I am currently at a party of around 50 people sitting alone because I only know 1 person who is off talking to others, feeling super awkward. Does that count?
I guess being unable to lose weight?
It is ridiculous how privileged it is in the context of human history to actually struggle with too much calories.
My wife is technically obese. She’s not bedridden fat like you see on TV, just nicely rounded. She complains about wanting to lose weight and finding it hard.
I suffered pretty serious poverty before meeting her and turning my life round, and also the brexit-covid combo basically emptied our supermarket shelves and scared the shit out of us all.
My mouth agrees with her that we should both do more to lose weight, but my mind says “bitch finish that sandwich let’s get a bit more famine resistance in us.”
I think this is also a big part of the issue.
Many countries are only recently in the phase of over consumption, meaning that parents and grandparents are often teaching kids early on to not waste food in a extremely unhealthy manner once you are in the context of over consumption.
For some people their parents grew up in a time where wasting the last few bites of a meal, or letting food go bad, or not eating food that in front of you would actually be bad. Like, if you didn’t eat the last few bites you are wasting a valuable resource that you might not get the privilege of eating tomorrow.
But for example in many parts of the US right now, you are much better off learning to throw food away than to learn to force feed yourself.
It is a shame that the world is like that, but the reality is that for many people today, being okay with throwing away food is an actually important part of staying healthy.
I got a Rx for zepbound and lost a bunch of weight.
A family with too much stuff in their house. We’re sometimes given brand new clothes with the tag still on that they forgot about and no longer want. And this is like upper middle class.
Anyway, what I mean to say is tax the rich.
I dated a girl who’s family never kept leftovers from meals even thanksgiving dinner they would throw out anything not eaten after dinner.
I’ve been to a fancy restaurant before. We were given dirty looks for leaving with a bag of leftovers.
Wtf leftovers are like half the fun
Would they at least make less food to avoid the leftovers!!! 😢
Nope they were very wasteful. And they all thought they were so much better than anyone else.
bet they white and Christian.
White yes, but Mormon.
I know nothing about mormonism except for surface-level info and memes, but I would have assumed they’d be more frugal types.
Yes they run the gamut of how they live their lives. I know some in the Mormon community who are very frugal and save and what not. And there are many people i have known in the Mormon community who act like they are Hollywood celebrities and are just wasteful with everything. Always buying a new car or truck, selling and moving into bigger houses, buying expensive name brands clothes etc.
Even worse
Extra worst! As another example her dad who is no longer alive was close friends with that Bundy family from southern Nevada that had that stand off with the government.
I bought the wrong dual arm monitor stand, and couldn’t refund it.
When I lived with my grandparents for a while I had to use the bathroom without heated floors whenever the maid was cleaning the other one. My current bathroom straight up doesn’t have heating.
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My friend is a multi-multi-multi-millionaire. Her father started a retail giant in my country. She has her own pool building with (i think it’s called) a free span roof. It is big enough to contain 6 copies of the house I used to own, exterior, roof, chimney and all. She spends more money per month heating the building and pool (which has not been used in 3 years) and paying maintenance and upkeep, than most people pay on their mortgage per year. She complained that the cost of natural gas went up 1.2%. She was spitting mad, tearing up the bill, balling it up and throwing it down in a huff. She also has a 30 car single span roof garage with row after row of industrial racking which contains mostly packrat stuff. She keeps that “Quonset” as she calls it, a balmy 20C all year through our -25C winters. And also complains about that cost.
I mean, if I was that wasteful and then got the bill I’d cry too
So in your mind she wasn’t aware of what she was paying to heat it until it went up 1%
Or at least didn’t think about how much she was using
You don’t realize she pays her bill every month?
Like, how hard is this to figure out
Someone that rich and disconnected clearly doesn’trealizes. Might not even be paying her own bills
The ice maker stopped working and When I make Sodastream I pour it over ice so I wouldn’t make Sodastream soda and was “forced” to drink the Cokes in the fridge. It took 2 days before the ice machine was fixed.
My local supermarket keeps the dark beers in the cooler!
C’mon guys, the darks are brewed to taste best at room temperature… and I want it now.
When my WiFi has a 5-10 minute hiccup because my ISP is upgrading its network.
<sigh> How will I ever last?
The motorcycle I bought to zip around and have fun on is broken, so I have to drive my car instead while I wait for the part to arrive.
F
Get those little pressure lines on your fingers carrying bags of groceries into the house.
Woah, look at Money Bags over here.
The firstest world problem ever: Bored horny teen boys memed us into fascism through social media manipulation and no one is willing to face facts about it
and no one is willing to face facts about it
What do you mean by this? I think a lot of people can see that things aren’t right with many teen boys.
Yes but they stop at that instead of seeing them as the cultural mine canary they are, and the proof of it is still the fact no one is doing anything about it
And you are proof yourself not realizing that the teenage boys during Gamergate are about to hit their 30s soon and they didn’t stop being easily swayed misogynistic tools
And their indoctrinating a whole new generation through tate and rogan and the like
While everyone seems to just tut tut and say 'wow teen bois amirite
You really have no fucking clue how bad or deep this problem is and it’s so well known that Chinese aristocrats wrote about it a thousand years ago, they called it ‘The Bare Brances problem’, and it resulted in numerous bandit uprisings resulting in entire villages getting raped and pillaged
And it all started with socially disenfranchised young men who had no future
Just like now
You really, really don’t know how bad it’s going to get. I’ve spent the last year prepping a remote cabin because our family has survived two dictators and they passed down their tips
If you aren’t doing something to secure your family’s safety now, it is likely too late unless you are wealthy enough to drop and go at a moments notice.
and the proof of it is still the fact no one is doing anything about it
I don’t think that’s accurate, there are many truths people acknowledge without taking any action to improve things.
And you are proof yourself not realizing that the teenage boys during Gamergate are about to hit their 30s soon and they didn’t stop being easily swayed misogynistic tools
Oh we’re just making things up now? Okay buddy
Yes but they stop at that instead of seeing them as the cultural mine canary they are, and the proof of it is still the fact no one is doing anything about it
and what do you expect me to do about it? I’m a 52 year old fat dude, and I’m not going to jerk off a bunch of horny simps.
I drank too much kombucha in a short time period and it gave me a terrible bellyache.
I don’t know what’s the most first world problem I’ve experienced, but the most recent was when I tried to use my roasting pan on my relatively new stove today and found that the roasting pan is not induction compatible.
So I put it in the Goodwill pile and ordered a fancy brand pan to replace it.
You could always try one of those adapter plates
I don’t really have a lot of space for more stuff and I did already order another one. Thank you for the suggestion, though.
