#group classes

[hiveswap]

my heavy smoker grandparents came over very briefly and the whole house smells like absolute shit now. So I (chronic tumblrina) got thinking.

[fracturedporcelaindoll]

Dear diary,

I think sometimes I should dress in a gothic aesthetic fashion you know as a way to express the darkness I find attractive or feel at times.~

The biggest reason I don't is my make up skills are severally lacking so there is no way I could apply to put it off~

I am so awkward or so I feel like I am sometimes even when just trying to give compliment to a girl whose aesthetic was magazine level on point~

I think I may need to add multiple workout sets into schedule again as I am just feeling too chubby personally to feel good in clothes~

I am also considered next paycheck in investing in some books as enjoy reading and there's a few I wouldn't mind having as part of personal book collection.~

I am think I may start being more reclusive as I've been more excessively social with going out more even if it's just walks because of liking the weather and I feel like maybe it's too much. It's not like my presence is needed out there and I start to overthink how I must appear to others in social settings and it probably looks awkward or lame, basically overthinking mode engaged~

Its pathetic really for someone that's loner to care what others may think but I suppose we all do to an extent. I wonder if I started filling up the free time I have although I consider it to be limited with activities that involve group settings would that lessen the intrusion of overthinking thoughts or add to it.~

I could sign up to participate in monthly art classes, maybe a few baking classes or just focus on more workouts~

[arthurmurraybondi]

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[inkskinned]

having good & true friends will literally save and protect you in a million unfathomable ways. like okay we have written so many times about lovers. but the way a platonic friend laughs and cries with you. the way they hold your hand at 14 years old and at 34. the way they keep a little silver tie to you, touching base over and over and over. how you can go years without talking, only to re-meet and discover: oh shit! you're still cool!

there are people who have been in my life for more than half of it, and i have loved every version of them. do you know how fucking beautiful that is. yeah love will save the world. but the way friends love you is gonna save the you.

[northgeorgiadogtraining]

How Can I Make Valentine’s Day a Great Time for My Dog?

Some say that Valentine’s Day originated as a Christian day of feast celebrating the acts of St. Valentine.  Others say that the day originated based on a pagan Roman holiday celebrated in the middle of February. 

Although celebrated in one format or another for over one thousand years beforehand, the holiday that we now celebrate each year on February 15th began to take shape in the western world in the beginning of the 17th century.

Today we understand that Valentine’s Day is a romantic time where we share our love, affection, and companionship with our most significant other.  The normal traditions of the day involve chocolate hearts, intimate presents, and romantic dinners.  Sometimes it may also include romantic get-a-ways or even proposals. 

These traditions are all focused on the concept that you are currently involved with a “significant other” and that the “significant other” is a person.  What if that is not the case?  What if your “significant other” is your canine companion?

Do you simply ignore Valentine’s Day and all the traditions that come with the day because your significant other is named Fido?  I think not.  There is nothing wrong with making your dog your special Valentine.

When your dog is your Valentine, the actions you perform to affirm that will be very different than if your Valentine was human.  Although different, they are still based on affection and the strengthening of your mutual bond.

Robin and I have a great dog training article that gives multiple suggestions on how to share Valentine’s Day with your Valentine doggie. Please read our dog training blog titled “How Can I Make Valentine’s Day a Great Time for My Dog”.

https://northgeorgiadogtraining.com/dog-valentine-day-buford/

[mostlysignssomeportents]

Red Lobster was killed by private equity, not Endless Shrimp

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A decade ago, a hedge fund had an improbable viral comedy hit: a 294-page slide deck explaining why Olive Garden was going out of business, blaming the failure on too many breadsticks and insufficiently salted pasta-water:

https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/940944/000092189514002031/ex991dfan14a06297125_091114.pdf

Everyone loved this story. As David Dayen wrote for Salon, it let readers "mock that silly chain restaurant they remember from their childhoods in the suburbs" and laugh at "the silly hedge fund that took the time to write the world’s worst review":

https://www.salon.com/2014/09/17/the_real_olive_garden_scandal_why_greedy_hedge_funders_suddenly_care_so_much_about_breadsticks/

But – as Dayen wrote at the time, the hedge fund that produced that slide deck, Starboard Value, was not motivated by dissatisfaction with bread-sticks. They were "activist investors" (finspeak for "rapacious assholes") with a giant stake in Darden Restaurants, Olive Garden's parent company. They wanted Darden to liquidate all of Olive Garden's real-estate holdings and declare a one-off dividend that would net investors a billion dollars, while literally yanking the floor out from beneath Olive Garden, converting it from owner to tenant, subject to rent-shocks and other nasty surprises.

They wanted to asset-strip the company, in other words ("asset strip" is what they call it in hedge-fund land; the mafia calls it a "bust-out," famous to anyone who watched the twenty-third episode of The Sopranos):

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

Starboard didn't have enough money to force the sale, but they had recently engineered the CEO's ouster. The giant slide-deck making fun of Olive Garden's food was just a PR campaign to help it sell the bust-out by creating a narrative that they were being activists* to save this badly managed disaster of a restaurant chain.

*assholes

Starboard was bent on eviscerating Darden like a couple of entrail-maddened dogs in an elk carcass:

https://web.archive.org/web/20051220005944/http://alumni.media.mit.edu/~solan/dogsinelk/

They had forced Darden to sell off another of its holdings, Red Lobster, to a hedge-fund called Golden Gate Capital. Golden Gate flogged all of Red Lobster's real estate holdings for $2.1 billion the same day, then pissed it all away on dividends to its shareholders, including Starboard. The new landlords, a Real Estate Investment Trust, proceeded to charge so much for rent on those buildings Red Lobster just flogged that the company's net earnings immediately dropped by half.

Dayen ends his piece with these prophetic words:

Olive Garden and Red Lobster may not be destinations for hipster Internet journalists, and they have seen revenue declines amid stagnant middle-class wages and increased competition. But they are still profitable businesses. Thousands of Americans work there. Why should they be bled dry by predatory investors in the name of “shareholder value”? What of the value of worker productivity instead of the financial engineers?

Flash forward a decade. Today, Dayen is editor-in-chief of The American Prospect, one of the best sources of news about private equity looting in the world. Writing for the Prospect, Luke Goldstein picks up Dayen's story, ten years on:

https://prospect.org/economy/2024-05-22-raiding-red-lobster/

It's not pretty. Ten years of being bled out on rents and flipped from one hedge fund to another has killed Red Lobster. It just shuttered 50 restaurants and declared Chapter 11 bankruptcy. Ten years hasn't changed much; the same kind of snark that was deployed at the news of Olive Garden's imminent demise is now being hurled at Red Lobster.

Instead of dunking on free bread-sticks, Red Lobster's grave-dancers are jeering at "Endless Shrimp," a promotional deal that works exactly how it sounds like it would work. Endless Shrimp cost the chain $11m.

Which raises a question: why did Red Lobster make this money-losing offer? Are they just good-hearted slobs? Can't they do math?

Or, you know, was it another hedge-fund, bust-out scam?

Here's a hint. The supplier who provided Red Lobster with all that shrimp is Thai Union. Thai Union also owns Red Lobster. They bought the chain from Golden Gate Capital, last seen in 2014, holding a flash-sale on all of Red Lobster's buildings, pocketing billions, and cutting Red Lobster's earnings in half.

Red Lobster rose to success – 700 restaurants nationwide at its peak – by combining no-frills dining with powerful buying power, which it used to force discounts from seafood suppliers. In response, the seafood industry consolidated through a wave of mergers, turning into a cozy cartel that could resist the buyer power of Red Lobster and other major customers.

This was facilitated by conservation efforts that limited the total volume of biomass that fishers were allowed to extract, and allocated quotas to existing companies and individual fishermen. The costs of complying with this "catch management" system were high, punishingly so for small independents, bearably so for large conglomerates.

Competition from overseas fisheries drove consolidation further, as countries in the global south were blocked from implementing their own conservation efforts. US fisheries merged further, seeking economies of scale that would let them compete, largely by shafting fishermen and other suppliers. Today's Alaskan crab fishery is dominated by a four-company cartel; in the Pacific Northwest, most fish goes through a single intermediary, Pacific Seafood.

