Notices by 🇳🇴 Thor — backup account (thorthenorseman@octodon.social), page 62

I decided to be a tiny bit naughty in my job search. I used to work for company A, that did constracting on the side, and they would lend me to company B on a contract. I since quit company A and have been working for company C for a while now, but they're short on cash. In retrospect, I actually kind of liked working for company B. I'm stealing business from company A, but fuck it, I got in touch and asked about a job. We have a meeting on Monday.

In movies, condominiums always have these long corridors that you can run along. In actual life, only hotels and ships are like that, and your average condominium just has a staircase with doors around it to avoid wasting space on areas you can't live in.

Laminators are nice to have, but it would be even more awesome to just have some kind of small machine that printed professional looking signs for outdoor usage.

The Norwegian system for specifying exactly which apartment in a condo you live in works as follows:

K = kjeller, cellar/basement floor
U = underetasje, subfloor (partially beneath ground)
H = hovedetasje, main floor above ground

K01 = 1st cellar floor
U01 = 1st subfloor (there is usually just one unless your house is on a very steep incline)
H01 = 1st main floor

U0101 = 1st subfloor, 1st unit clockwise from entrance

H0203 = 2nd main floor, 3rd unit clockwise from entrance

Encountered a foreign student who had written his municipal apartment unit number as part of his street address. He probably saw it on his rent contract and thought it was a part of his address. Sure, it's useful to know exactly which entrance, floor and unit the guy lives at if you want to track him down, but he probably shouldn't be sharing that information with everyone...

Encountered a foreign student who had written his municipal apartment unit number as part of his street address. He probably saw it on his rent contract and thought it was a part of his address. Sure, it's useful to know exactly which entrance, floor and unit the guy lives at if you want to track him down, but he probably shouldn't be sharing information that with everyone...

Encountered a foreign student who had written his municipal apartment unit number as part of his street address. He probably saw it on his rent contract and thought it was a part of his address. Sure, it's useful to know exactly on which entrance, floor and unit the guy lives if you want to find him, but he probably shouldn't be sharing that with everyone...

@clacke Even for children, the success rate of a lifestyle change is low: Under 10%, with a reduction in BMI of under 0.25. I can't find the figures for adults, but I think the chances of long-term success was something like 1%, while the other 99% regained their weight.

@clacke Well, he also spoke of the (sometimes lethal) side effects of surgery. It's a known fact that all surgery carries with it some risk. I would agree with him that no intervention is the best thing *if* you're still in a position to realistically reverse a weight gain trend.

But, if you satisfy the criteria for obesity, and there is no sign of regression, then there's ample evidence that, for the vast majority of people, an attempted lifestyle change won't hold on the long term.

@clacke The sooner we can dismiss this silly notion that people will implement the health advice you give them, the better. Even people who say they do don't. If everyone who says they eat healthy actually ate healthy, we wouldn't have isle after isle of unhealthy food in our supermarkets.

@clacke The sooner we can believe in this silly notion that people will implement the health advice you give them, the better. Even people who say they do don't. If everyone who says they eat healthy actually ate healthy, we wouldn't have isle after isle of unhealthy food in our supermarkets.

@clacke If you can convince people that they're enjoying a guilty pleasure, when in fact, they are enjoying something healthy, then you've hit the jackpot.

@clacke But yes, this professor thinks the battle can still be won by the medical profession. The problem is that if you can't admit defeat, you can't give up on your current approach and try a new one. Doctors should be lobbying the government and working with chefs and food chemists to produce what people want: The healthy convenient snack in a sexy wrapping. (People who are looking for a good time will ignore anything that looks remotely healthy, so you have to disguise it.)

@clacke There's this word "fallitterklæring" in Norwegian that the professor used. I was going to translate it as "declaration of defeat", but my Clue dictionary said "admission of failure", so I used that instead.

@Alastair Comic wouldn't be funny if it didn't exaggerate a little, would it...

Here's some comfort when you feel like just another fungible cog in the machine: If you live in a democracy, your elected officials are just as fungible. In fact, we replace them every 4-8 years. World's worst job security.

Doctors think that telling people the facts will prompt them to change their habits.

Hahahaha! That's so adorably naive.

Make reasonably healthy food cheaper, tastier and more convenient to buy than junk, and people will buy less junk. Make exercise more enjoyable than sitting on your bum and people will exercise more.

This is impossible, of course. Eating chocolate and sitting on your bum will always be more pleasant than eating carrots and taking a run.

Doctors think that telling people the facts will prompt them to change their habits. Hahahaha! That's so adorably naive.

Make reasonably healthy food cheaper, tastier and more convenient to buy than junk, and people will buy less junk. Make exercise more enjoyable than sitting on you bum and people will exercise more.

This is impossible, of course. Eating chocolate and sitting on your bum will always be more pleasant than eating carrots and taking a run.

And further, I think that when you have a person who has clearly been obese for their entire life, it's useless to make ordinary lifestyle recommendations. Far more people should get bariatric surgery. Yes, it's an admission of failure, and perhaps such an admission will force us to make some changes.

If you buy a random food from a supermarket, there's a high chance that it has too many calories. You actually have to hunt for the healthy stuff. There's far too little of it.

My response to that, as someone who took up a loan to pay for bariatric surgery: I should've had that surgery a long time ago. There was never any realistic chance that another intervention would've worked, unless it had occurred in very early childhood and had involved my entire family, and honestly, it was already too late for my parents. There never was an intervention. Our doctors and nurses barely brought the subject up.