Thank you for your kind correction, internet stranger! I feel super silly making this error and it serves to prove I need to rewatch asap.

Their bank accounts and political ideology datapoints were, I guarantee it.

I wonder this exact thing, given that soil is a living organism full of beneficial bacteria and other organic materials. The food we eat consumes it, takes what it needs, and then we do the same.

I find it also interesting that while the article claims this is a cultural thing vs. being done for heath benefits, I’d argue it became cultural because of a universal understanding of health benefits.

Now I’m not saying this is some long lost concept that is the missing key to fix all our ills, however I can see how consuming soil was an integral part of maintaining gut health and boosting immunity way before we understood how those systems work.

The Secret of NIMH!!! This movie was intense when I was a kid, and one of my nostalgic faves as an adult.

I was a kid-tween during the ‘husky’ era and can tell you it never implied athleticism in the slightest.

It was a nice word for ‘chubby’, cos marketing.

They practically have already, without using the word ‘Democrat’. Read the EO from Sept 2025 where anyone who isn’t pro-Capitalism, pro-Christian, pro-nuclear family, pro-Fascist, and pro-American hegemony was declared an enemy of the State.

No really, read it and ask yourself who it describes and why. I know I recognized more than enough to know where I stand when I read it.

Common threads animating this violent conduct include anti-Americanism, anti-capitalism, and anti-Christianity; support for the overthrow of the United States Government; extremism on migration, race, and gender; and hostility towards those who hold traditional American views on family, religion, and morality.

Hmm. Turns out living your life fearing what you don’t understand, refusing to learn about anything new and double down on your own ignorance, and carrying a heart full of hatred that doubles in weight every time you step outside or turn to entertainment is a really unhealthy and even fatal way to live.

I can only imagine how chronically raised blood pressure and brain + body pickled by constant fear and anger (stress, really) wreaks havoc on the system and is a big factor in the exacerbation of health issues that become fatal much faster.

Fear is fatal, acceptance transcends. We’re all going to die, but if you’re going to ‘live’ your life in constant fear and anger you’re not going to make it very long.

It’s wild what leaves its mark on us, and how the subconscious speaks to our bodies before we’re even aware. I’m sorry you have to deal with this regardless.

Yeah I definitely didn’t think it through, because too small lol.

I too suffered the graphite mark and even had it transfer to my face via scratching an itch. Very embarrassing as a kid!

I also had a tough time with spiral notebooks, markers, and craft scissors.

I experienced crushing grief as a teen during Spring, and for about a decade later my mental health and general perspective took a dark and negative turn as Winter gave way to Spring. Every bright sunny morning, every time I smelt wet earth being warmed by the sun, fresh cut grass and the sound of mowers, hell even the first bits of birdsong and the little extra bounce in everyone’s steps haunted and even mocked me as it all felt so incongruous to the dark hole of grief I’d been thrown into.

It got to the point where I knew Spring was coming by the sudden awareness of a growing pit of impending doom in my stomach. You know, that hollow, icy feeling like something really awful has happened but you can’t quite remember yet? Or like when you were a kid and you just knew you were about to be in big trouble but your parents haven’t come home yet? That’s the feeling. And it would grow with each sunny warm day that felt exactly like the ones that changed my life forever.

I once saw a documentary about Schizophrenia, and one of the people with Schizophrenia that was featured was riding in a car looking out the window and said the sun was laughing at him. I think I know how he felt.

Anyone still reading this: I’m fine now, this was a long time ago. I garden now and Spring has become my favorite season. I’m deeply grateful to have come full circle.

Idk about smug, but I do see where you’re coming from.

It’s entirely pointless and definitely irritating to keep hearing ‘when I was in charge we did things differently’ when the bar is as low as it is right now. It does not help, and clearly serves the ego of the speaker. To say as a leader that you did things ‘better’ back then is low hanging fruit and an incredibly poor and patronizing attempt at continuing your role as a leader. Waxing nostalgic about your time as leader does absolutely fuck all to help us out of this, which you of all people have more power than any of us to do. Otherwise this is what it is: lip service and an easy ‘gimme’ he thinks we side with him on.

