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Has to be a move like that and since I assume many teams see a bunch of prospects all grouped together in that 6-15 range, it likely wouldn't be a huge deal moving back a few spots to pick up a 2nd round pick.

Always look for a new job when your value is the highest...smart man. He will have teams throwing cash at him.

Considering you have been looking for solutions for decades and haven't found them, you might want to actually listen to someone who has dropped significant weight several times. Or don't. No sweat off my back. But there are very few dieticians that look like me and there are very few people in my kind of shape that have a better nutritional plan than I do. People can go study all they want, but if they don't actually put it into practice, how much can one really know? It would be like going to a surgeon who read about how to do surgery in books but never actually did it. There are a plethora of resources online to do research on your own. Effectively, the food being eaten on a daily basis is the problem. Always has been, always will be. Everything else is a side effect from that. There is no such thing as a universally healthy food, only a food that works with your body chemistry or doesn't. If it doesn't your body will react negatively to it, which is why so many people struggle...they think they are eating "healthy" foods but don't realize many of those foods are reactive in 70+% of people...salmon, oats, wheat, black beans, whey protein, greek yogurt, etc. Long term, this causes chronic low level inflammation, hormonal disruption and potentially a variety of auto-immune conditions. 30% of the weight people are carrying when they are overweight comes from water being held in by inflammation. That's the first thing to go once you stop triggering it. You do whatever you want, but if I was a person who could spend $10 and buy a book that could change their life, I'd probably take the chance. That's just me tho. Or just keep telling yourself there is nothing that can be done, but now you know that's a lie.

This might be the best book you ever read. https://lyngenet.com/the-plan-the-book/ May also want to look into an ALCAT test, that was pretty valuable for me.

Yeah, it's called take some pride in yourself and your appearance, eat real food that doesn't come in bags or boxes and contains one ingredient that you cook yourself, stop eating out at restaurants 3+ nights a week and pick up the water instead of the sugary drink or alcohol. Increase your step count. That's all the exercise you need to do...walking is an exceptional fat burner and the big muscles in your legs literally suck glucose out of the bloodstream even in the absence of insulin, so it can't get stored as fat. It's really that simple. Maybe you don't want to have the conversation because you are one of the excuse makers. When you make it a priority, it suddenly becomes easy. It's simple, most people just don't want to do it, they want doctors to take care of their health instead of taking care of it themselves. People choose to look the way they do --- period, point blank. Nothing nuanced about it.

I mean doesn't Vancouver kind of dish on itself by referring to their hockey team as the American slang for Canadians by calling themselves the Canucks?

Yeah, being obese is really something to be proud of. But I guess you are definitely with the other 70% of the American population...once again, happy to be on the other side of the majority.

It has to do with mindset and what is being taught, so I disagree.

Truth is the truth. If people want to be told they have to be fat, out of shape dudes with beer bellies who have to be hunched over for 2 minutes to catch their breath after walking up a flight of stairs and be on 10 prescription drugs at that age then that's on them...I am not one to let society dictate what I should be, nor what I am capable of. While they sit on the couch drinking beers watching TV with a big bag of chips next to them, I'm out with a 60lb weighted vest on pulling a 200 lb sled for 45 minutes.

Never said movie star looks, just said I have a great physique that I worked my ass off for. yeah...so does the people in their mid 30s and early 40s with beer guts that make them look 11 months pregnant...

Yeah, probably because I am different from the other 95%. Case in point, how many 49 year olds do you know that look like an NFL linebacker and have a full six pack? Of abs...not a 6 pack of beer sitting in their fridge so they can drink it. Probably not many. If I had to guess, it would probably be well under 5% actually. Probably not many 49 year olds that have 25 year old women checking them out at the beach while their husband who looks like a beached whale laying next to them is oblivious, either. Sometimes I almost think I am going to have to call 911 from someone having a broken neck the way their head snaps around. Probably not the right guy to be talking about being part of the 95%. I'm not.

I didn't raise them...my kids work their ass off and if they want something they have to earn it. They damn sure didn't get any participation trophies and I never let them win at games when I played when they were a kid either...mainly to instill the lesson that you don't always win in life and you have to learn how to lose. There were a lot of tears and lessons taught during those years about that. These hands off parents who want to be their kids best friends instead of their parents and are afraid to actually parent them because they don't want their kids to be "mad at them" are the ones that need to be talked to about that, not me. There have been plenty of times my kids have hated me and probably more so my wife I am sure over the years, but we were more worried about teaching them life lessons during those years and making sure they would be ready for adulthood than being their best friend. I can confidently say we did our job as parents and taught them what they need to succeed in life. Now they have to choose to use those lessons when they start their journey, we can't force them to. But that is a far cry from never being taught those lessons in the first place like is the case with so many and having to learn it all on the fly and making it up as they go.

The difference is by and in large we were taught that if you want something in life you work hard and don't expect it handed to you and didn't get participation trophies when we lost, learning that losing is part of life and that you accept it, are gracious about it and work hard to come back better next time. Case in point, I was a paperboy starting at age 12. How many kids these days actually work while in high school? Not very many. This generation expects to be treated the same on Day 1 as the employee who has spent 10 years at a company and put in blood, sweat and tears to see it succeed. They are simply delusional and it's precisely because they have been handed everything in life and for the most part never had to work for it. When you expect things without having earned it, it's a problem. Not sure who you work with, but I have worked with at least 100 younger employees during my tenure at various places and 95% of this is true for them. The other 5% actually had a work ethic and understood how the real world works. Last time I checked nobody our age was posting tik-tok videos literally in tears because they are 3 months into their first real job and can't handle the "stress" of having to work 40 hour weeks and having "no free time to do what they want" and having Mommy and Daddy calling in because they are "too stressed" to work today and have to take a mental health day. Give me a fvcking break. This generation is the softest, most mentally fragile generation in the history of the human race. The Pillsbury Doughboy and the Michelin Man have less softness than they do.

