POLITICS SCHMALITICS

[gehringer_2]

13 minutes ago, chasfh said:

Anti-intellectualism is less an educational attainment issue and more an general American cultural issue. You know that. You live here.

I just meant that educational attainment cross-correlates with income so the two effects are not trivial to separate in social survey work so if you want to prove it's anti-intellectualism vs income you have your work cut out.

Edited April 7 by gehringer_2

[chasfh]

*sigh*

Edited April 7 by chasfh

[CMRivdogs]

One bit of news falling under the radar was RFKjr admitting that vaccines are the best way to combat measles.

Anti-vax MAGAS are going bananas 

[Hongbit]

On 3/28/2025 at 12:16 PM, chasfh said:

Take THAT, stupid sexy libtards! 

 

First was polygamy and now fluoride.  I can’t wait to see what Utah bans next.  

[chasfh]

1 minute ago, Hongbit said:

First was polygamy and now fluoride.  I can’t wait to see what Utah bans next.  

Anti-polygamy local statutes?

[Hongbit]

Ironic that the state that invented the ridiculously sugar infused specialty soft drinks aka liquid tooth decay has banned fluoride.    Brilliant.

[Screwball]

I spent a month one week in Salt Lake City. What I remember most was the street naming convention they used. Once you figured it out, it was kinda neat. Until then I was lost all the time.

[CMRivdogs]

 

[CMRivdogs]

42 minutes ago, CMRivdogs said:

 

Update

 

[smr-nj]

Coincidence that it was the first day of Passover?  And Governor Shapiro?

And absolutely no comment from our golf lovin’ president? 
Not really surprising 

[Motown Bombers]

 

[romad1]

25 minutes ago, Motown Bombers said:

 

what was the Trump part so I don't have to go on Elon's website?

[Motown Bombers]

1 minute ago, romad1 said:

what was the Trump part so I don't have to go on Elon's website?

Trump has been silent. 

[romad1]

Oh gotcha

 

Just now, Motown Bombers said:

Trump has been silent. 

 

[Edman85]

On 4/7/2025 at 3:35 PM, oblong said:

Our portion sizes are too large and we're a consumer culture.  There's also an element of not being wasteful and "eat everything on your plate" as a thing of honor instead of eating until you are full.  "Starving kids in China" etc.   My special needs son will eat anything you put in front of him, especially vegetables, but is good at stopping when he's full.  But if you tell him to eatmore, he will.  Plenty of times we've had to correct my mohter in law for trying to make him "eat all of his fries"  No.  He's fine. 

We have too many restaurants and other eateries and they have to compete with each other.  Even when I was a kid 40 years ago eating out was a rare thing.  I admit it myself, I get lunch on Tuesday from my favorite local deli, a breakfast on Friday morning from our bagel place.   We go out as a family most Saturdays, and when I visit my mom on Sunday I get her Taco Bell because she's 95 and needs to eat something hearty and their power bowls are good for her.   I walk across the street to KFC and get a chicken sandwich.  Mobil apps are awesome.  But now we have door dash and uber eats teaching young peole they can get anything they want whenever and it'll cost more but they've normalized that cost.  So they're being wasteful and unhealthy for a barely warm meal from Chipotle.

 

Diet culture is also pretty much a scam. If you want to lose weight and not be obese, eat less. period. But eating less is bad for business, so they throw labels like organic on things or concoct these crazy diets that don't work when the simple answer is to eat at a calorie deficit.

[gehringer_2]

37 minutes ago, Edman85 said:

Diet culture is also pretty much a scam. If you want to lose weight and not be obese, eat less. period. But eating less is bad for business, so they throw labels like organic on things or concoct these crazy diets that don't work when the simple answer is to eat at a calorie deficit.

culture though, is an apt word. It's vary hard not to eat like you've always eaten if you continue to live the way you've always lived. Many/maybe most people who change the way they eat enough to lose weight succeed because they have changed a lot more than that about the way they live.

Edited April 14 by gehringer_2

[mtutiger]

The Jewish Governor of the 5th largest state, and perhaps the most important swing state, experiences a firebombing in the Governor's Mansion... as Passover begins.

Scanning the NYT and Washington Post website, this is somehow not the top story right now

[oblong]

10 hours ago, Edman85 said:

Diet culture is also pretty much a scam. If you want to lose weight and not be obese, eat less. period. But eating less is bad for business, so they throw labels like organic on things or concoct these crazy diets that don't work when the simple answer is to eat at a calorie deficit.

Our various fitness coaches and instructors like to say "You can't outrun a bad diet".  "It's about what you put in your mouth".

And they are not trying to get into fat shaming or focus on our appearances.... it's more about "if you are here to get skinnier, that's something I can't do that for you."  Their job isn't to make us lose weight.  It's to get us to move around and lift.  Anything beyond that is up to us.

 

 

[Motown Bombers]

 

[chasfh]

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?

[Hongbit]

We are headed for a war between big diet and big pharma.   Weight loss is a massive industry and GLP-1 works better than any other program ever known to man. Diet, Exercise, and Nutrution are much safer and healthier but the shot is much quicker, easier and productive at losing weight.    

It’s going to be interesting to watch as they battle back and forth about the safety of GLP-1 when it comes to future health issues and possible side effects.  I expect a ton of biased for profit studies to come out from both sides.  

[Motown Bombers]

Food addiction doesn't get treated the same as alcohol or drug addictions. Imagine telling an alcoholic to just drink less period, and by the way, you still need to have three drinks per day, no more no less. 

[chasfh]

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.

[Motown Bombers]

10 minutes ago, chasfh said:

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.

I'm calling bull****. What is your source on this? Seven out of eight people are not addicted to alcohol. Seven out of eight are not addicted to drugs. They just need to put in the work depending on how bad they want it. 

[Motown Bombers]

Studies have been done to show that food addiction and binge eating disorders are real. It's a physical, chemical, and emotional reaction to food. Certains foods such as ones high in sugar trigger the same receptors of the brain as alcohol and drugs. You can't just abstain from eating like you can from drinking and doing drugs. To just minimize it as essentially people are lazy is just pure ignorance. On top of that, people cannot just hide food addiction like you can alcoholism or being a drug addict.