Literally never. What the fuck?
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I had this one the other day, and it was even political
My rule is that if you intend to touch the butter/spread/sticky stuff with a utensil, that utensil cannot touch the bread. You just drop the portion on the bread from a height until you think there's enough to cover it, and then you can spread it with that utensil, but if you need to revisit the jar, you need another fresh utensil.
You can't get crumbs in there if there's no cross contamination from the equipment to begin with!
You get better at estimating over time, but having one extra piece of cutlery to wash occasionally is less infuriating than unexpected stale crumbs and food that spoils more quickly from the contaminating yeasts and other organisms.
It's very easy to cast ableist accusations at imaginary scenarios.
Nobody is suggesting the word is erased from the dictionary or existing literature be modified. We're suggesting that it is more efficient communication to choose words which communicate our intended meaning instead of incorporating unintended additional anachronistic connotations. There are plenty of existing choices that are just as easily understood, we don't even need to invent new ones.
It's the same reason I no longer call cigarettes "fags" - and that actually has a different etymology to the slur, whereas "mankind" is inherently based on the gendered word "man". It's just not worth it to have to actively disambiguate the meaning, especially to someone who has some associated memories of being bullied for their sexuality.
People may not say a word with negative intentions, but when you are excluded for irrelevant historical reasons that imply you're not worth considering, it's noticeable. If you think that's not the case, walk into your next work meeting and greet them only with "Hello, ladies."
Intention and perceived intention are conveyed by the words we choose, it makes sense to be intentionally unambiguous.
Traditional homonyms reinforce ingrained cultural stereotypes.
Nobody in the right mind would argue that the word "mankind" means only male part of humanity.
Perhaps not, but it does support the outdated tradition of considering the male gender to be the "default person". This has had many lasting negative consequences, in areas ranging from scientific research to product design.
Oof. I have a different musculoskeletal problem with a far less interesting story behind it, but functionally a quite similar limitation that also prevents much... verticality. I completely hear you on the mindless zombie complications too, it's fucking awful. I'm sorry we have both found ourselves in this shitty boat!
The meal makes good sense. 30 mins is a fair bit though, so I can see why you space it our that far.
If you ever feel like something a little different, maybe one of my tricks might help you. I order delivery... but I extend it out by nuking potatoes and frozen vegetables. A potato the size of my fist takes 3 mins 30 in my microwave, broccoli and spinach similar from frozen. The tinned tomatoes I buy are also a "heat up and add flavors" quick option because they're not watery.
One curry from my local Indian place that has way too much sauce turns into 3 meals with a much better nutritional balance when I dump any or all of those in. They're done before the food even arrives, i don't have to watch an appliance with a flame, or clean much, and the cost per portion reduces to something sensible.
opioids made me intolerant to dairy,
TIL that's a thing. I just have to ration mine to a ridiculous degree at a low dosage or i get the more common peristalsis problems in a very unpleasant way.
I’m managing the rollercoaster ride to make the ups and downs as tolerable as I can.
Amen. And I wish you the best of luck in doing so.
Can I ask how this particular meal works with your limitations? I have strategies I've had to implement too, so I'm always interested in how others manage.
In Australia, it's not too uncommon to hear people have conversations about how fucked the US system is. That's partly a symptom of how intertwined my life is with the topic of medicine and healthcare systems though, I'm sure most people have far fewer discussions about those topics than I do.
Having said that, I have certainly said "Thank God I'm not in the US" and received emphatic agreement in conversations.
I've also had a doctor say "well at least you're not in the US" to me during an appointment, after I expressed some displeasure at how much something was going to cost me - because i wasn't considered a valid demographic for that specific drug to receive the subsidy.
Socialised medicine doesn't mean free medicine, sadly. And our system has been run down by the ruling class attempting to emulate the US version's money-churning machine.
Do you mean your iliac furrows, also known as an "Adonis Belt"? Some people work hard for years to define them with workouts.
What makes you think that I thought circumcision was OK? And fo you understand in what ways sterilisation and circumcision are not medically equivalent procedures in terms of risk and recovery?
This is one of those if you wouldn’t be happy it happening to yourself you shouldn’t consider it for others.
Would undergoing a medical procedure without your consent also qualify?
31 US states and Washington, D.C. have laws allowing forced sterilization of disabled people. It just needs a judge to sign the order.
Perhaps if we consider slavery as more of a spectrum, like we do other kinds of abuse, then economic coercion still fits the definition.
One person being denied medical care, working inhumane lengths of time in hard labor for almost no money, being unable to access different forms of work and being beaten is clearly slavery, as you've identified. But that doesn't mean the person who is experiencing all of that, but only without being beaten, is not experiencing slavery. It just makes it a (possibly) less severe form of slavery.
