@XSGeek
We've been doing The Fast Metabolism Diet (https://hayliepomroy.com/) for a few years. Always burns off 3-5 lbs/wk. Not too painful.
Age is the challenge with doing the same diet: The metabolism changes, so you can't keep doing the same thing.
A friend is doing intermittent fasting and that's worked very well for him. I'm going to consider that after finishing up this diet cycle for maintenance.

@th3j35t3r
And soup! Warm soup.

@th3j35t3r Naw, it's not real. Jim Acosta tweeted the unaltered version.
Still, quite entertaining.

Looks like the threat is real.
San Francisco PD and the FBI just caught someone making explosives in an RV.
https://twitter.com/SFPD/status/1350325185421864960

@Kalos I don't know, but I did recently switch my payment channel to go direct to CoSo. If you don't pay directly, you don't get the benefits of Pro.

I don't think we've had a war where over 4000 soldiers were dying per day on a sustained basis.
But that is what is happening today in our hospitals due to COVID-19.

COVID Update:
The cumulative Death count is now 375471.
The average daily death rate over the past 7 days was 3327.
Over the previous 7 days it was 2669.
Death Counts:
Most recent daily: 4022
The day before: 4056
A week ago: 3866
The past 7 days: 23170
The daily average was 3310
The previous 7 day period: 18505. That daily average was 2644.
Deaths per Hour:139
Seconds to Next Death: 26

Bank robber: Now that I've been caught, please don't rob banks.

https://twitter.com/WhiteHouse/status/1349492130578919425

Never let a good disaster go to waste.
What are your silver linings of this pandemic?
Mine:
- Stronger connection with friends
- Food-sharing with neighbors
- San Francisco parklets for restaurants
- More acceptance of Zoom calls for business mtgs that would require hours of travel
- Appreciation of being outside, and going outside for walks
- Lunches with my wife

@th3j35t3r
I did succeed just now, but it took some effort.
Unless you want to filter out those less-capable people (Ha!) you might consider lowering the friction to sign up.

@th3j35t3r
I just tried to sign up for Pro after killing the splash screen. Couldn't find an icon to do so. Had to refresh to get the graphic below.
Recommendation: Insert a "Contribute/Join" icon in the upper/lower left. Maybe make it blink for 10 seconds when you log in?

@jeremygaither Well, at least Mitch is now onboard according to tonight's news.

Well, I guess that decides it:

David Quintavalle is 'apparently' the guy who threw the fire extinguisher at the Capitol policeman that died.
This is some potentially validating data: https://wikibioin.com/david-quintavalle-wiki/

@MarianneWerzOBrien
I'm just doing a simple calc on
https://covidtracking.com/api/v1/us/daily.csv

There is a 3x spike in the ICU rate relative to infections.
Historically we had 5.3% of hospitalizations required an ICU.
Today 18.1% of the hospitalized are in an ICU.

@Render
This is a good point: Be nice.
There are few exceptions - like when you are being physically attacked.
Otherwise, try to be the adult and turn it into an opportunity to learn.
Make points for the audience, not the target.
Be dispassionate.
Parse the complexity. It usually surfaces more interesting topics.
But, I do believe that you can kill and despise the architype while empathizing with the person supporting the architype.

@XSGeek
I'm not a Woman MMA Fighter.
I tried, but, well....

COVID-19 Update
Deaths per Hour: 135
Seconds to Next Death: 27
First time below 30 seconds.
We - Are - Losing

@th3j35t3r
Very Meta of you!