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The problem is that games are very addictive so in extreme cases they can destroy much more thoroughly than TV can.

You jog at 120 kgs?

My eyes dry up when looking upwards...

You mean climate.

Dating by apps is terrible but bars are arguably even worse.

I am running www.bgtrain.com on sqlite.

He seems to be equating "mating success" with "high number of sexual partners". I don't think this is reasonable.

You want to buy them. And maybe you will, if the price is low enough. But that does not mean that the process is commercially viable. I doubt enough people would care.

I don't understand this "taking their passports away". It's not like you're a slave if you lost your passport. Also, you can travel pretty much everywhere within Western Europe without a passport, it's called the Schengen zone.

I don't even know if counting calories works. I feel that when I'm in a calorie deficit my body just gets colder which means it is burning less calories which in turn means I might not be losing any weight.

I don't understand the appeal of chess for the average player. Unless you are advanced (over 2000 elo) there is nothing really "deep" about it. It's like solving simple puzzles and you have to think like a computer, simply evaluating moves and responses. As GM Ben Finegold said, when you show a sub-2000 player what he did wrong he's not surprised; he just didn't see it, didn't calculate it.

Yes, if you reach 2000 elo the game becomes very strategic but 99% of people won't reach that due to not being able to play thousands and thousands of games and/or not doing so early enough in their life.

Can you play just for fun when you are below 2000? Yes you can but it's not much fun because in most games players will blunder and at that point the game pretty much gets decided; you can blunder at any point, you can never relax, you can never play a move and be confident that you didn't blunder. The constant struggle to be ultra-focused on your calculation quickly wears you down and makes the game tiring and stressful.

1k on 3k wagered sounds pretty suspicious. Also, the regularity you imply makes it even more suspicious. How did this program work?

So a guy tickles a rat and the rat makes sounds. This apparently amounts to "laughing" and somehow should make us feel the rat more closely resembles a human.

What a load of bunk.

What other great life choices you made at age 9?

That won't work unless you're a soccer/basketball/whatever star and probably not even then.

Why do you need a window when you can go outside at any time? It's not like it's a prison. If you want a room with a window pay for a room with a window.

Sounds like a business model, you can try it and see what happens.

If you don't want to spend time on a smartphone, don't spend time on a smartphone. I don't have a smartphone myself and I am not interested in getting one. But banning something because you don't like it is nothing short of totalitarian.

There are witnesses and the jury evaluates them.

Government intervention to the market, never fails to destroy.

Or maybe his doctorate is from a country where someone can buy one pretty easily.

Why don't we let people decide for themselves whether they want the cheaper clothing or they want to pay more? Who are you to decide how poor people should spend their money to clothe themselves?

The reason why you have anti-dumping is for the government to protect jobs at a certain sector (and hence buy votes), at the expense of consumers.

Do you mean that if people there only had access to more expensive clothing they would be better off?

Why do we need a more gentle learning curve? Let them figure it out as everyone else did. There's more than enough information online.

They have a database of known bad photos and they just check against it.

Why do courts have the power to tell me what I will publish on my website?

"Work harder" does not mean much though. It's an empty saying.

Your body is flexible because it needs to be able to move and assume myriads of positions.

This means that it is not very good at bearing a load without moving; it has to work hard to keep those flexible muscles, tendons and ligaments still.

Maybe that's why planks world records are set by people in their 60s and 70s. Because most of their flexibility has been lost due to aging.

Sounds like it would dry out your eyes.