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re: Ozempic facing $2 billion worth of lawsuits
Posted by Eurocat on 12/29/25 at 12:07 am to Damn Yanks
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I'll never understand why people take toxic crap like this instead of just eating less, eating healthier, and going for a walk. Same goes for people that have invasive surgeries instead of just eating less.
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Willpower Doesn’t Work. This Does.
Dec. 28, 2025
By Angela Duckworth
There is a children’s story I used to read to my daughters when they were 3 and 4 years old. It comes from Arnold Lobel’s “Frog and Toad” series and involves a big batch of cookies so delicious that the main characters can’t stop eating them.
“We need willpower,” says Frog. “What is willpower?” asks Toad.
“Willpower is trying hard not to do something that you really want to do,” says Frog.
Even at their young ages, my daughters nodded in recognition when, earlier in the story, Frog says to Toad, “I think we should stop eating. We will soon be sick.” And both girls smiled sympathetically when we turned the page and watched Frog and Toad declare that they would eat “one last cookie,” only to succumb to temptation, again and again.
Grown-ups, too, understand this struggle. In surveys, American adults have cited lack of willpower as the top barrier to changing behavior. Around the world, when adults have rated themselves on two dozen positive qualities, self-control has ranked dead last. Research also shows that exercising willpower feels pretty awful, whether you are resisting something fun or forcing yourself to do something un-fun.
Especially at this time of year, when holiday treats and year-end sales confront us at every turn, willing ourselves to resist can feel Scrooge-like. So we indulge. Then, come January, millions of us set New Year’s resolutions with fierce determination, only to abandon them by February.
The logical solution seems obvious: Try harder. Strengthen your willpower muscle. “Just say no,” as Nancy Reagan admonished my generation. “Just do it,” as Nike urges. Yet, as a psychologist who studies how people achieve their goals, I see the data leading to the opposite conclusion: Willpower is overrated.
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re: Moving to New York in your 20s
Posted by Eurocat on 12/28/25 at 10:09 am to Prominentwon
She should do it but if she wants to live well
Plan on 2000 a month for an apartment.
Yes, you can do it if you get a three bedroom with two roommates. Plenty of three bedrooms for 6000 a month. (Might have to pay a bit extra for cable tv etc).
Just googling saw this, again this is a three bedroom -
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Or you can live alone in a place like Jersey City which is an easy trip right across the river.
Here is literally the first thing that comes up when I googled -
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And finally you can live alone and in the city proper just not in one of the hip neighborhoods but someplace like Bensonhurst. Absolutely nothing wrong with it, but not the best if you want to go out every Friday Night to thee "hottest place in town".
She should do it.
Plan on 2000 a month for an apartment.
Yes, you can do it if you get a three bedroom with two roommates. Plenty of three bedrooms for 6000 a month. (Might have to pay a bit extra for cable tv etc).
Just googling saw this, again this is a three bedroom -
LINK
Or you can live alone in a place like Jersey City which is an easy trip right across the river.
Here is literally the first thing that comes up when I googled -
LINK
And finally you can live alone and in the city proper just not in one of the hip neighborhoods but someplace like Bensonhurst. Absolutely nothing wrong with it, but not the best if you want to go out every Friday Night to thee "hottest place in town".
She should do it.
Restaurant brings strangers together in Mississippi - cool idea -
Posted by Eurocat on 12/28/25 at 9:53 am
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MCCOMB, Miss. (AP) — Over the course of a steaming-hot Southern lunch, served family-style on a giant lazy Susan, restaurant owner Andre Davis has watched people go from perfect strangers to lifelong friends.
His restaurant, The Dinner Bell in McComb, Mississippi, consists of just four tables. Large and circular, they seat upward of 15 people. In the center of each is a lazy Susan dotted with heaping platters of food, spinning back and forth as customers pile up their plates.
On any given day, anyone could be sitting around the table. Davis’ customer base ranges from European tourists to locals. The tables have hosted water treatment plant workers, church groups and once, according to Davis, British actor Hugh Bonneville.
“We’ve had people sitting together that had nothing in common but the table they were sitting at,” Davis said. For restaurant goers, the rotating tables provide a unique opportunity to meet new people, hear different perspectives and bond over a shared enjoyment of classic Southern food and the restaurant’s famed fried eggplant.
“We’ve met doctors, lawyers, teachers,” said Wayne Dyson, a regular customer. “And find out that most people are all good people.”
Dyson and his wife have met countless people from all over the country in the 40 years they have been frequenting the restaurant. Over lunch earlier this month, the couple quickly bonded with a group of strangers, laughing like they had known each other for years.
