amusing part is it can all be fixed by everyone realizing what an actual portion sizes are, and eating that or less..but no, things need to be upsized large, etc...

[–] Ptsf@lemmy.world 3 points 3 days ago

It could be fixed in a lot of ways, but that requires people to acknowledge that they're mortal and flawed. I wish you luck with that endeavor while facing "American exceptionalism". It's extremely difficult to get anyone to admit to their faults.

[–] mindbleach@sh.itjust.works 1 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Completely fucking off-topic.

[–] Fiivemacs@lemmy.ca 0 points 3 days ago (1 children)

we throw away too much food because people have been trained to over eat so companies produce more then what's actually necessary. to me, this can't be more on topic.

[–] mindbleach@sh.itjust.works 3 points 3 days ago (1 children)

That's plainly not why.

[–] SreudianFlip@sh.itjust.works -2 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Yes it is.

See? Easy when you don’t have to justify a position. Shall I make an appeal to authority to seal the toxicity?

[–] mindbleach@sh.itjust.works 2 points 2 days ago (1 children)

I don't have to state the square root of seventeen million to say it's not three.

You came in hot, calling Americans fat for eating too much, and asserting with no evident rationale that this must be directly connected to businesses... having food left over. They eat so much there's too much left. Uh huh.

[–] SreudianFlip@sh.itjust.works 1 points 2 days ago (1 children)

You

Nah, wasn’t me. Read.

fat for eating too much

Wait, is anyone in the medical community contesting that? Besides, that’s a tangent to the comment that triggered you, I think.

asserting with no evident rationale that this must be directly connected to businesses... having food left over

Yes, I think the comment that irked you is assuming that the reader accepts the premises that the USA is overconsumptive, that this is due to an ideology of endless surplus, that the cancerlike imperative that line must go up is laying waste to everything, and that these thought patterns lead to bad decisions like OP is calling out.

Not evident to you, I suppose… fair enough.

[–] mindbleach@sh.itjust.works 1 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Oh, so you're just barging in to act smug about someone else's brain fart. That's worse. You know that's worse, right?

This ends here.

[–] SreudianFlip@sh.itjust.works 1 points 2 days ago

I didn’t barge in, it's a thread in a forum and some imperious commenter was being toxic and it's just fucking exhausting to deal with sometimes, so if someone helps out that's usually great.

If you want to talk about the issue instead of picking fights, fine. Otherwise don't turn the place into reddit.