It’s terrible primarily because of risk of concussion and other injuries.

Also, because being - for instance - basketball height is hard on your body as you get older.

But telling LeBron James that he’s overweight and he’s going to die if he doesn’t lose weight does nothing of benefit. He’s not going to get any shorter and he’s not going to retire just so he can give up a professional’s career requirements.

You give the yokels far too little credit. Quite a few of them are convinced it is the liberals who want to means test away their quality of life and expose them to the predation of foreign markets.

And they’re often right. DLC liberals were perfectly fine with Midwestern deindustrialized, education privatization, military expansion, and corrosive financialization. The problem is that they’re boxed in, with nowhere to go. Conservatives ensconced them in a media monopoly, screaming a partial truth - that liberal business interests have fully compromised their wing of government. That’s made selling “we’re all you’ve got” an incredibly powerful message on the right. Even as the Congressional paymasters tip both parties generously.

Fat people are fat because they eat too much.

You can have the same diet your entire life and fluctuate in weight significantly.

If Bob has a “slow metabolism”, then Bob should stop eating desert

Anything else? Breakfast, lunch, and dinner? Is your singular goal your weight or do you have any other considerations?

They see a ton of people whos problems are irrefutably due to their weight.

Weight is a symptom not a cause. Metabolism, age, injury, psychology - these are causes.

burn down capitalism and replace it with a system that doesnt incentivise companies to use the cheapest least healthy ingredients, or tell the patient unless they lose weight they’re going to die.

Everyone dies. And big people have existed far longer than the advent of processed sugar. But asking people to adopt unhealthy eating habits in pursuit of a tiny waistline isn’t healthy.

Too often I see people conflating “Looking healthy” with “looking pretty”, absent any of the trade offs necessary to maintain appearances.

I was able to refinance my home at 2.8% during COVID. Now I’m paying less than $2k for a 2200 sqft home. I’ve got neighbors who are paying $4-6k for equivalent housing.

My mom, who bought her home in the 90s, has the mortgage fully paid off and only owes real estate taxes (around $12k annually) on a 5000 sqft property.

A lot of landlords simply inherited their homes or had enough credit to buy cheap units during the dips.

They also do a shit job of maintenance. But it can’t be overstated how much of this property is either owned on extremely low interest credit or fully paid off.

I mean, you can go one further and establish public utilities that ration resources per capita instead of charging a vig on top of the production cost.

Why do I need UBI and wages if I can just claim a vacant apartment and be guaranteed power/telecom, of which their are millions nationally?

We could divert the tens of billions (converted to energy/man hours) we’re throwing away on AI subsidies and everyone can live a comfortable middle class life free of charge.

Are they doing that or is this just a “stupid idiot is clearly just cheating” blanket retort?

Had a friend who was overweight and got into long distance running. He went from 300 lbs to a lean, mean 140. Then he injured his knee and had to give up his sport. Simple diet didn’t work, he steadily put on 100 lbs over the next two years.

Another girl I know cleans straight through 3000+ calories a day easy. Never went above 120. In fact, if she’s not housing down food she gets weak and anemic.

That’s got nothing to do with intake and everything to do with metabolism

Being fat is unhealthy

It’s funny, because the metrics we use to declare an individual “fat” loops in quite a few professional athletes.

Look around your doctor’s waiting room. Everyone is fat.

Lots of people are old and age correlates with weight gain. But the volleyball player who blew out her ACL isn’t fat. Neither is the chem patient who is back for a final round.

How can those observations not color their general attitude?

Doctor: “Feels like everyone I see is either sick or injured”

Nurse: “Try spending less time in the ER”

Do you mean lentils or are you suggesting we’re going to be eating door jams?

It’s a gray line, as the drive for celebrity isn’t strictly capitalist but is definitely rewarded under capitalism.

Dead Internet Theory suggests these racist accounts are all just self-perpetuating whether you engage or not.

Raising $600k after going public about dropping the N-bomb on a child might have something to do with this.

A few incredibly racist billionaires are financing endless waves of bigotry and brutality. Until they stop, this is only going to get worse.

they wouldn’t be guilty of it if they report it

Imagine believing this given the current state of the criminal justice system

Not hypothetical

possibilities

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And what does that story have to do with generational pressure?

The dead family aren’t around to give better advise

Pretty much describing how we ended up with the Satanic Panic

There’s two sides to this coin. Getting children - particularly young children who don’t understand what they’re being asked - to confess and accuse people of crimes is trivially easy.

emotional support such that a priest provides would make him an accessory

That does not appear to be true, unless the crime is being planned or in progress.

But even if it somehow did, you’d effectively be demanding a priest self-incriminate by admitting to the contents of a confession.

It’s not yours, though. It is the choice of the state/federal prosecutors. And that’s where this gets hairy.

Because the modern political order is dripping with pedophiles and rapists and accomplices to the same. They go about openly admitting to their crimes, while silencing their critics and avoiding any kind of punishment. Meanwhile, they unleash the fully-unchecked power of the police, in defiance of court order and legislative statute, to arrest and remove suspects without trial or even serious investigation.

A legal system operating in this capacity - one in which a donation to Trump’s bitcoin fund matters more than the contents of a case file or a jury’s verdict - cannot deliver anything resembling justice.

How does receiving a confession aid or abet the perpetrator?