"don't go grocery shopping when hungry" doesn't work for me because Not Hungry Me cannot conceive of a universe in which food is needed so she buys like a cup of pomegranate seeds and some fancy cheese and thinks that'll get us through the week.
FUN FACT the scientist who said that made it the fuck up! he's also the same dude who said that if kids made eye contact with the character on food boxes they wanted it more. so now all the cereal mascots/kids mascots look downwards to a child height. but THEY MADE IT UP and it's allllllll bullshit and bad science to the point cornell deleted the fuckin cereal eyes study from the face of the earth and modern research is saying you SHOULD shop when ur hungry because it makes you put more value on food that would give you more nutrition and actually sharpens your ability to feed yourself well
So I think the cereal box guy was Brian Wansink and honestly that tracks. If Wansink thinks we should be grocery shopping when full then we should definitely be doing it when hungry. Bruh is an absolute joke.
imagine being so bad at science that your university forces you to stop
things he also came up with that are BULLSHIT:
eating around fat people makes you eat more junk food??? (wtf?)
portion sizes affecting how hungry you feel
"if you are served second portions you are more likely to take seconds"
the entire concept of mini and fun-sized portion sizes (based in fatphobia btw!)
the idea of boredom eating and stress eating being bad for you and not normal
the idea of eating in front of a screen being terrible for your digestion
that julia child's cooking was trying to make you fat (based on 18 of 4500 recipes...)
the idea of western food being unhealthy
the cereal eyes thing
the shopping while hungry thing
and much much more!
also he committed kickstarter fraud in 2018 and is a massive fatphobe who thinks fat people recruit others to become fat by just existing. fuck him lmao
Brian Wansink won fame, funding, and influence for his science-backed advice on healthy eating. Now, emails show how the Cornell professor a
Cornell University food behavior scientist Brian Wansink has retracted another paper — his fourth this year. “There is no empirical support
Cornell University scientist Brian Wansink is facing yet another formal correction — his eighth this year, along with three full retractions
Brian Wansink of Cornell University publishes headline-friendly studies about food psychology and oversees a $22 million federally funded pr
Here's a few articles by Stephanie M. Lee about Wansink's multiple p-hacking scandals. Initially I just found these looking for more information but now I'm also extremely amused by how much she was on this guy's ass for his shitty science.
When you first learn about Brian Wansink, he's an extremely funny example of a BAD scientist.
When you think longer about Brian Wansink, the fact that he got so much media attention and many people know his lies but not the retractions, the fact that he was able to spread flagrant fatphobia with hardly any pushback for so long and the fact that there were policies based on his bullshit, is horrifying.
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I love how whenever ATLA recognizes Sokka is smart enough to solve a problem but it’d be too fast they just stick him in some kind of situation. Like he COULD’VE stopped jet from drowning a town so they tied him up and dumped him in a forest. He COULD’VE figured out what that spirits deal was so they lost him in the spirit world for 24 hours.
This is how writers should deal with characters who are too smart for the arc instead of making them suddenly dumber for no apparent reason.
If you frequently find yourself in random situations while your friends happen to be experiencing problems maybe you, too, are too smart for the narrative.
I am super excited that channel 4 seems to be doing a bake off style show but for knitting and I just need everyone to know. It's going to be called Game of Wool.
ppl be like "i love mpreg, i love mpreg, omg cute omegas, i'm gonna get that man pregnant" until the man actually gets pregnant and suddenly it's "weird" and "cringe" and "just a joke"
fake fan, if u were actually an mpreg enjoyer u would advocate for making the gynecological field more inclusive so that your local men can get prenatal care
You absolutely can! It's on my blog and linked in my pinned too, here ya go :) ! I studied film so I examined the way men give birth in horror movies, and my conclusion was that this examination of genre media shows that people are ideologically quite inclined to be welcoming to men giving birth, but the closer you get to the actual reality of A Man Is Giving Birth In A Human Way, the more disgusting or terrifying it is broadly understood to be
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I've seen and commented on this before, but it is still wild to me.
