Swedes Consuming Low-Fat Dairy Products Gain More Weight! | DietDoctor.com: "A newly published Swedish study has examined what Swedes eat and what happens to their weight. In the 90′s a few thousand middle aged men in rural Sweden participated in a baseline survey on their eating habits, and were followed up 12 years later in a study on how their weight had changed. The results? People with a fear of fat (avoiding butter and drinking low-fat milk etc.) had a clearly increased risk of being obese twelve years later."
DC Comics hires anti-gay author Orson Scott Card to write Superman - Boing Boing: "NPR: "DC Comics has tapped Orson Scott Card, the Ender's Game author who has said homosexuality is "deviant behavior," to write for its new, digital-first Superman. That has sparked outrage among fans. Card also suggested in a 2004 essay that if same-sex marriage is legalized, "our civilization will collapse or fade away." The equality organization All Out has a petition to drop Card."
IOC plays down wrestling's exit after global uproar | Reuters: "The surprise recommendation to drop wrestling from the Olympics has angered athletes, officials and fans around the world and the International Olympic Committee (IOC) played down the finality of its decision on Wednesday. The IOC's 15-member executive board voted on Tuesday to recommend that the sport be dropped from the 2020 Olympic program, with a final decision resting with the IOC session in September in Buenos Aires. The vote prompted an instant wave of protest and anger from the sport's global community with the international federation (FILA) calling it an aberration, petitions launched with the United States White House and on-line wrestling support groups signing up thousands of supporters."
The Girls Cried When They Got Dillinger « delicioustacos: "Monica Quan was a human being who didn’t deserve to die. Keith Lawrence was a human being who didn’t deserve to die. Michael Crain was a human being who didn’t deserve to die. The San Bernardino deputy who died today didn’t deserve to die, although at least he saw it coming. In any case, these people were murdered in cold blood. Their mothers and fathers, their kids, their friends, are mourning. Still, when I heard they got Dorner, I thought: fuck...
Cops: learn this lesson. The way you felt about Chris Dorner is the way we feel about you. A heavily armed human nightmare who could pop out of nowhere at any time with a gun in your face and fuck you on some technicality. Sure, Teresa Evans kicked some crazy guy in the head while he was cuffed. So fucking what. It’s against the Code of Conduct, but everything you do every day is technically against the Code of Conduct. Yeah, my brake light is out. So it’s against the law, what isn’t. Yeah, I have a gram of coke on me, so fucking what. It makes me feel happy for once. But suddenly someone can come grab you by the scruff of the neck over some shit we all do and stomp your face into the sidewalk and take away your money and your dreams and your freedom and maybe your life. Quis custodiet ipses custodies.
...Cops got fucked harder by the Youtube era than anyone, because cops on TV used to be heroes. Just out of narrative convenience; it’s one of those jobs where you can solve a case every week. You can run shows out of order in syndication without confusing old people. But in the digital age, every fucking day we see cops tazing old ladies, cops kicking the shit out of retarded people, cops beating a mentally ill hobo to death while he screams for his dad. Nowadays we see this shit and we are no longer surprised. I have no idea what percentage of cops does shit like this. I want to believe it’s a tiny minority. That the vast bulk of them are honorable guardians protecting pussies like me from the bloodthirsty hordes of scum out there. But you see enough of cops kicking the shit out of people, you see enough of them unloading into the back of innocent people’s cars in a panic to save their own ass, you start to think: maybe that’s bullshit."
Dystopian British series Black Mirror returns to twist the knife: "Last year, writer and satirist Charlie Brooker awed us and basically ripped our guts out with the first season of Black Mirror, a three-episode series of short stories set in troubling, media-saturated futures. Now he's back with season two, whose first episode, "Be Right Back," aired last night on Channel 4. It was a strong, moody start, though not quite as devastatingly misanthropic as anything in season one. Spoilers ahead. Perhaps the best element of "Be Right Back," set five minutes into the future, is its extremely well-observed commentary on the difference between our social media online personas and who we really are..."
Killing Isn't Cool - By Micah Zenko | Foreign Policy: "General Stanley McChrystal is speaking out against the Obama administration's use of drone strikes, echoing previous warnings and clashing with the White House's carefully cultivated narrative.."
