@DeanTTraining If only making excuses and complaining burned calories, none of these people would be fat!
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“If BMI is so good then why does it call Saquon Barkley obese???”
Bro…
With all due respect:
You ain’t Saquon Barkley
You sit at a desk doing IT work all day and the heaviest thing you’ve lifted in the last 10 years is a Yeti cooler
BMI works GREAT for you (and most others)
Max Lugavere@maxlugavere
BMI is accurate for people who don’t lift, which is most people.
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The anti-GLP crowd will soon be drowned out as more and more people discover how well these drugs work. It’s silly to see the obesity rate and keep carrying on about how people *could* just eat fewer calories. They’re stuck fantasizing about completely remaking society - against all available evidence - when the solution is already sitting right in front of them.
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All the discipline in the world does not change that we need a GLP-1. It is just like saying we need discipline to control our insulin, our breathing, our blood pressure. It isn't that simple. I'm a surgeon - I don't think many have more discipline than I do.
Jenko Kent@JenkoKent
@VPregel @drterrysimpson @DrSuneelDhand It is, but most people don’t want to give up the addictive foods they love. With proper nutritional education, everyone could eat both less calories and more quantity of food at the same time.
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@caroljsroth Yeah, but we’re left dealing with what Schultz sowed while he works on his tan and shelters his income and wealth in FL. The pinnacle of luxury beliefs and the hypocrisy of those who espouse them.
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While Howard Schultz is correct, it is indicative of the obvious outcomes that so many of us warned about and Schultz and others ignored by aligning with people fully decoupled from reality-- a full reap what you sow moment.
Washington State GOP@WAGOP
"@MayorofSeattle Katie Wilson has chosen to cast business as a foil rather than a partner," writes @HowardSchultz. "Her socialist rhetoric vilifies employers, even while she continues to rely on them for revenue. She has encouraged residents who disagree with her policies to leave." wsj.com/opinion/seattl… via @WSJopinion Article Text: "Washington state has been my home for more than four decades. I arrived in Seattle with dreams and ambition and ended up building Starbucks into a company known around the world. Many Pacific Northwesterners joined me in shaping the culture, benefits and brand of Starbucks—contributing not only to a business, but also the civic and entrepreneurial life of the area. "I am no longer a resident of Washington. My decision to leave had much to do with family choices and my stage of life. Still, I feel a responsibility to speak up about the business and job climate in a city and state that gave me so many opportunities. "Washington’s economic story over the past half century is extraordinary. Microsoft, Amazon, Costco and a host of other new companies transformed the state into a global center of technology, innovation and logistics. Entrepreneurs exported ideas worldwide. Capital flowed. Wages rose. Imported and homegrown talent flourished. "That ecosystem worked because risk‑taking was rewarded, growth was possible, and civic leadership—while imperfect—understood that private enterprise wasn’t the adversary of the public good. It was one engine for improving the public sphere. "That ecosystem is fractured today. Seattle and much of Washington face serious problems: chronic homelessness, disorder in core business districts, persistent budget deficits, declining public-school outcomes and a slowing technology hiring cycle. These challenges aren’t unique to the state—but Washington’s response to them is. "Seattle’s mayor, Katie Wilson, has chosen to cast business as a foil rather than a partner. Her socialist rhetoric vilifies employers, even while she continues to rely on them for revenue. She has encouraged residents who disagree with her policies to leave. "In the state capital, the Legislature and governor have confronted difficult fiscal trade-offs by emphasizing taxation rather than reform or performance management. The theory appears to be that prosperity can be mandated through redistribution rather than generated through growth. "Washington has a broken tax system. The reliance on sales taxes—10.55% in Seattle—is deeply regressive. The state needs to rewrite its tax code across the board in a way that ensures people and businesses alike pay their share. "But instead of reform, those in power have opted to increase the burden on businesses and successful entrepreneurs in ways that discourage them from growing within the state—at a moment when Washington’s economic situation is growing more fragile. "Microsoft and Amazon—once hiring engines—have slowed recruitment and reduced head counts as they race to build data-center capacity and compete globally. Starbucks recently announced it will shift hundreds of corporate roles to Tennessee. "These companies imported global talent at scale for decades, anchoring an interconnected system of suppliers and startups. As those businesses reduce their local role, Seattle has no clear answer to the question of what will provide the next set of jobs and revenue growth. "Cities and states don’t decline overnight. They drift when public safety, fiscal stability and economic vitality deteriorate together. Downtown vacancies reduce foot traffic. Declining foot traffic weakens small businesses. Employment falls. Revenue shrinks. Services erode. Confidence—something that’s hard to build and easy to lose—begins to evaporate. "Entrepreneurs are accustomed to accountability: If we fail to deliver value, we lose customers. If we misallocate capital, we absorb the loss. Government, too, should be judged by results, not intentions. In Washington, steadily increasing government spending hasn’t delivered commensurate results on a range of issues, from addressing homelessness and drug addiction to poor prospects for new high-school graduates. "Entrepreneurs take risks others won’t. We build before certainty exists. We hire before revenue is guaranteed. We invest locally, pay taxes and support civic institutions. When our companies succeed, entire regions benefit. America can’t afford to forget that. "Leaving doesn’t mean abandoning. My family foundation remains invested in Washington’s future, seeking to help the next generation achieve economic mobility and prosperity. But that future is linked to economic growth and job creation. Across the country, other states are competing for capital and talent by simplifying regulation, reforming tax systems and investing in workforce development. One important initiative comes from the bipartisan National Governors Association, helping states craft pro-entrepreneurship policies. "I hope Washington’s leaders will embrace these policies and forge a new compact—one grounded in job creation, sensible taxation and accountable public spending. Washington once embodied the future of the U.S. economy, and it can again. But the current government needs to learn that future entrepreneurs won’t be attracted by ineffective public systems, especially when joined with policy and political rhetoric that demonize businesses." Mr. Schultz is a former CEO and chairman emeritus of Starbucks.
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@drterrysimpson It’s wild how incredibly bothered some people get by others using GLPs to reduce food noise and bring balance to life and the scale. Like, good for you, man. Sounds like it’s working perfect for you. Being fat is the worst.
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On a GLP-1 I eat normally - don't know what "clean" is other than free of norovirus. I eat out at restaurants, I enjoy holiday meals, and they are not cheats it is just eating. You seem to be suffering - I am not. I also don't count calories.
Jenko Kent@JenkoKent
@jponline77 @drterrysimpson (And yes I have to count calories daily, and it’s a struggle and takes years, which is why it’s so hard. Most people can’t accept, for example, that they basically need to commit to clean eating for years. No restaurants, no holiday splurges, maybe 2-3 “cheats”/mo max.)
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@jwhittenbergK5 Schultz is part of the reason WA suffers under extremist one party rule. An unrepentant major supporter of leftists who now has the luxury of pulling stakes and moving to deep red FL (of all places) after sowing the seeds of socialism for decades. Honestly, FO man, just FO.
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Here's the full Howard Schultz op-ed to avoid the paywall..
Seattle Turns Hostile to the Great Businesses It Made
Starbucks is moving jobs from Washington state to Tennessee, and it isn’t alone in looking elsewhere.
Washington state has been my home for more than four decades. I arrived in Seattle with dreams and ambition and ended up building Starbucks into a company known around the world. Many Pacific Northwesterners joined me in shaping the culture, benefits and brand of Starbucks—contributing not only to a business, but also the civic and entrepreneurial life of the area.
I am no longer a resident of Washington. My decision to leave had much to do with family choices and my stage of life. Still, I feel a responsibility to speak up about the business and job climate in a city and state that gave me so many opportunities.
Washington’s economic story over the past half century is extraordinary. Microsoft, Amazon, Costco and a host of other new companies transformed the state into a global center of technology, innovation and logistics. Entrepreneurs exported ideas worldwide. Capital flowed. Wages rose. Imported and homegrown talent flourished.
