#gotta love the bad seed for controversial takes

[dickloeb]

Do you really mean to say that nice family surroundings and advantages could make no differences at all?

Yes. It’s as if these children were born blind permanently and you just couldn’t expect to teach them to see.

Well, would you notice any brutish expressions on their faces?

Sometimes, but more often, they present a more convincing picture of virtue than normal folk.

But that’s horrible!

It’s just that they are bad seeds. Plain bad from the beginning, and nothing can change them.

- Quotes from The Bad Seed (1956)

[passionesolja]

Why Dio Brando Would Beat Sidious’ Ass

It’s time to give a standing ovation to the baddest bitch I know. To the baddest bitch I’ve known since 2016. I got love for Sheev after getting back into Star Wars in 2020 again after years of growing out of it. But I literally think I only projected my liking of Dio Brando onto Sidious because Sidious is the closest villain we get to Dio in Star Wars. It’s time for me to give the blueprint his flowers

Swag

This ain’t a debate. I’m sorry Sheev but your swag trash as fuck and look like a damn goth potato sack. Dio out here in 1980s Egypt no fucks given he wearing a cape, heart accessories, and looking like a buff wasp. I gotta give this to the true king of swag.

Who Killed They Daddy With No Outside Influence

Dio had NO ONE in his ear when he poisoned Dario to death at 12 years old. Dio had no one in his ear when tried to poison George Joestar at 22 years old.

Now with Dario, it’s justified like sweetie I think you’re the worst immoralist bitch in jojo but you get a pass for Dario. Fuck Dario, I’ll gofundme you the poison for Dario’s terrible ass.

But with George? Cmon now, you really tryna get this inheritance so bad that you try to do sweet ole George Sr in? Dio, that just cold as a mf. Shame on you for that, bitch ass mf.

With Sidious, you gotta understand that he was kinda a lil bitch about it until Plaguies came along. Sidious was MISERABLE tryna not to get cut off from the family wealth even though he and his daddy despised each other.

Sidious WOULD NOT have murdered his whole family and father unless Plaguies had planted those seeds in his mind.

That’s why I gotta give it to Dio again because Dio is more naturally about intentional and planned out homicide than Sheev was (prior to Plaguies).

Who Would Bully Who As Kids

Dio Brando would have made Sheev Palpatine’s life an absolute living hell if Dio was born into Star Wars.

We don’t know what Sheev was doing in his youth but we know what the fuck Dio was doing.

Personally, with sheev I have a suspicion that he was a normal, but somewhat rebellious tween.

Meanwhile, Dio Brando is kicking Jonathan’s dog for no reason, throwing dogs in furnaces as revenge, stealing girl’s first kisses, tryna punch Jonathan Joestar’s eye out, nearly stabbing JoJo to death, turning JoJo’s own father against him (because Dio wanted that inheritance), poisoning his own father to death, etc.

This man isn’t even in high school yet and he’s acting like this.

You put Dio Brando as the kid that the Palpatine’s are taking in, and Sheev Palpatine is gon be Jonathan Joestar 2.0.

Who Was Actually Born Evil

This will be my most controversial take:

Sheev Palpatine was not born evil. He was born a dickhead but we never even get the impression that he meant to run over those two people. Only that he didn’t care.

Sidious was a child from a wealthy but somewhat troubled home who was manipulated by Plaguies and molded by him. Plaguies was in this poor teenager’s ear being like “ayo kill ya family slime 😈👹 I killed my siblings for self determination 😉 ahah no I didn’t I’m lying to you”

No one can deny that Dio Brando had a very tough life, but when you’re out here stealing a girls first kiss, getting your ass beat for it, then throwing the dog of the person who just rightfully beat your ass in the furnace to burn alive? Yeah dawg you just evil. This is just in the first few episodes we see him. I could write a whole book on everything hes done.

When Dio becomes a vampire, he killing all types of people, killing George Joestar to become a vampire, turning whole villages into vampiric experimentation abominations, taking the body of your surrogate brother then being a city boy of the century in the 1980s, attacking Holly Joestar, killing off half the stardust Crusaders, etc etc etc.

Keep in mind, he doing all this with no evil mf above him reaching him the evil ropes.

I can give Sheev Palpatine sympathy for his fuckshit because he didn’t understand what the fuck Plaguies was forcing him into. Yeah, Plaguies forced him because he knew Palpatine zipped everybody in his family.

