It’s insane if you think people are doing it as a rational way to make money, but that’s not how most people think of it. Most people think of it (correctly) as buying a small chance at a larger amount of money.

The fact that you’re entirely incorrect about the history of the word ‘cancer’ (https://www.etymonline.com/search?q=cancer) (unless you think my example was referring to a crab) pretty much sums up this conversation.

By the opposite, you mean that words are used despite their clinical definitions? Sure, people do that, and it leads to problems, particularly minimizing people’s mental health issues. If I say that a new TV show is a cancer on our culture, that’s technically semantically acceptable, but I can’t get defensive when…

I think it’s important to remember that these clinical definitions have, over the past decade, thoroughly permeated the wider discourse and have sloppily intermixed with their plain English definitions.

Thanks for supporting me in proving that your dumb comment was dumb and wrong. If using the label for everyone who ever exhibits the behavior made sense (like you said), the words would be retired and obsolete, but they’re not, because people don’t use them that way (i.e. your comment was dumb and wrong).

But everyone engages in gluttony at some point, and everyone engages in narcissism at some point, thus everyone is a glutton and narcissist and now the terms are meaningless. Brilliant analysis, there.

The difference is that misusing (or in reality, using the more recent meaning) of “beg the question” doesn’t minimize or exacerbate people’s mental health problems the way these others do. And no, annoying people who took a couple philosophy classes in college and have strong feelings about the terms they learned…

The problem is, though, when people call people who engage in some narcissistic (or just slightly rude or selfish or callous) behavior “narcissists,” which is, unfortunately, very common, untrue and unhelpful for all involved.

That’s really only possible in places where there are large enough grocery stores to be running those kinds of sales. It’s worth remembering that’s not everywhere in the US.

It’s possible that this person lives in one of America’s many food deserts where there are few or no grocery stores and they’re having to do their food shopping at convenience stores, bodegas, or gas stations. In that case, food for one marginally healthy meal can be hard to get for under $3 without some creativity…

Congratulations on not knowing about a thing! Everyone is very impressed! Now go to some other articles about things you don’t know about and tell everyone about the things about which you do not know!

I wouldn’t say that most overweight people have a caloric surplus though people who are actively gaining weight do. It takes more calories to move and sustain a heavier body. It’s always good to remember that an overweight body doesn’t actually tell you much about that person’s current or recent behavior.

Last year I got a habit app that helped me put that into perspective. Having a list of things I’d like to do every day (or a couple times a week or whatever) at hand has been really helpful to build better habits without a monomaniacal (and likely doomed) focus on doing everything every day.

Exercising more actually requires eating more for most people, but eating more food that supports the exercise as opposed to inhibiting it.

It sounds smart, but you have to be careful with that one. You have to find a lazy person that will actually do the thing and do it well enough. If you just pick any lazy person, they’ll just not do it or do a half-assed job that someone else will have to clean up.

Such low effort trolling. You gotta actually troll to get fed. This is what happens when trolls get participation trophies.

Such low effort trolling. You gotta actually troll to get fed. This is what happens when trolls get participation trophies.

And still, you have no point other than whining. You imagined that someone might hurt your feelings and you had a cry about your feelings and then you were afraid to admit just how little it took for your feelings to get hurt. I get it, you have nothing and you concede.

Surprise surprise, you have literally no capacity to support your claim. Low effort trolling at its best.

Why so sensitive? It’s incredible how quick you are to throw a tantrum because someone said that offending people is offensive. It’s incredible that you can get anything done while constantly imagining yourself the victim of a pogrom because a blog said that racism was bad.