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Mole

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  1. Steph vs. Lebron last month did really well with like 5 1/2 million viewers.
  2. SEC squabbles not going away. At least it’s appropriately confined to the Trump thread.
  3. Mole

    Fat People

    https://www.sciencemag.org/news/2021/07/massive-dna-study-finds-rare-gene-variants-protect-against-obesity
  4. I was going to write some copy for Trump, but they beat me to it. My suggestion was: Donald Trump is Fighting for YOU against socialist Cancel Culture, big tech Censorship, and elite Hollywood liberals. Click below Today to donate your social security check to get your name on Trump’s Patriots List!
  5. Putting our military readiness and national security at risk to win the culture war.
  6. My dig was only at the language smack. The best part of the NBA playoffs for me is watching the best players in the world try to figure out each other in a 7-game series. I don't really care about new teams winning it or the drama of surprise teams winning it. I honestly don't even care that much about who wins or loses, other than pulling for horns to win. I just want to watch the best players play against each other. There's something magical about the swings that happen over 7 games as each team adapts with such great players. I agree that it's a lot less interesting when the best players in the world keep getting hurt.
  7. Do you find that ironic?
  8. Rigid prescriptivism masquerading as intellectual superiority is ironic. I root for the horns, so without KD, I'm on team PJ.
  9. Accidentally recording yourself venting your sour grapes over getting passed over for a gig, uploading it to the work server, and then calling it a “spy video of a female alone in her hotel room” is a bit much. Spare me the self-righteous victim status because you didn’t know how to work your phone. We all need a space to vent our ugly thoughts about colleagues, but if we upload those thoughts on the shared work drive, don’t be surprised if some bridges are burned.
  10. I guess Domi and JD Beck should go in this thread. Kids these days are alright.
  11. There’s a school of instrumental music pedagogy where you focus on timing entirely, ignoring wrong notes, missed notes, bad sounds, bad feel, etc. By fixing the timing and coordination, those other things eventually fall into place. Focus solely on timing and ignore how it feels or even if it succeeds. Success is measured by good time alone, not playing the lick well or in this case, making the putt. Focus ONLY on time. It works in music, particularly for the people who are really broken and having trouble. Complex, highly practiced tasks are less technique and more timing and coordination.
  12. He can’t talk, the only thing about him is the way that he walks.
  13. Repenting and atoning for your sins and the sins of your forebearers is one of the most foundational beliefs of the Christian faith. Any church that refuses to do so when necessary attests to their own uselessness. A church that claims to teach the true faith but demonstrates total unbelief through actions is a social club. If you’re looking to join a social club, you’d be better off not joining one so demented. Daniel Tiger has taught me that saying “I’m sorry” is the first step, then “how can I help?”
  14. Who knew the kayak place had a notary? For future reference, I’m pretty sure that you can’t get a replacement ID unless your sworn statement from the culprit that lost it is signed in the blood of a wild boar. Otherwise they don’t know that you mean business.
  15. If anyone builds on this foundation using gold, silver, costly stones, wood, hay or straw, their work will be shown for what it is, because the Day will bring it to light. It will be revealed with fire, and the fire will test the quality of each person’s work. If what has been built survives, the builder will receive a reward. If it is burned up, the builder will suffer loss but yet will be saved—even though only as one escaping through the flames.
  16. Mole

    Fat People

    1. I keep track of everything I eat. I don’t track or consider the calorie value of exercise. It’s just an excuse to eat more. 2. I treat it as simple math; if I keep my calories below a certain threshold, I’ll lose weight. Maybe it’s more complicated than that, but more complicated approaches are easier to quit. Simple and doable is good. 3. I learned to be ok with being hungry. It’s pretty primal to fear hunger, but it’s ok to be hungry. It makes sense to me that if you’re losing weight, you’ll probably be hungry. Also, the worst part of being hungry is getting hungry. Once you get used to it, it isn’t so bad. 4. I prioritize foods that I can eat a lot of without getting fat. A steamable bag of broccoli is 100 calories, costs $1, and takes 3 minutes to microwave. It’s also very filling and makes you feel good. An apple is also about 100 calories, is crunchy and sweet, costs like 50 cents and takes 10 seconds to wash. I could have probably lost weight just eating ice cream, but I would have been even hungrier all the time. Once you get used to a food, anything can taste ok. 5. I’m ok with a lack of variety. Once I find meals that work, I beat them into the ground. The less thinking and figuring I need to do, the more likely I am to stick with it. Simple beats fun for me. 6. A lot of the stuff that makes us fat — junk food, fast food, drinks, party foods — we barely even pay attention to while we’re eating. We don’t really taste it, just shove it in our mouths. If I’m going to spend my calorie budget on something calorie rich, I stop and only pay attention to eating it. No eating chips while watching the game, no scarfing down a candy bar while I drive. If I’m paying for it in calories, I’m going to enjoy it. 7. la Croix Lemoncello tastes better than Coke/Dr. Pepper/etc.
  17. Mole

