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Posted
1 minute ago, DDD Dad said:

The ones that already can't afford to eat healthy.  The

This ties back in to what I was saying earlier about UBI. I didn't have the energy to explain to seed worker that people of means can obviously spend that on other things besides food, like hookers and blow, but it would assure no one goes hungry, and stopping our subsidizing shit food has to go hard in hand with this.

 

To be clear, I'm not saying ban Ozempic, I'm saying don't hand it out like candy to Suzie Tahoe Driver to keep her ass in proportion to her fake tits because she doesn't want to give up Margs and her fast casual restaurant du jour. It just reinforces the cycle we are currently in.

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Posted
9 hours ago, Pato del Muerto said:

Probably more about using a crop we can grow in abundance here.  We are very good at finding alternative uses for corn. 

We can grow lots of crops in abundance. We just happen to give billions of dollars of subsidies annually to farmers who grow corn, more than any other produce. 

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Posted
4 hours ago, safe sex said:

Can you expound on your first sentence?

Not sure I get why people are laughing at this reply. Maybe it's over my head.  While Sugar and Corn Syrup have similar calorie counts per gram, sugar is digested differently and as a result can make you feel more full while it's being processed. So if you were to eat two identical desserts aside from the sweeter, the one with sugar could make you feel more full and stop you from eating more compared to the one using corn syrup. Sugar is like coke. Consume enough of it and it's all your body will run on and you'll lose a bit of weight because you are eating less overall calories. 

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26 minutes ago, Pasken said:

Not sure I get why people are laughing at this reply. Maybe it's over my head.  While Sugar and Corn Syrup have similar calorie counts per gram, sugar is digested differently and as a result can make you feel more full while it's being processed. So if you were to eat two identical desserts aside from the sweeter, the one with sugar could make you feel more full and stop you from eating more compared to the one using corn syrup. Sugar is like coke. Consume enough of it and it's all your body will run on and you'll lose a bit of weight because you are eating less overall calories. 

Yeah I don’t think that’s right. You’re gonna have to cite some sources 

Posted
9 hours ago, Dnaguy said:

People equate freedom with the amount of stuff they can afford to consume.

"Freedom's just another word for 'nothing left to buy'" (apologies to Mr. Kristofferson) 

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On 12/9/2024 at 1:09 PM, The Dog said:

 

Sorry, just catching up on this thread.

So funny, not really, I am in Steven Choi’s district. Looking at the cities he represents, I’m not surprised he won. Orange County isn’t exactly a bastion of liberalism with plenty of (choose combination) of rich, white, conservative Asian, retired, and some not so educated, looking at you Santa Ana.

Fun fact. Steven Choi’s son goes to my church. We serve together on the worship and AV teams. Nice guy and all, but I wouldn’t vote for his dad. 

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Posted (edited)
8 minutes ago, High Plains Drifter said:

 

Genuine question, no snark, what energy does Ontario export to the US?

 

 

From the rough bit of googling I did, they send direct electricity for roughly 1.5 million homes in the northern US.   Canada, writ large, is our biggest international supplier of energy.  For all the talk of Saudi Oil over the years, we actually buy most of our imported petroleum from the Canadians.   

The Oil Dogs on the site correct me, but I assume after we stopped buying Venezualan oil, Canada stepped into the gap. 

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Posted
17 hours ago, hayden_horn said:

i did

My Swedish immigrant grandmother did not like overweight people.

”Tjocka stora menighet!” is one of the few Swedish phrases I know. She would shake her head and glare while saying it.

“Thick large people…”

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Posted
12 hours ago, GenXer said:

A diversion on what has now become the obesity thread

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Trump: man of the people.

As if the billionaires and large corporations didn’t already have a different set of rules, we’re going to eliminate some of the last checks on their power.

What could go wrong?

Seriously though, we are entering a new gilded age….

We need a new name for it though. 
Gilded wouldn’t work for this. It worked so well before as it truly was that the super rich and wealth were just a patina over a large amount inequality, poverty, poor health, etc.

What represents concentrated wealth that uses disinformation and social to placate a population, while not poor by 1880 standards, is still magnitudes and magnitudes less well off than their corporate oligarchs ?

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canada accounts for 60% of our crude oil imports.  we import very little natural gas but of the gas we do import, 99% of it comes from canada. that is natural since the only way to import it from other continents is through lng.

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On 12/11/2024 at 9:09 AM, mdmost said:

Wasn't the switch to High Fructose Corn Syrup more about saving companies money on the cost of sugar and nothing to do with making things taste better?

Yes. Why Bluebell ice cream turned to piss.

Creamy creations por la vida!

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Posted
4 minutes ago, MissingInAction said:

Yes. Why Bluebell ice cream turned to piss.

Creamy creations por la vida!

really? I always wondered why Bluebell didn't taste like it did in my youth? That's a wholly disappointing but not surprising explanation.

