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i hate diet culture for many reasons but one of the big ones is this weird dichotomy where prepared foods are EXCLUSIVELY either 'diet' or 'indulgent'.

I want to get energy bars for my car but theyre all either <150 calories or 50% sugar. you go to a cafe and the food options are either a chocolate pastry too rich to eat in one sitting or an egg bite thats like $10 for literally one bite of food. i asked someone to pick me up canned soup while i was sick and she grabbed the 'light' version for sodium reasons and its only 130 calories!!

just because i dont want dessert or pure salt right now doesn't mean im on a diet! and even if i was counting, if something is replacing a full meal it should be AT LEAST 500 calories!!

i have things to do and i need energy to do it, please just sell me food with food in it!!

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WHAT IS THE FUCKING POINT

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Having your main anxiety response be Avoidance is crazy cause you'll think you're chillin and then one day you're like waitttt I've been paralyzed with fear this whole time. Damn

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listen to me right now: stop wasting precious time waiting to dress sluttier until you're smaller. you have a limited number of slut hours before you die and barring cosmic interference you will Never obtain more of them. wear the crop top

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OP: The magpie at our school are basically track teammates lol.

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Why isn't "too scary" a good enough reason to never drive a car

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I have a tagging question. I'm writing a fic where character A is aged up from his canon age and shipped with character Z. I realized that aged up A is actually nearly the same character as his prototype version, character B, because A is just a younger B with a slightly different personality and background. But because this is an AU, the background doesn't matter and the grown up personality is all speculation anyway. The fandom considers A and B as different characters despite having the same name, but B is a very rare character that's almost never written about while A is a main character.

For this fic, should I only tag A/Z or is it fine to also tag B/Z, since this was intended to be older A but he's so similar to B he might as well be the same character, and I think B or B/Z fans may also like this fic? I like both A and B and their ship with Z, so I know I'd like it, but I don't know if I'd help or hinder people with this. I'd mention that this character is basically a fusion of A and B in the author's note so that people who don't like one or the other are still informed and can leave.

Hmmm. I think I'd personally just tag A/Z but then add a sentence in the summary along the lines of "Can be read as B/Z too"

That said, I can definitely see the case for tagging both since A and B have the same name. Now you've got me second-guessing.

I think I'll need to open this one up to a poll:

Please add nuance and/or explanation in the notes!

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every time i go outside i am astounded by the power of sun and air

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every time i stop doing yoga for a while i forget how GOOD it feels

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Superman desperately scanning the street during a fight to find the most morally acceptable car to throw at his opponent, knowing that not everybody has insurance, and loss of transportation can ruin a life -

A wave of incredible relief washes over him as he spots the hard geometric lines and silver paintless sheen of a Cybertruck.

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As someone who's been a lover of traditional folk music from the British Isles for several decades, one thing I've learned is that "True Love" didn't always mean what you think it means. In the older songs, "true love" is not some mystical quality, some type of connection that is magically better than other Loves. No. A love that is "true" merely means that your Love is "true TO YOU." "True" as in faithful and loyal and trustworthy. A lover who will stand by you and with you no matter what comes. True the way a good sword is True. True the way a good knight is loyal. The contrast is "False Love," which is a lover who betrays you, who cannot be trusted.

"True Love" isn't something you find, it's a vow and a choice that you make, every day, to BE TRUE.

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The Queen of Spades, the asexual pride knight! Her armor is engraved with constellations and in her hands she wields a sword forged from the fabric of space itself ♠️✨ The Pride Knights Playing Cards, art prints and uncut sheets are now available for pre-order here: prideknights.com

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On conservation and survival

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As a society we have benefited so much from successful public health measures that we now have the privilege of declaring that we must not need them anymore

Bitch before enriched flour, neural tube defects like spina bifida were far more common. Even now, spina bifida clinicians and researchers are begging to have salt and maize fortified to reach groups that don’t use as much flour. Before iodized salt, the United States had a fucking GOITER BELT. Eleven years after the introduction of fluoridated water, a city in Michigan found the rate of dental caries among school children dropped a staggering 60%— in an era where tooth decay regularly fucking killed people

I’m literally not even going to start on vaccines, which are among the most successful and robustly studied public health measures in world history

You might say “oh well today we all have access to vitamins and toothpastes and dentists so we don’t need those things in our food supplies” and boy do white people on social media loooove to fucking say that. But here’s the thing: no, people don’t all have easy access to those things. That’s privilege talking yet again