These dominant actors entered into illegal collusive arrangements with one another to rig their markets and further immiserate their suppliers, who filed antitrust suits accusing the companies of operating a monopsony (a market with a powerful buyer, akin to a monopoly, which is a market with a powerful seller):

https://www.classaction.org/news/pacific-seafood-under-fire-for-allegedly-fixing-prices-paid-to-dungeness-crabbers-in-pacific-northwest

Golden Gate bought Red Lobster in the midst of these fish wars, promising to right its ship. As Goldstein points out, that's the same promise they made when they bought Payless shoes, just before they destroyed the company and flogged it off to Alden Capital, the hedge fund that bought and destroyed dozens of America's most beloved newspapers:

https://pluralistic.net/2021/10/16/sociopathic-monsters/#all-the-news-thats-fit-to-print

Under Golden Gate's management, Red Lobster saw its staffing levels slashed, so diners endured longer wait times to be seated and served. Then, in 2020, they sold the company to Thai Union, the company's largest supplier (a transaction Goldstein likens to a Walmart buyout of Procter and Gamble).

Thai Union continued to bleed Red Lobster, imposing more cuts and loading it up with more debts financed by yet another private equity giant, Fortress Investment Group. That brings us to today, with Thai Union having moved a gigantic amount of its own product through a failing, debt-loaded subsidiary, even as it lobbies for deregulation of American fisheries, which would let it and its lobbying partners drain American waters of the last of its depleted fish stocks.

Dayen's 2020 must-read book Monopolized describes the way that monopolies proliferate, using the US health care industry as a case-study:

https://pluralistic.net/2021/01/29/fractal-bullshit/#dayenu

After deregulation allowed the pharma sector to consolidate, it acquired pricing power of hospitals, who found themselves gouged to the edge of bankruptcy on drug prices. Hospitals then merged into regional monopolies, which allowed them to resist pharma pricing power – and gouge health insurance companies, who saw the price of routine care explode. So the insurance companies gobbled each other up, too, leaving most of us with two or fewer choices for health insurance – even as insurance prices skyrocketed, and our benefits shrank.

Today, Americans pay more for worse healthcare, which is delivered by health workers who get paid less and work under worse conditions. That's because, lacking a regulator to consolidate patients' interests, and strong unions to consolidate workers' interests, patients and workers are easy pickings for those consolidated links in the health supply-chain.

That's a pretty good model for understanding what's happened to Red Lobster: monopoly power and monopsony power begat more monopolies and monoposonies in the supply chain. Everything that hasn't consolidated is defenseless: diners, restaurant workers, fishermen, and the environment. We're all fucked.

Decent, no-frills family restaurant are good. Great, even. I'm not the world's greatest fan of chain restaurants, but I'm also comfortably middle-class and not struggling to afford to give my family a nice night out at a place with good food, friendly staff and reasonable prices. These places are easy pickings for looters because the people who patronize them have little power in our society – and because those of us with more power are easily tricked into sneering at these places' failures as a kind of comeuppance that's all that's due to tacky joints that serve the working class.

If you'd like an essay-formatted version of this post to read or share, here's a link to it on pluralistic.net, my surveillance-free, ad-free, tracker-free blog:

https://pluralistic.net/2024/05/23/spineless/#invertebrates

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[hamsterdads]

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[checkadii]

too lazy to grab a ref whatever girl

[life-n-fitness7]

How Many Calories Should I Eat Every Day?

Maintaining a healthy diet is important for good health and energy. However, knowing how many calories to consume can be challenging. It is important to consume an appropriate amount of calories to maintain a healthy weight and avoid overeating or under-eating. In this blog post, we will explore how many calories you should eat every day based on your age, gender, activity level, and other factors.

WHAT ARE CALORIES?

Before we dive into how many calories you should consume, it is important to understand what calories are. A calorie is a unit of energy. It is used to measure the amount of energy that food or drink provides to your body. When you consume food, your body breaks it down and converts it into energy, which is then used to fuel your daily activities.

