My name is irrelevant.

As many people have pointed out, some stripes of militant veganism look suspiciously like eating disorders.

This because they are eating disorders.

The term for this specific type of eating disorder is orthorexia nerviosa, and while it is not limited to vegans, it can absolutely manifest in and be camouflaged through a vegan lifestyle.

If you:

compulsively follow rules relating to your veganism, and harshly punish yourself, either physically or mentally, for ever accidentally deviating from them?

have extreme anxiety over the possibility of compromising your veganism, either on purpose or accidentally?

bury yourself in research about the benefits of veganism and the detriments of other diets (eg. obsessively watch incendiary animal welfare videos, despite knowing that they trigger you; obsessively research and collect vegan recipes and read vegan lifestyle blogs in a way that goes beyond being enthusiastic about cooking as a hobby; etc.)?

have rules relating to veganism which get harsher and harsher over time (eg. only eating backyard eggs -> never eating any eggs; only eating ethically sourced honey -> never eating any honey; reducing your processed sugar consumption -> obsessively cutting all processed foods out of fear of accidentally consuming sugar with bone fragments; promoting veganism as a positive lifestyle choice -> feeling like you’re not doing enough unless you actively attack all diets which are less restrictive than your own, etc.)?

are losing weight to a noticeable and continuing degree, even after your body should have adjusted to your new diet?

have problems in your social relationships due to your diet to a degree which is impacting your mental well-being?

are convinced that your self-worth and value as a person is intrinsically tied to your diet, and that any deviations from your specific vegan diet will make you worthless as a person?

Please talk to your doctor about orthorexia, and consider seeing a specialist. Eating disorders are serious, and can be deadly, and orthorexia is one of the most under-diagnosed eating disorders because people often do not notice that it has developed until they are extremely malnourished and have done permanent damage to their physical and mental health. 

Veganism isn’t the problem per se. Lots of vegans can live perfectly healthy lifestyles. But the danger with orthorexia is specifically the fact that none of the justifications for it are inherently bad. You can have a perfectly good rationale for what you’re doing when you start, and then your mental illness will slowly boil the frog, cutting food after food and creating new rationalization after new rationalization, until where you end up is literally killing you. And that’s the same no matter how you get there.

Gym bunnies who develop orthorexia by dramatically cutting carbs and worrying over their macros in a way that just happens to result in them eating half the calories that they should be getting? Well, there’s nothing inherently wrong with body building! Health food obsessives who cut category after category of food over fear of GMOs and pesticides and contamination? Well, there’s nothing inherently wrong with leaning organic! People who want to avoid food produced through human exploitation, who start by buying fair trade coffee and chocolate, and then eventually expand what human exploitation they’re worried about until they can’t shop at any normal grocery store, and can’t eat at any restaurant or any friend’s house under any circumstances? Refusing to support exploitation is a good thing! But pull the curtain back on these explanations and what you actually have is a disordered brain doing everything it possibly can to starve itself, without ever consciously admitting that that’s the goal.

- when you’re jay walking, cars will actively accelerate bc the drivers want to kill you for breaking the rules

- servers in restaurants act very scared and apologetic, so maybe people aren’t nice to them here??? or I could be terrifying

- it’s really cute when little kids have British accents, but I’m unmoved by adults with accents

- extremely good gluten free options. this country is like 20 years ahead of Canada in that regard

- people will give random insignificant buildings names with little plaques. and then that’s the name that shows up on the map. like even a smaller than average family home, you can name it like it’s a dog

- lots of brick and stone buildings. looks cute and charming until you enter one and there’s no air conditioning

- Due to storms, they had to evacuate the National Mall grounds. But the MAGA crowd didn't want to leave. They just stood around chanting "USA! USA!" They were convinced liberals were messing with the weather. Reportedly, one of the security guards got so fed up that he threw a chair at them.

- Fox News didn't have anything to share while they were waiting for Trump's delayed speech, so they just showed a feed of him staring at the TV. And he was watching Fox News.

- A bunch of the crowd that was evacuated wasn't even let back in, and they were raging about it on social media. Some of them waited 10 to 12 hours in record-setting heat (102°F) and never got to see anything. All special passes were canceled. So much for money privilege.

- Because the program was running so far behind, several performers were cancelled.

- Trump's speech began at 11:15 p.m., after a sizeable amount of his followers had abandoned the event. It was unremarkable in just like all of his other ones- a bunch of "America is the greatest nation," blaming Democrats for everything bad, and general gibberish.

- The fireworks didn't begin until almost midnight, so they ended on July 5th.

- They wanted to have more fireworks than ever before, but they set off so many that the sky was covered in light, and it just looked like everything was on fire. The finale was not visible due to the smoke.

- Trump appeared to fall asleep during the show.

- The immense amount of pyrotechnics fucked up the air in DC

Back then you also often had to draw the maps by hand on grid paper too, while struggling against dungeons that sometimes attempted to get you lost through things like teleporters, spinner tiles, and areas of darkness. Getting lost for too long was deadly because of the way random encounters were just dangerous enough to start draining your resources and causing failure spirals once party members start dying.

But a total party kill was not the end either. In some of those old games you could actually make a second party to go retrieve the corpses of the original party and have them resurrected kind of like in Dungeon Meshi (Kui is a known RPG fan).

This is a spot from an italian estate agency (we are governed by the right-wing party)

The woman says "Ridiculous..."

The old lady is not in her home. She is at work. She's meant to be what in Italian is called "la portinaia", aka a cross between a doorwoman and cleaner of a residential building. She's in her small "office" space, at the entrance of the building, from where she can survey the coming and goings of the inhabitants. It's a job that has mostly disappeared, but is culturally very clear to us as having the connotation of "potentially gossipy, one-million-percent judgmental woman who sees everything that goes on in the apartment complex, knows everyone and their secrets, and has Strong Opinions™️".