thanks for the blanking. Seeing this go around elsewhere, wild how its still cool to openly shit on ND people

I don’t really care for the beyond meat type stuff. I’d take a portobello cap over it. But my fav would be a blackbeat/mushroom burger.

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Less cynically, good for her. I don’t care about her or her music (I’m very picky with my musical tastes), but like, get that bread

my primary problem with bg3 is I just hate all these fuckers. deeply unlikable cast of companions.

I did add some Dunder slop from my first run, which was mostly piloncillo

You are forgetting that it’s rum on account of me calling it rum

(but fr, you are absolutely correct)

The profound alienation our society inflicts hurts everyone. Shouldn’t be surprising the cruelty and exploitation shown to the the psychotic in particular, but somehow it always is. I’m sure its said by a lot of minorities, but it feels at times like we’re one of the few that its still seen as ‘okay’ to dunk on, even in ‘leftist’ spaces (luckily, the Hexxed Bear has been pretty good about this).

his-and-hers sinks give big ‘wife bad’ energy. Everyone I know who wants them is a guy who complains about how much space his wife’s make-up and hair products take up. (source: I’ve spend a fair bit of time working in custom home construction) The stuff rich people prioritize for their houses is nuts to me.

I feel like its everywhere. Like, scrolling other social media, there’s just, constant thirst traps, horny ass art, conversation topics that are thirsty as hell. Photos with just, a girl doing cosplay or another hobby are full of people harassing her.

Some of the above things are ‘fine’, others aren’t. Like, idk if people want to post and discuss their fetish art. But its all very gross to me, and I want to stay far away from it. I don’t have any desire to talk about sexual content with anyone other than my partner.

Oh rad, glad I could inspire you! I’m just about to fully crack my own open; I’ve been traveling, these past 2 weeks, though I did sneak a taste before I left, and thought it was great.

I really like this recipe, largely because I’m allergic to nuts, so this, and silken tofu-based cheese, are the only two I’ve found that I can make/have. But that goat-cheese like tang is something I like, that I’d been kinda missing.

Maybe this is judging by its cover, but Alan Wake 1 and 2 both seem, not my speed? They seem very ‘cinematic’, in a way I don’t like. Emphasis on cutscenes, acting, campiness, etc. Which like, aren’t objectively bad qualities, but I just don’t like ‘movie-like’ content myself, idk why, but it doesn’t work for me.

I had heard so many good things about Control, and was left very disappointed.

Mostly from a gameplay side; I found the ‘shooting’ boring, to the point of killing all fun and momentum the game had for me. Not even on a ‘difficulty’ front, its just the constant waves of pissants everywhere you go all the time sucks.

The story was ‘cool’, in that it had vibes, and some of the side content was great (like the Doctor Darling tapes and such). The actual writing/plot was pretty basic videogame stuff, which is to say fine in the context of ‘games’ and bad in the context of ‘all writing’.

Overall, I did not finish, making it like halfway through I think? Before just watching the rest of the cutscenes on youtube. Which, I suppose, me feeling compelled to do even that is a point in its favor, that I was invested enough to want to know.

Disagree, that’s not what hard science means, nor can it be isolated in such a way for a lot of people.

I don’t agree.

Your second paragraph is true, yes. Though, I’d frame it more around ‘health’ than ‘weight’. I’m not saying ‘weight’ has no impact on health, but the health is the important part of the equation to focus on (and, even there, ‘health’ can be a dog-whistle for fatphobia sometimes). It’s that focus of ‘fat=bad’ that is the ‘concern trolling’. You don’t need to ‘fix fatness’, you need to fix all those other problems.

Its not a ‘poisoned well’ if someone is telling people their weight needs to be fixed pisses people off (even if it’s framed as not their fault!), and it is understandable that others find such comments to read as concern trolling.

That’s so vague to be useless though. Many people that struggle to lose weight, the ‘problem’ isn’t the physics of it. It’s the mental aspects, of appetite and craving, and the socioeconomic aspects, of time, money, attention, what food is available at what distance, price, and effort.

And, when eating fewer calories can make their bodies go into ‘starvation mode’, burning fewer baseline calories and making any physical exertion exhausting if not impossible, it is insulting to say ‘CICO!’

I don’t understand how the first part disagrees with what I said? Many body builders do estimate it close enough to be useful, yes. But, it’s still estimates. We have no way of tracking things like ‘basal metabolic rate’, and how that might change over time and under different conditions (which, isn’t to say it can’t be estimated). If you are working out or doing physical labor to a large degree, like body builders and professional athletes do, you can make those basal calories and their fluctuations basically negligible, able to be left as just a line item. When professional bodybuilders are eating 5000 calories a day, yeah, deviations in ‘background calories’ don’t really matter.

I don’t want to discount the math pros do as unimpressive, or not useful. But there’s a lot of it that is ‘napkin math’, figured out second or third hand, from the data that is able to be tracked accurately.

but I don’t think the ‘average person’ is expected to work out for 6 hours a day, nor would they likely be capable.

Calorie tracking can be useful for some people, yes.

but, that’s not the same as CICO. We cannot know nor control actual calories in and actual calories out. Anything we do to estimate them is just that, an estimate. Sure, for some people, those estimates are close enough to be useful. But to bandy CICO around as an absolute is insulting. Unless CICO can be actually measured, it’s simply not an absolute rule in any useful sense.

And, its also pretty insulting to say for ‘most of us’ CICO is the only way to regulate body weight, when that’s not really true. There are many many other ways of losing weight outside of tracking or caring about CICO. Yes, technically, at the end of the day, it must be because of CICO, but like, why should we care enough to track that, when we can’t accurately track that?

CICO is true. But, it’s not useful; we can’t measure the actual calories your body absorbs, the actual calories your body burns, nor can we control them. Yes, some actions influence it, but there’s many, many reason why ‘eating 200 fewer calories and exercising 200 calories worth of work a day’ may not lead to 400 calories worth of ‘fat loss’.

Ozempic’s most important aspects seems to be its effect on the brain (not to say its effect on digestion are unimportant). See the research showing Ozempic helping people with the gambling addictions.

Does anyone suggest being overweight causes no issues? I don’t think they do. (well, I’m sure some people do, cause anyone will say anything, but I don’t think its a widespread view)

I think the argument is A) the issues are exaggerated and over policed, B) we celebrate some other unhealthy behaviors (such as some aspects of weightlifting and professional sports, and some ED among the celebrity/model crowd), and C) so what if being overweight causes issues? Its not your body

Yes, I agree, sorry if I didn’t make that clear or condemn it strongly enough. It is a generally harmful way to frame things.

My point was just that it is ‘fundamentally true’, and I don’t think anyone disputes the core physics of it. The dispute is about its practical applications and usefulness (which, again, is that it is impractical and harmful).