Justin Monistere and his family stopped for lunch to celebrate his sister’s graduation from nursing school. By the time he left, he was referring to the Dysons as “mom” and “pop.”
“Today in time we don’t talk as people. It’s either through a message or phone,” he said, adding this is the first meal he has had since he was a kid where no one pulled out a cellphone. “I think that’s a great thing that they’re doing here.”
MCCOMB, Miss. (AP) — Over the course of a steaming-hot Southern lunch, served family-style on a giant lazy Susan, restaurant owner Andre Davis has watched people go from perfect strangers to lifelong friends.
His restaurant, The Dinner Bell in McComb, Mississippi, consists of just four tables. Large and circular, they seat upward of 15 people. In the center of each is a lazy Susan dotted with heaping platters of food, spinning back and forth as customers pile up their plates.
On any given day, anyone could be sitting around the table. Davis’ customer base ranges from European tourists to locals. The tables have hosted water treatment plant workers, church groups and once, according to Davis, British actor Hugh Bonneville.
“We’ve had people sitting together that had nothing in common but the table they were sitting at,” Davis said. For restaurant goers, the rotating tables provide a unique opportunity to meet new people, hear different perspectives and bond over a shared enjoyment of classic Southern food and the restaurant’s famed fried eggplant.
“We’ve met doctors, lawyers, teachers,” said Wayne Dyson, a regular customer. “And find out that most people are all good people.”
Dyson and his wife have met countless people from all over the country in the 40 years they have been frequenting the restaurant. Over lunch earlier this month, the couple quickly bonded with a group of strangers, laughing like they had known each other for years.
Justin Monistere and his family stopped for lunch to celebrate his sister’s graduation from nursing school. By the time he left, he was referring to the Dysons as “mom” and “pop.”
“Today in time we don’t talk as people. It’s either through a message or phone,” he said, adding this is the first meal he has had since he was a kid where no one pulled out a cellphone. “I think that’s a great thing that they’re doing here.”
re: Dec 26 Bowl Games
Posted by Eurocat on 12/26/25 at 12:41 pm to Friendly Satan
They mean a lot to smaller programs. UConn for example had a great year, really amazzing considering where they came from, but of course no chance for some huge bowl. But I think them getting one last game in for the coaches and senriors is simply nice. Plus many bowls take place in places I would never go to otherwise. I learned that San Antonios Riverwalk is a pretty neat vacation hangout.
If you don't want to watch, don't, but if these bowl games were not on it would just be talk shows on ESPN and the like (or replays of two day old games), I will watch all the bowl games today..
If you don't want to watch, don't, but if these bowl games were not on it would just be talk shows on ESPN and the like (or replays of two day old games), I will watch all the bowl games today..
Dec 26 Bowl Games
Posted by Eurocat on 12/26/25 at 12:24 pm
Northwestern just kicking off against CMU.
Go Cats!
Go Cats!
I think content with Dart so they will try to trade with the Jets who pick third and also get the other first round pick the Jets have as well as maybe their second rounder. That actually might be win win for both teams.
re: Texas cop arrests Christians speaking on public sidewalk
Posted by Eurocat on 12/24/25 at 6:30 am to Dex Morgan
This does not upset me because I also want Muslims yelling and screaming ab out how it is time for prayer to also be arrested.
re: Now, why would a CIA Officer say that Lindsey Graham is laundering money to his accounts?
Posted by Eurocat on 12/24/25 at 6:26 am to Placekicker
On a June 4th episode of Stinchfield Tonight, former CIA officer Larry Johnson claimed that U.S. funds sent to Ukraine were being laundered through Latvia and landing in the personal bank account of South Carolina Senator Lindsey Graham. Johnson did not provide documentation or concrete evidence, but named Graham specifically, claiming the senator is personally profiting from the ongoing war and financial exchange. Johnson stated that information on this would be released in the coming months, and that a DOJ investigation is ongoing.
The interview quickly made the rounds on social media, where some skeptics of U.S. involvement in Ukraine seized on the claim as further proof of Washington’s corruption. [b]Others, however, dismissed it as pure speculation — noting that no major news outlet has confirmed the story, and no investigation has been announced by federal authorities.
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My question is if he laundered money wouldn't he be smarter than sending it to his personal bamk account? 99.9999 percent of the time you send laundered money to some shell company or a bank account in a country that does not let America go looking like the Cayman Islands.
The interview quickly made the rounds on social media, where some skeptics of U.S. involvement in Ukraine seized on the claim as further proof of Washington’s corruption. [b]Others, however, dismissed it as pure speculation — noting that no major news outlet has confirmed the story, and no investigation has been announced by federal authorities.