That ecosystem worked because risk‑taking was rewarded, growth was possible, and civic leadership—while imperfect—understood that private enterprise wasn’t the adversary of the public good. It was one engine for improving the public sphere.
That ecosystem is fractured today. Seattle and much of Washington face serious problems: chronic homelessness, disorder in core business districts, persistent budget deficits, declining public-school outcomes and a slowing technology hiring cycle. These challenges aren’t unique to the state—but Washington’s response to them is.
Seattle’s mayor, Katie Wilson, has chosen to cast business as a foil rather than a partner. Her socialist rhetoric vilifies employers, even while she continues to rely on them for revenue. She has encouraged residents who disagree with her policies to leave.
In the state capital, the Legislature and governor have confronted difficult fiscal trade-offs by emphasizing taxation rather than reform or performance management. The theory appears to be that prosperity can be mandated through redistribution rather than generated through growth.
Washington has a broken tax system. The reliance on sales taxes—10.55% in Seattle—is deeply regressive. The state needs to rewrite its tax code across the board in a way that ensures people and businesses alike pay their share.
But instead of reform, those in power have opted to increase the burden on businesses and successful entrepreneurs in ways that discourage them from growing within the state—at a moment when Washington’s economic situation is growing more fragile.
Microsoft and Amazon—once hiring engines—have slowed recruitment and reduced head counts as they race to build data-center capacity and compete globally. Starbucks recently announced it will shift hundreds of corporate roles to Tennessee.
These companies imported global talent at scale for decades, anchoring an interconnected system of suppliers and startups. As those businesses reduce their local role, Seattle has no clear answer to the question of what will provide the next set of jobs and revenue growth.
Cities and states don’t decline overnight. They drift when public safety, fiscal stability and economic vitality deteriorate together. Downtown vacancies reduce foot traffic. Declining foot traffic weakens small businesses. Employment falls. Revenue shrinks. Services erode. Confidence—something that’s hard to build and easy to lose—begins to evaporate.
Entrepreneurs are accustomed to accountability: If we fail to deliver value, we lose customers. If we misallocate capital, we absorb the loss. Government, too, should be judged by results, not intentions. In Washington, steadily increasing government spending hasn’t delivered commensurate results on a range of issues, from addressing homelessness and drug addiction to poor prospects for new high-school graduates.
Entrepreneurs take risks others won’t. We build before certainty exists. We hire before revenue is guaranteed. We invest locally, pay taxes and support civic institutions. When our companies succeed, entire regions benefit. America can’t afford to forget that.
Leaving doesn’t mean abandoning. My family foundation remains invested in Washington’s future, seeking to help the next generation achieve economic mobility and prosperity. But that future is linked to economic growth and job creation. Across the country, other states are competing for capital and talent by simplifying regulation, reforming tax systems and investing in workforce development. One important initiative comes from the bipartisan National Governors Association, helping states craft pro-entrepreneurship policies.
I hope Washington’s leaders will embrace these policies and forge a new compact—one grounded in job creation, sensible taxation and accountable public spending. Washington once embodied the future of the U.S. economy, and it can again. But the current government needs to learn that future entrepreneurs won’t be attracted by ineffective public systems, especially when joined with policy and political rhetoric that demonize businesses.
Mr. Schultz is a former CEO and chairman emeritus of Starbucks.
Gerry Kahle@gerrythek
@jwhittenbergK5 Couldn’t read it, behind the WSJ paywall. Care to summarize?
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@DeanTTraining Or, as controversial as this sounds, it’s okay to go out occasionally and just… eat what sounds good. For ordinary gym enjoyers this is perfectly okay. Unless you make your living in fitness it seems beyond absurd to fill up before a nice dinner out, especially on a date!
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I’ve been telling my clients this for years now:
If you’re gonna go out to eat, load up on protein prior to the meal
Go in already partially full
Increase the likelihood you don’t splurge on a bunch of excess calories
You also save $$$ too not having to order as much
HACK
Nick Smoot@smoot_fit
“Portion control at restaurants is nearly impossible.” Ok, try this: 1. Load up on protein first. It leaves less room in your stomach for carbs and fats. 2. Box up half of your meal as soon as you get it. Only eat the half of the meal that’s on your plate 3. Eat less food during the day so you have more calories saved up for a bigger meal at the restaurant. 4. Make sure you’re super active (training and walking) so you burn enough calories to offset a higher food intake.
