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I just had the same thought as I was formulating a different comment here.

“An ultra-processed food (UPF) is a grouping of processed food characterized by relatively involved methods of production. There is no simple definition of UPF, but they are generally understood to be an industrial creation derived from natural food or synthesized from other organic compounds.[1][2] The resulting products are designed to be highly profitable, convenient, and hyperpalatable, often through food additives such as preservatives, colourings, and flavourings.[3] UPFs have often undergone processes such as moulding/extruding, hydrogenation, or frying.[4]” Wikipedia

I don’t know why it is not defined as such. It’s easy to understand to me anyway. Flour has been ground up by humans for centuries, and has gone through a process, but the end product still at least resembles what you find in nature. Glycerides however, need to be explained and created using chemistry through indusrial processes.

I don’t know if I could have picked a better example I am no expert. I’m simply disheartened so many struggle to distinguish between processed and ultra processed.

Olive oil is processed; if then, in an industrial process they extract the glyceride from that process and isolate it to its chemical form, to only then inject it into another food stuff product, that’s ultra processed.

Im not that smart, anyone feel free to holler at me for being incorrect. This is my understanding however.

I gave up Ultra-processed foods 15-20 years ago and lost a lot of weight, and maintained that weight loss for years only using the avoidance of ultra-processed foods. Of course when I got slack, I gained again. So to me it seems obvious the harms. However, one could argue injecting vitamin c to a food is healthy, and would be defined as going through ultra process to isolate the vitamin compound.

But there is, to me, something sinister to have food scientists engineer food to be highly palatable and addictive, while also being detrimental to our health. Looking at you hot cheetos.

“Use your best judgement” to read ingredient lables and spend a few hours looking up what you don’t recognize.

You’ll quickly get a grip on what is processed and what is ultra-processed, and why the later is not so great.

A bread with only flour, water, salt would be a processed food only as flour is processed.

A bread with 23 items listed in it’s ingredients, half of which sound like something you’d hear in chemistry class, is ultra-processed.

Yet you technically can’t drive it, if it’s impounded.

Kind of a technical one, because if you get pulled over without insurance in my area, they will tow your car and inpound it.

No matter how determined I was to work on my car, it didn’t matter. That shit sucks, is hard to do, especially if you don’t have previous experience.

Also, cars today aren’t roomy 1990’s (or before) engines. They pack it so tight in there, with the need to specialized tools and knowledge.

Cars have become increasingly hard to work on oneself. Especially as computers and mechanical engines have been fused together.

I’d rather have my bike with a lane, or a sidewalk, lined with trees, than have stroads with rubber dust, smog, and noise, uninhabitable to pedestrians.

I don’t know what you’re talking about. “Their peers are going to laugh at them”? “Unfair”?

These are your excuses to not teach accountability? Not only are you wrong in that these are not my child’s viewpoints or reality, you sound pretty young yourself. All of his peers need to worry about being a responsible adults, regardless of future incomes.

I don’t care what the other children are doing, I only care what my child is doing.

Would you jump off a bridge (to your death) if all your friends were? Thats fair right? Lol

Thanks for the laugh

These would be the “pick me’s” whether they realize it or not

Women who are raised by misogynists but can’t see past it. Women who have insecurities and can’t see past it. They are latching on to the same order for security cuz it’s all they know. Just a guess

I opened a new YouTube account and watched some videogame videos. Rust if you’re curious. I’m a woman and this game is played by mostly men. At some point my husband was struggling with his mental health, we were in gridlock so I tried to look up male perspective mental health videos to see if i could understand him better or reach him in a new way.

Those two searches alone, unlocked a flood of bullshit into my feed. I couldnt believe the garbage I was bombarded with.

It is akin to how women are pummeled with beauty ads and standards (buy this to be pretty!) since we are young.

They figured out how to market this same insecurity to men. Wild stuff

Edit: except they aren’t just selling “self care” like they do to us, they’re selling hate-

Its so absurd.

I went to a rural title one highschool. I took general level classes and had honors/high honors at least half of my semesters.

Half way through my senior year, I moved. It sucked balls. My new school, was small, literally the smallest school in my state. Graduation class size was 54 students. It was outside the Capital city, and affluent. Everyone was a “prep” had money, some drove very fancy cars to school ect.

