u/No-Hawk-2488

I'm not looking for legal advice, more so legal insight. Based on these documents, does it look like the DOJ has overwhelming evidence that UCLA did show race preferences? Does this mean UCLA will have to revise their rubric for the 2026-2027 application cycle? I read that reform during a lawsuit cannot be used as evidence to show change under Federal Rule of Evidence 407, so UCLA can minimize the damage moving forward; they can't erase the past harm. Am I understanding this situation correctly?

Edit: I don't mean a court order is needed; I mean would UCLA switch gears BTS to minimize the damage per Evidence 407.

https://www.justice.gov/crt/media/1439581/dl

https://litigationtracker.law.georgetown.edu/wp-content/uploads/2025/05/Do-No-Harm_2026.07.14_INTERVENORS-AMENDED-COMPLAINT.pdf

https://litigationtracker.law.georgetown.edu/wp-content/uploads/2025/05/Do-No-Harm_2026.07.31_DEFENDANTS-MOTION-TO-DISMISS.pdf

https://litigationtracker.law.georgetown.edu/wp-content/uploads/2025/05/Do-No-Harm_2026.08.14_INTERVENORS-RESPONSE-TO-MOTION-TO-DISMISS.pdf

Doesn't matter what you feel about the DOJ vs UCLA lawsuit, I think we can all agree they were right to flag Preview and let's pray they bar medical schools from using that stupid test in their admissions.

How do you guys feel about Vietnam's bullet train that broke ground this year?

If I'm understanding it correctly, the Saigon to Nha Trang route and the Hanoi to Da Nang routes will be operational and open in 2032 and the full track 2035, right?

The problem with dating apps is you see a profile once and then don't see it again for a long time. Not to mention they are heavily flawed even after you match: you're on a time crunch to click with a girl who has tons of other matches.

Back in the old days, people weren't necessarily looking for a partner when they met their partner. You just run into each other repeatedly over time, interact little by little, and then attraction starts once you realize you have things in common.

That's how I met my girlfriend. We met at a student organization at school. We talked on and off in person and on Instagram DMs, little by little, and got to know each other. I never had any romantic interests for her and even got with another girl, but I liked her (my current girlfriend's) mind and who she was as a person so we just kept talking on and off. My ex made me window shop for her and I gained an appreciation for women's fashion because they have more options and their clothes are waaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaay cuter. But I needed to learn female dress terminology, so that's where my current girlfriend came in. After my ex and I broke up, I took a break and when I realized my current girlfriend likes to dressing up, it became our mutual hobby. Obviously, I can't explore women's fashion without a girl, so she became my muse. I told her that this is romantically charged so we'd have to decide if we become a couple or stop this once we were done with our breaks and emphasized this isn't sustainable platonically and she agreed. I would send her IG posts of anything that popped up on my feed that I thought might look cute on her. I sent her over 100 dresses and told her this one was my favorite for her (this is from the store's website, so I'm posting more so the dress, not the model). I told her if we do become a couple, we can skip the casual first date since we already know each other well and can go on a picnic date instead since they're more romantic. Since she likes dressing up and being in her feminine energy, so she got a dress for the date. I'll give you one guess which.

https://preview.redd.it/j5pqabxn5aeh1.png?width=2000&format=png&auto=webp&s=ede09ef2ca2b3a93be2c978f5277f2d933c52c84

After struggling to lose weight for over a year, I decided to see an endocrinologist and found out why I was struggling to lose weight: I had insulin resistance. Insulin resistance makes it harder to lose weight and easier to gain it in many ways. Because your body isn't responding to the insulin, your body makes more of it, which causes your body to store more fat, your metabolism to slow down, etc. Testosterone plays a key role in fat metabolism and insulin resistance causes your body to produce less sex hormone building globulin (SHBG). For men, your testosterone is produced in 24-hour cycles and your SHBG extends the half-life of your testosterone. Without SHBG, your body burns through your testosterone quickly, which doesn't metabolize your fat the way it does because there's a plateau effect. That's why SHBG is needed to ensure your body steadily metabolizes your testosterone throughout the day. To give you a real-world application of this principle, look at wagyu. Wagyu is known for its high marbling (intramuscular fat for those who aren't steak enthusiasts). Wagyu are castrated at 2-3 months to obtain this marbling because if they're not castrated, they can't get that marbling. Once my insulin resistance was corrected, I shed the weight easily with minimal effort, but I was already dieting and exercising before, so that's why it felt effortless since I was already putting in the effort when I was struggling to lose weight.

When you live a sedentary lifestyle, your body metabolizes your muscles before your fat. When you're active, it metabolizes fat before muscles. How do you think your body knows what to metabolize? Hormones! Even CICO depends on hormones because they determine what gets metabolized.

This place seems to glorify CICO but that's just a small picture. If your metabolism is not normal from hormonal imbalance, your CICO formula is affected. And if your CO is sub-1000 calories, that's not sustainable to lose weight because your body will create hormones that store more fat and make you hungrier until you can't fight it and you will eat. This is why crash diets never work long-term. Fighting your physiology isn't "discipline", it's stupidity. I know people are going to comment "hormones change the goal post so you just need discipline" but I ask you this: if you can change the goal post and make it easier by fixing your hormones, why not just do that? Work smarter, not harder. If you're making your life harder needlessly for the sake of "discipline", you've crossed into the domain of stupidity.

Also, this place has a gross misunderstanding of what "discipline" is really about. Discipline means putting in the extra effort when you're in the final stretch. It's not sustainable long-term. When you're learning a new skill, it takes discipline at the start. But as you become more familiar with it, it takes less effort to keep that momentum going until it becomes second nature because the initial discipline is replaced by familiarity and ease. Discipline has always been a short-term thing.

Losing weight isn't supposed to be hard, it's supposed to be easy once you understand your body and built the proper habits. This is the second time I lost weight. The first time before I had hormonal imbalance, I knew crash diets wouldn't work so I sought a way to keep my stomach full and calories low. When I found out fruits have very low calories, I ate them for lunch and dinner and didn't even need to track my calories and effortlessly lost weight.