Did you remove your own upvote? You’re the first other person I’ve seen do that 😂

Yeah I also dislike faux meat… most of the time a falafel or some other normal vegetarian option is more delicious and healthy anyway. Damn I want a falafel yiros now

That’s a good motto; I try to do the same thing, to an extent. If I’m at a family Christmas party or wedding, I’ll eat some roast chicken. To refuse would be rude.

But also, I tend to find that if you acquiesce once, it’s too easy to become a habit. People will assume you’ve given up vegetarianism and serve you meat every time forever (in my experience, anyway). So I usually offend people on the first meal post-Christmas.

I read this interesting article that is somewhat related.

The strange thing is that the person griefing me was in no ways vegetarian and eats meat twice a day 😂 I didn’t take it too personally

That’s a good point. In my area we have a lot of Punjabi Sikh people from a specific sect (? not sure if correct word), so vegetarian is assumed to be lacto, with no eggs. I don’t know a lot about their religion, but it seems pretty strict. I’d imagine most of the world assumes eggs as well, it’s probably a local regional thing here.

They have some damn fine recipes too.

That really made me realise how important composition and consistency is to coherence. I had no idea where to look or what was going on when I suffered through a bit of the trailer. Things just kind of happened randomly around the stage and stuff kept changing between scenes

As a zebra patient… too many to list lol

But the one that stands out is my original POTS diagnostic test. They did something called a “tilt table test”. They strap you on a table like a torture film, literally head straps and everything, and then raise the table vertically. The idea is to see how well your body adapts to gravity.

Normally I have pretty good compensations for my condition. I’ve learnt specific ways to stand, lean, and hold my body so that my circulation works… not well, but decently. I can get up to make toast every now and then, stuff like that.

The table bypasses all that. Immediately I suffered extremely bad effects. I could feel all the blood draining from my brain and my body and pooling into my legs. Couldn’t breathe properly, vision going white, feeling absolutely horrible. I can’t accurately describe the feeling of all your blood leaving your vital organs. It felt extremely bad, I felt like I was dying. Like a cold shower on the inside, hollowness, pain.

Worst part was, I was too weak to even ask them to cancel the test, or move to remove the bindings myself. Turns out you need blood to do stuff like that. I was completely paralyzed.

The doctors were like “wow this is the worst POTS I’ve ever seen! Usually when people say they have POTS it turns out they don’t, but man… hey let’s show Larry” and they leave the room to go find Larry and show them the interesting POTS patient. I could barely see on the monitor my heart rate was 180bpm and my blood pressure was 80/40mmol, which is very bad. I eventually lost consciousness completely. As I passed out I accepted that I was going to die right there on the stupid table because nobody noticed the problem.

I didn’t die (obviously). I came to when I was horizontal on the table again and they were unstrapping me. No idea how long I was out for, but fuck that. Nobody told me it would be that bad. “A bit uncomfortable” my ass.

After all that, I got my diagnosis for severe POTS after 10 years of confusing symptoms. Now I have some medicine that helps it not be so severe, so I guess it was worth it in the end?

Illegal question detected. Deploy the downvotes

I’m a bit confused by this reply, sorry. We seem to agree? Or are you saying that the kings were good before getting the rings?

I kind of feel like the LOTR metaphor barely works in this thread context anyway, since they had a mind control element to them. Most people in power in reality seem to become evil perfectly fine without any mind control at all (that we know of).

It’s a self selecting position. Political positions reward the cutthroats, the ones who will make backroom deals and compromise their morals.

Kind and considerate people are rarely in power, and never for long. You will be replaced if you don’t “play the game”.

In the Lord of the Rings example, looking exclusively at humans here, only the lords were allowed to wear the rings of power. Hobbits and peasants were not given rings. Even the country town’s seventh prince, who would have made the ideal king, was not given a ring. Only the people already at the top, who already had to fight their brothers and sisters for succession of the throne, who were used to political games and dealing with the devil, got the rings. Of course they became evil; evil was already within them.

They’re like Navi but completely disassociated

I think some people have decided Velma’s username is “the place to settle the gender wars”. They make a lot of posts and are pretty famous. I wouldn’t be surprised if they have stalkers who follow every post, or at least the same people repeating the same opinions in different flavours. Usually some variation of “gender problems don’t exist” denial.

Makes sense to me, we already have systems similar to that with adrenaline and placebo. People are too quick to mix up “we can’t explain it (yet)” with “it doesn’t exist”.

The homeless situation in Paris is pretty extreme, at least it was when I visited in 2015

I tend to find dx11 over dx12 to be a more enjoyable Linux experience in general. My theory is that compatibility is still being worked on or something.

Oh shoot, was the “hmm” emoji real this whole time? 🤔 I think the people around me just got used to the blank thinking stare though.

The icon really does look like a bird poop

I got a “CouchMaster” desk thing for working from home. Works pretty well. It’s hard to setup an ergonomic couch though. It was very expensive for what it is though

Mmm, carbon monoxide flavour.

Edit: Downvote if you or someone you love has brain damage from chronic exposure 🥴 1 vote = 1 real safe stove for those in need

Bed no Breakfast