The new school didnt offer Gen level classes, only college and AP. I was upset at that because those classes were known to me to be super difficult at my old rural school. At that time I just wanted to smoke pot with my friends tbh. But … I took the classes.

Y’all. This little rich prep school’s College course classes were easier than my Title one school Gen Ed. I couldn’t believe it. This was 2006, and I know now, they did that to keep the funding going. All the little rich kids had parents who could afford to send them all to college, and they needed to look good for thier hard-to-get-into universities.

It still frustrates me the world is like this.

I am, not great at parenting, I’ve made hella mistakes. I’ve only one son and do my best.

The number of teachers/therapists (my son works a few programs for his needs) that have been floored by my willingness to parent and hold my son accountable for his actions, is far too high.

While I’ll take the compliment being “a breath of fresh air” (an actual compliment from a therapist) it bothers me more parents cant take thier own faults to accountability nor hold their children to any standard of conduct really saddens me. I shouldn’t be a wildflower in a field of dirt, it should be a field of flowers damn. A silly metaphor but you get my point hopefully.

With the “no child left behind” act, it’s really turned into pass every kid no matter what.

Everyone talks about reading, did y’all know for a number of years schools stopped teaching phonics and instesd introduced sight words? Aside from many parents handing over an ipad instead of reading to their young children- the schools dropped phonics for the last 5 years or more in place of “sight words”. I believe they’ve seen the damage and have gone back to phonics now, but there is a whole generational cohort who got fucked now.

Im glad I read to my son. Im glad I never gave him Internet access outaide of supervised educational time, or watching cat videos together. My son, who is in special education for learning disabilities, is one of the best readers in his class, and this year(6th grade) started in with Gen Ed and is excelling there too!

Reading is so good for children. As a toddler and beyond it is easy to bake into bedtime routines. Bedtime took 30-60mins, and we created so many memories for both of us. I’ll always remember the silly voice I used to read the Dogmans’ “haw-haw-ha-ha” laugh. Close familial bonds keep these kids from feeling alone and turning to social media for support.

I don’t know much more than you, but they said it right in the comment. “They are obsessed with their value” Such as, “High value man” “low value man” ect

I do know my 14 year old nephew is obsessed with making money in ways I never saw in my youth cohort

Why I like my therapist so much. She understands wholly what I mean, and she helps me to remember we can only control what we can. I can control my plants, in this case.

On a tangent just last week I, well, I was telling her a video game I play I was having difficulty with the wolves. Everytime I’d come across them, I’d get anxiety and attacked, die, respawn, and when I’d go to get my inventory, I’d be shaking so bad I couldnt even use the mouse to gather it. The boar’s were easy, the bears made me afraid a bit, but the wolves we’re having me panic.

She asked, why do you think the wolves have you panic? The most generic, easy response, right? I shrugged it off and said probably my trauma (I have diagnosed c-ptsd). Meeting ended.

But for three days, I couldn’t get the question out of my head. Why were the wolves freaking me out so badly? I wanted to defeat the wolves. Then I remembered, 14 years ago I was bit by a dog. Aggressively. He lunged for my neck, I blocked him with my arm where he snagged me. Another person put the dog in a head lock so he couldn’t shake his head, the dog didn’t let go until I, well, instinct kicked in I guess and I played dead, I exhaled and went limp. He let go, I went to the hospital and was lucky, he nearly missed my tendon. I had forgotten… I know… I know, but it all made sense. The next time I came aross the wolves, I didnt lose my inventory.

So simple, so effective. You must find the right therapist and sometimes it’s difficult.

This reminds me of my sister, who hooked a 6’ trailer to her civic.

I saw a truck today, and I thought, if it were 1995 and you showed my mechanic old timer uncle that truck, he’d call you a yuppie

Big, beefy, and engineered to be loud this truck was, I don’t think you could fit a 2x4 in the bed

I thought on this also, and I suppose in my “rule” to adhere by I would have to choose a time in human history. I’d likely choose a time from year 0-1000 but would need to research and get input from folks smarter than I before choosing the time that rule would be implemented.

Of course, it only bans colonization. This is specifically the act of taking over lands from those who are indigenous to said lands, usually by force. If the governments of two lands what to trade or sell their lands in agreement without force, this would not be illegal.

I’m certain humans would still find a way to be horrible in some other new fun way.

Fell asleep thinking of a question similar last night. No colonialism. Colonizing other lands outside of your own established borders would be forbidden.

How different the world would be.