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Just saying

If you obstruct pedestrians or cars you can be arrested and legally detained, similarly if your protest goes onto private property you can also be arrested.

>Protect & Serve is mostly a bad joke at that point.

That's from the TV show. I think most agencies have never had that as their policy or motto.

I think we need to grow some full size human brains in a lab and ask them (with imaging, dissection, and every other test conceivable) before we get any real answers

Doing cool things with microbrains already

Each state has thousands of laws. Chances are you are violating one of them right now. A protestor got too aggressive with someone, blocked someone's path, stepped from public property to private property, was intoxicated in public, violated a pedestrian traffic ordinance, or pretty much anything else that you could ever think of.

If the police ever need a reason to arrest someone, our elected officials have gladly given them that opportunity by passing thousands of unnecessary laws.

Dammit...you're absolutely right. I will fix the top comment. Thank you.

I'm skeptical, but I'd be open to seeing anyone repeat the stunt.

Maybe I'm wrong, but it seems like everytime you use the word "buyer" you're actually talking about the 'seller.'

So basically the ELI5 answer is... We don't have a damn clue?

>Your body cannot convert fat back into usable energy in large enough quantities to survive. You will starve, even if properly hydrated and vitamin'd.

Isn't the point of Angus Barbieri that you can? Or do you think that case was a fluke/faked?

You need to realise that being overweight/obese is almost certainly closer related to mental health concerns than just purely consumption vs usage.

Eating is a coping mechanism, helps you deal with stress! Whether that stress is brought on by being overweight is irrelevant.

So when you try to lose weight without first addressing the mental health aspect, the entire exercise is fruitless.

So now, because you rob the brain of important endorphins released during eating, you're placing yourself under additional stress, which leads to further mental issues, which makes it even harder to be honest with yourself!

We don't understand all the ins and outs of mental health yet. We don't even know what depression really is yet! But we do see it manifest with eating disorders, one of which is excessive fasting like you're proposing here.

Because your body uses fat reserves really carefully. All your body does is notice you're not getting any food and so it assumes there is currently a food scarcity. Your body will then start slowly burning your fat reserves so you still get some caloric fuel, but not as much as you would normally get when eating. This is because fat in your body is treated as a reserve, and therefore your body will ration it to prevent you from burning it too fast. This happens no matter how much fat you have stored in your body. Because of this, you risk burning too little calories and that can result in other problems.

And even if you endure all that without any problems and reach your ideal weight, your body will immediately start rapidly replenishing your fat reserves for when another food scarcity occurs. This will result in you getting a part of your weight back very quickly. And while your body is gaining that weight back, your daily available calories are still limited because your body needs to store that energy.

>Why not just set the minimum bid at the lowest price you’d be willing to sell at

Because if the buyers know you'd be willing to sell it for [x low price], there's less reason for them to bid any higher than that.

Even if you get lucky as a seller and there's a bidding war, if all the sellers know you'd be willing to sell for $100, odds are nobody's going to bid $1000. If the "lowest price you'd be willing to sell for at all" is a mystery to the bidders, it encourages higher bids.

It's recommended by PP.

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>It’s easy to use lube with condoms — just rub lube on the outside of the condom after you put it on. You can also add a few drops of lube inside the tip of the condom or on the penis before you roll the condom on. And you can put lube directly on a vulva and/or anus too. There’s no right or wrong amount — whatever feels good works.

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https://www.plannedparenthood.org/learn/ask-experts/how-do-you-use-lube-with-condom

and this handout:

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>You can apply a drop of lube inside the condom to increase sensations before you put on the condom.

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https://www.dshs.state.tx.us/hivstd/info/edmat/6-23.pdf

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Anecdotally, I've never had a condom just 'slip off' of a fully erect penis in 13 years of sex work. Breaks happen, and slippage can come when the blood leaves the party but an erect penis? Nah.

It's psychological. Having to compete with other people for an item increases the perceived value of the item, and more people are competing for it at the lower starting price. Also, someone that really wants the item may have a higher starting bid if there's a minimum reserve, because they're effectively bidding against the seller.

Lets say there's some antique you want to get at least 100 dollars for, and this is the normal going price for the item. If you start the bidding at that price you might not get anybody to make the first bid, because It's not a particularly good deal. They're only going to pay that if they were going to buy one anyway. If you start the bidding at $50, however, you might get a couple people to start bidding that know it's a good deal at that price. Once they're in competition, they want to win the item, and may be willing to pay 110 for it.

