Genius, or Insanity?

I'll do you one better- if the 4 day work week had a different 4 days for employees on a company or even individual scale, you have 20% less work traffic Monday through Friday. I suspect taking that edge off for non-work commuters (like those buying groceries) could reduce crashes even further with less cars on the road at peak times.

Even better than this, public transportation infrastructure could reduce the number of cars by letting people on local work commutes travel more efficiently in busses or trains.

are you a teenager? do you wish you had the space & resources & organization to do a thing, whether that's an anime club or a movie night or a big craft workshop or creative writing group or literally whatever? would you like to do your thing totally for free? yes?

okay, then bring it up to a librarian

seriously, teenagers are the absolute hardest group to engage at most libraries & we'll often organize programs that absolutely no one will show up to & it sucks. if you go up to a public librarian & say "hey, some friends & i want to do this thing. does that sound like a feasible teen program for the library?" most people will move heaven & earth to pull it off for you because we know there's an interest in our community. we will go balls to the freaking wall to make it happen

no no listen to me. listen to me. the sports is exactly the point. like, if this were a sport where you need to cut weight like MMA or something, sure, there's some calorie restriction going on. but hockey??

the main problem these guys are going to have is that eating enough calories to maintain their muscle mass is both time-consuming and exhausting. there's a reason nhl teams are constantly giving these guys food - it's a full time job to keep them fed.

the average relatively active person needs, we know, about 2000 calories a day. hockey players can burn over 1200 calories in a 90 minute game. and it's actually super complicated for them to consume enough calories that they won't actually pass out on the ice without also having to use the bathroom during a game!! that's why fat stores are so important for hockey players - that and because during a playoffs run it's actually impossible to balance calories-in-calories out and they WILL be losing weight for the duration of the playoff run, so they need weight they can lose without eating their own muscles.

within 30 minutes after a game, a 200lb/90kg pro hockey player should consume 90-120g of carbs and 20-30g of protein or else they will not be able to maintain their performance. for reference, that's a little less than half of what a reasonably active non-athlete of the same weight should be eating in an entire day.

like almost all psych diagnoses are bullshit vibes-based astrology that collides immediately into racism sexism ablism capitalism etc etc but ESPECIALLY this one. like who gets to decide what a proper preoccupation with healthy eating is?? is it actually unreasonable for a professional athlete to be preoccupied with his diet or is that no stranger than a race car driver obsessing over the condition of the car he's gonna drive at 200mph tonight. also the fact that he realistically should be working full time with a professional medical team that monitor his nutritional needs for him.

1. the only person shane lets himself drink with is therefore, obviously, rose. and only in the safety of either of their apartments. they get wine drunk one night and he tells her SO much more detail than “i kinda prefer being the hole rather than the peg” and rose is FLOORED and obsessed. tell me more immediately

2. once shane is on the cens and finally #healing from his internalized homophobia and the trauma of his outing and has done some work grappling with the intersection with his racial identity etc etc (therapy amirite) he Also lets himself drink at one of bood’s bbqs. everyone learns So Much that night.

the ottawags are delighted. dykstra and chouinard are learning So Much tonight, mostly against their will, but hey, dykstra is a goddamn ally so he’s not going anywhere and choui just loves Love too much to bail (sue him, he and selena are high school sweethearts). bood is ecstatic and clutching his own hands to his chest, tears in his eyes with pride that his work wife ilya rozanov is every inch (hah) the legend he knew in his heart ilya would be. wyatt is fascinated and curious and has about 100 different technical/logistical questions which shane is all too happy to answer. troy’s Stunned (and has to admit to himself he never could have handled All Of That). harris and a plastered-luca chime in every now and then with “yeah i totally get it” “oh for SURE” “mhm mhmmmmm” like shane’s own little horny greek chorus, as the rest of the babies (lapointe/holmberg/young) all are equal parts more turned on than they ever thought they could be (hm. much to think about) and also in full hero worship mode because damn shane hollander was already the best of the best and what do you mean he’s putting up points like that when he also takes THAT every night (and sometimes in the morning too??)

ilya comes back from a quick trip inside to help cassie carry some plates into the kitchen only to find shane holding court in the middle of the backyard, yapping at 300 km/h with the kind of speed clarity and precision he only gives his special interests (sex and hockey) and just stands there, jaw on the floor, as shane goes “no, the thing you have to understand is that girth matters. like REALLY matters. because like, i’m not trying to get fucked by a pencil, yknow? so it’s not just that he’s got all nine of the inches he never shuts up about but dude, he’s so thick. sooooo thick god the stretch is incredible. and when he’s got that it’s like, there’s basically no position or angle from which he can’t get my prostate, so it’s just blindingly good all the time. yeah i mean i came dry last night at the end bc by orgasm four i had nothing left and i probably saw god”

someone sees ilya over shane’s shoulder and starts wolf whistling, so shane turns around and at first his reaction is what it always is when he sees ilya - that sweet joy of just spotting him, whether it’s been an hour or a week, whether they’ve been on opposite sides of the continent for foundation business or just opposite sides of the house. but then, he lets out a loud cackle - unrestrained, free, with no attempt to smother it.

If you are looking at all the things she has said, and you are hearing people say, "Do not engage with this media," and your response is STILL to say, "But I know what she's saying is wrong and I still love Harry Potter! Death of the author! As long as we're not directly buying things from her it's totally okay to engage with her IP, which is inextricably linked with her as a person!"

I have a BMI of 35. I am the cutoff for most of medicine. My size or larger, we can't access:

Fertility treatment

Gender affirming surgeries

Most surgeries, in fact

bc we can't donate our bodies to science and drs don't study on larger bodies. Medications aren't made for us bc we're often excluded from scientific studies. We're systematically excluded and then blamed for poorer outcomes.

I don't care whether you 'like' looking at me or bodies like mine; we deserve equal access to healthcare [all caps].

for those not as invested in this shit as I am, the movie ends with the protagonists not having sex and deciding people who like having sex are shallow and weird. Yknow. Agreeing with the facist government banning them from having sex.