I majored in Math and Minored in Philosophy, at first. I ended up taking more Philosophy than I did Math and getting 2 degrees. Liberal Arts has morphed into something else today though. You can get a Liberal Arts degree without ever taking Ethics, Logic, or even more than an "Intro" class to Philosophy at most schools.
The same slope you fell down. Anyone carrying a gun and threatening may still be shot. You seem to be promoting this against a single group based on your bias. What happens when your group happens to be the victim of someone else' bias?
I seem to remember a famous quote about this. Something along the lines of "First they came for the Socialists, but I was not a Socialist".... This is why we have History.
(declining middle class / severe inequality / too much social change in a short span)
These things are inexorably linked due to the ideology behind them. There are, and has been for a couple thousand years, 2 competing ideologies. One where the State is the most important part of society, and the other (which the US is founded upon) that the individual is the most important part of society. The USA succeeded because of ideology enshrining the individual. Now that we have a mass of politicians pushing for (and obtaining to a large degree) socialist/communist programs we are getting what others who taut the Statist ideology get. A 2 class system with the Peons and the Government Elites.
Compare Locke to Marx, or Hegel, or Dewy, or Crowley. The latter 4 all tell you that the individual is nothing without the State, while the former tells you that the State is nothing without the individual. (Same lesson from Plato, Cicero, and to a large extent Aquinas and Luther). The far left ideology is where we get concepts like "The living Constitution", and yes "Socialized" programs from the Government. The State, and the few elites allowed to run the State are all powerful. Everyone else is simply a servant of the State. (See Socrates' Allegory of the Cave [unadulterated version])
Europe as a whole is just getting this by the bucket full. People are supposed to be afraid to push back and take control, that's part of the movement selling you Statism as a religion. People are supposed to be brain washed, because that is how you keep control. People are supposed to be poor if they are in the "wrong think" camp, because if you have money you can push back.
It's too late to continue to claim "it can't happen here", because it's been happening. The push now, and we see it in the US, is to try and turn back from the coming cliff. Let us see if you can prove Rand wrong, or if you all fall to communism.
What is Pro-America?
America and its values are always changing. An agrarian society to an industrial one to a global power. When we change over our values need to adjust for the new culture.
No, we don't. You may have, but the majority of people in the US still believe in the founding principles. Such as "all men are crated equal with inalienable rights" (men back then was used for everyone just in case), limited government because too much power in one hand corrupts, and that we should all be treated the same under the law.
As being a global power we are a major influence in the world, but we also get influenced from other cultures back. This isn't a bad thing, or anti-American, it is actually quite American for the modern America.
That is no different from when we were founded. The pool of cultures we could draw from was obviously smaller, but we had people from all over in the US. The founders were heavily influenced by Greek, Roman, English, French, German, Spanish, Dutch, and yes Native Americans. People from each of those places came to the US to seek a better life as well.
Adopting cultures in that sense is quite different from importing something like Sharia law, hereditary rule, etc... So yes, we need to be cautious of the cultures we import because there is a noticeable push toward authoritarianism which is much easier to do if the population is saturated with people that don't know anything else and vote for people to behave just like back in their home country.
Mostly this. I read and listened to a slew of Bannon's speeches and he was quite impressive in terms of being a Pro-American against the growing marxist progressive movement and globalism. Bannon was one of few people that actually gave me hope that Trump was on the path back to Americanism and turning against Marxist/Progressives. I still have hope, but quite a bit less today.
Before you say it: Yeah yeah, everyone who is pro-American is xenophobic, racist, Islamaphobic, homophobic, transphobic, misogynistic, sexist, "literally" Hitler, "literally" Stalin, etc... We are tired of hearing people repeat the same ad hominem garbage as an attack. You have destroyed your credibility so that even when real racists are around we don't believe you.
Security professionals look at "Back" doors the same way we do "Front" doors in terms of "They let people in!" We look at back doors as worse, because there is measurable proportion between how well hidden the door is, and how nefarious the person is using them."
How many people has he fired over the Russia story?
