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Cake day: June 10th, 2023

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  • now all i can imagine is a scene in monty python and the holy grail where torbjorn from overwatch dressed in python-esque drag emerges from a sad little pond holding the sword, covered in various plants and detritus, and looking like a completely normal person.
    Meanwhile everyone else treats her with reverence, like she’s radiating dignity.



  • Yeah one of the things that made me hate tesla early on is their refusal to make anything other than standard oversized cars, like for fuck’s sake they even keep the front bit and put a storage area in it, that’s absurd!

    And really it’s a general problem with the vehicle market, including micromobility. We need more stuff that’s between moped and bicycle, and stuff that’s between car and motorbike.
    America has a more decent selection of sub-moped options, and europe at least has a couple brands of moped cars but they… have a distinct hot-wheels vibe which doesn’t exactly inspire confidence…

    And i think we’ve seen evidence of how much demand there is for these in-between vehicles, e-bike and e-scooters have exploded in popularity.




  • obligate <whatever> doesn’t mean you can’t eat other things, it just means that’s the vast majority of the diet. Cats are obligate carnivores but very much enjoy eating some grass now and then, and when catching things in the wild i assume they’ll end up eating the stomach contents of their prey (which will be plant matter).
    And of course there’s those infamous clips of herbivores casually eating meat, because food is food. (they just won’t eat a lot of it, because that would make them sick). It’s like how we can eat a couple strands of grass, but if we try to make it a regular part of our diet we’ll get constipation.



  • I’ve specifically tried to get in touch with my body’s feedback over the past few years, and i’m 100% convinced that the ability to sense what nutrients you get from food and then want that food when you need those nutrients, is a fundamental thing to any animal that can actively seek out specific foods.

    My recommendations to get in touch with this ability is to limit snacking and try to get as hungry as possible before eating (so you have a chance to calibrate yourself, feel the difference between eating things out of habit vs actually craving them) and to try as many foods as possible even if you think you don’t like them, in as many different ways of preparation as possible.

    There are so many things i thought i didn’t like until i tried them in a specific way, and there are many things i thought i liked but i’ve realized it was a very surface-level enjoyment. These days when i follow my cravings i’m filled with a borderline spiritual feeling of well-being, the food really feels like it’s good for me (and that includes desserts/sweets, because i’m very specific about which ones i like and how much of them i eat).





  • A big part of it is that you have to walk back home, so a 15 minute walk is actually a 30 minute commitment at the minimum just to buy some snacks.

    I think we need to make a distinction between “possible to walk” and “walking is the default”. A 30 minute walk to work with a grocery store on the way is doable but you’re not gonna find many people doing it, plus factors like how enjoyable the environment is affects whether you’ll actually want to walk.