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[B]

What a weird fucking thing.

[Biff Pocoroba]

From AP:

According to new data from the Centers for Disease Control women are now as big as men were in the 1960s.

The CDC says Americans have grown up about an inch, which accounts for some of the weight gain, but we’ve really grown out.

The average American woman now tips the scales at 166, about what a man weighed in the 1960s, for a 18.5 percent increase.

Men have gained an average of 30 pounds to tip the scales at 195 pounds (a 17.6 percent increase).

The average waist size of women is now 37.5 inches; men 39.7 inches.

Despite what you may see on television, almost everyone is overweight. The CDC says 69 percent of adult Americans are either overweight or obese. More than a third, 35 percent, are considered obese.

[lennytheweedwhacker]

From AP:

According to new data from the Centers for Disease Control women are now as big as men were in the 1960s.

The CDC says Americans have grown up about an inch, which accounts for some of the weight gain, but we’ve really grown out.

The average American woman now tips the scales at 166, about what a man weighed in the 1960s, for a 18.5 percent increase.

Men have gained an average of 30 pounds to tip the scales at 195 pounds (a 17.6 percent increase).

The average waist size of women is now 37.5 inches; men 39.7 inches.

Despite what you may see on television, almost everyone is overweight. The CDC says 69 percent of adult Americans are either overweight or obese. More than a third, 35 percent, are considered obese.

how much do you weigh, biff?

[E.H. Ruddock]

Haha, Skynet sux.

http://money.cnn.com/2015/06/26/autos/s ... -stack-dom

There are few drivers who haven't experienced what it's like to be cut off by another motorist who nearly causes an accident. Now, two autonomous-driving cars from competing companies have matched that common human experience.
Of course, the self-driving cars weren't able to give each other the finger after it happened.

Auto parts maker Delphi says that its experimental self-driving car was on a street in Silicon Valley earlier this week and was moving into another lane when an experimental self-driving car from Google cut it off by moving into the same lane.
Delphi disclosed the incident to a Reuters reporter earlier this week and confirmed it to CNNMoney Friday. Spokeswoman Kristen Kinley insists it wasn't truly a near miss but was instead an example about how self-driving cars effectively avoid accidents.
"Our car saw the Google car move into the same lane as our car was planning to move into, but upon detecting that the lane was no longer open it decided to terminate the move and wait until it was clear again," she said.
Google declined to comment about the incident.
self driving car accidents
Google's self-driving Lexus, left, and Delphi's self-driving Audi, right, came close to colliding when they found themselves on the same street earlier this week.
Related Google's new self-driving cars hit the road
Self-driving cars are allowed on streets and highways in California, but they are required to have a human driver sitting behind the steering wheel able to take over control of the car if there is a problem. The cars are not yet for sale to the public. The self-driving vehicles now on the roads are being used by companies that are developing the technology.
Self-driving cars are still rare, they're becoming more common on the streets near Google's Mountain View, Calif, headquarters. Google has 23 self-driving Lexus RX450h crossovers on the road, and recently put nine prototypes of its own self-driving car design on the road as well. Delphi, which recently drove a self-driving Audi across country, does most of its test drives near its autonomous driving lab, which is near to Google's headquarters.
Self-driving cars have been involved in a number of minor accidents with traditional driver cars during the last few years that they were being tested on the road. Google has driven the cars more than 1 million miles in autonomous driving mode. It says it has had 12 accidents. Most occurred when the autonomous driving car was stopped or nearly stopped and were struck from behind by a car with a driver.
There was a human driver sitting behind the wheel in all the cases, and in instances where the car was in motion when the accident occurred, the human driver took control of the car.

[LoathedVermin72]

http://nypost.com/2015/06/26/hunky-gori ... rs-hearts/

[LetMeSleep]

Well done CNN. Well done.



http://www.pinknews.co.uk/2015/06/27/cn ... -at-pride/

Fortunately for the organisers of Pride in London, but unfortunately for CNN editor Lucy Pawle, the flag shown to shocked viewers across the world was in fact a celebration of anal sex toys. The varieties can be seen in the closeup below.

[E.H. Ruddock]

[Fuck You Jobu]

[E.H. Ruddock]

[LetMeSleep]

Please let it be a flag of anal sex toys. Or the PJ25 dildo. Or a new ep.

[Jorge]

I love traveling-- am lucky enough to have done quite a bit of it, and I feel like it's enriched my life in many ways. But I really hate the attitudes described in this article, and you see it all the time when you meet people abroad. The whole "drop everything and just go out and see the world!" bullshit that's rampant among upper middle class millennials who seem oblivious of their privilege.

I guess this isn't news, but I didn't know where to post it. Maybe the travel thread. But it's too late now. It's staying here. Mods, you can't move it.

[Norah]

Totally with you on that one.

[LetMeSleep]

Yep. Eerily echoes my sentiments towards Into The Wild too.

[Simple Torture]

reddit has been fucking useless for like 2 days.

https://www.reddit.com/r/SubredditDrama ... g_private/

[BurtReynolds]

weirdness.

[ABNorman]

How do we leverage this to become the new Reddit?

Jammit.

[Jorge]

RMmit

[BurtReynolds]

Damnit

[verb_to_trust]

reddit has been fucking useless for like 2 days.

https://www.reddit.com/r/SubredditDrama ... g_private/

Once they banned fatpeoplehate it was all over for me

[BurtReynolds]