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Treatment is the most compassionate thing for those who are addicted, not just shoveling millions of dollars at loosely supervised NGO's and agencies.
Charlie Harger, KIRO Newsradio@KIROCharlie
Really happy to share this follow-up with you. Remember the story I had about the boy in the tent? Mom and son got into treatment shortly after the story aired. Mom is nearly five months sober, boy just had his 10th birthday party. Story below:
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@VijayInWA If only there were warning signs that WA politics was headed for this… maybe 56% of ballots cast would have been for someone other for Ferguson, maybe there wouldn’t be only left-wingers and socialists on the ballot for Mayor. It’s all just so sudden and unexpected though 🙄
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SEATTLE — A sense of frustration is growing among some of Washington state’s job creators.
Business owners who have spent years building companies and hiring workers now feel betrayed by a new tax they believe punishes their success.
Some of those entrepreneurs are now thinking about taking their businesses elsewhere.
Jesse Proudman, a Seattle-based startup founder, said the new "millionaires tax" passed by the state Legislature in March is a breaking point.
After nearly three decades in Washington state, Proudman is considering packing up and moving. The impetus for him is the new millionaires tax and what he sees as the worsening business climate it creates.
“It starts with the fact that this tax is designed for everybody, and it’s labeled the millionaires tax to get it through and get it approved,” Proudman said.
Proudman, founder and chief technology officer of Venice.ai, a privacy-focused generative artificial intelligence platform, said the policy shift has left him questioning whether his contributions as a job creator are still valued.
Venice.ai employs 35 people, including six in Seattle, and focuses on consumers who want access to advanced AI tools while preserving their privacy. Proudman worries the millionaires tax could expand beyond its initial scope and disproportionately affect entrepreneurs.
“By targeting that population of the state, you are targeting the most mobile people, and you’re building a revenue projection based on the reality that you’re thinking those people aren’t going to leave,” Proudman said. “Everybody I know that is in this income bracket, that has been entrepreneurial, that runs companies, they are all looking to move.”
If high earners do leave, Proudman warned, it could create budget challenges for the state.
“If you are building your budget based on revenue that you believe will come from this tax and the people you are taxing are no longer here, you have got to then plug that hole from somewhere else,” Proudman said. “That is where it is a slippery slope that I think everybody ends up being taxed.”
Washington has long relied on sales and business taxes rather than an income tax, and the adoption of the 9.9% tax on income above $1 million marks a significant policy shift. Supporters said it will make the tax system more equitable and fund public services, while critics argue it could drive away wealth and investment.
At a recent Seattle University forum, Seattle Mayor Katie Wilson dismissed concerns about an exodus of wealthy residents, saying such claims were “overblown” and adding, “if the ones that leave, like, bye,” which prompted laughter from the audience.
Proudman said such displays by government officials reinforce his sense that entrepreneurs are increasingly unwelcome.
“I have been out of state looking at other houses as well,” he said. “It’s just not a friendly jurisdiction to be in when you are villainized for being an entrepreneur here.”
Proudman said he is exploring options in states including Texas, Nevada, Florida, and Tennessee, though California is not out of the question given that he feels it has “the best tech community in the world.”
Despite his frustrations, Proudman said he has deep roots in Washington and is not ready to leave entirely. He has employed more than 100 people in Washington across his different companies.
Proudman recalled a time when startups were widely celebrated in Washington.
“You think about Amazon, you think about Boeing, you think about Starbucks. All of these phenomenal international companies started here,” Proudman said. “Somebody had to have that idea first, and they had to want to build the company in Washington.”
Entrepreneurs who grow discouraged over what the state has to offer could have long-term consequences for job creation.
“They are going to go find other places that want to celebrate entrepreneurship,” Proudman said. “When the big companies are not started here, the jobs don’t manifest here. It is a negative, downward spiral.”
