pherai
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weed is stronger these days lol
seriously though I can imagine baby boomers really stroking their self satisfaction boner while reading this and complaining about “kids these days”
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lol at Ann Curry (annual salary: 10 million USD) doing an interview about poor people trying to relate to them with fake ass tears.
The tale of the story is shit happen and how will you deal with it. God forbid if that happen to me and I was on the street I would have no shame in staying in a shelter. At the same time I would scratch and claw my way back to where I was even if it mean working three jobs. I’m just glad that I have no kids right now.
Man, how the fuck do these people stay fat if they’re homeless? Or is there some sort of non-miserable, non-bum homeless out there?
Yeah, not to be rude but that whole family is fat. If they just stopped going to Taco Bell they’d save hundreds of dollars a month.
Easy, they eat lots and lots of garbage.
Wow. Shameful to be reading about something like this happening in the supposedly “most well developed country in the world.” Definitely a good example of why we need socialized health care and for labor laws to be enforced better.
Funny that that article namechecked Springsteen and Born to Run. I’m listening to that as I type this.
I understand people not needing to get a driver’s license to explore much anymore what with the internet. Used to be you needed to drive to find out what was happening in the next state, now all you have to do is firre up the net. No excuse not to have your license though.
Moving is a risk. I’ve moved twice since leaving my parents’ place at 23 and I’ve incurred somewhat bad circumstances, financial and otherwise, in the process of getting on my feet both times I did. The safety net of family support is starting to become very important again which is why I think people are more hesitant to move a thousand miles away.
As for the rest of your post…All I’ll say is that should this happen to you, I hope folks are more sympathetic to your circumstances than you are to theirs.
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Terrible nutrition + lack of physical activity - robust health education.
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IDK it seems they were all about being Robust when it came to their health.
pherai
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Isn’t being overweight/obese pretty common among the poor? You can get a whole days calories for like 3 bucks at mc doogles, and you’ll probably feel hungry again in 4 hours. Sadly unhealthy food is cheaper than healthy food.
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Actually, the rate of obesity goes way up as the income level goes down. One reason is because the poorer you are, the more likely you’ll go for carb rich, cheap, fast food, you know, like cup ramen, Mcwhatever. Poor folks eat stuff that has been processed, often with high fructose corn syrup. Also, if your body is starving, your body will digest its muscle and store more fat.
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Taito
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Look at these teenagers/20 year olds with their metabolism meter at max who still think good health and nutrition is free. If you’re poor as the family in the article, you’re either rail-thin, or shapeless. Either way, you eat whatever you can afford, and the cheapest food in the US tends to be pre-made crap that doesn’t need to be cooked in a kitchen or stored in a refrigerator (since you usually need a home to use a kitchen or refrigerator)
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fishjie
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read the article sounds like they got crippled by health care costs. this is exactly why we need universal health care.
oh and they r fat wtf lulz
Azure
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Dumb post.
You usually do not post dumb things.
Like, ever.
You DO know what*** property*** really means, right, Rock? :shake:
Laws like that are at the very essence of what the U.S. was meant to be.
That 9 year old girl’s birdhouse is quite impressive. Unfortunately, her talents are probably the result having no distraction a modern home would provide.
I hope they can get themselves out of this rut…
To add fuel to this fire: http://money.cnn.com/2012/12/03/news/economy/record-corporate-profits/index.html?iid=HP_LN
TL;DR - Corporations are raking in the dough at an unprecedented rate, while wages are in the toilet. Also, the top wage-earners are holding the most wealth ever in American history. How about them apples?
Either there’s some kind of master plan at work here, or the internet has made us too passive to care.
No master plan. Capitalism doesn’t work for most. Hard to get ahead in life when everything is against you. Which leads to more people doing illegal things to get paid, which leads to higher incarceration rates, which leads to a fat payday for the privatized prison industry as they now own your life and effectively turn you into a Chinese factory worker.
And yes, technology as a whole has left us disillusioned to the reality that we live in what is easily one of the most corrupt societies on the face of the earth. The internet/video games/movies/music act as escapism from this fact. We grow content and addicted to shiny new things and that keeps us easy to control.
Yeah, okay. I forgot how Walter Cronkite was on the news telling everyone in America there was a bunch of classified documents being freely distributed to anyone with a land line 40 years ago. Remember when we had encrypted, highly anonymous phone calls that couldn’t be traced thanks to government research that went public? Or how about that one time when you got called a communist when you disagreed with the government, the ACLU ran to your defense, and the government got exposed? Man, those were the days. Now people just disappear into thin air and nobody complains - or even knows - about that “patriot act” thing. And now I can’t get this “bigbrother.exe” to stop asking for internet access despite saying “Yes” like 25 fucking times so it’ll stop interrupting my movie. We oughta move to China. I heard they got unions and practically no censorship on their internet.
This thread makes me sad in all sorts of ways.
