A few things to unpack here.

• That chicken is roasted nicely, but I completely understand if that was bought in that condition at the grocer’s.
• Plain bread is a travesty. it needs to be either toasted and/or you need some melted butter or gravy to sop up.
• Pair this with some fruit or pan seared/roasted vegetables. Even microwaved beans would make this nutritious. Takes very little effort, very easy to do.
• Even peasants had access to beer, ale, or home-made short-beer/kvass. Gotta calorie-max so you can work in the field tomorrow. Plus, the alcohol helps with the constant muscle-aches and fatigue from endless labor.

There are innumerable ways to elevate this meal, but I’ll keep this comment short. Anyone, feel free to message me or reply here if you want tips for that.

Just don’t drink out of it and you’ll be okay.

As a young teenager, I once went with my grandparents and their fellow pensioners, to see some community theater.

They were all retirement age and then some, and I must have been the only “kid” on that bus. Let me tell you, the ones that didn’t pick up that I was there swore like sailors (they actually were) and acted like… potty-mouthed teenagers! I was floored by this revelation.

I’ve had other moments of observation with older folks over the years, and I keep seeing the same thing. At the same time, I’ve paid attention to the growing disparity between my apparent and “mental” ages. So, that sensation that you have to remind yourself that you’re no longer 19 or whatever? It may be a different point in life for everyone, but as far as I can tell, that doesn’t stop.

What does change is your body and the face you see in the mirror. That alone changes how you see everyone else, their age, and how it all relates back to you socially. You don’t have to like it, but it’s probably wise to get used to it. :/

This kinda/sorta confirms what I’ve been suspecting. None of this debacle is recent. It’s fascist-right movement that hit critical mass, possibly during the pandemic, that has been stewing for decades if not longer.

I know that, philosophically, fascism and all its manifestations has ties into unchecked capitalism, colonialism, and slavery; stuff that goes hundreds of years back in North America. In this comment, I’m talking about the more home-grown variety that picks up before or during McCarthyism.

Ah, that’s how you do it. Get them in separate hearings concurrently. Just let that prisoner’s dilemma cook, since I doubt any one of them has studied game theory.

You’re correct: it’s not actually explained but rather dismissed in a pretty funny way. But it does show the line in the sand that the writers (at the time) were not going to cross.

My head-canon here is that Klingons just have silly-flexible DNA and go through cosmetic gene alterations like some cultures change clothes. They meet humans and go “yeah they’re awful but… having hair could be kinda sexy…” Given their tendency to be bold, fearless, and intensely passionate, I think that tracks.

I’m just quietly waiting for a plausible explanation for this. I’d settle for something like how the ToS Klingons were explained away in DS9.

The yogurt is also very ketogenic and full of vitamins and macros.

I can’t speak for GP, but “pipes” was always a solid watch.

Then there’s this thing: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ytKVGtJ5yng

• a short story by the Critically Acclaimed author of “The Torment Nexus”.

I’m starting to wonder if this thinking goes the other way.

Do people like this also feel vulnerable if their candidate isn’t running things? Like, did Obama or Biden feel like a legitimate threat while they were in office?

But it’s a 16-ring barrel plug.

Thanks. Now I can’t get the image of a time-traveling DeLorian, with an iPhone plugged in where the MrFusion was, out of my head.

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A few things to consider here that have nothing to do with exercise or diet:

