Again, we can not change other people. People can only change themselves.

If you change your lifestyle temporarily, the effects are temporary.

If you change your lifestyle permanently, the effects are permanent.

I don't believe that's possible. They have to choose a healthier lifestyle by themselves.

It's not that people are fat because no one told them to eat healthy and exercise sometimes. They're fat because they have ignored that advice for a long time.

They aren't missing information about diet and exercise, they're missing diet and exercise.

If you opt for it, then yes of course, abstinence-only sex education is a sure way to stop ten pregnancy.

Similarly, if you opt to change your lifestyle and start living healthier, and follow through, it will work.

If someone tries to force you, of course it will fail (in both of these cases). There is no way to stop someone else from being fat. We can only change ourselves.

Behavioural changes work, the issue is that most people don't actually change their behaviour.

Short term "diets" are nonsense. The solution is permanent lifestyle changes.

What? Surely changing one's behaviour - particularly the parts of behaviour that caused the obesity in the first place - is a sure way to stop being obese.

The horrors!

I think the concern is the user not knowing they're executing code on their machine.

And as a counterexample: some captchas require you to compute something expensive to prove you're not a llm scraper or whatever. It's normal for captchas to require you to execute code on your machine, it's just usually done within the browser's sandbox.

And anyway, these things are completely incomprehensible to non-technical users.

I don't understand what's so special about legal and medical advice that it's so singled out in certain parts of the world. All kinds of advice people give can be harmful, such as eg cooking and dietary advice. Yet it's ok to tell people how to cook, but for whatever reason it's not ok to tell people to make sure they stay well-hydrated when they have a cold.

[Edit:] But gee does the rest of the article hit hard. The "missing mood" in particular.

A good friend of mine (white European) was approached by a Chinese company and now works in China. I'll ask him how hard the paperwork was the next time I meet him, but I have a feeling his employer did the bulk of it.

The case is different with LoC though: the more the worse. I'd much maintain the thing written in 500 lines than the one written in 10,000 lines.