Wow, that’s quite something! You may have possibly noticed other benefits though? Maybe being less short of breath, your back is less sore, maybe a lower blood pressure or cholesterol at a medical? There’s many things you can notice other than your appearance in a mirror.
40lbs is a great achievement and I hope you didn’t find it to be an absolutely pointless exercise.
The first day you lift is the day you realise that you’ll never be able to lift enough!
It’ll take a month for you to notice an improvement, about three months for other people to notice.
Remember, it’s not the exercise that’s hard, the hard bit is sticking with your routine.
I’ll boycott companies.
Something being technically legal doesn’t necessarily make it moral or OK and whilst I absolutely agree that laws and regulations should be in place to prevent horrible behaviour, it’s not reasonable to expect this in every case.
I’ll absolutely make a decision to withdraw my custom if I don’t agree that a company is acting appropriately, it’s the only power you have as a consumer and the only thing companies care about is getting your money.
Come on, join the “everyone that disagrees with us is a Nazi movement!” /s
It usually doesn’t take long to work out if a discussion is going to be interesting/worth while or not, although some people can be deceiving!
If nothing else, it’s practice for the next time you hear it, you can workout your arguments against it.
I also find it quite fascinating to try understanding other people, I already understand the reasoning behind my beliefs and already know what I know. Talking to someone different from me is much more interesting than talking to someone very similar to me.
I think that’s a broad brush to paint with and that the majority of people identifying with right wing politics are in reality rather moderate.
You could argue that the moderate right enable the extreme right but that’s a different debate.
The only speech I don’t defend is hate speech. Everything else must be fair game, no matter how much I personally don’t like it or how much I disagree.
I consider my self a lefty, but I think it’s important to consider all points of view, especially when I disagree with them.
I don’t know where you got that opinion from. An echo chamber is an echo chamber and I think it’s a shame regardless of which flavour it is.
I’m here for open debate and freedom of expression, knowing that will mean having to see and read things I don’t like every now and again.
If other people want to block other users up to the point there’s no one else that has a different opinion to them, then they absolutely can do that but I thinks it’s just being an ostrich that sticks it’s head in the sand.
Sometimes I can’t understand why I’m so joyless and cynical, then I read some of the comments on Lemmy and feel a lot better about myself!
If we keep going, we can make this an echo chamber yet!
Not sure if satire.
Being not racist is woke now? I thought it was just normal.
I wasn’t making a comment regarding Germany or Russia specifically.
I was saying that if there is a choice between an honest cunt and a deceitful cunt then the honest cunt is going to appear rather appealing to some people.
It’s not ridiculous, it’s an inevitable consequence of decades worth of a widening equality gap and declining social mobility.
that cartoon with two sheep looking at a poster of a wolf saying “I will eat you”, and one of them saying to the other “he tells it like it is!”
I unironically get the appeal when the poster for the last however many years was a sheep saying “I won’t eat you!”, and then turned out to be a wolf that ate you anyway.
That’s confirmation bias
Exactly, and a lot of people find it hard to swallow, but we should absolutely want the best and most able people as our MPs, not just the people who were born in to wealth and have nothing better to do.
That means if a great scientists, doctors, business men, engineers etc etc need to be tempted to become MPs rather than take private sectors roles, then they should be. To me this means the salary must be very attractive and I’m fine with this also meaning “no second jobs”.
Inb4: “yh, but being an MP has prestige, it’s worth more than money!!!”.
How many people do you know that do a job for the prestige of it? How many banks accept prestige for their mortgage repayments? Money is the bottom line and if you want more talent and less Jacob Rees Mogg, you have to pay for it.
But I want Google to stick it to bad orange man, Google should represent me not official data, Google is a Nazi company!!! 😭😭😭