My last mania was early February, and I’m on a 6 month cycle so next should be around August, so I think what I’m feeling rn is my mood’s bottomed out and it’s heading back up.
Looking at my CBD+CBN gummies for sleep, and like, old stoner hippies may have been tedious but weed really has replaced less effective pharmaceutical medications with more side effects
I can never take Americans who fetshize yoga and ashrams and Ayurveda and Hindu spiritualism shit in general seriously because if you Google basically any prominent yogi in India you will almost always find them saying some absolutely absurd/fucked up shit. There’s another yogi in India who opem discusses exterminating Muslims. Like I can’t square this reality with the “peace and love” image that Americans (honestly non-American white westerners are even worse I think, like europeans/israelis/aussies) have of India and yoga and Hinduism in their head. Like talk about rose colored glasses lmao
Having India on the internet has been fascinating for getting to see (often) English-speaking cultures that have just not internalized “modern” norms against cheerfully celebrating like, rape, or exterminatory social cleansing.
what a strange strange thing to say.
Like, you could grant arguendo all the feminist stuff about America having a “rape culture” – the pre-Take Back The Night frat party and ‘80s teen house party scenes really were “become debilitated on alcohol and experience sexual contact pre-marked as valid before any issue of consent” as a young adult norm.
I don’t have a sense of how much it manifests in real life – respected elders’ sexual abuse of the young is often covered up! – but Japanese pop culture often has some sympathetic idealization of the dirty old man.
The UK had Benny Hill!
But still, since the late nineties, if I ever see someone on the Internet just reminiscing about stranger or acquaintance rape in a casual tone, like as if they were talking about this one time they played a pickup game of basketball and it wasn’t even like Their One Basketball Story, it is always, always, without exception, some Indian guy talking about village girls or aunties or tight choots or something.
I can never take Americans who fetshize yoga and ashrams and Ayurveda and Hindu spiritualism shit in general seriously because if you Google basically any prominent yogi in India you will almost always find them saying some absolutely absurd/fucked up shit. There’s another yogi in India who opem discusses exterminating Muslims. Like I can’t square this reality with the “peace and love” image that Americans (honestly non-American white westerners are even worse I think, like europeans/israelis/aussies) have of India and yoga and Hinduism in their head. Like talk about rose colored glasses lmao
Having India on the internet has been fascinating for getting to see (often) English-speaking cultures that have just not internalized “modern” norms against cheerfully celebrating like, rape, or exterminatory social cleansing.
Big part of maturity has been realizing that the only Doonesbury character worth emulating is Zonker, which is why I’ve spent the last half-decade getting stoned, going outside shirtless, and communing with plants
how are you 40 years old and not know how stainless steelcookware works
stainless means it won't fucking rust not that you can't polymerize oil into it
My mother leaned in to the housewife domestic martyrdom and kept kitchen work to herself, then they skipped me to “Computer 2” in middle school because they thought I was smart (it was really a typing sequence and I didn’t know how to type) and that screwed up the rest of my (not really) elective cycle so I never had Home Ec, since then I guess my pans were either coated or cast-iron?
i've grown up learning that stainless steel is called so because it is resistant to rust and oxidation. it can still very much be stained by other things.
I can see why that would be the criteria that makes for the important, standard type of steel encountered in end-user applications, but couldn’t they have called it “rustproof steel”, or “rustless steel”, like Harry Brearley did? Or “chromium steel”, like how Billy Joel fits the meter in Allentown?
kudos to everyone who recommended Bar Keeper’s Friend, but even with that it took several rounds of hard scrubbing with heavy grade steel wool
Like my whole life I thought it was weird always hearing about “stainless steel” and if it had turned out this was the regular version in action I would be like “ohhhhh”, but this is stainless steel!
Actually kind of wild that since my childhood watching reruns of the original turn-of-the-70s series, Scooby-Doo has been a constant and periodically more prominent presence in American popular culture
Like, those kids would be in their early seventies today. They would have gone through several dogs after Scooby.
Actually kind of wild that since my childhood watching reruns of the original turn-of-the-70s series, Scooby-Doo has been a constant and periodically more prominent presence in American popular culture
Yeah, I think I called the “average side of overweight” well (from the previous transition from “fat side of overweight” to “plain overweight” I’d realized to hold off another week or two to fully settle in), feeling my torso up to then was a process of it getting less bad, but now it’s affirmatively better every day
Spider-Verse reminding the MCU that a big comics team-up isn’t about the object-level plot and villain, it’s about getting all the good guys to fight each other over some misunderstanding in the middle third
Rearranging the kitchen so the fridge-prep-oven sequence flows whether “oven” is the stove, microwave, or toaster oven while maximizing use of all counters and outlets, have kinda mastered this kitchen just in time to contribute real insight to its remodeling
The ‘90s, when straight men first picked up anal sex from gays but mistook the defining thing as “the guy fucks his partner in the ass” and not “the guy’s partner fucks him in the ass”
