Holy shit this comment section is a train wreck.
Train wrecks? Those things America has a lot of nowadays that all safety regulation is being deleted as we speak?
Uh, I hear ya, buddy.
Is this picture taken by a satellite?
Queue al bundy jokes
Gross
Y’all make fun of these folks. However they are living their life but adding walking into it.
We as a society should not be putting down those trying to better themselves. They are clearly working towards something.
Walking is a normal thing that every able-bodied person should be doing plenty of every day - assuming that this basic act must be “trying to better themselves” is condescending and infantilizing IMO.
I applaud your positivity, but those two are more likely to just walk to their car right now than walking for walkings sake.
You’re judging them. They’re minding their business. And implying moral failure for how they treat themselves. This is very much your problem. Nothing to do with them.
These are the same people that block my way when I go to generic 4th of July celebration they’re not minding their business when their issues effect others. They’re causing my insurance rates to go up and dragging their insolence with them in front of us is insulting.
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There’s a difference between being overweight and being this insolent. It’s like being told smoking is bad, so they smoke 3 cigarettes at the same time.
I’m going to smoke cigarettes, now. Respect autonomy, fuck nut.
Personally, I hope you do.
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The calories burned walking are completely offset by those consumed from the beverages. Walking in this case is probably pointless.
Calm down, it is a diet coke.
It’s a gigantic Diet Coke, if it’s even Diet Coke.
That is just the mid morning one. Got to stay hydrated.
And likely the walking wasn’t a choice. This is disgusting.
The bar is really low when we praise people for walking
No praise, just saying don’t be a dick. Not the same but I get your point.
That depends if it is their first steps ever, if they had a bad accident, or major surgery.
I would bet my right nut there’s soda in those
cupsbarrels.alcohol
Nacho cheese.
fatphobia isnt a thing my friend,
dunno why you’re getting downvoted. people act like others being mean to them is just as bad as having their rights stripped away, being beaten and killed for things you can’t control.
what’s a big gulp
Which word is giving you trouble? Gulp or Big?
the fact that whatever the fuck is in the picture looks nothing like a drink would look in a normal country, you smug dick.
Normally it’s just a large plastic cup but I think these are the reusable ones they sell some places? They don’t really look the right size or design but I’m not an expert.
So the gas station chain sells you these bottles and then then you can also pay for a refill later as much as you want.
I’ve never seen the point and I’m straight up addicted to caffeine, the regular cups used to be cheap.
A very large enclosed cup to hold liquids.
I was hoping it was going to be this video.
It’s not just bad, it’s Fort Wayne bad.
An obscenely large soda from 7-eleven. The cups in the image aren’t Big Gulps technically, but they are very large drink containers, and OP is using the term Big Gulp loosely
It’s a depth-charge sized drink made by the 7-11 convenience store chain in the US. The biggest Big Gulp is the 128oz (or 3.5 liters).
It’s just what you need if you’re planning to hike through Death Valley or walk on the surface of the Sun.
I knew a guy who rigged one up with a cooling system, he only needed to get new water every couple days. I aspire for such laziness. Mind you I am the type of lazy that caused me to go into severe pain yesterday because I hadn’t eaten more than one meal a day at most for like a week, I don’t have an eating disorder I am just very good at procrastinating.
I saw a video of some kid hooking up a cup with a tube that fed a back-pack to load up on some special mountain dew from 7-11…
It was for internet clout surely but damn…
In his defense some of the mountain dew flavors are weirdly rare since quite a few of them even if liked are either limited run or just not common. Finding the cherry flavor or Baja blast is relatively easy but anything else is hard. I say all of this to note that I knew a guy in highschool circa 2015 who did this with a camel pack that had a broken mouth piece.
Ah, I see my uber eats is en route
Just needs some 1/4" plastic tubing to make some extra long straws
Nobody wants to be in that shape, nor to be photographed and mocked online like this.
My heart goes out to those folks, and I sincerely hope they can find the help they need to turn around their unhealthy lifestyles.
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These are severely ill people who will die prematurely even if they get the help that they need. Do you walk up to cancer patients and go: “oh you are so beautiful just the way you are, never change”?
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That’s the thing though. We do care for suicidal people in this society. We should care even if they’re killing themselves slowly. It’s not a choice they’re making. It’s literally mental illness.
As a suicidal person, no we fucking don’t care about suicidal people in this society.
Whether you criticize or pity them, you’re disrespecting their autonomy.
Who cares?
No I’m serious, why the fuck should I care about their autonomy when they’ve proven that they’re irresponsible with it? Should I be careful complaining about used heroin needles in the street because it might ‘disrespect the heroin addicts autonomy’?
Fuck your entire argument, it’s stupid.
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Lol no. There’s a point of derision. You can’t act like something this absurd is a functional reality in their head. At some point we have to say “stop it” and that point was way before it got to using handcarts for diabetes juice.
Edit: and that’s before considering that their poor choices lead to higher insurance rates for people with self control.
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Insurance works as a risk pool. If you have an increased number of high cost members in the pool, such as those prone to all the conditions long known to be associated with morbid obesity, it raises the cost outlays for the pool, and thus by association the premiums demanded to cover said costs.
Money in must equal money out plus administrative costs, spend more out, need more in, from everyone, or should we selectively charge the hight cost members more?
