stray @ stray @pawb.social

Posts

6

Comments

453

Joined

6 mo. ago

Everything being said on both sides in those screenshots doesn't really mean much to me without data to show it's actually the case.

My personal feeling is that I don't care to own most games in the first place and would be happy getting them all from the library the same way I do with books. Without Gamepass I wouldn't have played things like Payday 3 or Grounded in the first place because I won't purchase them. The alternative for me is piracy.

I don't agree with characterizing being robbed from as not a big deal, especially when it's as physically intimate as pickpocketing.

Maybe it's no big deal to lose a bit of money if you're rich, but I would be truly fucked to lose my phone or wallet, and more than inconvenienced to lose money or objects which would need to be replaced with money.

But more than that is the sense of violation. What gives someone the right to come into my home or put hands on my body and take my personal things? It's dehumanizing. It feels disgusting to be treated that way. Of course I'm going to defend myself.

That's ableist.

It's fine if people come in to learn about it though, right? I think a lot of people like myself can't get diagnosed for various reasons, or maybe they just have a loved one who has ADHD. I think it's better to say that if you're going to be ableist about it, you can keep your mouth shut.

That's why you set up code ahead of time. Gestures are especially useful for nonverbal communication.

I put the phrase in quotes to indicate the meaning of treating someone poorly. Treating animals poorly is not appropriate.

But my point is that animals should not be treated "like animals" either. They should be included in the social contract and afforded a basic minimum of respect and autonomy, not enslaved and exploited.

Why?

Isn't similarly militant and self-righteous when someone feels this way about trans rights or abolishing slavery?

It is demonstrably true that life on a planet alters the conditions of the planet (which then alters the life, etc). Most glaring is the abundance of oxygen in our atmosphere. We don't look for oxygen on other planets because oxygen is necessary for life; we look for oxygen because it's unlikely to exist in high densities without life to produce it.

The sci-fi novel Death's End by Cixin Liu (third in a series) further suggests that life alters the universe rather than just local systems, which was a fun idea. He's a rather long-winded author, but he's easy to forgive.

That said, this is the first time I'm hearing of the hypothesis by name, so I can't be sure what all it says. A quick skim lines up with reality though.

It's always crazy to me to be reminded that people were doing so well in the past that they could be this obese, and I wonder if it really was a paradise or if there were enough downsides to justify the way we do things now.

I need this on my fridge.

Similar experience for me with the Babadook. It illustrates that you will never be rid of your mental problems and trauma, that trying to be cured or normal is a fool's errand. They're things you'll have to deal with forever, and the more you confront them the less they'll control you.

It's not only the caloric density, but also the actual makeup of the food. The bacteria species that live inside us are determined by what we feed them, and they heavily influence our feelings/behavior and body composition. Simply burning more calories with the wrong diet is an uphill battle.

I'm pretty sure I already signed this, but I'm concerned it might be a newer thing than the one I signed. Is there a way for me to check?

Literally thought DarkSydePhil had some kind of redemption arc for a second.

i tem dog :3

the third straight day

Are you counting how long it takes until you're bi, or...?

Pretty much every mental diagnosis that exists is a case of something completely normal which presents in too extreme (or too muted) a fashion in the given individual. The criteria for diagnosis isn't just whether you experience X, but whether X has a significant negative impact on your life.

https://world.openfoodfacts.org/

Any calorie tracker is basically a spreadsheet though. It's just packaged in a nicer UI, and you get to skip a lot of setup. Manually entering new foods is probably the least fussy part.