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The Global Energy Balance Network, the group funded by coca-cola to tell kids it's a-ok to eat a lot of junk food and eat a lot of sugary poo poo as long as you balance it with exercise, has disbanded: http://www.cbsnews.com/news/anti-obesity-group-funded-by-coke-global-energy-balance-network-disbanding/ quote:The group had previously said that it received an "unrestricted gift" from Coke and that the Atlanta-based soft drink giant had "no input" into its activities. But lol if you think this is going to affect children's health education one iota: http://www.motherjones.com/politics/2015/12/obesity-exercise-energy-balance quote:The class is part of a program called Together Counts. That program is wholly funded by a group called the Healthy Weight Commitment Foundation—which is in turn run and bankrolled by junk food corporations. Indra Nooyi, CEO of PepsiCo, is the chair of the board, and directors include the CEOs of Kellogg, Hershey, Nestle USA, Coca-Cola, Unilever, Smucker, and General Mills. The organization's mission, according to tax filings, is "to help families and schools reduce obesity—especially childhood obesity." Basically kids are getting this poo poo: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ay0dnLeCGGw And getting taught that literally all there is to weight loss is to just exercise for 100 calories for every 100 calories you eat, completely ignoring whether those calories are coming from fat, whether there's a balance of the right nutrients, etc. The girl scout handbook in the Mother Jones article is pretty bad and you can see that the prevailing lesson these kids are learning isn't so much to be smart about their energy intake as it is teaching them that they better consume a lot of food in case they want to be active. It doesn't mention energy stored in fat, nothing about weight, nothing about the different rate at which calories burn, it's a mess. It advocates snacking between meals to "keep your energy up" and advocates such great ideas as "you need to be active for 60 minutes a day but that doesn't need to come all at once, you can do little spurts throughout the day." You wonder why kids are getting fat in the United States of America, it's because your curricula are all based on this 1936 way of thinking about exercise.
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There already is a fat thread in dnd.
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I think he wants to have an actual discussion and not read the Best of GBS and r/fatpeoplehate
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I don't think schools are making kids fat. They certainly weren't teaching good health or nutritional science back before the juvenile obesity epidemic.
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pathetic little tramp posted:The Global Energy Balance Network, the group funded by coca-cola to tell kids it's a-ok to eat a lot of junk food and eat a lot of sugary poo poo as long as you balance it with exercise, has disbanded: That and microwave pizza being equal to a vegetable serving doesn't help.
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zoux posted:So is this poll claiming that registered Democrats would be more likely to vote for the Republican candidate if Hillary wins the nomination?
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I've come to the conclusion that Trump is a Native American trickster god.
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Also topical: Students at a 95% free lunch Chicago high school are forced to eat Aramark-provided lunch food that's so bad they're boycotting it because it's worse than the food Aramark sells to prisons.quote:Rotten pears, burned pizza, and fat-filled chicken patties and burgers. Those are just some of the unappetizing, often unhealthy lunch items being served to teens at Roosevelt High School on Chicago’s Northwest Side—and some of the students have had enough. Starting Wednesday, they plan to boycott the gross cafeteria food, and they have launched a petition demanding that lunch offerings be improved.
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Talmonis posted:I stared into the abyss of a Donald Trump related CNN comment section, and leave it bewildered. What is the appeal of being a mean spirited rear end in a top hat? Worse, taking pride in being "un-PC", which really only translates to kicking people who are already down? We have a presidential candidate here in the Philippines whose schtick is about the same thing: he brags about extra-marital affairs, he brags about having shot criminals dead and burning the bodies afterwards, he cussed out the Pope because the Papal visit left him stuck in traffic And much like Trump, he just gets more supporters and rabid fans for it. The main thing is that if you're tired of "establishment/traditional politicians", a candidate that shoots his mouth off distances himself from those kinds of people, because even Huckabee or Ron Paul etc still have the slightest veneer of speaking like a statesman even when the meaning of their statements themselves is vile By being "politically incorrect", Trump distances himself from everyone else. He's willing to do things that the other candidates won't, and once you vote him into the Presidency, he's going to follow-through on that un-PC-ness into results. You know how it goes: Tea Party darlings get voted into Congress ... but the Democrats keep winning on their agenda anyway! When will this slow string of defeats be stopped?! Trump will stop it, because he can do an end-run around those darned Democrats and RINOs the same way he's doing an end-run around the basic rules of public discourse.
