mittens [he/him]

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Cake day: July 30th, 2020

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  • The best you can do to deal with stress eating is to plan for such a contingency. Make sure your fridge and pantry are stocked with complex carb snacks, and make food that is too caloric dense less available. Your lizard brain will be less likely to want to binge if food isn’t as easily accessible. Complement snacks with protein so you get satisfied faster, stuff like eating a piece of chocolate with a pint of greek yogurt and a bunch of splenda REALLY REALLY hits the spot without putting on a lot of calories, there are probably a bunch of low-cal high-protein recipes online which you can try for emergency cravings. I have to disagree a little bit with calorie counting, only do this if you’re really unsure as to where the extra calories are coming from and until you get a feel for caloric contents on food, but in my case it just made my ED worse in the long run, so I’d be cautious if you think you have an ED already. And yeah sleep well, not sleeping well makes you waaay hungrier, but you already know this. The most important thing is to not beat yourself up if you end up binging, it happens. There’s really no hurry and you should take your time.





  • there’s degrees to “falling for that shit” though. the cost of minting an NFT is literally negligible for the coca cola company, and the upside is enormous if it becomes an irrational market like bitcoin was. otoh, making a game centered around NFTs is sad as fuck, those people got screwed hard.

    also, this is just my perception, but it could’ve been the other way around even. bitcoin became an irrational market because there was some purity to its conception: it was merely an unfeasible currency theory put into action, so libertarians could masturbate over it. as lousy as the theoretical pinnings of bitcoin are, there were no companies getting in on the action from the getgo. it wasn’t meant to be a casino, it just devolved into one. companies getting day one onto the NFT train just made it way more obvious that it was meant to extract profit from compulsive gamblers, and the unsightliness accelerated their demise. it was just too on the nose for most people.





  • It mimicked the aesthetic and sounds of folk music but none of the content.

    The whole hipster subculture was a grotesque imitation of working class americana, is it a coincidence that it emerged shortly after the subprime mortgage crisis? no it isn’t, shopping from goodwill became popular out of necessity and then the aesthetics of thrifting emerged as a response because rich people felt alienated from the moment (the moment being the 2008 financial crisis). the saddest thing are fascists today trying to co-opt hipster aesthetics, a coarse imitation of an imitation that only vaguely retains its working class signifiers. a trend so passé that even having hipsters as the butt of the joke feels completely out-of-touch.