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Diapered Jason
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Agreed, but don't concern yourself with short term loss or gain. By investing for the long term, you can make money in a bull or bear market. When the dust settles, the stocks will go back up. If Boeing stocks continue to fall for example, you can buy more. In ten years, when Trump is long gone, hopefully we will have negotiated another TPP which is what would have fixed the intellectual property theft issue he thinks he can fix now with tariffs. Trump proved he was dumb as shit when he cancelled that deal his first day in office.
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Bitcoin mining is a nice way to make passive income, much like investing, but unlike investing, the future outlook for Bitcoin is terrible. I'd rather take the money spent on electricity and the mining system and put it in stocks, but for me that might depend more on the price of electricity. With Trump in office, there is also some real bargains out there right now, like Boeing. If I were in say eastern Washington for example where cheap electricity is plentiful, I can see Bitcoin mining as possibly more lucrative in the short term.
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I hear what you are saying and it is true, except a minimum wage increase is designed to adjust for inflation, not get you ahead of it. You need to get a pay raise for that. The decline of industry in certain regions of the country is a topic left best for another thread.
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Minimum wage laws don't do a lot of good. Those inclined to run 'sweatshops' will keep doing it, using fewer workers and demanding more from them or by using loopholes such as part-time personnel or piece-work to get around the laws
And the truth of the matter is that there are some jobs which need to be done but are not worth paying minimum wage for. Most minimum-wage jobs are for starting a career with, not something meant to retain someone long-term. It's what you do to learn good work ethics, learn how to deal with the workplace socially, then move on to something better when you can. When the minimum is set higher than the market will tolerate, a company is forced to raise prices leaving you right back where you started and just as poor as ever with only the government and financial outfits benefiting because they work on a percentage and now they are getting more money out of the deal 
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This isn't the case at all. You need to review why minimum wage laws we're made in the first place, what entry level career positions actually pay, and read the latest econmoic reports on minimum wage increases in Western US cities. Stop going with your gut and actually read the facts out there on the effect of minimum wage increases.
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Well, what happened in Seattle was a drop in hiring as the minimum wage was increased, but it was difficult to actually see a price increase in good solds there. It is impossible for businesses to pass the minimum wage increase completely on to the customer since they still have to remain competitive, therefore they find offsets elsewhere. I support higher minimum wages in high cost living areas when unemployment is low like it is now. For example, a $15 minimum wage is probably not good enough in NYC, but could be too high in rural areas within the state. I would set minimum wage by county, not necessarily by state.
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Misinformed, fat logic myths. I had to google that latter term by the way. I am just stunned. I tried to explain psychologically why people fail in trying to lose weight, but all I hear are anecdotal observations of the state of being obese and bad diet advice. That is the theme of this thread. Drynot, the Keto diet could have been dangerous if your high blood pressure was caused by high cholesterol, since it seems most of the foods in the diet are high in cholesterol. Just go to you doctor. I am banging my head on my desk now. Stay scientific everyone.
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20 hours ago, Spokane Girl said:
Whoa holy batman, that was a lot of fatlogic there. Also that is not how diets work, you are supposed to keep your new diet and not go back to your old diet. That is why diets fail because people think diet is a temporary thing you to do lose weight but it's not, it's a permanent lifestyle change, even works outs are a lifestyle change. CICO is the only way that works. If I stopped working out, I bet weight would come back on over time again if I ate the same. It does not mean my body is set at a higher weight and it's trying to maintain that weight. Even if you do work out, you are not supposed to have reward food or else you are eating back the calories you have burned. If you want to lose weight, you just got to be more active and not eat more food to compensate.
I read your post about starvation. Bad idea. Anyways, I see some confusion about what I have written, so let me make this perfectly clear. When it comes to diets, FOLLOW YOUR DOCTOR'S ORDERS! I put "healthy diets" in quotation marks because I was mocking the concept. This is not to say you all should not be eating better and exercising, but a real healthy diet should be tailored to your exact needs. For instance, if you have trouble with high blood pressure, then you should not do the Keto diet as was recommended earlier, because that diet will put yourself at serious risk of death. As for specifics into the science of obesity, I highly recommend reading the lastest scientific results on the matter. Nature.com is a great place to start. Here is also a word to the wise, never assume anything is true until it has been tested even if logically it makes sense.
To address Spokane girl personally, if after you quit exercising, you gain significant weight, you could have an underlying medical issue such as a hormone imbalance that should be addressed by your doctor.
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8 hours ago, drynot said:
I certainly don't think bariatric surgery is the only key to long lasting weight loss. I personally know people who have lost massive amounts of weight (over 200 lbs) and have kept it off for years. My own sister lost 150 lbs 10 years ago and has maintained that loss ever since.
Look.....I'm not going to get into a pissing match with someone over the internet. The FACTS are that bariatric surgery is a dangerous road to go down and if you don't change your lifestyle to go along with it....you really won't keep the weight off. There have been scores of people who have had the surgery...lost weight....and then put it all back on again because they refused to change the way they ate.
