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if youre in the US (especially the northeast + michigan) i would avoid bagged salads/greens and generally wash your produce very thoroughly unless you want the diarrhea parasite

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A really funny era of my life was when I tried to get into chaos magic to the extent that I bought a couple books on the subject only to realize pretty quickly that it's just a mix of mindfulness techniques and The Secret for nerdy straight guys.

Literally some of this shit was just like, "the way you conceptualize yourself internally effects how you present yourself externally" and "try to be more aware of your emotions" and even a bit about challenging your unconscious biases about other people. That plus the emphasis on meditation and journaling really made it feel like a way to backdoor dudes into doing therapy. But also then there'd be a chapter about how to like contact ancient goddesses or summon a spirit or manifest a bunch of money.

like I guess you really so need to tell some guys that they can become wizards to get them to learn to process their emotions.

A really funny era of my life was when I tried to get into chaos magic to the extent that I bought a couple books on the subject only to realize pretty quickly that it's just a mix of mindfulness techniques and The Secret for nerdy straight guys.

Literally some of this shit was just like, "the way you conceptualize yourself internally effects how you present yourself externally" and "try to be more aware of your emotions" and even a bit about challenging your unconscious biases about other people. That plus the emphasis on meditation and journaling really made it feel like a way to backdoor dudes into doing therapy. But also then there'd be a chapter about how to like contact ancient goddesses or summon a spirit or manifest a bunch of money.

there's this phenomenon i've noticed on youtube which i dub "man math" which is when men STEM-ify hobbies/activities/art forms in order to make them more masculine. it's very noticeable in the cooking video sphere where there's an endless stream of videos made by men along the lines of "the SCIENTIFICALLY PROVEN best way to cook an egg" (and dgmw, i watch them and find them helpful, but the observation stands), but i notice it also in the way men approach ceramics (a lot of focus on mold-making and slip-casting to perfection, basically reinventing one man mass-production rather than play and discovery), tailoring/sewing/knitting/textile art, gardening and other nature-oriented hobbies, interior decor, furniture making and woodworking, journaling/planning/productivity, even drawing and painting, there's always some man math angle to it that although interesting it often strikes me as some sort of overcompensation to move away from the inherent vulnerability that comes with art making and once you notice it it's literally everywhere