What does this even mean? Uber extracts money from you when you take rides. So how is a UI that makes it overly complicated to do that “designed to extract as much money from you as possible”?
You can make the happy easy path the most profitable choice, and make the less profitable choices harder to use.
Imagine a "tap here to go home" button that automatically calls an UberX Black Elite(tm) car and takes you to your already-designated home location. But if you want to use a regular uber, or uber pool or whatever, you have to tap, tap, tap, tap, tap, don't forget to set your destination, maybe key in where you are right now since location services can be unreliable in some environments? Wouldn't want the car dispatched to the wrong location now would we?
Taking an Uber ride is easy as long as you don’t want to optimise for prices. I meant extracting as much money from you as possible in the context of other options in the app that might be more economical for you (if you don’t mind waiting, for example), not in the sense that Uber providing a service for you is somehow an involuntary extraction.
It wasn’t clear before so I edited the comment, my apologies.
They do, they just stopped calling it surge pricing (or anything else). They just show you the higher price with a microscopic grey text underneath that says 'there's a lot of demand, prices are higher now'. If you don't take that route often and know the average price, like when you're travelling or in a city that you're unfamiliar with, you'd be excused to think that's the normal price and just go for it instead of waiting a few more minutes or checking Lyft instead.
What have been the most effective lifestyle changes you've made? And how long did it take you before noticing their effects? Hope they continue working for you!
Support groups are best. Knowing your not alone. A safe place to ask questions. Facebook groups are biggest and best. Reddit has a lot too. Various podcasts and foundations.
From these you start seeing patterns in what works for people, how to find doctors.
For me.
In order of improvement.
Prescription: plaqunial.
Blood thinners.
Avoiding flare triggers, Sun, heat, most foods.
Diet is huge.
Autoimmune protocol diet is best for me. Similar to keto, etc. Personally I’ll eat a lot of sweet potatoes when I need relief. Safest food I have found.
Supplement: Vit D, magnesium, Vit E, fish oil, B complex, CQ-10 turmeric.
Autoimmune often means a lot of secondary conditions, or autoimmune is the secondary.
Increased cranial pressure is somewhat common with Sjogrens for example. High pressure is brutal on the mind and body.
Went from bed ridden in horrific agony all day to kayaking or equivalent every weekend.
It makes me so happy to read this! I too have had a drastic transformation in terms of life quality.
I second the Anti-inflammatory diet and exercise (even just walking contributes greatly). I echo the supplement suggestions and also recommend glucosamine+chondroitin (which happens to lower all-cause mortality significantly).
Red meats (high omega 6 content), deeply fried foods, gluten (plenty of grain alternatives to wheat and corn), uncultured dairy (cheese seems ok, plenty of alt-milks out there), and sugar not from fruit can trigger inflammation for me. I might describe my diet as vegan+eggs+fish (ovo-pescaterian?)
There is a wealth of information online to tailor one's diet. Honestly - this is a diet that everyone can benefit from health wise.
I found following a "yellow / red flag" system helps me. Some foods will trigger my inflammation (many of the ones on your list), however it often requires multiple overlapping stressors or triggers. So on any given day, eat one bad food item it's a yellow flag. Eat two bad food items I'm on a red flag condition. Or perhaps it's work stress and food, etcetera.
The reason for the yellow/red flag system is to not impose a strict limit, but as a way to inform myself I'm in a danger zone. Primarily because many foods I love (ahem brownies!) are a flagged food. Telling myself "no", when I'm stressed or foggy state, often fails. However a "red" flag state helps bring out my inner engineer: “Can'nae take any more, Captain!”
That's a really good way to formalize things! I've been following a form of this subconsciously, it seems. It's great to fall back on a tried and true system when the willpower or appropriate state of mind isn't there to make the choice simple. Sometimes one just needs a way to ensure the yellow flag one would really enjoy doesn't turn into a red one.
There's probably a terrible joke to be made here about red shirts but I can't muster it
I'm jealous that you can eat grains! Any kind sets me off unfortunately. And yeah it took me a while to realize but any kind of fried food is bad for me. So even eating coconut tortilla chips sets me off, despite the fact that they contain no grain. I am hopeful that in the future, more paleo / autoimmune paleo targeting brands come out. There was already a pleasantly surprising amount of brands catering to this, last time I was at a whole foods.
