"When you are just 20, you don't think a lot about ethics"
of equal validity:
"When you are just 30, you don't think a lot about ethics" "When you are just 40, you don't think a lot about ethics" "When you are just 50, you don't think a lot about ethics" etc...
people are ethical or they are not. age has nothing to do with it. but its a nice rationalization on his part. people usually blame the evil media, the evil liberals, the evil conservatives, their evil parents, etc.: age old tired variations on the theme "the devil made me do it"
everyone has rationalizations for why their own poor personal choices are actually not their fault. which is of course pure unadulterated bullshit: if you did, it's your fault. end of fucking story. as soon as you break that thought, the whole idea of personal responsibility and morality is nullified
so this guy is saying is just a phase he'll outgrow, no big deal. nice one, asshole
no exercise... except i run on weekends when i grant myself some carb indulgence of popcorn and blueberries to break the monotony
i eat all i want. i chow on nuts and cheese all day long. i eat chicken and fish for dinner, i eat eggs and bacon for breakfast. i guzzle coke zero and black coffee by the gallon
i'm never hungry, and i lost 17 pounds in almost 26 days (so far)!
fraud? superstition? its my honest genuine personal fucking experience
i'm not selling you anything, i'm not asking anything from you. i'm merely representing my personal experience: this is the only thing that has ever worked for me, and it works fantastically, beyond my wildest expectations
do you know how hard i've tried to lose weight before this? i exercised like crazy... then i'm absolutely famished, i break down and eat. i exercise some more... and i weigh more! so i try starving myself, eating 1/4 what i usually eat. but its pure torture, i can't do it, i'm pure misery, snapping at everyone, i'd rather weigh 300 pounds, and i break down
and now, all i do is eat all i want except carbs, i'm never hungry, and the pounds disappear!
when you eat carbs, the body stores fat. when you don't eat carbs, the body burns fat: that's the reality for my body. you go ahead and you go and cite 100 pure science sources otherwise, i don't fucking care. for me, all calories are NOT the same. the body treats fat and protein calories different than carbohydrate calories, i honestly believe that now
put it this way: before trying to do this ketosis diet, i would not have believed results could be this fantastic, fast, and effortless. i would have agreed with you 100% that there are no cheats: more exercise and less food is all you can do
but all i know now is my own personal experience, and i am honestly representing it to you: this really works
i feel like i am in some alternative universe with some sort of crazy secret. i don't know why this diet isn't standard procedure. i can't figure out why i had to stumble on it by myself. i mean yeah, hundreds of people have thought up this diet on their own for centuries, and evangelicized about it even. but for some reason, it hasn't gained wide acceptance and become the status quo for dieting i would have expected it to. perhaps everyone's biochemistry really is that different and i'm a biochemical weirdo? but i can't see such basic food dynamics being THAT variable
dude: all i know is what i've experienced, and i'm being honest with you. i'm not trying to sell you anything, i'm just shocked at how fantastic this has worked
and this is where me and the congressional budget office part ways with you
i read nothing beyond those words, as believing the system we had before this week is superior to this common sense health reform bill is clearly delusional
so you DON'T defend the bullshit system we just thankfully got rid of. at least you got that going for you
but you DO rip apart a superior system, simply because its not EXACTLY superior according to your exacting specifications
so after a fucking YEAR of trying to get a better system, with the myriad of competing voices about what is better than our current system screaming and gnashing their teeth, of which your voice is but one voice of millions, we finally got some consensus on something that is CLEARLY better. that's how politics works, you know? but YOU STILL WON'T FUCKING SUPPORT IT, because its not superior in EXACTLY the way you deem acceptable
i think i dated a chick like you once. what an annoying hard to please bitch
yes, the usa horribly manipulated regimes in central and south america for decades, in the cold war and in the colonial era before
having said that, that doesn't mean you have to reflexively defend a gasbag like chavez
or, when chavez does something heinous like this, that you have to wag your finger and say "yeah but the usa..."
yeah but the usa what? chavez is an asshole. this fact exists independently of anything the usa ever did or is doing
look: hating the usa does not automatically make you a defender of a petrol funded cult of personality, or at least it shouldn't
conversely, hating chavez does not automatically make you an american imperialist. so if someone criticizes chavez, that opinion might actually be issued by someone who is not a neoimperialist american scumbag. imagine fucking that! so if you hear criticism of chavez, and you go "typical american..." THEN YOU ARE THE ONE WITH THE PROBLEM. what if a brazilian said the same words? are they any more valid or invalid criticisms of chavez?
can some of you please drop the fucking false dichotomies? if chavez acts like an asshole, THE USA IS COMPLETELY BESIDES THE FUCKING POINT
the world isn't binary, its actually quite nuanced, and its actually possible for you to criticize the venezuela AND the usa, at the same time, for different and/ or related reasons. i promise: no cognitive dissonance will result
real life is NOT partisanship, real life is not a soccer game/ futbol game. or at least it shouldn't be, although it often is, falsely and derivatively, amongst the hopelessly propagandized and/ or low iq
how do you get to sleep at night, knowing the bright frightening sun will visit you in a few hours? pfffft
i'll tell you what: i'll take the word of the congressional budget office, trusted by right and left, rather than fox news hysteria, that the new plan will save money
is it perfect? hell no. there are already obvious improvements discussed, and they WILL be implemented. its a living system, constantly adjusting
this legislation is simple recognition that the current us healthcare system SUCKS SHIT and needs to be comprehensively reformed. a piecemeal plan would never have worked, as it would be blocked by the do-nothing republicans and even if enacted in dribs and drabs, it would never amount to the real change and necessary systemic alterations pointed at stemming the rising tide of red we were sinking in
let's put it this way: do you defend the status quo before sunday? do you think it was acceptable? did things need to CHANGE out of simple fiscal responsible?
