diet talk is so inexpressibly nonsensical the instant you know anything about “the human body” or “nutrition” or if you think about it for three seconds
“this is a great, low-calorie meal for meal prep!”
okay how do I explain this to you. “calories” is the part of food that makes it food. you actually need calories to stay alive. so “low-calorie” is the opposite of a selling point. kind of makes it sound like I’m going to be putting in a lot of time and effort just to not be nourished
“I then immediately ruined the nutrition of the broccoli by pouring cheese all over it, but, hey, I tried”
okay hang on tight because this is a tough one. I’m going to try to explain the concept of “addition” to you. so the broccoli has a certain amount of calories, vitamins, and other nutrients in it, right? and the cheese has a certain amount of calories, vitamins, and other nutrients in it. and when you add the cheese to the broccoli, well… the nutrition of the resulting food can be found by adding the contents of both of its components to each other. I hope this helps
People who actually know about nutrition tell you to eat cheese and butter with your vegetables, because each has unique vitamins and minerals and other nutrients that your body struggles or straight up cannot absorb without something the other has. When you eat only raw veg because it’s “healthy,” you’re missing out on half its nutritive value because some of those nutrients require additional lipids or specific vitamins like vitamin A or D or E to be readily absorbed by your digestive tract and again to be used in different parts of your body. Dieting makes it so instead of just dumping out all your pieces in a pile and following the instructions you can build your flatpack shelf, it’s like placing each component in a different place in your house, and the shelf never gets built because you got tired of waking every time you needed something, so there it sits until one day you decide it’s garbage and throw it out. A little butter or olive oil and a quick stir fry turns your vegetables from expensive fiber supplements to bioavaliable nutrients. Have your berries with some cream or full-fat yogurt: it’s literally healthier and more complete nutrition. Put plenty of dressing on your salad. Have a steak: you need the iron. Stop starving yourself in the name of health because that’s not how that works.
pro censorship people are always like “actually I’m living proof that books can be really harmful to kids! when I was a child I read a book that upset me and of course I couldn’t talk to my parents about it because they would throw rocks at me whenever I confessed to reading anything but the Bible, so as you can see, that book was the source of my trauma and warped ideas about right and wrong”
it really is crazy that women’s clothes don’t fit anybody. fat women can’t find clothes, skinny women can’t find clothes, tall women can’t find clothes, short women can’t find clothes, big chested women can’t find clothes, small chested women can’t find clothes. who the fuck are these being made for
Thinking back to the good early days before my skin grew back when people could shake their heads at me and say “masks are a government conspiracy” and instead of navigating the bullshit like a normal person I could pull mine down and say “I have chemical burns on my face”
things people expect in a political confrontation:
Facts
Logic
Emotional outbursts
Things they are never prepared for:
Open sores
This post: “Thinking back to the good early days before my skin grew back”
the real answer to almost every “does [identity A] belong in [identity B] spaces” question is actually just “these spaces are informal social groups and if you’re cool you can hang, don’t worry about it”
You can be Homer Simpson at the lesbian bar. It’s fine. Don’t worry about it.
i had a twisted dream this morning when my alarm tried to wake me up where jeff goldblum said ‘Actually if you sleep a bit Longer you’ll have More time to get ready It’s called the Goldblum’s Law and it works just go back to sleep’ and i believed him and i overslept
“well some rape victims use noncon kink as a way to process their trauma”
“you know most age regressing kinksters were abused as children”
“bondage is really just a way to deal with control issues in people’s daily life”
actually I don’t think it’s very progressive to assign “morally good” justifications to kinks. actually having kinks and participating in kinks is morally neutral and that is the ground they should be defended on.
ALT
