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This is such a short sighted view. Humans are designed to eat more than they need for very good evolutionary reasons, we're just at the point now where you can do so for pennies. Obesity is on the rise everywhere as a result of this.

There are factors outside "just eat better bro" at play here. Carbs are incredibly cheap these days and eating healthily is comparatively expensive. There's a reason (several really) that obesity is higher among lower income folks. You couple that with "food desserts", ready meals and lack of free time and it's a terrible recipe.

I eat well myself and I consider myself lucky to be able to do so. Just a little of putting yourself in the shoes of someone else and not assuming laziness would do you the world of good.

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Those who are old enough, do you miss these days?

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certainly not the hassles with configuring interrupts on expansion boards, getting CD-ROMs working on "older" PCs, juggling conflicting DOS config.sys and autoexec.bat configs

Jeez I really forgot about all that shite. ISA cards sound cards being a total whinge. Doing clean installs every once in a while because your bloated registry meant your computer had gone to shit. Burned CD's with your favourite apps on them so you didn't have to download them again on dial up.