And here I thought the world famous French Canadian arrogance only pertained to Canada...I see it knows no borders now. Funny how Poutine and Maple Syrup are universally celebrated there tho... I am not sure why you are still part of Canada honestly, because both sides desperately want to rid themselves of the other.

He also just bought the old Buffalo News complex and owns the Atrium building that HSBC used to be in...he is basically creating an entire district down there, and talks about his plans for it in the article I linked above...

He also refurbished Seneca One Tower which sat vacant for many years until M&T decided to turn that into their Buffalo Tech hub and it has drawn numerous other companies to put their tech hubs there as well. Did an outstanding job, that place is super cool...also now features some apartments there as well. Developers, including Jemal, have said recently that their projects have been slowed down significantly because they’ve gotten more expensive to complete and more difficult to finance. But Jemal said that’s not a reason to stop, either. His Elmwood-Bidwell redevelopment project is ongoing. His Burns Building project will be starting, and he’s now seeking city approval for a new project to convert a former school in Black Rock into apartments. “It’s not a time for the fetal position. It’s a time to keep going,” he said. “I came here, and fell in love with this city and this community, with a job to do, and I’m going to do my job. Yes, we have a lot of projects going on, but I will get them done.” https://buffalonews.com/news/local/business/development/douglas-jemal-buffalo-news-complex-purchase/article_9d592f32-e6df-11ee-bf1d-9bfd474acc6c.html https://www.wgrz.com/article/money/business/business-first/buffalo-business-first-douglas-jemal-main-street-money-wny/71-f9cc1c79-a49e-4df5-a6d3-67afdec64df0

I mean when guys know they have someone that will stand up for them and they don't have to be scared it has to be a good thing, right?

It's still got the Goth, hippie, non-conformist vibe going and is a cool place to visit and hang out where you will meet all types that all hang out together and all get along for the most part. Just had the Allentown Arts Festival two weekends ago there...packed as usual.

The cost to build new is ridiculous...I know someone that just built a new house and it was nothing spectacular, being about 1800 square feet and 4 BR, 2.5 bath and it cost almost 500K just for the house(luckily they already owned the land it was built on). Don't get me wrong...it's a nice house but for 500K it's still crazy... If you had to also buy the land you are looking at well over 500K and close to 550-600K probably, and that is for WNY...can't imagine what it would be elsewhere.

I'm a senior software engineer...change is a way of life for me and is constant and never ending. Work ethic is not open to change tho. It's why I will never have to worry about losing my job and they will cry when I retire. I accomplish more in an hour than most of the younger generation accomplish in a day. How do I know? I work with many of them. What they consider someone with a strong work ethic in their generation, I would consider lazy in mine.

Lacking in culture? Are you insane? Buffalo has more culture than many of the bigger cities in this country where they tried to "create" it instead of actually having it happen organically like it did here since the time the city was founded. Did you know people literally come from all over the world to see Buffalo's architecture? In architectural circles it is considered a "must see" location. We are also the festival capital of the US and have some of the largest festivals in the country. People come from all over the US to the Taste of Buffalo that draws north of 600K people and is the largest 2 day food festival in the country with only the week long Taste of Chicago drawing more people overall, the Allentown Arts festival is one of the oldest in the country, our Dyngus Day celebration is the largest in the entire world. The Erie County Fair is the 2nd largest county fair in the US, with only the Los Angeles County fair in California being bigger. You want to talk about culture? This was the richest city per capita in the entire US in 1900. There are plenty of "cultural" items left over from that time period here that didn't need to be artificially created like they have in many other places. Unlike many places where they demolished their old historic buildings to build new modern cookie cutter buildings that all look the same, Buffalo has largely restored and saved it's historic sites. There are more and more old places undergoing renovations every year now. Culture isn't how modern and "cool" you can make a place, it's the history and the preservation of that history that creates it's culture and Buffalo does that as well as any other place in this country.

"Blackcat is bad luck... bad guys wear black... must have been a White guy who started all that..."

Just wait til Gen Z takes over the workforce and those numbers will plummet. Working hard to them means having to get off their phones for 15 minutes an hour and actually do what they are being paid to do.

Depends on where you live...the areas south of Oklahoma are part of tornado alley and typically see tornadoes regularly. Wichita Falls was leveled by one in 1979. Basically if you live in those areas you are playing Russian Roulette and while there might be a thousand chambers in the gun and only one bullet, one day their luck is going to run out. Especially considering most of those places have no basements and newer homes have no storm cellars either so there is nowhere to go when one comes through. Not sure who thought it was a smart idea to stop building storm shelters in those areas so people now have nowhere to go if they are caught in one. And the weak ass F1 and F2 at best tornados that WNY might see are nothing compared to the F4 and F5 1.5-2+ mile wide monsters that they get out there.

Yeah NYS requires special ed teachers, IEP Reports, inclusion classrooms and a wide variety of other things designed to help lower level kids that are virtually unheard of in some of these other states.