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Good to know, that makes a lot of sense. I hadn’t seen them in years so I had forgotten. Thanks for the clarification!

Im pretty sure they basically are, except they use cetaphil

As a Canadian i think there’s a little confusion here because the roles universities play are a bit different here vs the US. I went to uni and I don’t remember extremely biased teachings myself, and I studied economics.

I’m only very slightly familiar with the Babylon bee as parody kind of like the onion or hard times, but I’m not very familiar with their actual leanings.

I don’t care if people think im taking it too seriously. That kind of rhetoric 100% influences people who are vulnerable to eating disorders.

The person in the original post who said “for enjoyment” was trying to counteract that kind of rhetoric, and to respond with “for gaining then” is fucking asinine – and I’ll admit I responded emotionally, but I’ve been bombarded with subtle, plausibly deniable jabs about food like this my Entire. Fucking. Life. On all sides. I’m tired of it, so ya, I’ll call it out when I see it even if somebody thinks im taking it too seriously, because if it helps one person reading it feel heard and avoid falling into disordered eating, it’s a net positive imo.

I know a lot of people don’t consider fatphobia to be a real problem, but I consider it a tool of fascism since it’s a really effective way to keep women weak. What better way to ensure they are easily controlled than to create a beauty standard that requires starvation?

Then it isn’t for gaining, it’s for enjoyment. My point remains the same, we don’t know whether this smoothie will push this person into caloric excess, and I’m sick of people making asinine statements about things they literally could not know about.

Additionally, to judge food on whether its purpose is for gaining and losing weight is some eating-disorder-ass shit, which I have no fucking tolerance for. Food is neutral and holds no moral implications, and its purposes extend to fuel and enjoyment, exclusively.

Seen way too many friends almost die from this kind of rhetoric to not say anything.

Read my other comments, I went over this already.

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Ice has no calories and takes up a lot of space in smoothies. Again, ive made smoothies like this so many times and theyre delicious. Smoothies do not have to be huge – i understand when you’re purchasing one they tend to have more stuff in them to get the value you’re paying, but homemade smoothies tend to be about a cup or so, plus ice.

To get mathy:

All of those add up tp roughly 1.1cup without ice

1.1cup translates to 312ml

1 can of soda, beer, whatever is 355ml (diff is 43ml)

If you put ice in a glass, you can easily fill it with a can.

If you add a decent amount of ice to the smoothie, it’ll be a very reasonably sized smoothie. It may not fill a pint glass, but I do not want to drink that much smoothie lol

That tracks lol

Exactly

1/4 cup 2% milk: 30kcal

1/3 cup Greek yogurt: 100kcal

1/2 cup frozen mixed berries: 39kcal

Plus ice and maybe zero calorie sweetener if you want it.

Total estimated calories: 169kcal

Which is between 100 and 200kcal.

Not every smoothie has a bunch of added sugar. I’ve literally made smoothies like this before. That’s how I know. How often do you track calories, my dude?

You don’t understand what I said then. You do not know the necessary information to make the judgement on whether this will make a person gain weight: you do not know

• the ingredients in the smoothie (could be fuckin yogurt, milk and berries for all you know, which could be like 100-200kcal)

Or

• the amount of calories that person has or will burn that day (if they are in a caloric deficit higher than the calories in the smoothie, it will not cause weight gain)

The existence of calories don’t automatically cause weight gain, excess calories cause weight gain.

Fascist governments will always find ways to imprison dissenters, this is just one way they do so – they’ve been treating those trying to track ICE agents as if they are “violent extremists”

What’s to stop this fascist government from defining criticism against them as violent extremism? Because that is what they are trying to do. That is always what fascists do. Just following laws won’t keep us safe. Laws do not align with morality.

Who was it so I can block the account and keep posting extremist stuff

Depends on how many calories you’ve burned and how many you’ve eaten. It could be a break-even smoothie, you don’t know

You may want to start taking this shit seriously because this type of casual acceptance is exactly what these capitalists are hoping for.

If this “fear-mongering” helps push for better climate policy, there is no downside, as acting when we don’t need to is better than not acting when we fucking should be.

Inconceivable!

100% agreed. All great value-added points!

Thank you for sharing, that was an extremely appropriate example of exactly what I was talking about!

And I think you’re absolutely right that that may be the reason a lot of SA goes unreported. Likes yes there are situations where systems of power are used to silence people, but there are also a lot of clumsy sexual interactions we had as teens that may technically be rape or sexual assault, but we were all still learning.

The boys were learning that consent is a very real concept and the girls were learning how to advocate for themselves (for the most part, of course as the opposite was also the case) . All of these were happening in tandem with systems of power making things just that much more complicated.

And they should be, because it’s visually appealing and it’s a good way to simplify the concept in a way most people will understand.