Here’s the thing people don’t realize about finite goods like gasoline and water: your use makes things more expensive for other people. If you choose to drive a hummer and use 10 times more gas than the average driver, you use up remaining oil supplies more quickly and that causes the price to increase even for the…

I find it racist as hell. I hear that accent and I seriously think of douchey bros who will hurt me or people who look like me up. I actually can’t watch the show Booze Traveler, partly cause I think the guys is a terrible host, but mainly because his Boston accent makes feel like he’d take me in a corner and beat the…

Marky Mark is from the Northeast and Channing Tatum is from Alabama. So much for the south having the market cornered on racist, backward thinking.

I was on Paraguard but after six months I started cramping a lot so I had it removed. It turns out I had a small fibroid and it was irritating it (thanks doc for failling to notice!). That said the first five months were great. Insertion was not anywhere near as terrible as everyone says it is (just take a couple of…

Seconding the care of keeping you.
Don’t let the fact that it’s an American Girl book put you off of it.

You probably had changed. Not in a bad way but some people really hate when their friends change in any significant way.

I love your reaction. America has this amazing restaurant called the Cheesecake Factory that I love taking foreigners too because even by American standards the portions are insane. And by amazing I don’t mean good or anything... just awe inspiring. The restaurants are often laid out in some kind of greek or roman…

No I agree re: blanket fishing! And yes when you get a chance definitely send something along. I’m fascinated. I don’t eat much fish and a lot of it tends to be anchovies so I’m not concerned from a consumption perspective just a concerned citizen one.

Portion sizes are smaller in Italy and Italians tend to be more physically active. Pasta, rice, etc are fine if you haven’t developed insulin resistance (as most americans have) and you’re relatively active and you don’t eat so much of it. A serving size in the US is 3 to 4 times as much as in Italy. This is why so…

Different foods have different GI loads. Berries are usually safe for most people. That said different things make different individuals spike.

It’s odd that you have no problems with Indian as I don’t like creamy things or butter and I actually don’t eat Indian out because of the heavy use of ghee and yogurt...

Sorry but no. If the output from one system is the input to another food system that isn’t waste. You can argue that it’s an inefficient use of agriculture - but that isn’t waste. I’m talking about food that literally either rots in fields, gets thrown out (at the source), or ends up in landfills (after we take it…

It’s the same fallacy!

Oh, got it! Sorry I misunderstood!

Just pointing out that that sort of reasoning is why people argue that affirmative action, or women’s rights aren’t necessary. Look Barack Obama is president! Look Sheryl Sandburg is senior at Facebook. That some people manage to overcome systemic and handicaps to rise to the top doesn’t mean everyone can. Look,…

I never used the word fat? And I never said you said you were only going to eat soy. You explicitly said giving up four legged animals made you healthier. I was affirming that the giving up was ancillary and that it was great if it lead you to eat less terrible foods but that meat itself wasn’t the culprit.

they can better absorb protein, calcium and other nutrients through plant based foods over animal products that’d be “preachy”

Despite what videos like fat sick and dead will show you, there’s no correlation between giving up meat and improving health. It’s great that giving up four legged animals have cut down on your eating terrible foods but meat itself isn’t the culprit.

Learned something new, thank you!

Or how about making it legal to sell hunted meat? I’ve never had venison because you can’t sell it and restaurant venison is farmed in New Zealand: