I was thinking one of those small cakes one can buy from the supermarket bakery. Maybe even make a video of eating it.

I wonder if there might not be a better idea out there, though.

Nothing too over the top, but at the same time I'd like to think of something somewhat special. As ideally, once I cross 200 I don't wish to ever be below that again, so I'm expecting this is something I can only do once. This isn't to say there wouldn't be other milestone celebrations, but there's just something nice and psychological about 200, you know? The next nice psychological step/milestone would probably be 221 lbs (which is 100 kgs).

I wouldn't mind hearing more about this, myself. Particularly about the bits where supposedly, "the posts that COULD justify some moderator comment remain unacted upon."

I can assure everyone that none of the moderators are on a power trip. We do however, uphold the rules to the best of our ability as time permits. This includes attempts at deliberate harassment and bigotry. We do try to be proactive, but there is no 24/7 coverage, so we do rely on other members to point out questionable content.

On occasion, preemptive action might be taken. There was that one thread that somehow devolved and derailed into a discussion about Nazis. While it had remained civil, one could just sense a high degree of emotions, and there's the vibe that it might go off, like a ticking time bomb. Particularly if it seems that everyone involved is just angry and emotionally very invested. One of those types of arguments where it seems like everyone loses.

While we do try to avoid false positives, and I think we have done a very good job at this - sometimes there could be questionable gray areas and sometimes taking action can rely just on gut feelings. Although, I haven't seen a really bad call get taken lately.

There's a myriad of cheap options out there, since for this purpose you aren't going to care if it's tacky and/or poorly made. A lot of these are likely things you shouldn't wear day to day.

As a bonus, if it's cheap, the stitching is likely to be weak with buttons more weakly attached, suggesting they're more likely to burst.

A few ideas:

- Thrift stores but someone mentioned that already.

- Clearance Racks.

Most stores always end up with too much stock, and repeatedly make the mistake of stocking tacky stuff no one actually wants, or gets rarely used even if someone does buy it.

- Yard/garage sales - probably listed on Craigslist these days.

- Freecycle/NextDoor

Maybe Facebook, too.

- Wal-Mart or Target (at least for tops)

Wrangler jeans are actually quite well made despite the relative cheapness.

- No-name clothing off of Amazon

Especially the stuff with pricing almost too cheap to believe. There is Temu but there have been too many anecdotal reports of bogus purchases, or being for an incorrect amount.


And finally, perhaps the most fun idea of them all -

A stockpile of old clothing you have that didn't fit 20+ or even 40+ lbs ago.

Oh my God I love the Thin Mints. Alas I don't really have access right now; no such coworkers.

Fun fact... the vast majority of the sales do NOT come from the actual girl scouts asking folks to buy. Instead, something like 95%+ of the sales come from their parents asking coworkers to order and buy.

Might be a good thing though.. because otherwise I'd probably get so many boxes, because I will end up demolishing the entire box in one sitting.

Until cliques form and then those users will vote "fake" en-masse on a particular target that's on the shitlist of the clique as a form of "griefing."

That's why such a voting system can't be put in place. You can still "vote" fake by reporting a profile. While that's not a guarantee of removal, the odds are very good if the profile is a scammer.

I do miss the maps, but I would guess whatever API was used broke, and an appropriate replacement was never identified.

The 20th anniversary of FF was just the other day, recently. User IDs are 6 digits now, over 500,000 in fact.

However, as user accounts get deleted the numbers aren't recycled, so that doesn't mean there's half a million members. Would be cool if there were, though.

Only place I know of that's been around for even longer, and is still technically around is Dimensions.

I have no idea how many gigabytes or more likely, terabytes of pictures, videos, posts, stories, and other content there is now, but it's likely considerable.

This is off topic but...

If I knew a cute feeder was working at one just behind the counter, I might occasionally order something like that on purpose. But instead, maybe the hot chocolate.

I'd also make a point of sitting inside, and rub my gut on purpose while gulping down the entire thing, making sure the feeder is able to see it, just to tease.

This does seem like an amazing fantasy, but a fantasy nonetheless. Amazing that it's even potentially a thing.

I never would have thought any cruise company could offer it. There's a reason most cruise ship vacation packages are 1-2 weeks, though there's a few that are 3 weeks.

Because okay, back to the real world. Forget that it starts off at $60K (which is for an interior stateroom that would get old fast), so it would be more like $70K+. That's actually the smallest hurdle that's the easiest to get over. It's the same reason why some individuals can buy late model luxury cars, or big mansions.

People have to go to work. Even if you're lucky enough to have 5 weeks of paid vacation time, 5 weeks is not even 2 months, much less 9.

Retirees also have time obligations as well. Do you really want to spend all the various holidays alone? And children have to go to school.

Okay, suppose you're single, you're estranged from your family so you never see them over holidays, and you have a job that's 100% remote/telecommute. Too bad Internet access at sea is generally insufficient and not good enough for that. Even if it was, there may be legal and practical barriers. Legal because you may only be able to live and work from certain areas, or may only be able to work from an alternative area for a couple months at most. Practical because time zone differences are a thing. Political because even if you can overcome the legal and the practical, imagine the intense anger and jealously of your coworkers.

Sorry to burst everyone's bubble. But the average person could never hope to do this, or vast majority of the bottom 99.9%. Probably not even most of the top 0.1% as most are insanely busy, running their enterprises.

Maybe if you're a young person just out of high school who comes from a fantastically rich family and you take a "gap" year before college, a distinctly European concept. That's the only other demographic I can think of that could possibly take advantage of this.

Mine is self-explanatory. No fancy, special story behind it.

Although, I can just as easily say "Fat" in place of "Chubby."