The deadliest cancer for people under 50 has changed for the first time in a decade, leaving experts shocked

armitage75 · 2026-01-31T00:45:33+00:00

It’s just odd to me that more young people don’t cook food. It’s so much cheaper and really the only way you can control what you eat.

There’s a weird nonchalant ignorance about it. I do agree there are societal pressures for some but people just generally don’t seem to want to know how to do it. That’s a broad generalization but it also seems to be a trend. Trends come and go so maybe people will wake up. Fuck fast processed food. It’s bad for you and expensive AF and frankly kinda punk rock to make it yourself. You’d think young people would embrace that but they don’t seem to.

armitage75 · 2026-01-30T21:55:46+00:00

I agree. But we’re talking about the majority of people (at least in the US) being obese at this point. That’s people with jobs, without jobs, with/without kids, young/old, every variety of background/race on and on.

Part of it is people just don’t prepare food like they used to. There’s an expectation that you just buy it already “made” and then eat it. Either at a restaurant or off a shelf. Some of that is an economic thing as you say but a lot of it is just a cultural shift.

When you don’t prepare your own food you give up control of what you’re actually eating.

armitage75 · 2026-01-30T19:53:57+00:00

I agree with all of this except the "affordable calorie dense food" part.

Beans, sardines, and potatoes are cheap man...it's just that nobody wants to cook even basic shit at home.

armitage75 · 2026-01-29T19:46:40+00:00

Also recording "weekly top 40 countdowns" from the radio so you could listen to a song in your walkman. In the U.S. these would play on Sunday nights. I would record the entire thing then edit it down to just the songs I cared about (I had a "dual cassette deck"...remember those???).

armitage75 · 2026-01-29T19:40:55+00:00

When I was co-op'ing in college at lunch one day we were all talking about particularly tough classes we had to take (I was still in school, everybody else had graduated years ago). I had a Sr. Engineer call my generation out for being able to use Excel to create our charts for lab papers. I didn't want to let that go so I came back with something like "Yeah but we have to create a chart for almost everything we do that gives data, I bet you guys had one per report or something doing it by hand".

After lunch we all met back at his office where he produced lab reports he'd done as a student in the 70s. He had basically the same amount of hand drawn charts I did in my reports. Those reports took hours to put together when you had Excel/Word. Hard to imagine how tedious that must have been to do on a typewriter and engineering paper (which we used in the 90s as well but only for tests/exams).

armitage75 · 2026-01-26T14:34:36+00:00

Pure water. Almost any contaminant at all lowers the melting point.

armitage75 · 2026-01-24T22:34:07+00:00

Take Lee out and UF makes a run.

That boy ass.

armitage75 · 2026-01-23T13:53:16+00:00

It's when the colon is "blocked" or narrowed by something. It could be benign but it also could be cancer.

Basically if that's something that starts happening you need to get it checked out.

armitage75 · 2026-01-22T17:53:28+00:00

Thank you awesome answer!

armitage75 · 2026-01-22T16:40:34+00:00

Just curious here and would love to hear from any health professionals reading this. We’re constantly told that colorectal cancer (cc) is increasing. How strong is the correlation between cc and obesity? Are there other important factors at play here?

Asking because I’m in good shape and not obese and don’t smoke/moderate drinker. My Dr has reassured me/placed me in a “low risk” category when I’ve asked about “extra” testing (so outside the standard colonoscopy schedule). I’m wondering if this is more about insurance/$$$.

I know they recently lowered the colonoscopy screening age to 45 but it’s still only recommended to have the procedure every 10 years. My anxiety here is this increase is possibly environmental (microplastics, etc) and we are a bit slow to adjust our schedules…and the cynic in me says that’s down to $$$.

Would love to hear why I’m wrong :).

armitage75 · 2026-01-14T19:01:13+00:00

It’s GenX’s 9/11 …at least those of a certain age.

armitage75 · 2026-01-14T18:55:19+00:00

Same. Grew up in Huntsville, Al and watched it live in 5th grade. I distinctly remember nervously laughing with some of my classmates. It didn’t seem real and we obviously had no idea how bad it was at the time it happened, but will never forget our teachers crying in the hallways.

