When I think of Christians, I figure it's safe to assume I'm going to be dealing with somebody like Lyin' Ted.
One day you will meet a not so nice Christian who might punch your teeth down your throat.
There's always that possibility, which will likely happen not because I said anything, but because they gendered me female at birth and then found some evidence I'm "really" a man. This can happen to me regardless of how I'm dressed, all though if I'm presenting as male, usually it goes that their first impression is that I'm a woman to begin with, just a woman who for whatever reason is dressed as a man.
I mean, personally, I've been saying "merry Christmas" to folks just fine when they wished me one for the longest time. Now you Christian jackasses are prepared to nearly get violent with me because you believe some made up horse shit from Faux News that for why-ever damned reason, you've determined I'm trying to make Christmas illegal.
This is why I carry a weapon. Be warned. I will stand my ground. This is one faggot you don't want to fuck with.
Yes, canceling it would be the sane thing to do in the interests of public health. However, the Mammon Machine must be fed. It doesn't matter how many human sacrifices must be made. Just think of the economic impact if the event were abandoned at this stage! Surely there's nothing more important in life than serving Mammon!
Call me a misanthrope (you wouldn't be wrong), but I'm sort of hoping that Zika is finally the plague we've been freaking out about since SARS. It seems that was really when this never ending omg plague! thing got started. Humanity needs some kind of jolt to get a lot of people to advance their thought processes further than their reptile brains.
But, in all likelihood, give it a year or two and we'll have moved on to whatever the next civilization-ending super-bug is.
Hmm, thanks for posting a link to the deleted content this time.
If they went oops and published a dupe without the usual 12-36 hour waiting period, they should have edited the story instead of removing it and said something like "Hey guys, our bad. We forgot to wait a few days before posting this again!"
Socialism! Socialism! Oh my fucking god socialism! Anything but socialism! TANSTAAFL!!!! TANSTAAFL!!!! TANSTAAFL!!!! RUN FOR THE HILLS IT'S SOCIALISM!
What the hell do you mean by socialism? Seriously, what the actual shit do you mean by socialism?
Are you arguing that people who can't feed their families shouldn't receive government assistance? If so then kudos. Are you arguing that food stamps and welfare isn't socialism? Are you saying that our current food stamp, welfare, and subsidized housing schemes that actively discourage people from re-entering the workforce because they will make less at the only kinds of jobs they can find aren't socialism? Are you saying we can't possibly do better and try to reform those programs into something more coherent and less of a trap for the people who need to turn to them because you're shitting your pants about socialism?!
Hint: those things aren't going away. I hate to inform you of that, but no matter how many time I pull the Libertarian lever every other November, those things are clearly here to stay. I am telling you as a practical person that those things are also broken and in great need of reform.
Are you arguing that people who can't afford medical care shouldn't receive government assistance? Are you arguing that these people should be turned away by emergency facilities if they can't pay? If so then kudos. Are you arguing that the old system (which is still pretty much in effect) of employer-subsidized health "insurance" and healthcare cost related bankruptcies wasn't a bad idea? Are you arguing that Romney/Obamacare isn't socialism? Are you saying we can't possibly do better and try to enact something similar to every other developed country in the world because you're shitting your pants about socialism?!
Hint: Romney/Obamacare isn't going away and even if it does, people will still be clamoring to DO SOMETHING! Well, Romney/Obamacare IS SOMETHING. Therefore, the people said, THIS MUST BE DONE. And look at how much of a fucking disaster it is. I don't want to buy your girlfriend her birth control pill, and you don't want to buy me my HRT pill. Every other November, I keep pulling that Libertarian lever, and no matter how hard I pull that lever, the healthcare system just keeps getting more bureaucratic, asinine, and wasteful.
Are you arguing that people who don't save up enough money to live off of when they retire should be forced to choose between staying in the workforce while their body falls apart due to old age and starving to death? If so then kudos. Are you arguing that people who through no fault of their own become disabled should be forced to beg in the streets or starve to death? If so then kudos. Or do you want to keep the social security retirement/disability system in place despite it being a completely unsustainable wealth redistribution scheme?
Do you have a better suggestion than democracy? Are you trying to say that democracy has failed? Are you trying to say that the people themselves haven't dragged us all to implement so many socialist solutions in the worst ways fucking possible.
Is the only thing you're capable of arguing against here is some strawman you've conjured up out of the words "democratic socialist?" Next you're going to be attempting to educate me about true socialism by throwing numbers about Stalin and Mao I've already seen a million times around. Maybe this time it'll be Venezuela for variety.
The older I get, the less I feel like wasting my time pulling that Libertarian lever at the polls for ideology's sake alone. The older I get, the more I realize that some form of government funded healthcare (medicare/medicaid) and some form of government funded welfare (food stamps/cash assistance/subsidized housing/social security retirement/disability) are here to fucking stay whethe
Yeah, AaronW has a Tesla. Not only that, but AaronW has a five digit UID! Somebody wondered about using vehicles like the Tesla as energy storage, and somebody who owns a Tesla responded with their input based on a practical experience.
I sense that somebody's a little jelly and that the smug-field of "My car has hella torque right off the line" probably isn't the reason you don't have one. 0-60 in 2.8 seconds with Ludicrous Speed engaged! If you haven't experienced something like the Evo X MR's launch assist, and I'm not talking about baby Lancers here (the "girly sport rally" one), see if you can arrange to. You will feel all your squishy internal organs going to plaid!
Well, maybe AaronW doesn't have one of those. I saw there are a few different options and the 0-60 in 2.8 seconds one is the top-of-the-line. The other two options gave 0-60 in 5.2s and 4.2s. I'd definitely have one if I had the cash. (Might get an Aventador or Shelby GT 500 first.) Since you obviously have the cash, what did you get instead?
Er... or do you just hate everything that's "green" no matter how awesome it is?
I share your general cynicism about big pharma. We know how to transplant the pancreas. Indeed, there is research into curing type I diabetes. Now, I'm not sure if that's the ideal yet, which in my mind would be an artificial replacement for the pancreas.
(The second link is good for a hearty round of "fuck beta" if nothing else!)
