t come around anymore, but I used to say that I was disfellowshipped/excommunicated, whichever was fitting for whatever religion they were selling. If they ask why, which they basically never do, just say “I’d really rather not talk about it, if you don’t mind…”

    They don’t actually want to waste time talking to people who were kicked out of the church for “bad behavior”, and in many cases aren’t even allowed to, so they blacklist your address.

    No soliciting signs typically do the job, too, though.


  • Used doesn’t fix the spying problem, only helps with the price. And that’s not even a guarantee anymore. So you aren’t wrong, but it doesn’t help the issue I specifically have with them (which I have with all newer cars).

    My current car is 2012 civic coupe, and if I don’t drive it much, it’s perfectly fine for what I use it for without upgrading, other than that it’s starting to need bigger work more frequently, and not stuff I know how to do. Decent mileage and all, but fully ice. I’d like to upgrade to electric or at least hybrid, but they all have the same spying problem. So I just cut driving as much as I can. I live in a rural town, closest grocery store is half an hour away by highway, so zero driving isn’t an option, unfortunately.






  • Ngl, the more this happens the more servicers are confused about what they should be collecting and from whom, and that’s actually a win for the borrowers (not as much of a win as this shit going through but still).

    For example, due to the slew of challenges, I’m still on $0 repayment through October and don’t even have to certify income for that. And who knows if they will actually move forward with resuming charges for it; this is the second time it’s been delayed for me.

    I hope the system does get thrown into complete chaos if it doesn’t all get forgiven or at least restructured. That would be better than people having to pay for worthless and/or overpriced degrees, and not being able to do shit with their lives.