muddybrazos said:

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Whiskey Pete said:

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Redbrickbear said:

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Forest Bueller_bf said:

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Redbrickbear said:

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Footage from spring break in the 1980s

Not even that long ago... looks like a different planet

People seemed genuinely more present, happier. And definitely healthier

Yet people try waaay harder to be healthy today and have a hard time coming close

People will say:

"There… pic.twitter.com/inTDFHxsYy

— Tan Man (@reallytanman) November 11, 2023

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Especially for folks that went to college in say the mid 1980's or earlier, the student who was actually fat was rare.

Walk on a major campus in 2023 and there are fattys everywhere.

My dad went to college in the 40's. In his yearbooks there are NO fat people. None, they aren't rare,
they didn't exist.

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America radically changed just in about 25 years from 1990 to the 2010s in terms of obesity

Still not sure what to make of that

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Too many people not moving enough during the day and living off a diet of fast food and mocha lattes.

When I was a kid, on a nice and sunny 73 degree day, I'd see other kids out playing or riding bikes, the neighbors watering or cutting their lawn or outside playing pitch with their kids. Now-a-days, the neighborhood is a ghost town. Kids inside playing video games, parents hiring guys to mow their lawn, parents not throwing the ball with Jr.

Sad stateut

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I'm sure that is a small part of it but people didnt go to gyms or workout more in the 80s. The food is what has changed and a major part of that was when McDonalds moved away from frying the fries in beef tallow and changed to seed oils. That coupled with the move away from cane sugar to high fructose corn syrup and we have out of control obesity. Europe has banned these type of things but we have lobbyists here that want to keep these things going at the detriment to the health of everyone.

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They didn't need to go to the gym or workout in the 80s. They moved more on a daily basis.

But yes, the food has changed too.

Redbrickbear said:

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Forest Bueller_bf said:

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Redbrickbear said:

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Footage from spring break in the 1980s

Not even that long ago... looks like a different planet

People seemed genuinely more present, happier. And definitely healthier

Yet people try waaay harder to be healthy today and have a hard time coming close

People will say:

"There… pic.twitter.com/inTDFHxsYy

— Tan Man (@reallytanman) November 11, 2023

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Especially for folks that went to college in say the mid 1980's or earlier, the student who was actually fat was rare.

Walk on a major campus in 2023 and there are fattys everywhere.

My dad went to college in the 40's. In his yearbooks there are NO fat people. None, they aren't rare,
they didn't exist.

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America radically changed just in about 25 years from 1990 to the 2010s in terms of obesity

Still not sure what to make of that

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I know a small part of that was also that the same charts used in the 80s and 90s to measure obesity were still used up until a few years ago that did not account for increase in height that society saw or incorrectly used BMI.

I can't find the study now but there was one that looked at NFL and NBA players and many of them fell into the obese category and not just the linemen.

The moving part is a big issue as well as the food.

It reminds me of people that talk about how their grandpa used to eat bacon every morning, eat a steak at night, drink and smoke and he lived to be 100.... but the ignore the part where he worked on a farm from childhood until his 70s and was in great physical condition. He wasn't eating, drinking and smoking like that and then sitting in an office all day chatting on a university sports board.... oh wait.... I have to go......

cowboycwr said:

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Redbrickbear said:

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Forest Bueller_bf said:

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Redbrickbear said:

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Footage from spring break in the 1980s

Not even that long ago... looks like a different planet

People seemed genuinely more present, happier. And definitely healthier

Yet people try waaay harder to be healthy today and have a hard time coming close

People will say:

"There… pic.twitter.com/inTDFHxsYy

— Tan Man (@reallytanman) November 11, 2023

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Especially for folks that went to college in say the mid 1980's or earlier, the student who was actually fat was rare.

Walk on a major campus in 2023 and there are fattys everywhere.

My dad went to college in the 40's. In his yearbooks there are NO fat people. None, they aren't rare,
they didn't exist.

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America radically changed just in about 25 years from 1990 to the 2010s in terms of obesity

Still not sure what to make of that

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I know a small part of that was also that the same charts used in the 80s and 90s to measure obesity were still used up until a few years ago that did not account for increase in height that society saw or incorrectly used BMI.

