WTF-Beta

I wish we had an H-Mart near us. Sigh.

Also, as an Italian-American, I wish we had a Caputo's, which I bet @wtg has been to.

Yikes!

@wtg said in Inauguration being moved inside:

Maybe we need a caption contest....

Gonna be a long four years....

That's all I got.

@Steve-Miller said in Farewell Address.:

Vacant and expressionless.

Maybe it was a defense mechanism... I'm feeling pretty vacant and expressionless when I think about the incoming administration....

Hope you feel better soon @CHAS !!

Oh, oops, the point I meant to make though, is yes, I started adding it to my lunch menu because it seemed like a good, and easy, source of protein.

@wtg said in Cottage cheese has a resurgence. Apparently.:

I've loved cottage cheese since I was a kid. People hate/hated it??

I think there was a period of time when I didn't like it...

But for the last several years maybe (?) I've eaten it close to five days a week, because I take it with my lunch when I go to work. And I like it, it's yummy!

from the article:l @wtg linked:

Prime did not ask patients why their prescriptions stopped

Well good grief! Why not! A missed opportunity for sure.

Good comments all around.

@Steve-Miller said in Ozempic:

Education, maybe? Perhaps, but it’s going to be mighty tough to get people to change, particularly when they’re bombarded with advertising 24/7. Equally important is that people have a right to spend their money as they please and eat what they like.

It’s complicated.

It certainly it is complicated!

Education, while needed, definitely won’t do it alone.

And no, as @wtg said, the high tech pharmaceutical solution isn’t sustainable either.

I don’t have any solutions. I haven’t figured out how to drop the weight I gained during the pandemic, and Mr SK, who exercises and eats more healthfully than most, is now pre-diabetic. So there you go.

@Mik said in Brain monitoring:

The idea that the task should be adapted to the person is entirely contrary to all human advancement. adaptability has been the source of our success.

Excellent point!

@wtg said in Ozempic:

I wonder if we've created a problem with the diets we follow, and are solving that problem with very expensive GLP-1 meds. Would eating differently accomplish the same thing? At least for some people?

Almost certainly yes, probably for a fair number of people.

At the same time, eating well is incredibly difficult, especially for those in lower income groups, between the cost of healthy food and the availability of it. To say nothing of the knowledge that would be needed.

One other issue is the role of the gut microbiome in obesity, something I've seen mentioned but don't know a lot about. What I mean is, there may be other causes of obesity that just eating differently will not solve.

I don’t want to have my brain optimized … At least not artificially.

Full disclosure: I read about half of the article @Steve-Miller linked, and only the headline for @Bernard 's article....

But I don't understand pharmaceutical pricing.

I take a daily migraine prevention medicine. Apparently, the price is $1000-1500/month. I have a zero dollar copay. I also have an "emergency" migraine med (called abortive because it stops a migraine if one starts, and btw is not a painkiller). This one is even more expensive because it's something like $1300 for 9 pills. My copay for this is also zero dollars. These meds are not available as generics yet.

I don't understand why they're so expensive, and then how it is that I pay zero dollars for them.

These meds have been transformative for me, btw. Truly life changing.

So I'm very sympathetic to the prescription needs of others.

/threaddrift

/morethreaddrift

Ozempic was the world’s second-highest-selling drug in 2024.

I wonder what the first highest selling drug was.

Thanks for this Jon.

Retreat

My favorite ever coffee that I ever had anywhere ever was a cold brew at a fancy place that does some super complicated 24 hour process to do a true cold brew.... It was delicious but there's no way I could recreate that at home or do anything remotely like it on a regular basis.

What @Mik said. If someone else is making it, I’m happy to have the fanciest and most elaborate kinds.

But on a daily basis, simple and quick rules the day.

My theory is that coffee, pizza, panettone… they are all in the category of things that “even when they’re bad, they’re still pretty good.”

Wow, how lovely! Thanks for sharing these!

@Bernard said in The different between chickpeas and garbonzo beans...:

I thought garbanzos were a type of chickpea and that there are other types of chickpea.

I always thought they were the same.

But I can't be trusted when it comes to culinary matters.

@RealPlayer my grandfather used to always say "you can call me whatever you like, just don't call me later for dinner"

@Steve-Miller said in The different between chickpeas and garbonzo beans...:

Fois gras = You don’t want to know.

@DougG said in The different between chickpeas and garbonzo beans...:

There’s a fairly off colored joke that starts with this question…

Maybe I don't want to know?

@AdagioM said in The different between chickpeas and garbonzo beans...:

Crispy roasted chickpeas yes. Crispy roasted garbanzo beans sounds wrong.

It's funny you should say that, because I actually prefer the name with garbanzo... I don't think I knew that chickpeas and garbanzos were the same until relatively late, actually, and I think we always ate "garbanzo beans" and never "chickpeas". My mom always says garbanzo

... actually, I'm pretty sure she's saying "garbonzo"