    Fat People

    I’m as white as can be; not a bit Mexican. I’m sure there are environments that are supportive, but my experience is that the push to eat unhealthy foods is pretty universal. It’s not just serving these things — that’s fine — it’s the active resistance against avoiding that stuff, even quietly. I just eat the foods I need to eat and don’t make a fuss about it, but there’s still the pressure. It’s subtle, and it’s a burden I can bear, since I lost weight, but it doesn’t make losing weight easier. It’s not something I noticed until I lost weight. I never noticed it before I gained the weight nor while I was fat. Once I wasn’t fat anymore, it was everywhere, and it’s hard to unsee.
  18. Mole

    Fat People

    I lost about 60 pounds a few years ago and have kept it off. A few scattered thoughts: 1. People who want to lose weight but never seem to do so often tell me that losing weight was really easy for me and that it’s really complicated. It was the exact opposite. It was very simple but very difficult. Friends and family minimizing the work I did is a little annoying, but I understand the psychology. And they’re still fat and I’m not, so I don’t really care. 2. I still get lots of pushback against eating choices that I make. There’s a great deal of social pressure to make food choices that make you fat. It’s a small price to pay to feel so much better, but the social pressure is real and doesn’t make things easier. 3. I think one thing that helped me was that I didn’t tell anyone what I was doing. I get the idea of a support system, but my experience has been that our culture wants you fat. I didn’t get any pressure to eat poorly until people noticed that I wasn’t fat anymore. 4. And know what I’ve eaten every day for the past 3ish years. It’s simple, but not easy. I feel so much better though. 5. I don’t think it’s so much a knowledge thing or a laziness thing or whatever. Some years back, everyone in education start using the word grit. It’s that. Losing weight is unpleasant and persisting in the unpleasantness is the price you have to pay.
  19. I have a pretty strong shellfish allergy. Sitting near them wouldn't kill me or cause an emergency situation, but I'd feel pretty sick for the next day or so.
  20. I keep reading this thread title as selection committee.
  21. I rarely read the book board on this site; I don’t think I’ve ever posted there. That doesn’t mean that the books being posted about aren’t good works of literature. It also doesn’t mean that my preferred genre — erotic Buck Rogers fan fiction — doesn’t have artistic merit. It just means that we have different interests when it comes to this one issue. Lebron clearly has an interest in the mistreatment of Black Americans by the police. That he may not be as concerned about the broader policing issue doesn’t negate his interest nor the broader issue. It’s just an issue of focus. That he has said some stupid stuff on social media doesn’t negate these issues either. That time he mocked Dirk for being sick and then got torched was funny though. What’s also funny is how these threads go: a white guy gets killed by the cops and rather than discuss the issue of police violence, race and the media gets injected into the discussion; a Black guy gets killed by the cops and suddenly there’s the push to look only at the broader policing issue (while accomplishing nothing) or more often, discuss how terrible the dead guy was. If the goal was to intentionally distract and ignore the issues in various cases, I couldn’t come up with a better strategy. I miss the old days of Bernard threads before we lost our minds and our humanity.
  22. Fifty, nifty United States from 13 original... oh, never mind. Also, the WWII unit would need to be pretty Nazi-focused.
  23. If the concern is slipping into communism, it seems like the continuing right wing destabilization and culture war garbage creates a fertile environment for something like that. You generally don’t go from healthy government and culture to communist re-education camps. Remember Trump signing the stimulus checks? To answer the OP, the next 4ish years will be touch and go. Hopefully prosperity wins out. I could also see the 1/6 folks going to prison ending up with some kind of politicized gang situation. Think a white MS-13 without any real business interests.
  24. If the Big Lie was true, even partially, 1/6 was at least somewhat justified. The fact that Big Lie proponents minimize the terrorist attack is a tacit admission that the Big Lie is in fact a lie.
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