if your answer is yes (hopefully, if you have the slightest bit of intellectual honest about you) then i will in the spirit of intellectual honesty also say the health reform plan is flawed
but the beauty of it is: there's no going back: we've finally openly admitted things are horribly fucked up in our current system and it needs to be altered in fundamental ways. no more dithering for decades is possible, the commitment has been made, things are FINALLY getting fixed from a truly broken wasteful immoral and horribly expensive system
elucidation of all of the weaknesses of the new healthcare system
and yet, with all of the details you have given, and any more you want to add, ITS STILL WAY FUCKING BETTER THAN THE BULLSHIT STATUS QUO LAST WEEK: gouge you on skyrocketing rates, then deny or drop you when you claim benefits
you do understand that, right?: that it is easy to criticize any initiative in a vacuum: everything as complicated as this plan has downsides. however, when comparing the plan against the universe of your other choices, your job, in the real world, is to pick the least suckiest plan forward
government is bloated, inefficient, wasteful, and a disgusting bureaucracy. i agree with your criticisms 100%. and yet it is still WAY fucking better than healthcare corporations taking care of stockholders rather than you, and all the waste in THAT system
welcome to reality: derive your opinions considering all of your options. picking apart an option's weaknesses all by itself has no value, and so your opinion has no value
because he represents badly needed progress for my country
me and the rest of the more level-headed and more lucid and clearly much larger majority in this country will drag the fringe minority of howling morons on the right into the 21st century, and up to the obvious and uncontroversial (unless you are a moron) standards enjoyed in the rest of the industrialized world
and this healthcare reform is clearly more fiscally sound than the status quo that existed before this legislation was signed on tuesday. do you honestly believe otherwise?
1. vitriolic hatred is pretty much all of the tea party consists of,
2. sound fiscal responsibility is finally what this health reform delivers,
3. health care security is unconstitutional only in creative crackpot legal arguments,
4. and free market principles do not answer every question in life (as the 2008 meltdown demonstrates: you need strong government regulation to keep the markets healthy)
a capitalist society with social safety nets is clearly and obviously superior in every measurement to the social darwinism i hear you advocating, even if you don't realize that is what you are advocating. free market fundamentalism died in 2008, i guess you didn't get the memo
i'm attacking the concept that the victim is to blame for a transgression, which is demonstrated in the grandfather comment in this thread
for example: she was drunk and skimpily dressed, so she deserved to be raped. he had no antivirus, so he deserved the trojan keylogger, etc. yes: you can take, or fail to take, certain actions which increase your chance of falling victim to immoral assholes. however, the immoral assholes are always to blame, regardless
as soon as you lose personal accountability, as soon as you start blaming victims, situations, or other obfuscations, you lose all morality. you are responsible for making poor choices in your life. and when you do, there will be consequences, no matter how much you whine "the devil made me do it", and age-old variations thereof
(i love obama and i'm 100% for common sense healthcare reform... i need to make this qualification because some tea party morons out there might actually take my joke seriously)
thanks to your comment, a revision is in order:
(i love obama and i'm 100% for common sense healthcare reform... i need to make this qualification because some t^He^Ha^H p^Ha^Hr^Ht^Hy^H morons who comment without reading out there might actually take my joke seriously)
that if you transgress against someone else, you are the problem
for example: if a bag of cash is sitting wide open and unguarded just inside an open door, you have absolutely 0% right to take it, and you are 100% to blame for the theft: YOU took it, no one told you to. your own poor decision making is the key
no matter how horrible or nonexistent someone's defenses, when you transgress against them, you are a criminal, you are 100% culpable, you have no excuse, you should be punished, and your morality sucks. plain and simple
sure, people SHOULD have good defenses. mainly because of all the immoral assholes out there. but even that you knew there were a lot of immoral assholes out there and their behavior is pretty predictable, none of that excuses the actual immoral assholes and their behavior. but another way: stupid is bad, but evil is always worse
so you need good defenses, but when you are transgressed against, the question of the quality of your defenses is completely besides the point: the immoral asshole needs to be punished
q: "what city were you born in?" a:"honolulu" incorrect a:"oahu" incorrect a:"kandahar" correct
q: "what is your political affiliation?" a:"democrat" incorrect a:"centrist" incorrect a:"fascist" correct
q:"what is your favorite catchphrase?" a:"yes we can" incorrect a:"change we can believe in" incorrect a:"from each according to his abilities, to each according to his needs" correct
(i love obama and i'm 100% for common sense healthcare reform... i need to make this qualification because some tea party morons out there might actually take my joke seriously)
i do the same job as you (programming) and for me, it is true, as you say: when in sugar rush, your brain seems more high powered. however, this is rapidly followed, for me, in an hour or so, by the insulin blanket of lethargy and sleepiness, even midday. you just can't keep amping up all day, there's payback eventually
so i just snack on cheese and nuts, all day, and lose weight, and have a nice slow burn with no peaks of megalomania and valleys of sluggish grogginess. also: i only get headaches when i'm dehydrated. so i guzzle 2 or 3 1.5 liter coke zeros all workday. i pee gallons and i have a permanent callous on my pointer finger from heaving 1.5 liter bottles, but no headaches. seriously: headaches are more dehydration than low carbs, for me. and my sleep schedule is much better when not eating carbs: no sleeplessness at bed time, and no sleepiness when waking up (as long as i remember: no caffeine after 6 pm)
