Have you played Bugsnax?
chunkystyles
joined 2 years ago
I have a pretty ironclad stomach, but not as strong as yours. I've been with my wife for 13 years and she's witnessed the horror that is me puking twice. And the first time came 4 years ago. My friends say it sounds like I'm "calling the dinosaurs" and it is very traumatic for me.
Edit: I forgot my point. I'm jealous.
I use https://ntfy.sh/ for a lot of stuff and I don't see anyone talk about it. I recently wrote a container to poll RSS feeds and send push notifications via ntfy https://github.com/chunkystyles/rssToNtfy
People are really weird about food. Like, really fucking weird.
I cook food for small groups of people (2-10 at a time) and have to find ways to make sure they're all happy while not having to cook something different for each person. Sometimes it's really hard with people's hangups about food.
I used to be a really picky eater, but through just growing up and naturally changing, and also putting in a decent amount of effort to force myself to like foods that I previously didn't, I now have a very broad palate and like most foods. It's very frustrating to me when I have to work around people who eat like toddlers.
And I'm not talking about allergies or dietary restrictions. Only preferences.
It's actually even worse than that.
I'm sorry, sir. I'll get off your lawn ASAP!
Probably more like petite bourgeois. But still more in common with the person in the chair than the actual bourgeois .
I would agree, and my advice is getting active locally. Getting involved in your community is great for many reasons.
Privilege is blinding. The dentist can't fathom how a "normal" person they are speaking to couldn't afford to go to a dentist. It doesn't even register. The dentist then must assume it was pure laziness or apathy.
I will grant that social media has given us access to all of the misery we want all of the time, and that those algorithms also prioritize content that makes us angry.
However, it would be toxic positivity to say that things are actually fine or even pretty good.
Things are objectively getting worse. Income inequality is somewhere between near gilded age levels and worse. The planet is dying in front of our eyes. Fascists are taking power in many governments.
Things are actually pretty bleak. That doesn't mean there's no hope. But burying your head in the sand and pretending things are fine ... well, I can understand that impulse. And I can understand that for some, it's a coping mechanism. And for sure, do what you gotta to get by and all. But it's not helpful in the broader sense.
You can't be depressed! Your life objectively sucks!
It's great, but weird.