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  1. I accounted for what you are describing in the sense that you can argue about the ethics and utilitarnism of it (as you are here), but that doesn't change the fact that the right to eat food and become a fat person is fully protected in every way imaginable as an American. It's one of the most celebrated and enjoyed protections and rights these days, if you look around.
  2. Girl dinner was a trend from like 2 summers ago. C'mon Surly, let's not look unchronically online. Also, @Brisketexan eating raw pork is a horrible idea no matter how you dress it up (e.g. cultural immersion, delicacy, sophistication, not being raised a wimp). I get doing it once is not a big deal, but parasites are a real thing and gross.
  3. I agree and wonder if the father/family of Metcalf would agree as well. At the end of the day this is a tragic event and supremely sucks for everyone involved. I also feel for the black community of Frisco (mentioned my nanny is a BIPOC in Frisco) and the fact that this society (and area we live in) has to be proactively defensive and litigous to get a fair shake for folks who are black and so in a sense I can understand the need to keep race in the forefront as a reminder of societies natural bent and historical responses (fair or unfair). But also, the kid killed another kid and that is true outside and above another secondary factor outside of any evidence that will come out for self-defense, if any (which is then not even a secondary, but primary factor)
  4. I think one thing we can all agree on is that being fat as an adult, whatever your opinions, is ultimately the right and responsibility of the adult. You can argue the merits, the ethics, the morality of it all, but at the end of the day, a man can choose what he eats and when and how. Full stop. But what's so heartbreakingly tragic in America today is when I see these same fat adults with obese children. Kids as young as five or six years old. There should be some sort of law or oversight akin to CPS being called if you are chain smoking in kids bedroom or doing drugs around them and allowing them to ape your behaviors and some accountability to help these children because family, friends, social shunning these behaviors is often non-existent and, at worst, reinforcing.
  5. I appreciate your fervancy in being a devil's advocate and critical thinker to ensure that the truth rises to the top. Seriously, no kidding about. I think every jury of 12 should have a @Thatguyon it and justice would be better served over the long run. That said, let's say you end up being wrong to woefully wrong here. Are you going to admit it?
  6. Super minority opinion here because Kanye has alienated everyone in the world, but the dude has been obviously traumatized and suffers big time from some mental issues. Well that's not the minority opinion, I think everyone agrees with that, but the song he put out (I listened to the above, assuming it's him and not AI or fake) is actually pretty brave and not a "dissing himself". It sounds like a cry for help for sure (10 percs, etc.) but also maybe therapeutic in the sense of letting go some of that heavy trauma and hoping to get som healing or something from it. And it's SUPER vulnerable in a way that is nearly impossible for most of us to fathom. Now 10x how you imagine, and imagine being in the black community and the hip hop community which is going to be vicious I would imagine.
  7. Gold chains from Amazon are timeless.
  8. You are arguing with a guy who a) has shown himself to be ridiculous with his arguing with actual attorneys when told he is wrong and his semantics and b) is super invested in the TMZ / Blake Lively thread and controversy. Quit responding.
  9. Jesus dude. If this is true I really feel for parents of public school aged kids these days. What a goat rodeo.
  10. It's wild to hear that mdma doesn't work on some folks (and Derka). I remember my first few times on ecstasy and can't imagine it any differently. One of the things I've noticed is that in polite society; executive-level meetings catered with food, weddings, and white table cloth restaurant meetings, etc.-- ordering a sugary drink like soda is a class signifier. Unsweetened Iced Tea or Water (or black coffee) is for men of ability and accord. Ordering a Coca Cola shows you are either a kid or poor. But I'm an older man so maybe the times-are-a-changin' and the kids and the tech billionaires and that will change with the new culture. Exceptions, like Mssr. Warren Buffett and our current President (arguably), obviously exist.
  11. This is why he got so mad at this at the time. Hit dogs yelp. Hope he gets the mental health and therapy help he needs.
  12. This is a good one.
  13. I can smell this picture. Warm dry barely burnt by heated electronic part plastics in the air. Heavenly.
  14. I was just thinking about this movie, which I too saw on a plane recently, and had the opposite reaction. What bad timing. Had the pope died in the couple of months in the run-up to the Oscars, this movie would have been a must-see and probably gotten a dead pope bump in the academy and voters minds. He dies 6 months later and now a handful of people will watch it on a plane.
  15. The night we went the cast then came back out after the bows and did an auction for an AIDs charity and so we got to hear some ad libbed back-and-forth between Burr and Kieran, etc. I think someone ended up with a signed playbill for $2,000.
  16. Systematic Obesity.
  17. He mentioned he is really stubborn and sort of smirked, as if that was a positive quality, when all I could think of is that his stubborness is what is going to entail him dying on the hill.
  18. Don't forget how cocky we are because of math.
  19. Nico is just so wholly unlikeable. I had no idea how unlikeable he was before this.
  20. Anyone have a link for this? I might as well get my blood pressure up early today.
  21. You people recognize that he will be 99.99% sure be choosing a pontif name immediately, right? Pope Leo the 13th or something.
  22. Yes. There are a % of people whose overweight issues are medical in nature (e.g. hormones, autoimmune, medicines, organ functionality, etc.). I don't think anyone denies or doubts that and some of us probably know of someone like that, but those instances are likely dramatically overstated or real. But also I think the number of people who default or think they can't lose weight because of the above are usually defaulting an easier mental and emotional state of not undertaking the hard work to make some uncomfortable changes. Pre-built excuses which, if you are obese, you likely aren't that disciplined or self-controlled to begin with.
  23. In a lot of circles, offing the Pope is actually positive aura points, is the problem here.
  24. I had a thought last week. Is there a future one day where obesity is a "choice" in the sense that ozempic or wegovuy type meds (which apparently have a ton of good health benefits from reducing heart disease risk to blood pressure and diabetes, etc. and not just weight) are so cheap and readily available? It seems like the optimal and efficient government policy (in long term costs, healthcare burdens, etc.) would be to heavily subsidize or make free these drugs for the poor and obese.
  25. Firing Nico is a tablestake to win back fans like me, it needs to be done yesterday, and it's a very small (but integral) start to rebuilding trust and fandom. That probably sounds gay, but whatever. I'm still hurt.
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