• Dasus@lemmy.world
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    9 hours ago

    Holy fuck Americans, honestly.

    Your obesity issue is out of hand.

    So is your fascism, but geowd dawm those are some chunky soldiers.

    When I was in the army these boys would’ve prolly not been able to keep up and would’ve been sent home to eat Ozempic and diet for a year or two before returning to the brigade.

    Hell, I’m a supply NCO, trained as a quartermaster as well and I don’t think we’d have sizes big enough, lol.

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      2 hours ago

      Our food system prioritizes profits over health hard. You usually have pay more to eat healthy. It funnels unhealthy food to the lower classes. Poverty and obesity are often correlated here - which is weird.

      *Weird historically - poverty usually meant excessively skinny in the past.

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        It’s not weird at all.

        A perfectly natural consequence of laissez-faire capitalism leading what should and shouldn’t be regulated.

        https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Food_desert

        I find it incredibly weird to imagine that some people think it normal that you can’t walk to a grocery store with fresh vegetables etc.

        Never had Doritos or Funyons or Twinkies in my life. I tried Oreos once, but I’m more used to the equivalent we have here (copied and slightly altered by some decades and decades ago.)

        I don’t think there’s anything I prefer as the American version. Perhaps like if you use the word to encompass all American countries, maybe, ~authentic Mexican is pretty nice and usually gluten free.

        It’s a lot about food deserts and infra and regulation, but also using HFCS instead of some other sugars does have an effect.

        Even though we got very gluttonous people as well, somehow ours aren’t just ever as Michelin Man shaped. It’s more like a huuuuge belly with skinny legs and arms and head. Well some diabetic people do tend to swell up quite a bit but…

        Edit talking of nachos I fking got some and salsa, thank for the indirect reminder. Although I’m too bothered somehow that they’ve made the chips round instead of triangles.

        Edit 2 I’m changing my mind a little as these do get a nice amount of salsa if they’re a little bent

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          Food deserts are such a weird concept to me; Australia has about the same land-size as the continental US and only ~8% of the population. Yet even for all their perceived faults, our two biggest supermarket chains are able to deliver fresh produce to pretty much all but the most remote communities.

          Meanwhile, sections of major US cities are somehow lacking access to fresh produce?! 🤯

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            Because the ones that “have”, don’t care about the ones that “don’t have”.

            And the ones that do care ,can’t help everyone.

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            I prefer like a bent triangle, then you grab it by the tip and then put as much salsa on it as possible. The chip to salsa ratio is off the charts.

            Although these rounds ones have a bit more chip to salsa, their structural integrity is better and didn’t break as triangles often do.

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        At the peak of the Afghanistan and Iraq wars the national guard and reserve (but mostly guard) made up over 75% of the troops deployed. More national guard units saw more combat than active duty units simply by sheer numbers. I did 8 years and 4 months in the guard and over half that time I was activated for two tours to Afghanistan. I did more overseas time than my active duty time equivalent. National guard units were also consistently being placed in shittier places than active duty units because the active duty commanders didn’t want difficult deployments to potentially get in the way of future promotions. So the guard also took the brunt of the casualties. My first tour was in the second worst area in the country at the time and out of all the US troops (we were with the Polish), all but one was national guard. We set the regional record for longest continuous direct fire firefight at the time and a Polish truck set the record for the largest IED hit (aprox. 550 lbs, all died).

        The longest continuous deployment during the Global War on Terrorism was also done by a guard unit. The 34th BCT did 22 months in Iraq.

        To say the guard only helps old people and with hurricanes is beyond an understatement. We provided the bulk of the boots on the ground and did the job and big army literally couldn’t do.

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        8 hours ago

        I served in a military in Finland in peacetime. That’s basically what we use instead of a national guard.

        There was no crisis when our company was on-call, but at least one or two companies stated every weekend to make sure there’s enough people to rapidly deploy assistance anywhere.

        My older brother had to go and help a city out. But yeah, it’s basically just assisting people in crisises.

        Unless Putler decides he wants to give it a go, but I strongly doubt it.

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