but i will grant you this: everyone's carb biochemistry is different, and i can only speak for what works for me, and it really may have no lessons for you whatsoever. i guess the value of my words depends on whether or not the average fat geek programmer has biochemistry more like me, or more like you
that high carb diets were a part of certain ancient human lifestyles... and that no carb diets were as well, and every fraction in between. consider the lifestyle of the inuit and their seal blubber. i'm certain there were differences in average carb quantities in diets all over, but that this fraction of diet was stable according to local geographical constraints on food sources, over time spans of thousands of years, if human populations and food cultures were mostly isolated and cut off
for example, amongst native americans in the southwest, dangerous diabetes is beyond epidemic, its almost ubiquity. this is directly traceable to a biochemistry that thousands of years honed to perfection for living in desert environments. and when europeans came, they disrupted this lifestyle, put them all on "indian" reservations, and shipped them high carb food stuff to live off of. southwestern usa native americans are basically killing themselves/ being killed off, with high carb diets that europeans are more adapted to
i'm not saying this is what is happening in modern society to all of us, but something LIKE it, more low grade, is happening to us due to our sudden affluence and highly secure food supply as compared to even just our grandparents' generation
i am certian some people can tolerate carbs really well, if they come from a high carb ancestry, and can subsist on a diet, for example, of all rice, and still have six pack abs. and i bet there exists some people, if they went on a no carb diet, that they wouldn't lose any weight at all. in other words, everyone's carb metabolizing biochemistry is unique
however, i can still say, with some certainty, that the MAJORITY of us, in the developed west at least, when it comes to our obesity epidemic, that its simply a side effect of having bodies honed by hundreds of thousands of years of little or no carbs, suddenly being exposed to a carbohydrate explosion in our suddenly stable and affluent diets
1. DON'T EXERCISE. it just makes you really, really hungry and prone to vampire fiend cravings carb addiction relapse. but DO exercise on the weekend (if that is when you are eating carbs if you are carb cycling for relief from the ketosis diet's monotony). of course, when you finally reach the weight you want, go ahead and exercise: you should exercise no matter what as part of normal health maintenance. just don't exercise while you are losing weight on ketosis during the week, your body is stressed enough as it is when it is losing weight. i mean, you should be walking a lot anyways, as a simple part of life, always do that, but that's very low impact exercise
2. SLEEP ALOT. i don't know why, but when i weigh myself in the morning after a really long sleep, i seem to weigh a lot less. i heard this connection between sleep and weight loss was debunked though. however, i do know the liver does a lot of sleep-specific metabolic things, such as refilling your glycogen reserves from fat (if you have no carbs in your diet). so there has to be some connection to burning fat in sleep (if you have no carbs in your diet). however, i usually take a giant piss after waking up, and you dehydrate over the night time hours too, so maybe when you weigh yourself in the morning you are just seeing a lot of water loss
3. speaking of pee in the morning, get ready for bizarre poop. when i was a carb addict, i used to crap giant logs all day, and also a lot of runny stuff. occasionally it was urgent too. but while on ketosis, you only do these tiny hard little nuggets in the morning, and nothing is ever urgent. your poop becomes the same size as a cat's! which makes sense, in a weird way, considering the caveman diet is a carnivore's diet, like a cat. also weird: i notice the odor of your crap changes... it smell's like cat poop rather than human poop, again probably due to the fact you are basically turning yourself into a cat, diet-wise, and biochemically, this changes the ratios of certain odoriferous compounds in your crap to resemble that of a committed carnivore's. i wonder what you are doing to your gut flora ecosystem while on ketosis? thank god the appendix is there to keep a healthy reserve of carb loving gut bacteria. while in ketosis, you really could go a whole day without crapping, no urgency whatsoever. its almost like you don't need anything but a cat litter box. which again, to me, speaks volumes about us still being, biochemically, cavemen, living as we are in this alien world known as the agricultural revolution
4. this is a way, without hunger, to achieve that life extension via calorie constriction you hear about now and then, i think. the diet gets monotonous, yes, and you feel like a heroin addict or a crack fiend at just the thought of pancakes and ice cream, but you are NEVER HUNGRY. you can eat all you want. its really amazing. however, you are missing out on wonderful extremely healthy carbs like blueberries, and all those vitamin rich veggies. i also think teenagers and children should avoid this diet (it would stunt their growth, they need their carbs). but if you are a fat adult, perhaps a permanent lifestyle of carb cycling (monklike fat and protein only asceticism during the week, pig outs on waffles and berries on the weekend) isn't terrible for the body long term at all. i wonder what you are doing to your circulatory system though, long term: is your cholesterol through the roof? should you be on statins? or does cholesterol paradoxically go down (cholesterol's precursors being burned for fuel in the liver while in ketosis? or being shunted to the bile ducts for lots of fat and protein digestion work?: all wild ass conjecture). i noticed my blood pressure did drop, but only slightly, but mine was always low in the first place. but maybe for someone with high blood pressure, this diet could be a wonderfully healthy alternative (again: WILD ASS CONJECTURE on my part). but recall: dr. atkins died slipping on ice in manhattan. maybe that's a cover
but none of your qualifications negate the broader overarching and obvious points about morphine and opioids
so you've accurately and sagely delineated the differences between the atlantic spotted dolphin and the spinner dolphin, but you've really said nothing useful, because what i am saying applies to dolphins, period
tasers are potentially lethal, pepper spray is very painful...
