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you could look at local CSAs (community supported agriculture) and get a local, unprocessed source of meat that way if you’re committed to meat
but in general meat is shown to be unhealthy, associated with higher risks of colon cancer, etc. (I need to fact check this, but I think the big picture advice is aligned with most medical associations’ suggestions that a plant based diet is much healthier and reduces health risks).
+1 for tofu! Seitan lunch meat is pretty tasty, too!
theoretically you could try a vegan version of egg and bacon sandwiches - Just Egg frozen patties aren’t half bad, and seitan bacons sometimes are OK
not sure if the idea is that you’re trying to reduce fats?
and fuck company towns
haha, yes - exactly! At least I got that reference, xkcd is pretty well known, though.
you might need to provide more context, what do you mean by mythology?
thank you for letting me in on the joke 😄
and for catching my error!
yeah, it’s funny how my brain collapsed the boolean check into if (role) rather than if (role === true) - that’s tricky
what is FILE_NOT_FOUND? I can’t find much on it …
I think the comic was supposed to inspire you to initiate a communist revolution 😄 for the cool shoes we will make, of course
oo, this reminds me of one of my favorite Existential Comics!
https://existentialcomics.com/comic/263
if it’s 'FILE_NOT_FOUND' then the string will be read as truthy and you will get 'User is admin' logged.
they don’t have similar features, do they?
rsync is like a robust cp in a way, while syncthing is a full UI that allows you to connect devices and share folders between them without a third party server; the comparison class to syncthing are cloud sync apps like dropbox or Google Drive, not a command-line tool like rsync.
do you have a gofundme or way people can send you funds, have you considered posting on mutual aid communities?
It’s not weak or abnormal to feel overwhelmed in these conditions, give yourself grace and stay pragmatic if you can - when overwhelmed, I sometimes just try to think of what next pragmatic step I can take. Often times the despair leaks in when I feel there is nothing I can do, and staying focused on a task that takes me in the right direction often helps me cope by distracting me from the despair (and sometimes restoring a sense of agency).
Movies, tv shows, browsing the internet, reading a book, playing an instrument. Honestly, making a complicated dinner is how I fill a lot of weekend afternoon / weekends, and when I feel like having a drink while doing it, I usually just get a non-alcoholic wine or beer, it fills that fun vibe without making me feel like shit later.
This sounds a bit related to David Graeber’s concept of “Bullshit Jobs”.
Honestly, desire is a justification on its own. If you have limited resources, then it’s really about whether you can afford to prioritize those desires or not. For those with enough money, desire is enough of a reason to justify a purchase.
Without enough money, the question is whether the desire outweighs other more practical ways that money could be spent. When I was depressed sometimes I would make irrational spending choices because it helped me feel good and even helped me pretend I was not as poor as I actually was, by spending the money irrationally I could create the illusion of having more money than I had. This was a dangerous game, though.
That all makes sense, desiring looking at something beautiful or attractive.
Re envy: that’s interesting, so you would like to be able to be like women in that you would like to be able to be beautiful, delicate, desirable and so on?
I think some men can be considered beautiful and desirable - I’m sure women would describe men like Pedro Pascal as being beautiful and desirable 😅 But I hear what you mean that in general women are seen as desired and men as the one desiring, in a sense. I think that’s largely social, though I do think estrogen does create traits that we might see as beautiful, such as soft skin, for example.
I guess I wonder if you have any examples of beautiful, delicate, or desirable men, and whether you would prefer to be that, or if you could press a button if you would just choose to have been born a woman instead?
That’s interesting, why do you think in video games you want to play a pretty character that can wear gorgeous outfits?
yeah, this is pretty ironic - nobody trains their dog to fear men, dogs learn to fear men because of the way some men behave 🤦♀️