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[–] 49 points 1 year ago (5 children)

The aggression and name calling in that second image reminded me of r/neverbrokeabone. I don't miss much about reddit, but that particular subreddit was pretty damn funny usually.

Someone would post an X-ray of a broken pinky they got in a car crash and everyone would be like "GTFO of here with your little baby bird bones, you calcium-deficient piece of shit!"

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  • [–] 9 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    when I was a kid, among the things I would never have expected to stumble upon, near the top of the list in fact, there was "calcium supremacism abuse kink"

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  • [–] 75 points 1 year ago* (14 children)

    I would waterboard myself with a tall cold frothy glass of whole chocolate milk. I'm a dirty little milk slut. I think I was essentially stockholmed into it. I remember being like "ew fat bad" as a kid and drinking skim for cereal. But somewhere down the line that turned into me just slopping heavy whipping cream neat. I mean fuck me I'm drinking a chocolate milk on my walk to work right fucking now.

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  • [–] 21 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (8 children)

    I once drank so much chocolate milk in a short time that I almost puked. Was like almost 2L

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  • [–] 4 points 1 year ago (6 children)

    Yeesh, drinking that much fluid in one go can be really dangerous, yeah.

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  • [–] 9 points 1 year ago (4 children)

    This is true, but drinking two liters of milk is a lot less dangerous than drinking two liters of water, because that much water at once will throw your electrolyte balance off, and that's what can kill you. Milk has electrolytes in it so the effect isn't necessarily as dire. But... still wouldn't recommend it.

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  • [–] 1 point 1 year ago

    Dude when I'm running a race I have to walk while drinking the tiny little paper cup of water they give you enroute because the physical activity combined with drinking something makes my stomach churn (nerves might also be playing a factor since I'm still at the stage where every race I'm excited but also too nervous to eat and struggle to get enough calories in before the race)

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  • [–] 0 points 1 year ago (4 children)

    Once I learned fat is good, I started laying heavy layers of butter, lots of cheese, drinking whole milk, etc. And it tastes good, because we've evolved to like what's good for us.

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  • [–] 22 points 1 year ago (3 children)

    because we've evolved to like what's good for us.

    Lots of tasty berries will kill you. So will tons of would-be herbs. Processed sugar is delicious. So are a lot of foods with trans fats. Cyanide apparently tastes like almonds. And kids ate lead paint chips because they were sweet.

    Nice job, evolution!

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  • [–] 0 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    We also developed brains to learn which things will kill us despite tasting good, so that's fine. Very good job, evolution!

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  • [–] 19 points 1 year ago (3 children)

    I’m on the older end of Gen Z and this was definitely a thing when I was little. My parents didn’t buy into the milk thing, but I had a teacher who went wild with it. I forget how exactly it happened, but she found out I had cereal for breakfast without milk poured on because that was how I liked it. She decided this meant my parents were neglecting my needs and that it was her job to “make up” for it during lunch time.

    I’d often end up sick trying to get it all down. I’m not lactose intolerant, it was just that the amount she required me to drink (five cartons one after another) was more than I could keep down. (Years later, when The Gallon Challenge became a thing, it brought back the memories, though at least I wasn’t forced to drink quite that much.)

    I’d rarely gotten sick before, so once I was being sent home for vomiting frequently, my parents learned what was happening and made it stop.

    It only lasted a couple weeks, but I never drank milk again afterwards, so that teacher accomplished the exact opposite of what she wanted.

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  • [–] 27 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    Wow, that's child abuse. What a scary teacher!

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  • [–] 17 points 1 year ago (4 children)

    Milk used to make me so sick my little ten year old body projectile vomitted it across the breakfast table and my parents, who'd seen 10¹⁰ milk commercials, were like "maybe you're not drinking enough milk."

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  • [–] 24 points 1 year ago (3 children)

    my god..... that's ten billion ads.... if each ad lasts 30s, then your parents started watching milk ads 9510 years ago... that puts us roughly..... no wait.. -it can't be..!

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  • [–] 7 points 1 year ago* (2 children)

    Lmao. I was too skeptical to accept this at first, so I double-checked both the math and the date.