Nothing like a massively broad generalization to attempt to portray a narrative, followed by a speculation based on 3rd party opinion instead of facts or the subject being attacked with this rhetoric.
Manafort was fired after a short stint on the campaign. Manafort having been in Ukraine, and Trump firing him to an independent observer looks like Trump didn't want people with potential ties to Russia on his team. Further evidence of this can be found in documents given to the various committees where a guy kept trying to setup meetings with Russian officials and both Manafort and Trump refused any meetings.
Flynn, like Manafort had a problem with visibility. Having been in Turkey and on RT the firing looks like Trump did not want people with potential ties to Russia. As with Manafort, there is plenty of evidence to back that assertion.
Sally Yates was fired because she _refused_to_do_her_job and played politics on an issue not related to "Russia". The DOJ works for the President, and she refused to comply with the law and her bosses (yes, that is plural). Her job was to address the law, not to grandstand a Democratic position which _MOST_ Americans disagree with.
Comey was fired for lots of reasons. The particular issue of "Russia" Trump disliked is that Comey would not publicly announce that Trump was not under investigation which would have removed the narrative repeated by Leftists, Democrats, RINOs, and the media that supports them. Democrat and RINO outrage is laughable, as is any true Republican outrage. Comey was the most evil man alive and cost Hillary the election and a _majority_ of voices in Media and Politics called for his head numerous times since last summer for slightly different reason. We call this feigned outrage, and it's quite common.
You then make a claim about Mueller which is based on what? Tea leaf or bone reading? Are aliens beaming you info, or the extra voices in your head telling you things? Perhaps all of those things from third parties in your religious party so you believe them? I can only suggest that you consider medical treatment for your delusion.
Instead of playing the fallacy logic game, how about you use real logic and critical thinking. Give me _FACTS_ which show President Trump, or anyone on his team, committed a crime. After over a year of investigation by the FBI including numerous individual investigations, numerous Senate and Congressional committees running for upwards of 8 months, and independent investigation for 6 months, there are 0 charges and 0 evidence presented which even hints at wrong doing let alone crimes being committed.
If you were smart, you would be pissed at politicians and media outlets for lying to you repeatedly and generating hysteria over those lies. Sadly people are not smart, which is why the media continues the narrative. Dummies keep falling for it.
Are you alleging that Trump directly colluded with a foreign government, or that someone under him did? Will be Hillary be charged with Treason if Alexandra Chalupa is charged with colluding with a foreign government? Much more evidence that happened, but that doesn't change the question.
14 months after these allegations started there is still no evidence that Trump did anything wrong. I see a few very weak allegations based on anecdote that Flynn or Manafort did, but there are 0 (Zero, goose egg, nada) charges pending for either of them. That is after at least 12 months investigating Manafort and 9 months investigating Flynn.
You have nothing. Nothing you listed is illegal, and everything you have listed seems normal for a transition team and business people. Why no stink with Obama met with dozens of foreign agencies before he was even elected, let along after he won? Ignoring history makes you look really dumb to most of us.
By that measure, multiple Democrats would be guilty also. See the "dossier" and Democratic party members who colluded with the Ukraine to dig up dirt on Paul Manafort.
Because they would have to charge people in both parties, you simply won't see it happen. On the 1 in a trillion chance they do make such a charge, it would be on a toady that actually did the handling of information and cash that would be guilty. Hillary and Donald would be free of any such charge.
Contrary to popular belief, Politicians really are not dumb. They all come from Law school and know how to play the game.
Sure, that is the definition of BMI, immediately followed by a "calculator" taking only the height and weight into account (no fat vs muscle). So his comment is perfectly valid, computing the BMI with this calculator leads to errors and considering overweight people that are not.
Utter crap! The calculator leads more people to believe that they are not overweight! The US Military has had Height/Weight standards similar to BMI for many decades. The amount of false positives are extremely small, generally within Special Ops. I know, because I was one and had to get regular water displacement tests (as did most of my unit). Further, I worked with people on Special Fitness programs to help them lose weight.