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Bad troll, be less obvious
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or should we selectively charge the hight cost members more
Of course not, that would be fatphobic. /s
Telling an obese person to “stop it” is like telling a depressed person to stop being depressed, it totally ignores the underlying reasons.
I’ve struggled weight wise my entire life, been up and down 50 kilos over a decade, since actually getting an ADHD diagnosis and therapy it’s trending downwards to where I want it to be.
I strongly believe from my own experiences (and others I know) there’s a strong addiction component to obesity, would you describe smokers as having poor self control? There’s a massive mental health (and genetic for that matter) component to obesity that’s frankly overlooked, often can be a trauma response, maladaptive coping mechanism or as I said, addiction.
Have you ever talked to an obese person? My weight is/was a huge source of my self negativity, not a single person I know actually likes being obese, don’t want to be that way, that cycle of self loathing is a spiral and it’s really hard to break that, especially when society sees fit to attribute the entire condition to some sort of moral failing that makes it even harder for people to want to ask for help, let alone receive it.
I’m lucky, I’ve always been pretty active so judicious food logging + exercise works for me (and has in the past), others not so much. GLP-1 Agonists are an absolute godsend for people who really struggle from what I’ve been told (my ADHD meds kill appetite too, totally won’t discount their contribution) they totally kill any food noise, actually helps keep them satiated, and importantly, kills their food stress response. Literally life changing, enabling them to actually get to a place where they can sustain it.
All of this is just the mental health components, there’s other barriers in some places, food deserts are absolutely a thing and lack of walkable neighbourhoods does not help either.
I agree that there is a mental health component there. I have ADHD as well and used to smoke. But I never flung it in the face of society by smoking 3 cigarettes at once in public as a “fuck you”. There’s a limit to that excuse. I know how ADHD works and it doesn’t discount some amount of shame. This? This is shameful. ADHD people aren’t completely unaware, I know it’s hard, but it’s also not a complete excuse to be this obtuse.
Speaking as a disgusting fat bastard myself, feel free to criticise and mock me as much as you want.
Maybe it’ll finally motivate me to do something about it.
Self hate is approximately as good a motivator as ridicule, ie a negative one.
Depression or whatever the damage is isn’t solved with more trauma.
To start climbing out of your hole your first step is forgiving yourself for not being perfect.
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Right, that’ll work.
You’ll probably make more progress when you learn to accept and respect yourself. Losing a lot of weight is extraordinarily difficult and it’ll take as long or longer than the amount of time it took to put it on. You’ll have regressions and make mistakes. Your key will be neck breakingly slow but constant progress and being gentle on yourself, plus being surrounded by supportive people. I’m sorry you feel that you’re disgusting but I don’t.
My mom lost 70 pounds and then gained back 20 in the last 5 years. That’s less than a pound per month, a 100 calorie deficit. She still eats a lot but I think that’s what makes her successful. She has a long way to go but I never forget to tell her she’s kicking ass because she is. You’d tell her that too. Now tell yourself.
Everyone is different. For me, mockery was much more motivating. While it was not a good place, browsing r/FatPeopleHate was what got me to finally get in shape
Lost it a lot faster than it took to get it, for the record
Well, sounds like you got the result you wanted for the wrong reason. But glad it worked out
My heart goes out for them too since their own is probably about to stop
This is why I laugh when people try to paint Lemmy as the more nuanced and broad-minded alternative to Reddit.
I sincerely doubt any one of you needledick motherfuckers would spit shit like this to their faces.
Yeah, first 24hrs I was hopeful this social media platform was above Reddit. It felt like this one was more supportive of peoples right to expression. Now, I see it is just the same/similar to Reddit. Oh, well. At least I know what I am dealing with now.
You’re the poster stupid
At least Spez isn’t here. And for that reason alone I prefer Lemmy to reddit.
If I didn’t know a lost cause when I see one, I’d recommend them to seek out a mental health professional. These are sick people who will suffer and die an horrific death by their own hand at an early age.
Imma be real, those things full of ice and water are godly on a hot day
A camelback is cheaper, less pathetic, and much more likely to have water in it than coke. This isn’t normal or ok for humanity.
Camelbacks taste funny, and I suspect they leech into the water. (Thus why they taste funny)
Get some denture tablets, unflavoured or a flavour you don’t mind, put two in the camel back and fill it up. Let it sit for a day and rinse out. Repeat a few times if needed. Helps strip a lot of the residue manufacturing solvents out. It won’t be perfect but it will be a lot better.
Oh I’m sure they leech microplastics… But so do megagulps. The only difference is that camelbacks are almost entirely used for water (and probably some college kids alcoholic beverages) the difference is that these massive jugs usually contain soda, which covers up the plastic taste, and most are acidic, so they also contribute to the deterioration of the plastics in the container on top of that.
They are also insulated, and keep cold for far longer than the camelbak.
I have one of thos jugs I use exclusively for water when im working outside. They’re great. Most of my family does the same thing. The type of container you drink out of doesn’t mean anything.
Water? Like in the Toilette?
At least they are outside.
I dragged 15kg of peelaway in a trolley home from the local paint store last week. Fuck hand carrying that shit 4km.
Oh are we reviving r/fatpeoplehate? I thought we were trying to be better than reddit.
If that’s going to be a thing can we get a c/hoarders too?
It wasn’t a request.
Big Gulps, huh? Alright!
Well, see ya later!
