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Willow-girl t1_j77wsfr wrote

I worked for a school last year and was amazed by how much sugar we fed the kids. For instance, the chocolate milk was fat-free but pumped up with a full 5 teaspoons of sugar to make it palatable, and most kids drank a carton at breakfast (to wash down their funnel cakes or French toast sticks ... blargh) then another at lunch.

Pumping them full of sugar twice during the school day then expecting them to sit still and work quietly is a recipe for disaster IMO.

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bdone2012 t1_j77fwsm wrote

I'm not sure you were serious but from my little understanding, shorting stocks can be a bad idea. Normally when you buy a stock the theoretical worst case scenario is that it winds up worth nothing.

When you short a stock it's the opposite, meaning that theoretically it could go up indefinitely. I'm not sure exactly how the numbers work out but let's say you short Netflix and it somehow went up 10x you'd now owe a lot more money than the amount that you originally shorted them for.

So by accident you could potentially go into debt when you thought you were shorting for an amount that you could reasonably lose.

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SnooHedgehogs6593 t1_j77912w wrote

Yes, Michelle Obama did do this a few years ago. I am a teacher, and observed all the trays lined up on their tables at lunch with the vegetables, completely ignored. With few exceptions, most of the vegetables and healthy food got thrown out because the kids didn’t like to eat them. But, it was what they were used to from home.

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