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   feld (feld@friedcheese.us)'s status on Friday, 07-Mar-2025 13:04:11 JST feld
   Speaking of which does anyone else absolutely despise how companies seemed to figure out they can just give people only two choices: too little and way too much?
   
   I regularly force myself to buy smaller sized items even though they're a worse deal because goddamn it I don't need that many, snacks are addictive enough
   
   It's like calculated to get people absolutely hooked or to overeat junk food. They've gotta be having like weekly meetings about engagement and sales, carefully planning when and where to advertise to people when they're most vulnerable, etc. A special kind of cruelty. I swear this is the current generation's "advertising cigarettes to children" moment.
   
   Someone with a need to write a masters thesis on something should study advertising and placement of snacks and the sales data against national mood or something. I bet there's correlation.
   
   At least when people smoked they could look really cool.
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     feld (feld@friedcheese.us)'s status on Friday, 07-Mar-2025 13:07:57 JST feld

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     I have a gift and the gift is I can eat a disgusting about of carbs if I want and never gain weight from it. That's my secret.
     
     Now what about everyone else out there whose bodies don't work that way?
     
     Like be honest, the only way you're controlling your carbs intake is by not existing in the USA, you're body building, or you're vegan. Just existing in this country is basically precondition for diabetes.
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     Jonah Aragon (jonah@mastodon.neat.computer)'s status on Friday, 07-Mar-2025 13:43:36 JST Jonah Aragon

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     @feld I have this same gift, except I have never known for sure whether it is a real thing or if the reason it works is because what I would consider “a disgusting amount of carbs” is what others might consider a light snack 🤔

     Like I think maybe I just don’t eat a lot, but I wonder if the amount that other people eat is just literally incomprehensible to me and this is why I don’t realize it if that makes sense lol

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     feld (feld@friedcheese.us)'s status on Friday, 07-Mar-2025 14:03:11 JST feld

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     • Jonah Aragon
     @jonah I've had similar thoughts... like how many pounds of food do you have to eat for real
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     feld (feld@friedcheese.us)'s status on Friday, 07-Mar-2025 14:11:57 JST feld

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     • DB
     @lawyersgunsnmoney Yeah the type 1 people I know have a very bad time
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     DB (lawyersgunsnmoney@mstdn.social)'s status on Friday, 07-Mar-2025 14:11:59 JST DB

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     @feld If you’re a type 1 you are royally, dangerously and irreversibly screwed