Just here for the facts

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Cake day: August 13th, 2023

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  • Very shaky, every time? Not an emergency room visit, but you need to see a doctor to rule out possible health issues. People have already brought up some serious possibilities that can become major problems if ignored.

    Are you on any medications that could be causing it if you take it on an empty stomach?

    It could be something you can just manage by keeping some bite sized Snickers available. (Literal suggestion from my doctor 30 years ago when I had something similar I was working through lunch and getting angry)

    But my doc ruled out other issues with bloodwork. The miniature candy bars were to even out my blood sugars until I could eat properly.

    I had to learn to manage it better so I didn’t snap and get fired.

    For people who don’t know: Snickers candy is peanuts, caramel, and nougat covered in chocolate.


  • Ugh. This reminds me of a relative asking me ‘aren’t you afraid of how you’ll be treated if minorities become the majority?’

    I think my mouth literally fell open. Not religious ideologies that hate women, mind you. They meant racial minorities in a predominantly white area.

    People who ask questions like that know in every cell of their body that the system that they thrive in treats others horribly and justify it by believing that anyone in power would do the same.

    So no, I’m not afraid of a race or nationality of people. I’m afraid of people with inhumane ideologies.




  • I think they were addressing an implied specificity in your question. You were asking about American-based media or media for US audiences without explicitly saying that.

    For instance, Get Out wouldn’t have hit the same if the entire cast had been white. The racial tension is the point.

    Because it sounds like you are saying we accept The Ring remake being a white cast. But if Ringu had been remade with a non-white English speaking cast it would be called woke by US right-wingers. (Even though it’s Japanese fiction. At least I hope it is fiction)

    Siothe other person is asking, I think, if Japan remade Get Out for the Japanese audience and used Japanese speaking white and black people, would Japanese right-wingers lose their shit and call it woke for not casting ethnically Japanese actors?

    The follow-up question becomes: is it a right-wing issue regardless of the race or nationality of right-wingers or is it a uniquely US problem because of the ignored national diversity of the overall population?


  • Some perts from the link:

    On Jan. 26, 2025, the FDA approved once every four weeks maintenance dosing of lecanemab for early Alzheimer’s disease. On August 29, the FDA approved weekly subcutaneous maintenance dosing of lecaneamb for early Alzheimer’s disease. The hope is that at-home administration of the treatment will be less burdensome…

    The treatment will allow people to have more time to participate in daily life and live independently.

    Your health care provider will also do a magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) scan before starting treatment with lecanemab






  • The reasons are not irrelevant to the question being asked though. Vegan for health reasons? Sure the question is irrelevant if you get sick from any animal products. You aren’t going to eat them. Same way celiac avoids gluten.

    Vegan for ethical reasons? Then the question is very relevant. Is it ethical to have a pet cat? They are carnivores and will suffer and die on the wrong food. No pets at all would be most ethical. Are you concerned about mass farming of vegetables? If machinery is used, field mice and such are getting killed to harvest your vegan diet. Are you concerned about human trafficking of migrant workers or just farmed animals? If a bear kills a deer in your yard in Montana, eats half and fucks off, is it ethical for you to eat the rest? You had no hand in it’s death and suffering. You’ll have to do something with the carcass or you’ll have more predators in your yard. Are you only eating locally grown, in season fruits and vegetables, hand harvested by fairly paid workers?

    If ethics is the reason, it’s fully legitimate to debate and figure out where your personal line is drawn. We live in an imperfect world and there’s no perfect solution.








  • While I love manga and the artwork… I read and comprehend words much, much faster. For a massive opus like One Piece, I would love a novel version of the manga that I could dig into, with the novel and manga chapters lining up or notated, so I could go back and read chapters of the manga and enjoy the artwork for especially key or poignant scenes. Then I could start just consuming the manga and anime in real time… Right now it’s just too daunting to start. I’ve seen the first season of live action and anime. I’m very interested, I just can’t justify the time commitment.