I can't find the study now but there was one that looked at NFL and NBA players and many of them fell into the obese category and not just the linemen.

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Are we really all that much taller than we were in 1990?

Obviously we are since say 1790.

But I wonder if the average America man has grow that much taller in 30 years

Redbrickbear said:

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cowboycwr said:

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Redbrickbear said:

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Forest Bueller_bf said:

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Redbrickbear said:

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Footage from spring break in the 1980s

Not even that long ago... looks like a different planet

People seemed genuinely more present, happier. And definitely healthier

Yet people try waaay harder to be healthy today and have a hard time coming close

People will say:

"There… pic.twitter.com/inTDFHxsYy

— Tan Man (@reallytanman) November 11, 2023

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Especially for folks that went to college in say the mid 1980's or earlier, the student who was actually fat was rare.

Walk on a major campus in 2023 and there are fattys everywhere.

My dad went to college in the 40's. In his yearbooks there are NO fat people. None, they aren't rare,
they didn't exist.

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America radically changed just in about 25 years from 1990 to the 2010s in terms of obesity

Still not sure what to make of that

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I know a small part of that was also that the same charts used in the 80s and 90s to measure obesity were still used up until a few years ago that did not account for increase in height that society saw or incorrectly used BMI.

I can't find the study now but there was one that looked at NFL and NBA players and many of them fell into the obese category and not just the linemen.

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Are we really all that much taller than we were in 1990?

Obviously we are since say 1790.

But I wonder if the average America man has grow that much taller in 30 years

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Speaking for me personally, I'm taller now than I was in 1990. When I was 7.

Trust in higher education continues to plummet. Among people with postgrad degrees, usually stalwart supporters of universities, only half now express confidence in higher ed.

https://t.co/K4d9GiPP5R pic.twitter.com/WZ547Qkfcc

— Rob Henderson (@robkhenderson) November 14, 2023

cowboycwr said:

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The moving part is a big issue as well as the food.

It reminds me of people that talk about how their grandpa used to eat bacon every morning, eat a steak at night, drink and smoke and he lived to be 100.... but the ignore the part where he worked on a farm from childhood until his 70s and was in great physical condition. He wasn't eating, drinking and smoking like that and then sitting in an office all day chatting on a university sports board....
oh wait.... I have to go......

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Desirable weight in 1959. pic.twitter.com/Xl2Zpt7ZVJ

— RAMZPAUL (@ramzpaul) November 15, 2023

While studying the topic of culture and science, I came across a useful Depositphotos blog that opened my eyes to some of the nuances in the field of photography and filled in the gaps in my knowledge. I appreciate such sources and recommend that everyone who has a thirst for new knowledge pay attention to this blog.

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SVT (state TV in Sweden) just produced a high-budget series called the History Of Sweden.

This is their depiction of the first Swedes: pic.twitter.com/nkjFlAYjuE

— End Wokeness (@EndWokeness) November 7, 2023

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actually......there is some DNA-driven science that suggests skin color in those days was quite a bit darker than to day, that the paleness we today associate with the scandinavian peoples is a very recent adaptation......

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Snow camouflage.

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vitamin D and sunlight levels causing genetic drift on melanin

cowboycwr said:

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Jack Bauer said:

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SVT (state TV in Sweden) just produced a high-budget series called the History Of Sweden.

This is their depiction of the first Swedes: pic.twitter.com/nkjFlAYjuE

— End Wokeness (@EndWokeness) November 7, 2023

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actually......there is some DNA-driven science that suggests skin color in those days was quite a bit darker than to day, that the paleness we today associate with the scandinavian peoples is a very recent adaptation......

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I had never heard that. I always did figure that people 500 years ago, 1,000 years ago or 5,000 years ago would be darker just because they basically all worked outside on the farm, did not have sunscreen, full clothes, etc. but had not heard it was in the DNA.

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Redbrick had a post right after yours about the early European Farmers. Genetic research indicates most of Europe today was populated by people who migrated from the Caspian Steppe area, alternatively described as "Corded Ware" cultures or "the Yamnaya." They had skin tones associated today with Middle Eastern peoples and a very high percentage of red hair. In Britain, they've dug up some old graves and found black-skinned people (darker than Yamnaya) from as late as the Bronze age.