It explains so much about the collective mentality that Americans in almost exclusively in majority groups (white, Christian), and why they constantly feel under seige. They have been convinced that while they are unlikely to meet a Muslim, Jewish person, or trans person, there is the secret huge population of them (obviously all hiding in NYC) ready to come invade their church in their town.
Actual percentages:
Trans: <1%
Muslim: 1%
Jewish: 2%
Black: 12%
Live in NYC: 2%
Lesbian, gay, or bisexual: 4%
In addition, Americans believe 20% of the population make $1 million or more a year (actually >1%). Americans also think that 30% live in Texas and 32% live in California, meaning to the average American, 92% of the country live in 1 of 3 places.
Meanwhile, Americans tend to underestimate the size of majority groups (estimate in blue, actual in red)
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Keypadding silently down the hall but I forgot to put linear switches in my shoeboards and the clicky sound alerts the guards. I step on the Escape key and go flying out the window.
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The core of the prepper fantasy: "What if the world ended in the precise way that made me the most important person?" The ultra-rich fantasize about emerging from luxury bunkers with an army of mercs and thumbdrives full of bitcoin to a world in ruins that they restructure using their "leadership skills."
The ethnographer Rich Miller spent his career embedding with preppers, eventually writing the canonical book of the fantasies that power their obsessions, Dancing at Armageddon: Survivalism and Chaos in Modern Times:
Miller recounts how the disasters that preppers prepare for are the disasters that will call upon their skills, like the water chemist who's devoted his life to preparing to help his community recover from a terrorist attack on its water supply; and who, when pressed, has no theory as to why any terrorist would stage such an attack:
Prepping is what happens when you are consumed by the fantasy of a terrible omnicrisis that you can solve, personally. It's an individualistic fantasy, and that makes it inherently neoliberal. Neoliberalism's mind-zap is to convince us all that our only role in society is as an individual ("There is no such thing as society" – M. Thatcher). If we have a workplace problem, we must bargain with our bosses, and if we lose, our choices are to quit or eat shit. Under no circumstances should we solve labor disputes through a union, especially not one that wins strong legal protections for workers and then holds the government's feet to the fire.
Same with bad corporate conduct: getting ripped off? Caveat emptor! Vote with your wallet and take your business elsewhere. Elections are slow and politics are boring. But "vote with your wallet" turns retail therapy into a form of civics.
This individualistic approach to problem solving does useful work for powerful people, because it keeps the rest of us thoroughly powerless. Voting with your wallet is casting a ballot in a rigged election that's always won by the people with the thickest wallets, and statistically, that's never you. That's why the right is so obsessed with removing barriers to election spending: the wealthy can't win a one-person/one-vote election (to be in the 1% is to be outnumbered 99:1), but unlimited campaign spending lets the wealthy vote in real elections using their wallets, not just just ballots.
You can't recycle your way out of the climate emergency. Practically speaking, you can't even recycle. All those plastics you lovingly washed and sorted ended up in a landfill or floating in the ocean. Plastics recycling is a hoax perpetrated by the petrochemical industry, who knew all along that their products would never be recycled. These despoilers convinced us to view the systemic rot of corporate ecocide as an individual matter, chiding us about "littering" and exhorting us to sort our garbage:
We are bombarded by real problems that require urgent solutions that can only be resolved through collective action, which we are told is impossible. This is an objectively frightening state of affairs, and it makes people go nuts.
At the start of this century, in the weeks before 9/11, a message-board poster calling himself Gecko45 went Web 1.0 viral by earnestly bullshitting about his job as a mall security guard, doing battle with heavily armed gangs, human traffickers, and ravening monsters. Gecko45's posts were unhinged: he started out seeking advice for doubling up on body-armor to protect him while he deployed his smoke bombs and his partner assembled a high-powered rifle. Though Gecko45 was apparently sincere, he drew tongue-in-cheek replies from the other posters on GlockTalk, who soon dubbed him the "Mall Ninja":
https://lonelymachines.org/mall-ninjas/
The Mall Ninja professed to patrolling a suburban shopping mall while armed with 15 firearms as he carried out his duties as "Sergeant of a three-man Rapid Tactical Force at one of America’s largest indoor retail shopping areas." His qualifications? Mastery "of three martial arts including ninjitsu, which means I can wear the special boots to climb walls."
