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ericbomb,

Ahh yes, how could I forget the Moe subreddits.

Not as inspiring as real athletic women. But still very common and athletic.

ericbomb,

You can do it affordable housing!..

Please ran faster, please. Why are you pulling out your phone?

ericbomb,

I never forgot my tuba!..

So I got to spend my time looking at the empty spot where my mouth piece would be if i hadn’t forgotten it at home.

Is it illegal to con people into thinking you have a perfect ability to pick football games by emailing out two lists: one picking one team, and the other picking the other team, and only sending... (lemmy.dbzer0.com)

…the next pick to the people who saw you pick the “winner”. Now half of those people see one team, the other half see you pick the other team, and whoever saw you pick the winner thinks you’ve got a 100% accuracy rate over two games. You could do that for a while and then offer to sell your pick for the Superbowl....

ericbomb,

Mathematically, there are not enough people on the planet to do this with every us football game for an NFL season. Could do it for just the final games, but guessing 5 isn’t impressive.

Just to do this for one team, you would need hundreds of thousands of people to get just one person. Assuming they even read your emails.

ericbomb,

Honestly writing it out made the answer pretty obvious. It is the middle of the night when I had this thought.

I ignore all emails I don’t recognize.

But if I find a blog with something super helpful, I’m likely to click around and see what’s up.

ericbomb,

TLDR: Low interest debt that provides long term financial gain is good. Mortgage for primary residence is almost always considered good. Loans to invest into your home that increase its value and make it more reliable/long standing is good. Low interest debt to buy assets for your business is good. Reasonable loans for college is considered good.

Car loans are a bit harder because they lose value as time goes on. But a small loan with good interest is usually considered fine for a car. Buying a brand new car with a loan will almost always be bad, since you’re paying interest to use a depreciating asset. But basically a car loan is always bad if it ever goes upside down, meaning you owe more on the loan than the car is worth. New cars that happens almost instantly.

Basically all other debt is bad.

experian.com/…/good-debt-vs-bad-debt-whats-the-di….

ericbomb,

Smooth moves!

Super good job on getting that under control.

ericbomb,

Oh that’s great! Sounds like you’re rocking.

Don’t know where you live but in the US any home near a city is like 400k, so having a mortgage at low interest at 80 sounds great.

ericbomb,

I mean if it can be paid off with fun money and doesn’t ruin retirement plans, not the end of the world if the interest rate was good!

ericbomb,

Oh no argument transportation is difficult.

But for so many people there are such cheaper options. A cheaper car, a moped, ebikes. Those work for so many people.

But we have mountains of financed f150s instead.

ericbomb,

New episode came out recently where a guy somehow owes over 10k on a 2k car.

Dealerships feel like they are ran by mobsters at this point.

ericbomb,

Rock on that’s exactly what I was looking for.

This is actually for my job, and since we all have Microsoft accounts with it enabled by the looks of it they’ll probably have no problems if I suggest this.

ericbomb,

I was taught to cook a ton of things growing up.

most of those meals involved meat. So took a bit of relearning. Being able to just make an old thing but with fake meat was nice. Then sometimes brain craves something from child hood, so have to find an alternative.

ericbomb,

Now I wanna know if I can get better at landing on the same side on purpose…

ericbomb, (edited )

Don’t worry, medical care is now government funded in the real world! The taxes you paid prior to falling into a coma covered you.

This is in no way a ploy to get you to wake up so we can put you in the medical work camp because you owe us 17 million dollars.

With love, Kind and gentle Medical industries inc*

*A fully owned subsidy of Nestlé

ericbomb,

Honestly the second sentence may be redundant given how hard the last one hits thinking about it now.

But people like it so it will stay the way it is!

ericbomb,

I never heard of this before, but I now know the word to describe exercise problems!

Body builders who are judged by how bulging their muscles are feel like garbage despite supposedly being “peak”.

People with high muscle mass or tall being screwed over by BMI targets.

People who are told weight indicates health ignore everything else in exchange for lowering calories.

