Are people already regretting their choice?

[robnisch]

Oh, the sugar content. Well, is there more sugar in fresh squeezed orange juice than in oranges?

It takes 3-4 oranges to get 8oz of juice.
BBC had a show about sugar years ago on why fruit juice is not that heathy because sugar is sugar.

 

[pood]

Oh, the sugar content. Well, is there more sugar in fresh squeezed orange juice than in oranges?

It takes 3-4 oranges to get 8oz of juice.
BBC had a show about sugar years ago on why fruit juice is not that heathy because sugar is sugar.

Right, but we are talking about the difference between fresh squeezed orange juice and the sugar-added kind that, say, Tropicana sells. The only difference I can find between fresh squeezed OJ and the real thing is that the former loses some of the fiber. Also, the body does need some sugar.

 

[crazyfingers]

Pretty soon there won't be enough people to pick the oranges. They'll all come from Latin America with a 50% tariff. Orange trees in the US will go unpicked.

 

[bilby]

Sugar is a basic nutrient. There's nothing unhealthy about it; You just don't need much (because it's a very concentrated energy source) so it's easier to consume more than you burn if your diet includes sugar.

If you are overweight, or have diabetes or a family history of diabetes, you might need to be careful about your sugar intake (and about your diet more generally).

If not, avoiding sugar is not going to do anything to improve your health.

If your dietary energy intake is too high, you need to eat less food. Eating less sugar is an easy option for many, in such cases, again because it is very energy dense; But "sugar is bad for you" is a massive oversimplification.

 

[pood]

Pretty soon there won't be enough people to pick the oranges. They'll all come from Latin America with a 50% tariff. Orange trees in the US will go unpicked.

Yeah, but the libs will be owned!

 

[Elixir]

Soybeans are rotting or piling up in American fields and storage facilities because of the cancellation of Chinese purchases as a result of “ongoing trade tensions and retaliatory tariffs”. (Derplexity)

And GUESS WHO gets to pay for this debacle? You, me and every taxpayer.
Coulda gave them all to Gazans for the cost of a Trump golf outing.

 

[ZiprHead]

Pretty soon there won't be enough people to pick the oranges. They'll all come from Latin America with a 50% tariff. Orange trees in the US will go unpicked.

Nah.

 

[southernhybrid]

Sugar is a basic nutrient. There's nothing unhealthy about it; You just don't need much (because it's a very concentrated energy source) so it's easier to consume more than you burn if your diet includes sugar.

If you are overweight, or have diabetes or a family history of diabetes, you might need to be careful about your sugar intake (and about your diet more generally).

If not, avoiding sugar is not going to do anything to improve your health.

If your dietary energy intake is too high, you need to eat less food. Eating less sugar is an easy option for many, in such cases, again because it is very energy dense; But "sugar is bad for you" is a massive oversimplification.

The problem is that at least in the US, people eat way too much sugary foods. I'm thinking of buying some small juice glasses so we only drink the juice from fewer oranges. We're not drinking OJ lately, but I told Mr. Sohy to only make me enough juice from no more than 2 oranges. We left our juicer in the Indy condo and have't gotten a new one yet.

Ok. That has nothing to do with Trump supporters regretting their vote and sadly the few that I know personally haven't said that they regret their vote. Yesterday, I started taking walks around our block with one of the dogs and much to my surprise, there were two Trump signs on the front lawn of a nice well maintained home. I thought the only Trump sign left was on another nearby street that is in front of a home that isn't well maintained and has a lot of mess in the carport. The big mansions near by have all taken down their Trump signs. The only other ones I've seen have been out in the exurban areas, usually with some religious message. I doubt Jesus would have voted for Trump.

The home I saw yesterday also had a huge cross on the door and at least one US flag. My neighbor across the street voted for Trump but he was never really a big supporter. He told me last week that Trump is an idiot, but I doubt he would have voted for Harris.The guy is a nice person who loves helping people out and he's a non practicing Christian, and a 79 year old retired blue collar worker. He had told us he hated Trump even before he voted for him, but I doubt people like him will ever admit that they made the wrong choice. Why not just vote third party or write in a name, if you hate both candidates so much instead of helping someone like Trump win?

 

[pood]

Doing a little research, I find that fresh-squeezed orange juice is somewhat high in sugar, but has no added sugar, and also, as mentioned, lacks the fiber of just plain oranges. So I just eat oranges. Had three this morning in the park and fed the birds. The sparrows jumped all over it but the pigeons and starlings ignored it. What is up with that? In fact the pigeons in the park ignore ALL fruit — strawberries, raspberries, watermelon, blueberries, etc. Dumb boids!

 

[bilby]

Doing a little research, I find that fresh-squeezed orange juice is somewhat high in sugar, but has no added sugar, and also, as mentioned, lacks the fiber of just plain oranges. So I just eat oranges. Had three this morning in the park and fed the birds. The sparrows jumped all over it but the pigeons and starlings ignored it. What is up with that? In fact the pigeons in the park ignore ALL fruit — strawberries, raspberries, watermelon, blueberries, etc. Dumb boids!

Tell them it's safe now; Tom Lehrer died recently.



Spring really is here; Suddenly the bottlebrush trees are a mass of flowers (and lorikeets, and noisy miners).

 

[Loren Pechtel]

Oh, the sugar content. Well, is there more sugar in fresh squeezed orange juice than in oranges?

Yes, because the sugar is in what's extracted. There's no more sugar in the juice of one orange than in one orange, but there's more sugar in 100g of orange juice than 100g of oranges.

