Put it this way: like 70,000 people die in the US each year from lack of healthcare due to the cost.

Health insurance is a profit-driven industry, so denying claims for those that DO have health insurance is standard practice.

Most don’t see an actual physician. The average clinic visit takes about two hours after everything is said and done; you engage with a health professional a median of 12 minutes.

People drive themselves in serious medical distress or try to take an uber to the hospital instead of an ambulance.

Doctors themselves hate the medical system in the United States.

Nurses are fleeing the industry. Projected shortage of 80,000 nurses in 2025. “About 100,000 registered nurses left the workforce during the past two years due to stress, burnout and retirements, and another 610,388 reported an intent to leave by 2027.” This while baby boomers consume more and more medical resources as they age.

Medical bills are the #1 cause of bankruptcy.

So, it’s not great, no.

The implication of your post is that you’re struggling to get to 1500 calories, but you’re also trying to lose, presumably, a large amount of weight.

If you’re overweight, you clearly know how to eat enough calories. Eat more, like you were doing when you became overweight in the first place.

If you’re not overweight and you’re struggling to eat more than 1,000 calories, you should probably see a therapist about a potential eating disorder.

More broadly, eating 1,000 calories can make losing weight harder because you are likely to lower your basal metabolism and giving yourself less energy to burn calories through activity.

The math of 1,000 calories/day works out theoretically and may seem enticing (“I will lose an entire extra pound a week!”), but in practice it can often make things more challenging than it needs to be.

The simple fact is that losing weight is a long-term process. And, in general, you can gain a lot more weight in a month than you can lose, so weight gain/loss are not symmetrical processes.

In terms of your specific question about “eating back” calories from exercise: in general, you should indeed increase your calorie consumption if you are regularly exercising. Whether you should eat back every calorie you burn is far too nuanced a question related to exercise routine, health goals, basal metabolism, diet, etc. to answer in the abstract.

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Phone, wallet, pocket knife, ear buds.

Relax, nerd.

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It was one example. My point is, it happens. This is literally a response to you initially pointing it out that it happens in the “modern” P320, and I’m sure you’ve got an unnecessarily long and complicated opinion about each make and model. 👍

Shouldn’t isn’t doesn’t.

The $4,300 Stacatto XC 2011 for instance, dropped from chest height, fired a round immediately without the hammer dropping. So did several others, and that was just one round of testing.

Most didn’t, but for the most part they were only dropped once or twice and it was a fairly informal test. Literally just someone dropping the pistols from the height of being told “drop your weapon.”

The P320, however, despite being dropped about a dozen times (and from much higher heights and different angles since the test was inspired by the discussions about that model going off) never discharged from being dropped.

I’m glad it doesn’t highlight the danger of guns! That was close!

Other guns will do that as well. It isn’t necessarily resolved by a trigger safety. Some guns, as shown on a popular guntube channel, will fire if dropped from chest height because the drop and angle causes the firing pin to move with sufficient force to fire the round.

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You should really rethink using squares on your car though.

If you have stale bread, throw it in the freezer until you’ve got a bunch, then chop it up, toss it in melted butter and hidden valley ranch powder, and then bake them. World-class croutons.

While that is true, in states with restrictive knife laws, there is no permitting, tax stamp, or background check option. They’re simply illegal typically without exception.

I.e., a CCW does not apply to an OTF knife or dagger in states where those types of knives are illegal, and there is no legal option available to legally carry one. Conversely, with sufficient paperwork, background check, and tax stamps, etc, you can get a machine gun.

I am just pointing out how odd it is that in some states there is a legal avenue for a citizen to purchase, own, and use a machine gun but not a small blade that opens with a button. But laws are often crazy, so, I guess it’s not really a huge surprise.

That’s true. But implying non-white people are poor, abused, and knife-wielding criminals is. You just structured your comment in a clumsy matter, it’s fine. The conversation went somewhere more interesting and involved without you.

I got one of those things at a state fair when I was a little kid and set about immediately cutting myself trying to flip it open and look cool. My mom took it from me shortly thereafter. That ended the short saga of WoahWoah and the butterfly knife.

At this point, I can’t think of any reason I would want one. People that can use them well look pretty cool, but as a purposeful knife, they seem pointlessly complicated and prone to user error.

Interesting. I will say, I use my pocket knife usually at least once a day for one thing or another. They’re surprisingly useful for all sorts of tasks.

Not anymore in NY, but yeah.

It’s kinda funny that they’re like knives are cool unless you stab someone with one. If only we had other laws covering the legality of stabbing someone. 😁

I think it’s 1.5 inches in Connecticut. Lol