I doubt that large studies do any differently, since they're likely just doing statistics on weight and height as well.
Another flat out lie, easily disproved if you had bothered to look at.. well.. anything at all instead of bullshitting. The Fat to Muscle ratio is based on averages measured with either "Pinch" (caliper) testing or water displacement testing.
Why not do some homework instead of simply lying to either spread bullshit or feel smart. You are not, and the world is not better off with you pretending fantasy is reality.
It really doesn't matter if they're making excuses, the fact is that positive reinforcement works better than negative reinforcement, especially for weight loss which is already often a response to depression from someone who has learned that food is the most likely source of good feelings in their life.
Disclaimer: GP's statement used general terms, and my response is in general terms. Medical conditions causing obesity are potentially helped by medication, and neither positive or negative reinforcement are relevant.
Both types of reinforcement work, and Operant Conditioning is well documented as being effective for behavioral modification. There is certainly a massive amount of variables to consider, but your statement is absolutely false. It also relies on the false premise that obesity is primarily caused by depression. Which is not only a false premise, but ignores the fact that obesity is a cause _OF_ depression.
Perhaps you can provide us with your credentials as a practicing psychologist/psychologist and in depth studies which discount operant conditioning for obesity.
Socrates presented the forms in the only way possible. Justice must be universally applied to be Justice, and Justice can not cause injustice. We can symbolize the form of Justice with the empty scale, as we still do today. Socrates was killed because he pissed off people in power, not because he asked tricky questions. The same thing that got numerous people killed through all of history. E.G. Cicero.
BMI is the measure of BODY fat! A 28 BMI means that you are more than 25% body fat regardless of how much muscle you have. These calculations are certainly estimates for which you can use water displacement and other methods for more precise numbers but the estimate is about the percentage of mass you have which is FAT.
Healthy numbers are different for men and women, but since we have entered the SJW territory of asking "gender" we now have a number for both sexes even on Government sites which is horrifying. A healthy woman should have more body fat than a healthy man and a different BMI. Why? BIOLOGY! Breast tissue is needed for feeding infants and women are the only sex that can perform that vital function. (biological males who grow breasts through medical issues or hormone therapy can not feed infants.) Testosterone impacts muscle density and mass.
If you don't know something either ask or figure it out before spewing dangerous statements.
Ericsson was the victim of a huge amount of IP theft. It was obvious when a Chinese telecom equipment provider released a router a few years ago which looked exactly like an Ericsson router and behaved exactly the same way. Including all of the bugs and "features" for developer access to diagnostics. It took quite a while for them to react, and what they did to try and stop the theft was too little too late.
When developer cost is favored over security at every step of the process, well... they could have seen this coming.
What a load! Why do you think Actors and Actresses can charge millions for a role, and why do you think Studios look for people with a very specific look to fill parts? Do you think it's all accidental and after about a century of movies they just like to piss away money and can't figure out the outcomes from casting wrong?
Amazing that you don't run your own movie studio. You seem to have all the answers for movies and know what society wants, so if you start your own business you would be swimming in cash. Risk your own livelihood instead of demanding others risk theirs and I'll have more confidence in your opinion.
Really now? So you can resolve a court case or solve a crime in 90 minutes? Have a love affair in multiple countries in 90 minutes? Nothing, and that is NOTHING in a movie is "real" and nothing in a movie can, or should be taken as real. Even when heavy people are cast in movies, they are not behaving or doing anything real. Chris Farley was an excellent actor and comedian, but certainly not a Ninja. Go look up what the word "actor" means.
Movies don't push the narrative that people are not supposed to be fat. Biology does a good job of that all on its own. We are predisposed to not wanting to mate with someone with heart disease, diabetes, and other health problems associated with obesity. That is from something called "SCIENCE", and you should really try to learn about it. We have these subjects called Biology, Physics, Math, and even Psychology. We don't need to rely on people like you and their spirit worship, voices in their heads, or what ever you are doing to deny SCIENCE.
