ran into a screenshot of a "77% of Americans unfit for service because of weight, psych issues, or drug use" thing and...
you know how folks idealize how we used to do MANLY THINGS like MANLY WAR exemplified by WWII? In which most soldiers despite way more coming from factory/farm jobs, walking everywhere, etc, were usually *underweight*, had Greatest Generation takes on (at least) smoking like chimneys, etc?
What if the statistic's actually *always* been somewhere around 2/3rd the population?
@Leucrotta no no The Greatest Generation were all Herculean Supermen like pappy told me back when we could eat without those people coming in
nothing like my gay autistic man children always whining about the greatest economic system on earth because they are participation trophy losers
@chimerror I actually *do* think the Greatest Generation were incredible, *because* they were really not set up to do it, *except*...
you've got guys GETTING STUFF DONE while swilling coffee and smoking like a foundry in Pittsburgh. Especially when I think about stuff like how my grandfather quit cigs (you can't chain smoke a pipe) or like my Dad's favorite uncle listening to two different baseball games at the same time, and I think by sheer chance it was a golden age for self-medicating ADHD.
