Knock off the 'magical thinking', you're not going to get a free ride through life courtesy of the government. Better keep your resume updated you'll need it, and be sure to put enough away for your retirement otherwise you'll be in an alleyway eating dogfood when you're 90.
Disagreeing with me does not give anyone with moderation points the right to mod me a "Troll". Fuck off UBI fantacists, it's NEVER going to happen and rightly so.
The two biggest things people need to change to lose weight is to reduce carbohydrate intake (especially sugar) and reduce overall calorie intake. Secondarily most people don't seem to get enough high quality protein and get too much overall fat intake.
Diet is more important than exercise for controlling body composition and total bodyweight, but as I've already stated the vast majority of people can't be bothered to track calories and macronutrients, cut out garbage foods too high in sugars and fat (before you EVEN say it: YES, you NEED dietary fat -- just not as much as most people eat!) and *eat at a deficit* to actually lose weight. Either make the committment to do whatever you have to do to get where you want to be and *make it work* or don't complain about being fat.
Uh, NO. I was way over 300 pounds at one point in my life, close to 320, and now I'm under 200 and on a bike racing team. I know exactly how to control my bodyfat percentage and the only hard thing about it is being a little hungry for a few weeks if I need to lose a few pounds. Most people just won't do what's necessary to actually control their body composition and overall weight because it's just not worth it to them to go to the trouble.
Most people would rather have a limb amputated rather than exercise regularly, just like most people won't keep track of what they eat or how many calories it is because if they knew how bad they were screwiing up they'd feel guilty for eating all that shitty food -- and they'd rather stay in denial so they can keep eating things they like, and screw what happens to them later. Broken cookies have no calories, LOL! Then add food companies and fast food into the mix and you get people addicted to cheap shitty unhealthy food that is designed to be addictive so you buy more and more of it, and healthy food in comparison tastes like shit to them because it's not full of sugar and fat.
Attention UBI fanboys: UBI will not scale up, it would completely bankrupt a nation, and breed generations of completely useless, entitled people with no drive to accomplish anything whatsoever, who would whine and cry every year that the payments are TOO SMALL and should be MORE. GIVE IT UP, it's a fantasy, you will be working the rest of your lives. Tough shit for you, deal with it.
Sure, and you know what? Two generations of that 'experiment' and you'd have a generation of entitled useless wastes of oxygen who do not know what 'work' is, and whine and cry about how their UBI payments aren't enough. They'd be fat, lazy, stupid, uneducated, drunk and/or stoned all the time, and generally insufferable to be around. That's what happens to humans when they don't have to work to survive. Just look at trust fund kids and how useless they tend to turn out.
Their 'plan' is ridiculous. The only reason I can see for it, is to shock people into getting off their asses and actually doing what's necessary to reverse human-caused climate change.
How is it not a problem? When some hacker or state-sponsored cyberwarfare group hijacks your satellite and you can't even access it from the ground anymore, what do you do? Write it off? Get India to blow it up for you?
Tablets are fine for the filthy casuals of the world who only need to see email and YouTube videos. If you want to get real work done you need a real computer. Desktops will never go away, ever, it would make zero sense.
When someone hacks their satellite system (which is more-or-less inevitable, given the shitty state of IT security these days) and takes control of it, locking Amazon out of it, how will they press the Reset button and fix the problem? Is Bezos planning on having his own private space fleet to go up and run antimalware scans on them? </sarcasm>
We shouldn't be so worried about China using genetic engineering to produce 'super soldiers', we should be more worried that they'll use it to produce Good Little Robot People who do exactly what they're programmed to do, unerringly, unquestioningly, and never complaining -- even if what they're told to do is fling themselves into an operating woodchipper. That's about what I think of the Chinese government and their complete and total lack of regard for human beings and basic Human Rights. Shit like this and so much more that I've heard and read that comes out of China makes me want to puke. Before I'd allow the rest of the world end up like China, I'd press the Big Red Button myself and blow it all up, it would be a kinder fate than what these assholes have in mind for humanity.
Thanks for making it easy to confirm that's just a trolling account, it'll make it easier for the site owners to delete it and block your IP address. Have a nice day!:-)
I normally don't agree with ACs but in this case you're right, nobody really wants this shit, and it's not ever going to work well enough to be practical, it's going to be a horrifying nightmare of unnecessary accidents and deaths.
Well then I guess we need to get The Stupid People the fuck out of the way. Either that or whatever species rises to sentience next (***IF*** there is one that is) will look at us and say "Call it evolution in action", because we were too stupid to survive, AS A SPECIES.
The way things are going, nobody can even start to make plans because the people who are like that guy quash all discussion of it immediately.
Step One has to be "get the roadblock people the hell out of the way"; you're either HELPING or you're HINDERING, there's no middle ground allowed.
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"Common sense" and "Basic human nature" don't need 'stats'.
Knock off the 'magical thinking', you're not going to get a free ride through life courtesy of the government. Better keep your resume updated you'll need it, and be sure to put enough away for your retirement otherwise you'll be in an alleyway eating dogfood when you're 90.