You, and other SJWs and White Knights, invent narratives to pretend you are helping someone and don't care about science or Hollywood. It's all cultural marxism all the time (The useful idiot is probably worse than the people developing these themes for people to repeat).
It's conversion therapy if you're demanding that the fat people be consistently cast as romantic leads. And admittedly, I'm sure there are people demanding that.
I'm pretty sure TFA covers that.
But most fat people, including me, just want to see fat people that are regular people. Who are the fat characters in Harry Potter? The Dursleys (obnoxious idiots) or Dolores Umbrage (obnoxious sadist). Who's the fat character in NCIS? House? The West Wing? None. Who's the fat character in Lost? Hurley, the comic relief. etc... etc... Disney animated films? Ursula (villain), Maid Marian's helper (comic relief), Pumba (comic relief), Governor Ratcliffe (villain) - The Princess & The Frog was conspicuous for having two relatively important characters that were fat. CSI had the fat medical examiner (if I remember right).
Most people can either look in the mirror or walk down the street to see "normal" people (blind people being the obvious exception). We go to movies because it offers an escape from reality and NOT normal people. Who wants to watch a version of Game of Thrones where the people are huffing and panting after a few swings a sword? How about a version of Jaws where the cast is too heavy to swim away so gets eaten in the first scene? Nobody! We go to see the most attractive people in the world, mostly performing acts that we simply can't do.
I accept that most of the population views the fatties as the ugly half. That's fine. But I take issue at being the absent half, the incompetent half, the evil half, the stupid half.
That is a half truth. There is an awful lot of biology involved in our determination of attractive and yes, Obesity is a part of that.
A person wanting to be attractive does not magically make them attractive. Little kids want to be Astronauts and Doctors. If they put in the work (that is the key) they have a chance to make it.
Yes, I would rather be watching TV or sitting at a restaurant when I'm not working but I need to be at the gym to maintain my health. And I'm still overweight myself. I make no demands of people's opinions of me.
The term "social justice" is wrong. Justice is personal..
Justice has a meaning, and is not personal. If that were true society would simply be anarchy and survival of the fittest. The definition is conceptual, and comes from Socrates. Like Virtue, Good, Moral, Evil, etc...
Perhaps consider why you have never learned such basic social concepts?
While I agree that he doesn't have it as bad as GP stated, you have to admit that he has the worst conditions ever without a major war.
Media and Politicians from both parties started calling for his impeachment the day he was elected.
8 month string of allegations with which I'm still waiting to see any substantiating facts. Amazing how those have all vanished of late.
Criticized for literally no reason, such as TFA's claim that he was weak on the KKK, Nazi, and White Supremacists. I listened to and read both of his speeches, and the only thing he seems to have done "wrong" to the left was speak the truth about Left-Wing radicals showing up and causing some of the violence. We know that last part happens and has happened pretty frequently of late (Berkley, Evergreen, etc...).
Saying two parties were involved is not weak, it's honest. It does not justify or condone violence of any kind, it simply states what the majority of us believe. There is no place in society for that type of violence.
Ignoring the violent groups on one side is partially to blame for people showing up armed and violent. Ask a psychologist or sociologist if it may have had impact on the thought process of the person who committed a murder, they will tell you absolutely "YES". When people feel backed into a corner with no recourse, wither or not that position is completely rational, they will lash out in what they perceive as defensive action or action of last resort.
If you don't see that people in power (some) are intentionally stirring up civil unrest, you are not even trying. This is all about power grab, and the useful idiots are playing right into their hands. These same tactics were used by Trotsky/Lenin, Mao, Pot, Castro, et al. Identity politics is a means to an end, not the end itself.
So you believe anyone from any country should be able to walk into your place of employment and apply for your job at any time? (Nothing like conflating two distinctly separate issues to make a stupid point...)
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I majored in Math and Minored in Philosophy, at first. I ended up taking more Philosophy than I did Math and getting 2 degrees. Liberal Arts has morphed into something else today though. You can get a Liberal Arts degree without ever taking Ethics, Logic, or even more than an "Intro" class to Philosophy at most schools.