Proudman said he plans to remain engaged in efforts to challenge the tax but is preparing a contingency plan.
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@queerBengali Being fat is the absolute worst yet changeable health issue most people face. It’s just awful. GLPs are going to be the most widely used drugs ever, and for good reason.
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The drugs have been around for a long time. If they don’t have huge averse reactions for diabetics who are immune compromised, they are perfectly safe for the rest of us.
And even if there are risks, that’s between a doctor and their patient, what is it to you? Lmk
Mike Miami@deadalright
@queerBengali GLP-1 is NOT as well studied as these others. For diabetes absolutely. The effects of this drug on moderately overweight people are just now being discovered
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@ericmmatheny It’s really just a money laundering operation for the homeless industrial complex and the politicians who support it. The unrelenting misery it inflicts on ordinary people is just a happy coincidence for them.
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Living among 43,000 homeless drug addicts is not normal. It’s not just part of living in a major city.
It’s a deliberate and systemic effort to lessen the quality of life. To make you less safe.
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@ArtemisConsort They imagine that anyone could be a 20 time unrepentant convicted felon who continuously ramped up his level of violence and aggression until brutally murdering an innocent grandma. There but for the grace of God, or whatever. But we know that’s total and complete bullshit.
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The assumption of “putting yourself in someone else’s place” is that it will create sympathy. But I’ve been poor, struggled with mental health issues, etc. I never started robbing stores or punching random grandmas. When I imagine the edits to my psychology I’d have to make to get to those behaviors, it makes me less sympathetic, not more.
The proponents of “empathy” engage in no such thing. They do not realistically model the psychologies of the most dysfunctional people in society. Rather, they tell themselves a little fable totally unrelated to other people’s actual minds, feel an emotion in response, then congratulate themselves for this solipsistic exercise and vote to give away other people’s money.
“Do unto others and you would have them do unto you.” What I want done unto me is to be held to a fair, uniform standard of self-reliance and good conduct. And that is what I do unto them.
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@CoffeeBlackMD Reta appears to cause increased apathy for some users and not just with food. Myself included. If your relationship was on weak footing already this is problematic. However, a slight increase in temporary apathy shouldn’t be sufficient to derail otherwise heathy relationships.
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I’m seeing anecdotal reports on X about “some people I know” who fell out of love with their spouses in glp1a’s.
This has stirred all the “see I told you guys these were bad” brigades back up.
LOVE isn’t a dopamine fueled phenomenon. Love is a choice.
If your “love” looked like an addition, it never was. It was you using another person to stimulate rewards in your brain like sugar or cocaine. And if you “fall out of love” - you never were in.
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@feelsdesperate Which is precisely why the people who benefit from rampant homelessness frame it as complex technical and social question. If they were honest about it they wouldn’t be able to launder billions/year for the benefit of themselves, their cronies, and their campaigns.
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Regarding homelessness:
Some people just want to gobble meth and howl at the moon.
That’s what they want to do. They don’t want ‘treatment’ or housing or a warm blankie.
The ultimate political question is whether you’re permissive and just let them do what they want in a way that is extremely disruptive and has negative externalities for everyone else in society.
This isn’t a complex technocratic question that should be mystified - as a political issue it’s almost as clean and simple as can be.
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@MacroSloan2929 @xwanyex I married a bartender. Thankfully, serving drinks, mostly to lecherous men in LA, wasn’t her lifelong dream and she promptly quit her job when we got serious and pursued other career opportunities. We both knew that wasn’t suitable for a committed relationship.
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@gillingh3 @xwanyex Put yourself in your 20 year old past shoes. If your parents told you to minimize your odds of divorce by avoiding bartenders would you have just said "oh ok I just won't romanticize anyone who is a bartender then"
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@Risentoapp75959 @JimWalshLD19 Even if your fever dream came true, the economic fallout of mass capital flight that resulted in $10m homes failing to prices that become affordable for middle class buyers would be of epic proportions. You can’t be stupidly enough to think that senario is desirable.
