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@TheConnor_Hayes

Husband, Tweeter, College Football Enthusiast | UA ‘20 | NU ‘25

Chicago, IL Katılım Ocak 2014
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The Teflon Con
The Teflon Con@TheConnor_Hayes·
@HistoryBoomer Busybodies with nothing better to do than make everyone else's parenting experience as miserable as possible are a big part of the reason my generation is more hesitant to have children, I'd bet. My first is on the way, but I'd imagine it had something to do with my hesitation.
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Carl
Carl@HistoryBoomer·
Stop threatening parents with CPS unless there is actual physical abuse! When my kid was a toddler, he was a holy terror. His tantrums were rock-star-trash-a-hotel-room level. No, we were not lenient; he was a madman. By age 5, he was improving, but still rough. One day he decided to stage a sit-down strike near the 17th Street Barnes and Noble. I don't remember the reason, but I knew trying to negotiate or drag him down the street would both fail. He needed time and space. So I let him slump down on the sidewalk, leaning against a "No Parking" sign. Tired me sat across the sidewalk from him, leaning against the Barnes and Noble wall. It was a wide sidewalk, so he was maybe 12 feet away from me. Or 15 feet? As we sat, one dude (30-something?) saw the kid "by himself." He looked around for a parent (good for him!), and saw me. I waved and gestured to show that it's ok, the kid was with me. He walked over and said, "You know, I could call Child Services on you." (!!!) I am a peaceful, easy-going dude. Nobody is ever afraid of me! But something on my tired dad face made him quickly back away towards the Barnes and Noble doors. As he's going in, he pulls out his phone and gestures at me, as if to say, "I'm calling them now." What an asshole. Less than a minute later, I see my kid getting up. I can tell the tantrum has faded. I get up too. "I'm sorry, Dad." "It's ok, kid, let's go home." And we did. That kind of nonsense is hateful. People who do it should be publicly shamed. Leave parents alone! Most are doing their best!
Liz Wolfe@LizWolfeReason

Also, there's a lot of grey area that we're not prepared to deal with. Do these people think cps should be called on a 6-year-old who walks to the nearby bodega by himself? What about the 8-year-old using the subway or bus on his own? What about the mom who hires a 12-year-old to babysit? What about the 4-year-old who is in a taxi cab without a carseat for a short ride? What about––my own hypothetical that the internet flipped out at me for––bringing a young baby to a wedding vs. spending the newborn days in total isolation? What if cps is called by someone who has no kids and doesn't know what might be developmentally appropriate, or someone who has a grudge against the person they're trying to report? Weaponization of cps (and threatening cps involvement in a cavalier, bullying way) is one of the absolute worst trends of the last few decades. There's a lot of grey area that's just *hard* to sift through. CPS should be used for genuinely abusive and neglectful situations. We've entirely lost the plot.

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The Teflon Con@TheConnor_Hayes·
@JenkoKent @jponline77 @drterrysimpson Also, realizing you alluded to this POV near the end of the thread before I even jumped in and I may have read too hastily. I've seen enough similar conversations with people less nuanced and frankly assumed that's where it was going. Cheers to you.
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Dr Terry Simpson
Dr Terry Simpson@drterrysimpson·
Ok I am invested in this as a GLP-1 user. Here’s the problem with that kind of post: it treats obesity as though it were simply a failure of discipline, rather than a chronic biologic disease involving appetite signaling, satiety, reward pathways, metabolism, genetics, environment, sleep, medications, and food engineering. And I have that disease and take a drug. Yes, intermittent fasting can help some people. So can Mediterranean diets, resistance training, sleep, cognitive therapy, bariatric surgery, and GLP-1 medications. These are not mutually exclusive. But “zero side effects and free” is internet simplification not wisdom. Fasting has side effects: hunger irritability headaches binge/restrict cycles in some patients loss of lean mass if poorly managed hypoglycemia in diabetics gallstones with rapid weight loss poor adherence long term for many people And “free” ignores biology. If telling people to eat less during certain hours reliably solved obesity, we would not have an obesity epidemic after fifty years of diet books. Didn't happen. Retatrutide is interesting precisely because it appears to address the biology underneath food noise and metabolic dysregulation. The remarkable fatty liver data matters because fatty liver disease is not simply cosmetic, but also cirrhosis, diabetes, cardiovascular disease, and liver cancer. The irony is that many physicians happily prescribe antihypertensives for blood pressure, statins for cholesterol, or SSRIs for depression, yet suddenly become philosophers of rugged individualism when obesity medication appears. Nobody says: “Insulin is inferior to mindfulness, because mindfulness is free.” We should stop moralizing obesity treatment and start treating obesity like the chronic disease it is. After all it has been recognized as a chronic disease for years - of course, this person probably has a checkout lane for thie services or product
Suneel Dhand MD@DrSuneelDhand