The recent development in big pharma vs. the patients I've been struggling to understand is the hatred towards opiod-based pain killers. I would have thought that the more people big pharma could get hooked on things like SSRIs and opiates the better. At the same time, NORML shares news that there's been a recent study that shows cannabis flower reduces dependence on opiates for controlling pain. (Would give link but I'm never sure if I should go to norml.org at work--it should still be on the front page or else page 1 or 2 of their blog.)
Part of me wants to wonder if big pharma is waving a white flag here or what kind of game the medical-pharma-insurance complex is trying to play. Surely, the last thing all the big interests (including alcohol and tobacco) would want is a plant that can be grown at home that makes several classes of drugs from anti-depressants to pain killers to even anti-epileptics redundant in many cases.
Bwahahaha! I even got up early today, and you beat me to it!
It's just all... I mean, my god. You're probably trolling, and I was going to troll if you hadn't gotten here first, shame on me. Yet this is what the average American is thinking. DIABEEEETUS is what they hear. Stop stuffing your face! Obviously, clearly.
Mod me off topic for this, but this is just like, I mean really it's no different, from the fact that trans men and other biological gender messiness simply doesn't exist to Lyin' Ted and his supporters. Nope, transgender => man in dress. Nope, diabetes => poor eating and exercise habits. Clearly! Obviously!
Well, my rice cooker just went off so it's time for some black beans and rice for breakfast. Absolutely yummy. I did want to say that this project sounds incredible. I mean, my experience is obviously fairly focused on one condition, and I've had success taking a kind of hacker's approach to it instead of waiting for the medical community to come around about the realities that face those who live with my condition/birth defect/whatever you want to call it. I'm glad to see hackers dragging another area of medicine by the feet.
We have the technology. Do we have the will to use our technology to overcome biological messiness? Or would we rather condemn people who weren't born perfectly to a second class life while shaming them for being born wrong the whole way?
I was reading a discussion about whether unions or enlightened self-interest were the primary motivator for the 8 hour workday/40 hour workweek. It seemed to be going pretty well with comments seeming to converge on the idea that Henry Ford is the kind of business owner who understood enlightened self-interest that we wish were typical of the vast majority of business owners. Then I got to this comment.
This is more evidence of why the USA is truly fucked.
I don't know where the hell you got a capitalism vs. socialism dichotomy out of that. I don't even know what the living fuck true socialism is other than some blinkered attempted to give the true Scotsman a shout out. I've heard the argument that Marxism has never been tried before.
Goodness am I getting so fucking tired of people like you who simply are incapable of engaging in any discussion about a world where there are more than two colors: 100% black and 100% white. At least try grayscale, man!
Ok, how's this? You hate socialism, right? What's social security retirement? Socialism. Wealth redistribution. What's social security disability? Socialism. Wealth redistribution. What's medicare/medicaid? Socialism. Wealth redistribution.
I will take you seriously as soon as you can convince the common person to give up their social security and medicaid. Then I will be a 100% believer. Right now because of asshats like you who have no idea what the fuck kinds of ideas you're not even trying to engage because all you hear is labor unions == Stalin, because of dipshits like you, I currently pay taxes to a government with a completely fucking dysfunctional social safety net and a health care system that has to be the fucking worst combination possible of free market ideas and socialist ideas.
I'd tell you to educate yourself, but there's no fucking point. Maybe the only hope left is to wait until you senile fuckers just fucking croak! I mean, are you that asshole we saw in that picture protesting something or other because you don't want government to screw with your fucking medicare or take away your fucking disability?!
Washington Post was terrible. One wouldn't have guessed that Bernie Sanders was even in the race or that superdelegates were an important part of the Democrat nomination process by reading that piece of crap. I don't follow a lot of news any more although I've been paying pretty close attention this election cycle. NY Times I could tolerate, but I'd learned by about mid-March that anything I clicked on from Washington Post would inevitably be something designed to help Clinton somehow.
Conspiracy theory time! The older I get the further I slide down the left side of the World's Smallest Political Quiz. Nevertheless, stories always have at least two sides, even if the 2nd side is complete fabricated bunkum. (Never was a fan of the axiom that "truth" can be found half way between two sides. But there's always another opinion to be found even if it's rubbish.) Well, one thing I noticed is that both comedy news programs and Washington Post (among others) both were very slow to give Trump any credit when he flip-flopped to a more sane position. That was particularly obvious during the whole KKK thing. Around that time, I remember reading somewhere, don't remember where, that the Nation of Islam was also liking Trump. That barely got any other mention. So while the timeline as far as I could shake out went 1.) Trump denounces KKK 2.) Trump has a whoops! moment during a phone interview 3.) Therefore Trump is a KKK supporter! the only thing we really heard was #3 and #2 while #1 went ignored.
(Speaking of the KKK and therefore race politics, there also seemed to be the complete disconnect in a lot of the media (not all, but most) that the Goldwater Girl had somehow become the civil rights candidate while the guy (who is now an old man from Vermont) who marched right alongside the last civil rights movement is somehow not resonating with, er, people of color, or whatever. That seemed to have been asking to be a helluva investigative journalism scoop. I keep hoping to find an answer somewhere in a publication like The Root but no such luck unless I missed it. Maybe I should have added Breitbart to my list of sites to check when aggregators fail, but I digress.)
So, this, simply as an example of the larger trend in the so-called "lame-stream" media, I would suspect of causing quite a lot of distrust of "lame-stream" sources. Meanwhile, the media's other face keeps playing dumb to why Trump keeps getting supporters (oh, and those pesky Bernie voters, but everybody knows Bernie will just take all your (the middle class voter's) money and give it to people who don't deserve it, so just ignore him and maybe he'll go away).
All in all, I find myself back at the original conspiracy theory a whole lot of other people and I wondered about when the Donald started to become A Thing. Is Trump only involved to hand Clinton the presidency? At the very least, they seem to be using the same playbook: pivot here, evolve there, and act like the new position was what the candidate thought all along. Once Trump is officially the Republican nominee, are we going to see him "pivot" back to Primary Trump as a way to scare off everybody who's been tempted to vote for him? (Maybe Trump Prime, sounds more comic booky.)