Disagreeing with me does not give anyone with moderation points the right to mod me a "Troll". Fuck off UBI fantacists, it's NEVER going to happen and rightly so.
Human nature. If you don't need to work to survive then most people won't work.
Yeah: SIMPLE MATH. Try it sometime.
The two biggest things people need to change to lose weight is to reduce carbohydrate intake (especially sugar) and reduce overall calorie intake. Secondarily most people don't seem to get enough high quality protein and get too much overall fat intake.
Diet is more important than exercise for controlling body composition and total bodyweight, but as I've already stated the vast majority of people can't be bothered to track calories and macronutrients, cut out garbage foods too high in sugars and fat (before you EVEN say it: YES, you NEED dietary fat -- just not as much as most people eat!) and *eat at a deficit* to actually lose weight. Either make the committment to do whatever you have to do to get where you want to be and *make it work* or don't complain about being fat.
Uh, NO. I was way over 300 pounds at one point in my life, close to 320, and now I'm under 200 and on a bike racing team. I know exactly how to control my bodyfat percentage and the only hard thing about it is being a little hungry for a few weeks if I need to lose a few pounds. Most people just won't do what's necessary to actually control their body composition and overall weight because it's just not worth it to them to go to the trouble.
Most people would rather have a limb amputated rather than exercise regularly, just like most people won't keep track of what they eat or how many calories it is because if they knew how bad they were screwiing up they'd feel guilty for eating all that shitty food -- and they'd rather stay in denial so they can keep eating things they like, and screw what happens to them later. Broken cookies have no calories, LOL! Then add food companies and fast food into the mix and you get people addicted to cheap shitty unhealthy food that is designed to be addictive so you buy more and more of it, and healthy food in comparison tastes like shit to them because it's not full of sugar and fat.
Attention UBI fanboys: UBI will not scale up, it would completely bankrupt a nation, and breed generations of completely useless, entitled people with no drive to accomplish anything whatsoever, who would whine and cry every year that the payments are TOO SMALL and should be MORE. GIVE IT UP, it's a fantasy, you will be working the rest of your lives. Tough shit for you, deal with it.
Sure, and you know what? Two generations of that 'experiment' and you'd have a generation of entitled useless wastes of oxygen who do not know what 'work' is, and whine and cry about how their UBI payments aren't enough. They'd be fat, lazy, stupid, uneducated, drunk and/or stoned all the time, and generally insufferable to be around. That's what happens to humans when they don't have to work to survive. Just look at trust fund kids and how useless they tend to turn out.
Their 'plan' is ridiculous. The only reason I can see for it, is to shock people into getting off their asses and actually doing what's necessary to reverse human-caused climate change.
ICANN started authorizing more TLDs than those because all the sensible ones were used up, ya dummy.
Or something similar. Problem solved.
How is it not a problem? When some hacker or state-sponsored cyberwarfare group hijacks your satellite and you can't even access it from the ground anymore, what do you do? Write it off? Get India to blow it up for you?
Tablets are fine for the filthy casuals of the world who only need to see email and YouTube videos. If you want to get real work done you need a real computer. Desktops will never go away, ever, it would make zero sense.
When someone hacks their satellite system (which is more-or-less inevitable, given the shitty state of IT security these days) and takes control of it, locking Amazon out of it, how will they press the Reset button and fix the problem? Is Bezos planning on having his own private space fleet to go up and run antimalware scans on them? </sarcasm>
We shouldn't be so worried about China using genetic engineering to produce 'super soldiers', we should be more worried that they'll use it to produce Good Little Robot People who do exactly what they're programmed to do, unerringly, unquestioningly, and never complaining -- even if what they're told to do is fling themselves into an operating woodchipper. That's about what I think of the Chinese government and their complete and total lack of regard for human beings and basic Human Rights. Shit like this and so much more that I've heard and read that comes out of China makes me want to puke. Before I'd allow the rest of the world end up like China, I'd press the Big Red Button myself and blow it all up, it would be a kinder fate than what these assholes have in mind for humanity.
Thanks for making it easy to confirm that's just a trolling account, it'll make it easier for the site owners to delete it and block your IP address. Have a nice day! :-)
I normally don't agree with ACs but in this case you're right, nobody really wants this shit, and it's not ever going to work well enough to be practical, it's going to be a horrifying nightmare of unnecessary accidents and deaths.
Why the actual FUCK would anyone want a 'self driving bicycle', that defeats the entire purpose of a bicycle!
I would hope they load all their own firmware all the way down to bare metal and not let any 3rd-party company have anything to do with it.
Seriously, WHY? Seems clear as day to me that everything they're producing is compromised in one way or another.
Well then I guess we need to get The Stupid People the fuck out of the way. Either that or whatever species rises to sentience next (***IF*** there is one that is) will look at us and say "Call it evolution in action", because we were too stupid to survive, AS A SPECIES.
The way things are going, nobody can even start to make plans because the people who are like that guy quash all discussion of it immediately.
Step One has to be "get the roadblock people the hell out of the way"; you're either HELPING or you're HINDERING, there's no middle ground allowed.