ugly bag of mostly water
don’t keep sweatin’ what I do 'cause I’m gonna be just fine
I’ve always loved that quote. Also this beast:
And we get a little further from perfection
Each year on the road
I think that’s called ‘character’; I think that’s
Just the way it goes
But it’s better to be dusty than polished like some
Store window mannequin
Won’t you touch me where I’m rusty
Let me stain your hands
Not even hamberders?
Oh jesus fucking christ I have hoodies older than this kid.
A directory of DOGE workers and their email addresses.
But doesn’t the starter take like 3 weeks?
It takes me an hour to make pizza from scratch at home. I’ll grant it’s messy but it’s pretty easy!
Yeah probably some pimple-faced DOGE kid who never learned about the Enola Gay because their school systems were underfunded and they’re too young to remember OMD.
I don’t mean to be belligerent, but what made you think that?
I’m intrigued, what movie is this?
Hey fellow Philadelphian! I’m originally from New Jersey but have lived in and around Philly since the late '90s.
I like the Citizen of Earth concept too. We’re all human and borders are just lines on a map!
Break out of frames!
His crybaby blubbering “I like beer” temper tantrum is pretty disqualifying IMO
I’m late Gen X. When we were younger, women shaving at least the lips and bikini line, plus trimming down the rest, was normal. I don’t think a lot of women my age went fully hairless most of the time, but having a brazilian now and again was pretty normal. Men either didn’t do any grooming or trimmed things down a bit, but didn’t generally go fully hairless. As we got older more hair crept back in. I guess to me, hairlessness is associated with kids (by which i mean like 18 year olds to mid-twenties - people way too young for me to fuck at this point), and I think hair is sexy. I don’t think I’d do a brazilian at this point - I prefer at least some hair. I do still prefer the lips and bikini line to be bare, but that entails annoying upkeep and itchy stubble, so I usually only do it every other week and let it grow in a bit.
I guess what we find attractive changes as we age.
Little bit of A, a fuckload of B.
I’m guessing something like “good morning”, assuming the “Ra” refers to the Egyptian sun god.
Gotdamn I love Bernie. You can see he really, like actually cares.
Renals in jeanals
Wall of text incoming.
I’m empathetic, and I don’t believe in the concept of sin.
I think it’s about harm reduction. In your example, a single mother who deprioritizes health in favor of work is probably trading long-term harm reduction (aging healthily) for short-term harm reduction (putting food on the table and a roof over her kids’ heads). But she’s also causing both short- and long-term harm by teaching her kids by example not to take care of their health. Part of her responsibility is teaching her kids to take good care of themselves. It’s much easier to grow up with a mindset of health than to develop one in adulthood!
Of course we can’t look down on people with depression, but we can at least acknowledge that if they’re not looking after their mental or physical health, they’re falling down on the job and probably making things worse for themselves. I get it. I went through some awful shit in my early twenties, and was deeply depressed and skyrocketed from 105 lbs to 177 in a pretty short time. I was obese and in poor physical health, and this was worsening my depression. I had a moral responsibility to fix myself, and it took years, but I did.
I am a million percent in favor of suicide, assisted or not, because nobody who desperately wants to die should be forced to live.
Health is temporary and usually accidental at best.
Respectfully, I think this is a sad, defeatist mindset. Sure, you can still wind up unhealthy even if you do all the healthy behaviors (e.g., breast cancer), but there are still obvious benefits to healthy behaviors. If health is truly temporary, then I’d like to do everything I can to prolong my “temporary” good health. And honestly the idea that health is “usually accidental at best” flies in the face of loads of medical research. Our lifestyles and our choices do impact our health. We can help lower our cholesterol by reducing saturated fat intake. We can help prevent Type II diabetes by limiting our sugar intake. We can stave off joint deterioration by maintaining a healthy weight. We can protect our mobility as we age through stretching and exercise. There are definitely things that are out of our control (e.g., chronic illness or severe disease like cancer), but there’s also a whole lot that we can control, and I think we all have an obligation to try.
Something about that word irks me and I’m not sure why.