Sidious was a victim of the Sith Order bullshit for decades before he became the boss bitch who victimized others.

Dio Brando is an victim for 12 years of his life then becomes the worst, most despicable bitch on the planet in the jojo verse. The ripple effect of Dio’s terrible actions that he chooses to do on his own are felt for years.

Dawg, Dio Brando is fucking up poor Okuyasu Nijimura’s whole life in Japan in the 1990s when dude never even met Dio. And also, Dio been long dead

This man is literally fucking up Jotaro Kujo’s daughters whole life via proxy too and they never even met.

Conclusion

So yeah this why I gotta take the bad bitch crown from Palpatine. I’m sorry dawg but the evil British vampire king is back

[thecollegefootballguy]

Top Games of the Week Recap: Week 9

Hey folks, it’s Monday night so I’m drinking of course. You know what that means?! It’s time for hot take recaps! Keep that in mind before I hurt your feelings. Send asks to me tomorrow for sober and serious responses.

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Top Ten Games of the Week

10. Northwestern 39-#16 Michigan State 31 (2OT)

We’re off to a bad start because this was a totally whatever game that nobody cared about even though it went to double overtime. Michigan State isn’t as good as Ohio State and Penn State and deservedly wasn’t grouped with those two. The loss just confirms this.

9. #21 USC 48-Arizona State 17

Nothing like taking a huge beating against a rival to get your priorities straight. USC thrashes ASU, showing much more life than they did before the Notre Dame loss.

8. Arizona 58-#15 Washington State 37

Arizona is good y’all. Nothing controversial here. Also, air raid teams are inconsistent. Also not controversial. Wazzu’s slim Playoff dreams circle the drain.

7. #10 Oklahoma 49-Texas Tech 27

It’s easy to forget about Oklahoma, but they’re still technically in the Playoff race.

6. #7 Clemson 24-Georgia Tech 10

Clemson takes care of business. No hot take because this game was too boring to comment on.

5. #9 Notre Dame 35-#14 NC State 14

I HATE to admit it but Notre Dame is really good. Like maybe even Playoff good. Time will tell.

4. #3 Georgia 42-Florida 7

So, first of all, lol. Second of all, Florida and it’s fans are dumb. Nothing new here. But hitting the reset button every three years almost invariably leads to program failure. I can’t remember the last time a coach who won two divisions in a row was fired. Probably because I don’t think it has happened. I don’t think it has happened because it’s a really dumb thing to do. The SEC is self-destructing.

3. #25 Iowa State 14-#4 TCU 7

Down goes the Big 12! Chaos reigns in middle America as a solid conference once again prevents good teams from going undefeated. Also, IOWA STATE IS A GOOD TEAM!!!!!! Gotta love it.

2. #11 Oklahoma State 50-#22 West Virginia 39

Yeah. Alright. Okay. Seems right.

1. #6 Ohio State 39-#2 Penn State 38

Payback is a bitch. This game had no business being this close. Props to Ohio State for the comeback, but really, the only reason it was this close was because of Buckeye mistakes early in the game. Ohio State outplayed the Nittany Lions basically the entire time. Hey, Penn State might still make the Playoff though!

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5 Group of 5 Games of the Week

5. UAB 30-Southern Miss 12

UAB is one game away from a bowl :’)

Honestly this should be a bigger story. This is totally inconceivable that they even fielded a competitive team and they’re probably gonna bowl after getting what amounted to the death penalty.

4. FIU 41-Marshall 30

I can’t pretend I watched.

3. FAU 42-Western Kentucky 28

This is the first time ever that the CUSA Florida schools have ever been this good. I talked smack about the Davis and Kiffin hires panning out immediately so I’m trying to wipe the egg from my face.

2. Boise State 41-Utah State 14

Ehhh.

1. Houston 28-#17 South Florida 24

Thanks for playing, South Florida. We could have had a really cool undefeated game with you and UCF, but you couldn’t hang. Good job.

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FCS Games of the Week

I’m gonna regret deleting these in the morning but the regular season doesn’t matter that much in the FCS until you get handed your third or fourth loss. So most of these games that were just positioning for Playoff spots didn’t have that much impact as to WHO was actually making the field instead of WHICH seed they would get.

Hey, that’s the danger of the expanded field.  ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

[type2diabetestreatments-blog]

Ask D'Mine: Weighty Matters

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Ask D'Mine: Weighty Matters

Happy Saturday! Or maybe not so happy if you're dealing with the weight struggles that some of our readers are writing in about this week. Got the dieting blues? We hear you. Please take a gander at this week's edition of Ask D'Mine, hosted by veteran type 1, diabetes author and community educator Wil Dubois.

