I went on a mission trip to a remote village in Mexico outside of Monterrey, and I was blown away because for lunch the village moms served us and everyone else food and to drink they brought out coke. Afterwards I asked on of the local church leaders why this was, and they told me it is because its cheaper than drinking water. I was blown away
Just to make it short, factory's have more preference. Since México is corrupted, they give the water to them(factory's). Leaving people with no water, that's why on that part of Mexico are having problems. So it makes sense to buy a big coke then 30 L Water. But not all Mexico, we can get 30 L of water for 7 pesos, (.35 cents). Cheap Good day sir
Theres a good mini doc on RU-vid about how coke basically runs some of these villages in Mexico because coke is so important to the community. Also it shows how many ppl have diabetes because of it.
When I deleted my facebook (only social media I had) a few months ago, it was like quitting smoking ciggerettes. But instead of my lungs feeling fresher, it was my sanity.
I get what you’re saying. I didn’t delete mine. I just downloaded NewsFeed blocker. You don’t see anything, but you get notifications and can still chat.
I ended up unfollowing everyone and unliking all pages. I don’t see all the adverts, game invites and drama anymore but still have the ability to touch base with people.
Same here but then I realized it's about how we got hooked on information that is essentially junk food for our brains. So many people getting their news from random Facebook and Twitter blogs.
Junk food doesn't tend to have bad ingredients, they're all highly nutritious... But you can't eat it all the time because it's the wrong balance of nutritional values and it's easy to overeat.
Joe’s ego goes to his big fat head, that’s why he goes on these middle of the road rants where he paints a picture he thinks everyone agrees with. The dude is an oldhead, he’s a libtard
When ever you read something from someone that is typed without knowing the person your mind has to create a fictitious person and with that all the speculation your brain has to process becomes stressed resulting in a fantasy response. We are lying to ourselves because we can't fill in the rest of the sensory pickups needed to have a healthy conversation. Joe is spot on.
Man I'm a crackhead for great conversation. That's why I love the JRE. Been a fan for a long time now, been a fan of Joe since he was on fear factor. Just always knew we'd get along in real life even though I never met him. Joe taught me so much and I never even met the guy. That's the great thing about the internet. A lot of bad but there's good and bad with just about everything in this life.
My approach to diet is this - Your car requires certain fuel to keep the engine running at optimum, you put the same fuel in ever time, likewise your body requires certain minerals and mitavins everyday, food isn't about 'boring or exciting' food is functional and I give my body the same food everyday, you don't put regular fuel in your car one week, then aircraft kerosene the next week, 2 star leaded the following week, then unleaded next week, then deisel the following week and so on...... Treat your mind the same way, get the information you need to become a better person and improve your quality of life, to achieve whatever it is you want to do in life. and give you mind the same info regularly, avoid the social media hysteria.
An unexpected metaphor, but really right on the money. This was really thought-provoking. I've been thinking along these lines for a while, but I hadn't been able to articulate those thoughts/feelings about social media/"junk food information" this succinctly. Thank you for this.
I've noticed, I would click on the Facebook app without even thinking about it all the time, even if I didn't want to click on it, I would do it. Then I moved my app onto a 3rd page on my menu screen, and I haven't used it in a week. It's so crazy how we form habits like that.
I'm beating food addiction and the cravings start to go away as you detox. So hard part is first few days then it will get easier. So don't think it will take that much will power forever.
I remember eating out for us was a treat. I ate greasy homemade food and never got fat. As time went on fast food was the norm. I've finally gotten away from fast food for the most part. We usually just eat meat.
We are not hooked on junk food as much as we are hooked on convenience. The cheaper more accessible stuff happens to be the "unhealthy" stuff. Problem is, the cheaper easily accessible unhealthy stuff also happens to not be filling. So, we eat too much of it.
I am a teacher who works in a school with a no cell phone policy.. Except for the teachers. Every single meeting, training, conference, even instruction. They can NOT stay off their phones.
It’s not live so jamie preps it before release. It’s actually the reason he stopped doing them live. Too many people were clipping it while it was live.
I was riding my motorcycle the other day, pulled up to a light with 4 or 5 cars. Everyone was looking at their phones, even the passengers. They are all zombies
I told my friend I stopped eating sugar, as in candy, snacks, drinks. She looked at me like I was crazy and wouldn’t “get enough sugar in my diet”. She had forgotten about fruits and vegetables, but still thought that wasn’t enough. *Hard facepalm*
processed information is the best way I've heard someone explain the culture of information on the internet. Short 2 sentence headlines to grab your attention using big words to either make you worried, exited angry, etc, and tweets that are only a couple sentences long. Normally I'm fine with that but in a time like this it's incredibly unhealthy for society because all it takes is one person to read a misleading article or title for them to tell their friends and for misinformation to spread.
As I child throughout my school years my parents never had enough money to give me for after school snacks unlike my friends. even though at the time I felt like I was missing out I’m thankful that my parents always home cooked all our meals and never allowed me to buy McDonald’s and such
Go back to the site 1960s. This is not an unparalleled time. It is a manipulated time. A hyperbole time. Raging, restless, purposeless souls being driven by demons they don’t understand.
No kidding at work since covid they have been serving only fried food like tenders so tell me how I can eat tenders and fries and soda drink for 4$ but the moment I get a sandwhich and a bottle of water it’s 6$
Yeah we could use less first world countries people. You guys are consuming way too much resources. By the time our countries ever become developed you people will have used up all the resources.
@Silviu Florin it has lots of refined fat which is good for frying but not healthy to eat. If you want to eat more fat you should eat fat that is nutritious and good for you. To eat refined plant oil is about as pointless as white sugar. You should use it so shit doesnt stick to your frying pan and eat a minimum of that stuff. But junk food is full of that stuff, in ammounts so high where you really get fed by it. If you feed yourself with fat there is nothing wrong with that but it should be nutritious fat. I am not talking about some omega 3 super healthy fat but at least some normal nutritious fat not that refined artificial bullshit.
