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    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.
  2. 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.
  3. I keep reading this thread title as selection committee.
  4. 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.
  5. Fifty, nifty United States from 13 original... oh, never mind. Also, the WWII unit would need to be pretty Nazi-focused.
  6. 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.
  7. 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.
  8. I foresee this evolving into a Randolf Duke impersonation contest.
  9. Depending on the beer, it might have improved the flavor. However bad it might be to drink a beer from your shoe, it’s got to be worse to have to wear that beer-soaked shoe the rest of the night.
  10. I’m not superstitious, but things went pretty poorly for a bit there after he pulled that stunt. I blame him.
  11. It’s amazing to me how many pay attention to the announcers enough to complain about them. That’s not a criticism, just an expression of amazement and wonder.
  12. Hopefully they’ll call the homerun play at bat and the strike out play on the mound lots of times.
  13. If you embrace it for what it is, small town professional wrestling is awesome. No idea on how many bags of M&Ms.
  14. When I was in basic training, the drill sergeants told us that if everyone in the platoon passed inspection of our sock drawer or whatever, we’d get to go to the regional pro wrestling night in Lawton and eat candy until we all puked. If one person failed, no Okie wrestling night and M&Ms. The purpose of requiring 100% compliance was to ensure that we all policed ourselves. Fairness and other concerns weren’t relevant, just providing the motivation for everyone to get it together and for the high speed folk to help out the blue falcons. If you let your battle buddy fail, it’s your failure too. Uncle Sam didn’t owe us bad wrestling and tummy aches, but it was good enough motivation at the time to make sure everyone had their act together. I think I had a pizza party in 5th grade using the same concept.
  15. Young people are much less sexually active these days in part due to phones. Boredom used to mean sexy time. Now everyone just stares at their phones.
  16. I’m not going to cry for NC State. They had their choice and they chose poorly. It’s poor management of the players from a strategic standpoint. It would be like overworking your ace pitcher during meaningless innings and not having him ready for the important moments. Or using your star QB as a battering ram in the national championship game, giving him a dead arm, and being forced to roll with a squinting freshman INT machine who only got a small handful of snaps. It’s just poor thinking. The protocol makes sense from the standpoint of encouraging vaccinations. Wave a carrot for 100% compliance and you can get some peer pressure (or coaching pressure) to get the shot. It makes sense from that perspective. Outside of encouraging vaccinations, it doesn’t make sense if you try to think too much about the logic of testing/contact tracing only some vaccinated players (meaning only players on non-compliant teams). As a carrot and stick, it makes perfect sense; if you think about it much more than that, it starts to break your brain.
  17. Did the Tyson chicken factory explode?
  18. Anecdotally, it seems like many of the more competent service industry folks have found better things to do — with better pay, more stable work, and fewer interactions with the hoards of sociopaths looking to take out their life frustrations on a stranger — those insane people who are apparently everywhere that take such joy in the suffering of others. So while you’re berating you’re server for the cold burger and for forgetting to bring you your Shirley Temple, take some comfort that the old, competent server has made a better life. Rather than a crisis of refills, we just might be witnessing the American dream in action on a large scale. Or you know, the entire social order was upended, the world was shut down, lots of people died, we all lost our minds, and maybe transitioning out of that pit might have a few hiccups. All I know is that I never got my hash browns with my Father’s Day omelette and I was left hungry.
  19. The blue line American flag looks like an American flag that hasn’t been unlocked yet in a video game. It also looks like flag desecration.
  20. Great series. Great game 7. Weird last five minutes.
  21. KD’s legs have been toast this OT.
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