I’ve seen house sparrows take a house Martin’s nest before, not sure if it was already abandoned or not.

Of course not and that’s not what they’re saying. They’re saying that trying to outrun a bad diet is never going to happen.

You could run a marathon every day and then still gain weight because you ate three birthday cakes, five burgers a bucket of fries and a whole pizza for breakfast , lunch and dinner.

Enablers hate admitting it, but weight is lost in the kitchen.

If you want to lose weight, eat less, if you want you can also get fit. That’s the difference between being a healthy weight and being fit and healthy.

You don’t have to exercise to lose weight, you don’t even have to drastically change your diet.

Eat. Less.

You can lose weight on a diet of pizza, donuts and laying on the couch if you simply eat less calories than you burn.

You quite frankly sound like one of the many enablers that wants to make every excuse possible about why it’s impossible to lose weight rather than taking responsibility for the countless poor eating decisions that lead to obesity. No one is born fat and no one wakes up fat, take responsibility.

It’s like giving up smoking. A huge amount of smokers wish they didn’t, but they don’t stop until they say “enough is enough”, draw a line under it and commit to quitting instead of making 101 excuses about how hard it is.

I hope you get to your “enough is enough” point soon.

It also adds to the HAES bullshit. Being obese is unhealthy, that’s not up for debate.

Imagine if they had a smokers acceptance day where we all had to give them a pat on the back for damaging their lungs. It’s so stupid.

No one has to accept or celebrate your lifestyle they just have to tolerate it.

And as you’re saying, if you want to be super fat, good for you, but people are going to look and that’s not their problem.

Devils advocate:

If you’re known as a guy that loves Pokémon cards and people keep gifting you Weedle’s (one of the lowest powered and most common cards in the game), then after a while you’re going to be like “thanks guys, I know you want to gift me and to not just throw the card away, but these are worth literally nothing to me because I already have much nicer examples and I don’t need/want/have room for them, I’d just be throwing them away myself”.

I don’t disagree with what you’re saying, but whether you live in a capitalist, socialist, communist or what ever other types of economic systems are available, you need to be intellectually honest about what types of workers the society needs to be able thrive.

How many historians do you want qualified before you would say, “maybe we should incentivise people in to things like medicine or engineering”, a hundred thousand, a million?

Of course history is important, but there’s clearly a sensible limit to how many job opportunities there are for curators, archeologists, researchers, teachers etc.

In the UK, more or less fifty percent of young people have a uni level of education but there are not fifty percent of vacant jobs that require a degree level education. It might be absolute lovely that my barista has a history degree, but they could have joined the workforce several years earlier, have dozens of thousands pounds less in debt and still had the opportunity to study history in their own time.

To be fair, how many historians etc do you need to qualify every year?

What’s the point of studying something for years, getting in to dozens of thousands in student debt, potentially getting near the top of your field and then having to go work in a Starbucks because there are so few vacancies in your field?

I agree that these degrees are nice to have, but we should be honest with students in regards to the sort of lifestyle they can expect after they qualify.

Do you remember when their protest outside the HQ of BP made the news? Me neither, but I’m sure the high rollers on their 6, 7, 8 figure salaries felt terribly inconvenienced!

I don’t have to agree with their methods or their ideology to recognise their right to protest. We’re talking about dyed cornstarch here, it’s not like they blew the thing up.

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Only $7.2M? Can we start a go fund me? Ex PM’s shouldn’t be living in absolute poverty.

I’m not taking the bait. There’s obviously many worse countries than the UK to be trans in and like I’ve already said, the UK isn’t perfect but it wouldn’t be as diverse as it is without being as accepting as it is.

You can reply to this if you want, but don’t expect me to reply in turn, this is my final statement on the matter.

Why is it sus?

Are you one of the people that thinks criticism of Israel’s foreign policy = antisemitism?

You’ll find that whilst far from perfect, that the UK is one of the most accepting and diverse populations on earth.

Who made you ambassador for the UK? I’m in the UK and I don’t hate them.

The whole point of protest is to cause disruption, you’re not meant to like it, that’s the point!

Still waiting for this to return to the UK and I’m absolutely furious that it wasn’t so popular that it became a standard menu item.

Yes, some jokes are silly and that’s why they’re funny. Although jokes can be harmful, I don’t think that this one was.

Are jokes productive for discussion or discourse? Not necessarily, but I’m not so precious that I’m going to downvote someone for making one.

I mean what’s more likely here, a guy made a joke and a load of sensitive Lemmings downvoted them or a guy was literally comparing people that support Palestine with bigots?

I endorse the use of /s so that we can avoid this type of debate, but whenever you mention it you get a load of complaints.

The chin/jaw line of the young woman is the nose of the old woman, the ear is the eye, there is a horizontal line of the young woman’s neck that is the mouth of the old woman.

At first I only saw the young woman too.

If you define a “shit take” as a comment that is factually wrong and or harmful, that’s fine and I’ve already said that. If your idea of a “shit take” is “I don’t like / disagree with your opinion” then I hope you’re fine with Lemmy becoming an out of touch echo chamber and I’ve also already said that. Why am I having to repeat myself?

It doesn’t take much browsing here to see plenty of rational disagreements that have been downvoted for failing to conform with the groupthink.

That comment received 17 downvotes but the only person willing to reply deleted their comment.

The comment seems rather silly and I’d wager that the writer is making a satirical comment about the repetitive nature of Lemmy’s narrative rather than legitimately equating people that dislike Musk to the Ku Klux Klan. If anyone was willing to engage the writer rather than just burying the comment then it’s possible you may have seen that.