Even in high school I remember how they would judge you based on like how many push ups you could do… no one who did a ton did proper push ups. Which led to them not helping at all as actual exercise, and even possibly leading to injury.

Heck, we can even use this for stupid Dog Shows, where because they measure specific things for the “goodness” of the dog, they screw over the dog in every way imaginable that isn’t being judged.

This is a good law to know. I like knowing this law. It’s sad how often it’s used, but it’s good to know.

ericbomb,

Hmm okay I just am not a fan of sports that destroy people’s bodies.

“Cut” diets that focus on looking great by not eating/drinking water before showing off just sound awful and not a fan of them. But you’re right, it’s not much worse than any other sport which damages athlete’s body.

ericbomb,

You stayed loyal to tradition and are reaping the finical benefits for it!

ericbomb,

You stayed loyal and are richer for it.

Loyalty pays (or saves).

ericbomb,
ericbomb,

Okay okay you caught me.

I don’t drink mountain dew, or black tea. I do drink some herbal tea though. Caffeine makes me sick overall.

I had this meme stuck in my head, then just brain stormed what title would get me the funniest comments.

So far saying mountain dew tastes better than tea has gotten some banger responses like this one, so all is going according to plan!

ericbomb,

Okay okay you caught me.

I don’t drink mountain dew, or black tea. I do drink some herbal tea though. Caffeine makes me sick overall.

I had this meme stuck in my head, then just brain stormed what title would get me the funniest comments.

So far saying mountain dew tastes better than tea has gotten some banger responses like this one, so all is going according to plan!

ericbomb,

Embrace tradition, 100 tea bags for $4! Your ancestors fought for access to tea!

ericbomb,

Looking at the math it honesty looks like cheap black tea and cheap caffeine powder are about the same cost. Can get 400 tea packets for 15ish bucks, or a year supply for 15$.

Tea just is secret top tier.

ericbomb,

I should try and convince my GF to do that, she is addicted to dutch bros!

ericbomb,

Because the tea was expensive! They fought for cheap tea!

ericbomb,

Feel free to remake it!

Honestly I feel like the top one could have been old timey distracted boyfriend meme because 1800s was when US swapped to coffee hard.

Then could have made middle one look more millennial/z.

Then bottom one have it zoomed out to see Thor and could make him look raggedy and like a broke teen realizing that buying 2 monsters a day does not go over well.

ericbomb,

As is internet tradition!

ericbomb,

So post was actually inspired by a guy who was a rep for gas stations, so spent his day driving from gas station to gas station to like take inventory, make orders, and what not.

Where at each gas he would buy a single energy drink for like 5 a day.

Buying energy drinks exclusively from gas stations has to be the least cost effective way to get caffeine.

So while your coffee machine isn’t the cheapest… by the stars you’re miles ahead of that guy.

ericbomb,

Okay that probably depends on brands and like what you add to coffee/tea. But the true enemy is energy drinks.

ericbomb,

B12 is the only thing, and we can buy food that reinforced with it so no big deal. Many cereals have it added, and this can not be overstated, it’s the only thing that is problematic for vegans naturally. I’m not even a vegan, but B12 is added to all sorts of foods these days.

Also if that’s the case, then eating meat is class warfare. While people are starving, we are growing food to feed to live stock, to get a food people think tastes better. For every 1000 calories of food fed to cattle, you’ll get less than 100 calories of meat. There is not enough land on the planet for every person to eat meat the way folks in the US do.

globalagriculture.org/…/meat-and-animal-feed.html…. "Nearly 60% of the world’s agricultural land is used for beef production, yet beef accounts for less than 2% of the calories that are consumed throughout the world. "

That 60% is counting all the corn and soy agriculture that is fed straight to beef. The world is not big enough for humans to eat as much as meat as people do. As a delicacy? Sure. But eating it every day? Multiple meals? Part of the world will always starve if we do. There is nothing in meat that we can’t get in other ways, not a single thing. So in all honesty if we want a stable world, we will need to figure out our addiction to meat.

ericbomb,

Literally every single thing you said is just factually wrong.