so we should go back to good old guns?
its easy to argue against pepper spray or the taser when their negative effects are examined in a vacuum, but in reality, the only context that matters, they are used as a LESS lethal choice
its kind of like griping about the problems of government controlling healthcare, which are real problems. but as if the alternative, corporate controlled healthcare, is any better!
people need to stop basing their opinions on the negatives of certain choices, without considering the negatives of your other choices, which can be even worse
its some sort horrible logic fail, but its incredibly common in the formation of people's opinions
yes, its sort of the atkins diet, or the caveman diet: its how our caveman ancestors spent pretty much their entire lives, its what our biochemistry is idealized for, pre-agricultural revolution
all it means is you eat fat and protein, and no carbohydrates. the pounds melt right off
it forces your body to manufacture ketones from fat, and use that to power the krebs cycle (where you get your energy from), and to go into gluconogenesis (sugar from proteins)
eat ALL YOU WANT: eggs and bacon, butter on everything, fish, chicken, cheese, nuts. eat fistfuls of macadamia nuts all day. even hard liquor (no sugar). but absolutely NO sugar or carbs, no rice, no bread, no milk, nothing sweet or starchy at all, period
you won't be hungry, but the monotony of the diet will leave you hating fat and protein, and just the thought of popcorn will turn you into a craven vampire
so what you do is carb cycle: you give yourself a break, say on weekends, where you get to pig out on sweets. trust me: ketosis during the week will more than make up for your indulging on weekends. it will also take you out of danger from the vague stresses you are putting on your body (see negatives below)
funny thing: i felt more lethargic, but slept with less quality, when eating carbs again. this diet, for whatever its worth, really makes you realize that high carb diets are not what homo sapiens is optimized for. our biochemistry has not yet caught up with our recent (evolutionarily speaking) agricultural revolution
i also have tinnitus, and i noticed that without sugar, the ringing in my ears was lessened, then, when i ate sugar, it came roaring back. they also use the ketosis diet to control people prone to seizures, so high ketones and no sugar seems to have a neurological impact. i would be interested in a study showing if the kind of inflammation which is alzheimer's is due to high carb diets: that's wild ass speculation on my part. i did read of a woman who put her alzheimer's husband on a ketosis diet of palm oil, and his symptoms got better (google it). again: THIS IS WILD ASS CONJECTURE, but a potentially interesting line of thought, the connection between carbs and inflammation in various disease systems
drink tons of coffee, it seems to help with hunger. but it has to be BLACK: no sugar, no milk. also drink a lot of pepsi max/ coke zero: the sweetener in those is actually a tiny protein. drink gallons of the stuff, it will fill your stomach
important: get your vitamins. since you're not getting many veggies (low carb veggies like broccoli and lettuce is pretty much ok, but you're missing out on wonderful foods like blueberries with this diet), you need supplements
negatives:
ketosis makes your blood slightly acidic (its not ketoacidosis, that's far worse, like with anorexics, who don't eat at all), which means you will be leaching calcium and magnesium, and stressing your kidneys and weakening your bones (this is all happening on a minor basis, relax). take calcium citrate supplements. paradoxically, eating more calcium will help you avoid kidney stones (the most common kind of kidney stone is caused by oxalate, and calcium inhibits oxalate absorption from the intestines), and the citrate helps in ketosis for... some reason i forgot. potassium and magnesium citrate supplements are good to, i forgot exactly why
your breath will stink: you're exhaling acetone through your lungs while in ketosis. but remember, chicks don't like fat guys, and your diet is not permanent, so just avoid breathing on chicks for awhile while on your diet
if these negatives scare you, think about the diabetes and heart disease you are giving yourself with your carb addiction: far more dangerous than a temporary diet which will make you a healthy weight
at the end of the movie, alice talks about extending her dad's business empire away from sumatra and borneo, and into china, via hong kong. it's all presented as wonderful creative striking and reaffirming thinking
and then she gets on a sailing frigate, with a big smile on her face... to go humiliate and exploit china, in the era of the opium wars
wtf?!
and this is a 2010s movie, not a 1930s one!
britain basically committed pharmacological warfare on china by force importing and force addicting chinese to heroin. remember, alice in wonderland is pretty much a drug trip (although more lsd than heroin really)
i just wonder how this CURRENT (#1 for weeks in the west) movie is seen in china: that the west is so blissfully unaware of how humiliating this experience was that they present it, today, in their most visible top notch cinema, as a glorious, shameless adventure
if i were chinese, my blood would boil, as if this was yesterday!
you don't have to wallow in history, but you have to present it responsibly, if you do touch upon it. and celebrating british imperialism, as a sort of self-empowerment and self-affirming assertiveness, is NOT what you want to do, especially when it glosses over real life horrible abuses, against a current world power with a historical chip on its shoulder over exactly the same historical episode
stupid
it just shows the chinese that the west NEEDS a kick in the groin over this sort of historical blindness
show some humility, tact, and historical awareness, stupid hollywood
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"When you are just 20, you don't think a lot about ethics"
of equal validity:
"When you are just 30, you don't think a lot about ethics"
"When you are just 40, you don't think a lot about ethics"
"When you are just 50, you don't think a lot about ethics"
etc...
