I finally made it through the 2 Metocare steams, mostly while playing Dark Souls 1 on Steam Deck. Here are some random notes/clips.
Metocare loves Mountain Dew Baja Blast and wants to drink 3 or 4 per day. Also, still smokes. Ok rant incoming. Baja Blast is pretty good. I used to get the Zero version until I realized how bad it was for your teeth. Here's the deal.
Mountain Dew is the worst soft drink of all time for your teeth. It erodes the enamel and destroys your teeth. Dentists describe it as "liquid chainsaw." Dentists like my brother see people every day and he can tell which ones love drinking Mountain Dew. He asks people with really bad teeth, "what is your favorite soft drink?" And they always tell him Mountain Dew. Stop drinking Mountain Dew. It's just not worth it. All of them. Code Red, Baja Blast. Mystery Halloween Flavor. Fuck 'em all. If you love Mountain Dew, replace it with something else like Sprite or 7up. They are not the same level of catastrophic damage to your teeth like the Dew. Mountain Dew is not the working man's drink or the white man's softdrink either, like they have tried to brand it. Stop buying it and let it die. It's not even that good in fact of course. Sunkist, 7up, Sprite and many others are just as good.
Now, all the zero versions of drinks are more preferable to the full caloric versions. I'm not even sure what sort of scooter-riding, diabetes-Americans are even buying the full calorie versions of soft drinks in the year of our lord 2025. If you want softdrinks, get the zero versions. However, still skip Mountain Dew, even the zero version. Soft drinks aren't good for your teeth but there is nothing wrong with having the occasional one. You will not see any real damage. It's a cumulative effect over time. Like Aristotle said, "All things in gods." Or even having one soft drink per day is not so bad. Use a straw so it doesn't hit your teeth all the time. Don't gargle soft drink in your mouth and just soak your teeth in it. It's these fools that drink Mountain Dew every meal and for all their liquid intake that are the problem and have bombed out teeth that have to have root canals or be extracted and costing them thousands of dollars.
The problem with zero drinks (Coke Zero, Pepsi Zero, etc.) is that they all use Phenyalanine (amino acid), which is a form of phenyketoneurics. Every company is using this chemical to sweeten up their soft drinks to replace sugar. That's cool and it tastes the same in most cases. But there is no free lunch with these chemicals. So this will likely have some effect when our society is drinking all these zero drinks. Like I said, cumulative effect. Maybe they will cause cancer in 10 years or so. We just don't know. So you need to moderate. Ideally, you can drink coffee and tea. And for god's sake, only rarely/never drink those energy drinks. White monsters, red bull, etc. Those are so bad they don't even want pregnant women drinking them and it says it on the cans.
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I've seen these expressions on jcaesar187 many times.
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Metocare was really happy about Trump being sworn in. Like, unironically hyped. To the point he was screeching about how Daddy Trump was going to uphold all his campaign promises on day 1. I was just shaking my head while listening, wondering if the guy was that naive or what. I mean, Hilllary is literally there. Remember when she was supposed to be locked up? Maybe you could argue this time it will be different since they tried to kill Trump and destroy his life. And now he doesn't have to worry about running again for another term. So he can do what he wants. But I'm skeptical. And when nothing happens, we will all just blame the Democrats for blocking everything he wanted to do. Or blame the people he's filling in the roles or whatever.