Choline is bountiful and not a concern www.pcrm.org/news/…/clearing-choline-confusion. “Micronutrients” I’d love to know which ones. B12 also is in some vegetables, but vegetarians/vegans like to take the supplements just because it’s the only one they “might” not get enough of.

Most of that 60% is used for growing corn and soy used to feed live stock, because letting them graze is inefficient. The vast majority of animals butchered for meat are from factory farms, which are powered by corn and soy. Which could have just been human grown soy and sweetcorn, but instead it makes more money to grow cattle grade. sentienceinstitute.org/us-factory-farming-estimat…

Also they don’t just keep fully grown beef cattle sitting around my friend. They slaughter them on a tight schedule to maximize profit. They don’t function as batteries, they are treated as crops in factories where they are born and die on an optimal schedule. Keeping around a full grown cow marked for beef is a GIANT waste of money, because it needs food, water, and housing despite not going to grow much bigger.

ams.usda.gov/…/slaughter-cattle-grades-and-standa…

And if meat is the food storage of the world how is it a measly 2% of calories consumed? It feeds next to no one. If it vanished, people would moan and grown, but basically no one would go hungry because it feeds just SO few people on the grand scheme of thing. In fact, if all cows vanished, we’d have vastly more food as the vast amounts of corn, grain, and soy that were going to be fed to cows at a 10:1 return would be sold to people, and instead of growing feed corn the next harvest would be food humans actually like.

I just can not stress enough that they eat 20X as many calories, most of which was grown in fields that could have been from humans, as they provide when eaten. The idea that they are grazing, just simply isn’t true. Letting them graze is an inefficient use of land. cbey.yale.edu/our-stories/disrupting-meat

Not to mention you complain that it’s only available due to international commerce… yet many countries import meat as well. beef2live.com/story-world-beef-imports-ranking-co….

You’re right, it is class warfare, rich countries should stop eating meat and instead focus fields on crops that are 20X more efficient until everyone has more food than they can possibly eat. www.arktide.org/how-much-food-can-we-grow/#:~:tex….

I’d be down for pescatarians though if we actually got around to taking care of the oceans and doing sustainable farming.

If you can’t provide sources in a response I will just have to ignore as a troll though. Because every point you made was just… factually incorrect. I’m hoping you just heard those things somewhere else and repeated them without checking and didn’t make them up to be a bother.

ericbomb,

Sorry corn farmers, this is about people food. Growing fuel doesn’t really count.

Growing corn that is only usable as animal feed counts as part of how beef industry is being propped up by the government.

So yeah… I think only one or two corn farmers will be left in the chat after that.

ericbomb,

… okay you got me there.

But the veggie tech to make meat likes is getting better, so hopefully soon!

ericbomb,

That is a wonderful point!

I actually ran into someone with big conspiracy energy at a food expo the other day, and he like started ranting about how the government has proven that it’s more interested in promoting what food pays the most in lobbying over actually caring about our health and it’s like… bro you are channeling some major conspiracy theory vibes but I can’t at all argue with your point. Between the food pyramid being drawn up by farmer lobbyists, corn syrup being put into everything despite it poisoning the lower class, and corps only getting a slap on the wrist when they make false food claims… it’s pretty obvious the government isn’t super concerned with our actual well being with our diets and we should all make sure to look inward.

ericbomb,

Correct, but the vast majority of corn subsidies are to grow corn not meant for humans to eat. They are to grow animal feed, or ethanol.

So the first category I count as subsidizing the meat industry, since it exists purely to make raising live stock cheaper. The second category doesn’t really impact food.

ericbomb,

Oh yeah for sure! Just sometimes I wanna go to a place and order a similar looking thing as the people around me without paying a ton more XD

ericbomb,

I like honey and saying I’m a vegan while eating honey makes some vegans mad.

Posting pictures like that to vegetarians is like no one likes us.

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