“Noom claims that if you can just change your thoughts, you’ll be able to resist the urge to eat certain foods. But that doesn’t acknowledge how human biology works. We are not supposed to try to override our hunger drive. That’s the major nuance that Noom is missing.”

— Anne Helen Petersen (@annehelen) October 4, 2021

This is total BS. How this person thinks human biology works has nothing to do with how human biology actually works. And anyway, who gives a fuck! I’ll override whatever I want whenever I want to. I’m the one in control here. I’ll override my goddamn need to breathe if I decide to. I drive this train.

Why resolve to be weak and wallow in your loserdom?

One of the very strangest things the pitiful-ass Fat Acceptance movement has propagandized the rest of culture into believing is that you go into “starvation mode” if you experience the slightest hunger and that it’s some sort of metabolic and personal tragedy that a single hunger pang occurs.

We’ll never conquer the fucking galaxy with these mammering hedgeborn ratsbanes.

It’s been a strange social feature of the Covid pandemic that if you are a nominal liberal and you don’t offer the most pessimistic and cynical take on the future, then you are seen as not being on the right team. And that team is Team Doom.

This tendency can be seen in the responses to this thread here, but it’s been pervasive throughout the past 18 months. I don’t understand why, really, and I wonder if the people who promulgate this view know how harmful it is to general mental health and taking any sort of concrete actions like better ventilation and vaccination.

I think they do know and just don’t care. That sort of doom-mongering becomes an addiction and like all addictions it needs to be fed.

I don’t mind helping people troubleshoot. I am really good at it, and fast. But when someone doesn’t do the bare minimum to help themselves or me I do tend to get a bit steamed.

I got so tired of some staffing service mook sending me emails that instead of just blocking him, I sent him an email response that said, “The only staff I need is a wizard one!”

How does he think it’s going to help sending me so many emails in a week? That makes his company the last on my list to use if we needed third-party staffing, which we do not and in fact cannot use.

If he has any wizard staffs, though, I might change my mind.

The first ten on today’s playlist:

The music video below has the most unexpected opening. Just wait till a few seconds in. And it was not age-gated on YouTube, shockingly, but I’ve still ripped it in case it’s censored.

I like the song pretty well.

There are a million covers of “Creep” by Radiohead, but this is the only good one.

Like the percussion brought to the forefront and how she makes it her own.

generation raised by parent-cops, can't live without a cop. sad situation.

— zbracisz (@zacbracz) October 5, 2021

That’s about the thread in the post below, and I think that pretty much captures it. Once you get accustomed to your prison of helicopter parenting and walled gardens where all is sanitized, you begin to crave it and the mildest aberration seems like a huge threat.

The internet is significantly less horny now than it was, despite there technically being more.
It used to be a joke you couldnt search anything without finding porn and that was true. Now its sequestered on specific sites, free from puritanical eyes

— RagnaspookAngel (@RagnarokSword) October 5, 2021

Exactly. Most fragile younger millennials and Gen Z have no memory of that internet, which was around for about 10-12 years.