Change the way you eat by eating less and less junk. Change the way you live and you'll lose weight and MAINTAIN it.
That is the key, but how do you obtain that. Why do scores of people lose weight, then put it back on? Why can't they change the way they eat? The answer is endorphins. If you are overweight and have been for some time, losing weight is an uphill battle due to the release of endorphins when eating as well as trying to change your body's equilibrium. Very recent studies have shown those in that scenario have a better chance of living a longer life with fewer health complications if they get the surgery, which has become far less invasive with modern surgical techniques. The reason for that is the surgery affects endorphin release which changes what you crave and prevents you from overeating.
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According to the lastest scientific data, for the purposes of losing weight, "healthy diets" be damned. As it turns out, once your body has been overweight for awhile, your body adapts to your new weight and tries to always maintain that weight despite any changes to your diet, short of starvation, which carries significant health risks in and of itself, because eventually you are going to quit, and then you are going to binge, and then you gain all the weight you lost back plus possibly more. Of course, that does not mean you should not eat healthy and exercise, because you should no matter what, but your goal to lose weight eating less and exercising is misinformed.
If you are facing significant health problems like the op, you should look at making changes to your diet to avoid cholesterol and other changes as recommended by your doctor, but NEVER DO ANY FAD DIET WITHOUT CONSULTING YOUR DOCTOR. Yes, advice previously stated here, while in good faith, is wrong, most of it. Most importantly, if you want to lose weight, you should ask your doctor about bariatric surgery, which is the only scientifically proven method to lose weight safely.
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On 1/27/2018 at 10:08 AM, Dude84 said:
Much of this appears to be born out of a new wave of environmental hysteria, much of it targeted at the consumer.
Admittedly without having a qualification in the area of waste management, I understand that most material in disposable nappies is already recyclable, as are most plastics. The issue appears to be the economics of it, and poor export controls involving distribution to countries with poor or absent environmental legislation. It isn't my fault for example if something plastic I use finds its way into a river in India - I've placed it in the recycling bin for processing, beyond that point my responsibility ends.
I have lost count of the news articles related to this and other subjects (such as the "heinous" amount of energy used by microwaveable ovens apparently - though this was reported in what is very much the "local rag" without context) which seem to imply that the consumer is responsible for how their waste is processed. Well, we're not normally.
This is a subject that I have found myself reading about countless times as a disabled person and through participation in related groups on Facebook and in Twitter conversations, as they are currently targeting plastic drinking straws too - this is quite a problem for a sizeable number of physically disabled persons who cannot drink (and/or eat) without these.
I appreciate the logic behind the purchase of cloth nappies, but many persons such as myself find them wholly impractical. I use a wheelchair and already have to carry some medical supplies with me constantly. I am however limited in respect of the size and weight of what I can carry, both in respect of avoiding injury to myself and damage to my expensive electric wheelchair. I do not have the size or weight capacity remaining to carry bulky cloth nappies.
Further, the idea of carrying soiled garments around with me potentially for hours repulses me. I'm also incontinent and wear constantly and would require quite an amount of these and related accessories such as plastic pants, the storage capacity for I do not have. I also have no inclination whatsoever to add additional laundry to what is often a queue of items waiting to be washed, and of course there is the issue that I have found a plastic backed product that works well for me, and I will not willingly change from it. Even the "cloth like" cover on many disposable nappies aggravates my skin.With current technology, nothing in a disposable diaper is recyclable, but this doesn't matter, use what works best and is within your budget. Scientists and engineers will figure it out. While landfill space is not a problem yet, they strive for sustainability which is important for the environment as well as the economy. If you all want to protect the environment, then save yourself some money and turn off the lights when you leave a room and buy yourself a programmable thermostat at home so your heater/AC turns off when you leave the house. Also, properly dispose of your electronic waste, batteries, and chemicals by taking them to the proper waste cite rather than dumping them in your trash. The battle over disposable vs. cloth is bullshit. You may not have to keep buying cloth diapers every time you use them ( eventually they wear out and you do), but you do have to use laundry soap to clean them and a dryer to dry them, and dryers take up a good portion of my energy bill already. Both are not great for the environment, but so are many others things we do on a daily basis.
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12 hours ago, DL4LIFE said:
True but a very large carbon footprint.
I'm not going to get into details but I implore you to look up mining facts and then you will truly see the true size of the carbon footprint it leaves.
It's silicon. The problem is not digging it up from the ground since it is sand, but processing it into a thick and pure single crystalline wafers. It is like making steel in that you need coal, but there is a special solidification process involved when the material is cooled from its molten state to give it that electronic grade quality.