The Mall Ninja's fantasy of a single brave individual, defending the sleepy populace from violent, armed mobs is instantly recognizable as an ancestor to today's right wing fantasy of America's cities as "no-go zones" filled with "open air drug markets," patrolled by MS-13 and antifa super-soldiers. And while the Mall Ninja drew derision – even from the kinds of people who hang out on a message board called "GlockTalk" – today, his brand of fantasy wins elections.
On Jacobin, Olly Haynes interviews the political writer Richard Seymour about this phenomenon:
Seymour's latest book is Disaster Nationalism:The Downfall of Liberal Civilization, an exploration of the strange obsessions of the right with imaginary disasters in the midst of real ones:
You know these imaginary disasters: "FEMA death camps, 'great replacement theory,' the 'Great Reset,' fifteen-minute cities, 5G towers being beacons of mind control, and microchips installed in people through vaccines." As Seymour writes, these conspiracy fantasies are proliferated by authoritarian regimes and their supporters, especially as real disasters rage around them.
For example, during the Oregon wildfires, people who were threatened by blazing forests that hit 800'C refused to evacuate because they'd been convinced that the fires were set by antifa arsonists in a bid to "wipe out white conservative Christians." They barricaded themselves in their fire-threatened homes, brandishing guns and prepping for the antifa mob.
Seymour says that this "disaster nationalism" "processes disaster in a way that is actually quite enlivening." Confronted with the helplessness of a real disaster that can only be solved through the collective action you've been told is both impossible and a Communist plot, you retreat to an individualistic disaster fantasy that you can play an outsized role in. Every crisis – the climate emergency, poverty, a toxic environment – is replaced by "bad people" and you can go get them.
For authoritarian politicians, a world of bad people at the gates who can only be stopped by "the good guys" makes for great politics. It impels proto-fascist movements to electoral victories, all over the world: in the US, of course, but Seymour also analyzes this as the phenomenon behind the electoral victories of authoritarian ethno-nationalists in India, Israel, Brazil, and all over the world.
I find Seymour's analysis bracing and clarifying. It explains the right's tendency to obsess over the imaginary at the expense of the real. Think of conservatives' obsession with imaginary and hypothetical children, from Qanon's child trafficking conspiracies to the forced birth movement's fixation on "the unborn."
It's not just that these kids don't exist – it's that the right is either indifferent or actively hostile to real children. Qanon peaked at the same time as Trump's "kids in cages" family separation policy, which saw thousands of kids separated from their parents, many forever, as a deliberate policy.
The forced birth movement spent decades fighting to overturn Roe in the name of saving "the unborn" – even as its leaders were also overturning the Child Tax Credit, the most successful child poverty alleviation measure in American history. Actual children were left to sink into food insecurity and precarity, to be enlisted to work overnight shifts in meat-packing plants, to fall into homelessness – even as the movement celebrated the "culture of life" that would rescue hypothetical children.
Lifting kids out of poverty and building a world where parents can afford to raise as many children as they care to have is a collective endeavor. Firebombing abortion clinics or storming into a pizza parlor with an assault rifle is an individual rescue fantasy that escapes into the world.
The older I get, the more I realize the Cold War never really ended, and that’s why I want to talk about Timothy McVeigh on this post.
For those too young to remember, in 1995 Timothy McVeigh turned a Ryder truck into a bomb and parked it outside the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building in Oklahoma City. He unknowingly parked it under the building’s daycare.
Nineteen children died.
And his first thought on hearing this was “fuck, they’re going to focus on the kids, not my message.”
His message: the US government was an evil empire akin to the one in Star Wars, and needed to be wiped out. (Yes, really. He envisioned himself as Luke Skywalker.)
But before McVeigh was a bomber, he was a member of the prepper community.
And as you may guess by the date of the OKC bombing, that community grew out of “but what if nuclear war?”