When Alan Levinovitz talks about coca saying "we have to conquer stomach share..." reminds me of Patrick Le Lay, the PDG of Tf1 til 2008 (french television's first channel). He said in July 2004 : "What we sell to Coca-cola is available brain time." (don't know if it's a good translation and there's more details but you got the idea).
Joe brought up a great point, anyone can run the country from their couch. If they really had to lead the country they would have no idea what to do. Don’t criticize someone if you have never been in their situation.
20 oz. Coke in the checkout aisle $2.12...2 liter Coke in the drink section $1.69...too lazy to get the big one? You pay more... Motivated? More stomach share for Coke...they win either way.
Buy a Watermelon, like 3 bucks. Buy 1/8th of a Watermelon pre cut for you, $5.99. They're selling mild convenience, but by doing so promoting laziness. Nobody is gonna die without the ability to stuff those little watermelon chunks in their faces instantly, instead of spending 2 minutes cutting one up. They tack on very inflated costs for pretty much nothing. You see it everywhere, it's slowly just becoming how the world works. Nobody questions it.
Idea - Every $ companies spend on marketing unhealthy products needs to be matched with a donation to an organization responsible for advertising healthy items (Fruits, Veggies, etc.) and youth education on health. Imagine how many more kids might eat healthier, given real info, and seeing their idols (LBJ, Messi, Taylor Swift) support health vs. JUNK (Doritos, Snickers Mountain Dew, etc.)
People need to comeback to normal, traditional human way of life. Stop being victims, find meaningful solutions and start doing what we know is right. In other words, we can't replace the smartphone with the smartphone or the credit card with the credit card.
The problem with many people on “social media” isn’t a difficulty understanding context or intent; it’s that they say sh*t in a manner they’d be too scared to say in person.
This is still the era in which people "don't know anything". It's not about access to information or how much there is, it's about who writes and controls it.
Ppl are to lazy to do some research n there own. Its always a must to view different sources. History is written by the victors. Its crazy to think about how nearly all history might have been altered. How much is impossible to really know...
No offense but I believe it is mainly in the US that Junk food is the norm to have it multiple times a week. I like to go McDonald’s once in a week, but this is kinda f-ed up.
That's because the US is the epicenter of corporate corruption. They feed off of humans for profits. Yes there are now Burger King and McDonald's in Europe in all over the world, but the culture was created here in the US
Getting off social media has helped my mental health like 10 fold. I suggest getting off it, and staying away from news. And if you say ‘millennial like you are the reason business is failing.’ Well you shouldn’t have made that business so toxic.
My diet? -Bacon cheddar cheeseburger omelette cooked in butter and bacon grease, slathered with mayo and mustard, whole milk and pickle juice on the side -Sunflower seeds -Occasional fast food burger -Oranges -Cranberry extract -Fasting
i predicted all of this social media chaos a couple years after the first Iphone came out, i was a sophomore in college back then, and everyone started calling me a grandpa, said i was a relic from a bygone age. Im still friends with some of those ppl and they view me very differently now.
This is so true. I asked a simple yes or no question on IG and the response was a smart ass reply from the person who didn't even make the post. I just block ppl like this immediately
Along the same lines as the argument: people making themselves valuable to each other, by being as palatable as possible, is at the root of human interdependency and advancement. We don't need to talk about this like there's an unusual weirdness or Machiavellian thing going on here. If we try to regulate it, we end up with the same kind of problems we have with exploitation of workers or unconscionability in contracts, where the dividing line between rigor and the breaks of life is impossible to identify. You can't stop it systematically without blocking out huge rafts of normal and necessary interactions. Wild idea: don't put anything into the machine. You got something going on with the unplugged lifestyle, but there's no regulation that can fix it.
All the people in the replies like "capitalism ain't the problem" as if they didn't just watch a video about how corporate giants like Coca-Cola and Twitter have purpose built their products to make people addicted... Sure it's not the only problem, but denying capitalism has flaws is illogical and antithetical to the whole idea of modern free thought and conservative ideals
young women with their children fixated on their phones is one of the biggest tragedies right now.. When those poor little kids are teenagers and mom and dad wonder why there is nothing behind their eyes and they are suicidally depressed I wonder if they can connect the dots....IF we are still on the planet. EVERYONE does everything staring at their phones. I feel like I live in the land of the dead. It's horrible,
I saw a documentary about a city of Mexico where everyone drinks lots of Coke. Diabetes skyrocketed in the last years because of this. Doctors didn't know what to do because the number of people getting sick was getting higher every year..
What junk foods and junk info have shown me is just how undisciplined and weak most people really are. It seems like everyone around me has a body shaped like chewed bubble gum and everyone's on edge.
I work at a subway (granted not as bad as McDonald’s or other places) but it’s still Fast Food to me, and I shit you not, I work 6 days most weeks and see the same people every single day, people don’t like breaking habits, even a damn 6 inch meatball with extra cheese. They. Have. To. Fucking. Have. It. Wild man, seriously wild
This is the biggest plague of humanity ever. Worse than the corona virus in many ways. It’s ruining so many lives. If people focused mostly or all of their time on being a better person in their relationships and everyone you know did the same this world would be insanely better. Instead of spending free time on the news or worse. You’ll hear all about the important things in your society, don’t worry. But you can change the conversation and start focusing on what matters way more. Being kind and helpful. Best of luck🍻
3:40 IDK the schools Joe frequents but my Elementary and Middle School (Jr. High) did not have vending machines. My High School had 1 soda machine in each locker room. (No candy or snacks)
