your favourite song but reversed

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OBESITY!

(And lifestyle choices linked to obesity)

To anyone suffering with PCOS I am sorry, I’m not trying to downplay how horrible it is and I wish there was an easier answer to it than weight loss (if you do have excess fat) and taking oestrogen. Weight loss isn’t recommended because doctors hate fat people (though I know it can feel that way), it’s because elevated levels of androgens can cause PCOS and visceral fat produces androgens. Of course genetics play a role, but these genes influence the type of PCOS someone might develop: someone who has generally higher reproductive hormones and someone with a higher BMI. I know a lot of people who don’t want to go on oestrogen for their PCOS and improved their symptoms through weight loss, I’ve dealt with milder symptoms myself that have largely improved too.

Endometrial cancer:

Hypertension:

This is coming from someone who had elevated blood pressure when they were obese and now has very normal blood pressure when overweight. Having a larger body relative to your heart means that it has to work harder to support. It doesn’t matter if you have more muscle or fat, more tissue can lead to higher pressure. Plus visceral fat creates intra-abdominal pressure causing elevated blood pressure.

Type 2 diabetes:

At a very basic level your body responds to consistently heightened blood sugar by producing insulin to encourage glucose into tissues that use it. But if insulin is consistently heightened then your cells can grow accustomed and develop resistance, creating a vicious cycle of hyperglycaemia and insulin resistance this can eventually lead to diabetes if left untreated or unmanaged. Plus, considering that 1 in 3 adults in the US have prediabetes when combined with obesity (when considering fat as hormonally active) someone becomes much more likely to develop T2 diabetes. There definitely is more to it as it is a multi-factorial condition such as the lack of exercise, the effect of triglycerides and genetics but it doesn’t negate the link between obesity and type 2 diabetes.

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It wasn’t boomers who made it impossible to survive on a librarian or gardener’s salary - it was rich people. 

Plenty of boomers work as librarians, teachers, gardeners, and so forth, and are finding that as the cost of living skyrockets and corporations take over more and more of the world, that their salary is no longer able to support them.

And thus you have boomers - who understand how much you want to be a librarian because they also work as librarians - going bankrupt, losing their homes, drowning in debt, and dying because of unaffordable healthcare. And they get why you’re becoming an IT specialist instead of a librarian - because they! Know! That you can’t survive! On a librarian’s salary anymore!

On the flip side, the rich people sucking money out of every service and person they can! Aren’t! Always! Boomers! Tons of them are Gen X! And an increasing number are millennials! I haven’t seen a Gen Z billionaire yet but I’m willing to bet there’s a couple by now!

Oh, and it’s not like they “don’t know” how much people want to do these sorts of jobs - they do! That’s how they justify underpaying people, because it’s your passion, you don’t ~need~ to be paid a living wage for your passion.

My mother's first home was a refugee camp. Her mother was sold on a Nazi slave market.

I have dead relatives on Ukrainian battlefields. We can't get them back because russia has colonised the regions.

One relative was taken hostage by the bastard russians and tortured for 2.5 years.

The word "slave" actually means "Slavic person". The word "genocide" was invented in Lviv.

An Amnesty International guy chased my mother through a shopping mall, yelling at her that she was a "stupid white woman who wouldn't know what a refugee is".