Upon further research, he seems hard-core apolitical.

I must have assumed he was like his character that he played on Boston Legal - who was clownishly right-wing.

Sorry about that improper assumption, and thanks for calling me out on it!

Or - here’s a radical idea -

EAT A SECOND FUCKING WAFFLE

From what I’ve heard, Shatner is normally pretty right-wing about issues. Maybe fiscally, but not socially. Maybe I’m misremembering, or conflating his character on Boston Legal.

I guess it shows people can be complex.

How would they expect to collect this “money” thing? Across international borders and stuff?

Well - I don’t think this is healthy or possible in 2 months.

Last year, I weighed in at 242 with high blood pressure and decided to get serious about weight loss. I started tracking my input and output to my system. I have a watch that measures approximately how much I work off. I use apps to track how much I’m taking in. The one factor that is missing is your BMR, your basal metabolic rate. This is how many calories you burn just by being alive. There are special scales or devices that can measure this for you. You will need this to figure out the math.

Food calories eaten - BMR - Exercise calories spent = Calorie deficit or excess

So, if you exercise more, or eat fewer calories, you’ll lose weight.

So, a pound of fat is 3500 calories, so if you have a deficit of about 500 calories a day, that’s about a pound of fat per week. If you have a deficit of 1000 calories a day - that’s a lot! - then you might lose 2 pounds a week.

Using this formula, I managed to lose about 45+ pounds in 6 months. I worked up to a walk+jog and managed to cover about 3+ miles per day. Unfortunately, with the cold weather of winter, I’ve not been able to exercise much, so my weight loss stopped in December.

But what you’re talking about is losing 5+ pounds per week. That would require a 2500 calorie deficit! That would be a super-heavy workout every day. And then eating very sensibly. Even so, there is danger that some of your weight loss would be muscle and bone loss in addition to fat.

tl;dr - Don’t do this. Also, talk to a doctor.

Every charity is evidence of where capitalism has failed us, and how it needs fixed.

My local Banh Mi place gives you a big ol’ sammich for under $10, and it’s a fucking masterpiece of delish.

And Brother printers.

Please us “Democratic” when using it as an adjective. “Democrat” is the noun.

When you use “Democrat” as an adjective, that’s the Republican framing - intentionally bad grammar because supposedly it sounds better to emphasize the “rat” or something. Because their brain never advanced beyond 6th grade.

The Thing really messed me up as a kid! Oof!

So many things under capitalism are like that. Food, shelter, water, healthcare. Probably more.

It’s pretty horrible that so many life or death services are locked behind a paywall.

Christopher Armitage has some good ideas of how the Blue states can fight back against capricious federal government and irresponsible red moocher states.

https://cmarmitage.substack.com/p/trump-cut-funding-to-16-dem-states

and…

https://cmarmitage.substack.com/p/we-need-to-talk-about-soft-secession

Fun fact: If you’re joking about rape, it’s probably not a good joke.

Judge is complicit.

Except for Microsoft Teams, because they don’t need that now, right?

Something like liquid smoke?

why do you yuck someone else’s yum?

Unfortunately, that’s not how vaccines work. They only work if the stupid people and the non-stupid people all get vaccinated to create herd immunity.

Kinda the same deal as COVID. It will affect the people getting vaccinations, too. And some regular people cannot have vaccinations, for good reasons. So, this affects people outside of the group of stupids.

I wonder which dumb half of the nation that would be? /s

Read the 12th Amendment. That being said, one of the two could easily pull a “Cheney maneuver” and buy a house in a different state. Problem solved.