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Not exactly news to anybody here, but published today at Bloomberg... with comics!
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TECH TITANS PLOT THEIR DOOMSDAY ESCAPE TO NEW ZEALAND LUXURY BUNKERS
Wealthy Americans have stepped up investment in the island nation. Parliament votes to ban foreigners from buying bolt-hole homes.
https://www.bloomberg.com/features/2018-rich-new-zealand-doomsday-preppers/
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@salacious-crumb One bathroom? For three bedrooms? Clearly no one is taking their wives to the end of the world.
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No shit it's manufactured in Texas. Half the fucking thing is taken up with the gun room and the pantry.
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@nepia said in Interesting reads:
@jegga That's an interesting story, although it reads like the crew were there the full 8 years as well (unless I skimmed to quickly) but obviously Wiki confirmed that didn't happen and most returned home or went on rotation.
Yeah he was a bit vague there , interesting though . I’m surprised the Egyptians didn’t sieze the boats.
If I have to be trapped at sea this is how I’d like it to go down
http://www.wonews.com/t-FeatureArticle-AccidentlandsSenorHefeintunaheaven-073108.aspx -
@nepia said in Interesting reads:
@jegga I guess you don't really want to piss off the rest by seizing a bunch of their ships?
I’m not sure how much they’d do to retaliate if they weren’t too arsed about getting the ships out for 8 years .
Weird things happen at sea in that region , the Israelis atracked a yank navy boat around the same time those boats were stuck there.
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Gland larceny
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@barbarian said in Interesting reads:
Thought of posting this in the fitness forums, but probably better fits here:
Nothing in that article addresses the law of thermodynamics and the undeniable evidence in famine; no fat fuckers.
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@barbarian said in Interesting reads:
Thought of posting this in the fitness forums, but probably better fits here:
i don't understand the conclusion?
Is that people who are already fat are fucked? And we should just accept that? And being a blimp isn't necessarily a bad thing?
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@mariner4life said in Interesting reads:
@barbarian said in Interesting reads:
Thought of posting this in the fitness forums, but probably better fits here:
i don't understand the conclusion?
Is that people who are already fat are fucked? And we should just accept that? And being a blimp isn't necessarily a bad thing?
Doctors need more training and time to point out obvious shit to enormously fat people who are psychotic liars.
Also, less sugar apparently.
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@mariner4life said in Interesting reads:
i don't understand the conclusion?
Is that people who are already fat are fucked? And we should just accept that? And being a blimp isn't necessarily a bad thing?
That we need to redefine the focus away from weight and towards health.
When you focus unerringly on weight, it tends to lead to negative outcomes.
It is possible to be both fat and healthy, and the reverse is also true.
Crash diets generally don't work in the long term.
The medical profession tend to be poor at dealing with these issues in a considered, productive fashion.
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@barbarian Fat ABs prop much healthier than skinny meth-head, for example. ABs have BMIs off the scale! Morbidly Obese, OH NOES!
But yeah that's about the point of the article, along with the fact that your body wants to be back to the fattest it's ever been - in most of our history being fat was awesome, cos you were very likely to starve at some point. Now we have permanent feast of awful shit food, and no famine. So doing exercise and eating heaps of real food, even if you are fat, is much better than being skinny and unhealthy.
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@barbarian said in Interesting reads:
@mariner4life said in Interesting reads:
i don't understand the conclusion?
Is that people who are already fat are fucked? And we should just accept that? And being a blimp isn't necessarily a bad thing?
That we need to redefine the focus away from weight and towards health.
When you focus unerringly on weight, it tends to lead to negative outcomes.
It is possible to be both fat and healthy, and the reverse is also true.
Crash diets generally don't work in the long term.
The medical profession tend to be poor at dealing with these issues in a considered, productive fashion.
You can’t be fat and healthy. People who are fat have been proven to be at much higher risks of several diseases.
Agree with focusing on health, but a marker for health is how overweight you are. Ignoring weight, men with waist measurements over a certain value are at a much higher risk of heart disease.