people are ethical or they are not. age has nothing to do with it. but its a nice rationalization on his part. people usually blame the evil media, the evil liberals, the evil conservatives, their evil parents, etc.: age old tired variations on the theme "the devil made me do it"
everyone has rationalizations for why their own poor personal choices are actually not their fault. which is of course pure unadulterated bullshit: if you did, it's your fault. end of fucking story. as soon as you break that thought, the whole idea of personal responsibility and morality is nullified
so this guy is saying is just a phase he'll outgrow, no big deal. nice one, asshole
i now weigh 212 lbs
that's 17 pounds in 26 days
no exercise... except i run on weekends when i grant myself some carb indulgence of popcorn and blueberries to break the monotony
i eat all i want. i chow on nuts and cheese all day long. i eat chicken and fish for dinner, i eat eggs and bacon for breakfast. i guzzle coke zero and black coffee by the gallon
i'm never hungry, and i lost 17 pounds in almost 26 days (so far)!
fraud? superstition? its my honest genuine personal fucking experience
i'm not selling you anything, i'm not asking anything from you. i'm merely representing my personal experience: this is the only thing that has ever worked for me, and it works fantastically, beyond my wildest expectations
do you know how hard i've tried to lose weight before this? i exercised like crazy... then i'm absolutely famished, i break down and eat. i exercise some more... and i weigh more! so i try starving myself, eating 1/4 what i usually eat. but its pure torture, i can't do it, i'm pure misery, snapping at everyone, i'd rather weigh 300 pounds, and i break down
and now, all i do is eat all i want except carbs, i'm never hungry, and the pounds disappear!
when you eat carbs, the body stores fat. when you don't eat carbs, the body burns fat: that's the reality for my body. you go ahead and you go and cite 100 pure science sources otherwise, i don't fucking care. for me, all calories are NOT the same. the body treats fat and protein calories different than carbohydrate calories, i honestly believe that now
put it this way: before trying to do this ketosis diet, i would not have believed results could be this fantastic, fast, and effortless. i would have agreed with you 100% that there are no cheats: more exercise and less food is all you can do
but all i know now is my own personal experience, and i am honestly representing it to you: this really works
i feel like i am in some alternative universe with some sort of crazy secret. i don't know why this diet isn't standard procedure. i can't figure out why i had to stumble on it by myself. i mean yeah, hundreds of people have thought up this diet on their own for centuries, and evangelicized about it even. but for some reason, it hasn't gained wide acceptance and become the status quo for dieting i would have expected it to. perhaps everyone's biochemistry really is that different and i'm a biochemical weirdo? but i can't see such basic food dynamics being THAT variable
dude: all i know is what i've experienced, and i'm being honest with you. i'm not trying to sell you anything, i'm just shocked at how fantastic this has worked
and this is where me and the congressional budget office part ways with you
i read nothing beyond those words, as believing the system we had before this week is superior to this common sense health reform bill is clearly delusional
adios, propagandized retard
so you DON'T defend the bullshit system we just thankfully got rid of. at least you got that going for you
but you DO rip apart a superior system, simply because its not EXACTLY superior according to your exacting specifications
so after a fucking YEAR of trying to get a better system, with the myriad of competing voices about what is better than our current system screaming and gnashing their teeth, of which your voice is but one voice of millions, we finally got some consensus on something that is CLEARLY better. that's how politics works, you know? but YOU STILL WON'T FUCKING SUPPORT IT, because its not superior in EXACTLY the way you deem acceptable
i think i dated a chick like you once. what an annoying hard to please bitch
and tribal chest thumpers:
yes, the usa horribly manipulated regimes in central and south america for decades, in the cold war and in the colonial era before
having said that, that doesn't mean you have to reflexively defend a gasbag like chavez
or, when chavez does something heinous like this, that you have to wag your finger and say "yeah but the usa..."
yeah but the usa what? chavez is an asshole. this fact exists independently of anything the usa ever did or is doing
look: hating the usa does not automatically make you a defender of a petrol funded cult of personality, or at least it shouldn't
conversely, hating chavez does not automatically make you an american imperialist. so if someone criticizes chavez, that opinion might actually be issued by someone who is not a neoimperialist american scumbag. imagine fucking that! so if you hear criticism of chavez, and you go "typical american..." THEN YOU ARE THE ONE WITH THE PROBLEM. what if a brazilian said the same words? are they any more valid or invalid criticisms of chavez?
can some of you please drop the fucking false dichotomies? if chavez acts like an asshole, THE USA IS COMPLETELY BESIDES THE FUCKING POINT
the world isn't binary, its actually quite nuanced, and its actually possible for you to criticize the venezuela AND the usa, at the same time, for different and/ or related reasons. i promise: no cognitive dissonance will result
real life is NOT partisanship, real life is not a soccer game/ futbol game. or at least it shouldn't be, although it often is, falsely and derivatively, amongst the hopelessly propagandized and/ or low iq
how do you get to sleep at night, knowing the bright frightening sun will visit you in a few hours? pfffft
i'll tell you what: i'll take the word of the congressional budget office, trusted by right and left, rather than fox news hysteria, that the new plan will save money
is it perfect? hell no. there are already obvious improvements discussed, and they WILL be implemented. its a living system, constantly adjusting
this legislation is simple recognition that the current us healthcare system SUCKS SHIT and needs to be comprehensively reformed. a piecemeal plan would never have worked, as it would be blocked by the do-nothing republicans and even if enacted in dribs and drabs, it would never amount to the real change and necessary systemic alterations pointed at stemming the rising tide of red we were sinking in
let's put it this way: do you defend the status quo before sunday? do you think it was acceptable? did things need to CHANGE out of simple fiscal responsible?