Posted
13 minutes ago, Longhorn_Fan68 said:

really? I always wondered why Bluebell didn't taste like it did in my youth? That's a wholly disappointing but not surprising explanation.

Yea. They went to shit 20 years ago. Bought by aggy or some shit.

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Posted
56 minutes ago, Dnaguy said:

Trump: man of the people.

As if the billionaires and large corporations didn’t already have a different set of rules, we’re going to eliminate some of the last checks on their power.

What could go wrong?

Seriously though, we are entering a new gilded age….

We need a new name for it though. 
Gilded wouldn’t work for this. It worked so well before as it truly was that the super rich and wealth were just a patina over a large amount inequality, poverty, poor health, etc.

What represents concentrated wealth that uses disinformation and social to placate a population, while not poor by 1880 standards, is still magnitudes and magnitudes less well off than their corporate oligarchs ?

Entering?  haha

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Posted
3 hours ago, Superhero said:

Fun fact. Steven Choi’s son goes to my church. We serve together on the worship and AV teams. Nice guy and all, but I wouldn’t vote for his dad. 

Spots on an Asian group AV team must be cutthroat.  Tryouts and a cut list?

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Listened to an economics podcast yesterday talking about the Smoot-Hawley Tariff if 1930 which pretty much made the economy worse during the great depression. According to the Google:
 

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The Tariff Act of 1930, also known as the Smoot-Hawley Tariff, was a law that raised tariffs on imported goods to protect American businesses and farmers:

Purpose: The act was intended to boost farm prices and protect American labor. 

Supporters: The act was sponsored by Senator Reed Smoot of Utah and Representative Willis C. Hawley of Oregon. 

Signature: President Herbert Hoover signed the act into law on June 17, 1930. 

Impact: The act had many negative consequences, including: 

  • Frozen international trade: The act led to retaliatory tariffs by other countries, which reduced American exports and imports by 67% during the Great Depression. 
  • Worsened the Great Depression: Economists and economic historians agree that the act worsened the effects of the Great Depression. 
  • Was unpopular: The act was widely opposed by 1,028 prominent economists, some business executives, and much of the public. 

Second highest tariffs in U.S. history: The tariffs under the act were the second highest in United States history, exceeded only by the Tariff of 1828. 

 

 

Fun fact, it followed the most quoted part of Ferris Bueller's Day Off.

 

 

Posted
16 minutes ago, Chips O'Toole said:

That's what this thread needed, a goddamn Blue Bell iced pisscream derailment. 

Just because ice cream is cold, and the Arctic is cold , does not mean that you have to bring Eskimo hut into the conversation. 

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Posted
On 12/11/2024 at 11:54 AM, linux said:

This is a really good video with the most up to date science that probably needs to be universal knowledge, the gist of it is that in the medium to long term the body will consume the same amount of calories despite work out routines (or around a 5-10% difference at most) your weight gain/loss is entirely dependent on your calories in, and your calories out entirely dependent on your body composition not time spent excercising.

Anecdotally it also tracks I lost dozens of pounds while doing less excercise, it was all 100% calorie tracking. Once the six pack shows up I will go back to lifting but will never do cardio for weight loss ever again.

Hopefully HFCS ban does really force dietary changes.

 

20 hours ago, linux said:

I know I am not quitting permanently just got fed up with the psychology of it, I will return to them in a few months.

 

20 hours ago, linux said:

Yes, it is logical, but it does not work that way because human beings are illogical, lifting makes me hungrier and cravings are more difficult to control, eating just an extra apple defeats the entire effort and I am back to square one.

By just counting calories and shrinking the stomach I just consume 70% of the calories I burn at rest I don't even think about food of late, a few months of that and I can lift again when the goal is small bulking and cutting.

Responding to this as concisely as possible:

1) Weight is a function of diet

2) Body composition is a function of diet, mediated by exercise

3) Health is function of exercise, mediated by diet

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Posted
22 minutes ago, Pato del Muerto said:

Spots on an Asian group AV team must be cutthroat.  Tryouts and a cut list?

If they let me play electric guitar, power chords and whatnot, then I'd saw the bar is LOW on who can serve.

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Posted (edited)
43 minutes ago, The Dog said:

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Tbh people voted for him because of trans in sports. The economy bullshit was cover

 

eta a little bit of browns won’t replace us 

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Posted
1 hour ago, Sawbonz said:

Tbh people voted for him because of trans in sports. The economy bullshit was cover

 

eta a little bit of browns won’t replace us 

People have been looking for a new group to hate since the civil rights act

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Posted
23 minutes ago, Captainant said:

People have been looking for a new group to hate since the civil rights act

The Civil Rights Act?  Try since we slithered out of the primordial mist.

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Posted
20 minutes ago, Captainant said:

People have been looking for a new group to hate since the civil rights act

Since the fall of the Soviet Union, we lost our enemy and our identity as being opposed to them and resembling them.   So one side picked the other to be the enemy giving no shits they adopted the tactics and identity of their former foe in the process.  

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