The Lotus Effect
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193 - Floating Shitshow
2025-08-16
Your favorite petalheads discuss weight loss drugs, physical fitness, ultraprocessed food, meat plant shit, married a hitchiker, is weed really legal, AI skepticism, climate change, and the petalheads weigh-in with their worst vacations.
“Sit down, strap in, shut up, and listen!” — Pheonix
Health:
- Weight-Loss Drugs Have a Surprising Foe: Fat Activists
- Trump Signs Executive Order Bringing Presidential Fitness Test Back To Public Schools
- In trial, people lost twice as much weight by ditching ultraprocessed food
- Boar’s Head to reopen plant as mold and funky meat problems pop up elsewhere
Happiness:
- ‘I Married the Hitchhiker We Picked Up on the Road’ – If Uber Would have Been Cheaper They’d Have Never Met
- Engineer Revives the Pay Phone for Vermont Community to Make Free Calls in Their Cellular Dead Zone
Tales from Rideshare/Toast and Jam:
- New Laptop Who Dis? (Amazon Affiliate Link)
- Jimmy Della Valle
Higher Consciousness:
- Weed & Psychedelics Are Doing for Eating Disorders What Big Pharma Couldn’t, Survey Says
- Is Cannabis Really Legal If You Can’t Grow Your Own Weed?
Lotus Tech Tips:
- As electric bills rise, evidence mounts that data centers share blame. States feel pressure to act
- Man Falls in Love With an AI Chatbot, Dies After It Asks Him to Meet Up in Person
The Junk Drawer:
- Delta Pilot Arrested Onboard Plane On Child Sex Abuse Charges
- Experiment will attempt to counter climate change by altering ocean
Last Call:
- Tom Lehrer, song satirist and mathematician, dies at 97
- CHILD DIES IN HOT CAR WHILE IN STATE’S CHILD PROTECTIVE SERVICE CUSTODY
- Of Course A Seattle Cat Lady Wants To Ban The Blue Angels
- AOL announces September shutdown for dial-up Internet after 34 years
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- RevCyberTrucker for the Cavalcade of Stupidity!
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