The same slope you fell down. Anyone carrying a gun and threatening may still be shot. You seem to be promoting this against a single group based on your bias. What happens when your group happens to be the victim of someone else' bias?
I seem to remember a famous quote about this. Something along the lines of "First they came for the Socialists, but I was not a Socialist".... This is why we have History.
(declining middle class / severe inequality / too much social change in a short span)
These things are inexorably linked due to the ideology behind them. There are, and has been for a couple thousand years, 2 competing ideologies. One where the State is the most important part of society, and the other (which the US is founded upon) that the individual is the most important part of society. The USA succeeded because of ideology enshrining the individual. Now that we have a mass of politicians pushing for (and obtaining to a large degree) socialist/communist programs we are getting what others who taut the Statist ideology get. A 2 class system with the Peons and the Government Elites.
Compare Locke to Marx, or Hegel, or Dewy, or Crowley. The latter 4 all tell you that the individual is nothing without the State, while the former tells you that the State is nothing without the individual. (Same lesson from Plato, Cicero, and to a large extent Aquinas and Luther). The far left ideology is where we get concepts like "The living Constitution", and yes "Socialized" programs from the Government. The State, and the few elites allowed to run the State are all powerful. Everyone else is simply a servant of the State. (See Socrates' Allegory of the Cave [unadulterated version])
Europe as a whole is just getting this by the bucket full. People are supposed to be afraid to push back and take control, that's part of the movement selling you Statism as a religion. People are supposed to be brain washed, because that is how you keep control. People are supposed to be poor if they are in the "wrong think" camp, because if you have money you can push back.
It's too late to continue to claim "it can't happen here", because it's been happening. The push now, and we see it in the US, is to try and turn back from the coming cliff. Let us see if you can prove Rand wrong, or if you all fall to communism.
What is Pro-America? America and its values are always changing. An agrarian society to an industrial one to a global power. When we change over our values need to adjust for the new culture.
No, we don't. You may have, but the majority of people in the US still believe in the founding principles. Such as "all men are crated equal with inalienable rights" (men back then was used for everyone just in case), limited government because too much power in one hand corrupts, and that we should all be treated the same under the law.
As being a global power we are a major influence in the world, but we also get influenced from other cultures back. This isn't a bad thing, or anti-American, it is actually quite American for the modern America.
That is no different from when we were founded. The pool of cultures we could draw from was obviously smaller, but we had people from all over in the US. The founders were heavily influenced by Greek, Roman, English, French, German, Spanish, Dutch, and yes Native Americans. People from each of those places came to the US to seek a better life as well.
Adopting cultures in that sense is quite different from importing something like Sharia law, hereditary rule, etc... So yes, we need to be cautious of the cultures we import because there is a noticeable push toward authoritarianism which is much easier to do if the population is saturated with people that don't know anything else and vote for people to behave just like back in their home country.
Mostly this. I read and listened to a slew of Bannon's speeches and he was quite impressive in terms of being a Pro-American against the growing marxist progressive movement and globalism. Bannon was one of few people that actually gave me hope that Trump was on the path back to Americanism and turning against Marxist/Progressives. I still have hope, but quite a bit less today.
Before you say it: Yeah yeah, everyone who is pro-American is xenophobic, racist, Islamaphobic, homophobic, transphobic, misogynistic, sexist, "literally" Hitler, "literally" Stalin, etc... We are tired of hearing people repeat the same ad hominem garbage as an attack. You have destroyed your credibility so that even when real racists are around we don't believe you.
Security professionals look at "Back" doors the same way we do "Front" doors in terms of "They let people in!" We look at back doors as worse, because there is measurable proportion between how well hidden the door is, and how nefarious the person is using them."
How many people has he fired over the Russia story?
Nothing like a massively broad generalization to attempt to portray a narrative, followed by a speculation based on 3rd party opinion instead of facts or the subject being attacked with this rhetoric.
