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After 9 years in the gym and over 1000 clients, these are the only 8 dinners I'd give someone with 40lbs to lose.
1. Chicken thighs and rice.
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I wish I could take credit for this but gotta admit it was a friend in the group chat but I’m sharing here.
In honor of CFP playoff rankings and voting day yesterday, here is the Top 25 as US Presidents
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A former McDonald’s crew member who worked behind the counter for 3 years eats at McDonald’s 4 times a week.
She has never once as a customer ordered a standard menu item as it appears on the board. Every order is a customized build that uses the modification system she learned on the other side of the counter. Builds that taste different from anything on the menu. Builds that cost less than the premade combos. Builds that use ingredients most customers don’t know they can request.
Her friend watched her order one afternoon and said: “What did you just order? That’s not on the menu.”
“Nothing I eat here is on the menu. I order the ingredients. The menu board shows you the premade combinations McDonald’s wants you to buy. The POS system behind the counter has 200+ modifications on every item. I order from the system. You order from the board. We’re eating at the same restaurant. We’re not eating the same food.”
Her friend said: “You can do that?”
“You can add any sauce to any sandwich. You can swap patties between items. You can add ingredients from one sandwich to another. You can request fresh-made to order. You can rebuild a $6.19 Big Mac for $3.29 with a McDouble and two modifications. The kitchen makes what the screen says. The screen prints whatever you type into the kiosk. The kiosk has every modification the POS has. You’ve been ordering from a menu board that shows you 40 items. The system behind it has 200+ builds. You just never asked.”
She showed her friend 11 things customization tricks, secret builds, ordering strategies, and app hacks that transform McDonald’s from a fixed menu into a build-your-own kitchen.
Here’s the full playbook 🧵
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If you're 15 to 30lbs overweight and want it gone by Christmas, here's the exact plan.
1. No alcohol.super
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In a weird way, everybody is rooting for you. When you go to a job interview, the interviewer wants you to be amazing so they don’t have to look anymore. when you go on a date, the person wants to have an amazing date with you. If you make a piece of content, people want to see amazing pieces of content and they have no problem if it’s yours.
the instant you get into the mindset that people want you to do well, your entire world gets better. And you’ll be shocked to know this pattern keeps repeating in different areas of life.
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I asked 50 Japanese people, ages 9 to 91, one question.
"What do you admire most about Americans?"
Here are the top answers.
10. "They clap when the plane lands." (Office worker, 34)
9. "They say 'I love you' every time they hang up the phone. Even men. Even to other men." (Taxi driver, 61)
8. "A stranger told me she liked my shoes. Then she just walked away. She didn't want anything." (High school girl, 16)
7. "They thank the bus driver when they get off." (Bus driver, 55. He got emotional saying this.)
6. "They tell you their whole life story in the grocery line. I know about one man's divorce, his boat, and his knee surgery. We knew each other for four minutes." (My mother, 64)
5. "They stand for the anthem at a children's baseball game." (Little League coach, 47)
4. "When they lose, they shake hands and say 'good game.' And they mean it." (Sota, 12)
3. "They fly the flag on a regular Tuesday. No holiday. Just because." (Nurse, 28)
2. "They help a stranger push a car out of the snow, then leave without saying their name." (My cousin's husband, 52, who got stuck in Colorado once)
And the number one answer came from the oldest person I asked. My grandfather. He's 91.
He thought about it for a long time.
Then he said:
"They still believe tomorrow will be better than today."
I asked him what he meant.
"In 1946, we had nothing," he said. "The American soldiers I met were young and far from home. But they acted like the future was coming, and it was going to be good. After a while, we started to believe them."
I asked him if he thought Americans still believe that.
He nodded slowly.
"Tell them," he said, "not to stop."
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Fred Armisen breaks down the fascinating evolution of conversational accents and speech patterns decade by decade on The Tonight Show.
"I've been working on some impressions of accents through the decades"
1900s: "the manufacturer and the farmer, people thought it was very British, but it's actually very Dutch and German"
1920s: "They start getting very aware of the microphone"
1950s: "It starts to flatten out a little bit. I'd like to on a Friday night, I'd like to read a book on a Friday night"
1960s: "Diverges a little bit where there's an official sort of news hour... and then the sort of people in interviews looked like they were in shock"
1970s: "There's a whisper to it. There's a sort of confusion as to what's going on, there's a whisper"
1990s: "Very kind of laid back, wow, the nineties laid back, yeah, very sarcastic and ironic, wow"
2000s: "You start to hear the vocal fry... guys are in a meeting and they can sort of hear that throughout when they're talking on a conference call"
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In America, a hardware store called Harbor Freight.
I walked in to buy one roll of black electrical tape. Seventy-nine cents.
At the register, a bearded clerk named Frank scanned my tape, reached beneath the counter, and placed a massive red five-gallon plastic bucket between us.
"Free bucket weekend," he said.
I looked at the price tag on the bucket. Four dollars and ninety-nine cents.
I looked at my tape. Seventy-nine cents.
I stood before the register while basic arithmetic died in my hands.
"The vessel costs six times the tribute," I informed him. "If you do this for every customer, your house will fall before winter."
"Been doing it for years, chief. Take the bucket."
In my land, when a lord grants you a vessel larger than your purchase, you are expected to fill it in his service.
I held the wire handle with both hands and asked Frank what a man does with such a bucket.
He looked at me the way a monk looks at an uninitiated boy.
"Everything," Frank said, "except carry water."
I thought he was speaking in riddles. He was speaking the literal law of the land.
I have now inspected four garages on my street, and I must report that the entire residential infrastructure of the United States rests upon five-gallon plastic buckets.
Nobody puts water in them.
The first bucket holds rusty bolts from machines that died during the Bush administration.
The second bucket is inverted so a man can sit on it while staring at a lawnmower he has no intention of fixing today.
The third bucket is an emergency step-stool so a father can stand fourteen inches closer to a smoke detector that will not stop chirping.
I carried my red bucket home and set it beside my garage door.
On Saturday morning, my seventy-four-year-old neighbor Walt walked past my driveway with his coffee.
He stopped. He looked at the red bucket. Then he looked at me.
Without a word, Walt walked back to his own garage, returned sixty seconds later, and dropped a brand-new yellow sponge and a brass hose nozzle into my bucket.
"Saw you finally got your bucket," Walt said, tapping the plastic rim twice. "Welcome to the street, kid."
I spent seventy-nine cents on tape.
They gave me a throne, a toolbox, and citizenship on my block.
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Tuesday articles.
I wrote about something a lot of people struggle with: knowing how to prioritize important tasks while putting the ones that don't need 100% of your attention on the back burner.
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BREAKING: Alex Stein (@alexstein99) was just physically removed from the Portland City Council Meeting today. Credit:
@RheinAmacher
