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Cake day: September 28th, 2023
  • molten@lemmy.worldtoFunny@sh.itjust.works•Keeping the playing field level
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    3 months ago

    What? This isn’t suggested or taught in any high school curriculum I know of. Not only that but it is technically true and most people who actually diet do more research than “starve yourself” because who is too lazy to do research but not too lazy to make a huge lifestyle change and constantly exert control over their purchasing/prep/eating habits? Decades for the body to recover? I mean, if you literally starve yourself to near death to the point where you cause organ damage you might never fully recover I guess, but seriously, nobody is doing that without already having severe issues beforehand. The overarching suggestion of “eat less calories if you want to be less fat” is effective and non-harmful advice as the majority of people who remain overweight tend to overeat. Which is unhealthy and can take decades for the human body to recover.

  • molten@lemmy.worldto196@lemmy.blahaj.zone•A reminder on the difference between demonstrations and protests
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    8 months ago

    That’s not the only possibility brother. I just asked if people think it would be better if they gave up. But I’ll bite.

    I bet your job is great but are you saying you’re doing more for the climate? Like you think the protestors (we can focus on the climate change ones like you said) would be more effective doing day jobs to make heaters use less fuel or equivalent? Do you think you generate more political pressure and attention and conversation doing what you do? Or that it’s people’s heaters that are a really significant part of the issue?

    I mean if you’re taking the “you’re blocking important people” angle I’m really sorry but… Yeah. That’s kind of the point isn’t it? Like. I think most of us follow what they’re doing with the art destruction and road blocking and stunts, right? It’s not a popularity contest (clearly lol) but a sacrifice to keep these issues generating attention and pressure. And yeah let’s just say for a second that they’ll block an ambulance carrying someone who will die if they don’t reach the hospital --just as a device to exemplify a situation-- that is unquestionably bad, but you should genuinely account for the fact that these people truly believe the world will end over the climate crisis. They probably wouldn’t be putting themselves and others at risk if they didn’t think it was literally the end of the world. And to be fair they might be right. It’s going to look pretty fucking silly down the road when the planet dies even more and people are still pissy about people protesting the wrong way. I know I’m going to remember every warning and protest and attempt to stop the inevitable when the power grid fails at 120 degrees or whatever and people start really dying. You know. Where I live. not just in Texas.

    Anyway, hit me with some effective alternatives that achieve the same goals without making anybody upset.

  • molten@lemmy.worldto196@lemmy.blahaj.zone•A reminder on the difference between demonstrations and protests
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    8 months ago

    Yeah. Those people are all talk. Show me someone blocking roads and I’ll show you someone who’s trying to do something besides complain and play victim. What? Should the protesters quit and join the chorus of “why won’t anybody do something” like all the rest?

    Call them misguided or inefficient but don’t call them shit if you’re not gonna nut up and do it better.

    Buncha couch critics. Go back to yelling at people on the great British baking show and pretending you know how to do their shit better too.