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Luigi Thirty posted:“I think it’s especially important for young people in Chicago—where we see so much corruption, cronyism, and nepotism—that they learn how to make change within large organizations,” Tim Meegan, a veteran social studies teacher at Roosevelt who supports the student-led effort, told WBEZ on Monday. RIP high school social studies teacher.
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euphronius posted:There already is a fat thread in dnd. I actually dıd not know that and trıed lookıng for ıt, my bad
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http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/12/01/mitch-mcconnell-campaign-finance_n_6251380.html Huffpo link, sorry, but Mcconnell wants to combat the pervasive influence of SuperPACs... by effectively ending restrictions on campaign contribution limits and coordination between candidates and national party councils. Fight fire with fire until we're all literally on fire! 
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Mr Interweb posted:Don't conservatives say that birth control pills are abortificents? I swear I heard someone like Santorum say that. And many others as well. gently caress it, y'all. Why dogwhistle anymore? We know what they're really trying to say here. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2BlJRtsQrgo pathetic little tramp posted:
If you're exercising enough to burn every calorie you eat every day, you're going to be swole as gently caress. At 2500 calories, that's daily marathons, ~4 hours of squats, etc. You'll be an exhausted, broken, hungry, muscular, skeleton in no time.
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Monkey Fracas posted:http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/12/01/mitch-mcconnell-campaign-finance_n_6251380.html Mcconnell does not want to work in the senate anymore apparently.
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Toph Bei Fong posted:gently caress it, y'all. Why dogwhistle anymore? We know what they're really trying to say here. You'd die of water poisoning long before becoming a skeleton. Then you become a skeleton.
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euphronius posted:The South has poo poo tons of oil so that would make things really interesting. California had been admitted as a free state as part of the Compromise of 1850 and was fiercely pro-Union once the war started, with the small minority of secessionist traitors in Southern California being suppressed by the end of 1861.
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I think Harry Turtledove has a series of books that start with the South winning the war and then following that history all the way through like WW2. I only really remember that they called tanks barrels for some reason.
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Captain_Maclaine posted:California had been admitted as a free state as part of the Compromise of 1850 and was fiercely pro-Union once the war started, with the small minority of secessionist traitors in Southern California being suppressed by the end of 1861. Almost completely accurate, with one small exception. A tiny town in NorCal technically seceded from the Union in 1850 and, due to a clerical error, didn't rejoin for a very long time. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rough_and_Ready,_California From the Anderson Valley Advisor: http://theava.com/03/0910-roughready.html quote:On April 7th, 1850, the townspeople signed a Constitution similar to that of the United States, and they elected Colonel E. F. Brundage as President. The Constitution was referred to as Brundage's Manifesto, and read in part: "We deem it necessary and prudential to withdraw from said Territory (of California) and from the United States of America to form, peacefully if we can, forcibly if we must, the Great Republic of Rough and Ready," but the Republic fizzled the following 4th of July when Nevada City saloon owners refused to sell liquor to "foreigners." To be fair, though, this was a "nation" brought to its knees by a liquor shortage; it's unlikely it would have made much military impact.
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I don't know what would have happened to CA eventually since it was not contiguous with the rest of the states. But that would have been a real wildcard.
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zoux posted:I think Harry Turtledove has a series of books that start with the South winning the war and then following that history all the way through like WW2. I only really remember that they called tanks barrels for some reason. Yes. It's really not as interesting as you might think by dint of Turtledove basically find-and-replace-ing his way through WWI and WWII, except with American locales.
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gradenko_2000 posted:Yes. It's really not as interesting as you might think by dint of Turtledove basically find-and-replace-ing his way through WWI and WWII, except with American locales. Yeah, Turtledove's real AH wheelhouse is his Agent of Byzantium series, since he's got a Ph.D. on the subject. Everything else is a little more 
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zoux posted:I think Harry Turtledove has a series of books that start with the South winning the war and then following that history all the way through like WW2. I only really remember that they called tanks barrels for some reason. I haven't read those, but in the real world "tank" was because when the first tanks were still classified wartime projects the cover story was that they were being developed as mobile water tanks for the front. So probably just an "exact terminology differed" sort of AU thing there.
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Killer robot posted:I haven't read those, but in the real world "tank" was because when the first tanks were still classified wartime projects the cover story was that they were being developed as mobile water tanks for the front. So probably just an "exact terminology differed" sort of AU thing there. Oh, well there you go, thanks.
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DemeaninDemon posted:You'd die of water poisoning long before becoming a skeleton. Then you become a skeleton. I see nothing wrong with this, and if approved, Our Troops would become invincible. Why is Obama not letting our skeleton warriors loose?  In other news, Thomas Piketty agrees with Bernie Sanders that income equality is the driving factor in most of the world's problems.
