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Cake day: July 1st, 2023

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  • I’m now vegetarian and I have to say I have a lot of respect for your use of empathy to understand their position. Personally as someone who’s been on both sides over my life that I think we get wayyyy more shit than we dish out. It makes some of us resentful being frankly bullied at times as the minority. People are very defensive of their habits, and that’s fine. I’m not so aggressive and understand people change on their own time.






  • Touch grass.

    No, seriously. I know most people use this as an insult but in this case I think there is a lot of benefit to re-balancing your time and getting offline. As a general rule, the further away the turmoil, the less impact you can actually have on its outcome. So why build up anxiety over something that is limited to your ability to control? Take that anxiety and put it in your immediate world. Your home, your physical health (diet, meditation, sleep, exercise). Get new hobbies like learning a musical instrument, go out on hikes. Find locla community.

    I get one may not wish to bury their head in the sand but you need to strike a balance. If you still want to get active, then go to protests and join local political communities that align with your beliefs. It helps a lot. Focus on what you have more agency over and you’ll feel better. Things like diet and exercise and getting out into nature all directly reduce anxiety and improve mood; that’s a fact.






  • Ah man, that’s a tough call. Personally we’re only moving if the place we move to has some potential for homesteading and self-sustainability to ride out this storm. These next years are going to be pretty turbulent to say the least. We’re laying low and living below our means.

    To me the real question is: is your income recession proof? (eg, medicine or some essential service that even survived covid). Because we’re in a silent recession now, likely headed for a depression or major stagflation.




  • Yeah, that’s sadly how specialization tends to work. Most innovators in advanced fields can only push the boundaries after thousands upon thousands of hours of education, research, and honing of skills and knowledge; FTA:

    It has been 30 years since Trøseid first met someone with HIV. That was also around the time the first HIV medications became available – treatments that turned HIV into a chronic condition and, as a result, somewhat reduced the priority of research on the virus.

    “I have followed this field closely for many years, and the fact that we are now starting to talk about the possibility of a functional cure is very meaningful,” he says.