What the heck is going on with western society? Is this insane?Google Maps has removed its ‘calorie counter’ because a bunch of fat people got triggered.
The feature, which shows a user how many calories they would burn if they walked rather than use a vehicle or public transport, will be removed tonight.
Google used images of ‘mini cupcakes’ to denote how many calories are burned.
This offended a deluge of fat people, whose complaints forced the company to ditch the feature.
Obesity rights?
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https://www.infowars.com/google-maps-re ... -offended/
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In what respect? SJWs forcing thier will on all of us even if what they are calling for is deadly?
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Today is Finland Proxy day.
wise food tax polocy rant were typed into google
Näytetään tulokset haulla wise food tax policy rant
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Oh well, why would we ever even think about changing away from our fabulous "Make Crap Cheap, eat tons of it, and die a horrific death."http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0306919214001080 wrote:
... A general worry raised in previous literature is that food tax reforms that involve price increases on unhealthy types of food and subsidies for healthier food items would be heavily regressive (see e.g. Allais et al., 2010). However, if low-income individuals have more elastic demand and/or higher levels of consumption of unhealthy food and/or poorer health to start with, the beneficial health effects of the high taxation of unhealthy food would also be greatest for them. The regressivity argument against the heavy taxation of (unhealthy) food may therefore be overturned when not only the monetary cost but also the beneficial health effects of taxation are taken into account ...
... This study contributes to the literature in three main ways. First, we report confidence intervals of the health effects of food tax reforms, fully taking into account the sources of uncertainty in the four steps of the analysis described in the previous paragraph. In contrast to the earlier approaches used in the literature, we apply a bootstrap procedure that allows for externally estimated parameters. This is particularly useful for datasets that researchers often use in this context as it allows for separate estimation of the parameters involved in the different steps of the analysis. The parameters can be estimated using available data as we do for commodity demand, the population distributions of the body mass index, and food intake in the Finnish population. Some of the parameter estimates and their estimated variances can on the other hand be obtained from earlier literature and used in the analysis as externally estimated parameters, as we do in the case of the risk of contracting CHD or T2D.
Our second contribution is in analysing a general sugar tax, the impacts of which have received less attention in the earlier work than for example fat taxes or more narrowly targeted taxes on sugar-sweetened beverages. Our paper provides a comprehensive analysis of the health effects of an excise tax on sugar, combining demand estimation with a simulation of the health effects of tax reform.
Third, we pay particular attention to the way in which the effects of food taxation are distributed between population groups by examining both the monetary incidence of taxation as well as potential heterogeneity in health outcomes. In analysing differences in health outcomes across income groups, we take into account both heterogeneous responses to tax policy, as well as differences in prior eating habits and health status (body weight) across income groups.10
The paper proceeds by first discussing, in Section ‘Demand system estimation’, commodity demand estimation methods and the corresponding results. Section ‘The tax reforms’ introduces the tax reforms that we consider. Section ‘Calculating the health effects of the tax reforms’ describes the methods for assessing the health impacts and their confidence intervals. Section ‘Conclusion’ concludes. ...
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The article is demeaning. We won't help obese people heal from obesity by telling them they are overly sensitive and gross. We won't do ourselves any good either by being disrespectful and demeaning. Though it might seem like you're enabling people by being sensitive to their issues, if you do it in the right spirit, you can actually help them and yourself.
That said, using cupcakes to mark calories really was not a wise idea.
That said, using cupcakes to mark calories really was not a wise idea.
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Obesity kills. We need to treat it the same way we have gone after smoking tobacco. We can also note that obesity can reduce one's ability to connect to the Spirit. Read the WofW and you will see.Meili wrote: ↑October 18th, 2017, 11:41 pm The article is demeaning. We won't help obese people heal from obesity by telling them they are overly sensitive and gross. We won't do ourselves any good either by being disrespectful and demeaning. Though it might seem like you're enabling people by being sensitive to their issues, if you do it in the right spirit, you can actually help them and yourself.
That said, using cupcakes to mark calories really was not a wise idea.