Happy May 1st.
As workers celebrate seizing the means of production,
and as Pagans celebrate the means of re-production,
I hope your day goes well.
Happy May 1st.
As workers celebrate seizing the means of production,
and as Pagans celebrate the means of re-production,
I hope your day goes well.
The myth that if you're "overweight" it's because you're lazy or eat too many processed foods is most easily proven bullshit when you see things like the "Venus of Willendorf" which is believed to be more than 28,000 years old.
I wasn't there, but I'm pretty sure there wasn't a lot of laying around on the couch and eating snack-cakes and sugar drinks in the year 25000 B.C.E.
We're all different. Some people aren't going to be thin short of medical intervention.
I tend to eat like a 10 year old if I don't pay attention, and if I do pay attention I can drop weight fairly easily.
I'm never going to be thin. It's not my body type. My doc called me a "mesomorph" which means big bone structure, unusually large hands and feet, lots of muscle, and can gain or lose weight pretty easily.
BMI is also B.S. and not applicable to people like me.
@GreenSkyOverMe for some of us, changes to diet and exercise do work. I recognize that for many it does not. For me, when I feel the need, I can choose to eat like a grown up and lose as much as half a pound a day after the first three days.
Fwiw— I also fully support the key point you make about your medicine being critical and being threatened by shortages.
...and you'd have been 100% doing the right thing. Unless a life is in immediate danger, the smart thing for anyone who isn't a trained firefighter to do, is get out. Stuff can be replaced. They make more stuff all day long.
Also, vehicle fires are really hard to put out with an extinguisher once they're going. Impossible if its a lithium battery or petroleum fire.
* Speaking as some who has done this several times *
@Peternimmo Literally EVERYTHING in your home or car that burns is highly toxic. Couches, carpets, most clothing, everything plastic, treated wood -- EVERYTHING.
Common practice now after a fire is to DECON SHOWER and have all gear professionally cleaned. We NEVER take fire gear or boots into the living area of a station any more.
A whole generation of firefighters died or is dying of cancer from before we got serious about bottled air and decon.
@jimcarroll Most of the Canadians I know would not welcome this. They wouldn't say anything to you about it, but quietly, inside, they'd resent it. They're quietly building a privacy hedge along the border as we speak.
INTP. Volunteer firefighter 20+ years. Software Developer. Parent. Grandparent. Love to fix things, not people.
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