Manafort was fired after a short stint on the campaign. Manafort having been in Ukraine, and Trump firing him to an independent observer looks like Trump didn't want people with potential ties to Russia on his team. Further evidence of this can be found in documents given to the various committees where a guy kept trying to setup meetings with Russian officials and both Manafort and Trump refused any meetings.
Flynn, like Manafort had a problem with visibility. Having been in Turkey and on RT the firing looks like Trump did not want people with potential ties to Russia. As with Manafort, there is plenty of evidence to back that assertion.
Sally Yates was fired because she _refused_to_do_her_job and played politics on an issue not related to "Russia". The DOJ works for the President, and she refused to comply with the law and her bosses (yes, that is plural). Her job was to address the law, not to grandstand a Democratic position which _MOST_ Americans disagree with.
Comey was fired for lots of reasons. The particular issue of "Russia" Trump disliked is that Comey would not publicly announce that Trump was not under investigation which would have removed the narrative repeated by Leftists, Democrats, RINOs, and the media that supports them. Democrat and RINO outrage is laughable, as is any true Republican outrage. Comey was the most evil man alive and cost Hillary the election and a _majority_ of voices in Media and Politics called for his head numerous times since last summer for slightly different reason. We call this feigned outrage, and it's quite common.
You then make a claim about Mueller which is based on what? Tea leaf or bone reading? Are aliens beaming you info, or the extra voices in your head telling you things? Perhaps all of those things from third parties in your religious party so you believe them? I can only suggest that you consider medical treatment for your delusion.
Instead of playing the fallacy logic game, how about you use real logic and critical thinking. Give me _FACTS_ which show President Trump, or anyone on his team, committed a crime. After over a year of investigation by the FBI including numerous individual investigations, numerous Senate and Congressional committees running for upwards of 8 months, and independent investigation for 6 months, there are 0 charges and 0 evidence presented which even hints at wrong doing let alone crimes being committed.
If you were smart, you would be pissed at politicians and media outlets for lying to you repeatedly and generating hysteria over those lies. Sadly people are not smart, which is why the media continues the narrative. Dummies keep falling for it.
Are you alleging that Trump directly colluded with a foreign government, or that someone under him did? Will be Hillary be charged with Treason if Alexandra Chalupa is charged with colluding with a foreign government? Much more evidence that happened, but that doesn't change the question.
14 months after these allegations started there is still no evidence that Trump did anything wrong. I see a few very weak allegations based on anecdote that Flynn or Manafort did, but there are 0 (Zero, goose egg, nada) charges pending for either of them. That is after at least 12 months investigating Manafort and 9 months investigating Flynn.
You have nothing. Nothing you listed is illegal, and everything you have listed seems normal for a transition team and business people. Why no stink with Obama met with dozens of foreign agencies before he was even elected, let along after he won? Ignoring history makes you look really dumb to most of us.
By that measure, multiple Democrats would be guilty also. See the "dossier" and Democratic party members who colluded with the Ukraine to dig up dirt on Paul Manafort.
Because they would have to charge people in both parties, you simply won't see it happen. On the 1 in a trillion chance they do make such a charge, it would be on a toady that actually did the handling of information and cash that would be guilty. Hillary and Donald would be free of any such charge.
Contrary to popular belief, Politicians really are not dumb. They all come from Law school and know how to play the game.
I'm sure it's going to work out as well as the optimists think! What could possibly go wrong?
Body mass index (BMI) is a measure of body fat based on height and weight that applies to adult men and women.
Do you need it written in crayon to get it?
Sure, that is the definition of BMI, immediately followed by a "calculator" taking only the height and weight into account (no fat vs muscle). So his comment is perfectly valid, computing the BMI with this calculator leads to errors and considering overweight people that are not.
Utter crap! The calculator leads more people to believe that they are not overweight! The US Military has had Height/Weight standards similar to BMI for many decades. The amount of false positives are extremely small, generally within Special Ops. I know, because I was one and had to get regular water displacement tests (as did most of my unit). Further, I worked with people on Special Fitness programs to help them lose weight.
