exocrinous

joined 1 year ago
[–] exocrinous@startrek.website -1 points 1 year ago

Always has been, as someone with a grass allergy. I fucking hate grass and I hate touching it. No, getting the sniffles will not improve my mental health. But it might make me puke up my lunch, thanks to a little thing called a post-nasal drip caused by long covid.

Lawns aren't some great mental health boon. They're a symbol of petty bourgeois waste and excess pushed by the racist suburbs that invented them to keep black people out. TL;DR: grass is racist.

Also outside is where we trans people get hate crime'd. Fuck that place, and telling us to get off the internet is imo violent speech. The internet is the only place where many trans people are gendered correctly and allowed to be themselves. Lower internet use for trans people leads to higher suicide rate.

[–] exocrinous@startrek.website 1 points 1 year ago

Also what if someone wants to be fat? "No, you're not allowed to look how you want to look. You have to change your appearance to fit in because uhhhhhh you need to go produce more labour value for Capital.

Fuck that shit. It's fashy as hell. Also transphobic vibes tbh.

[–] exocrinous@startrek.website 1 points 1 year ago (12 children)

Nothing beats CI/CO ever, no excuses, nowhere in the universe. It's thermodynamics.

I got something that beats CICO. And it's called addressing your specific health concerns instead of just dieting.

You've got poor heart health? Cardio will help you more than fasting.

You've got diabetes? Limiting sugar intake will help you more than restricting everything.

You've got depression? Antidepressants or going outside will help you more than losing weight.

You've got a broken arm? Rest and a sling will help you more than losing weight.

HAES is about actually fucking treating your health problems at whatever size you're at, instead of blaming it on your weight and continuing to fail to lose weight.

CICO ain't worth shit if the patient can't lose weight. And if you're thinking "it's just a matter of willpower", well tough shit, people have limited willpower. And being sick doesn't help willpower either. It's way more likely for someone to get healthy at their current size, see a willpower increase, and then lose weight, than it is for a sick and suffering person to stick to a diet, lose weight, and then get healthy. HAES is about doing it the right way around, the way around that actually works.

[–] exocrinous@startrek.website 5 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

That's completely not true. Yes, dismantling capitalism is the most important thing we can do to reduce the impact. But you're using some really strong words there. If I ride my bike to work instead of taking a car for one day, that'll reduce the CO2 emitted by about a kilogram. That one kilogram might reduce the severity of some hurricane enough to save a life. And yeah, it probably won't. But what about a year of riding my bike? What about a lifetime? What about installing solar panels at my house? What about not taking a flight? What about eating a vegan diet? Put all that together, I can probably save a couple lives in my lifetime compared to if I just consoomed. And yeah, in between all that, I'm on the streets volunteering for anarchist orgs and building systems to dismantle capitalism.

But the way I see it, fighting capitalism is like trying to win the lottery. It probably won't work in my lifetime. It almost certainly won't stop the climate crisis in its tracks right now. Making these changes in my own life makes me a healthier person with more money and a lighter conscience, and it's guaranteed lives saved. So I'm gonna do both. I'm not gonna bet on achieving communism and only then going through the degrowth that's inevitable anyway. I'm going to degrow my own life right now, so at the very least I'm ready when the communist revolution is complete and it's time to ban cars, and if communism doesn't happen before I die, I can still say with certainty, "I was part of the solution".

[–] exocrinous@startrek.website 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

But that's not what's happening here. Blue is explicitly against telling Red what the problem is. You're changing the subject to a hypothetical nobody else is talking about. It feels like you just want to invent a scenario where people who empathize with Red have to feel bad about themselves. Did a Red hurt you?

[–] exocrinous@startrek.website 0 points 1 year ago

No, all pawns are trans. They can end up either as a queen or a knight.

[–] exocrinous@startrek.website 0 points 1 year ago

Okay so the lesson to learn from the mainstream success of StarCraft is to put sexy submissive and breedable murderous bugs in your game

[–] exocrinous@startrek.website 1 points 1 year ago

Work on a mine site and get used to waking up at 4:30 for a 5:30 start to the work day. Then sleep in.

[–] exocrinous@startrek.website 10 points 1 year ago (1 children)

"I don't have to worry about my financials or working a job, and all I have to do is marry a horrible man and accept the possibility of spousal rape", said the woman who doesn't yet understand how bad rape is.

[–] exocrinous@startrek.website 3 points 1 year ago

Mass Effect is one of those sci-fi series with only one fictional technology, and a whole lot of development on that, and on the stories that enables them to tell. And that fictional technology is the mass effect. In Mass Effect there's a fictional element called element 0, or eezo, that humans found out in space. Eezo can alter the mass of other objects when electrically stimulated. Eezo can give a spaceship negative mass and enable faster than light travel. It can reduce the mass of a bullet to almost zero as it's fired from the chamber of a gun, and return it to normal going at an extreme speed. It enables artificial gravity. Humans who are exposed to eezo can gain telekinetic powers. There's a community of aliens out there, and they also use eezo in their technology. There's a ton of politics, philosophical commentary, and secrets out in the galactic community and its history.

[–] exocrinous@startrek.website 3 points 1 year ago

There's a Snopes article. This is real. Also they sell PissCoin

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