Head Full of Thoughts, Heart Full of Feels

ICE is attacking immigrants for now, but their goal is to subjugate all of us. Fighting for our neighbors today is a way of fighting for ourselves tomorrow.

Map the infrastructure that ICE depends on. Publicize their vulnerabilities. Popularize simple, reproducible ways to impose consequences every time that ICE inflicts harm on a community. Don't just react to their attacks—choose the time and place of confrontations. Take the initiative.

https://crimethinc.com/zines/seven-steps-to-stop-ice

"If we know, and do nothing, we are worse than the murderers hired in our name.

"If we know, then we must fight for your life as though it were our own—which it is—and render impassable with our bodies the corridor to the gas chamber. For, if they take you in the morning, they will be coming for us that night."

Wealthy people

People who live in a very small part of the world that produces enough protein-based plants year round to sustain the locals.

For everyone else, it's a diet based on colonialism and imports. The ancient nordic people were not omnivores because they disdained plants as real food; they were omnivores because THERE ARE NO EDIBLE PLANTS IN WINTER.

Repeat for desert regions that have several months of "it's too hot and dry for plants to feed people and still survive themselves" and rocky coastline areas with "if you don't eat fish & eggs, you won't get any protein because there aren't enough seeds or nuts and you can't grow things that produce them."

But it can fix a lot of the stuff that's making you un-happy.

These are not the same thing, so it really matters that we understand what the definitions are for what we're dealing with.

Being happy has both internal and external causes, and it also has both internal and external deficits. If you don't have enough nourishing and tasty food, you will almost certainly be less happy. This is an external cause. If you are being abused, you will definitely be less happy. This is an external cause. If you have a lot of time to spend with wonderful people who care about you, you will probably be happy. This is an external cause.

But at the same time, a lot of the causes of happiness are internal. If you are a spiteful person, you are probably not going to be very happy no matter what your life circumstances are. On the other hand, if you are a cheerful person, chances are you will be happy even in circumstances that are objectively not great. These are internal causes. They'll be the same no matter what.

And the thing is, money can affect some (not all!) of the external factors of happiness, but does almost nothing about the the internal factors. Money can buy good food that you like. Money can buy escape from an abusive situation. Money can fix terrible living conditions. Money can give you the freedom to quit a shitty job with a horrible boss. Money can buy you time to spend with friends ... but money can't buy actual friendships. Not ones that are solid enough to increase your happiness in the long run. Sycophants are not the same thing as friends.

As for the internal factors that influence happiness ... there is a little bit you can do with money to affect them. Money can pay for therapy, which can help with the internal factors, but only if you're actually willing to do the work ... and if the problem is "negative personality," 'willingness to do the hard work of changing your outlook' is much more important than whether or not you have a therapist. (Obviously, if it's an actual problem like a mood disorder, that's different, and you are more likely to need a therapist--and a doctor who can prescribe meds. But there are a lot of people out there who don't have any kind of mental health problem, they'd just benefit from an attitude adjustment.)

When people say "money can't buy happiness" they're assuming a default state of being safe and having all your physical and social needs met, or at least within shouting distance of being met. Your life doesn't have to be perfect, but you're not being abused, your job is no more than averagely bad, you've got a safe and secure place to live, etc. And once you hit that point ... adding additional money will not affect your long-term happiness. The things that will affect your happiness are things like your relationships and your attitude. Which is why so many rich people are absolutely miserable--they genuinely think you can buy happiness, that an extra mansion or a fancy car or surrounding themselves with sycophants who will kowtow to their every whim will make them happy. And it won't! It just won't. Momentary pleasure isn't the same thing.

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It’s Not a Plot Hole, It’s Just Something That They Opted Not to Spoon-feed You Because It Would Be Obvious If You Thought About It For 20 Seconds

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It May Be a Plot Hole, But It Still Works In Terms of the Story’s Themes and Character Logic

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All Works of Fiction Represent Constructed Realities and by Demanding a Lack of Plot Holes, You Are Improperly Importing the Rules of Objective Reality into a Subjective Creation that Must Be Judged Primarily on Its Aesthetic Merits

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“So... We got the exploding diarrhea. Here's my advice for anyone who doesn't have it yet:

It's going to take a minute for the government to pin down where this is coming from, and then issue a recall, because the FDA has been gutted. But, I can tell you, without a shadow of a doubt : this is coming from Taylor Farms produce, and you will see them recalled.

You'll want to avoid all Taylor Farms produce in the grocery store. They supply McDonalds, KFC, Pizza Hut, about any fast food place you can think of.

Raspberries, watermelons, cilantro, and the veggies you're hearing about are not causing this many people to get sick. It's the shredded lettuce, specifically, that's the problem. But, you'll want to stay away from every type of produce this company puts out, because one strand of shredded lettuce is all it takes to contaminate bushels.

Taylor Farms is the source. Taco Bell proactively pulled their produce from their restaurants. You're going to see other fast food places doing this, and probably will see that before the government names a source. The FDA knows this, but they can't come out and tell us all until there's proof, which takes resources and research, which takes manpower, but the FDA has been cut by about 20-30%

During the Biden term, onions at McDonald's had ecoli. We knew this because DNA testing was done quickly and they were able to narrow it down to one place that caused the outbreak. And, it was traced back to Taylor Farms. This isn't going to be solved as quickly though.

When you get this, make a virtual appointment to your PCP - a "same day sick" appointment. Tell them someone in your family just tested for this and was positive and was prescribed Bactrim. If you go in person, they're probably going to make you poop in a cup and wait until results come back to prescribe.

You'll know when you get this. Trust me on all of this.

You'll want to stay hydrated because this parasite damages the lining of the small intestine. Your small intestine, in turn, secretes more water into the gut, and less nutrients and liquid are able to remain in the body. So no matter how much you shit, you're going to want to drink. A day of this leads to dehydration if you don't increase your fluid intake, and a few days will land you in the hospital.

If you have headaches, weakness, muscle cramps, dizziness, or an increase heart rate - hydrate, hydrate, hydrate. Go to the ER for fluids if you can't drink enough.

Thank you for coming to my Ted talk. Brought to you by America's 250 birthday celebrations, workforce reduction in the FDA and CDC, and viewers like you.

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And, MAGA - don't blow up the comment section. I argued with y'all on COVID bc I was afraid y'all would die, but I really don't care if you get explosive diarrhea.

Like. I’ve always sorta understood that things grow moldy or stale or sour or such if left out, but I never really internalized it in a meaningful way.

But now I’m just like.

Yeah. The hungering dust. There exists omnivorous dust in the air that will eat my food if I don’t.

Those bagels have been sitting there for a week. Are we going to eat them soon or are we leaving them for the hungering dust?

Pizza’s been sitting out on the counter for an hour. Everyone’s enjoying the pizza, but if we don’t want “everyone” to include the hungering dust then we should probably put it away soon.

That’s just. That’s how food works to me now. There exists an invisible predator in the air that hungers for your yummies, and it will not hesitate to eat your food if you don’t make the effort to protect and preserve it. And eat what can’t be preserved before the dust can.

“go bad”, it just gets eaten

by something else first

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Probably because she's old news.