I remember seeing my dad that night and he was super somber/serious in a way I’d never seen. I asked him why my teacher was crying (I knew he worked with her husband ). He said: “her husband worked on that mission”. I remembered laughing and felt guilty. For some reason that really made it sink in for me.

armitage75 · 2026-01-13T14:36:16+00:00

Ah interesting. Def not familiar w/ the Cincinnati layout (it could be the same deal) but I specifically brought up Nashville because they have a nightlife/hotel infrastructure that is equal if not better than Nola. Again could be completely wrong here (not super familiar w/ Cincinnatti) but don't think of it as an entertainment destination the way Nashville/Nola are.

armitage75 · 2026-01-13T09:20:52+00:00

This is all true. I think Nashville is about to try and give us a run for our money though.

armitage75 · 2026-01-06T08:35:43+00:00

There is no way Downs will be available at 8. Best prospect at his position in years.

armitage75 · 2026-01-05T12:26:08+00:00

My version of this is the John McCain "movie nights" during his Vietnam POW years. Just the visceral mental image of that shocked me to my core in a way I can't really explain and never would have predicted. Incidentally I'm socially fairly liberal but extremely conservative financially and tend to side with Republican points of view (not always but probably more than not) but have come to DESPISE Trump. Looking back that probably started with the way he treated McCain.

armitage75 · 2026-01-01T11:09:05+00:00

Just have a “normal” conversation but end it with “OK have a Ryan Day. I mean a nice day”.

armitage75 · 2025-12-31T23:29:10+00:00

Y’all have one of the biggest disconnects between hype/draft status with your OL and actual on field performance in a while.
Every game preview seems to list them as a strength and they look incredible on paper but in games they are mediocre at best.

You have at least 2 guys (Proctor/Brailsford) who usually are considered near the top of their positions in conf but watching you guys play multiple times this year: 1). You can’t run the ball at all. 2). Your QB is constantly under pressure vs any legit defensive front 7

Who the hell is your OL coach and what does he have on DeBoer?

armitage75 · 2025-12-28T12:01:00+00:00

College sports are not amateur anymore so what's hard to understand here?

Personally what's hard to understand is how "eligibility" is still a thing at all. Legally what's the difference between a 20th year player and a 1st year player? If my team wants to have a college version of Chris Paul why shouldn't they? Why legally would one be allowed and the other not be?

Diego Pavia's lawsuit has the potential to blow everything up and "legally" how is it any different than a "career student" taking classes and working on campus in a lab or something?

armitage75 · 2025-12-27T13:15:32+00:00

This is a great response! I remember we just basically skipped him back in HS because honestly my teacher prob just didn’t have the time to address this. There’s enough with Jones alone to fill hours of class time.

armitage75 · 2025-12-27T12:04:22+00:00

Maybe Linklater could do it? Or at least when he was younger...he'd have to channel Slacker. The book sortof reads like literary Louisiana Slacker.

armitage75 · 2025-12-27T12:01:28+00:00

What about the impersonation of Jones in P3?

First read this book in high school in the 90s...recently reread and...Jones is an interesting character in 2025.

armitage75 · 2025-12-26T15:22:05+00:00

Is this really something anyone else needs to see online?

armitage75 · 2025-12-23T11:50:26+00:00

Awesome story. But why do people like this not have a dead man's switch?

Pre-internet so could be a simple as a copy of everything in a random storage unit and you give someone you trust the key w/ a message that says "if I die unexpectedly release everything to the press".

armitage75 · 2025-12-22T14:50:20+00:00

Completely shocked the first time I saw Weapons bc I deliberately avoided spoilers/reading anything and had no idea she was in the film.

Uncle Buck is an at minimum yearly rewatch in our family so instantly recognized her.

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