Clear implication is that the eye/skin/hair colors associated today with Scandanavia are a more recent adaptation to available sunlight levels and needs for metabolization of vitamin D. The mechanism seems pretty clear: melanin protects the skin from UV damage, but in the process inhibits generation of Vitamin D from sunlight. And of course it is well known that the regions of the earth betwen tropics receive far more intense sunlight than polar and near polar areas.

Don't get me wrong, I don't think that science had a lot to do with the casting decisions.......

"In just three years, the share of U.S. adults who say they regularly get news from TikTok has more than quadrupled, from 3% in 2020 to 14% in 2023."https://t.co/UpcgOA5hP1

— Charlie Spiering (@charliespiering) November 16, 2023

TikTok has now rehabilitated Osama Bin Laden. 9/11 was justified and an act of resistance, they say.

Decolonization is a death cult.

pic.twitter.com/germOD11IL

— End Wokeness (@EndWokeness) November 16, 2023

Cobretti said:

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TikTok has now rehabilitated Osama Bin Laden. 9/11 was justified and an act of resistance, they say.

Decolonization is a death cult.

pic.twitter.com/germOD11IL

— End Wokeness (@EndWokeness) November 16, 2023

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When we made the succession from a text based culture to a streaming one, all prior knowledge instantly evanesced, reformatting all prior culture and leaving a blank slate

In the resulting brave new world children can know they are the opposite sex, mass murderers of civilians… https://t.co/tZYvrxsswf

— Wesley Yang (@wesyang) November 16, 2023

There will be networks of gated entry cities which rival today's theme parks (with attached living communities) with themes like "New England Suburb in 1998 but with modern computers, medicine, and cellphones somehow" or "The West Village in 2005 but affordable somehow" https://t.co/3s0byWxgfB pic.twitter.com/8PC2SQ0aDi

— ib (@Indian_Bronson) November 16, 2023

Redbrickbear said:

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There will be networks of gated entry cities which rival today's theme parks (with attached living communities) with themes like "New England Suburb in 1998 but with modern computers, medicine, and cellphones somehow" or "The West Village in 2005 but affordable somehow" https://t.co/3s0byWxgfB pic.twitter.com/8PC2SQ0aDi

— ib (@Indian_Bronson) November 16, 2023

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If anyone else around here is old enough to remember Sterling Jewelry in Dallas (NW Hwy and Greenville) and its sister store Houston Jewelry (Gessner and Westheimer) from the 70s until the early 90s, it's beginning to look like a reversion to their old business model.

The "showroom" had one of each product on display. If you saw something you wanted, you found a clerk, who wrote down the product number and took it to another clerk at a register. You paid for your stuff, then went to the back of the store and waited. After a few minutes, your stuff would come sliding down a conveyor belt like baggage claim at the airport. A third clerk confirmed that the order numbers on your ticket matched those on the boxes, and then off you went.

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If anyone else around here is old enough to remember Sterling Jewelry in Dallas (NW Hwy and Greenville) and its sister store Houston Jewelry (Gessner and Westheimer) from the 70s until the early 90s, it's beginning to look like a reversion to their old business model.

The "showroom" had one of each product on display. If you saw something you wanted, you found a clerk, who wrote down the product number and took it to another clerk at a register. You paid for your stuff, then went to the back of the store and waited. After a few minutes, your stuff would come sliding down a conveyor belt like baggage claim at the airport. A third clerk confirmed that the order numbers on your ticket matched those on the boxes, and then off you went.

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Everyone is gonna have to adopt the model

Large parts of America are becoming South Africa and its' happening really fast. https://t.co/XXG4HXDffw

— RAW EGG NATIONALIST (@Babygravy9) November 16, 2023

The "Bin Laden made some good points" discourse is just an indictment of education. Kids know only selective history if any, and they simply lack critical logical faculties.

In other words, they can be manipulated to believe anything -- and that's *the point* of education now.

— Mark Hemingway (@Heminator) November 16, 2023

Cobretti said:

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The "Bin Laden made some good points" discourse is just an indictment of education. Kids know only selective history if any, and they simply lack critical logical faculties.

In other words, they can be manipulated to believe anything -- and that's *the point* of education now.

