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  • SirSamuel@lemmy.worldtoaww@lemmy.worldThis is a PAINTING
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    24 days ago

    {{{{hugggs}}}}

    to accomplish a goal everyone needs two things, the desire, and the circumstances. Desire is internal, but circumstances are usually out of our control. It sounds like your circumstances are challenging. You might not be able to do what you wish you could, but you’re still beautiful. I didn’t know you, but I bet your tastes are killer


  • SirSamuel@lemmy.worldtoaww@lemmy.worldThis is a PAINTING
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    24 days ago

    Man I really feel this

    I like this quote from Ira Glass, which sometimes helps:

    Nobody tells this to people who are beginners, I wish someone told me. All of us who do creative work, we get into it because we have good taste. But there is this gap. For the first couple years you make stuff, it’s just not that good. It’s trying to be good, it has potential, but it’s not. But your taste, the thing that got you into the game, is still killer

    There’s more, but this is the core bit. It helps me because when I’m spiraling I can at least remember, yeah, my tastes are killer. My tastes kick ass



  • SirSamuel@lemmy.worldtomemes@lemmy.worldFame
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    25 days ago

    The English word “devil”, in reference to highly seasoned food, was in use in the 18th century, with the first known print reference appearing in 1786.[2] In the 19th century, the adjective “deviled” came to be used most often with spicy or zesty food, including eggs prepared with mustard, pepper, or other ingredients stuffed in the yolk cavity.[

    I have wondered why they were called deviled eggs for a while. Now I have a greater understanding of why some of my WASP and Appalachian family think anything with more than salt and black pepper is “too spicy”.

    Apparently I’m from the family branch that not only buys Anal Prolapser Hot Sauce from Ace Hardware, but also makes and sells it



  • So judge all you like, and you do seem to like it

    Oh, sorry, my tone is difficult to read over text. I forget that sometimes. I was, in fact, speaking against condemning people for their dietary decisions. Processed food is engineered to be addictive and not provide long term benefit, and obesity is like the one sin people can still condemn others for indiscriminately. But yeah, easy to read my post as the opposite of that, my bad

    And man, yeah, weight fluctuating despite consistent caloric intake because of stress? Oh yes! Add to that the fact that a person has less mental bandwidth to give to dietary needs and it can become a negative feedback loop. I’m living that reality right now. Plus changes in metabolism from middle age. It sucks


  • tl;dr: I 100% agree with you

    As quality of life declines, addictions will rise. Anything to stave off the cortisol and get a little more dopamine. Anything to make life a little less miserable. And the most socially acceptable addiction, the one they engineer daily to be more effective?

    Food

    And it’s totally fine to eat what you like, to have a big dinner with friends, to treat yourself. Until it isn’t. Until you cross an abstract threshold from socially acceptable to being a glutton. You wake up one morning and you’re a fat piece of shit draining resources and injuring nurses with your giant obese ass. Why didn’t you exercise a little self control? Why didn’t you go for a jog? Just exert a little willpower you lazy bastard. You deserve this. Actions have consequences.

    You deserve to die on the factory floor before you can collect a pension, you selfish asshole




  • So i kinda went on a thought rabbit hole here

    1. I like jokes like this, in part because they only work in written form. Because if they were using base 10 they’d say “You’re a ten”, but base 2 would be “You’re a one zero” (or one oh)

    2. Wait, do people actually say “ten” when expressing two in binary? Do they actually say “one, ten, eleven, one hundred, one hundred and one, one hundred and ten…”?

    3. Have I been expressing binary incorrectly?

    4. Am I overthinking this?

    5. Honestly though, my favorite written pun is “Religions are more interested in profits than prophets”

    Anyway, puns are fun. How do you say binary numbers?




  • As a past victim of GBoard I will not pile on to OP for their glaring typo. Instead, here’s the quote from the Wikipedia article linked above

    Osama Khalid (أسامة خالد), a Saudi Arabian former administrator of the Arabic Wikipedia, was sentenced to five years imprisonment in September 2020 for “swaying public opinion” and “violating public morals” by making edits “critical about the persecution of political activists in the country.” Khalid’s sentence was increased to 32 years in September 2022 as part of a campaign to lengthen the sentences of political detainees, according to Democracy for the Arab World Now and SMEX, a Lebanese non-governmental organization.

    Ziyad al-Sofiani (زياد السفياني), also a former administrator of the Arabic Wikipedia, was likewise charged with “swaying public opinion” and “violating public morals” by making edits “critical about the persecution of political activists in the country.” He was sentenced in September 2020 to eight years in prison and was released in March 2025.