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Doesn't matter if it's true or not, because it's hit the right-wing media at this point, so it must be true.
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Toph Bei Fong posted:I see nothing wrong with this, and if approved, Our Troops would become invincible. Why is Obama not letting our skeleton warriors loose? This should be hung up in every high school across America. 
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Toph Bei Fong posted:I see nothing wrong with this, and if approved, Our Troops would become invincible. Why is Obama not letting our skeleton warriors loose? Thank you for this . Usually I read this thread to keep me depressed and hopeless. Today, a reasonable belly chuckle.
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Re: Alt history. CA has a metric gently caress-ton of oil and basically cancels out what the gulf states (minus Texas) produce. Texas however is literally a petrol-state and produces something like 1/2 of all US oil.
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Does anyone remember what that website was called that catalogged all the crazy poo poo in the 2008 election? it was almost like just plaintext of all the nontroversies like the flag pin incident and madrassa raising and stuff
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Meg From Family Guy posted:Does anyone remember what that website was called that catalogged all the crazy poo poo in the 2008 election? it was almost like just plaintext of all the nontroversies like the flag pin incident and madrassa raising and stuff http://thisfuckingelection.com
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"You haven't heard of me I'm Chris Dodd" makes me crack up everytime.
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Your Dunkle Sans posted:Hypothetically, if the Union and the Confederacy remained split as two separate countries to this day, would their relationship to each other be like India and Pakistan's today (ie highly poisonous and antagonistic)? its extremely unlikely that the south would still exist, its economy was based almost entirely around cotton production and it's unlikely that would change after the cotton barons won a war of independence. in the late 1800 cotton took a giant hit due to expanded global production and the boll weevil, so then you have the south's economy collapsing at most a few decades after the war, at a time when the north's industrial economy is growing tremendously assuming that the south somehow managed to survive this economic shock, the almost certain large scale self smuggling of hundreds of thousands of slaves to a much more welcoming north, and the tricky navigation of a certified constitutionally guaranteed slave state in an era when slavery really starts to become unpopular, all with a vengeful and industrially powerful hostile neighbor, the relatiohship would be probably less hostile but far more imbalanced as a power differential than india/pakistan
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Is there any truth to the Lost Causer/States' Rights claims that the South was on the verge of abolishing slavery themselves? Seems to me like you wouldn't go to war over a thing you're about to get rid of anyway.
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WampaLord posted:Literally happens all the time. That's why IVF uses like 5 embryos minimum when implanting. This is not true at all.
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Talmonis posted:I stared into the abyss of a Donald Trump related CNN comment section, and leave it bewildered. What is the appeal of being a mean spirited rear end in a top hat? Worse, taking pride in being "un-PC", which really only translates to kicking people who are already down? What you're seeing is old white people lashing out at a world that doesn't value them nearly as much as it used to. It's easier to accept being nice to folks when you've got a fat pension and two new cars in the garage, and it's hard to accept that the world doesn't think you deserve that anymore just because you're a fat, fundamentalist middle manager.
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zoux posted:Is there any truth to the Lost Causer/States' Rights claims that the South was on the verge of abolishing slavery themselves? Seems to me like you wouldn't go to war over a thing you're about to get rid of anyway. no not a bit they would have had to abolish slavery anyway at some point because if the cotton economy collapsed there would have been no economic justification for slaves, there were few places to sell slaves to in the late 19th century, so the easiest way to recoup losses would be to 'liquidate' and sell the slaves their freedom eventually and move to sharecropping, aka privatized contract slavery but since the abolishment of slavery was specifically illegal in the csa constitution this would have been a crazy constitutional crisis, the pro-slavery legalist hardliners against the reluctantly anti-slavery planters who are looking to divest themselves from a bare minimum human upkeep on a population of slaves who they can't turn an appreciable profit from
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Toph Bei Fong posted:In other news, Thomas Piketty agrees with Bernie Sanders that income equality is the driving factor in most of the world's problems. What a racist, sexist opinion.
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zoux posted:Is there any truth to the Lost Causer/States' Rights claims that the South was on the verge of abolishing slavery themselves? Seems to me like you wouldn't go to war over a thing you're about to get rid of anyway. The idea behind this is based on historical hindsight: the industrial revolution would have changed up economics and manufacturing so much that slavery would no longer have been a feasible backbone for the Southern economy and they would have had to either adapt or collapse. It's also largely BS, as the Southeners only ever had plans to expand slavery at the time.
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