Need help navigating life with diabetes? Email us at AskDMine@diabetesmine.com

Debbie from Washington, type 2, writes: I've had diabetes for about 15 years. I maintained my weight fairly well, maybe 15 lbs. over ideal, until I eventually started insulin. I gained 40 lbs. in about 6 weeks and my weight just keeps going up as does my need for more and more insulin. I am 5'3" and weigh 250 lbs. I have bad knees and this extra weight makes it very difficult to walk or exercise. I went to Disneyland last year and had to be pushed around in a wheelchair for much of the time (devastating). I must lose weight!! Can you recommend supplements that may help in my endeavor? Diets, meal plans, anything that might help would greatly be appreciated. Please help me.

Wil@Ask D'Mine answers: Ohmygosh, that Disneyland story almost made me cry. That's awful, and I'm so sorry to hear about your troubles. I've got a couple of ideas that might work, but first some background: Weight matters. Too much weight is hard on the heart, hard on the knees, hard on insulin resistance, and hard on the ego.

The medical types use something called the body mass index, or BMI, to classify the relative health risks of various weight-to-height ratios. It's a far from perfect system, but it least it gives us a vocabulary to use when talking about how serious someone's weight is. So I ran your BMI here and got a score 44.3. Now, anything above 30 is a red light when it comes to living long and prospering. So yeah... Umm... yours is pretty bad. In fact, you fall into the rudely named category of "extreme obesity."

By the way, as a complete side note, I was stunned to hear how quickly you went from basically OK to disasterville. Weight gain is often seen with insulin starts, and the question of whether insulin causes weight gain, or if weight gain is a side effect of reigning in high blood sugar, or a combination of both, is a controversial hotly contended subject amongst insulinologists (OK, I just made that word up) and waaaaaaaay beyond the scope of today's column. Today we're just gonna focus on how to get the frickin' weight back off of you; and to that end we need to understand how extra weight happens.

But first we need to talk about cars.

I drive a Jeep. I love my Jeep. It can go pretty much anywhere, regardless of whether there is even a road to anywhere or not. But my Jeep uses quite a bit of fuel to do so. Even out on the open pavement at 85 miles per hour... Uh... I mean 75 miles per hour, of course... I only get 22 miles per gallon. So I trade spectacular off-road performance for a hefty dent in the wallet. My tree-hugger friend (I only have one of those) drives a Prius and gets something like twice the gas mileage I do. Of course she can get stuck in a garden-variety mud puddle, too. And then she'll need to be rescued by someone like me, in a Jeep.

Anyway, my point here is that the whole your-mileage-may-vary thing is true not just of cars, but of human bodies, too. In general, the human body gobbles up around 2,000 calories per day. But unlike cars, if you put too much gas in the tank, instead of dribbling out the excess fuel onto your feet, the extra fuel is converted to fat and stored for a rainy day.

So if you eat more than you burn, you put on weight. And it doesn't take much extra, either. Consider this: If you eat 10 lousy calories more per day more than you need, you'll put on one pound by the end of the year. 100 calories more per day buys you ten pounds. And so forth. It doesn't take much more than you need to give you real trouble.

To lose weight you need to take in less than you burn. That forces the body to draw on those rainy-day fat reserves. So, in theory, cutting your calorie intake by 10 less than you need melts a pound in a year; 100 less than you need melts ten pounds in a year, and so forth.

So, how to go about cutting those calories?

Now, I haven't seen any evidence to convince me that any of the "supplements" are really going to help you lose weight, so let's talk diet. Yeah. I know, I know. The word "die" is in diet and it's easier to change your gender than your diet. But, really, diets are just different approaches to reducing calorie intake; and that's what we need to do to get the extra pounds off you.

So here are my favorite diets: the smaller plate diet; the turn-off-the-f*ing-TV diet; the bear-trap-in-front-of-the-fridge-at-night diet; the measure-the-damn-carbs diet; the exploding seconds plate diet; and the refrigerator-ectomy diet.

And yes. Of course. I'm writing a book on each of these diets in hopes of creating the next big fad, cashing in on it, and retiring to Aruba on my royalties. (Actually, I've never been to Aruba, and I don't know if I'd even like it. But I digress...)

