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I submitted my letter of resignation to The Athletic. Everything I have to say about it is below.

I don’t know if OP’s tweet is referring to the new Becky interview where she said this, but the interviewer, comedian Dan Soder, deleted the clip from his socials. Still up on the full interview on YT.

Carnivore is not a weight loss diet. That framing is the smallest possible way to understand what's actually happening. Yes, people lose weight. They also lose the bloating they'd had for a decade and assumed was just how their stomach worked. They lose the brain fog they'd written off as ageing. They lose the joint inflammation they'd been managing with ibuprofen every other day for three years. They lose the 3pm crash that had become so reliable they'd built their day around it. They lose the anxiety that spiked after every high-carbohydrate meal and that no one had ever connected to the food. These are not weight loss side effects. These are the body fixing problems you had stopped noticing. That's the thing about adapting to dysfunction. The dysfunction becomes the baseline. You forget what the absence of it feels like. You don't know the joint ache is abnormal. You don't know the fatigue is optional. You've been told that feeling rough after 40 is just how it goes, and you believed it, because everyone around you feels the same way and they've been eating the same things. Carnivore works because it removes the variables. Not the fat. Not the protein. The things that came in the last six minutes of the evolutionary clock: the seed oils, the refined grains, the antinutrients in the plants that evolved specifically to not be eaten, the lectins, the phytates, the oxalates, the compounds that bind to minerals and prevent absorption and irritate the gut lining of animals that did not evolve eating them. You remove all of that. And the body, finally running on the substrate it spent 2.5 million years developing the machinery to process, starts doing what it was built to do. It is not magic. It is not a hack. It is not optimisation culture or biohacking or a fad. It is the most conservative dietary decision a human being can make. You are eating what your genome expects. You are removing everything it doesn't recognise. You are giving the body the one diet it has spent the entirety of its existence learning to run on. The improvements are not the body responding to something new. They are the body responding to the absence of something wrong. Everything you need. None of the baggage. So maybe don't call it a diet. Call it a factory reset.

You’re a hundred percent correct. When people say they “miss the attitude era,” they’re not saying they miss dick jokes and boob scenes. They’re saying they miss intricately written stories with twists and turns that are actually entertaining and keep them coming back week after week.

Lyra tripping into the ropes so it doesn’t look like she’s awkwardly standing there waiting to take charlotte’s clothesline was a nice touch.