What shocks me more than anything is that Bob gained over 75lbs. in the last years of his life. I can write 3 or 4 paragraphs about this but what the Fu k gaining so much goddamn weight? 30 lbs. is unacceptable. 75+ lbs you're going to die.
I've read a few articles recently, one of them a doctor said it probably was a quick an awful end. He most certainly didn't crack his head, think nothing of it, and then die after tucking himself into bed. He probably cracked THE HELL OUT OF HIS HEAD. How? By falling backwards and as we all know, the BIGGER they are, the HARDER they fall. After such an horrific crack, Bob was probably barely conscious, struggled to make it to his bed then laid down and died.
I'm sorry I harp on it but obesity is more than a big problem. It's a catastrophe. I was out of the contiguous U.S. for 20 years when I came back in 2013 I was horrified. It took me awhile to see how it all happened, yes fast food and sugar are terrible but what I see now is the grocery stores are a huge component of the problem. Used to be one row of soda and chips, along with the freezer section with frozen pizzas, TV dinners. NOW, it's aisle after aisle of junk, and it's cheap so for 10 bucks you can get 10,000 calories. People buy this junk and over 2 days they eat 5,000 calories a day and then back to the store and do it all over again. This is how you gain 50, 75, even 100 lbs. Probably most of the other Western countries have similar junk, just not as cheap but cheap enough to make obesity an epidemic.
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brux (14837)
3 years ago
>> I was out of the contiguous U.S. for 20 years when I came back in 2013 I was horrified. It took me awhile to see how it all happened, yes fast food and sugar are terrible but what I see now is the grocery stores are a huge component of the problem.
I'm reticent to get political about this, but I think I've read your comments before and if I am wrong let me know, but I think political you are far to the right and I wonder - don't you see this establishment of our corporatocracy that has sold us all these things that are killing us, or making us sick or turning a lot of us psychotic as a failure of the government, which the Right controls through the influence of these very corporations. In virtually every case business lies, cheats and exploits human weaknesses in order to gain power and wealth ... don't we need to put restraints and that, and if so, how?
To me, we have got to place the needs of people ahead of the war of capital in everything we do. I don't see how that gets done considering that ... and Larry David put this in a very comedic context in his Super Bowl Ad ...
https://youtu.be/1O76NUhig3Y?t=327
"Your going to let everyone vote ... even the stupid people"? -Larry David Super Bowl Ad.
Somehow this gets at the heart of the situation. We've always let the greedy people run things as a proxy for intelligence, and that worked fine when they did not have access to atom bombs, stealth bombers, surveillance technology and psychological reverse engineering of human behavior ... but now we have no way to mitigate the power and influence of the greedy people, and no better quality people to offer the electorate, ... like the electorate would be able to choose if we did.
We need a way to put a group of Plato's Philosopher Kings in charge, but there no way to select them or put them in power. I read Jared Diamond's book "Collapse" and he has a great point that every human civilization so far has broken itself and ruined its environment, but there was almost more of nature to exploit. Now we are killing and overusing nature itself.
How is it you see Conservatism solving these problems, or do you just deny there is a problem at all?
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ebhaynz (3754)
3 years ago
I'm definitely not affiliated with either the right or the left. I don't want to be associated with either of them. I belong to the church of George Carlin. Almost everything he said was right and applies to this very day. Cooperation gave way to screwing everybody over, including your friends and family. The western world is really screwed right now, not much chance of it being saved. Roman empire.
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