I doubt that large studies do any differently, since they're likely just doing statistics on weight and height as well.
Another flat out lie, easily disproved if you had bothered to look at.. well.. anything at all instead of bullshitting. The Fat to Muscle ratio is based on averages measured with either "Pinch" (caliper) testing or water displacement testing.
Why not do some homework instead of simply lying to either spread bullshit or feel smart. You are not, and the world is not better off with you pretending fantasy is reality.
It really doesn't matter if they're making excuses, the fact is that positive reinforcement works better than negative reinforcement, especially for weight loss which is already often a response to depression from someone who has learned that food is the most likely source of good feelings in their life.
Disclaimer: GP's statement used general terms, and my response is in general terms. Medical conditions causing obesity are potentially helped by medication, and neither positive or negative reinforcement are relevant.
Both types of reinforcement work, and Operant Conditioning is well documented as being effective for behavioral modification. There is certainly a massive amount of variables to consider, but your statement is absolutely false. It also relies on the false premise that obesity is primarily caused by depression. Which is not only a false premise, but ignores the fact that obesity is a cause _OF_ depression.
Perhaps you can provide us with your credentials as a practicing psychologist/psychologist and in depth studies which discount operant conditioning for obesity.
Socrates presented the forms in the only way possible. Justice must be universally applied to be Justice, and Justice can not cause injustice. We can symbolize the form of Justice with the empty scale, as we still do today. Socrates was killed because he pissed off people in power, not because he asked tricky questions. The same thing that got numerous people killed through all of history. E.G. Cicero.
Social Justice == Injustice. Socrates pointed out that Athens was committing an injustice and would pay the price. They did!
BMI is the measure of BODY fat! A 28 BMI means that you are more than 25% body fat regardless of how much muscle you have. These calculations are certainly estimates for which you can use water displacement and other methods for more precise numbers but the estimate is about the percentage of mass you have which is FAT.
Healthy numbers are different for men and women, but since we have entered the SJW territory of asking "gender" we now have a number for both sexes even on Government sites which is horrifying. A healthy woman should have more body fat than a healthy man and a different BMI. Why? BIOLOGY! Breast tissue is needed for feeding infants and women are the only sex that can perform that vital function. (biological males who grow breasts through medical issues or hormone therapy can not feed infants.) Testosterone impacts muscle density and mass.
If you don't know something either ask or figure it out before spewing dangerous statements.
You fail to understand how this science of BIOLOGY effects our determination of ugly. Your narcissism is showing.
Ericsson was the victim of a huge amount of IP theft. It was obvious when a Chinese telecom equipment provider released a router a few years ago which looked exactly like an Ericsson router and behaved exactly the same way. Including all of the bugs and "features" for developer access to diagnostics. It took quite a while for them to react, and what they did to try and stop the theft was too little too late.
When developer cost is favored over security at every step of the process, well... they could have seen this coming.
What a load! Why do you think Actors and Actresses can charge millions for a role, and why do you think Studios look for people with a very specific look to fill parts? Do you think it's all accidental and after about a century of movies they just like to piss away money and can't figure out the outcomes from casting wrong?
Amazing that you don't run your own movie studio. You seem to have all the answers for movies and know what society wants, so if you start your own business you would be swimming in cash. Risk your own livelihood instead of demanding others risk theirs and I'll have more confidence in your opinion.
Really now? So you can resolve a court case or solve a crime in 90 minutes? Have a love affair in multiple countries in 90 minutes? Nothing, and that is NOTHING in a movie is "real" and nothing in a movie can, or should be taken as real. Even when heavy people are cast in movies, they are not behaving or doing anything real. Chris Farley was an excellent actor and comedian, but certainly not a Ninja. Go look up what the word "actor" means.
Movies don't push the narrative that people are not supposed to be fat. Biology does a good job of that all on its own. We are predisposed to not wanting to mate with someone with heart disease, diabetes, and other health problems associated with obesity. That is from something called "SCIENCE", and you should really try to learn about it. We have these subjects called Biology, Physics, Math, and even Psychology. We don't need to rely on people like you and their spirit worship, voices in their heads, or what ever you are doing to deny SCIENCE.