Intermittent fasting way better with zero side effects and it’s free

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The Teflon Con@TheConnor_Hayes·
@JenkoKent @jponline77 @drterrysimpson GLPs allow you to maintain a healthy existence without spending every day fighting with your own brain. Are there drawbacks? Yep. They'd seemingly argue that they're outweighed by the benefits GLPs offer. I've never taken them, but they seem to be right in many cases.
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The Teflon Con@TheConnor_Hayes·
@JenkoKent @jponline77 @drterrysimpson The entire point John and everyone else seems to be making is that the effort you keep alluding to in maintaining your weight is a tax in and of itself. It is not "cost free" to have to spend literally every day fighting your body and intuition to maintain a healthy weight.
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Max Dubler 🏳️‍🌈
Max Dubler 🏳️‍🌈@maxdubler·
The millennial craft movement vastly improved American gastronomy and I refuse to let zoomers with no cultural memory of the bland garbage we ate and drank 20 years ago meme me into thinking it is cringe.
beef clapton: soldier of fortune@thetrompwner

bro you gotta try this new boutique pizza place they have this innovative new slice instead of normal pepperoni it's the kind that curl up and get all charred and then they drizzle hot honey on it and you're not gonna believe this it's served with a dollop of ricotta

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The Teflon Con@TheConnor_Hayes·
@funkomi A lot of people are clearly incapable of thinking beyond basic spreadsheet math. "Just stay home since you probably barely break even with daycare!" Yea, I guess the stunted professional and financial growth or personal desires have exactly 0 value.
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FunkLip
FunkLip@funkomi·
Responses to this are quite literally insane. Person A wonders what high earners are doing with their money. High Earner offers insight. Internet tells him he is an idiot for… going to university, having children, having a job, living in a 2 bed apartment…being alive.
Matt Lane@MattLaneWrites

When we were in an apartment with two infants, we paid: - $2300/month rent - $2000/month student loans - $2400/kid/month daycare That's $109,200/year before groceries, utilities, diapers, transportation, etc

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The Teflon Con@TheConnor_Hayes·
@DuhItsKryssi Not only do they not realize that doing good things for your partner begets them doing nice things for you in return (not that that should be the reason one does it), but also the act of doing something nice for someone you love is, in and of itself, a good experience.
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Big Kryssi
Big Kryssi@DuhItsKryssi·
Having someone who cares about you enough to get up and make a 4:30am wake up a little less unpleasant is the good PR but people only see the inconvenience to them. That’s the other issue.
Seventh Heaven@heaventh_7

No one says caring for your spouse is slavery. But if people are asking for the good PR of marriage & the first thing you come up with is waking up at the ass crack of dawn to play Hell’s Kitchen. You aren’t contributing productively to the conversation.

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Buck
Buck@BuckOnTwidder·
new york city is amazing because where else in the world can you get a sandwich
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The Teflon Con@TheConnor_Hayes·
@abookofsymbols If I'm recalling correctly, they not only were repeatedly warned that the coffee was well above the recommended temp, the woman also only originally asked that they pay her medical bills and only sued when they effectively told her to get lost. She was behaving reasonably!
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lev (eastern woodland)
lev (eastern woodland)@abookofsymbols·
nobody understands the “McDonalds coffee too hot” tort case and it bugs me so much. a 79 year old woman suffered third degree burns on 6% of her skin when she spilled the coffee she just bought! she was right!
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Bell Bearing Hunter
Bell Bearing Hunter@bellbearinghunt·
Resident Evil notes be like 12:43: We just turned this dude into a monster hopefully everything goes okay 12:50: Everything is not okay
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Oz Katerji
Oz Katerji@OzKaterji·
A day for dudes who love to monitor the situation
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Frases Barbie
Frases Barbie@barbie_context·
Estoy 99% seguro de que Red Bull es una empresa de deportes extremos que vende bebidas energéticas en su tiempo libre para financiar eventos.
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Soul For Sale Tyler
Soul For Sale Tyler@fleshsimulator·
Will Stancil is dropping straight fire rn
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The Golden Days
The Golden Days@TheGoldenDays·
me as a kid at 2am turning on the ps2 like it wouldn’t wake the house
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Got CTE from playing Peek-a-Boo
Got CTE from playing Peek-a-Boo@doulbedoink·
Think there needs to be some kind of understanding that “i dont like seeing people get shot to death” is a pretty regular opinion to have for most people
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