Eh, who knows. Anybody who's relying on what's trending on Facebook as their news source will probably never know one way or the other until it's too late. That's probably the answer key. The general public is truly not equipped to dig through anything more involved than a trending sound byte. Plus, Facebook is an SJW haven. I would imagine curating the trending topics to simply be in their own interest if they don't want themselves to get in the SJW's sights.
So really, once again, I fail to understand why this is a problem or why Facebook even has the power to sway elections. If Facebook is just going to pick the winner based on a mass stupidity and short attention spans, I'm having trouble determining why I should care if it's con
After a few years of massive hype in the startup sector, absurd-sounding valuations are starting to correct themselves. Startups are confronting the prospect of raising "down rounds" from investorsâ"or rounds of financing that value the companies at less than the previous round.
LivingSocial, for example, was once valued at $5.7 billion; it's now worth a quarter of that, or less, depending on whom you ask....
Many of the businesses started were consumer-facingâ"things like photo apps and social networks that require a lot of people to use them to survive. They weren't transactional businesses that make money when they sell something. And that was okayâ"a lot of investors encouraged entrepreneurs to build up their user bases before trying to generate revenue.
But when some of the biggest consumer Internet companies, like Groupon, Zynga, and Facebook, went public, their stock prices got slashed. Suddenly, these incredibly valuable companies weren't worth as much money as the tech world initially thought.
This level of immunity to reality must be why Trump and Clinton are our two choices this time around. Somebody who has integrity couldn't ever appeal to you.
You're the same faggot who, every time I've written that I get turned away from the men's room because my woman suit is too good, somehow replies to me as though I'm trying to get into the women's room!
This is comedy. I'll probably live until I'm 100 without even trying.
At that calorie intake level, the body will start reclaiming unused material (muscle and fat) for energy.
I bolded the important part. Yes, I'm fucking aware how little food 600 kcal is. Believe it or not.
Once the body decides it needs to burn muscle tissue instead of fat, the game is lost. Not all pounds are created equal. And I'm certain there's far more complexity and nuance there than you can fit into your tiny little head.
It starts with the fat shaming, just to "help." You're so helpful! That'll totally fix the problem! Before you know it, somebody is in hiding, starving themselves death. Sooner or later, they hit a wall. Then when they try to eat for energy, guess what! No energy, just straight to fat!
So then we fat shame them some more, just to "nudge them in the right direction." Just because we're such kind, altruistic, selfless people! More starvation diet. It doesn't work as well this time. Occasional binge that goes straight to fat.
I'm not sure how you get a much more controlled situation than somebody hiding out in self-imposed house arrest because assholes like you make them too ashamed to go out in public and do things that would probably fucking help them reverse the cycle.
Before you know it, it's become a crying fucking shame. Before you know it, suicide seems like the only way out. This is the real way that calorie in - calorie out just fucking fails. The hacker's diet is a tool for smug assholes who think their shit doesn't stink.
Yeah, for people like you or me, it absolutely works. I've used it myself. Then again, we haven't been fat shamed into the self-destructive binge/purge cycle that manifests. Call it weakness on the part of the victim if you want, and go ahead and proudly show how much of a self-centered pompous ass you are.
What the fuck do I know? I eat like shit and drink all the time, and I never gain a single pound. Why am I not drunk now? I should be. I'll bet I could post some hilarious fucking shit if I were right now.
I bolded the part of this comment you're going to miss just so it'll be even more fucking hilarious when you do miss it.
saying one can be fat eating "300-600" kcal per day, is false. And trivial to prove so.
Really? For you and me it is. My body burns 1500 kcal at rest! Not everybody's you or me.
Everyone agrees but fat people looking for an excuse and snake-oil sellers looking for a way to lie to fat people.
No, not it's not. You calorie in - calorie out fuckers are the ones lying. Science doesn't mind how smug destroying these people's self-confidence and utterly destroying any kind of hope at being thin makes you.
Blaming everyone and everything else.
In the end why the fuck do I care if I can maintain my body weight by drinking all the time and eating whatever the unhealthy fucking shit I want! After all, if somebody isn't like me, they must be wrong and just deserve what's wrong with them!
Calorie in - calorie out is just as much snake oil as the rest. At best, it's a woefully inadequate attempt to "help" people who struggle with their weight. What it actually is, however, is a tool of psychological abuse.
In order for your theory to be complete, you need to explain people like me who just eat whatever the fuck stay at a somewhat decent body weight. Yeah, I could be Calvin Klein model if I put some effort into it, but why would I fucking want that? And hell, I'm not even really in the hyper-metabolic range of people who need to eat somewhere in upwards of ~3,000 kcal every day to prevent themselves from needing medical care from being underweight.
Naah, but I'm just wasting my fucking time, aren't I? You're perfectly happy smugly moralizing about anybody for whom what works for you doesn't work!
As much as you quoted my comment, you seem to have missed the part where I was merely using myself as an example of somebody that the calorie in - calorie out thing doesn't apply to. My body just maintains itself, maybe a little above the Calvin Klein ideal. Is it just too fucking hard for you to use your imagination a little bit and imagine what it must be like to be somebody who can't stop gaining weight even while eating 300-600 calories per day?
Yeah, I guess it was. Fucking moron. People like you are the reason society is falling the fuck apart.
I wasn't sure if I saw that story posted here or on the other site. Must have been the other site. It was a fascinating read at the very least.
I also found that it seemed to be somewhat fatalistic and depressing. Humans want to fight against nature and remake the world as they think it should be. It seems like in the ultimate "joke's on you" moment, the very nature of people's bodies has started turning against them all over the developed world. At least this human still wants to fight against nature, to figure out what the answer must be, confident there must be an answer to be had. I don't have funding, and I doubt I'd have the first clue of what to do to figure it out. Debuggers are my thing, not microscopes.