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@JimWalshLD19 Great, rich people with $10M 2nd homes can bail and open up those homes to the next people in line, opening homes for people in the middle class. This isn't the flex you think. Nobody cares that rich people are selfish.
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Pay attention to this.
Ferguson, Pedersen and their consultants think ordinary people don't have access to information on real estate platforms like Zillow.
Next, desperate WA Democrats will be saying you can't believe Zillow.
Rip Wheeler@WheelerRipWA
𝐓𝐇𝐄 𝐄𝐀𝐒𝐓𝐒𝐈𝐃𝐄 𝐋𝐔𝐗𝐔𝐑𝐘 𝐌𝐀𝐑𝐊𝐄𝐓 𝐉𝐔𝐒𝐓 𝐁𝐋𝐈𝐍𝐊𝐄𝐃 — 𝐀𝐍𝐃 𝐈𝐓 𝐋𝐎𝐎𝐊𝐒 𝐀 𝐋𝐎𝐓 𝐋𝐈𝐊𝐄 𝐂𝐀𝐏𝐈𝐓𝐀𝐋 𝐅𝐋𝐈𝐆𝐇𝐓. Open Zillow in Bellevue, Medina, Hunts Point, Clyde Hill, or Kirkland right now and you’ll see something the Seattle-area market has rarely experienced at this scale: A surge of ultra-luxury listings hitting all at once. And the timing is impossible to ignore. In March 2026, Washington Democrats approved the largest expansion of state-level wealth and income taxation in modern state history: — 9.9% income tax on household income above $1 million — 1% annual tax on certain financial assets above $100 million — Capital gains tax increased from 7% to 9.9% for gains above $1 million Economists warned for years that highly mobile wealth would respond quickly once Washington abandoned its long-held no-income-tax structure. Now the market is reacting in real time. Luxury inventory across King County has surged, especially in the $5M+ category. Realtors are increasingly discussing residency shifts, secondary-home conversions, and “lock-and-leave” strategies as high earners evaluate tax exposure under Washington’s residency rules. This matters because Washington’s economic engine is unusually dependent on a small concentration of high-income tech leadership and equity compensation. Microsoft. Amazon. T-Mobile. Starbucks. The executives, founders, investors, and senior engineers who built the Eastside economy are also the exact taxpayers most capable of relocating assets, residency, and future investment activity. That is the central gamble Olympia just made: Can Washington collect significantly more revenue from high earners before enough of them change domicile, investment behavior, or business expansion plans? Over the next several quarterly revenue reports — and over the next few Bellevue luxury-market cycles — we’re going to find out. One thing is already clear: When policymakers target highly mobile wealth, the first signals often appear in luxury real estate inventory long before they appear in official tax receipts.
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@SMB_Attorney Dumb. I want my daughters to underwrite men. It isn’t about the money and it doesn’t need to be Nobu, but there’s nothing wrong with making a woman feel special by splurging a bit. Not payday loan splurge but not the half off apps you do when you’re with your boys either.
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Young fellas, let me save you a lot of trouble:
If she’s not just as happy with half-off apps as she is with Nobu, you don’t want her.
Short Squeez@shortsqueeznews
BREAKING: BMO found the average cost of a date has surged over the past few years. The average date for a millennial is now $252 and the average (up 32% from 2025) and Gen-Z is spending an average $205.
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Maybe the alderman should have supported the police and…I don’t know…arrested the criminals? 🤔
End Wokeness@EndWokeness
Chicago Alderman William Hall wants to see Walgreens face charges for closing (over a shoplifting crisis)
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@smithhmackenzie CICO is as real as gravity and your point is correct. But the added benefits of Reta made my current cut not just 100x easier (food noise gone) but faster and more complete. Truly amazing stuff.
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“I was eating in a calorie deficit and nothing worked.”
Then you start a GLP-1 and lose weight.
What changed?
You’re now actually in a calorie deficit consistently.
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@joewallin 100%. And the second order effects on regular folks who don’t own multi-million $ homes and can’t flee should give them pause, but they’re too malevolent and ideologically captured to even consider what happens next.
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