hmm, i’m gonna read up on the biochemical basics first i think.

very fascinating stuff. i must admit that i’ve looked way too little into it so far.

i think that it’s actually a medical complication and not entirely intended that way. the HRT for me has very (very) strong psychotropic effects. it really shakes my head around. one of the psychological effects is also that i breathe differently (not sure how to explain this one) and the weak heart is connected to this. i suspect it’s temporary and my body just needs time to adjust … there’s a quite a lot of backstory to all this but i don’t wanna go into too much detail rn. i’ll figure it out, i’ll be fine, don’t worry :)

what’s number 10? i need to know 🥺

well, cold potato with mayo and thuna can be delicious ~ ❤️

you’re like aang in this scene:

where they carry a flame up the mountain. aang is constantly worried about the flame being too big, meanwhile zuko tells him that his flame will go out because aang doesn’t give it “enough juice”. don’t worry about your flame being too big. it’s like a heartbeat, it needs to be strong. you’re only gonna hurt others if you’re careless and treat fire like a plaything, but once you understand that fire is life, you’re not gonna hurt others with it, just like you wouldn’t hurt yourself.

The episode is “Firebending Masters” btw if you wanna look it up (book 3, episode ?)

words are awfully permanent but meant to represent a moving world. hows that supposed to work, hm?

it works because the medium that holds the words is transient itself. so when you write something down on paper, the words themselves may never change, and that seems scary. but the book does. you carry it around, you give it to someone, they read it, then put it somewhere and forget it. that way, the words can be forgotten, and that allows new words to take their place. this is how new words can fill the space each day in a changing world, even though the words themselves are permanent.

wait tell me more. what is this “golgi apparatus” that you’re speaking of?

me! that’s me

that’s a good one. i can appreciate this.

collecting pharmaceuticals from bushes is all fun and fine until you need insulin. turns out that a large part of today’s medicine actually comes from genetically modified organisms that grow in petri dishes and require complex set-ups to grow and be harvested successfully. good luck doing all of that in your garden.

yeah i guess that this is targeted against these low-effort “we’ll just wing it when it comes to it” anarchist takes. like, a system will obviously just work fine and run itself once that the “greedy governing classes” will put their hands off the system.

many people really put close to zero thought into how an anarchist society could function, and it shows. that’s why these kind of memes even exist. if we had actual high-quality discourse available instead of just “well, it’s just gonna work, trust me bro”, we wouldn’t have these memes.

The vast majority of capitalists believe in the possibility of an ever expanding market on a planet with finite resources.

actually that’s not true. spaceflight is explicitely researched because they understand that you can’t have an infinitely growing economy on a finite planet.

well the problem is more that there’s a whole lot of high-quality crap literature about anarchism out there. so even if people do read up on it, it’s confusing.

i knew it!

yeah same for me. i lost quite a bit of stamina over the last few weeks. i can literally feel my heart beat just from taking a walk these days. it’s insane. i should do some fitness training explicitely.

ooh ok TIL

btw this might not work for everyone. i for example can’t drink soy milk / certain soy products. some kind of allergy i think? anyways, fermented / cooked soy products are fine, so fried meat-replacement soy stuff is good and dark fermented soy sauce too.

from my personal experience, i’ve had difficulty eating for a long time as well. (swallowing disorder. some kind of psychological stuff). anyways, what i’ve found was that drinking milk is a good and easy way to gain calories if you can’t eat solid food.

that amount of weight is not unhealthily low, i think. sincerely, a person in the similar weight range.

idk where this american philosophy comes from that everyone has to be almost morbidly obese or they’re “underweight”.