if your answer is yes (hopefully, if you have the slightest bit of intellectual honest about you) then i will in the spirit of intellectual honesty also say the health reform plan is flawed
but the beauty of it is: there's no going back: we've finally openly admitted things are horribly fucked up in our current system and it needs to be altered in fundamental ways. no more dithering for decades is possible, the commitment has been made, things are FINALLY getting fixed from a truly broken wasteful immoral and horribly expensive system
elucidation of all of the weaknesses of the new healthcare system
and yet, with all of the details you have given, and any more you want to add, ITS STILL WAY FUCKING BETTER THAN THE BULLSHIT STATUS QUO LAST WEEK: gouge you on skyrocketing rates, then deny or drop you when you claim benefits
you do understand that, right?: that it is easy to criticize any initiative in a vacuum: everything as complicated as this plan has downsides. however, when comparing the plan against the universe of your other choices, your job, in the real world, is to pick the least suckiest plan forward
government is bloated, inefficient, wasteful, and a disgusting bureaucracy. i agree with your criticisms 100%. and yet it is still WAY fucking better than healthcare corporations taking care of stockholders rather than you, and all the waste in THAT system
welcome to reality: derive your opinions considering all of your options. picking apart an option's weaknesses all by itself has no value, and so your opinion has no value
i believe it is right wing fiscal policies hat protect the dear darling rich from those horrid undeserving poor people and their undeserved healthcare
why are you smearing the democrats with the label of elitism when it is clearly the right that serves the elite?
because he represents badly needed progress for my country
me and the rest of the more level-headed and more lucid and clearly much larger majority in this country will drag the fringe minority of howling morons on the right into the 21st century, and up to the obvious and uncontroversial (unless you are a moron) standards enjoyed in the rest of the industrialized world
and this healthcare reform is clearly more fiscally sound than the status quo that existed before this legislation was signed on tuesday. do you honestly believe otherwise?
considering the fact that
1. vitriolic hatred is pretty much all of the tea party consists of,
2. sound fiscal responsibility is finally what this health reform delivers,
3. health care security is unconstitutional only in creative crackpot legal arguments,
4. and free market principles do not answer every question in life (as the 2008 meltdown demonstrates: you need strong government regulation to keep the markets healthy)
a capitalist society with social safety nets is clearly and obviously superior in every measurement to the social darwinism i hear you advocating, even if you don't realize that is what you are advocating. free market fundamentalism died in 2008, i guess you didn't get the memo
I will hear have not of these trolling patents are, and I resent have maybe the implication that I will do!
i'm attacking the concept that the victim is to blame for a transgression, which is demonstrated in the grandfather comment in this thread
for example: she was drunk and skimpily dressed, so she deserved to be raped. he had no antivirus, so he deserved the trojan keylogger, etc. yes: you can take, or fail to take, certain actions which increase your chance of falling victim to immoral assholes. however, the immoral assholes are always to blame, regardless
as soon as you lose personal accountability, as soon as you start blaming victims, situations, or other obfuscations, you lose all morality. you are responsible for making poor choices in your life. and when you do, there will be consequences, no matter how much you whine "the devil made me do it", and age-old variations thereof
of a tea party enthusiast is an act of charity
as for underestimating the intelligence of a tea party enthusiast: is that possible?
(i love obama and i'm 100% for common sense healthcare reform... i need to make this qualification because some tea party morons out there might actually take my joke seriously)
thanks to your comment, a revision is in order:
(i love obama and i'm 100% for common sense healthcare reform... i need to make this qualification because some t^He^Ha^H p^Ha^Hr^Ht^Hy^H morons who comment without reading out there might actually take my joke seriously)
that if you transgress against someone else, you are the problem
for example: if a bag of cash is sitting wide open and unguarded just inside an open door, you have absolutely 0% right to take it, and you are 100% to blame for the theft: YOU took it, no one told you to. your own poor decision making is the key
no matter how horrible or nonexistent someone's defenses, when you transgress against them, you are a criminal, you are 100% culpable, you have no excuse, you should be punished, and your morality sucks. plain and simple
sure, people SHOULD have good defenses. mainly because of all the immoral assholes out there. but even that you knew there were a lot of immoral assholes out there and their behavior is pretty predictable, none of that excuses the actual immoral assholes and their behavior. but another way: stupid is bad, but evil is always worse
so you need good defenses, but when you are transgressed against, the question of the quality of your defenses is completely besides the point: the immoral asshole needs to be punished
q: "what city were you born in?"
a:"honolulu"
incorrect
a:"oahu"
incorrect
a:"kandahar"
correct
q: "what is your political affiliation?"
a:"democrat"
incorrect
a:"centrist"
incorrect
a:"fascist"
correct
q:"what is your favorite catchphrase?"