FACTORS THAT AFFECT HOW MANY CALORIES YOU SHOULD CONSUME

Age:Aging impacts your metabolism. This means that you require fewer calories to maintain your weight.

Gender: Men generally require more calories than women due to their larger muscle mass.

Activity Level: If you are more physically active, you will require more calories to fuel your activities.

Body Size: Larger individuals require more calories than smaller individuals.

Muscle Mass: Higher muscle mass will burn more calories than fat, meaning that higher muscle mass need more calories.

HOW TO CALCULATE HOW MANY CALORIES YOU SHOULD CONSUME

Here is the formula for your calorie consumption.

Calories = (10 x weight in kilograms) + (6.25 x height in centimeters) - (5 x age) + 5

For example, if you are a 30-year-old woman who is 5 feet 6 inches tall and weighs 150 pounds, you would convert your weight to kilograms (150 ÷ 2.2 = 68.18) and your height to centimeters (5 feet 6 inches = 66 inches = 167.64 centimeters). Then, you would plug those numbers into the formula:

Calories = (10 x 68.18) + (6.25 x 167.64) - (5 x 30) + 5

Calories = 1363.6 + 1047.75 - 150 + 5

Calories = 2266.35

This means that this woman should consume approximately 2,266 calories per day to maintain her weight.

It is important to note that this formula provides an estimate and may not be accurate for everyone. It is always best to consult with a healthcare professional or a registered dietitian for personalized recommendations.

How to Maintain Healthy Diet Based on Calories Consumption

Now that you know how many calories you should consume, it is important to ensure that you are getting the right nutrients. Here are some tips for maintaining a healthy diet:

Consume a variety of foods: Include lean proteins, whole grains, fruits, vegetables, lean meats, and healthy fats in your diet.

Limit processed foods: Processed foods frequently contain a lot of calories, bad fats, and added sugars.

Cut on sugary drinks: Sugary drinks are high in calories and provide little nutritional value. Choose water or unsweetened beverages instead.

Practice portion control: Be mindful of portion sizes to avoid overeating.

So you must have understood how many calories you require every day. To get more clarity, reach out to any good dietician or your personal trainer for weight loss, fitness classes and group classes.

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[lupucs]

Light World class pic ☀️

Wireframe:

Solid View:

Raw Render (without comp):

Wooo its finally done peeps! At last, here's the Deltarune Light World group render featuring Alphys's whole class! It's sort of a counterpart to my Dark World group render from a couple days ago. I also added some comp to improve the lighting and reused an old bg (some of you might remember which anim that's from hehe).

From left to right: Susie, Kris, Berdly, Noelle, Alphys, Jockington, Temmie, Catti, Monster Kid and Snowy!

These models were a ton of work to make but overall I'm really happy with how this turned out. The only light world model missing here is Rudy... I didn't know how to add him here since this was supposed to be a class pic of sorts, but maybe I'll make a designated render for him one day, since I really like his character even though he doesn't get a lot of screentime in-game. Oh, also first look at Deltarune Alphys!! Since I already made her rig for my Undertale animation, I just had to model her Deltarune clothes and bind em to the rig with an extra switch.

Anyways, feel free to use this as a wallpaper if you want!

Here's a link to the full resolution should the resolution be crushed by Tumblr.

[ryllen]

love is a compilation of coincidences

... and chances u create urself

[fitnello]

Couldn’t have said it better myself 🙌🏼 if you think you’ve tried everything and you’re not seeing results, chances are you have not tried for long enough! 

[tabithatwo]

I relate to lottie because if I had to soothe a group of cannibal teens in the wilderness who for some reason depended on my guidance, I too would probably just start throwing out fucking dbt ass name five things you can see techniques and pray none of them knew what it was

[crabsnpersimmons]

(slowly cleaning out all the art i drafted but never posted)

sometimes the only way to recharge after a long day

is drawing your current blue trauma boi* in the outfit of your previous blue trauma boi**

*Moon, from my hairdresser AU "New 'Do, Same You" AU

**Red Clad Dewey from Another Eden