Since people are apparently forgetting, here is your reminder to eat a food.

Any food. You need calories to live, and a food has calories. Food has no moral value. You can just eat ice cream and potato chips for dinner! But please eat a food.

— 🚩Auntie Shepherd🏴 (@NeolithicSheep) January 5, 2020

Fuck this awful bullshit. Might as well put “Sponsored by Nabisco^TM” after it.

Food has no moral value, agreed. But that doesn’t mean one should just consume it for kicks. It has consequences, though we are not really allowed to talk about that openly any longer. (You feet will let you know, though, when they fall off due to diabetes at 50.)

Why do people care so much about enforcing mediocrity, of being worse than they can be? Of course it’s because capitalism depends on this, but why do people apparently want this? Because I want no part of any of this.

Occam’s Razor, “correlation is not causation,” and other intellectual rejectamenta like that are a sign that someone is not thinking, but rather relying on broken heuristics and is similar to some rubbish ML algo that can only throw out phrases related to what it’s been trained on.

Avoid these people at all costs because they can contaminate your own thoughts.

Photo I took in McDowell Nature Preserve near Charlotte, NC, in April 2018:

No manipulation other than making it look closer to what it appeared to a human eye in real life (no filters, etc).

Really it's too much to expect somebody be capable of producing great art and also have only the correct opinions on every subject, ever

— ॐ OM Chomsky 🏴 (@OM_Chomsky) January 5, 2020

People (well, the woke idiots) expect artists to be transgressive, but never to transgress in any unexpected direction.

Ain’t gonna happen, ever.

Yes, this is what it takes, unless you are taking just loads of steroids.

I think most men know that, but very few women. In fact, most women know far less about men and their experiences than they think they do.

Anyway, one of the best illustrations I’ve seen of that is not with a man, but Rhonda Rousey at her weigh-in vs. her fight weight. Note that these photos were taken only about 24 hours apart:

Why the huge difference? Mostly dehydration. To get in a lower weight class, she would’ve been actively purging water, not drinking, and using other techniques to drop weight. That’s about a 15-20 pound weight difference there in a single day.

Nearly any male actors you see in movies/shows also do this if they have any shirtless scenes.