So I can eat 4000 calories a day and only burn 3000 and lose weight? Tell me more!

Do you mind telling what each app replaces?

But to them meat fits the criteria best. Carnivore and Paleo diets are at their core keto/Atkins diets.

I lost 100 lbs as a vegetarian and I don’t restrict my diet beyond the no meat/few animal products part. Calories are and always will be the only factor in weight loss, but as far as health goes limiting and restricting different believed “problematic” aspects of food isn’t good. You need carbs, fats, proteins, fiber etc even if cutting something will give quicker, aesthetic changes.

Congrats on your weight loss!

Beans are one of the best foods on this planet! You can eat nothing but carbs and still lose weight for god’s sake!

Lol it’s true!

Yeah you do.

Listen… Y’all need fiber. Need it. Quit protein-maxxxing or whatever else influencers say and make sure you’re getting enough fiber and water.

Do you not use AI?

That’s why you like AI. You can say anything and have it stroke your ego. Real people challenge you and I bet that feels icky.

Did you have to ask ChatGPT how you felt about my comment then to create a response?

This “argument” really shines the light on just how dumb pro AI people are.

Oh I’m aware…

Who made the tech?

Wait… You’re against surveillance capitalism but also pro AI?

The Flintstones didn’t even use computers in their elevators.

Realizing you’re making mistakes and continuing anyway is the problem.

Online shopping is retail but semantics… I guess the businesses that aren’t on your list are showing profits made by ghosts then.

No you don’t understand… I’ve spent the last 30 years investing in increasingly awful software companies to create “industry standards” and leaving these companies behind would require me to change and learn!!!

I’m unsure of what you’re arguing here. Walmart continues to grow, Doordash has healthy growth, McDonald’s is still growing despite price increases, subscriptions are growing, micro transactions, cbd companies… I can literally keep going. The need to scroll and consume has hit gen Z hard and despite no “disposable income” they’re somehow pushing profits up along with any other struggling person. These minor comforts are big business.

Retail consumption isn’t growing? Buddy…

What do you spend your money on? I hear this kind of thing from lots of kids and then discover that they’ve normalized spending on things like door dash and subscription services as being essential.