We aren't catching the same virus infection every year. Viruses trigger an immune response. An immune response triggers symptoms. Because we maintain the same immune system each year (we don't shed the old one to generate a replacement) we experience the same symptoms each year. Every person's immune system is slightly different which is why people will have different symptom severity. Keeping the same immune system each year is why a lot of vaccines are one time actions or only once every however many years (also because some viruses/infections don't mutate year to year) and our body has the data ready to fight off a return of that virus/infection.

By the time you experience symptoms, the infection has already been in your body and you're been potentially transmitting it to others. Symptoms are the body reacting to the activities of the immune system attempting to fight the infection. It's why people with low or no immune system won't experience fevers, diarrhoea, headaches, lethargy in the same way others with a healthy system do. They'll go straight to life threatening status or death.

Illegal protest, disobeying a legal order, vandalism, littering, disrupting the peace, blocking traffic, any other of a list of subjective and discretionary bogged up charges.

As long as they have a "reasonable suspicion" of a crime, they can arrest you.

It's always easy to say "well the DA decided not to prosecute in the end". What is the public going to do about it? Go to the police?

Worst case, they can sue them, which would cost quite a bit of money to the individual, the court tend to cut a lot of slack to cops, then there is qualified immunity, then, even if you get damages, it's paid with public funds and there are no real consequences for the officer anyway.

A good interaction with a cop is an interaction you avoided. Protect & Serve is mostly a bad joke at that point.

You get different mutated strains each year. You also get respiratory viruses of different types (flu, rhinovirus, coronoviruses, rsv, etc)

some people having the same illness seasonally can also be attributed to environmental or other seasonal habits (cold dry air , more indoor activities, interaction with asthma , copd etc) with seasonal temperature and humidity conditions making someone prone to respiratory infection

Your body cannot convert fat back into usable energy in large enough quantities to survive. You will starve, even if properly hydrated and vitamin'd.

Your body burns fat to span the gap when you run a caloric deficit, so while "don't eat" is dangerous, "eat less" is in fact the only solution (excluding surgeries, for example).

The human body was "designed" to maximize survival in east africa where we evolved. Early humans, and all of our primate ancestors, would have often experienced periods with limited food and thus evolved means to store energy when food is plentiful and defenses against starvation when food is not. Both of these are systems that you need to prevent from working properly to loose weight, which from the body's perspective is bad, as it is loosing its defenses against starvation.

If you simply stop eating, biological pathways will engage to reduce your metabolic rate, deprioritize some repair, and neuro-chemically prioritize your brain to search for food among many many other things. The body is preparing to last as long as possible in "starvation might be coming mode" until food can be found. None of these help you lose weight as your body is trying to play the long game - in addition to you potentially doing damage to yourself if you're missing critical nutrients.

If you run a calorie deficient, slightly under what you need to maintain weight, your body doesn't enter the "prep for imminent starvation mode" that reduces weight loss. For some people with psychological or other extenuating circumstances, starvation methods may be required under medical supervision, but essentially it is never effective for the average overweight person.

Generally speaking it's purely harassment. Arrest people, throw them in jail for a few hours or days, and then release them 20 miles from wherever they were. Maybe beat them up a bit too.

I think your last statement is out of line. It's not really about being so detrimentally adverse to being fat, but rather that it would be easier to do nothing with the benefit of losing weight rather than managing a healthy lifestyle

First, this is not a phenomenon that is unique to the US. Protestors in many places, including the UK, are often arrested or otherwise controlled by police. Protestors in the US are often left alone.

But because you asked about the US specifically, the US Constitution protects a right of freedom of assembly, but this has essentially never been interpreted as a license for large groups of people to do whatever they want. Police will often monitor protests and order them to disperse if the crowd becomes particularly agitated or disruptive. If protestors don't disperse (or actively resist police control), police might starting making arrests.

Where exactly this line should be drawn is enormously controversial and contentious, and both police and protestors have been known to behave poorly. What happens can depend on the issue at hand, the demographics of the police and protestors, and the general political climate.

Given that beef cows are butchered at ~18 months old I'm not convinced there's much of a distinction between the ethics of veal versus beef.