I'm one of the lucky ones--that person everybody seems to know who can eat whatever they want and never gain a pound. Well, not so much as when I was younger and every weekend meant a trip to the arcade to play DDR. I wish I knew why or even how. There are better people in the world who deserve whatever it is about my body that would make gaining a hundred lbs or so if I need to for some reason seem as daunting to me as losing a hundred lbs and keeping it off is for many people I know. One person in particular whose struggles with their weight has turned into a full blown mental illness and utter despair, compounding the problem by wrecking the best tool they have to work through the problem: their brain. Damn shame. And here I am helplessly posting to Slashdot and cussing out ACs like that'll make a difference.
It's not to say that exercise isn't a factor, but I begin to wonder if the mentality of "head to the gym, stress the body to its breaking point for an hour or two, then back in the chair" isn't part of the larger problem. Maybe that works for cheetahs, just not so well for humans.
I think the best thing that people could work towards is a slower, more relaxed pace of life. Everybody is so tense and constantly on edge. Every little problem that comes up is the zomg sky is falling end of the damned world. We seem so completely detached from the essence of living, at least in an agricultural sense: preparing for the growing season, working the earth when plants will grow, harvesting in fall (along with the requisite fall feast), and spending the time of year when little if anything grows with loved ones, safe and confident that enough wood has been gathered and chopped and enough food has been stored away to last until the cycle is complete when spring returns.
In a hunter-gatherer sense: the Earth provides. There will always be enough. Don't horde and don't be greedy. Don't take more than you need.
I feel we've created a culture where everybody is driven like they're being chased down by a lion day after day after day after day. It's not really about the act of eating--that's not what I mean by don't take more than you need--, but it's about the endless 24/7 life-and-death brink-of-the-edge reality that is life in the "developed" world.
Go to hell you sack of shit. Since when is eating 300-600 calories per day too fucking much?
People like you are everything wrong with this world. I want to know why I can eat like shit and drink all the time and not gain a single fucking pound! I want to know why there are people who can't lose weight without literally fucking starving themselves to death.
Oh, I know! They must be cheating! When you're providing somebody all their food, it's sort of fucking difficult for them to cheat.
You know, I've begun to suspect that you fat shamers have quite a fucking lot in common with SJWs. You're holier-than-thou about every-fucking-thing! Your point of view is the only valid one, especially when measurable reality doesn't fucking agree with you. And every time you double down on it, and you keep doubling down.
Your waist measurement is irrelevant. Your soul is an ugly, filthy waste of time and energy. The lives you destroy will weigh you down after you shuffle the mortal coil. It won't surprise me one bit when all the negativity and destruction and human misery you're out there causing day-in day-out drags you to fucking hell.
I am currently up early and not sure if I can go into work today because you fat shamers have pushed somebody I care about to near suicide. I have literally no fucking clue if I can leave them alone in the house right now.
When somebody eats 300-600 calories per day and still gains weight, there is something else going on.
On the other hand, look at me! I'm only a few lbs overweight, and I eat like shit and drink all the time! I must be morally superior! I have no fucking clue how many calories I eat each day. My fucking body burns somewhere around 1500 calories at fucking rest last time I checked!
So what's my fucking secret? Nuclear hot wings? Is that what keeps my metabolism going while somebody I care about abso-fucking-lutely cannot control their weight? Eating McDonalds and Speedway shit every other day? Is that my fucking secret when somebody eating nothing but beans and rice in measured portions can't lose a single fucking pound?
Ah, it must be the smoking! Is 10-12 fucking cigarettes per day my fucking secret?! You tell me, asshole.
God, can we get past this period of history before science figures out what my fucking secret is and gives it to all the beautiful, talented people in the world whose body is their own worst enemy already?
If there is a hell, I hope you and all the other fat shaming ACs here burn in it. You have blood on your hands. If swear, if I fucking knew how to raise or lower somebody's metabolism, I'd set yours to fucking ZERO just to laugh at you while you ballooned up. Don't expect me to watch over you when you become suicidal. You deserve to feel anguish and total fucking despair.
I'm glad to know the Apache attack copter thing has returned to obscurity or else was pretty obscure to begin with. Know your meme link. It was a ridiculous criticism of transfemale identities. (As usual, it ignores the existence of transmen.)
For a moment, I was afraid that Lyin' Ted had something that resonated with thinking people like yourself. Of course it doesn't. How could it? I mean, Lyin' Ted didn't invoke the "Apache attack copter" thing specifically, not that I'm aware of. I more use it in the context of those who would wish physical harm to anybody they perceive as using the women's restroom when they shouldn't. Granted, the image of a Boeing AH-64 appearing above one's backyard, perhaps while one is mowing the lawn, and firing is... intimidating... especially since I've seen intimations and threats of such physical violence myself against people I care about.
(Naturally, having an infiltrator model woman suit, I do not appear on their radar. I wish every transwoman could have a woman suit this good.)
All good points. Sometimes I forget that there's "racism!" when the aggregate statistics come out in the wrong way without any variables such as income or education level factored in, and then there's plain simple ugly racism, even now in 2016 (which often contributes to the numbers somebody's looking at when they go "racism!"--yeah, there's racism all right, but it's not with an ideal poll test perhaps being administered by an impartial computer or else graded blindly if humans must judge certain responses.)
Breast cancer is another big one for which people with dark/black skin are at a greater risk than people with paler skin colors.
That would be... acceptable. Trump is a damned wild card. It even more interesting/frightening if you consider that whoever he makes his running mate (along with most of his cabinet, 'course overlooking the congressional positions in line) may become the president if Trump is assassinated (or keels over from natural causes). Wikipedia has the whole list.
Sanders would be like order to Trump's chaos. It's almost... something like something out of Paganism. Very yin-yang at the least. Again, that would be... acceptable. I would probably pull the lever for that ticket merely with a few reservations if that were the case.
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When I think of Christians, I figure it's safe to assume I'm going to be dealing with somebody like Lyin' Ted.
One day you will meet a not so nice Christian who might punch your teeth down your throat.
There's always that possibility, which will likely happen not because I said anything, but because they gendered me female at birth and then found some evidence I'm "really" a man. This can happen to me regardless of how I'm dressed, all though if I'm presenting as male, usually it goes that their first impression is that I'm a woman to begin with, just a woman who for whatever reason is dressed as a man.
