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I don't hate brutalism but I'd much rather have the https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Royal_Exhibition_Building than QPAC, rain or shine.

I think both look ugly and megalomaniac.

You're entitled to that opinion, but if you give an alternative for how a big multi-storey building for large events and crowds should look then it will move the discussion forward.

To me the issue is that the alternative to brutalism isn't classic, art deco, art nouveau, googie, etc. It's soulless glass and steel designs.

I'd rather have classic, art deco, etc. to brutalism but I'd MUCH rather have brutalism to modern glass and steel.


I'm left wondering what happens if you feed people 300g/day of barley, shredded wheat, brown rice, or any other wholegrain. For that matter, what happens if you do the same thing with legumes?

The experiment halved energy intake at minimum and still provided 30+ grams of fibre then kept doing it until the gut emptied, which I reckon most people would expect to nuke and replace the gut microbiome, but did oatmeal have any specific advantage?


Yeah this is a really wild experiment.

Their hypothesis for the mechanism is "gut bacteria" but these people in the study all had a trifecta of "high" body weight (overweight? obese? not specified in this article), high blood pressure, and hyperlipidemia.

So we've got some unhealthy people, we cut their calories to less than half, we jack their fiber way up (most likely - we don't know their baseline diet but with those biomarkers we can make some educated guesses), we restrict the timing of when they eat and remove all junk food.

So is this oatmeal specifically? Fiber? Calorie deficit? Meal timing effects? Removal of processed food for two days?

The idea that you can "shock" your body to better biomarkers like this and have it last over a month is extremely cool, but I wonder how they can be certain that this is some oatmeal thing versus a general "eat way less and limit yourself to a food that is high in fiber" thing.

The low protein here is a problem when in a calorie deficit, for example, because if you don't have enough protein you're likely to lose weight as muscle mass rather than fat. If you could do the same technique with legumes your protein would be way better.


> people in the study all had a trifecta

It's an intervention for people with metabolic syndrome, characterized specifically by those traits. Quoting the first sentence of the paper:

"Metabolic syndrome (MetS), characterized by the co-occurrence of central obesity, dyslipidemia, elevated blood pressure (BP), and dysglycemia, ..."

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-026-68303-9


The paper does a better job explaining why oats were chosen:

> Oats offer an interesting and promising approach for treating MetS due to their unique composition characterized by a high fiber content, especially β-glucan, essential minerals and vitamins, and various bioactive substances, including phenols which exert antioxidant and anti-inflammatory effects that may improve metabolic function. Furthermore, oats are an accessible and sustainable food item.

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-026-68303-9


I would suggest that when there's a possible crime, as there would be in this case, even a clearly guilty murderer caught red-handed holding a knife and screaming "I DID IT" will be an "alleged" perpetrator.

Do you mean false positives? A false negative would be "we checked to see whether Alice was in the country illegally, and the computer said no but the actual answer turned out to be yes".

> The majority of Red Notices are restricted to law enforcement use only.

> Extracts of Red Notices are published at the request of the member country concerned and where the public’s help may be needed to locate an individual or if the individual may pose a threat to public safety.

So, no, only a minority of them are made public.


Besides, you'd probably want to know about a blue notice.

I’d like to know if I’m the subject of any of the Interpol notices. That is, unless it’s a Black Notice and it’s correct. Then I couldn’t really care. Even that one, though, if my name’s attached and it’s wrong that seems really bad.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Interpol_notice


Ah I see, still is no excuse to find crime, only adding to your potential problems really.

It's also just a matter of logistics and support.

If Aliceville attacks Bobtopia, there are existing military and civilian organisations in Bobtopia that can take foreign aid and use it effectively. The population of Bobtopia are generally going to support their homeland or at least be neutral, and are available for conscription so they'll do all the dying and international forces don't have to.

If Bobtopia just starts massacring its own people, then:

A) You have to dismantle those same military structures along with many of the civilian ones, and you're now in charge of building an entire government from the ground up.

B) Some of the population, e.g. the ones who were doing the massacring, are now shooting at you instead. Some of their victims are probably going to shoot at you too.

C) You can't exactly conscript Bobtopians during a civil war you started and have them be an effective fighting force, because they're not unified, don't have a government, and often hate you. If you try to work with Bobtopian militias, you'll find yourself embroiled in Bobtopian politics.

This all holds true regardless of who has to declare war on whom.


Plumbing has certification and industry best practices, and its leaks generally affect a few blocks at most rather than spraying across the entire internet.

It seems like the introvert/extrovert split, where few people are near the poles and there's a lot more going on in the middle.

E.g. I might check if someone has weekend plans before asking if I can stay with them. Or, I might ask outright, but specify it's not important, I just want to catch up, and the nearby hotel looks nice.

These seem like important differences even though they're both in the middle of ask and guess.


You might eventually end up calling 15mm pipe half-inch, depending on where the cheapest pipe can be sourced from.

"Hi SchemaLoad, I'm Officer John from the Department of Not Letting Children Be Abused. I'm following up on something one of your users posted three years ago. Can you tell me the IP address(es) associated with the following deleted posts: A B C D"

“Hi Officer John, that data is deleted and is no longer possible to access.”

Unless there’s a regulatory requirement (which there currently isn’t in any jurisdiction I’ve heard of), that’s a perfectly acceptable response.


You'd be required to show what you have but you aren't required to store everything forever just in case someone years later asks for it. Would be like showing up to fingerprint the scene 3 years after and being surprised it's too late.

Think of the children! We can't have privacy because children might be abused if we have privacy!

This argument applies equally to anything else that needs digital forensics, like SBF's personal banking history, or which user deployed a crypto-miner to some random staging server back in 2023.

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