    Incredibly, everything checks out.

    Hm, now I'm imagining OP's parents having lived so long due to being the first vampires. They saw others drinking milk and thought, "Wait, so we're all cool with draining and consuming fluids from others' bodies?"

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  • [–] 28 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    When I was growing up we went through a gallon a day. Fucking love milk.

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  • [–] 4 points 1 year ago

    I can remember when I'd come home from high school, if I smelled oatmeal chocolate chip cookies, I'd know my mom would have saved me some of the dough in a Tupperware in the fridge. I'd get it, a spoon, and a half gallon jug of milk and sit down in front of the TV until they were both gone.

    I was super active, and really skinny, but it still seems funny to think about now.

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  • [–] 1 point 1 year ago

    My parents rationed the fuck out of our milk because my mom would have Carnation Instant Breakfast (basically chocolate milk possibly with some additives?) every day as her breakfast and they couldn't be arsed to buy an extra half or full gallon of milk per week.

    I also grew up hating the carbonation in soda so I'd literally only drink milk or water, which turned out to be very handy in adulthood since soda is so terrible for you (and expensive! Holy crap a single box of cans is like $8 and soda drinkers usually want 2-3 of those a week! Also i just realized that's 48-72 cans of soda a week meaning for two adults probably drink 3-5 cans a day!)

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  • [–] 27 points 1 year ago (7 children)

    Big Milk is so powerful, I've had older women in China ask me how I got so tall if I don't drink milk.

    This is China, with no history of drinking cows milk and like 90% of the population is lactose intolerant.

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  • [–] 0 points 1 year ago (4 children)

    In fairness, China's southern and western provinces have historically been on the shorter side. But also, like.... Yao Ming.

    90% of the population is lactose intolerant

    You can improve lactose tolerance if you introduce milk to kids at an early age and drink it continuously. My 50s-era Jewish family are all horribly lactose intolerant, but I grew up chugging the stuff and do just fine with it. Plenty of ABCs can and do drink milk and eat dairy, just as a matter of living in a country so full of cows and cow-products.

    What happens in another 20-40 years, as we obliterate our grazing lands and drive the cost cow products skyward? Idk, man. But milk is a consumer staple for a reason. Calorically dense. Very useful in cooking/baking. Relatively cheap to produce and distribute. Goes well over cereal.

    If milk did not exist, we would have to invent it.

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  • [–] 4 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 child)

    Calorically dense.

    Pretty sure most people in USA don't need more calories.

    https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/NBK611097/

    Relatively cheap to produce and distribute.

    Dairy is literally the least sustainable and least efficient form of food production next to meat and palm oil.

    https://www.trvst.world/sustainable-living/worst-foods-for-the-environment/

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  • [–] 2 points 1 year ago

    Pretty sure most people in USA don’t need more calories.

    1 in 5 kids in the United States is living with hunger. That's nearly 14 million children, which has increased from a year ago.

    Milk is a highly effective method of fattening kids up who are malnourished or otherwise underfed. Whole milk is the go-to for toddlers coming off breastmilk/formula for a reason.

    Dairy is literally the least sustainable and least efficient form of food production next to meat and palm oil.

    Natural gas is a leading contributor to climate change. It is also the cheapest (for the moment) form of energy per kWh.

    "Sustainability" is not the same thing as "Cheap" or "Easy to Distribute". Quite the opposite.

    Now, a lot of our cheap milk is a byproduct of our intensive animal agriculture, which is highly profitable but dismally inefficient. If that changes (because we killed a big chunk of our cow herds by mismanaging grazing land and water rights and fucking up disease mitigation) then I can see a world in which cow-milk drops off the menu quickly.

    So, hey, let me know if that changes.

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  • [–] 5 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    We did invent superior forms of milk, such as oat milk.

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  • [–] 4 points 1 year ago

    We invented alternatives, definitely. But there are still plenty of trade-offs. Much lower in calories and saturated fats, for instance.

