Insensitivity reader to make sure that your characters are ignorant assholes in the ways that make the most sense for the characterization you're trying to achieve

It does not.

not actually part of my personal headcanon but i like to rotisserie the concept in my brain from time to time

fuck this low sodium bullshit. when I search "high sodium" on food ordering apps I want to find food with sodium so high it has a fucking warning label. not "no salt" and "low sodium" foods.

is there any food company out there that markets their products as high sodium or is everyone in this industry truly a clown

not electrolytes. not supplements. I want to see HIGH SODIUM on cans of food

my life depends on salt

if your takeaway from this is to try and explain categories of food that are often high sodium to me you have read my post wrong

this is a post about programming and food marketing.

how long do you think I have had orthostatic hypotension and autonomic failure. I appreciate wanting to help but I do not need anyone to explain to me the categories of food that pop up when you google "high sodium food" or I would currently be very dead.

even if a category of food is often high in sodium, I still have to read every individual label, because even canned soup and ramen range from 2% daily value to 100%+ daily value sodium. and even then those are individual flavors of individual products from individual food manufacturers that are not sold everywhere or not always in stock.

I want to be able

to search, directly, on every relevant platform where food can be searched/ordered, based off of what that specific place currently has in stock:

"high sodium"

and get high sodium foods

and not low sodium or literally just electrolyte mixes and salt

popular nutrition 'science' is run by clowns. everything is bad for you. avoid fat. avoid carbs. avoid calories. avoid salt. we are being sold starvation as a luxury good.

I forget at this time the name of the specific medication but there is a medication that raises blood pressure that was almost banned (or made harder to access?) in the united states because the US food and drug administration could not name any medical condition where raising blood pressure was a good idea. so they opened it up for comment to see if anyone could present any good reason why blood pressure-raising drugs should be allowed

dysautonomia international had to bring people in to testify that basically went: HELLO???? ARE YOU FUCKING JOKING

and this was not in the 80s or something before the internet, google, social media. this was within the past ~10 years.

Oh hey I had a similar problem! My doctor had no idea how to treat my hypotension so all she could really do was tell me to buy salt tablets :(

your doctor had no idea how to google "hypotension medication"? wow she sounds pathetic

here, some ideas for her and anyone else who allegedly went to med school:

https://www.drugs.com/condition/hypotension.html

Hard agree. I downloaded a food tracker just to keep an eye on things and it’s like “youve had a lot of carbs today :( you’re over your daily limit”

There’s no “I’ve been prescribed whole grains” button! No I do not need help reducing my salt intake I’m literally pouring out salt in my hand to try to have enough.

My mom was like “why are you eating full salt nuts” because I ate low salt ones my entire life and she seemed genuinely baffled before I reminded her that salt is what keeps me upright. It’s just so steeped into everyone

The only existing nightmare meds started out as a blood pressure lowerer and they supposedly are very effective but i wouldn’t know because it almost killed me. (Didn’t know my blood pressure was low to start at the time, just knew I fell and couldn’t get up) And no one is like “we need to make a second version of this that raises your blood pressure actually” bc the lowerer is a solid 2 in 1 😭

do you, by chance, mean propranolol

edit: wait unless you mean nightmare as in literally nightmares. my bad. propranolol is just a nightmare of a medicine that frequently gets called the "only" dysautonomia drug by dogshit doctors. it is not even a good medicine for its class of drug

Fibonacci: Hmm... I sure wish there was a way to mathematically represent an empty quantity.

The simple yet useful Arabic numeral:

these new MLB rules where they can use 8 different pitchers across multiple timelines simultaneously are getting out of hand

Unfortunately, it was a necessary rule change due to the advent of outcome integration by batting teams. It's undetectable if done properly and selects for the best hit across multiple possible futures, so the only real way to make things fair is to allow the pitching team to do the same thing.

The resultant adversarial selection leads to significant visual divergence before the iterations stabilise, resulting in the "Eight Fucking Pitchers" phenomenon. The process appears less striking (heh) on the batting end due to its reactionary nature; the best pitch is the one that demands the swing the batter will find hardest, which may be delivered in multiple ways but will tend to be struck similarly.

