Bloomberg: What the hell is his problem?

a tax disproportionately on the poor, now there's a switch.

(I don't want them drinking that shit either, but the man's priorities are monomaniacal)

sorry, guys, this is where my liberal streak really kicks in (fuck calling it a "libertarianism").

Ordinarily I think I'd be totally against something like this but given where I'm working and what on it's sort of hard to be. It's not like someone still can't buy tons of soda but this might deter them or make them think about it even a little bit which can only be a good thing imo.

I'm okay with public schools eliminating soft drinks, PSA's during Cartoon Network, and so on, but I don't want a bored tinpot Ms Grundel setting rules. I mean, education does work. Every conservative I know (i.e. my family) no longer keeps Coke or Pepsi products around the house.

people can still drink soda guys. just not as much

a tax disproportionately on the poor, now there's a switch.

(I don't want them drinking that shit either, but the man's priorities are monomaniacal)

― World Congress of Itch (Dr Morbius), Friday, June 1, 2012 2:01 PM (3 minutes ago)

this seems better than a straight sugary-drink tax, in that it encourages but doesn't punish moderation. buy a 16 ounce for the same price it always was.

i'm sensitive to regressive taxes like this too, but it's somewhat difficult to avoid when the epidemic you're fighting is so neatly tied to socioeconomic status, as obesity is.

where the hell is iatee

writing speeches for Larouche.

oh c'mon

i think this is kinda dumb, definitely paternalistic, probably pointless. and yet... i don't care too much? don't drink ANY soda, how 'bout that. voluntarily, like.

probably says more about the hyperdense center-of-universe politics of NYC than anything else tho

I think my big question here is "why is soda being treated like a life-giving substance that people need in order to survive?"

Great, I'm going to NY in September and now I have to triple my soda budget.

really dunno why anybody drinks anything in a town where finding a bathroom is a soviet experience

Try bumming a cigarette.

means nothing til they ban bacon too.

what the hell is a soviet experience?

they made Solzhenitsyn hold it for 20 years

lol

http://www.newyorker.com/online/blogs/newsdesk/2012/05/in-defense-of-nanny-bloomberg.html

http://bittman.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/06/06/limit-soda-for-kids-sake/?src=tp

fucking idiot doesn't know what his job is

http://www.ny1.com/content/top_stories/164870/mayor--nyclu-does-not--do-anything--to-end-need-for-stop-and-frisks

Soundbite from Bloomturd yesterday on soda-size hearings: "No one is going to stop this."

And next, alcohol:

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/07/25/bloomberg-alcohol-abuse-city-telephone-survey-new-york_n_1701356.html

I guess I was gone volunteering for larouche the first time this came up but the way I'd suggest thinking bout this is let's say a democratic mayor passed a large-soda ban and bloomberg was being lobbied by a buncha soda giants and was trying to reverse the ban. do you really, honestly believe that you would be supporting that in that context?

big gulp-ernment

I want ppl to live as unhealthily as they choose to, and decrease the surplus population.

too bad they burn through all the public health dollars on their way out

(catch the Dickens quote?)

nope

this kinda (very soft) health paternalism is pretty uncontroversial in countries where they accept that there's a social responsibility for health care provision / that maybe free market capitalism won't result in optimal decision making 100% of the time.

I'm all for ppl being healthier, but not nanny statism

democratic socialism inevitably requires something of a 'nanny state'. universal health care is nannystatism.

i feel a lot more comfortable having huge private for-profit beverage corporations dictate the conditions of my soda consumption than representatives of elected government

I know there's irony somewhere in there, max

no way, what is freedom if not making sure that multinational businesses always have more influence than the state

I think what Morbs meant to say is that we don't really care until it affects our alcohol-consuming convenience. Or that could just be me.

as long as mikedolf bloomler stays away from the booze, i'm good with his health agenda.

oh, missed the last revive. anyway this is pretty much otm and echoes one of max's points: http://www.newyorker.com/talk/financial/2012/08/13/120813ta_talk_surowiecki

I've been turning this over in my mind for a while, and I just can't help but think there is something deeply wrong with the new campaign to convince mothers to breastfeed, like there's something sick about it. I don't know if I can entirely justify this opinion, other than the fact that I'm a new father and see what a sensitive and difficult issue it is already.

Thanks to the revive, catching up on this thread's back catalog as a recent New York arrival. Holy shit did I LOL over the great "get away from windows during a hurricane" uproar.

i do like the idea of windowless rooms being the mark of the high class

― J0rdan S., Saturday, August 27, 2011 1:42 PM Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

"i finally knew i had made it when i could sit in a dark, small, windowless room during a tropical storm"

― J0rdan S., Saturday, August 27, 2011 1:43 PM Bookmark

saw this ad:

http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7106/7740341158_f6e34f75fa_m.jpg

plastered on the side of a pepsi truck today

fight the power

straight from the NYT homepage:

New York City Approves Ban on Large Sugary Drinks
By MICHAEL M. GRYNBAUM 29 minutes ago
The measure, which bars the sale of sweetened drinks larger than 16 ounces, will take effect in six months unless blocked by a judge.

Panel Decides to Regulate a Circumcision Ritual 2:27 PM ET

read that article morbs

saw this ad:

http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7106/7740341158_f6e34f75fa_m.jpg

plastered on the side of a pepsi truck today

fight the power

― iatee, Thursday, September 13, 2012 9:32 AM (6 hours ago)

amazing

I've been turning this over in my mind for a while, and I just can't help but think there is something deeply wrong with the new campaign to convince mothers to breastfeed, like there's something sick about it. I don't know if I can entirely justify this opinion, other than the fact that I'm a new father and see what a sensitive and difficult issue it is already.

I haven't seen the specific campaign you're referring to, but as someone who also recently became a father, there is definitely a lot of pro-breastfeeding information presented to you by health authorities and others that you encounter on the road to parenthood. I don't think it was too over the top though I'm sure it annoyed some people. My wife and I intended to breastfeed though for various reasons things didn't work out that way.

xp I saw that sign in spanish, which somehow made it seem even more effective/ridiculous as faux-revolutionary propaganda

is there a thread in which we fight for our beverage choice

brb patenting a hat that holds 4 16 oz. cocaine colars

is there a thread in which we fight for our beverage choice

― dayo, Thursday, September 13, 2012 5:36 PM (22 minutes ago)

this one?