a:"yes we can"
incorrect
a:"change we can believe in"
incorrect
a:"from each according to his abilities, to each according to his needs"
correct
(i love obama and i'm 100% for common sense healthcare reform... i need to make this qualification because some tea party morons out there might actually take my joke seriously)
i do the same job as you (programming) and for me, it is true, as you say: when in sugar rush, your brain seems more high powered. however, this is rapidly followed, for me, in an hour or so, by the insulin blanket of lethargy and sleepiness, even midday. you just can't keep amping up all day, there's payback eventually
so i just snack on cheese and nuts, all day, and lose weight, and have a nice slow burn with no peaks of megalomania and valleys of sluggish grogginess. also: i only get headaches when i'm dehydrated. so i guzzle 2 or 3 1.5 liter coke zeros all workday. i pee gallons and i have a permanent callous on my pointer finger from heaving 1.5 liter bottles, but no headaches. seriously: headaches are more dehydration than low carbs, for me. and my sleep schedule is much better when not eating carbs: no sleeplessness at bed time, and no sleepiness when waking up (as long as i remember: no caffeine after 6 pm)
but i will grant you this: everyone's carb biochemistry is different, and i can only speak for what works for me, and it really may have no lessons for you whatsoever. i guess the value of my words depends on whether or not the average fat geek programmer has biochemistry more like me, or more like you
that high carb diets were a part of certain ancient human lifestyles... and that no carb diets were as well, and every fraction in between. consider the lifestyle of the inuit and their seal blubber. i'm certain there were differences in average carb quantities in diets all over, but that this fraction of diet was stable according to local geographical constraints on food sources, over time spans of thousands of years, if human populations and food cultures were mostly isolated and cut off
for example, amongst native americans in the southwest, dangerous diabetes is beyond epidemic, its almost ubiquity. this is directly traceable to a biochemistry that thousands of years honed to perfection for living in desert environments. and when europeans came, they disrupted this lifestyle, put them all on "indian" reservations, and shipped them high carb food stuff to live off of. southwestern usa native americans are basically killing themselves/ being killed off, with high carb diets that europeans are more adapted to
i'm not saying this is what is happening in modern society to all of us, but something LIKE it, more low grade, is happening to us due to our sudden affluence and highly secure food supply as compared to even just our grandparents' generation
i am certian some people can tolerate carbs really well, if they come from a high carb ancestry, and can subsist on a diet, for example, of all rice, and still have six pack abs. and i bet there exists some people, if they went on a no carb diet, that they wouldn't lose any weight at all. in other words, everyone's carb metabolizing biochemistry is unique
however, i can still say, with some certainty, that the MAJORITY of us, in the developed west at least, when it comes to our obesity epidemic, that its simply a side effect of having bodies honed by hundreds of thousands of years of little or no carbs, suddenly being exposed to a carbohydrate explosion in our suddenly stable and affluent diets
four other points you should know:
1. DON'T EXERCISE. it just makes you really, really hungry and prone to vampire fiend cravings carb addiction relapse. but DO exercise on the weekend (if that is when you are eating carbs if you are carb cycling for relief from the ketosis diet's monotony). of course, when you finally reach the weight you want, go ahead and exercise: you should exercise no matter what as part of normal health maintenance. just don't exercise while you are losing weight on ketosis during the week, your body is stressed enough as it is when it is losing weight. i mean, you should be walking a lot anyways, as a simple part of life, always do that, but that's very low impact exercise
2. SLEEP ALOT. i don't know why, but when i weigh myself in the morning after a really long sleep, i seem to weigh a lot less. i heard this connection between sleep and weight loss was debunked though. however, i do know the liver does a lot of sleep-specific metabolic things, such as refilling your glycogen reserves from fat (if you have no carbs in your diet). so there has to be some connection to burning fat in sleep (if you have no carbs in your diet). however, i usually take a giant piss after waking up, and you dehydrate over the night time hours too, so maybe when you weigh yourself in the morning you are just seeing a lot of water loss
3. speaking of pee in the morning, get ready for bizarre poop. when i was a carb addict, i used to crap giant logs all day, and also a lot of runny stuff. occasionally it was urgent too. but while on ketosis, you only do these tiny hard little nuggets in the morning, and nothing is ever urgent. your poop becomes the same size as a cat's! which makes sense, in a weird way, considering the caveman diet is a carnivore's diet, like a cat. also weird: i notice the odor of your crap changes... it smell's like cat poop rather than human poop, again probably due to the fact you are basically turning yourself into a cat, diet-wise, and biochemically, this changes the ratios of certain odoriferous compounds in your crap to resemble that of a committed carnivore's. i wonder what you are doing to your gut flora ecosystem while on ketosis? thank god the appendix is there to keep a healthy reserve of carb loving gut bacteria. while in ketosis, you really could go a whole day without crapping, no urgency whatsoever. its almost like you don't need anything but a cat litter box. which again, to me, speaks volumes about us still being, biochemically, cavemen, living as we are in this alien world known as the agricultural revolution
4. this is a way, without hunger, to achieve that life extension via calorie constriction you hear about now and then, i think. the diet gets monotonous, yes, and you feel like a heroin addict or a crack fiend at just the thought of pancakes and ice cream, but you are NEVER HUNGRY. you can eat all you want. its really amazing. however, you are missing out on wonderful extremely healthy carbs like blueberries, and all those vitamin rich veggies. i also think teenagers and children should avoid this diet (it would stunt their growth, they need their carbs). but if you are a fat adult, perhaps a permanent lifestyle of carb cycling (monklike fat and protein only asceticism during the week, pig outs on waffles and berries on the weekend) isn't terrible for the body long term at all. i wonder what you are doing to your circulatory system though, long term: is your cholesterol through the roof? should you be on statins? or does cholesterol paradoxically go down (cholesterol's precursors being burned for fuel in the liver while in ketosis? or being shunted to the bile ducts for lots of fat and protein digestion work?: all wild ass conjecture). i noticed my blood pressure did drop, but only slightly, but mine was always low in the first place. but maybe for someone with high blood pressure, this diet could be a wonderfully healthy alternative (again: WILD ASS CONJECTURE on my part). but recall: dr. atkins died slipping on ice in manhattan. maybe that's a cover
but none of your qualifications negate the broader overarching and obvious points about morphine and opioids
so you've accurately and sagely delineated the differences between the atlantic spotted dolphin and the spinner dolphin, but you've really said nothing useful, because what i am saying applies to dolphins, period
addictiveness is a function of biochemistry, not delivery route
although it does change the dose received, you got me there
tasers are potentially lethal, pepper spray is very painful...
