I Can Do It. I Can Put In The Work And Do It.

I can do it. I can put in the work and do it.

Good advice.

observations from urgent care

- People who exercise a lot get knee injuries from overdoing it

- People who only exercise occasionally get knee injuries from being unprepared for the exertion

- People who don’t exercise get knee injuries from being out of shape

- Maybe knees just suck

ok i think what gets me about the kind of post that's like '[children's media] has child soldiers, where are their parents!!' is that those stories really and truly aren't for people who'll think about that, they're for the people the children's age, who don't, for the most part, want to be kept safe or told they're too young to participate in the world, they want to be given a sword

If you want to fight off the existential dread of capitalism, I highly recommend donating to your local food bank if you can afford to. I'm on SSI so I don't have a whole lot to give, so to maximize my impact and get the most good out of what little I can give I donate $5 to the food bank every month because the food bank can feed at LEAST 20 people with $5. They can buy food in bulk. As in, crates of food for a single dollar. Monetary donations go so much farther than your old cans of tomatoes or whatever.

And like! I can't change that I'm disabled and poor. I can't change the economic and political system I live under. But I can feed 20 people every month. So I do. Does it make a difference in the grand scheme of things? Maybe not. But it made a difference to those 20 people. That's a lot of people! That's a whole crowd!

And it's selfish because I do this specifically to make myself feel better. But those 20 people probably wouldn't call me selfish. His Holiness the Dalai Lama often says (paraphrasing) the way to be happy is to be kind and compassionate towards others, so if you want to be selfish be wisely selfish and help others. And he's not wrong! It helps! I feel better AND 20 people get an extra meal. Win win.

>breadtuber makes content about sociological stuff

>they use a lot of big words, but in a practical way, to convey meaningful ideas that they're genuinely interested in exploring

>they use philosophical and historical references in this way too

>they're being very clear in terms of the language and terminology they use, but the ideas are (sometimes) so complex and counterintuitive they're still genuinely hard to understand even if you're paying attention

>it comes off *almost* like they're resorting to well-done intellectualism as a defense mechanism

>not in a grifter kinda way, more as if they're trying to cut their way out of some of the parasocial mess that comes with being an online figure by being able to say "look, I expressed my ideas clearly and concisely and so you don't get to make it any more personal than that"

>a few years later you find out about their autism diagnosis

Who could've seen it coming?