eatCasserole

u/eatCasserole@lemmy.world
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This looks fantastic and not nearly dull enough, but I have a silly and possibly dull gripe with the name "little free library", and this isn't directed at OP or anyone in particular, I know this is just what these things are typically called, but... you know that the big library is also free, right?

on me_irl · c/me_irl · 0 pts · 31d

Literally the first 3 words of the comment you're replying to: "sure it matters"

on me_irl · c/me_irl · 0 pts · 31d

Personal experience is wildly unscientific.

If attempting to count calories leads to eating less, and that leads to weight loss, bravo, you did a thing. But you could accomplish the same thing just by going to bed a little bit hungry most nights.

Do you know how they figured out how much energy is in food? The burned it. Literally burned, with fire. You may be surprised to learn that's not what our bodies do.

If you're eating processed food from a factory, the estimate of energy contained in the food (note, this is not what you'll absorb from the food) may be fairly accurate, but if you ever cook at home, then you're just adding a wild guess on top of an educated guess. You may as well just throw some darts at some numbers and save yourself some time.

on me_irl · c/me_irl · -4 pts · 32d

Sure it matters, but you don't know. You don't know how many calories you are actually absorbing from that food, and you don't know how long it takes to burn them off. Your metabolism can do all kinds of shenanigans, and unless the CO2 you're breathing out is being measured, you simply don't know what it's up to.

on me_irl · c/me_irl · -8 pts · 32d

It's not accurate enough to be useful. You know the difference between a snickers bar and a cucumber. One is very energy dense, one is not. Putting specific numbers on it adds no value when those numbers are just guesses.

on me_irl · c/me_irl · -12 pts · 32d

Calorie counting is nonsense anyway.

on *Permanently Deleted* · c/fuck_ai · 11 pts · 38d

As AI grows, the challenge is clear: how to power tomorrow's digital world without draining the most basic resource of all - water.

Easy! Just ditch the AI slop.