How can you possibly be so certain that food with genetically modified DNA, the particular likes of which we have NEVER EVER seen before, so cannot know what the long-term effects of might be, is "safe"? You are not a scientist, so I question your ability to make informed valid statements about a topic on which you're…

Exactly. People do not realize how much lobbying Monsanto does in order to get away with what it does. It's literally one of the worst corporations in the world.

Is this your stock response to every post here? You think it's safe, I don't. I want labels. What's the harm in telling me GMO or GMO-Free?

I understand where you're coming from. It's called being young and extremely naive and stupid about how the way the world works. You've been raised to worship money, and fed to believe that a person's worth as a person and in your case as a man boy child, is based on how much you earn doing whatever crap job you get…

Also, just curious: why do you keep citing the Bible? You do realize that non-Christians (aka, most people) don't view the Bible the way they would, say, a recipe book or doctor's instructions. If the Bible's teachings work for you, great(!), but referencing the Bible to tell someone why she/he is wrong is like…

I think that much is undisputed. More than any other time in human history, food is available very cheaply to the masses.

I think you miss my point. He makes it sound like this is a constant thing, rather than the occasional "yowza" about a stranger. "When I try to think of the women I've interacted with over the past 12 hours, I can't really pull up any distinct images, as I would normally do with ease" sounds a lot like not being able…

No, but when you apparently can't see any woman without thinking that (as Hinds seems to do), then maybe you have a problem just in general, and maybe you have a problem seeing women as people first. I mean, good lord.

About the ring - it can be out for less than 3 hours. In case anyone ever needs that knowledge, which I hope to dog you don't.

I agree with that, but maybe I have too strict of charm standards, in that I would say that if a person is making anybody in the group uncomfortable they're not charming. One of my favorite charming people's best ability is to pull introverts into the conversation in a way that leaves nobody on the outside, and I…

This point keeps coming up (well, twice now), and I think it misses the point by such a wide mark that we're almost not even speaking the same language.

And that is why reading social cues and personal reactions is how you avoid making people uncomfortable, rather than relying on blanket rules.

But that's the point: pleasant social interactions used to be expected, and now half the comments are, "Well, maybe he just doesn't feel like talking to you!" The standards have fallen to the point where any kind of extroverted attempt to interact politely with a person is seen as outside the norm, or, apparently mani…

Not at all! If someone makes people uncomfortable they're not being charming. The line is clear. That's like saying there's a thin line between a polite advance and being creepy: the line is only thin to people that cannot read social cues.

I'm going to have to disagree with you. Hard work and long hours have long been part of the American social landscape. There has never been a golden age of short hours and unquestioned time off.

Your first point regarding the lifestyle factors of your patients seems very, very trusting of a population that probably lacks sufficient knowledge of what a healthy diet and frequency/quality exercise consists looks like. Plus this population like the rest of humanity is probably inclined to paint a rosier picture…

yeah, I'm with you on this. It takes a longer time when you are first learning (I didn't learn how to cook until about a year and a half ago, really, because my mom cannot cook for shit), but once you get the hang of it it takes about half an hour to 45 minutes to make a healthy meal, which is just as long as it would…

Funny and I agree about the bread, but I don't think you've actually made any logical arguments about why people shouldn't learn to cook. I genuinely can't think of anyone who doesn't have access to ingredients (you may have MORE access if you have a bigger budget, but come on. Beans and rice are basically a perfect…

"I am Alpha and Omega, the beginning and the end, the first and the last."

Cooking is not the almighty time-consuming chore people make it out to be. It literally takes me five minutes (or less) to make breakfast. Oil, pan, spinach, eggs, scramble. Done. Five minutes. Lunch is a chore to make, but you do it at night and bring it in the morning. Dinner can be as easy as throwing a bunch of…