Don’t get me wrong: he alone cannot pull us out of this, and I agree he indeed contributed to the eventuality we now call reality.

This reminds me of when my cat would stretch really big in the middle of a nap and fall back asleep right in the middle of the stretch, moving in slow motion back to the pre stretch position. I’d pet him softly as he curled back into a ball, and he’d do this light sigh with a purr rumble.

I miss him so much.

I’ve been thinking of this too.

Don’t doubt for one second that the consumer will foot the difference, every time.

Same with eggs here. They’re still higher than before they were astronomical, but not by much.

And likely thrice, at that.

At least when and if this is ever over, researchers will have a literal goldmine of data on mass psychosis and the effects of a nationwide death cult on society to research.

I’ve thought of this so many times and I agree with you.

As we’ve essentially homogenized human society and the roles required to sustain said society, we (neurodivergents) have indeed become less and less fit for the environment we’ve chosen to make.

I once heard this great take on neurodiversity’s role in creating groups of people with ‘specialized’ functions that served the larger group as a whole (I’m taking pre-modern/hunter gatherer tribes). What we call neurodivergence was simply a brain wired to complement or even enhance neurotypical brain functions and vice versa. The brain was evolving to become as diverse as the rest of our bodies, as equity helps ensure survival.

The way I see it, we are like puzzle pieces that fit together to make each other stronger as a unit. We are not simple shapes that one stacks together in an attempt to make structure. I’m sure there’s a much better analogy out there, but this is what my mind has been working on for some time now.

Holy shit, I’m so sorry your dad went through that. Like how is smashing a child’s hand less of a problem than that child using their ‘other’ hand to write?

Honestly, I’d really like to know what people were so concerned with. All I ever heard was ‘it’s not the correct way’, and the only evidence my mind can stretch to support this is based on the fact that sure, it’s a right handed world and certain things are more efficiently and even safely used with a right hand. I’ve also heard a few cultural reasons regarding cleanliness but these are from cultures far removed from mine and obv never given as an actual reason (to me directly) why using one’s right hand over their left is preferred.

Idk shit like this and many other examples just remind me of how quickly others turn to control and rigidity when faced with something they don’t understand/doesn’t ‘fit’ into their mental presets. This post officially has me in my feelings this morning.

Ah since some of us are sharing our childhood experiences with being left handed:

I am ambidextrous, like many lefties. While learning to write my letters in Kindergarten (age 5 for non-US peeps), my teacher noticed that I’d switch hands when the one writing got tired. She didn’t like this at all and kept telling me that I needed to choose one. She actually made quite a stink about it so I chose my left, idk why the left specifically.

I still write with my left, despite trying to retrain back to writing with both at different times in my life. I feel like a mini superpower was taken from me.

Interestingly enough, I’ve noticed that my large motor skills are best used with my right side (arm, leg, hand), and my small motor skills with the left. I think it’s a leftover from being truly ambidextrous, or it may be common amongst left handed people. Idk…the very few others I’ve asked seem to be left handed/sided exclusively.

Aaah mannnnnn don’t get me started on Kaitlyn’s plastic surgery, and of course Rob’s bothers me too. Funnily enough Glen’s doesn’t bother me because well…Dennis. He’s all about demonstrating that value.

Luckily, I’ve noticed in the last couple of seasons it appears they’ve all either stopped or cut way down on the work they’ve been getting. IMO it was incredibly distracting and super unrealistic for the characters they play on the show. IMO again, I think it would have been super funny and easy to write in the work they’ve had done into the show, esp since they’ve been leaning quite hard into physical cringe/discomfort humor.

Interesting what you said about pressure to look good in Hollywood, as IIRC Kaitlyn did mention this in an interview a while back.

Yep, and their pro life stance includes babies with multiple women, who are left to take care of the resulting children on their own while being judged for maintaining a ‘broken home’ by these very same fucks.