Starred for you comment, but mostly for your handle, Mr. Cash.

My insurance company does not.  However, the plain fact is that BMI is nothing more than a very blunt instrument.  If the insurance company actually gave a damn about people’s health, they would utilize the body fat percentage metric.

Yeah, my doctor tells me every year that I have the BP of a teenager, and I have a pretty good diet and am active. But I’m overweight. Not Paul Blest overweight, but damned sure not Adonis.  The funny part is that I’ve been slowly losing weight over the better part of a year but I’ll bet dollars to doughnuts (yum)…

It’s not my fault that there are so many people out there who clutch their pearls at the very suggestion that their bullshit fake meat is in fact bullshit fake meat.  Anyway, I have to say I’ve been enjoying watching them get all spun up when they could just as easily recognize that I’m not actually defending anything.

Wait, so who is the Prince of Tides then?

Oh, man, that’s gonna be great.

The reality is that you’re always better off going to a specialty store which can provide you with audit trails of their source products. The store which we use gets it’s oils from either the Northern or Southern Hemisphere, depending on the time of year, and among the Northern Hemisphere oils, basically none of them…

Nothing.  I want absolutely nothing out of autonomous driving because I’m not buying one.  I’ll be puking my guts out the whole time that goddamned thing is making moves that I can’t anticipate.

Um...you’re either being obtuse deliberately, or you’re just stupid. If you cook a steak or a burger, anyone with two working eyes can tell that it is what it is—beef from a cow. If you have, even a raw impossible burger—nevermind cooked—it looks nothing like the original state of the ingredients from which it was…

Now THAT is a good question.

Wages haven’t been rising because during the recession, corporations realized that they could continue to fuck over people who work for a living no matter what. Even with a sub-5% unemployment rate, if none of your competitors are raising wages, then you won’t either. It’s a sweet little bit of not-quite collusion to…

The correct answer is:  everything except your monthly bills.

Wow.  You’re really doing an excellent job of proving my point.  Keep it up--you’re doing great!

you compulsive masterbater

I mean, if we’re being honest, fast food isn’t about authenticity.

Nice that you’re fascinated. Not sure what that has to do with me as I’m not angry about it.  What I do find fascinating are the large number of knee-jerk reactions from people who can’t seem to recognize the fact that I’m not taking any of this particularly seriously.

Probably the same way that you managed to miss that I may not be 100% serious.

Nice job with the bad faith arguments.  Cooking a steak or even a burger, isn’t even remotely the same thing as what is being done to create fake meat.  Not within 100 miles.  When you’re ready to discuss this like a grownup, let me know.

Man, don’t tell a Southern Baptist that everyone’s an agnostic. Holy shit will they go nuts.

...and yet, they are doing nothing to dispel that misconception. They are perfectly happy allowing people’s ignorance to pad their bottom line.