For those who can't tolerate dairy, or any kinds of nuts or seeds or grains, one kind of food that you might enjoy is coconut yogurt. Not cheap but it helps to break some of the dietary monotony.
Ah, that's a shame... Nuts and seeds actually make me feel a lot better (was my only snack for a while, when I couldn't eat fruit) and I feel lucky to be able to eat brown rice. If I eat wheat-based pasta or bread however, my body will let me know in minutes.
It really is awesome that we can find what fits us with large store brands that deliver! Never knew how many forms of vegan protein exist out there
Wait...isn't cordyceps the fungus that takes over ants, bursts out of their skull, and then cause them to effect others? That sounds like something I'd run away from at full speed.
Do you have a link with more info? I just popped 2 of these [1] an hour ago as I had eaten some kind of food/protein bar that tasted like it contains pea protein, a known trigger of mine. I live in a country where I can't read the language so I'm not sure exactly what I ate.
Going one step further, I found AnyList[1] on this forum awhile back and they also have a similar extension for extracting recipes from awful blogging sites.
The added benefit with AnyList is that you can import ingredients directly into your grocery list from the extension. Been a huge time saver for me
Paprika [0] can also parse any blog/recipe site and import the recipe. Then you can add items from recipes to your shopping list. I highly recommend this app, I've converted many friends over to it. It's a much better experience than trying to scroll through a blog post while cooking.
I'll add that I recently found how well Paprika handles printing recipes you have in your library. I wanted to print off a bunch of recipes to put in a binder and was very happy with how clean and simply formatted each recipe was, often with room to write notes on the paper. My only wish is they would implement a "family" option where I could easily share my library of recipes with my girlfriend without having to share them one at a time.
> My only wish is they would implement a "family" option where I could easily share my library of recipes with my girlfriend without having to share them one at a time.
I normally abhor "social" features being tacked on when they aren't useful but I'd pay for all the apps over again for this feature. Thankfully the API is pretty straightforward. This repo of mine [0] is super dated but it was still working the last time I played with Paprika's API.
I've toyed around with setting up a little web app that my friends can log-in with their paprika creds (I know, I know, but I'd tell them to use a 1-off password for this) so that they can use the web app either push or pull recipes from each other.
Thankfully you can send the full paprikarecipe file via email and import it but it's a little clunky and things like Discord (which my friends use to chat) doesn't like file extensions over 12 characters (IIRC) so it just cuts off the rest of the extension characters leaving you with a file you can't open (without fixing the extension). I have some initial work to setup an AWS SES address that people can send recipes to that will then drop a preview and link to download (not an attachment, it would be hosted on S3) the recipe into a "recipes" Discord channel we use but it's still a WIP.
> My only wish is they would implement a "family" option where I could easily share my library of recipes with my girlfriend without having to share them one at a time.
My wife and I work around that by simply using the same paprika account for cloud sync...
Paprika is a huge time and sanity saver for me - it'd be totally possible, but much harder for me to cook for big events without it!
I love Paprika, my one complaint about it is that you have to be careful with the ingredients multiplier feature. It only touches the number at the start, so "1 large onion thinly sliced, about 2 cups" turns into "2 large onion thinly sliced, about 2 cups."
If you're not paying attention you can miss that it really needs 4 cups.
Agreed, I've run into the same issue. I had hoped that the numbers row they show above the keyboard (on mobile) meant they were "special numbers" that would scale but alas it only scales the first number AFAICT.
> My only wish is they would implement a "family" option where I could easily share my library of recipes with my girlfriend without having to share them one at a time.
I thought that was the paid Cloud Sync feature was for. Does it not work for that?
I'm pretty sure Paprika Sync is free (with purchase of app) but yes, if you login to the same account it will sync (I used this with my partner very successfully). I think the person you are replying to is talking about having separate Paprika Sync accounts but still being able to share one-off or a subset of recipes.
Paprika is so good! There are a bunch of fit-and-finish details that tell me that it's being made by people who use it and who really care about listening to users.
My friend just moved to Germany. They make WAY less than SV engineers (working at the same company). Granted, they don’t have to work 24 hour oncall shifts. I’m not saying the less wages is because of unions, just pointing it out.
