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Submission + - What's Causing the Rise In Obesity? Everything. (thesocietypages.org)

Submitted by Mr_Blank
Mr_Blank writes: We all know — because we are being constantly reminded — that we are getting fat. Americans are at the forefront of the trend, but it is a transnational one. Apparently, it is also trans-species: Over the past 20 years, as the American people were getting fatter, so were America’s laboratory macaques, chimpanzees, vervet monkeys and mice, as well as domestic dogs, domestic cats, and domestic and feral rats from both rural and urban areas. Researchers examined records on those eight species and found that average weight for every one had increased. The marmosets gained an average of 9% per decade. Lab mice gained about 11% per decade. Chimps are doing especially badly: their average body weight had risen 35% per decade. What is causing the obesity era? Everything.

Comment Re:WHOOSH! (Score 1) 490

After checking some of Grunwald's generally left-leaning articles (I didn't recognize the name), I think his comment proves you can't write satire anymore; you can not image a nut-fringe idea that is stupid or absurd enough that people won't believe it's real. E.g., Westover Baptist, TX Gov. Perry, ...

from TFA: "my main problem with this is it gives Assange supporters a nice safe persecution complex to hide in"

There goes your satire theory.

Comment Re:Double Standard (Score 0) 490

Yeah? First of all, where's your proof that they would have done that? Secondly, where's your proof that Obama is even remotely left of Nixon. Thirdly, he was given a pass because it was following the lockstep conservative media line. Fourthly, this is a classic example of what passes for a "liberal" journalist.

The so-called liberal media gave the Bush admin passes on lying to wage a "war of aggression" then using chemical warfare to shake-and-bake Iraqi civilians with phosphorus, then committing blatant torture, and all the while lining the pockets of Dick Cheney's corporations with no-bid contracts.

The only reason Obama got into power was because we were too worried about the risk of not voting against the villains that conservatards wanted.

You morons ought to check your tri-cornered hats for mercury content.

Comment Re:Being way to nice on a Traitor. (Score 1) 490

I see no issue wishing a drone strike against this traitor. Ass-ange thought it was his own justification for what he has done. In my opinion that makes him a traitor and should be either hung or shot by a firing squad then dumped in the ocean. This is what use to be done to traitors. Not some BS political trial, which is just wasting more money.

The conservatard's definition of traitor: Betraying the government to be loyal to it's own people.

Comment How dare Ass-ange! (Score 1) 490

How dare he remove the blindfold that keeps voters from knowing the direction that their country is heading! We journalists have worked long and hard to support that blindfold. As a dedicated journalist, I'd drone-f&^$ any person who would be so arrogant as to inform the public. We need to wage war, not on government secrecy, but on personal secrecy, and we need to respect the governments right to privacy, so the voters can decide on the important issues, like what church their representative goes to, or whether they have diligently adhered to the two-inches-below-elbow-rolled-up-sleeves rule.

Comment Get the day job. (Score 2) 189

by Macchendra (#44598061) Attached to: Ask Slashdot: Experiences Working At a High-Profile Game Studio?
And make your own software on the side. Don't do games, though, unless they're butt simple and sell like hotcakes. You have magical powers. Know this --> You can create a product that can be reproduced for no cost. Go for the largest number of customers and where you stand a chance to compete in the current market.

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