    If you're trying to fatten up a skinny little baby (as I'm currently working on, having placed with a toddler a few months back) the pediatrician is going to stare daggers at you if you say you've been giving the kid oat milk rather than whole milk. Literally had this conversation already and got hit in the head with a stack of literature just for asking.

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  • [–] 12 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    Several years ago I became allergic to milk (like actually allergic, not lactose intolerant). I'm doing oral immunotherapy treatments for it now, so I have to drink 20mL of it a day. I used to love milk before I became allergic to it. Now I can't stand it. I'm not sure how I enjoyed it so much.

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  • [–] 11 points 1 year ago (5 children)

    I used to have to drink a glass of milk with every meal when I was growing up, I didn't even have the option of water, it was milk or nothing. I stopped drinking milk when I moved out. I haven't had a glass of milk in 25 years. I still consume dairy, I just don't drink a glass of straight milk.

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  • [–] 13 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    I mean, milk is nowhere near the super food they sold us back in the day... but it's far from the toxic sludge people put in their bodies daily nowadays.

    Even a coke seems mild compared to the monster drinks and whatever other crap Logan Paul is peddling today

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  • [–] 8 points 1 year ago

    I am doing a lean bulk and it turns out milk is incredibly high protein so now I'm drinking more than I probably did as a kid. Easy way to get the calories and feel full. And chocolate milk... well.

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  • [–] 6 points 1 year ago

    I don't drink much milk nowadays just because I mostly drink water, but when I do have milk on the fridge... it's gone in two days max unless I carefully ration it.

    nothin' like a cold glass o' melk

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  • [–] 1 point 1 year ago

    I'm exactly the same, and it was always 2%. I was always a slow eater, I'd always be hoping and waiting for the moment my parents would leave the room for a min so I could run to the sink and pour it down the drain. I asked as an adult if they had ever realized I had been dumping it if they left and somehow they never suspected.

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  • [–] 10 points 1 year ago*

    Depends, because as a Gen Z I still am forced to drink it daily

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    [–] 10 points 1 year ago (8 children)

    You forgot satanic panic and how Harry potter was gonna send us to hell

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  • [–] 6 points 1 year ago (7 children)

    The interspecies dance between millennials who read Harry Potter when it was considered subversive and anti-christian, and Gen Zers who call it racist TERF propaganda, is one of my favorite culture schisms.

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  • [–] 7 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    I think that the pearl clutching Christians freaking out over the “Devil magic” had the effect of people just convincing themselves the series as a whole was more progressive than it ever actually was.

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  • [–] 4 points 1 year ago

    That was the sentiment when I read it. Those things were progressive for us, when groups of parents were petitioning to get it taken from the school library — in a white prairie town before everyone had a cell phone, interracial couples were the subject of gossip and it was normal to compare trans people to aspiring attack helicopters.

    Obviously I don't support the TERFy cunt now.

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  • [–] 1 point 1 year ago (3 children)

    Believe it or not there was a time when jk Rowling kept her moronic views to herself. Then one day after she'd become a gazillionaire she was like "fuck it im rich now, im gonna pull a elon musk and show the world what I truly believe "

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  • [–] 0 points 1 year ago* (2 children)

    That's a pretty innacurate assessment of Rowling, as much as I dislike her.

    There's this whole thing people do whenever we watch someone fall from grace, scrutinizing their past through the bias of the present to find "clues," so we can better avoid people like that in the future.

    But JK was and still is fairly progressive. A number of people close to her have said her opinions on trans people were, in part, radicalized as a result the fame that exposed her to vitriolic opposition.

    I want to be very clear there is no excuse for what she's done or said about trans people, only that it's innacurate to say her shitty views came in a package deal and have always been the same.

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  • [+] 26 points 1 year ago (10 children)
  • [–] 7 points 1 year ago

    I was raised a dairy milk fiend and oat milk is definitely my go to.

    My family used to drink two gallons a day, my dad alone would drink one by himself... Yes he does have the diabeetus now if you were wondering how that's going

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  • [–] 5 points 1 year ago (3 children)

    I can't stand oak milk, almond milk is all I drink....I can't get past the oat taste.

    Strangely I eat porridge every morning for breakfast.

