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Cake day: July 1st, 2023

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  • XIIIesq@lemmy.worldtomemes@lemmy.worldGood luck, bro
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    5 months ago

    Wow, that’s quite something! You may have possibly noticed other benefits though? Maybe being less short of breath, your back is less sore, maybe a lower blood pressure or cholesterol at a medical? There’s many things you can notice other than your appearance in a mirror.

    40lbs is a great achievement and I hope you didn’t find it to be an absolutely pointless exercise.




  • I’ll boycott companies.

    Something being technically legal doesn’t necessarily make it moral or OK and whilst I absolutely agree that laws and regulations should be in place to prevent horrible behaviour, it’s not reasonable to expect this in every case.

    I’ll absolutely make a decision to withdraw my custom if I don’t agree that a company is acting appropriately, it’s the only power you have as a consumer and the only thing companies care about is getting your money.















  • Exactly, and a lot of people find it hard to swallow, but we should absolutely want the best and most able people as our MPs, not just the people who were born in to wealth and have nothing better to do.

    That means if a great scientists, doctors, business men, engineers etc etc need to be tempted to become MPs rather than take private sectors roles, then they should be. To me this means the salary must be very attractive and I’m fine with this also meaning “no second jobs”.

    Inb4: “yh, but being an MP has prestige, it’s worth more than money!!!”.

    How many people do you know that do a job for the prestige of it? How many banks accept prestige for their mortgage repayments? Money is the bottom line and if you want more talent and less Jacob Rees Mogg, you have to pay for it.