I mean, personally, I've been saying "merry Christmas" to folks just fine when they wished me one for the longest time. Now you Christian jackasses are prepared to nearly get violent with me because you believe some made up horse shit from Faux News that for why-ever damned reason, you've determined I'm trying to make Christmas illegal.
This is why I carry a weapon. Be warned. I will stand my ground. This is one faggot you don't want to fuck with.
Oh, and MERRY FUCKING CHRISTMAS!
Well, AC, you certainly make a compelling case here, right up until you demonstrated that you have no idea what actually causes hangovers.
No, I'm not going to tell you why you're wrong.
Yes, canceling it would be the sane thing to do in the interests of public health. However, the Mammon Machine must be fed. It doesn't matter how many human sacrifices must be made. Just think of the economic impact if the event were abandoned at this stage! Surely there's nothing more important in life than serving Mammon!
Call me a misanthrope (you wouldn't be wrong), but I'm sort of hoping that Zika is finally the plague we've been freaking out about since SARS. It seems that was really when this never ending omg plague! thing got started. Humanity needs some kind of jolt to get a lot of people to advance their thought processes further than their reptile brains.
But, in all likelihood, give it a year or two and we'll have moved on to whatever the next civilization-ending super-bug is.
Hmm, thanks for posting a link to the deleted content this time.
If they went oops and published a dupe without the usual 12-36 hour waiting period, they should have edited the story instead of removing it and said something like "Hey guys, our bad. We forgot to wait a few days before posting this again!"
Socialism! Socialism! Oh my fucking god socialism! Anything but socialism! TANSTAAFL!!!! TANSTAAFL!!!! TANSTAAFL!!!! RUN FOR THE HILLS IT'S SOCIALISM!
What the hell do you mean by socialism? Seriously, what the actual shit do you mean by socialism?
Are you arguing that people who can't feed their families shouldn't receive government assistance? If so then kudos. Are you arguing that food stamps and welfare isn't socialism? Are you saying that our current food stamp, welfare, and subsidized housing schemes that actively discourage people from re-entering the workforce because they will make less at the only kinds of jobs they can find aren't socialism? Are you saying we can't possibly do better and try to reform those programs into something more coherent and less of a trap for the people who need to turn to them because you're shitting your pants about socialism ?!
Hint: those things aren't going away. I hate to inform you of that, but no matter how many time I pull the Libertarian lever every other November, those things are clearly here to stay. I am telling you as a practical person that those things are also broken and in great need of reform.
Are you arguing that people who can't afford medical care shouldn't receive government assistance? Are you arguing that these people should be turned away by emergency facilities if they can't pay? If so then kudos. Are you arguing that the old system (which is still pretty much in effect) of employer-subsidized health "insurance" and healthcare cost related bankruptcies wasn't a bad idea? Are you arguing that Romney/Obamacare isn't socialism? Are you saying we can't possibly do better and try to enact something similar to every other developed country in the world because you're shitting your pants about socialism ?!
Hint: Romney/Obamacare isn't going away and even if it does, people will still be clamoring to DO SOMETHING! Well, Romney/Obamacare IS SOMETHING. Therefore, the people said, THIS MUST BE DONE. And look at how much of a fucking disaster it is. I don't want to buy your girlfriend her birth control pill, and you don't want to buy me my HRT pill. Every other November, I keep pulling that Libertarian lever, and no matter how hard I pull that lever, the healthcare system just keeps getting more bureaucratic, asinine, and wasteful.
Are you arguing that people who don't save up enough money to live off of when they retire should be forced to choose between staying in the workforce while their body falls apart due to old age and starving to death? If so then kudos. Are you arguing that people who through no fault of their own become disabled should be forced to beg in the streets or starve to death? If so then kudos. Or do you want to keep the social security retirement/disability system in place despite it being a completely unsustainable wealth redistribution scheme?
Do you have a better suggestion than democracy? Are you trying to say that democracy has failed? Are you trying to say that the people themselves haven't dragged us all to implement so many socialist solutions in the worst ways fucking possible.
Is the only thing you're capable of arguing against here is some strawman you've conjured up out of the words "democratic socialist?" Next you're going to be attempting to educate me about true socialism by throwing numbers about Stalin and Mao I've already seen a million times around. Maybe this time it'll be Venezuela for variety.
The older I get, the less I feel like wasting my time pulling that Libertarian lever at the polls for ideology's sake alone. The older I get, the more I realize that some form of government funded healthcare (medicare/medicaid) and some form of government funded welfare (food stamps/cash assistance/subsidized housing/social security retirement/disability) are here to fucking stay whethe
Yeah, AaronW has a Tesla. Not only that, but AaronW has a five digit UID! Somebody wondered about using vehicles like the Tesla as energy storage, and somebody who owns a Tesla responded with their input based on a practical experience.
I sense that somebody's a little jelly and that the smug-field of "My car has hella torque right off the line" probably isn't the reason you don't have one. 0-60 in 2.8 seconds with Ludicrous Speed engaged! If you haven't experienced something like the Evo X MR's launch assist, and I'm not talking about baby Lancers here (the "girly sport rally" one), see if you can arrange to. You will feel all your squishy internal organs going to plaid!
Well, maybe AaronW doesn't have one of those. I saw there are a few different options and the 0-60 in 2.8 seconds one is the top-of-the-line. The other two options gave 0-60 in 5.2s and 4.2s. I'd definitely have one if I had the cash. (Might get an Aventador or Shelby GT 500 first.) Since you obviously have the cash, what did you get instead?
Er... or do you just hate everything that's "green" no matter how awesome it is?
I share your general cynicism about big pharma. We know how to transplant the pancreas. Indeed, there is research into curing type I diabetes. Now, I'm not sure if that's the ideal yet, which in my mind would be an artificial replacement for the pancreas.
(The second link is good for a hearty round of "fuck beta" if nothing else!)
The recent development in big pharma vs. the patients I've been struggling to understand is the hatred towards opiod-based pain killers. I would have thought that the more people big pharma could get hooked on things like SSRIs and opiates the better. At the same time, NORML shares news that there's been a recent study that shows cannabis flower reduces dependence on opiates for controlling pain. (Would give link but I'm never sure if I should go to norml.org at work--it should still be on the front page or else page 1 or 2 of their blog.)
