That's an incredibly misleading graph. Never look at something with a growth rate on a linear scale, as it will always have a "hockey stick" shape, even with constant growth. If you look at the same series on a log scale, you see high inflation in the 70s, but from the '80s on it looks pretty similar to the pre-70s trend.
Probability of punishment seems to matter more than severity of punishment. This follows from economic and game theoretic models and is backed up by empirical studies.
>> In July 2025, the federal Centers for Disease Control (CDC) reported that 32.7 percent of children and youth between 12 and 19 years old are prediabetic.
> Wow.
Sadly, I'm not too surprised. My state also has free breakfast and lunch in public schools and it is possible for them to get served over 100g of added sugar between the two meals and classroom provided snacks. Then add to it whatever the kids are eating at home.
It also creates added difficulty for kids to concentrate on lessons when their blood sugar is spiking and crashing repeatedly throughout the day.
How much of this is that children refuse to eat normal whole foods? I've heard stories from teachers that mention that children often would rather go without food than eat anything remotely healthy (e.g. apples from cafeteria). My own personal experience from places that are considered food desert is often seeing rotting fruit not being consumed.
Doesn't mean we shouldn't try to offer healthy option, but just that those would have a limited impact on obesity, expect for maybe calorie deficit if they choose to forgo breakfast or lunch
How much of the refusal to eat anything healthy stems from lack of good options? The example given (an apple) in an American school setting brings to mind my cafeteria serving only Red Delicious (which is one of the worst apples for taste).
When the option is some fried food vs a wilted salad with no protein source, it's a wonder that any kid would choose the salad.
I would love to see better options that are both healthy and enticing. Until then I doubt that we will see much change when the choice of what to eat in the lunch room is left to the children.
A finding that most kindergartens and youth centers finds out is that cutting apples into pieces will have a significant difference in consumption compared to providing them as whole. It could be the aroma or the lower investment to start eating (just one slice, and then a second one...). It also work on adults in places like wellness centers, and hotels (watch what happens if they place a plate with cut fruit vs a bowl with whole fruits).
School food generally has the problem that they made to be cheap, low labor, and lowest common denominator terms of taste, spices and salt. To take Sweden as an example, the cost per serving sit just between $0.6 to $1.2 per student in term of ingredients cost. Even providing an apple per student would cut into that budget.
When I was in highschool (2010ish), our school gave you several options for lunch: You could have a real meal that was cooked even though it probably came from the cheaper end of the Sysco catalog but at least was real food, you could get a sub sandwhich made from real ingredients, you could get a peanut butter and jelly sandwich, or you could get a minuscule slice of the absolute lowest quality pizza ever made, literally worse than Dominos in quality and flavor and barely over an inch long in arc measurement.
95% of the student body ate that pizza every single day.
This includes the supposedly "smart" kids in honors classes.
The real food was good! It was fresh and perfectly palatable and varied enough to be healthy!
Instead of eating it, the students literally invented a lie to hype up this disgusting facsimile of "pizza" as good. It was regularly claimed that this pizza came from a local small business that sold pizza. This was flagrantly wrong and obvious to anyone who had eaten that pizza, as they used a sweet sauce that was not used in the school pizza.
But what the actual hell do Americans expect? We spent decades disallowing the government from telling your kids anything useful, we opted out of "Only 12 minutes of advertising to children per hour on TV" because "regulation is bad", we built a society that advocates rampant consumerism to your kid from before they even can read.
Of course they're going to eat the shitty pizza. It's what consumerism tells people to do. In the US, consumerism is a literal lifestyle brand!
“Refusing to eat” is such an absurd phrase. It says more about your impatience than it says about them.
They’re rejecting WHAT you offer WHEN you offer. They’re not refusing to eat. If you simply allow them to say no, they get hungry and come back (usually within an hour). Ask them what they want from the available healthy options and feed them that.
In fact you can set this up ahead of time. “Child what are your five favorite foods? Great two of those are special occasions only, pick two more. Great. That’s your list. Here’s the deal. At meal time you can pick one of those five. I promise to make it, if you promise to eat it.” This gives them a feeling of control and gives you an easy answer.
This actually makes your life easier because you can plan ahead and always have that whitelist available. And it’s less complicated because their pallets are simpler.
There is a whole branch of child psychology devoted to this question. They’re not refusing to eat. They’re simply not interested in the thing you offered.
I was at a friend’s recently. He prepared a lovely meal. Fresh caught salmon and great sides. His daughter didn’t eat a single bite. I was slightly offended. I overheard the fight later “dad, I hate fish, you know that” (actually quite reasonable) his reply was “it’s not a very fishy taste” (a tenuous argument). She was hungry before bed and did eat. The whole mess could have been avoided by not trying to feed her something she hates. I then watched for the rest of the weekend. Every time she was offered something she liked she ate it no problem.
This does of course assume that nobody else is undermining you by offering them junk when they get hungry after refusing a meal.
I tried emulation but it's convenient to have a separate machine most of the time.
I use a PowerBook G4 Titanium, the 867MHz model. With an SSD, the battery holds 1-2 hours if I'm away from a charger. But I usually keep it at my desk for notes.
Unless someone around me has a keen eye for tech, it is still modern looking enough that I can use it in public or meetings as needed without seeming like I'm pulling out a Windows 2000-era laptop, even though I am.
> Mostly using Convex Set Theory and Brouwer Fixed Point Theorem from topology to prove the existence, uniqueness, and stability of a general equilibrium solution for a "market" of price-quantity commodity pairs. The assumptions needed to make it work are literally absurd.
This is true for the first foundational courses in micro and macro. The profession has moved beyond this and the last forty plus years of research have been looking at various relaxations of these assumptions.
Even the undergrad is like this. I was shocked to learn it wasn’t a historical study of economic theory and instead a technical course in stats and modeling.
I never tried it with FaceID specifically, but all the other red bubbles I've encountered behaved the same way: You say "not now" during the initial setup, then you get a nag/reminder in the settings app. If you tap on the reminder and say "not now" or "don't use feature XYZ" or whatever again, it goes away permanently.
In my experience, it lasts between indefinitely and until the next major system update. I think, that has been the default behavior for all of Apple’s „use our services“-reminders since they started showing those.
It seems like MLB themselves have been experimenting with this. On their website, they have a feature called "gameday" that animates the game. For a while now they've had a 2d view, but now they also have a 3d view that you can switch to.
It is buggy as hell, but neat that you can move around the field and watch player movement off the ball. But there are a ton of glitches, like players getting frozen or duplicated, batters, umps, and catchers getting swapped (funny to see the ump at bat), and mixups with mount visits. In time, I can imagine this as a great way to watch though. Especially for novice players and fans learning the game and trying to figure out things like who should back up which throws in which situations etc.
I like 1440 (https://join1440.com) for this. Once a day daily email digest. I like the email format because I'm less likely to start clicking around compared to a web site, and it doesn't require a separate app.
I think it is human curated, but I'm not positive about that.