In the context of “we may reach nuclear Armageddon,” early preppers did actually have a point: they wanted a fallout shelter for their family. The radioactivity from the bombs would only last a couple of weeks, but you’d probably want to wait about six months before trying to live aboveground again—you’d want to give time for the ash and smoke to be washed out of the air so you weren’t breathing it in. And so that’s what early preppers did: they stocked small fallout shelters with food, water, blankets, radios, a few toys for the kids, all the stuff you’d need if you had fifteen minutes to spare for the next year of your life and didn’t have time to go shopping. In the context of the 1960s, this was extremely practical—a bit paranoid, but with good reason. It wasn’t much different than, say, keeping a go-bag if you live in a wildfire area, or keeping some nonperishable food and bottled water in your cellar if you’re in Tornado Alley. More dramatic, yes, but an understandable precaution.
But then someone came up with the idea “What if someone else tries to attack my bunker, and is desperate enough to kill my family if it means food for them?”
Well. You’d better have a gun, right? To protect your family.
And then someone pointed out bullets are finite.
Maybe you’d better also have a military-grade knife. Just in case.
From there, it spiraled out of control. Nuclear Armageddon preppers wanted more weapons, longer-lasting food…
…and then the Cold War was declared over.
Fifty years of paranoia, the whole world on a knife-edge, just…gone. Just like that. Not a single shot fired. Yes, it did take a couple of years, but the USSR went out with a whimper, not a bang.
Let’s go back to Timothy McVeigh.
McVeigh served in the military. He was steeped deeply in anti-Soviet propaganda. Some of it was true, some of it was false (or at least exaggerated), but that doesn’t matter. What matters is that he was fed the idea that there was A Great Big Enemy Out There and he was one of the last Defenders Of The Free World.
…..and when the Iron Curtain fell he had nowhere to channel that.
A lot of early-modern preppers—that is, the ones you think of today when you hear the word “prepper”—were Cold War-era military men. They were never debriefed or deradicalized. And so they had to go on believing there was A Great Big Enemy Out There, because otherwise what was the point? What had they done it all for?
And this is the point where many of them started to turn on the US government.
There was an event called “the standoff at Ruby Ridge” that led to this major pivot. I suggest looking it up for more context because it’s outside the purview of this post, but for now imagine “the Bundy standoff, but gone horribly, horribly wrong.” In fact one reason the Bundy standoff went the way it did is because of what happened at Ruby Ridge.
So now you have these former military men, trained, spring-loaded…and they have only one thing left to aim at. And so they do. And they blow up an office building in Oklahoma City because that blind rage and paranoia is all they’ve got left, and those long-ago practical bomb shelters have become miniature military bases in which they will defend themselves from The Great Big Enemy Out There, which is now the US government, because what else could it be? Nobody else is powerful enough to try to tip over the US, the entirety of Russia and Eastern Europe combined couldn’t do it, no single country is going to do it, but Ruby Ridge and the David Koresh massacre in Waco showed the US would happily tip over “free-thinking individuals.”
And then they pass that paranoia to the next generation. A generation that doesn’t remember the Cold War. That has no context in which to place all of this. The US doesn’t like teaching about the Cold War much, because doing so means admitting it wasn’t “fighting the good fight” so much as “two playground bullies making the smaller kids fight while they place bets.” And so raised on a deadly mix of blind patriotism, lack of education about our immediate past, and a cognitively-dissident view in which YAY AMERICA but also FUCK THE GOVERNMENT….we are here.
The Cold War never ended. And that is why we are where we are.
If you want to effectively deradicalize preppers and their ilk, you have to start by learning about the Cold War. Because even if they don’t know that’s where it all started…that’s where it all started.
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In 1982, quite by accident, a zookeeper at Izu Shaboten Zoo in Shizuoka Prefecture discovered that capybaras absolutely loved soaking in hot water, and the practice of providing them an onsen, or traditional Japanese hot spring, was born. Source Massimo; video @yu_haradakei.
It's never been about protecting children or women's rights (which conservatives have never cared about) or bathrooms or sports or schools.
It's about making sure that transgender people are not legally equal to cisgender people, that we know we have fewer right, that we are less than human.
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The opposite of "there's an XKCD strip for this" has got to be "what the fuck do you mean there's an Achewood strip for this," less common, more alarming.
