It’s the weirdest porn ever, for my money. Except it’s even weirder if you add the “interracial” tag.
The racial politics behind it, definitely. My spouse encounters a lot of fetish porn for work, and the balloon popping stuff is, at least, cute and relatively value-neutral 
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I don’t think I want to know where she works.
Generally making the Internet a better place, where possible.
Oh, for sure, and we have to separate the kinds of issues that Trump is talking about from what he’d actually do about them (or rather totally fail to do). His “promises” are completely empty demagoguery of the most transparent and simplistic sort (I mean, he’s not even making concrete proposals that could even be enacted), but the sorts of things that Trump supporters are responding to aren’t the usual Republican party line. So Trump supporters are getting fired up because he’s talking about job losses and the decline of the middle/working class (although he’s totally failing to even remotely address the reality of why these things are happening), and the Republican party is still hung up on fighting a culture war that it has lost, ignoring the things that matter to the GOP base right now. So yeah - Trump would continue to be a supporter of economic policies that are screwing over the working/middle class of America (while pretending to do the opposite), just as the Republican party has been doing for decades, but people are responding to the fact that he’s talking about things differently than Republicans usually do, and the GOP seems to be ignoring that.
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Really, it’s not different so much as an efficiency of rhetoric. He’s every Palin, Bush, and Fox show, just on bathtub meth.
It’s hard to emulate that degree of bully charisma. I don’t think they’ll be able to replace it, though I’m sure they’ll try.
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For the party of getting government out of our lives, they sure do seem fascinated by what happens in your bedrooms. And vaginas.
Oh wait, not “out of our lives”, just “out of the way of specific people”, the ones that are corporations, which are people. Citizens United forever!
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There’s that - in many ways he’s the “same old” turned up to 11 and minus the dog whistles, but he differs from the party line in some regards as well. He’s not trying to sell the Republican economic policy package, for instance, telling people that tax cuts for the wealthy and income inequality and the destruction of the social safety net will magically make people better off financially - he’s saying that things are broken, they (his supporters, the working class) are getting screwed and he’ll bring back the jobs and magically make things better (without specifying how, but not necessarily via the traditional party mechanisms). The Republican party has always been nervous of him - and they still are - because he’s not taking the “conservative” positions held by the current Republican party.
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I believe that processed food especially is light on nutrients and high on everything else.
So naturally, your body will crave nutrients it’s is lacking by eating more of that bad stuff which mostly consists of sugars, fats, and salt: The sorts of things that you make you fat and hungry. Keep in mind, PhDs design this stuff to make you crave more of it, too.
Dan Savage said it best: ‘Republicans are all for small government so long is it can fit inside your vagina.’
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What, precisely, do you believe nutrients are? Just the Minerals and protein? I think the big problem is with your use of this word. The category of nutrients includes those things that give our bodies energy, which mainly come from sugars and fats. I don’t know what this definition of nutrient is that you’re using that:
A.) Doesn’t include sugars and fats.
B.) Seems designed to address the nebulous category of “processed” food.
C.) Is unlike any definition of the word I saw when working as a diet clerk at a hospital, and unlike any definition I’ve seen any registered dietitian use.
Also, that essential stuff. You need all of these for your body to function. Perhaps not as much as people eat, but you do need some, and in quantities that make the phrase “bad stuff” suspect.
The problem I’m having with this set of assertions right now is that they’re hugely imprecise and basically seem to boil down to a gut feeling. What does “processed” mean? Threshing and milling wheat? Cooking? Fermentation? Curing? Salting? All of these are food processing activities humans have engaged in since the advent of agriculture. What I’ve found is that in practice what people mean when they say “unprocessed” is either food they process themselves at a later time, or stuff that says “unprocessed” or “natural” on the package and take the packing material at its word. But ask them what it is about processing that’s so bad, and either they draw a blank or express what often amounts to little more than a feeling that is expressed in even less precise terms like “chemicals.”
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I’m commenting on a social media site, not defending a PhD. Look around. The comments 90% snark and silly memes. You really expect me to source my assertions?
Fine then. Here’s what a PhD has to say about it.
I saw some clown porn once, which had a cheerfully DaDaist vibe about it, I thought.
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I long ago eschewed the ambiguous phrase ‘processed foods’ for ‘engineered foods’. I sense that this latter category is what you really meant. Correct me if I’m mistaken.
Engineered foods are created from isolated components and prepared and recombined to achieve whatever textures, flavors, and aromas the marketing department anticipates will be desirable and then several variations are consumer-tested to determine the ideal recipe.
These foods generally are devoid of nutrients. Their ubiquity among the shelves of most U.S. grocery stores suggests that those engineering and marketing these foods have done their job well. Their mass consumption has habituated the American palate to fatty, salty, and/or sweet foods, as evidenced by (to pick one example) the sodium and sugar content of something as simple as bread.
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