so we should go back to good old guns?
its easy to argue against pepper spray or the taser when their negative effects are examined in a vacuum, but in reality, the only context that matters, they are used as a LESS lethal choice
its kind of like griping about the problems of government controlling healthcare, which are real problems. but as if the alternative, corporate controlled healthcare, is any better!
people need to stop basing their opinions on the negatives of certain choices, without considering the negatives of your other choices, which can be even worse
its some sort horrible logic fail, but its incredibly common in the formation of people's opinions
and hashish is not marijuana
and crack is not coke
etc...
so what? what's your point?
ketosis
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ketosis
yes, its sort of the atkins diet, or the caveman diet: its how our caveman ancestors spent pretty much their entire lives, its what our biochemistry is idealized for, pre-agricultural revolution
all it means is you eat fat and protein, and no carbohydrates. the pounds melt right off
it forces your body to manufacture ketones from fat, and use that to power the krebs cycle (where you get your energy from), and to go into gluconogenesis (sugar from proteins)
eat ALL YOU WANT: eggs and bacon, butter on everything, fish, chicken, cheese, nuts. eat fistfuls of macadamia nuts all day. even hard liquor (no sugar). but absolutely NO sugar or carbs, no rice, no bread, no milk, nothing sweet or starchy at all, period
you won't be hungry, but the monotony of the diet will leave you hating fat and protein, and just the thought of popcorn will turn you into a craven vampire
so what you do is carb cycle: you give yourself a break, say on weekends, where you get to pig out on sweets. trust me: ketosis during the week will more than make up for your indulging on weekends. it will also take you out of danger from the vague stresses you are putting on your body (see negatives below)
funny thing: i felt more lethargic, but slept with less quality, when eating carbs again. this diet, for whatever its worth, really makes you realize that high carb diets are not what homo sapiens is optimized for. our biochemistry has not yet caught up with our recent (evolutionarily speaking) agricultural revolution
i also have tinnitus, and i noticed that without sugar, the ringing in my ears was lessened, then, when i ate sugar, it came roaring back. they also use the ketosis diet to control people prone to seizures, so high ketones and no sugar seems to have a neurological impact. i would be interested in a study showing if the kind of inflammation which is alzheimer's is due to high carb diets: that's wild ass speculation on my part. i did read of a woman who put her alzheimer's husband on a ketosis diet of palm oil, and his symptoms got better (google it). again: THIS IS WILD ASS CONJECTURE, but a potentially interesting line of thought, the connection between carbs and inflammation in various disease systems
drink tons of coffee, it seems to help with hunger. but it has to be BLACK: no sugar, no milk. also drink a lot of pepsi max/ coke zero: the sweetener in those is actually a tiny protein. drink gallons of the stuff, it will fill your stomach
important: get your vitamins. since you're not getting many veggies (low carb veggies like broccoli and lettuce is pretty much ok, but you're missing out on wonderful foods like blueberries with this diet), you need supplements
negatives:
ketosis makes your blood slightly acidic (its not ketoacidosis, that's far worse, like with anorexics, who don't eat at all), which means you will be leaching calcium and magnesium, and stressing your kidneys and weakening your bones (this is all happening on a minor basis, relax). take calcium citrate supplements. paradoxically, eating more calcium will help you avoid kidney stones (the most common kind of kidney stone is caused by oxalate, and calcium inhibits oxalate absorption from the intestines), and the citrate helps in ketosis for... some reason i forgot. potassium and magnesium citrate supplements are good to, i forgot exactly why
your breath will stink: you're exhaling acetone through your lungs while in ketosis. but remember, chicks don't like fat guys, and your diet is not permanent, so just avoid breathing on chicks for awhile while on your diet
if these negatives scare you, think about the diabetes and heart disease you are giving yourself with your carb addiction: far more dangerous than a temporary diet which will make you a healthy weight
mid1800s high society england is the setting:
at the end of the movie, alice talks about extending her dad's business empire away from sumatra and borneo, and into china, via hong kong. it's all presented as wonderful creative striking and reaffirming thinking
and then she gets on a sailing frigate, with a big smile on her face... to go humiliate and exploit china, in the era of the opium wars
wtf?!
and this is a 2010s movie, not a 1930s one!
britain basically committed pharmacological warfare on china by force importing and force addicting chinese to heroin. remember, alice in wonderland is pretty much a drug trip (although more lsd than heroin really)
i just wonder how this CURRENT (#1 for weeks in the west) movie is seen in china: that the west is so blissfully unaware of how humiliating this experience was that they present it, today, in their most visible top notch cinema, as a glorious, shameless adventure
if i were chinese, my blood would boil, as if this was yesterday!
you don't have to wallow in history, but you have to present it responsibly, if you do touch upon it. and celebrating british imperialism, as a sort of self-empowerment and self-affirming assertiveness, is NOT what you want to do, especially when it glosses over real life horrible abuses, against a current world power with a historical chip on its shoulder over exactly the same historical episode
stupid
it just shows the chinese that the west NEEDS a kick in the groin over this sort of historical blindness
show some humility, tact, and historical awareness, stupid hollywood