People troll too much with their low effort comments. The thing was tiny, but it was a cool reward as a kid. I may be mistaekn but there was a limit too, it was either one per week or once a month.
I wasn't trolling. It was just an attempt to highlight something.
this is a conversation about habit building.
Do you think that pizza hut was doing this because of their love of reading?
Is eating pizza regularly the good habit to build? Is using food as a reward a good habit? It's not good to associate eating foods with that elation that a child gets when they "win the prize" -- that's how people have issues later when their brain associates the two states.
> Do you think that pizza hut was doing this because of their love of reading?
Probably not; they really just wanted to make sure they didn't get out pizzaed.
> Is eating pizza regularly the good habit to build?
Pizza is a fairly balanced food, depending on toppings. Generally some protein, some vegetables. Macronutrient wise, it's a bit carb heavy, but not overwhelmingly so. Usually not a lot of added sugar, unless you're having a BBQ pizza, and not that much natural sugar either; some places might put more sugar into the pizza sauce though.
> Is using food as a reward a good habit?
No, probably not. But free food is a pretty effective motivator, so people use it.
> Pizza is a fairly balanced food, depending on toppings. Generally some protein, some vegetables. Macronutrient wise, it's a bit carb heavy, but not overwhelmingly so. Usually not a lot of added sugar, unless you're having a BBQ pizza, and not that much natural sugar either; some places might put more sugar into the pizza sauce though.
Just because there's comparatively little sugar in pizza, does not make it a fairly balanced food. It's high in fat and consequently high in calories. Case in point: that personal pan pizza from Pizza Hut is the size of a man's palm and has around 600 calories. 600! For a young child, that tiny thing alone is a third of the total recommended [1] daily calory intake. My son is 10, and he could probably eat 4 or 5 of these suckers easily.
Taking data from Pizza Hut [1], per Pepperoni - Personal Pan Pizza® Slice, there are 7 grams fat, 17 grams carbohydrates, 6 grams protein. Per slice is kind of silly, but we can analyze balance regardless. I picked Pepperoni based on perceived popularity, not to cherry pick.
At standard ratios [2], that's 63 kcal from fat, 68 from carbs, 24 from protein. Or
41% fat, 44% carb, 15% protein. Your resource suggests 25-35% calories from fat, so it's not that far off the goal. I'm not saying it's well balanced, just that it's fairly balanced.
> For a young child, that tiny thing alone is a third of the total recommended daily calory intake.
A third of the total recommended intake sounds appropriate for a meal?
> My son is 10, and he could probably eat 4 or 5 of these suckers easily.
Ok, but he's got to read 4 or 5 books for that, and maybe over several weeks? I'm not really sure how to address this. If you are going to eat 4 complete personal pizzas if available, then you probably should avoid them.
I know you're writing this in good faith, and please understand that I'm doing the same.
> A third of the total recommended intake sounds appropriate for a meal?
Only superficially, I think. First, this pizza can hardly be considered "a meal" because it's too small to be filling. That's why I pointed out that even a 10-year old will probably not be satiated by just one such pizza.
But also, a third of your daily calorie budget allocated to just the food part of one meal assumes the classic model of three meals a day (breakfast, lunch, dinner) - but beware that many people take in additional calories via inbetween snacks (esp. kids).
Also, the pizza only accounts for the food part of that meal - so you better be drinking just water along with it. Except that most kids don't. [1] So, it's a bit of a fallacy to assume that a third of your recommended daily intake of calories is what can be alloted to the food part of a single meal. It might be okay, but like I hopefully was able to highlight, it's easy to undercount because of other factors such as snacks and drinks.
Also note that food labels are not super accurate [2], and of course it's in any junk food company's interest to make their meals look better than they actually might be.
> Ok, but he's got to read 4 or 5 books for that, and maybe over several weeks? I'm not really sure how to address this. If you are going to eat 4 complete personal pizzas if available, then you probably should avoid them.
Agreed. Let's keep in mind that these are not full sized pizzas, and my son is very active (and slim). But the problem is that highly palatable foods like pizza are just so damn hard to avoid in practice. It's too easy (and enjoyable!) to overeat on them.
I would argue that those of us raised in the 80's turned out on average significantly better than today's crop of kids who are taught to fear everything and/or treat everything with drugs.
It's not that people troll too much with low effort comments.
It's that low effort comments are followed by troll-lighting the original commenter as the troll, downvoting their post, upvoting ones own. That is - often the biggest troll in the room is the one accusing others of trolling.
And it was a brilliant marketing gimmick too. The kid would need their family to bring them, and siblings & parents would probably pick up some drinks (fountain drinks are what, 90% margin?) or their own food that they might not have otherwise ordered out that night.
+1 this was a really neat carrot. In retrospect I am thankful for these carrots as they boost curiosity and self-learning, without much harm. People are going to eat out anyhow, what's the harm in marketing that also supports good behavior?
Agreed. I use organic maps for hiking, because its just simple offline trail mapping. I want a mapping program in my car to easily be offline, have map overlays that are easy to read like more pronounced lane/route arrows and can re route if there is a road shut down or a backup on the expressway and I go to get off.
But my biggest gripe with using organic maps with driving is its search function. I couldnt care if it doesnt have all the online social features like google maps and come up with the police/safety warnings and restaurant ratings. I just want its seach to actually find the place I want to go.
Most of the time I try and avoid using google maps, but then I go back and try organic maps. Notice it doesnt have where i want to go listed in its search, so i google the address to plug in. I can enter in the exact address and it wont find it and then go back to google maps.
> Notice it doesnt have where i want to go listed in its search
I live in an area where OSM is really good with that (just because people contributed the data). If your area is less complete, it feels like it's a good opportunity to contribute!
There are many apps that will help you contribute to the map, or you can do it directly from the website: https://www.openstreetmap.org.
It doesn't mean you need to spend tons of time on it: I contribute data a few times a year. It's better than nothing :-).
It's not only about being tagged in Openstreetmap, it's about the search algorithm finding the relevant entry from ambiguous entry. Dealing with cases where things are spelled slightly differently (abbreviations etc.) or finding the relevant entry when common terms are used in names or search just by category.
The installation of X1Plus had to be the most easy, fluid and professional third-party firmware deployment I have EVER done.
The ONLY pain points were the interactions with Bambu - first the authorization pages where you have to request using 3rd-party firmware kept cycling through their warnings and acceptances (trick to complete was opening the link using "Incognito/In Private" session), next you have to either upgrade to latest official firmware (if you are not there), then jump through several downgrades to get to the rootable version of the firmware using the "Bambu Handy" app.
So far, so great - 36+ hrs printing, no issues. I have now got it fully working in LAN-mode. Home Assistant dashboard setup - but there is also someone working on a "Bambu Companion" phone app (it's in a TestFlight open beta) - which works well in the local LAN, and if you configure a secure tunnel through your router (Wireguard, Tailscale, OpenVPN, etc.), it works perfectly remotely as well.
My only complaint with LAN-mode is that both Bambu Studio and OrcaSlicer "forget" the printer when the software is closed - they don't forget the "binding", so it is a "1-click" process to re-add to the Device tab, but it is a little bit of a hassle.