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My question is if he laundered money wouldn't he be smarter than sending it to his personal bamk account? 99.9999 percent of the time you send laundered money to some shell company or a bank account in a country that does not let America go looking like the Cayman Islands.
re: Michigan coaching candidates (footballscoop)
Posted by Eurocat on 12/22/25 at 4:36 pm to lsufan0582
Skip Holtz!
re: Mamdani did not NYC buses for FREE
Posted by Eurocat on 12/22/25 at 2:38 pm to Python 357
Fares are not set by the Mayors office (and he isn't mayor yet anyway) but by the Governors appointees.
re: Jeff Landry Declares Aim to Make Greenland Part of US
Posted by Eurocat on 12/22/25 at 2:33 pm to retired_tiger
Why is Trump doing this? I never understood the reasoning.
re: It would be really easy to deport 10 million+ in 6 months
Posted by Eurocat on 12/22/25 at 2:30 pm to Stat M Repairman
There are companies that transfer billions back and forth each day to keep their operations running, taxing remittances would hurt that. Plus you have people who retired to places like Poland or Philippeans or Ireland or someplace that get their pensions and social security in the USA or they have a USA annuity and that is then transferred to their legitimate home in Poland or wherever. These people should not be punished, they have nothing to do with illegal immigration.
re: If our government capped auto financing at 60 months would car prices come down?
Posted by Eurocat on 12/22/25 at 2:17 pm to tigereye58
I've never had a car note in my life. Never spent more than 25k either. Either buy the cheapest car made by the Koreans like a Kona or Venue (brand new for under 25k for either of those two) or I buy a three/four year old car that was turned in when the lease was up. Apart from my mortgage I have never taken out a loan for anything, even college.
Article about Democratic Socialists recent meeting in New Orleans
Posted by Eurocat on 12/22/25 at 2:48 am
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At a New Orleans Hilton along the banks of the Mississippi River this month, rice farmers met to discuss agricultural futures. High school football players roamed the lobby.
On the third floor, the topics turned toward leftist political theory, with people debating ways to tax the rich and holding sessions with names like Socialists and “the Establishment” and Transitioning to Governing Power: Learning From Latin America.
This was a convention for the Democratic Socialists of America, a left-wing political group that is savoring a year of victories, such as Zohran Mamdani’s for mayor of New York City, and plotting its way to more.
For much of its 43-year history, the D.S.A.’s role in American politics was obscure, at best. But since Senator Bernie Sanders’s run for the White House in 2016, the group says, it has grown to more than 90,000 members. The D.S.A. also says it now has 250 Democratic Socialists in elected office across 40 states, a vast majority elected since 2018. Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez is a member of New York City’s D.S.A. chapter. Mr. Sanders is a democratic socialist — lowercase d and s — but not a D.S.A. member. Many D.S.A. elected officials, like Mr. Mamdani, are members of the Democratic Party.
Compared with the country’s two major political parties, the D.S.A. remains tiny. But as income inequality soars, the group is attracting intense interest, and Mr. Mamdani’s victory in New York showed that for a candidate to be a Democratic Socialist is no longer disqualifying for many voters.
The D.S.A.’s vision for America is a multiracial democracy with an economy that benefits working-class and middle-income people. Members’ views are varied, but fundamentally they believe that American capitalism has been captured by corporate interests. They argue that markets should be strongly regulated or even controlled by democratic governments. Though the modern group was formed in 1982, the organization has roots in the United States dating to the late 19th century and the early socialist leader Eugene Debs.
Some of its policies, even if pursued, may not work. And many in the country’s establishment disagree with its views or consider it zealous. But the D.S.A.’s influence is growing anyway. For some Americans tired of living paycheck to paycheck and determined to stop the rise of the antidemocratic right, that radicalism is exactly the group’s appeal.
Now that Democratic Socialists are getting elected to office and winning power, the pressure is on. In New York City, Mr. Mamdani’s mayoralty will be seen as a test of whether socialists can govern. The D.S.A. is fiercely nonhierarchical, with a labyrinthine structure that tends to lend itself to infighting. But the conference in New Orleans by the group’s advocacy arm, the D.S.A. Fund, was highly organized. There were workshops on zoning reform, seminars on the dangers of Big Tech and sessions on the transition from activism to governing.
At a New Orleans Hilton along the banks of the Mississippi River this month, rice farmers met to discuss agricultural futures. High school football players roamed the lobby.