Part of me wants to wonder if big pharma is waving a white flag here or what kind of game the medical-pharma-insurance complex is trying to play. Surely, the last thing all the big interests (including alcohol and tobacco) would want is a plant that can be grown at home that makes several classes of drugs from anti-depressants to pain killers to even anti-epileptics redundant in many cases.
Bwahahaha! I even got up early today, and you beat me to it!
It's just all... I mean, my god. You're probably trolling, and I was going to troll if you hadn't gotten here first, shame on me. Yet this is what the average American is thinking. DIABEEEETUS is what they hear. Stop stuffing your face! Obviously, clearly.
Mod me off topic for this, but this is just like, I mean really it's no different, from the fact that trans men and other biological gender messiness simply doesn't exist to Lyin' Ted and his supporters. Nope, transgender => man in dress. Nope, diabetes => poor eating and exercise habits. Clearly! Obviously!
Well, my rice cooker just went off so it's time for some black beans and rice for breakfast. Absolutely yummy. I did want to say that this project sounds incredible. I mean, my experience is obviously fairly focused on one condition, and I've had success taking a kind of hacker's approach to it instead of waiting for the medical community to come around about the realities that face those who live with my condition/birth defect/whatever you want to call it. I'm glad to see hackers dragging another area of medicine by the feet.
We have the technology. Do we have the will to use our technology to overcome biological messiness? Or would we rather condemn people who weren't born perfectly to a second class life while shaming them for being born wrong the whole way?
*facepalm*
Huh? What? WTF?
I was reading a discussion about whether unions or enlightened self-interest were the primary motivator for the 8 hour workday/40 hour workweek. It seemed to be going pretty well with comments seeming to converge on the idea that Henry Ford is the kind of business owner who understood enlightened self-interest that we wish were typical of the vast majority of business owners. Then I got to this comment.
This is more evidence of why the USA is truly fucked.
I don't know where the hell you got a capitalism vs. socialism dichotomy out of that. I don't even know what the living fuck true socialism is other than some blinkered attempted to give the true Scotsman a shout out. I've heard the argument that Marxism has never been tried before.
Goodness am I getting so fucking tired of people like you who simply are incapable of engaging in any discussion about a world where there are more than two colors: 100% black and 100% white. At least try grayscale, man!
Ok, how's this? You hate socialism, right? What's social security retirement? Socialism. Wealth redistribution. What's social security disability? Socialism. Wealth redistribution. What's medicare/medicaid? Socialism. Wealth redistribution.
I will take you seriously as soon as you can convince the common person to give up their social security and medicaid. Then I will be a 100% believer. Right now because of asshats like you who have no idea what the fuck kinds of ideas you're not even trying to engage because all you hear is labor unions == Stalin, because of dipshits like you, I currently pay taxes to a government with a completely fucking dysfunctional social safety net and a health care system that has to be the fucking worst combination possible of free market ideas and socialist ideas.
I'd tell you to educate yourself, but there's no fucking point. Maybe the only hope left is to wait until you senile fuckers just fucking croak! I mean, are you that asshole we saw in that picture protesting something or other because you don't want government to screw with your fucking medicare or take away your fucking disability?!
Sure it can. All you need is a good array of Heisenberg compensators and a source of chronoton radiation.
Ah, a staple of lizard person technology is finally available for humans.
Washington Post was terrible. One wouldn't have guessed that Bernie Sanders was even in the race or that superdelegates were an important part of the Democrat nomination process by reading that piece of crap. I don't follow a lot of news any more although I've been paying pretty close attention this election cycle. NY Times I could tolerate, but I'd learned by about mid-March that anything I clicked on from Washington Post would inevitably be something designed to help Clinton somehow.
Conspiracy theory time! The older I get the further I slide down the left side of the World's Smallest Political Quiz. Nevertheless, stories always have at least two sides, even if the 2nd side is complete fabricated bunkum. (Never was a fan of the axiom that "truth" can be found half way between two sides. But there's always another opinion to be found even if it's rubbish.) Well, one thing I noticed is that both comedy news programs and Washington Post (among others) both were very slow to give Trump any credit when he flip-flopped to a more sane position. That was particularly obvious during the whole KKK thing. Around that time, I remember reading somewhere, don't remember where, that the Nation of Islam was also liking Trump. That barely got any other mention. So while the timeline as far as I could shake out went 1.) Trump denounces KKK 2.) Trump has a whoops! moment during a phone interview 3.) Therefore Trump is a KKK supporter! the only thing we really heard was #3 and #2 while #1 went ignored.
(Speaking of the KKK and therefore race politics, there also seemed to be the complete disconnect in a lot of the media (not all, but most) that the Goldwater Girl had somehow become the civil rights candidate while the guy (who is now an old man from Vermont) who marched right alongside the last civil rights movement is somehow not resonating with, er, people of color, or whatever. That seemed to have been asking to be a helluva investigative journalism scoop. I keep hoping to find an answer somewhere in a publication like The Root but no such luck unless I missed it. Maybe I should have added Breitbart to my list of sites to check when aggregators fail, but I digress.)
So, this, simply as an example of the larger trend in the so-called "lame-stream" media, I would suspect of causing quite a lot of distrust of "lame-stream" sources. Meanwhile, the media's other face keeps playing dumb to why Trump keeps getting supporters (oh, and those pesky Bernie voters, but everybody knows Bernie will just take all your (the middle class voter's) money and give it to people who don't deserve it, so just ignore him and maybe he'll go away).
All in all, I find myself back at the original conspiracy theory a whole lot of other people and I wondered about when the Donald started to become A Thing. Is Trump only involved to hand Clinton the presidency? At the very least, they seem to be using the same playbook: pivot here, evolve there, and act like the new position was what the candidate thought all along. Once Trump is officially the Republican nominee, are we going to see him "pivot" back to Primary Trump as a way to scare off everybody who's been tempted to vote for him? (Maybe Trump Prime, sounds more comic booky.)
