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No, there is no Area 51. Damn.

Bros, this is really easy: The US Air Force was developing all sorts of secret stuff during the Cold War, to keep it secret from, you know, the Russians.

When a secret spy balloon crashed in a public place in Roswell, the Air Force didn't answer any direct questions and when someone asked if it could be aliens, their reply was, "it can be whatever you want!"

Part 2: Everyone forgot all about the whole event for 30 years, because it was completely unremarkable. Then, after the Watergate scandal, everyone was super suspicious of the government, because one conspiracy had just turned out to be true. And one guy got on the radio and was like, "yeah well the government even has aliens, remember Roswell?" And nobody did, so then they retold the story in the most suspicious way possible and he sold a ton of books.

And that's where aliens come from.

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You haven't lived until some needs a knife to open something on christmas and 5 of the 6 adult males in your family are just standing there holding their pockets knives for you to choose from.

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In the US, did Amazon kill the mall, is everyone too broke, or a combination of other factors?

Malls were just a way to privatize mainstreet and allow the ownership class of capitalists to extract more money from a local economy through large chain stores and to give them private control over what used to be public space.

Now the middle class is worth a fraction of what it used to be, their purpose has dissolved.

People use Amazon instead of the mall because they can still afford the Temu-level garbage Amazon sells.

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The problem is that practical advice is often misinterpreted or misconstrued.

"the idea that a person can't eat more while exercising"

You can, of course, eat more while exercising.

But you can't eat much more while exercising, because running while eating is a choking hazard.

I'm kidding, but that is the nature of what I'm getting at.

But really--you can't eat much more during the day because exercising just doesn't burn much more calories. And eating a lot more calories is relatively trivial.