Dat velvet pouch

Gotdamn I love Bernie. You can see he really, like actually cares.

I mean he could hide in the pattern buffer…

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.

Been a long time gone, Constantinople

There’s no moral imperative to exercise or be healthy generally

I respectfully disagree. I think we all have a moral imperative to try for health. Understanding that some factors can be out of our hands, we ahould still work with what we’ve got to be the healthiest version of ourselves possible. I think good nutrition, regular exercise, annual bloodwork, etc are basic parts of being a responsible adult.

Sure, but this is pretty pedantic.

Crass got me through eight years of Dubya…

Dat pink nose!!! 😍

Also jeans

Yeah, styrofoam’s notoriously bad for the environment. Plus just annoying to deal with. I hate it.

Yeah you want a clockwise swastika, not anticlockwise.

Oh no, here come the jitposts again.

A continuous passive motion machine.

I had arthroscopic hip surgery to repair a cartilage tear and shave down some bone overgrowth. For 3 weeks after surgery, I had to put my leg in this machine for an hour four times a day. It slowly bends and straightens your leg, which is supposed to help stave off scar tissue formation inside the hip. And it was rough. I needed my husband’s help to get strapped into the thing, I could never find a comfortable way to position my leg, the thing was noisy as hell so I couldn’t nap while I was using it, and I was lying flat on my back so it was hard to read a book or watch a show without hurting my neck. It sucked and I was so glad when I was cleared to stop using it.

The fuck is happening there? Jesus

IBS: “Hold my beer.”

Right? IMO it’s rude to just call someone out of the blue and expect that they’ll be able to drop everything to chat with you.

Unfortunately, my mom loves to call unannounced, and because my parents are getting older I feel the need to answer in case something’s wrong.

Hey Melania, go fuck yourself, you vile fucking dipshit.