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Mole

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  1. 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.
  2. 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.
  3. 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.
  4. 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.
  5. 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.
  6. I keep reading this thread title as selection committee.
  7. 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.
  8. Fifty, nifty United States from 13 original... oh, never mind. Also, the WWII unit would need to be pretty Nazi-focused.
  9. 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.
  10. 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.
  11. I foresee this evolving into a Randolf Duke impersonation contest.
  12. 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.
  13. I’m not superstitious, but things went pretty poorly for a bit there after he pulled that stunt. I blame him.
  14. 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.
  15. Hopefully they’ll call the homerun play at bat and the strike out play on the mound lots of times.
  16. If you embrace it for what it is, small town professional wrestling is awesome. No idea on how many bags of M&Ms.
  17. 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.
  18. 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.
  19. 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.
  20. Did the Tyson chicken factory explode?
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