Eh, who knows. Anybody who's relying on what's trending on Facebook as their news source will probably never know one way or the other until it's too late. That's probably the answer key. The general public is truly not equipped to dig through anything more involved than a trending sound byte. Plus, Facebook is an SJW haven. I would imagine curating the trending topics to simply be in their own interest if they don't want themselves to get in the SJW's sights.
So really, once again, I fail to understand why this is a problem or why Facebook even has the power to sway elections. If Facebook is just going to pick the winner based on a mass stupidity and short attention spans, I'm having trouble determining why I should care if it's con
I thought we were adding -ly to everything. What about Vivly? That sounds stupid enough to work. Vivify?
"Down rounds" happen, but they are not common.
You never heard of a downround kid? Look it up. They are fairly common nowadays, particularly with unicorns.
Well, which is it?
Wikipedia.
Hmm... dot com crash of 2000 again.
Looks like history repeating itself to me.
Business Insider, from 2013:
After a few years of massive hype in the startup sector, absurd-sounding valuations are starting to correct themselves. Startups are confronting the prospect of raising "down rounds" from investorsâ"or rounds of financing that value the companies at less than the previous round.
LivingSocial, for example, was once valued at $5.7 billion; it's now worth a quarter of that, or less, depending on whom you ask. ...
Many of the businesses started were consumer-facingâ"things like photo apps and social networks that require a lot of people to use them to survive. They weren't transactional businesses that make money when they sell something. And that was okayâ"a lot of investors encouraged entrepreneurs to build up their user bases before trying to generate revenue.
But when some of the biggest consumer Internet companies, like Groupon, Zynga, and Facebook, went public, their stock prices got slashed. Suddenly, these incredibly valuable companies weren't worth as much money as the tech world initially thought.
FuckedCompany is no more, but Wired informs me that CB Insights is where the action is at this time around.
More evidence of the coming shitstorm.
This level of immunity to reality must be why Trump and Clinton are our two choices this time around. Somebody who has integrity couldn't ever appeal to you.
Dipshit.
You're the same faggot who, every time I've written that I get turned away from the men's room because my woman suit is too good, somehow replies to me as though I'm trying to get into the women's room!
This is comedy. I'll probably live until I'm 100 without even trying.
At that calorie intake level, the body will start reclaiming unused material (muscle and fat) for energy.
I bolded the important part. Yes, I'm fucking aware how little food 600 kcal is. Believe it or not.
Once the body decides it needs to burn muscle tissue instead of fat, the game is lost. Not all pounds are created equal. And I'm certain there's far more complexity and nuance there than you can fit into your tiny little head.
It starts with the fat shaming, just to "help." You're so helpful! That'll totally fix the problem! Before you know it, somebody is in hiding, starving themselves death. Sooner or later, they hit a wall. Then when they try to eat for energy, guess what! No energy, just straight to fat!
So then we fat shame them some more, just to "nudge them in the right direction." Just because we're such kind, altruistic, selfless people! More starvation diet. It doesn't work as well this time. Occasional binge that goes straight to fat.
I'm not sure how you get a much more controlled situation than somebody hiding out in self-imposed house arrest because assholes like you make them too ashamed to go out in public and do things that would probably fucking help them reverse the cycle.
Before you know it, it's become a crying fucking shame. Before you know it, suicide seems like the only way out. This is the real way that calorie in - calorie out just fucking fails. The hacker's diet is a tool for smug assholes who think their shit doesn't stink.
Yeah, for people like you or me, it absolutely works. I've used it myself. Then again, we haven't been fat shamed into the self-destructive binge/purge cycle that manifests. Call it weakness on the part of the victim if you want, and go ahead and proudly show how much of a self-centered pompous ass you are.
What the fuck do I know? I eat like shit and drink all the time, and I never gain a single pound. Why am I not drunk now? I should be. I'll bet I could post some hilarious fucking shit if I were right now.
I bolded the part of this comment you're going to miss just so it'll be even more fucking hilarious when you do miss it.
Are you're a pretentious git.
saying one can be fat eating "300-600" kcal per day, is false. And trivial to prove so.
Really? For you and me it is. My body burns 1500 kcal at rest! Not everybody's you or me.
Everyone agrees but fat people looking for an excuse and snake-oil sellers looking for a way to lie to fat people.
No, not it's not. You calorie in - calorie out fuckers are the ones lying. Science doesn't mind how smug destroying these people's self-confidence and utterly destroying any kind of hope at being thin makes you.
Blaming everyone and everything else.
In the end why the fuck do I care if I can maintain my body weight by drinking all the time and eating whatever the unhealthy fucking shit I want! After all, if somebody isn't like me, they must be wrong and just deserve what's wrong with them!
Calorie in - calorie out is just as much snake oil as the rest. At best, it's a woefully inadequate attempt to "help" people who struggle with their weight. What it actually is, however, is a tool of psychological abuse.
In order for your theory to be complete, you need to explain people like me who just eat whatever the fuck stay at a somewhat decent body weight. Yeah, I could be Calvin Klein model if I put some effort into it, but why would I fucking want that? And hell, I'm not even really in the hyper-metabolic range of people who need to eat somewhere in upwards of ~3,000 kcal every day to prevent themselves from needing medical care from being underweight.
Naah, but I'm just wasting my fucking time, aren't I? You're perfectly happy smugly moralizing about anybody for whom what works for you doesn't work!
As much as you quoted my comment, you seem to have missed the part where I was merely using myself as an example of somebody that the calorie in - calorie out thing doesn't apply to. My body just maintains itself, maybe a little above the Calvin Klein ideal. Is it just too fucking hard for you to use your imagination a little bit and imagine what it must be like to be somebody who can't stop gaining weight even while eating 300-600 calories per day?
Yeah, I guess it was. Fucking moron. People like you are the reason society is falling the fuck apart.
I wasn't sure if I saw that story posted here or on the other site. Must have been the other site. It was a fascinating read at the very least.
I also found that it seemed to be somewhat fatalistic and depressing. Humans want to fight against nature and remake the world as they think it should be. It seems like in the ultimate "joke's on you" moment, the very nature of people's bodies has started turning against them all over the developed world. At least this human still wants to fight against nature, to figure out what the answer must be, confident there must be an answer to be had. I don't have funding, and I doubt I'd have the first clue of what to do to figure it out. Debuggers are my thing, not microscopes.