— Mark Hemingway (@Heminator) November 16, 2023

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Or they are just now figuring out how similar his world view was to bog standard liberalism without the Islamic fundamentalism…The West sucks and White men from the West suck.

🤣So this is happening... Every college girl is suddenly discovering:

🧵Bin Laden was a SHITLIB🧵
Just like them!

I'm not even trying to be derogatory, that's the only term for it.

He was a crazy educated guy, historic figure, but there's this phenomenon where if you aren't… https://t.co/gOdESgQZ2k

— CatGirl Kulak 😻😿 (Anarchonomicon) (@FromKulak) November 16, 2023

The transformative culture of the 90s wasn't "the birth of the internet" - it was the rise of "political correctness" in tandem with the vulgar wave - Gen-Xers got to be EPICALLY FUCKIN' RUDE, but be DECENT FUCKIN' HUMAN BEINGS by calling out RACIST WHITE AMERICA. Sound familiar? https://t.co/yLwf9Bqa9h pic.twitter.com/RPDHSZaz1n

— Hanover Raype (@spumdonor) November 17, 2023

BREAKING: Javier Milei has been elected as the next president of Argentina.

Here is Milei going off on socialist politicians, calling them "parasites" for stealing from their people.

"This is a society infected by socialism and what we need to achieve is to remove socialism… pic.twitter.com/lo8NrTwoxv

— Collin Rugg (@CollinRugg) November 19, 2023

Javier Milei, the next president of Argentina:

"You can't give shit leftards an inch! We are so much better than them. We are defeating them in the culture war. We're not only economically superior, we are morally superior and it triggers them!"
pic.twitter.com/JRFLAglmn2

— Citizen Free Press (@CitizenFreePres) November 19, 2023

Javier Milei has been elected in Argentina. Celebrations are popping off.

pic.twitter.com/Pz4tZlTVAX

— The Post Millennial (@TPostMillennial) November 19, 2023

Nice hat, Javier Milei pic.twitter.com/58vGwYl7R7

— Citizen Free Press (@CitizenFreePres) November 19, 2023

I dig irony

Javier Milei is the new President of Argentina and is planning some budget cuts.

🔊 … 🔥🔥🔥

pic.twitter.com/AIFJ30kUE1

— Wall Street Silver (@WallStreetSilv) November 20, 2023

British guy calls out a bunch of eco terrorists for being hypocrites pic.twitter.com/6r7XIBUvxW

— Citizen Free Press (@CitizenFreePres) November 20, 2023

Holy Shite.

Dr. Jordan Peterson stuns Bill Maher and his audience into silence.

This is outstanding.pic.twitter.com/eHFeRn29VI

— Citizen Free Press (@CitizenFreePres) November 19, 2023

The next belated discovery of educators will be that Woke math and science has condemned a whole generation to innumeracy.https://t.co/34kmWdnWLz

— wretchardthecat (@wretchardthecat) November 19, 2023

Pentagon asks for $114M to spend on diversity, equity, inclusion and accessibility in 2024 https://t.co/fKDXvf3St0

— Fox News (@FoxNews) November 21, 2023

https://t.co/lul2ttncRz pic.twitter.com/pHm014f2Zb

— Stephen L. Miller (@redsteeze) November 21, 2023

3 Ways To Decenter Whiteness In Your Workplace https://t.co/INMFly8P8v

— Forbes (@Forbes) November 19, 2023

Michael Hoffman on the effects of the Kennedy Assassination on the national psyche https://t.co/oFXE1BYyrO pic.twitter.com/wDPMIILRba

— Rogue Scholar Press (@RogueScholarPr) November 22, 2023

EXCLUSIVE: Ahead of OpenAI CEO Sam Altman’s four days in exile, several staff researchers sent the board of directors a letter warning of a powerful AI discovery that they said could threaten humanity, two people familiar with the matter told @Reuters https://t.co/MjwWzizgG3 pic.twitter.com/VfEoGlp2fq

— Reuters (@Reuters) November 22, 2023

AI will be the end of humanity. There's no doubt about it.

nein51 said:

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AI will be the end of humanity. There's no doubt about it.

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we are headed to somewhere between Hal and Skynet