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Yes that’s true, people with that kind of uncertainty around where their next meal is from have a different set of imperatives to which this discussion does not apply. I’m not sure whether any of the principals in this sidebar are experiencing that kind of food insecurity, but if so, the strategy of calorie deficit to lose weight is not relevant to them.

I don’t know what you’re on about here, but the bottom line relevant to the topic at hand is that for the majority of people, mainly those who don’t experience food addiction, the key to losing weight is expending more calories than you take in. If you have a food addiction and you need professional help to address it, then this simple solution doesn’t apply to you. If you don’t have a food addiction and you simply don’t want to run the calorie deficit needed to lose weight, then that’s a decision you’re certainly free to make.

Right.

The University of Michigan. 1 in 8 Americans over 50 show signs of food addiction By process of elimination, seven out of eight people are not addicted to food. I don't know what you think the relevance of drugs or alcohol is here, but we're talking about portion size, diet culture, and losing weight.

Loyal, they like. That is, in fact, a non-starter for them. Everything else is negotiable at best, or otherwise unnecessary.

Seven out of every eight people are not so addicted to food that they are compelled to eat enormous amounts practically nonstop, as though it were an addictive drug. Yes, one in eight are, and if they want to address it, they will need special help. As for the rest of us, we simply gotta put in the work, depending on how bad we want it.

Looks to me as though they don’t want to raise boys to be thoughtful and sensitive. Looks as though they would prefer to raise boys to be inconsiderate and aggressive. Perhaps they have a particular vision in mind for what role in society such boys will fill.

Yeah, losing weight is hard. Eating less food is hard. Eating the right food is hard. Moving around more is hard. Putting in the work to lose weight is just hard. But only a small sliver of people are fat because of genetics, so for the rest of us, it all comes down to, how bad do we want it?

I used to be all alone here on this island. Welcome aboard … ?

lol his ear was “scared” from the “gunshot wound”

She was willing to try to a deal with the devil to get needed resources from the federal government for her state, the kind every governor in the nation needs for their state and has received in the past. But I suppose she could have stuck to your apparently preferred strategy of Try Nothing Get Nothing.

I feel as though they be willing to see the deficit go up by a trillion dollars if only they could fire the entire government in the process.

Yes, that's true in and of itself, and of course I can't reasonably not agree with that. And necessary hard lessons were definitely learned, or at least beginning to be learned. But that assessment also works against the cathartic slathering on of blame onto Hillary that she was obviously—obviously!—a horrible candidate. That's one of the best examples of convenient 20/20 hindsight I can muster, and that's not a slam on anyone in particular, because there's no one person alone in doing this. A lot of people, perhaps most posters here, have been engaging in the very same thing ever since, and it has never set right with me, because I can't recall any of those same posters sounding any alarm bells in 2016 about the obvious! Trump victory that was going to happen.

Lemonade out of lemons: if you'd've told me Friday morning we were going to take two out of three from the Twins this weekend, I would have been very happy to hear that.

Garbage time has officially arrived: Maeda in to pitch.

What was horrible was not Hillary as a candidate. What was horrible is a system that allows the guys with the second most votes to win the election. I know, that idea is already baked in and Hillary should have campaigned around it. But if the kind of hindsight that allows us the luxury of clubbing Hillary nine years after the fact truly is 20/20, then it behooves us to remember what the election looked like it was going to be just a couple days prior to Election Day 2016: Point being, all the way up to Election Day itself, it looked like everything was going her way, and everybody was surprised and shocked by the outcome. So please let's not pretend as though we could all see it coming throughout the entire campaign. Nobody did. Not even the Trump people. Remember?

When they make catches on you like Bader just did, that's bad karma.

Meanwhile, in Chicago ...

Part of it is seeing eye hits for the Twins this inning, and the other part is we were just due to be flat in a game. Of course, we do still have three innings to make up the deficit.

You might hate Big Gretch now, but this passes the smell test for me. 6. 📷 1,000 words Photo: Eric Lee/The New York Times Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer (D) blocks her face as President Trump answers questions from reporters in the Oval Office on Wednesday during an executive-order signing session. Why it matters: "The Michigan governor's awkward Oval Office appearance reflected how several Democratic state leaders are cultivating cordial but politically risky relationships with the president," the N.Y. Times reports. 🔎 The backstory: Whitmer, one of the top potential 2028 Democratic presidential candidates, hadn't expected to be in front of cameras, The Times' Reid Epstein and Tyler Pager write. She "had come to the White House to discuss funding for an Air National Guard base near Detroit and aid for thousands of Michiganders who had just been hit by an ice storm": "Trump's aides surprised her ... by ushering her into the Oval Office not for her scheduled one-on-one meeting with the president, but for a politically loaded appearance before the press corps. She found herself an unwilling participant in his unending reality show, with photos of her rocketing around group chats of Democratic strategists who wondered what on earth she was doing." Keep reading (gift link).

Here to remind people that over three million more people voted for Hillary for president than for Trump.

I'm glad I can engage the radio audio over the video and I don't have to put up with that nonsense.

They just showed on the teevee that the Tigers have the majors' best regular season winning percentage since last August 11 at .690 (40-18). The Dodgers are second at .672 (41-20). All we do is win.

There is no stopping the Tork at this moment.

Why are Benetti and Dirks talking to some guy named Zach Vraa from A to Z Creamery in Hopkins, MN? What's the relevance here?