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i've started looking at weight and health the way i look at class and income and it really puts a lot of things into a new perspective.

let me explain: in america at least, the lower class have significantly worse health outcomes, even when accounting for other factors. just being poor is enough to make your overall health worse. we don't know that being fat makes your health directly worse, like the data just isn't there, but for a moment, pretend it does.

imagine going to the doctor with a health problem and the doctor looking at your chart and saying well, this problem will be less severe if you go up an income bracket. have you thought about becoming rich? it would really help. start by saving a little money every month.

ridiculous, right?? very few people successfully go from working class to rich, it just doesn't happen on a large scale in society. maybe for a time you pick up some overtime hours, spend a little beyond your means, and appear rich. but eventually you burn out, your car needs to be repaired, and you return to being working class.

we do have this data: only some people can successfully lose large amounts of weight, and only a tiny fraction of people who lose that weight actually keep it off for more than a year. telling people to lose weight for their health is just absurd because they almost certainly can't do it any more than they can double their income for their health.

and yet i see it everywhere. a little poster in my work breakroom tells me to improve my blood pressure by losing weight! a psa on the radio says you need to take care of your heart by losing weight! we can't even conclusively prove that weight is the cause rather than just correlated with a lot of these problems but here it is offered anyway: have you tried being rich?

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Congrats to the lovely couple! I can now cross ‘wedding planner’ off my bucket list. Love you two! https://www.instagram.com/p/CiY6jRWLzhh/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

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A lovely Long Table Dinner with food prepared by a red seal chef using ingredients from the @crossfieldfarmersmarket and a take-home gift of local flowers from Petal & Pollen. Too busy eating the delicious food to remember to take any pictures! Ate enough to be full until supper time tomorrow! #TwoCraftyGirls #FarmersMarket #EatLocal #LetsDoItAgainNextYear https://www.instagram.com/p/Cg8e4JBuE0a/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

#twocraftygirls #farmersmarket #eatlocal #letsdoitagainnextyear

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Happy Birthday Dad! Mom made the cake, niece and I did the chocolate mousse middle layer, espresso chocolate mousse frosting, and chocolate shards decorations. #TwoCraftyGirls #BirthdayCake #LongTimeNoPost https://www.instagram.com/p/CZYldR0rbm2/?utm_medium=tumblr

#twocraftygirls #birthdaycake #longtimenopost

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baroque in the 21st century

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Kids at this school are playing a game.

They run around aimlessly and then someone yells: "KNOCK KNOCK"

"WHOS THERE," they all respond in unison.

The knocker can say what they want here- who their best friend is, what kind of day it's going to be, declare themselves an independent country, or whatever nonsense kids are up to.

But there are two other options. One is make a new rule. "Hop on one leg!" "Stick out your tongue!"

Option two:

"KNOCK KNOCK"

"WHOS THERE?"

"COVID!"

Covid then chases the kids around until they tag someone, then they both chase kids around, then they try to tag as many kids as they can.

A space is designated 'home' and they cant get tagged there. When the covid kids cant tag anyone else, the game restarts.

So the nature of humanity is that every so often someone reinvents Ring Around The Rosie.

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i told ya we’ve canceled discourse n we’ve moved on to homesteading skills

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Throwback to the 90s! I used a stencil to put “tiles” on my desk chair mat. I felt bad throwing out the plastic mats every couple of years, so Dad made me a wood one. I painted it the wall colour but then it was kind of boring, so I added a touch of class 😂 Only been meaning to do this for the past 6 months…. *Note: please ignore the chaos that is the rest of my office and just appreciate the new floor mat #TwoCraftyGirls #procrastination #FinallyDone #WorkFromHome https://www.instagram.com/p/CT-z40fvhOk/?utm_medium=tumblr

#twocraftygirls #procrastination #finallydone #workfromhome

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Get yourself a fabric store that will light your fabric on fire for you

No but legit I asked what the fiber content of something was and the guy didn’t know so he cut a chunk off and lit it on fire and felt the ashes and was like. Yeah this is mostly cotton with a lil bit of silk. And that was the moment I knew. This is it. This is the fabric store for me. Also that guy is marriage material. Not for me but damn some person is gonna be so happy with him.

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Astrophotographer, in Idaho, captures falling meteor fireball.

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Cast and crew of McNeil Productions! Our latest film about a ninja attacking our medieval castle will be available in very limited release. #twocraftygirls #film #limitedrelease #anythingandeverythingcanbeaweapon #fournephewsandoneniece #besttwoaunties https://www.instagram.com/p/CRrnGHRF2Dp/?utm_medium=tumblr

#twocraftygirls #film #limitedrelease #anythingandeverythingcanbeaweapon #fournephewsandoneniece #besttwoaunties

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Something I find incredibly cool is that they’ve found neandertal bone tools made from polished rib bones, and they couldn’t figure out what they were for for the life of them. 

Until, of course, they showed it to a traditional leatherworker and she took one look at it and said “Oh yeah sure that’s a leather burnisher, you use it to close the pores of leather and work oil into the hide to make it waterproof. Mine looks just the same.” 

“Wait you’re still using the exact same fucking thing 50,000 years later???”

“Well, yeah. We’ve tried other things. Metal scratches up and damages the hide. Wood splinters and wears out. Bone lasts forever and gives the best polish. There are new, cheaper plastic ones, but they crack and break after a couple years. A bone polisher is nearly indestructible, and only gets better with age. The more you use a bone polisher the better it works.”

It’s just. 

50,000 years. 50,000. And over that huge arc of time, we’ve been quietly using the exact same thing, unchanged, because we simply haven’t found anything better to do the job.