How so?

Seriously asking what you are seeing that I don't...

Obesity in the poor is not necessarily due to "poor life choices". Ther are other factors contributing to it.

1) Being in a food desert. If there are no grocery stores nearby, you are stuck with a long trip that you can ill afford or buying from the local convenience store, which doesn't have healthy foods (and is more expensive to boot!).

2) Lack of energy/time. At the end of a long day, you don't have the energy to cook up a meal from scratch, so microwave/easy cook meals are the goto. These quick meals tend to not be healthy.

3) Eating healthy is expensive in both time and money. Cheaper foods tend to be less healthy.

4) Lack of free time to exercise.

5) Lack access to medical care.

AI?

I got nuthin'...

Does that include U-Hauls and shipping containers?

Hell, this probably futile, but I'll say it anyway...

For those mentally healthy people that aren't plugged into the right-wing grievance machine, the parent post references two of the latest complaints:

1) President Biden intentionally "cheapened" Easter by also making a proclamation about Transgender Day of Visibility. The reason he marked TDV on Easter was because for the first time since it started in 2009 it fell on Easter. Biden has been marking TDV since he came into office in 2021. So no, he was not somehow "diminishing Easter".

As for the eggroll... God, are we really to the point in the national discourse that we are debating the nuances of a freaking eggroll??? Anyway, since sometime in the 50s you haven't been able to submit posters or decorated eggs with religious themes... Personally, considering the holiday I think that might be a bit odd, but I can see the argument for it. This rule was also in place during the four years of the Trump administration. So, if it is so bad then why didn't anyone complain when Trump ran the eggroll? Don't bother to answer, it's a rhetorical question...

Perhaps you are correct, but having one did prove convenient a few years ago. I worked at a Wal-Mart, and net connections were spotty inside the store. The store did provide a wireless network, but they blocked some political websites I liked to visit. A VPN let me go to them.

Necessary or lifesaving? No. Convenient, yes. ::shrug::

Oh yeah, it also helped me access some Japanese porn sites that didn't allow logins from the US.

They want to shut down Chinese data collection in order to force China to buy data on US citizens directly from Meta (or X, etc...).
(I'm only half kidding).

Still no concern on the part of congress about federal investigative agencies (as well as local law enforcement) that get information on US citizens by buying it from social media companies. This lets them get reams of data on people without bothering to get a search warrant.

Oh, there definitely is value... It lets him appear smart and savvy so he can sell books and seminars to the rubes.

He really lost me when he mocked the US dollar for being a fiat currency, which is true. Then he sings the praises of crypto currency... which is also a fiat currency.

Hell, at least you could still plant the tulip bulbs when that craze went bust.

But hookers and blow aren't? Can we at least play blackjack?

Constructing more housing is -not- the solution. In the US, there are already more houses than homeless people. https://checkyourfact.com/2019... Reading elsewhere, it seems that the issue is that the empty houses are not in the places people want/need to live... I know I don't want to live in the outlying areas of east Austin, but that's where the sweetish spot of affordability/distance to the factory I work at is. No telecommute for me! Not sure what the ultimate solution would be. A nationwide plan to move families to empty houses across the country and get them jobs? That's not even taking into consideration of those homeless by choice. I don't know how high that number is, but that demographic exists.

Very good point, I hadn't considered that. Thank you for expanding my knowledge.

I have a box of these if you need one...

Why would a person living in Australia have WeChat on their phone in the first place, let alone on a government phone. Granted, it's a necessity if you are visiting/living in China for purchases and travel, but it has no use anywhere else. It's spyware X10!

I agree with you in general, but I want to point out two advantages the Saudis have over "freer" parts of the world: labor and safety. Unskilled/lowskilled manpower is very cheap. They have a huge pool of people in the country on work visas that will put up with quite a bit for the opportunity of working there. They may be getting paid pennies, but that is more than they would be getting in their home country (Pakistan, Afghanistan, etc). They even sleep on the building site so you don't have to pay for lodging (hire a security guard). They also don't have all the regulations for worker or consumer safety, or the inspectors are easily bought off. They can cut -lots- of corners. But... yeah. I don't see this boondoggle being built on time or under budget.

I see your point, but this is essentially saying that there are only three types of stories: 1) Boy meets girl (mix and match genders as required) 2) Young man becomes wiser 3) Damnit, I forget the third.... Does anyone else remember this? The theory of stories goes back centuries: beginning, building conflict/tension, climax, dénouement.