Looking forward to it

Our toxic culture is an employment based, market fundamentalist culture. Any smart alien would run from that.

There’s little to no evidence that cardio excerse leads to weight loss. Groups who restrict calorie intake alway out perform the exercise group in weight loss studies and there’s never any significant difference between 2 groups who both restrict calories but one exercises and the other does not.

It’s a fundamental misunderstanding of how we use glycogen for moving around and fat as an emergency reserve. If we remember that we evolved as persistence hunters, it starts to make more sense. I.E. what’s the point in putting on a layer of fat for a winter reserve, if you could accidentally run it off chasing down a meal? Those that could run it off chasing down a meal didn’t survive the hard winters and those that didn’t lived.

The whole idea that you could do cardio to lose weight was invented by food producers to make people think they could treat their diet like a credit card and payback overspending with exercise. That way, we would eat more and they would make more money. It’s also the reason it’s called cardiovascular exercise and not weight-loss excersise.

“No, honestly, it’s my chewing gum Wrigley’s beermint.”

100%! There does seem to be a shit-lib idea that allowing the mega rich to dictate our immigration policy, specifically in order to drive down wages, is a left wing position. It is not. Not even slightly.

Even as someone who knows the only way to stop most of the shit is to abolish boarders all together, which is way too radical for most people, we have to deal with the world as it is, not how we would like it to be.

Of course the mega rich are a bigger problem, but don’t think they won’t weaponise immigration in more than one way where they can.

Love it!

I accept all major credit cards, cash and ritual humiliation.

Why would a war on the completion alone hurt the CIAs drug sales? Think through what you’re saying before labeling it in that way, just because you dont understand what’s being said. If your drug runners make it across the border without any hassle, you make more money than anyone else. It really isn’t as hard to understand as you’re making out to be.

Also, I mean the CIA literally ran the heroin game out of Laos and Myanmar from the start Vietnam war until they switched the base of operations of Afghanistan in the early 2000s. It’s how they paid for operation gladio and the illegal regime changes around the world, in the exact same way they flooded America with crack in the 80s.

It not making sense to you is a user issue.

If we realise that the “war on drugs” was actually the CIA’s war on the competition because counter narco insurgency is, for instance and purposes, indistinguishable from narco insurgency, the “war on drugs” was a roaring success. I mean, those illegal regime changes and death squads aren’t free, ya know.

You’d have thought that depicting Mary pegging satan would get you burned at the steak in those days. Apparently not, it would seem.

They have eyes for nipples and nipples for eyes. It’s Titface!

In the rest of the western world, landlords buy houses. They’re especially prolific for this in places with a high demand for housing, as this will maximise their profit extraction for the least amount of work. It’s a real problem, especially when the people denying mortgages to people are the same ones buying up the housing stock.

The same claim is made in the UK about the “real” problem being building regulations, as if forcing developers to build infrastructure like schools and roads (along with the houses they want to build) is a bad thing. Luckily though, the idea that the private sector could save us from themselves, at the expense of their own profit, is so silly that most people are informed enough to dismiss it instantly as nothing more than the corporate propaganda it is.

At some point, we have to start accepting the finite nature of land.

I would look at things like “supply and demand” to answer that question.

“How dare you say that I’d convert to islam”

Trump 2026.

This just in, ignorance is still bliss

The only other person here who understands MMT. Sorry for your downvotes. Just wanted to send some love, over the ignorance.

I have one simple trick for people who hate taxation but turn a blind eye to corporate profits. Instead of calling it “tax” call it “government profit” because, apparently, that’s all it takes to fool them.

I’m told filming sims can sometimes fool it

One of the most Christian things I’ve heard from a pope in quite a long time

That’s not what saying something like that would mean but I’m not going to laugh at someone who isn’t a native speaker for that. It’s a weird reply though.

My point is that you don’t have to use olive oil. I just said it in a silly way. It’s a prompt for the realisation of “oh yeah, I could use other oils. Other oils exist.” You don’t seem to have picked up on that and have chosen taken it personally, on behalf of olive oil. Theres no need. The oil doesn’t care.

Good luck with the olive oil fried rice though!

Sorry to burst your bubble but I’m not American. However, your assumption that my view must be American, specifically due to your intensely eurocentric view, is painfully ironic.

For some people making Indian, Mexican, Thai or Chinese food with olive oil isn’t tasty, as (believe it or not) olives don’t actually go with everything.

I mean, I listed more than just Italian but I guess that’s inconvenient for the point you’re attempting to make.

I am being free. It’s just im using my freedom not to make my food taste weird. People can use a neutral oil like vegetable oil for almost everything instead of, say, using olive oil in a curry or egg fried rice 🤮.