I'm one of the lucky ones--that person everybody seems to know who can eat whatever they want and never gain a pound. Well, not so much as when I was younger and every weekend meant a trip to the arcade to play DDR. I wish I knew why or even how. There are better people in the world who deserve whatever it is about my body that would make gaining a hundred lbs or so if I need to for some reason seem as daunting to me as losing a hundred lbs and keeping it off is for many people I know. One person in particular whose struggles with their weight has turned into a full blown mental illness and utter despair, compounding the problem by wrecking the best tool they have to work through the problem: their brain. Damn shame. And here I am helplessly posting to Slashdot and cussing out ACs like that'll make a difference.
It's not to say that exercise isn't a factor, but I begin to wonder if the mentality of "head to the gym, stress the body to its breaking point for an hour or two, then back in the chair" isn't part of the larger problem. Maybe that works for cheetahs, just not so well for humans.
I think the best thing that people could work towards is a slower, more relaxed pace of life. Everybody is so tense and constantly on edge. Every little problem that comes up is the zomg sky is falling end of the damned world. We seem so completely detached from the essence of living, at least in an agricultural sense: preparing for the growing season, working the earth when plants will grow, harvesting in fall (along with the requisite fall feast), and spending the time of year when little if anything grows with loved ones, safe and confident that enough wood has been gathered and chopped and enough food has been stored away to last until the cycle is complete when spring returns.
In a hunter-gatherer sense: the Earth provides. There will always be enough. Don't horde and don't be greedy. Don't take more than you need.
I feel we've created a culture where everybody is driven like they're being chased down by a lion day after day after day after day. It's not really about the act of eating--that's not what I mean by don't take more than you need--, but it's about the endless 24/7 life-and-death brink-of-the-edge reality that is life in the "developed" world.
First world problems. Literally.
Go to hell you sack of shit. Since when is eating 300-600 calories per day too fucking much?
People like you are everything wrong with this world. I want to know why I can eat like shit and drink all the time and not gain a single fucking pound! I want to know why there are people who can't lose weight without literally fucking starving themselves to death.
Oh, I know! They must be cheating! When you're providing somebody all their food, it's sort of fucking difficult for them to cheat.
You know, I've begun to suspect that you fat shamers have quite a fucking lot in common with SJWs. You're holier-than-thou about every-fucking-thing! Your point of view is the only valid one, especially when measurable reality doesn't fucking agree with you. And every time you double down on it, and you keep doubling down.
Your waist measurement is irrelevant. Your soul is an ugly, filthy waste of time and energy. The lives you destroy will weigh you down after you shuffle the mortal coil. It won't surprise me one bit when all the negativity and destruction and human misery you're out there causing day-in day-out drags you to fucking hell.
Whole fucking thread full of fat shaming.
I am currently up early and not sure if I can go into work today because you fat shamers have pushed somebody I care about to near suicide. I have literally no fucking clue if I can leave them alone in the house right now.
When somebody eats 300-600 calories per day and still gains weight, there is something else going on.
On the other hand, look at me! I'm only a few lbs overweight, and I eat like shit and drink all the time! I must be morally superior! I have no fucking clue how many calories I eat each day. My fucking body burns somewhere around 1500 calories at fucking rest last time I checked!
So what's my fucking secret? Nuclear hot wings? Is that what keeps my metabolism going while somebody I care about abso-fucking-lutely cannot control their weight? Eating McDonalds and Speedway shit every other day? Is that my fucking secret when somebody eating nothing but beans and rice in measured portions can't lose a single fucking pound?
Ah, it must be the smoking! Is 10-12 fucking cigarettes per day my fucking secret?! You tell me, asshole.
God, can we get past this period of history before science figures out what my fucking secret is and gives it to all the beautiful, talented people in the world whose body is their own worst enemy already?
If there is a hell, I hope you and all the other fat shaming ACs here burn in it. You have blood on your hands. If swear, if I fucking knew how to raise or lower somebody's metabolism, I'd set yours to fucking ZERO just to laugh at you while you ballooned up. Don't expect me to watch over you when you become suicidal. You deserve to feel anguish and total fucking despair.
I'm glad to know the Apache attack copter thing has returned to obscurity or else was pretty obscure to begin with. Know your meme link. It was a ridiculous criticism of transfemale identities. (As usual, it ignores the existence of transmen.)
For a moment, I was afraid that Lyin' Ted had something that resonated with thinking people like yourself. Of course it doesn't. How could it? I mean, Lyin' Ted didn't invoke the "Apache attack copter" thing specifically, not that I'm aware of. I more use it in the context of those who would wish physical harm to anybody they perceive as using the women's restroom when they shouldn't. Granted, the image of a Boeing AH-64 appearing above one's backyard, perhaps while one is mowing the lawn, and firing is... intimidating... especially since I've seen intimations and threats of such physical violence myself against people I care about.
(Naturally, having an infiltrator model woman suit, I do not appear on their radar. I wish every transwoman could have a woman suit this good.)
All good points. Sometimes I forget that there's "racism!" when the aggregate statistics come out in the wrong way without any variables such as income or education level factored in, and then there's plain simple ugly racism, even now in 2016 (which often contributes to the numbers somebody's looking at when they go "racism!"--yeah, there's racism all right, but it's not with an ideal poll test perhaps being administered by an impartial computer or else graded blindly if humans must judge certain responses.)
Breast cancer is another big one for which people with dark/black skin are at a greater risk than people with paler skin colors.
That would be... acceptable. Trump is a damned wild card. It even more interesting/frightening if you consider that whoever he makes his running mate (along with most of his cabinet, 'course overlooking the congressional positions in line) may become the president if Trump is assassinated (or keels over from natural causes). Wikipedia has the whole list.
Sanders would be like order to Trump's chaos. It's almost... something like something out of Paganism. Very yin-yang at the least. Again, that would be... acceptable. I would probably pull the lever for that ticket merely with a few reservations if that were the case.