BranBucket

One of these days, when we can't ignore it any longer, when they can't hide it anymore, this will be recognized as a public health crisis on par with leaded gasoline, smoking, obesity, air pollution, and others.

They are fucking with people's heads for profit and it has real consequences for children and adults alike.

I'm afraid to ask what the implications for Kid Rock are...

Physical fitness and physical activity correlate very well with health and positive outcomes if you do get sick, or contract something preventable like a parasitic infection... but it doesn't guarantee it.

I like Dan John's take on fitness and health. Fitness is one's ability to do a task. Health is the optimal interplay of organs and the absence of disease.

The man could be riddled with undiagnosed cancer, more parasites, and infections from his dumbass lifestyle and blatant disregard for both food safety and disease prevention. He's got access to medical care most of us don't and could be on god knows what substances now to enable him to run around shirtless like a dipshit teenager.

Doesn't matter how many pullups the old saddlebag can do. He's not someone we should emulate or who should be lecturing us on health.

People are dicks sometimes.

Tulsa. Bell's Amusement Park.

ID verification is essentially giving them exactly what they want. The whole goal of surveillance capitalism is to match online profiles across multiple sites, services, and even devices to a single person's identity.

Might as well just send them credit reports, bank statements, and a picture of everyone's butthole while we're at it.

Depends on where the shit is getting real.

If it's getting real at arm's length, I definitely need my glasses.

If it's getting real on the other side of the room, I'm gonna have to take my glasses off to see it properly.

Yes... I am old.

This is a public health crisis akin to smoking. Any company that runs an ad supported, algorithm-based site that uses surveillance to target ads, propaganda, and increase engagement should be handled in the same manner as tobacco companies.

They know their product is harming people's mental health. Not just children, but adults as well. They've always known. They designed it this way and now they're lying about the harm it's doing. Just like tobacco companies lied. Just like oil companies have lied.

They should have to fund an education campaign against their own product, to continue to expose what an utter pile of shit their business model is until they're forced to change or go out of business.

We used to have a small, locally owned amusement park.

This exact thing happened. The little bungalow homes in the neighborhood around it became trendy. People moved in, complained about the noise from the park's main attraction, a classic wooden rollercoaster that had been an area landmark for DECADES, and badgered the city council about it until they limited the place's operating hours and it went out of business.

I still get absolutely livid if I talk about it for too long.

EDIT: Not the City Council, as it turns out, but the organization that runs the local fairgrounds, which the park leased land from.

My ideal lower purpose would be beating guys like this with a sock full of nickles until they weep uncontrollably.