You, and other SJWs and White Knights, invent narratives to pretend you are helping someone and don't care about science or Hollywood. It's all cultural marxism all the time (The useful idiot is probably worse than the people developing these themes for people to repeat).
It's conversion therapy if you're demanding that the fat people be consistently cast as romantic leads. And admittedly, I'm sure there are people demanding that.
I'm pretty sure TFA covers that.
But most fat people, including me, just want to see fat people that are regular people. Who are the fat characters in Harry Potter? The Dursleys (obnoxious idiots) or Dolores Umbrage (obnoxious sadist). Who's the fat character in NCIS? House? The West Wing? None. Who's the fat character in Lost? Hurley, the comic relief. etc... etc... Disney animated films? Ursula (villain), Maid Marian's helper (comic relief), Pumba (comic relief), Governor Ratcliffe (villain) - The Princess & The Frog was conspicuous for having two relatively important characters that were fat. CSI had the fat medical examiner (if I remember right).
Most people can either look in the mirror or walk down the street to see "normal" people (blind people being the obvious exception). We go to movies because it offers an escape from reality and NOT normal people. Who wants to watch a version of Game of Thrones where the people are huffing and panting after a few swings a sword? How about a version of Jaws where the cast is too heavy to swim away so gets eaten in the first scene? Nobody! We go to see the most attractive people in the world, mostly performing acts that we simply can't do.
I accept that most of the population views the fatties as the ugly half. That's fine. But I take issue at being the absent half, the incompetent half, the evil half, the stupid half.
That is a half truth. There is an awful lot of biology involved in our determination of attractive and yes, Obesity is a part of that.
A person wanting to be attractive does not magically make them attractive. Little kids want to be Astronauts and Doctors. If they put in the work (that is the key) they have a chance to make it.
Yes, I would rather be watching TV or sitting at a restaurant when I'm not working but I need to be at the gym to maintain my health. And I'm still overweight myself. I make no demands of people's opinions of me.
The term "social justice" is wrong. Justice is personal..
Justice has a meaning, and is not personal. If that were true society would simply be anarchy and survival of the fittest. The definition is conceptual, and comes from Socrates. Like Virtue, Good, Moral, Evil, etc...
Perhaps consider why you have never learned such basic social concepts?
While I agree that he doesn't have it as bad as GP stated, you have to admit that he has the worst conditions ever without a major war.
Media and Politicians from both parties started calling for his impeachment the day he was elected.
8 month string of allegations with which I'm still waiting to see any substantiating facts. Amazing how those have all vanished of late.
Criticized for literally no reason, such as TFA's claim that he was weak on the KKK, Nazi, and White Supremacists. I listened to and read both of his speeches, and the only thing he seems to have done "wrong" to the left was speak the truth about Left-Wing radicals showing up and causing some of the violence. We know that last part happens and has happened pretty frequently of late (Berkley, Evergreen, etc...).
Saying two parties were involved is not weak, it's honest. It does not justify or condone violence of any kind, it simply states what the majority of us believe. There is no place in society for that type of violence.
Ignoring the violent groups on one side is partially to blame for people showing up armed and violent. Ask a psychologist or sociologist if it may have had impact on the thought process of the person who committed a murder, they will tell you absolutely "YES". When people feel backed into a corner with no recourse, wither or not that position is completely rational, they will lash out in what they perceive as defensive action or action of last resort.
If you don't see that people in power (some) are intentionally stirring up civil unrest, you are not even trying. This is all about power grab, and the useful idiots are playing right into their hands. These same tactics were used by Trotsky/Lenin, Mao, Pot, Castro, et al. Identity politics is a means to an end, not the end itself.
So you believe anyone from any country should be able to walk into your place of employment and apply for your job at any time? (Nothing like conflating two distinctly separate issues to make a stupid point...)