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Aqua Buddha

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  1. Various big box retailers and various CPG suppliers. All food (dry, frozen, fresh, etc.). Just walk around a lower tier grocery store on the days that EBT hits. Look into the baskets. Look at the end caps. Also, pay attention to the commercials during sports. While those are aimed at young men, they're on the lower end of the economic totem pole. It's a bunch of trash fast food. It ain't Cool Greens.
  2. When I read that Newsweek piece by her explaining the interview, it was obvious she had some mental problems but good Lord.
  3. I've spent 20 years in the CPG food space but tell me more about what poor people eat and why. Big Retail has lost untold millions of dollars trying to deliver healthy food at a cheap price to poor people. They simply don't want it. They want Hot Pockets.
  4. This is correct. Poor people eat trash by choice. There are some extenuating circumstances like odd work scheduled but by and large, they like Hot Pockets and fast food.
  5. Bourbon. I drink bourbon.
  6. Let me got hard to the motherfucking Cloak Room paint here. People will blindly take Ozympic (not approved for weight loss) or whatever the fuck or have some surgery but they question everything about the covid vaccines. Fucking mystifies me.
  7. Being fat is not a moral failure. It's simple math. You are eating more calories than you are burning and it's stored as fat. The first step is to admit you're fat. The second step is to admit why. (This is key.) Do you have an emotional attachment to food? Do you not exercise? Your lifestyle is the reason that you are fat. This whole "our brains work differently" is complete horse shit. Yes, people have different levels of metabolism but that doesn't explain why one person is +300lbs and another is 190lbs.
  8. Yes, fat people lie about what they eat. No shit. It's not intentional. They truly believe they eat what non fat people eat but when you get the honest assessment, they don't. They eat significantly more. (Just watch a fat person eat.) Their metabolism is lower because they are not exercising.
  9. Also, other countries are not as fat as us. Certain states and cities in America are fatter than others. I doubt it's because their brains work differently.
  10. They want kids to have bariatric surgery? How about they exercise and not eat trash?
  11. The Biggest Loser contestant gained the weight back because they went back to previous behaviors. If that quote is to be believed, then it's impossible to lose a significant amount of weight yet it's done all the time.
  12. Oh, fuck that and I used to be fat. Do fat people's brains also tell them not to exercise?
  13. NYT had a good story about the hour by hour stress from one of the tech founders that had all of their accounts at SVB. Even the company credit cards were there. Then, there was this kid bit at the end. Stop with the cool start ups and get a fucking bank: I knew I would have to wake up really early on Monday to try and initiate the wire transfer out of SVB. I was trying to figure out how early. Did Monday morning mean midnight? That would be 9 p.m. Pacific on Sunday. I quickly figured out it wasn’t 9 p.m. We also got a new credit card from this company called Ramp, and I was able to move charges to the Ramp card. https://www.nytimes.com/2023/03/18/business/silicon-valley-bank-collapse.html
  14. Got his ass kicked by a drag queen. Lulz.
  15. Geographically, I was raised in small town Oklahoma but culturally my upbringing identified with South Central LA so I consider myself an OG.
  16. Didn't he try something similar at Pay Pal? Tried arguing to rebuild everything from scratch because he didn't understand the existing code or something?
  17. Turns out he's wrong. (Stunned, I know.) They were under supervision for over a year. I'm sure he'll post a retraction: https://www.nytimes.com/2023/03/19/business/economy/fed-silicon-valley-bank.html WASHINGTON — Silicon Valley Bank’s risky practices were on the Federal Reserve’s radar for more than a year — an awareness that proved insufficient to stop the bank’s demise. The Fed repeatedly warned the bank that it had problems, according to a person familiar with the matter. In 2021, a Fed review of the growing bank found serious weaknesses in how it was handling key risks. Supervisors at the Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco, which oversaw Silicon Valley Bank, issued six citations. Those warnings, known as “matters requiring attention” and “matters requiring immediate attention,” flagged that the firm was doing a bad job of ensuring that it would have enough easy-to-tap cash on hand in the event of trouble. But the bank did not fix its vulnerabilities. By July 2022, Silicon Valley Bank was in a full supervisory review — getting a more careful look — and was ultimately rated deficient for governance and controls. It was placed under a set of restrictions that prevented it from growing through acquisitions. Last autumn, staff members from the San Francisco Fed met with senior leaders at the firm to talk about their ability to gain access to enough cash in a crisis and possible exposure to losses as interest rates rose.
  18. Both of these are very good points and I think they're intrinsically linked. While mobility is down, especially with older people, that makes it easier to be poor in these rural areas. They can all help each other out. (Poor people live in clusters.) They'll never be rich but they can get by. There's almost zero risk whereas moving off to Phoenix or Houston is very risky. I wanted to add that I feel little sympathy for these people, too. This country was built by people who packed up and moved. We have people literally dying to come here and work a chicken plant but they're too comfortable living with their parents to strike out on their own.
  19. Looked him up. It was this asshole. If I remember right, his ex wife turned him in. She said she knew he'd be there before she even saw the pictures:
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