If the key difference between a fast food worker living in rural wherever who can't access healthcare, doesn't have a choice to move or change jobs etc. and a slave is immediate physical violence... perhaps we need to revisit the definition of "slavery" or of "employment" or both. Dying a slow death from homelessness and poverty due to systemic inequity isn't actually a hugely better deal than a fast death at the hands of one person. In some cases it may even be worse because the suffering lasts much longer.
You assume that people who are unemployed can access help and resources, I'm not sure that the reality on that widely reflects people's experiences, depending on their location.
So many. I like music and I like languages so when there are lyrics there's a good chance it's not English.
- Dead can dance - The Host of Seraphim - moody female vocals with backing instruments and synth that resembles religious sad hymns (not even in a real language)
- 王菲 Faye Wong《四月雪 April Snow - melancholy mandarin pop from 2003
- Hocico - Ecos - Mexican electro-industrial on the aggressive side
- Juno Reactor - Conquistador (part 1 and 2) - technically 2 songs, in Latin, Spanish and I think Xhosa. Same person who did the music from the matrix, these are sort of a musical interpretation of South American history
- Sepultura - Ratamahatta - Brazilian metal
- All about Lily Chou-Chou OST - Arabesque(アラベスク) - fictional band with female vocals, beautiful melancholy song in Okinawan
- Fly, Fly My Sadness - The Bulgarian Voices Angelite with Huun-Huur-Tu and Moscow Art Trio - Mongolian throat singers (if you've never heard this technique, it's incredible and unlike anything else, this song isn't the best example though, search for huun huur tu videos) and an ethereal Bulgarian choir.
- The Mirror Conspiracy ft. LouLou - Le Monde - French lyrics, chillout downtempo electronic
- Björk - Úm Akkeri - Icelandic version of her song The Anchor Song
- Yothu Yindi - Djäpana (Sunset Dreaming) - a classic 1989 Australian song in Yolŋu and English. Not my favourite but I wanted to have the continent represented here.
- Thievery Corporation - Satyam Shivam Sundaram - another downtempo chillour from the same group, this time in Hindi
- Daler Mehndi - Tunak Tunak Tun - too catchy not to mention, Punjabi pop, hilariously cheesy video clip
There are so many more. I didn't even touch Caribbean patois or Arabic or Polynesian languages etc. I'm very big on global music though, especially with a strong beat and lyrical themes on anti-colonialism...
It's a reference to one of the most culturally important stories in Buddhist countries. Not knowing about it is like consuming English media without knowing anything about Shakespeare's plays.
The English name is Journey to the West and the monkey is Sun Wukong in Chinese or Son Goku in Japanese. You might notice the main character in Dragon Ball Z has the same name, but the monkey king is referenced constantly in all sorts of Eastern media. The synopsis and main characters sections in that Wikipedia link will give you the general idea, but I would recommend reading or watching any of the versions to get a better understanding of the vibe.
Your metaphor is basically just calling them arrogant and reckless, lacking a good strategy and rushing in to things.
Thanks friend, I really do appreciate it. I'm still one of the much luckier ones at the end of the day, even if I'm having no fun being one.
It has been exceptionally frustrating to become someone who gets treated with suspicion by pro-science people though. Even though my statistical insignificance puts me in the company of literally millions of others, ~there are many millions more who really did make bad choices that warrant some suspicion.~ (Edit: Actually no, I've changed my mind. Nobody deserves the suspicion at all.)
Yes, I'm very aware of my statistical insignificance that causes everyone to assume I did something to deserve long term consequences of covid. Between the antivaxxers who scowl at me for wearing a mask the rare times i dare be in public, the extreme pro-vaxxers who ask increasingly invasive medical questions to find a reason that I must have done this to myself, society leaving me to rot now they've all moved on because the vaccines solved everything, and the doctors telling me they have no strategies for me because there isn't enough research... I promise that I haven't forgotten that I'm the tiny and easily dismissable minority, despite my covid-triggered amnesia.
People always remind me of it when I don't fit their narrative of the irresponsible or gullible fool who bought into the anti-science grift or flouted restrictions. Perhaps it's because it's more comforting to remind themselves that it's improbable that they will also end up as one of the forgotten. At least, for now, until the ridiculously contagious and quickly mutating virus happens to not play nicely with their own latent medical issues and unknown genetic errors.
I'm sorry your friend was deceived by the propaganda that the vaccine was worse than the disease. And I'm sorry that you blame them for being deceived instead of understanding that fear causes people to make poor choices.
I got long covid after 4 timely boosters. It blows that people assume we don't exist.
Agreed, plus some red wine and mushrooms. I'm thinking a quasi coq-au-vin would work well
Obligatory link to the very old meme version: https://yewtu.be/watch?v=OXuLRqiiKYI