Helicopter Moms & Dads: Watch this and then go dunk your heads in cold water | Free The Animal: "Besides, we know what you helicopter parent assholes are all about: sacrificing your childrens' childhood joy and independent discovery and adventure, for the sake of your irrational fears—because you watch too much sensational garbage "news" on television like a drug addict, losing all perspective. You've allowed yourselves to become so fucking stupid when it comes to raising kids—when it ought to be the most natural thing in the world because we were all kids once! We have experience."
Top 11 Biggest Lies of Mainstream Nutrition | DietDoctor.com: Authority Nutrition: Top 11 Biggest Lies of Mainstream Nutrition
I would add two more silly mistakes:
- A calorie is a calorie (false, different foods have different effects on the body)
- Small changes in lifestyle, like eating a smaller cookie, has big long-term effects (a common myth)
References and details at the link - Top 11 Biggest Lies of Mainstream Nutrition:
"1. Eggs Are Unhealthy
2. Saturated Fat is Bad For You
3. Everybody Should be Eating Grains
4. Eating a Lot of Protein is Bad For Your Bones and Kidneys
5. Low-Fat Foods Are Good For You
6. You Should Eat Many Small Meals Throughout The Day
7. Carbs Should Be Your Biggest Source of Calories
8. High Omega-6 Seed and Vegetable Oils Are Good For You
9. Low Carb Diets Are Dangerous
10. Sugar is Unhealthy Because it Contains “Empty” Calories
11. High Fat Foods Will Make You Fat"
More on Police Lies | PoliceMisconduct.net: "Last fall, the criminal defense clinic at Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law represented a young black man charged with possession of a knife (recovered from his pants pocket) after he was searched by a police officer who swore — under penalty of perjury — that the client was blocking the entrance to a building in violation of a disorderly conduct statute. A video obtained from an adjacent store revealed a very different reality — just a young kid talking with friends, never blocking anyone’s way. Too often, though, without a video, our clients’ accounts of the lies told by police fall on deaf ears. Prosecutors and judges engage in cognitive dissonance — on the one hand understanding that police lie; on the other, failing to address the issue in any meaningful way. Perhaps this is because our criminal justice system relies so heavily on the assumption of police as truth tellers. Acknowledging the problem threatens the very foundation of an already dysfunctional system."
The End Game:"For example:
- Girl has no willpower and is 50 pounds overweight? Not her fault. She’s beautiful. Social constructs need to be changed.
- Girl gets drunk in a guy’s house and has sex with him? He took advantage of her. She was raped.
- Girl sleeps with her college professor in exchange for a better grade? She was a victim. The professor took advantage of her.
- Girl likes dating guys much younger than her? You go girl! Rob that cradle!
- Girl experiences an uncomfortable moment of any kind? She’s being harassed. Men are creeps.
- Girl travels to Italy or Spain to bang hot European men? She’s romantic.
- Wife cheated on her faithful husband? He wasn’t attending to her needs. She wasn’t happy. Give her the kids and half his money.
On the flip side, almost anything a man does is wrong:
- Guy is nice to girl in hopes of getting sex one day? He’s dishonest. He’s the polar opposite of nice.
- Guy approaches girls in the bar in hopes of getting sex? He’s a rando creep loser.
- Guy on OK Cupid says he wants a girl who doesn’t play games? Let’s publicly mock him on Tumblr.
- Guy makes a joke about fat girls? Hate speech.
- Guy likes working out to have strong muscles? Narcissist.
- Guy spends his money on a fast sports car? He’s overcompensating for a small penis.
- Guy doesn’t want to date girls because he’s tired of flakes? He needs to stop being a boy and man up.
- Guy says he wants his wife to stay at home and raise the kids? Slaver.
- Guy believes hard work is eventually rewarded? Wants poor people in Africa to suffer and starve.
- Guy hits on a girl on the street? Street harassment. Disturbing the peace.
- Guy likes dating girls much younger than him? Sexual predator.
- Guy likes dating girls just a little bit younger than him? Immature and irresponsible.
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