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  • Two main things

    One is that GLP-1 drugs work really well in curbing appetite to cause weight loss. However, part of that weight loss is muscle mass and that is causing some people on it to be concerned. A way of mitigating that is to eat more protein relative to your diet. The restaurant industry is trying to appeal to these new customers by creating high protein and small portion dishes.

    Two is that there are more people who aren’t on these drugs focusing on fitness, specifically lifting and muscle mass. To that that physique, you need to eat a lot of protein relative to the rest of your diet. So restaurants are trying to sell to these people as well.









  • There is enough evidence to believe the account of how various buildings in the World Trade Center collapsed. This includes the failure mode of Building 7 mirroring a major fire in 1 Meridian Plaza at Philadelphia which suffered significant structural damage due to fire; the requirement for major skyscrapers to have fire sprinklers throughout the building came from the 1 Meridian Plaza fire.

    I’m only speaking to the affects of the planes hitting the Twin Towers. I can’t speak to the accuracy of anything happening beforehand to the attack, but the damage of the attack follows how these buildings would respond to the disaster. This includes Building 7.


  • It would generally be considered null. Most interfacing between police departments is through Interpol, the FBI, or the State Department. There is almost no reason for a local cop to have any standing in a foreign country.

    That said, for some strange reason, the New York Police Department has an intelligence arm that works in foreign countries and is coordinated at the city level. Because of that, it is possible that New York City has independent relationships with foreign countries that doesn’t go through the US State Department. This came up as former mayor Eric Adams was caught getting bribes by Turkish officials for leniency in permitting for its NYC embassy. So, it is possible that a NYPD cop could have more pull than the average American local cop because of these relationships.





  • Which is why I think a two book adaptation works better in this case.

    The movie does a better job in the first half, where the use of Ender is more abstract and the movie can use the extra time to lay out some of Ender’s ideas on when to use force. Then, the climax of the movie is Ender winning the final academy battle and setting up expectations in the next movie.

    A whole movie focusing on the campaign, obscuring the campaign to make it seem to Ender and the audience that this is more training, and using the first movie’s pacing as a way to set up audience expectations. It also gives time for Ender on screen to see this nuance and complexity so the audience comes into the final battle understanding Ender’s viewpoint before the rug pull.