Contrary to popular belief, though, these are all actually possible versions of the same person; thanks to Flizbit's Law, competing alternate future selection eventually drifts into alternate past selection if pushed hard enough. Pitcher #7 experienced a genetic mutation just so, pitcher #5 sunk countless hours into training while failing to run from his grief, pitcher #2 discovered her true self, etc.

One interesting phenomenon I've noticed about people is how often when you're in a select group, the one person who looks the most out of place is the one who's there the hardest. The ordinary-looking grandma at an anime convention who was there to bring the anime scene into the country, physically carrying it through customs on fucking VHS tapes. Someone at the opera in spackle stained construction boots who doesn't give a shit about dressing up for it, they've seen 14 different productions of La Traviata and want to see how this one manages to perform.

You go to a hardcore show and between all the bands whose members look like they were put together from construction site junk, duct tape and random loose hair, there's one band consisting of five dudes who look weirdly clean-cut like how 2010s emo kids would have looked if their moms got to dress them up in "something nice for once", and you just know someone's going to fucking die tonight.

My dad once told me about the most beloved member of the city's 90s goth scene, who was always wearing a comfy sweater.

fuck this low sodium bullshit. when I search "high sodium" on food ordering apps I want to find food with sodium so high it has a fucking warning label. not "no salt" and "low sodium" foods.

is there any food company out there that markets their products as high sodium or is everyone in this industry truly a clown

not electrolytes. not supplements. I want to see HIGH SODIUM on cans of food

my life depends on salt

if your takeaway from this is to try and explain categories of food that are often high sodium to me you have read my post wrong

this is a post about programming and food marketing.

how long do you think I have had orthostatic hypotension and autonomic failure. I appreciate wanting to help but I do not need anyone to explain to me the categories of food that pop up when you google "high sodium food" or I would currently be very dead.

even if a category of food is often high in sodium, I still have to read every individual label, because even canned soup and ramen range from 2% daily value to 100%+ daily value sodium. and even then those are individual flavors of individual products from individual food manufacturers that are not sold everywhere or not always in stock.

I want to be able

to search, directly, on every relevant platform where food can be searched/ordered, based off of what that specific place currently has in stock:

"high sodium"

and get high sodium foods

and not low sodium or literally just electrolyte mixes and salt

popular nutrition 'science' is run by clowns. everything is bad for you. avoid fat. avoid carbs. avoid calories. avoid salt. we are being sold starvation as a luxury good.

Doctors to trans people: are you really sure you want these hormones? I don't think you are. I don't believe you. There are risks, you know? It will change your body. Tell me your entire life story and I'll decide whether you've wanted this for long enough. Oh you didn't know when you were 5 years old? Yikes, ok. I think I'll need you to jump through all these hoops and then we can maybe consider it in...100 years

Doctors to fat people who literally didn't ask: have you heard of this surgery that'll mess up your digestive system, just absolutely fucking mutilate it? Mess with your ability to eat and drink normally? Potentially fuck up your ability to absorb nutrients? Yes, and you don't want it? Are you suuuure? Are you really sure? I'm going to bring this up 1000 more times just to be sure also there's this diabetes drug...

It bothers me so much that the healthcare system relies so much on the patient's ability to advocate for themselves, organize their history, and be so persistent against every medical “professional” who says there’s nothing wrong/they can do. But so many struggle with fatigue, brain fog, and face such ingrained systemic barriers, that the people who need and deserve help and support can’t access it.

I saw something recently that resonated with me: “Access shouldn't depend on who has the energy to fight for it.” And I’ve never agreed with anything more.

spiritual successor to my email post

ok this too

harry potter fandom experiencing such a revival in the last 5 or so years to the point where 5 out of the top 10 ships on ao3 this year are hp AFTER that woman started fully funding hate campaigns with her royalties is so bleak. fandom isn’t an indicator of morality but what are we doing here man.

