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6. BLUNT FORCE

Private Equity: Pestilence (they are parasites that voraciously strip the value out of a healthy business until it withers and dies)

Workforce Optimization: Famine (cutting hours and employees until the business is starved of staff, barely functioning)

every fat person you know for the most part probably has a story like this, of medical neglect. many of the stories i've heard personally are when the complaint or the doctor wasn't related at all, like being told to lose weight at the ear nose and throat doctor or at the dentist. it's straight up just bias. it's such a thing that in the show Shrill it's portrayed, when Aidy Bryant goes to the gynecologist and her doctor suggests she get gastric bypass.

the studies on health and fatness are simply not that black and white and there is basically no research that shows that more than an incredibly tiny minority of people can lose weight and keep it off for more than like 2 years. bodies have set points that they gravitate towards, it's not a personal failure. this also is how the weight loss industry succeeds so well - repeat customers.

some of the harm associated with fatness is also due to weight cycling, which is very hard on your body and is even worse if you get off a GLP1, which according to a recent study causes weight to be regained at a rate that is 4x faster than without taking a GLP1.

you don't have to hate yourself. you don't have to hate other people for their body type either. it makes me so sad to see the thinspo tag going around again in 2026 a lot like it was back in the day.

some resources to learn more here:

https://www.reuters.com/article/business/healthcare-pharmaceuticals/feeling-fat-may-be-worse-for-you-than-being-fat-idUSTON079061/

I am not uptight about privacy because I'm hiding something. I'm uptight about it because the people who dismiss my right to privacy are dangerous to you and me and our families, personally, all the time.

Olah Lodam, a young, beautiful, and principled Cardassian woman, has turned her own father over to the state for treason—testifying against him in open court and severing every tie to his disgrace. The state has declared her loyal… but Cardassian society is far less forgiving. Suspicion clings to her and her family like a shadow, and protection can only go so far. To survive, Oloh needs legitimacy. She needs a husband, and quickly. A Gul would be ideal—but in desperate times, any rising officer might do. Glinn Rojo Dal is dedicated to the military, but he is nearly forty and his ambitions of becoming a Gul are stalled by his solitary life. His commanding officer has made it clear: devotion must be proven not just in service, but in legacy. A wife could change everything, and luckily there is a woman on Cardassia II who is in urgent need of a husband. Perhaps they could come to some mutually beneficial arrangement, but they might just lose their hearts along the way