Bottom line: You need to eat less, and you gotta trick your mind into being happy eating less. So... Look at your portion sizes. You need to keep them smallish, and smaller plates can help you do that... Don't let your mind be distracted while eating. It's a proven fact that folks who eat in front of the TV eat more than folks eating at tables with the TV off... If you snack at night, make sure it is very low calorie. Think rice cakes or fresh veggies... Use the proper portions of high-carb sides. Did you know a "proper" portion of rice is only a third of a cup? Measure it... Wait at least 15 minutes before having seconds. And it would be better if you never had seconds at all. Ever. Oh, and no cheating and putting two servings on your plate in the first place!

It's hard, especially at first. But to lose weight, you need to put less fuel in the tank. Just keep your eye on the prize. Think how much better you'll feel when you are back down to 15 pounds over ideal!

Oh and one last thing: If you fall off the wagon, just get up, dust off your jeans, and jump back on again. Failure happens. Just don't stay in a state of failure.

PS: of course there's something in the medicine cabinet that has been shown to keep blood sugar in check and help you lose weight: The GLP-1 meds Byetta and Victoza. Neither of these popular injectables are magic bullets. They don't melt excess fat. They simply reduce most people's appetite, which causes them to eat less without being hungry, which causes them to reduce their calorie intake, which PRESTO! causes them to lose weight. Yep. They're just a diet in a syringe. (OK, well, in a pen, actually. But you know what I mean.) You might want ask your doctor if a diet in a syringe is right for you.

Meanwhile, on the other side of the coin:

Mendell from Washington, type 2, writes: I have an unusual problem — I need to gain weight. I've had type 2 since 2005 and lost weight as soon as I began my medications (Metformin & Glipizide), and then kept losing more weight over the next few years. I am now down to about 130 lbs. and am 5'9" tall. Not Good. Do you know of any products that are good nutrition that can help? It has to be sugar free, of course. And please do not respond by telling me, "You're so lucky to be thin . . ." I hear it all the time. (Sorry and my prayers go out to those who are trying to lose weight.)

Wil@Ask D'Mine answers: OK. I won't tell you that you are lucky to be thin, 'cause I'm not actually sure that you are. Well, more correctly, I'm not sure that you're too thin, anyway. Like I did with our first reader, I ran your BMI and got 19.2, which is towards the bottom end of the "normal" weight range, and thus not medically underweight.

But that said, if you think you're too thin, I guess that's good enough for me. And I'm here to help you fatten up. But first some myth busting: Your diet does not need to be sugar-free. Anyone with diabetes can have sugar, that whole "no sugar" thing is an urban myth like alligators in the sewer and spontaneous human combustion. Of course, some kinds of sugar are worse than others. You should avoid drinking sugar, for instance. Liquid sugars tend to out-pace even our best meds. But you absolutely can eat some sugar or stuff with sugar in it.

Still, don't get me wrong, I'm not advocating the Entenmann's Doughnut Diet to fatten you up....

As a side note, both your meds together are technically weight neutral, so I'd be willing to bet that your weight loss was due to changes in eating habits after you were diagnosed. It's got me wondering if fear of high blood sugar has you half-starving yourself to death. But that aside, you need to do the opposite of what our earlier reader has to do. You need to put more calories in the tank every day than you burn, so that you can gain weight. And you're 100% right, this is not as fun, or as easy, as it sounds for this simple reason: most really high calorie foods are hard on the blood sugar.

So to eat more, we need to look at how you eat now. If you eat three small meals a day, maybe we could add a fourth, or some snacks. Or maybe we can increase your portion sizes a little bit. We also need to look at high-calorie foods that are low on the glycemic index — foods that turn to sugar slowly in your body. Nuts and sunflower seeds come to mind as an example.

Of course, everything has a cost. Most foods that are high in calories and low in sugar tend to be high in fat. That'll be OK, unless your cholesterol is high. But check out this list here for more ideas (50 to be exact) for foods to fatten you up.

You know, what we really need is some sort of Star Trek technology to move extra fat from those who don't need it to those who do. But in the meantime, my prescription for you is to eat, drink, and be merry. In less moderation than you are doing now.

This is not a medical advice column. We are PWDs freely and openly sharing the wisdom of our collected experiences — our been-there-done-that knowledge from the trenches. But we are not MDs, RNs, NPs, PAs, CDEs, or partridges in pear trees. Bottom line: we are only a small part of your total prescription. You still need the professional advice, treatment, and care of a licensed medical professional.

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