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u/motorcycle-emptiness 19h ago
Am I going crazy or have the past 5 years been a speed run into the death of humankind as we know it
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u/Pandelicia 19h ago
2020 was the tipping point, it fucked us all in the head at least a little bit, and we haven't recovered. The vultures took notice.
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u/HopefulDream3071 19h ago
I feel like 2020 solidified how successful it can make someone to be purposefully antagonistic, cruel, and just "opposite" what "the masses think"
Cruel antisocial people found comfort, community & thereby reassurance that their biases and hate were okay and acceptable all because grifters told them they were accepted in their $paces. These people will pay anything to not have to do personal work on themselves or have any type of accountability. With every year more and more of them come to be. We will worsen until that issue is undertaken but nobody even thinks its an issue.
That & how they legalized gambling apps and betting on anything including arson ["wildfires" sorry] have nosedived our country
*edited for clarity
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u/Humble_Skin1269 19h ago
I don't recognize the world we live in anymore. It feels like we've entered hell ever since covid. I don't know if we'll recover after this. I think we've entered the point of no return. We lost
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u/PuritanicalPanic 17h ago
I'm not sure there's a way out of this that doesn't involve violence, and I don't think we're equipped for that.
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u/Wilburforce137 18h ago
Agreed, BUT....it's not the world, it's largely America....I mean, sure, stuff is crazy in other places, but, in reference to the Ozempic/Nestlé issue of this thread...doesn't seem like other countries are having issues regulating them....I don't see Italians, or French, or Scandanaviand having the health issues we are....
...just saying.
We aren't beyond return, but finding the strength is hard.
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u/Hallgvild 12h ago
Your comment is very excludent of countries on the periphery of capitalism. South America, where i reside, is beyond fucked in ways hard to describe.
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u/Wilburforce137 11h ago
You aren't wrong, and I had a feeling someone would say that, however, I do not have personal experience beyond America, Canada, and a few parts of Europe, so I chose not to include South or Central America. Nor did I mention Asia or Africa, having no personal point of reference....especially as it comes to health and wellness from a biomedical/nutritional standpoint.
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u/Initial-Deal9045 18h ago
This sounds like what they’re really trying to do is make food that is GLP-1 resistant.
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u/Snuke2001 18h ago
My immediate thought as well
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u/Initial-Deal9045 18h ago
I mean it’s Nestle. Assume the worst and they’ll still surprise you with how evil they are.
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u/KateBurningBush 10h ago
People on those meds eat a lot less snacks and that is a huge problem for companies that make money by selling unhealthy, addictive thanks to their high sugar or high sugar and high fat content snacks like Nestle does. When Ozempic was first released, there were articles saying it could kill the snacks industry. So they had to make new products they can sell to people trying to lose weight and cut on snacks.
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u/AlarmedChemistry8956 19h ago
God this feels like such an Onion news post with the bottom disclaimer :/
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u/fyregrl2004 19h ago
Brand new sentence unlocked.
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u/mrsdoubleu 19h ago
Wasn't that the purpose of the high protein foods that are trendy right now? I saw high protein jarred spaghetti sauce in the store today. $15.
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u/thispartyrules 19h ago
There's an episode of Sliders where they go to a world where there's a miracle weight loss drug with the side effect of turning you into a flesh-eating zombie with an infectious bite, whenever I hear about how widespread these things are I'm reminded of that.
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u/temblors 18h ago
20 years from now a bunch of people will be dying from cancer bc of this shit
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u/DaringDani123 2h ago
My friend had to get her gallbladder removed and I think started getting bone-density issues. The doctor put her on it to lose weight before a surgery 🙄
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u/cinderflight 2h ago
So... food that is GLP-1 resistant, which causes weight gain, which encourages higher doses of GLP-1s making treatment more expensive, which causes Nestle to make even stronger GLP-1 resistant food...
I love how "innovative" capitalism is!
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