PSA, especially if you are chronically ill: learn how to season your food

one of these days you will likely be faced with a situation where eating food is hard. where you will have to force yourself to eat. whether from disability, fatigue, pain, grief, illness, hardship, forgetting to go shopping

maybe all you have left is a can of plain beans. plain something. and sometimes in those situations, your health may depend on making whatever food you have taste less like shit, so you can eat as much of it as you can. currently going through that myself, I never thought I would have to try harder to eat. but here I am

if nothing else, when you are at the lowest of your low, if you have a sense of taste, knowing what seasonings you like can make it all a whole lot fucking easier. you are allowed to try and sprinkle some goodness onto the misery, whether or not that even involves food. something that makes your day easier

seasoning does not have to be hard really. get spice mixes. freeze dried shallots. freeze dried vegetables. salt. cheap black pepper grinder. MSG. shelf stable stuff you can basically forget about in the pantry. stuff you can just shake onto food. you can play with fresh herbs and shit too, but make sure you have shelf stable stuff. you can get really far with just salt, black pepper, and MSG.

for mixes, make sure you look at the ingredients. if you have the cilantro soap gene you probably want to avoid cilantro, you know? and if you have an allium allergy, you may be surprised to learn how many spice mixes have alliums, especially garlic. and not all spice mixes are gluten free even if they seem like they should be.

experiment! take a can of beans, few different spoonfuls onto a plate, season them all differently. try with soups, instant noodles, vegetables, rice, lentils, chickpeas, eggs, meat, fish, dehydrated food, canned food - - test with whatever you want, whatever you have around!

learn over time. which seasonings you enjoy and which you hate. how many shakes it takes for that amount of food, really not necessary to measure precisely. take notes. take pictures. aim to make things taste better! and what that means is up to you.

your goal is to get a better idea of, "this could really use..." while eating. before you need that information. before you need to force yourself to eat.

you will suffer in life. unexpected things will happen. people will die. pain. things will happen that you wish never happened at all

and I wish life could be kinder to you. to all of us. now and forever

learn how to be the one to show yourself that kindness. and one great way to do that is experimenting with food.

no matter what hardship you encounter in life, if food is something that can cheer you up, I hope at least you will be able to eat something delicious.

Are fedoras really that bad?

YES YES THEY ARE

voidethered:

wait, does that mean?

oh boy…….

Luckily, this nonsense doesn’t work on girls.

Observe…

IT’S GOTTEN BETTER!

This post is immaculate

It can’t be true.

And it can’t possibly work on motorcycle helmets.

I must test it.

Nothing happening so far…

HOLY SHIT IT WORKS

What in the world?

Oh why not? This should be interesting.

Here we go!

Were all mad here in Underland!

What the hell! Never Again!

… Actually …

One more time.

Alright, I gotta try this!

Can’t be that bad!

….

…oh my god…

ask-gmodsfmrocks:

This just gets better and better

This is one of my favourite things to look at

holy shit this stuff is back

The Gravity Falls one though

i wonder if it works for flower crowns?

here goes nothin-

w HAT THE

DID I JUST-

WHAT THE FUCK

Okay Clearly something is up.

Hmm… I wonder

I’m sure nothing could possibly…

HOLY SHIT

IT GOT BETTER

I HAVE BEEN SEARCHING SO LONG FOR THIS POST OH MY GOD!!!

I wonder what happens when you wear 8 of these at once…

Never not reblog

IT’S ON MY DASH. ACTUALLY ON MY DASH.

IN THE YEAR OF OUR LORD 2024?!?!?!!? IT IS ON MY DASH??????

It’s so nice to see an ancient relic post be kept alive for the younger generation on this website 😂

oh thank god i found the unvandalized one

How I think I’m writing: Using eye contact, or lack thereof, to display emotions such as intimacy, shock, denial, or nervousness. 

How I’m actually writing: She looked at me, and I looked away. I tried to look back, but she was already looking at the sky. “Look,” she sighs, looking back at me for a split second. “I don’t know how to say this.” We looked at each other and time stopped, but then she looked her lookers at something else to look at, looking tired. 

Link to original post with all the links

Some very helpful tools, ideas, and ways keep going or get involved

I will add the resource Big Beautiful Boycott as a way of checking businesses to avoid that is not an app