On the third floor, the topics turned toward leftist political theory, with people debating ways to tax the rich and holding sessions with names like Socialists and “the Establishment” and Transitioning to Governing Power: Learning From Latin America.
This was a convention for the Democratic Socialists of America, a left-wing political group that is savoring a year of victories, such as Zohran Mamdani’s for mayor of New York City, and plotting its way to more.
For much of its 43-year history, the D.S.A.’s role in American politics was obscure, at best. But since Senator Bernie Sanders’s run for the White House in 2016, the group says, it has grown to more than 90,000 members. The D.S.A. also says it now has 250 Democratic Socialists in elected office across 40 states, a vast majority elected since 2018. Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez is a member of New York City’s D.S.A. chapter. Mr. Sanders is a democratic socialist — lowercase d and s — but not a D.S.A. member. Many D.S.A. elected officials, like Mr. Mamdani, are members of the Democratic Party.
Compared with the country’s two major political parties, the D.S.A. remains tiny. But as income inequality soars, the group is attracting intense interest, and Mr. Mamdani’s victory in New York showed that for a candidate to be a Democratic Socialist is no longer disqualifying for many voters.
The D.S.A.’s vision for America is a multiracial democracy with an economy that benefits working-class and middle-income people. Members’ views are varied, but fundamentally they believe that American capitalism has been captured by corporate interests. They argue that markets should be strongly regulated or even controlled by democratic governments. Though the modern group was formed in 1982, the organization has roots in the United States dating to the late 19th century and the early socialist leader Eugene Debs.
Some of its policies, even if pursued, may not work. And many in the country’s establishment disagree with its views or consider it zealous. But the D.S.A.’s influence is growing anyway. For some Americans tired of living paycheck to paycheck and determined to stop the rise of the antidemocratic right, that radicalism is exactly the group’s appeal.
Now that Democratic Socialists are getting elected to office and winning power, the pressure is on. In New York City, Mr. Mamdani’s mayoralty will be seen as a test of whether socialists can govern. The D.S.A. is fiercely nonhierarchical, with a labyrinthine structure that tends to lend itself to infighting. But the conference in New Orleans by the group’s advocacy arm, the D.S.A. Fund, was highly organized. There were workshops on zoning reform, seminars on the dangers of Big Tech and sessions on the transition from activism to governing.
re: Let’s just say Cuba overthrows current government and becomes full democracy tomorrow
Posted by Eurocat on 12/21/25 at 11:18 pm to sidewalkside
No, just like most Polish, Hungarian, Latvian, Slovak, Bulgarian people stayed after the wall came down. A few will go back most won't. (But those who do can make bank).
re: Trump appoints Governor Landry as special envoy to Greenland
Posted by Eurocat on 12/21/25 at 11:16 pm to IvoryBillMatt
Don't think there was a coverup.
US Justice Department starts new initiative regarding white males
Posted by Eurocat on 12/19/25 at 3:17 am
re: The boring American document that terrifies the British Empire - plus Ukraine & Cartels
Posted by Eurocat on 12/19/25 at 3:13 am to hawgfaninc
Anyone has a right to an opinion. "I think the US policy should be X", I am open to listen to that.
But if a person is found to be too "sick in the head" to stand trial (to get judges to find you this bad off is incredibly rare and difficult) is not someone who I would trust with giving me the lowdown on facts.
But if a person is found to be too "sick in the head" to stand trial (to get judges to find you this bad off is incredibly rare and difficult) is not someone who I would trust with giving me the lowdown on facts.
re: The boring American document that terrifies the British Empire - plus Ukraine & Cartels
Posted by Eurocat on 12/19/25 at 2:30 am to hawgfaninc
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Susan Lindauer
Susan Lindauer (born July 17, 1963) is an American journalist and former U.S. Congressional staffer who was charged with "acting as an unregistered agent of a foreign government" and violating U.S. financial sanctions during the run-up to the 2003 invasion of Iraq. She was incarcerated in 2005 and released the next year after two judges ruled her mentally unfit to stand trial.
Susan Lindauer
Susan Lindauer (born July 17, 1963) is an American journalist and former U.S. Congressional staffer who was charged with "acting as an unregistered agent of a foreign government" and violating U.S. financial sanctions during the run-up to the 2003 invasion of Iraq. She was incarcerated in 2005 and released the next year after two judges ruled her mentally unfit to stand trial.
re: American federation of type 2 Diabetics to campaign against various ACA reforms
Posted by Eurocat on 12/19/25 at 2:27 am to Reubaltaich
But those foods with those things added are those people enjoy the most, cheetos are oreos and things like that.
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