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beandelphiki

Warning: This post contains a great deal of sex and violence

Jul 26, 2007 04:20

The internet is annoying tonight. I'll provide you with some links to demonstrate.

When I logged on, this came up on my homepage: And so on and so on: Obesity 'socially contagious,' study finds

A landmark study has found that whether those closest to you are overweight or slender can significantly influence your own body shape and that of others ( Read more... )

fandom, meta, lj sucks, strikethrough 2007

Comments 16

t_eyla July 26 2007, 12:17:24 UTC

*facepalm*

I'll be over there, hiding under my blanket.

Seriously, wtf? ff.net went down this road, and it ended in what people now call The Pit. And they're not done yet over there. I'm still waiting for them to outlaw slash fanfiction on their site. The wary, sort-of-shocked way the readers on ff.net already treat slash, I don't think that many people would even complain.

LJ, if you're heading down this road, I am leaving am going to cry don't know what I'm gonna do. Just... don't, okay?

ratkrycek July 26 2007, 14:49:32 UTC

Went to read the article, only to get:

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Either BOF or EOF is True, or the current record has been deleted. Requested operation requires a current record.

/include/breadcrumbs.inc, line 33

Breadcrumbs... hmmm.

And the whole Strikethrough thing is really a mess. I wonder what's actually goin' on.

THERE IS A MOUNTAIN OF SAND IN MY VAG ABOUT THIS TOPIC AND I'M GOING TO SHARE IT WITH YOU NOW hry2007 July 26 2007, 18:16:08 UTC

On the one hand, the study has a point, it's more common to be overweight and this is making it more socially acceptable. On the other hand, it's basically suggesting discrimination as a means of addressing a public health issue. Researchers are supposed to describe situations. If they have a need to recommend solutions, it should be a variety of possible answers, not the one or two biased answers, let alone that are known to cause emotional damage ( ... )

Re: THERE IS A MOUNTAIN OF SAND IN MY VAG ABOUT THIS TOPIC AND I'M GOING TO SHARE IT WITH YOU NOW hry2007 July 26 2007, 18:17:33 UTC

This isn't to ignore the fact that a lot of people, obese and overweight especially, should be working out more and eating healthier. But what's the cause of the problem? Several things:

*The US is the only industrialized nation that spends <10% of it's net income on food, because of our ridiculous supply levels. This is in large part because of the ag revolution of the past 20 something years that continues to this day. Technology has exponentially increased our supply of wheat, corn, soybeans, that sort of thing (including the meat products we get from our overabundance of said products), faster than it has evolved for produce ( ... )

Re: THERE IS A MOUNTAIN OF SAND IN MY VAG ABOUT THIS TOPIC AND I'M GOING TO SHARE IT WITH YOU NOW hry2007 July 26 2007, 18:18:06 UTC

*With all our cheap food and sedentary jobs, the only way poor families can keep in shape is through exercise. Gym membership is easy to put at the bottom of the list of priorities, because it's time-intensive, and it requires finding a babysitter. Also, a lot of small towns simply don't have one ( ... )

Re: THERE IS A MOUNTAIN OF SAND IN MY VAG ABOUT THIS TOPIC AND I'M GOING TO SHARE IT WITH YOU NOW hry2007 July 26 2007, 18:21:12 UTC

:/ I realize this is pretty US-centric, but hopefully it makes sense and some of the point are universal

Thread 12

siegeengine July 27 2007, 04:10:49 UTC

Frankly, I don't know if this is so much Six Apart throwing their weight around, or if it's them caving like a house of cards under an angry mouse.

Ok.. that didn't make sense, but it has always seemed to me that whatever right wing christian coalition fundamentalist fear mongers that instigated Strikethrough 2k7 in the first place are continuing to put the screws to Six Apart, and they're running scared.

It's... well it's like everyone was screaming about in ST2k7, that a tiny group threatens a corporation with public defamation, and they scramble to create a defensible position.

Like Youtube.
Like U.S. television
like broadcast radio, and then satellite radio

they've found this power, and they're wielding it ceaselessly, and unless we get some sort of supreme court help, which is impossible in its current configuration, they will continue. (sorry, I got tired of capitalizing about halfway through this)

beandelphiki July 28 2007, 08:40:34 UTC

Well, true. I don't disagree with any of that.

And yet, I sorta feel like it's still Six Apart throwing around its weight with lj. Because this sort of thing just didn't happen before Six Apart got involved, and lj went from this user-created blogging site to a business. You know?