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I don't know why environmentalists like to criticize plastic. It is far easier to deal with than making everything out of glass and metals like the article suggested. Those materials require much more energy to synthesize than plastic. Anyways, to calm everyone's fears, once the oil becomes too expensive due to scarcity, other alternativesd to producing the polymers that make up the plastics we rely on will become more economically feasible, such as the production of polymers from methane. That said, what I would like to see are significant improvements in recycling technology. Current processes break down the polymer chain into smaller pieces making it useless for its previously applications, so we make napkins and egg cartons with the material instead. While nice, it doesn't quite get us all the way there.
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Hey Bettypooh, there is already a brick-laying robot for example, fyi. Due to the speed at which construction occurs, automation kind of needs to happen though.
All this complaining about automation though reminds me of the jobs we don't miss, because they were less desired and did not pay very well. Truck drivers will be phased out, but despite an ever increasing population size and increase in automation, national unemployment seems to maintain a low value which is more or less dependent on the economy and less on other factors. Of course, that is not to say certain regions of the country won't feel it more, especially in areas where there is already not much for employment.
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Unfortunately you don't get to choose which kind of diaper you are interested in if it is a fetish for you. If you into one, you'll have no interest in the other typically.
On the other hand, if you want to compare the two, manufacturing of both can be quite sustainable, especially as economical methods of creating plastics from sources beside oil are on the horizon. Other resources used are renewable such as cotton and wood pulp. Disposal is far trickier though for both ypes of diapers, but that's true with anything we use. In theory , you could run out of landfill space, but not anytime soon. There is however a demand for more advanced recycling technology that would provide economic viability for the recycling of more materials. I'd say cloth wins, because it has far less waste to throw away. Washing them is not a big deal to me. I wash tons of clothes already. An extra load a week would not have a significant impact on my energy bill but I would save quite a bit of money on buying diapers each month which typically costs $150 diapers every other month.
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51 minutes ago, DL4LIFE said:
I'm not gonna argue with u. As I stated....become a hard working, tax paying voting citizen of the USA then speak your piece.
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42 minutes ago, Christine Daryleanne said:
Honest journalism has not been done for 50 years that I know of. And this is true of BOTH sides. What tipped me off that the Conservatives were; and are; in the wrong is they way the wrang their hands over Obama's small amount of experience then turn the whole thing over to someone with ZERO experience without missing a beat. an ass THAT big and THAT far stuck out just BEGS for the hard impact of a steel-toed size 10, which is the moral duty of any sane person to do, either for hypocrisy or stupidity. Or how about that famous "I grab them by the..." Which they went out of their way to give a pass on as "locker room talk". What if it were Bill Clinton who said that? The same numbskulls like Hanity and Limbaugh whould have given us daily half-hour lectures about what if he said that about our wives, sisters and daughters. But did thy say a WORD about Trump?
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4 hours ago, luv2beSpanked said:
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In short, I think the president should be impeached, but the better question is can he be impeached. I think as facts continue to drip out via leaks it looks like a Republican Congress may be more willing to impeach Trump on obstruction of Justice, but there are many other possible charges. As it becomes more clear that Trump cannot fulfill the Republican agenda and is willing to jeopardize our security, they will turn on him and put Pence in charge.
As the facts come to light, it's only going to get worse.
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Lol, it is possible to wear diapers 24/7, but you will never get to experience being a baby 24/7. That is the difference everyone is arguing about. Unless you have some sort of psychosis, that is just not possible. Life is full of responsibility that cannot be ignored. Job, family, friends, your very livelihood, etc.
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9 hours ago, Christine Daryleanne said:
There is more to it that that. Visit the sites; I have looked at theme. There is things likie chastity belts, SPH and a whole lot of FemDom going on. There is so much non ABLG to it that I had to conclude that it was only tangentially related to us
Yep, it is a different kink. All those things you listed are added to intensify the humiliation. It is not LG if that is what you are wondering.
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On 3/30/2017 at 8:12 PM, Christine Daryleanne said:
for myself, i have no complaint about lebelling, so long as it is accurate and in context. Would you eat the contents of a can of something that did not identify what it is? Labels, to be useful, must be understood to be approximate and accurate. when I took "LG (Little Girl)" or #NeverTrump, they both said something about me that was true and factual. the context is that it is useful in a limited capacity and me being identified as LG outside these walls would NOT be a good thing along with being a provate, intimate matter and nobody's busienss. And nobody can figure out wat "sissy" is; there are 4 threads on this forum that are trying
Wow really, no one can figure out what sissy is. It is male crossdressing sexualized with ridicule mixed in.
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On 3/10/2017 at 0:35 AM, Octavian said:
Horsepower is a measure of work, towing requires work.
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5 hours ago, rosalie.bent said:
The article I linked you to was referring to a Johns Hopkins PEER-REVIEWED set of studies and if you actually read it (which seems unlikely) it made multiple references to studies and their results. A peer-reviewed article does not suddenly become opinion or of lesser value if it is then quoted verbatim
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The hardest part of that job is getting the transmission back in with the splines properly aligned. Of course, I had a bad transmission jack and a fwd vehicle, so I sort of made it the hardest part. Other than that though, it was quite fun.