• Aging trajectory. Remember when everyone was at a completely different point in physical development back in school?¹ It turns out that everyone’s body-clock for biological aging is just different, and folks hit different milestones at different points.
• Genetics. Some people are dealt a bad hand, and inherit all kinds of unfair stuff. Things they may not openly talk about.
• Resilience. We get less physically resilient when we age. IMO, it’s inflammation related. Again, everyone has a different timeline for how fast or slow this happens.
• Sports (in the past). Some people tore up their bodies playing high-impact sports. Those injuries come due later on, usually in the form of joint problems. At the same time, being sedentary can exacerbate that condition - they made choices as a teenager that obligates them to keep exercising or going to PT.
• Circadian rhythms. Some people have lifestyles that do not line up with their body’s need for sleep and wakefulness at all. This results in a sensation of being permanently jet-lagged, because they are.
• Stress. Whether it’s psychological or physiological, it all adds up and does wonders for complicating all of the above.
• Entitlement. IMO, it’s a natural inclination to feel entitled to a comfy, pain-free existence when you feel that you’ve done everything right so far. That said, your body may decide to have other ideas one day, and leaves one feeling kind of betrayed by forces beyond their control. Not everyone is equipped to handle “it is what it is” and just accept it out of hand. It’s a recipe for complaint and, honestly, requires psychological support to overcome.

So you may be (naturally) making better life choices in these areas that fit with your particular biology, and/or you have really good genetics at this stage in the game.

¹ - We all knew that one guy that was rocking an adult body at 13, in the same class as some kid that was still waiting for puberty to hit. Shit was wild.

I won’t dox myself, but the handful of places I recognize are very non-white areas. Is that what everyone else is seeing?

The problem here is the for-profit model that drives mass (over-)production and planned obsolescence.

We can do away with this if a company embraces a completely different model. Instead of doing the usual thing, go 100% on-demand with pre-orders, and only build what people want to buy. Then, keep moving horizontally into other product lines, following the demand and manufacturing need. Once pre-orders hit a given theshold, manufacturing starts for a given product. This eliminates all kinds of overhead and allows the company to survive by investing in multiple revenue streams. As a bonus: it’s a lot less wasteful since you never make more units than you can sell.

Subscriptions are like insurance and gym memberships. They’re profitable only if they represent value that is never fully realized by the consumer. They’re a really bad tax, and people dislike them for good reason. I want to buy a thing from a company, and that’s all; it’s not my responsibility to keep them afloat after that transaction.

If you take inflation into consideration, high quality products still exist at about the same price.

There’s another side to all this. We used to have appliance and, specifically, vacuum repair shops. Sometimes, the latter were franchise operations by manufacturer/brand. Electrolux and Oreck had stores that also did repairs, to name two. The business model had a lot in common with the auto industry at the time. To me, that stands as a cautionary tale of how things can get twisted around to cost the consumer more money in the long run, not less. I think it’s an important consideration, as old designs/patents were from and for a market serviced on all sides by this business model. But we can do better. If such products were designed to be user-servicable, there wouldn’t be a strong need/want to capture breakage as another revenue center.

So, we can absolutely bootstrap a new “buy for life” economy, but I think the downstream user hassle, repair, and secondary costs are crucial to consider.

Its just that there are now MUCH cheaper options now.

This is the part people keep ignoring. I keep calling it “realizing the actual cost of things.” Nowadays, you can buy cheap, but you’re going to get something fragile and packed-to-the-gills with surveillance and advertising. To get what grandma had (e.g. a refrigerator that runs for 50 years and just keeps food cold), anything cheaper than the inflation-adjusted equivalent costs you in other ways.

Meanwhile, over in the hobbyist and professional tool world, we’ve been saying “buy nice or buy twice” for a long time now.

or my son.

I kid you not, when the realtor showed the house they brought their rambunctious 7-year-old with them. Kiddo wasted zero time and did a running full-gainer into the conversation pit, tucked into a roll on landing, and sprawled out flat to stop in the middle of the room. Realtor/mom was NOT amused. Frankly, I was impressed but also relieved that there was no staged furniture in that particular room.

I hosted a few house-parties over the years and always had to keep a watchful eye on guest’s alcohol intake and all the steps and railings. It was kind of exhausting.

It needs to happen. We’re in a situation right now where media is captive by the same forces driving EVERYTHING right now. Re-establishing a free and honest press is pretty much required at this point.