 

[Elixir]

Oh, the sugar content. Well, is there more sugar in fresh squeezed orange juice than in oranges?

Yes, because the sugar is in what's extracted. There's no more sugar in the juice of one orange than in one orange, but there's more sugar in 100g of orange juice than 100g of oranges.

It’s easy to down the juice of several oranges in a few seconds. Eating several oranges not only takes longer, but it’s also work- a caloric demand that eats into the caloric value of those oranges! Of course if you’re squeezing them yourself to get the juice, that’s work too. So the best is to get someone else to juice your oranges for you and you just sit there and guzzle.

 

[Swammerdami]

Regarding thread title: "are-people-already-regretting-their-choice" ... Real Clear Politics has a summary of recent September polls. The average they present shows 46½% approve of Trump's Presidency and only 52½% disapprove.

The two most useful recent polls, because only LIKELY voters were selected, are

Rasmussen Reports	9/14 - 9/18	1500 LV	53	46
InsiderAdvantage	8/15 - 8/17	1000 LV	54	44

Fifty-three to Forty-six and Fifty-four to Forty-four. Does this make you want to barf?​

Spoiler: Click only if you have a strong stomach

The 53% and 54% are APPROVAL numbers.

Woe, destruction, ruin, and decay; the worst is death and death will have his day.​

 

[ZiprHead]

 

[ZiprHead]

I wish instead of a few walking out or not attending they would have all in unison when Trump started speaking just stood up and turned their backs to him.

That’d show him!!

I think Dems should have all worn those mini pads on their right ear. Just to keep him on his toes.

I wonder now...Trump had two attempts on his life within a couple of weeks prior to the election to keep him from getting elected. One of those was a guy hiding in bushes who never took a shot and the other the famous Kotex maxipad behind the ear but we never saw where he got nicked. And there have been no more attempts since he got elected. That's enough to almost make me believe that they were staged.

Tucker Carlson: Trump Shooter Was a Trump-Backing Radical — and the FBI Covered It Up

Tucker Carlson now claims the Trump-era FBI misled the public about the Butler shooting, accusing Trump’s own security officials of concealing key facts.

www.mediaite.com

Tucker Carlson is now openly alleging that the Trump-era FBI — not just Biden’s — is lying about critical details of the attempted assassination of President Donald Trump in Butler, Pennsylvania.

That is the core, explosive thrust of his just-released video (embedded below): that the very federal law-enforcement leadership now serving in Trump’s second term — including his newly installed FBI team led by Kash Patel and Dan Bongino — is obscuring what really happened on the rooftop where Thomas Crooks nearly killed a former president.

Carlson isn’t just challenging federal law enforcement; he is accusing Trump’s own handpicked security leadership of helping shield the truth.

The FBI saw it coming. Hours before Carlson’s video dropped, the bureau released a preemptive statement insisting there was “no evidence of advance warnings” and urging the public to “avoid speculation.” Whether that was simple bureaucratic defensiveness or genuine concern about misinformation is almost beside the point — Carlson had forced the FBI to respond to him before he even made his case public.

Before Carlson even gets to the timeline, he spends several minutes reframing who Thomas Crooks actually was — and here, his case is surprisingly strong. Drawing from Crooks’ online comments, saved posts, and archived forum activity, Carlson argues that the 20-year-old wasn’t a covert leftist or an Antifa radical, but a deeply alienated young man steeped in hard-right conspiratorial culture.

 

[Derec]

[huge ass picture]

Robnish,
did you know that you can adjust the size that images display as, so large images do not fill the whole screen?
It's easy. When inserting an image, simply click on it, which brings up a context menu. then click on the icon with four arrowheads. Then specify width, for example "400px"; the "px" is necessary. You can leave height as auto, so the aspect ratio is maintained.

For example, the below image is 1200x630, but I reduced it to 400x210. The full image still loads, and anyone can expand it simply by clicking on it.

Thanks for listening to my TED talk.

 

[Derec]

Oh, the sugar content. Well, is there more sugar in fresh squeezed orange juice than in oranges?

The issue is that when you eat oranges you also get fiber, which slows down sugar absorption somewhat. So the sugar spike should be less.
But if you consume orange juice in moderation, and esp. if you drink it as part of a balanced breakfast, with all sorts of nutrients including fiber in your stomach, I do not think it's a big deal.

 

[Elixir]

Trump had two attempts on his life within a couple of weeks prior to the election to keep him from getting elected.

I don’t think so. I think the first one was staged and it worked. (Got him elected)
The second one was more like an attempted attempt.

 

[bilby]

Robnish,
did you know that you can adjust the size that images display as, so large images do not fill the whole screen?

Derec,
did you know that not everybody accesses this forum via the same kind of device that you use?

Your instructions would be useless to me, as I almost always use my iPhone to post here (as I am now); And indeed, the "problem" you mention doesn't exist on an iPhone - the image you are whinging about looks completely normal to me.

 

[ZiprHead]

[huge ass picture]

Robnish,
did you know that you can adjust the size that images display as, so large images do not fill the whole screen?
It's easy. When inserting an image, simply click on it, which brings up a context menu. then click on the icon with four arrowheads. Then specify width, for example "400px"; the "px" is necessary. You can leave height as auto, so the aspect ratio is maintained.

For example, the below image is 1200x630, but I reduced it to 400x210. The full image still loads, and anyone can expand it simply by clicking on it.

Thanks for listening to my TED talk.

Or just click on the image and grab one of the corner placeholders and drag to the size you want.