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I don't know why, but the thought of a heart having a finite number of beats in it makes me feel something.

I live with a tea enthusiast and can sympathize. "Wellaktually it's a tisane" shuddup just give me my Stash peppermint tea.

As an Elder Millennial data analyst and now engineer, my whole professional career description has basically been "good at Googling". I feel crippled in this new post-search engine world.

This is so good. It actually brought a lot of things in focus about my own life and the people around me.

And this story was from 2017 and I still haven't heard of fake news farms powering whole village economies off liberal gullibility the way they do MAGA.

The Macedonian guy? I like that he gave up on scamming Bernie supporters after only a month, because they didn't believe anything he wrote.

www.wired.com/2017/02/vele...

Girlypops, bffr when you speak.

This guy likes some chemicals and avoids others, like every known life form.

This guy doesn't think there is any toxin a juice cleanse can remove better than millions of years of liver and kidney evolution.

Yeah it's like we don't have a category for "things that are harmless but their marketing is extremely damaging.

I'm four years out from breast cancer treatment, and seeing some of my treatments now be deemed unnecessary is hard, ngl. I try to keep perspective by being glad for the women who won't have to go through so much in the future.

Lots of the recipes in How To Cook A Wolf are like "if I had eggs I would add them, but I don't" or "if you have both cream and fuel to heat it with, you can do this".

Her writing in general is a fascinating picture of how WWII changed food production and quality in America.

Going from daily trips to the market to, well, starving, to sliced bread and canned veggies must have been a huge shock.

I've had some frustrating failures following old French recipes like that. MFK Fisher wrote that when she was in France, she'd throw some market veg in a pan with some cheese and a splash of cream and it would turn out heavenly, but in America it would be watery.

I didn't either, until COVID. So many people had been taught to distrust medical science by the woo influencers that I now consider them a public health threat.

The "science-is-often-wrong-and-also-the-best-we-have" nuance will never compete with the conviction of the true woo believer in the attention economy.

The frustrating thing about being pro-scientific-method is that it requires both believing that much of what we currently know will eventually also be proven wrong, and that we should follow it anyway because it's still better than any other method.

I know people who see chiropractors because that's the only way insurance will cover the massage. Why chiropractors are covered but stand-alone massage isn't.... it makes no sense!

I'm all for woke 2 as long as we agree woo-woo is out, I want aggressively pro-science and medicine thanks

I don't want to hear about "GMOS", "chemicals", or "toxins" ever again them.

Same. As soon as I got pregnant, the medical system treated me like I was in the way of their real patient, the fetus. Infantalizing is exactly the right word.

Why does it seem like everything those mom groups recommend can only be done if you have no job or other responsibilities?

The hospital midwife practice I went with left me alone in the birthing room for 36 hours. 3.5 hours of active labor. I guess it was a busy day or something.

Near the end, the midwives disappeared even more and the OBs came in every 15 minutes to ask if I was ready for a c section yet.

This is so insightful.

I found when I was pregnant, many doctors seemed to see me like a glass pmjar. They were only concerned with what was inside of me, and any complaints I had were "just due to pregnancy".

I was invisible. It was dehumanizing. I had to bring my husband to be heard.

I also had a horrible first birth in hospital and an amazing second. For #2, I hired a doula with a ton of experience at my hospital. Staff knew her by name and her secret was to repeat what I said, but louder, until someone listened to me.

So glad I had her- sad it was necessary.

🎯 when I was last pregnant, so many other ppl on my multiples-birthing message board were considering free birth (with TWINS!) because their first birth was so horrid but insurance won't pay for a midwife.

So unless they could come up with $1,500, the choice was hospital or unassisted.

In Hemingway's Hunger Was A Good Discipline, he blows his first paycheck in forever on a huge meal, eats half, then walks away because that is wealth, to him.

The chemistry between him and Gong Li was insane. Hottest on screen couple ever. Reincarnate me as this pen next, please 🙏

His beard in Curse of the Golden Flower tho

I literally guffawed at that. Hunter S Thomson?!? Srsly?

David Sedaris has a story about living in France when he discovered you can drop the gender of a noun if you use the plural form. His boyfriend was not amused that he kept buying multiples of everything as a result.