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It's not fair to responsible people like me, at 5'10" and 155# (at age 53) to be taxed because other people are irresponsible. Why don't we tax obesity? Also, many "healthy drinks"…

"jacked voltages up to 240, because, you know, MORE POWER." and "By the time people started to realize that 240v power might not be such a bad idea..." Well, the folks at Gizmodo d…

> as honestly as possible Nobody has suggested that Facebook is violating tax law are they?

You can buy water for even less than a soda. Here's what the left-leaning NPR says about Food Deserts and poor people's access to food. http://www.npr.org/2010/12/15/132076786/the-…

We need to start holding people accountable for self-induced disease. Perhaps with taxes: tax the obese. However, even the people who think that "Alzheimer's" is "Type-3" diabetes …

This is probably the best comment in the whole thread. In fact, you can't get "rich" unless you're a founder in a startup. (And no, this isn't sour grapes! I've made money in Silic…

Sometimes I like to sit a couple of inches higher when I'm practicing the piano. The Yellow Pages works great!

What's wrong with a cat on the kitchen table?

Hmmm. I tried "Buffalo buffalo Buffalo buffalo buffalo buffalo Buffalo buffalo." Didn't get it right. (See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buffalo_buffalo_Buffalo_buffal... ) Did bet…

Aren't these annual fees a large part of the business model and the profitability? Amazon manages to be able to keep _raising_ theirs!

That Arab Spring is sure doing well, isn't it!?

Exactly. People are saying that /r/fatpeoplehate "violated copyright" but every meme does that. (See https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-intersect/wp/2015/09... ). And reddit n…

I'm not so sure that /r/fatpeoplehate did anything worse than any other "funny pictures" subreddit. (For example, ones about "rednecks" or "ravers") I think just a lot of obese peo…

The forgot "fat hate." Weren't the anti-Obesity folks the straw that broke the camel's back?

Is Y Combinator turing into "The Daily Kos?" Blaming all the world's problems on the "Koch Brothers" and "The Super Rich?" C'mon now, folks.

These discussions remind me of the debate over caller ID in California. California was one of the last states to have Caller ID. On the opposing side were battered women's advocacy…

I pay for a NY Times digital subscription. Even though I don't always agree with their editorial slant, it's better quality news in on place than you can get for "free" around the …

From the VERY SOURCE your QUOTED: "Exercising regularly and reducing your body weight by about 5% could reduce your risk of getting diabetes by more than 50%." They list four risk …

How hard is it to not do something? Just don't eat so much, and 80% of Type II diabetes would go away.

No, my logic would not extend to people with HIV/AIDS. Why? Because the majority of people with Type II Diabetes (not all) could cure themselves just by eating less! Instead they p…

To be fair, some number (15% or so) of Type II patients aren't obese. I think Obesity Induced diabetes should have a different name, like "Gluttony Glucose Syndrome".

Well, I'm the NaN person alive! I think they have some debugging to do. (To you non-computer programmers, that means "Not a Number") The response I got was: "Do you think you belon…

We spend hundreds billions of dollars each year taking care of people who eat too much, at the expense of people who try to be responsible.

Think of all the money we'd save if people just ate less.