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  • [–] 1 point 1 year ago (2 children)

    Do you put almond milk in your coffee? I once tried that and it tasted like pure cyankali. Oat drink is a bit better, but for my coffee I personally still prefer real milk.

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  • [–] 7 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    It's the best pairing for coffee out of all the milk or milk alternatives options in my personal opinion. Regular milk just makes it to... is it dumb to say milky?

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  • [–] 6 points 1 year ago

    give me and place

    kinky.

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  • [–] 20 points 1 year ago (3 children)

    I hate milk so much. The taste, the texture. Just the thought of drinking a glass of milk again makes me want to projectile vomit. I had to drink a glass of milk for dinner every night as a kid. I wasn't allowed to leave the table until it was gone. Sometimes I'd sit there for an hour just trying to force myself to drink it. My parents were like, just drink the milk, it's not so bad, get it over with, but it felt like being tortured every night. I was violently ill afterwards almost every time.

    Turns out I'm both lactose intolerant and neurodivergent. Yes I was being a little drama queen, but I at least had reasons :)

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  • [–] 4 points 1 year ago

    Who knew? One-size fits all health guidance doesn't actually work!

    Supporting you, not trying to diminish your experience.

    I was made to spell 'pepsi' before getting caffeinated sugar syrup at dinner. Looking back, that seems like poor decision making on my parents' part, but I can see the good intended behind the act. Hopefully we learn from those that came before... and make new and exciting mistakes!

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  • Weird. I loved milk as a kid and still do. We were never forced to drink it, but we were encouraged a bit. One of my favorite snacks was banana chocolate milk, and I still enjoy a bowl of cold cereal.

    The only thing I was forced to eat as a kid was veggies.

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  • [–] 50 points 1 year ago (12 children)

    Cow's milk is good food.

    "But some people are lactose intolerant!"

    Too bad for them.

    "Saturated fat clogs arteries! You're gonna have a heart attack!"

    It's far more complicated than that, and not nearly as big a concern as most people think.

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  • [–] 38 points 1 year ago* (2 children)

    There’s nothing inherently wrong with it as a food, like most other foods, but it’s not a health panacea as it was portrayed in milk advertising previously. Its main drawback for public health is that it is fairly calorically dense, so while it may be better for you than soda, for those looking to lose weight, milk should not be your primary beverage.

    Also: the dairy industry is questionable at best, from an animal treatment standpoint, as well as environmental.

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  • [–] 2 points 1 year ago

    Uhh, the people saying saturated fats clog arteries are right. Which is why the American Heart Association recommends aiming to keep it under 6% of total calories, as well as seeking to replace saturated fats with sources of unsaturated fats.

    You are absolutely on a path to heart attack if you don't reign in those kinds of foods.

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  • [–] 2 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    No food stolen from the oppression of other beings can be good food. Cow's milk is for baby cows only.

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  • [–] 0 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    I mean it's pretty tasty though

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  • [–] -2 points 1 year ago

    Your sensory pleasure really shouldn't be rated anywhere close to a beings wish to avoid suffering. Not going to respond to anything more you post because your first comment was basic troll bait and this conversation with openers like yours will go nowhere and make me angry.

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  • [–] 5 points 1 year ago (4 children)

    Instead gen z have to deal with parents who give them bleach enemas to prevent autism.

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  • [–] 1 point 1 year ago (2 children)

    What a coincidence! That's how I caught my autism!

    Also, the youngest gen Z is 13. Alpha is the one getting it now.

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  • [–] 2 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    This has been going on for longer than now.

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  • [–] 2 points 1 year ago

    Yeah, I remember hearing about it around ten years ago or so. They called it “miracle mineral solution” or something. Had FaceBook groups where they’d post pictures of their kid’s shed intestinal lining and claimed it was the “parasite” that caused Autism. And had posts where they’d give each other tips on how best to lie to the CPS workers when they came knocking.

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  • [+] 5 points 1 year ago (5 children)
  • [–] 1 point 1 year ago (4 children)

    pfft. Laaaaaameeee!

    (but thank you)

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