To be fair that means the education system has failed you in that regard. That probably contributes to the anti vax cult, they’re simply not taught why vaccines are important and what they help prevent.

SMH in my country you would’ve had to do it. Unless you’d gone vegan.

Any tips on taking care of your immunity, inflammation and energy level?

To add to this: pretty much nobody thinks skinny people are attracted. It’s a constructed ideal that many want to achieve, but few want to see in a potential partner.

Source: used to be skinny and bullied for it

Btw it also feels like shit. You’re tired all the time, you’re cold all the time, when you sit on something solid, like wood, it hurts because there’s no fat between your pelvis and the chair, and that’ll give you back pain.

Just thought this was relevant because ‘it’s unhealthy’ is sometimes too abstract for people to care

I can’t find anything that matches your description of US can openers on DDG, do you happen to have a pic? Can’t picture it

My mum gave me those for toys as a kid, to make stuff like you described. Ate a fair few, am fine.

My mum said when she installed tinder it was full of dick pics as profile pictures

It’s certainly a big problem, but not the only one. Plenty of people refuse to use the public transport and bike infrastructure available to them. It’s decades of propaganda and individual-over-collective mindset that contributes to people choosing to drive, and this counter propaganda might help with that.

Source: I live in a city that’s very walkable, bikeable and has great public transport, but many still drive as their sole mode of transportation.

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I find that hard to believe

This would be true in a vacuum where marginalization and power dynamics don’t exist. It’s a symptom of women’s systemic oppression and needs to be called out as that in order to fight womens oppression. Especially since this is happening in the public eye and thus shaping people’s views. I’m not doubting the women are consenting, and they’re not to blame at all. It’s Leo and the media and public opinion that are doing harm by framing this situation as desirable.

Nothing I said could even be reasonably misconstrued to indicate that I do.

I’m asking people to examine their potential biases when they are ok with the symptoms of the marginalisation of certain groups of people.

The people who use what society reduces them to to their benefit in the few instances that they can arent to blame in the slightest btw. I just hope they’ll get past this without trauma, unlike every woman I know that dated an older man very shortly after becoming a legal adult.

You’re right, those are to blame too. That’s why I made the comment. I didn’t think it’d reach Leo. I thought I’d make a person or two think about whether that’s ok behaviour to emulate and an ok view on women to have.

Dating women who are just old enough to be legal but only while they look youthful. While being in a societal position where your life is public and you can do whatever you want, the latter of which many look up to. This normalizes dating women for looks, namely for looking young, instead of for having things in common. This doesn’t exactly improve how women are viewed. Youngness isn’t a woman’s biggest asset and we shouldn’t encourage the normalization of the view that it is. The fact that some women are complicit in this doesn’t change it.

Hotter take: This shit perpetuates women as sexual objects though, which, in some cases, might even make it easier for someone to rationalize their violence against a woman

Oh god do people think you’re being performative when you read in public transport?

Probably not going to change your mind, but possibly the mind of someone reading this who’s on the fence.

On the one hand, yes, for-profit healthcare can be incentived to come up with unnecessary treatments, or with over prescribing medications that have their time and place. That’s how the opium epidemic came to be, and that’s why ozempic is trendy among those who don’t really need it.

On the other hand, healthcare isn’t for-profit everywhere in the world, and neither is research. Especially the latter is often publicly funded. With publicly funded services, the most efficient way to go about health care is to only do necessary treatments and to try and get people off treatment once they don’t need it anymore.

Yes, we have more medications now than ever before. But that’s because research is progressive. We’re learning more and more about illnesses and how to best treat or even cure them. That’s why life expectancy is on the rise pretty much everywhere where the general public has access to shelter, food, and affordable healthcare.

The fact that research is progressive is also why you’re seeing more illnesses, especially mental ones, pop up. Some decades ago, we simply didn’t have diagnostic criteria for mental illnesses that we do now. So, for example, autism just wasn’t called autism. Autistic people were just described as odd, crazy, rude, unsociable, lazy etc. For that reason, it makes sense to see a correlation between the number of illnesses and the number of medications, but that doesn’t mean the meds are causing the illnesses. If anything, it’s the other way around: recognizing more illnesses makes for the need for more medications.

Every medication was created for a purpose and has years and years of science and studies behind it. If we just prescribed random shit that doesn’t help, why would we bother with that?

However, that doesn’t mean there’s no over prescribing going on and that there’s no, for lack of a better term, evil plots by big pharma. The opium epidemic was willingly created by pharmaceutical companies for the sake of profit. That doesn’t mean that morphine etc. where just developed for that evil plot. It’s a legit necessary painkiller in many cases.

So to sum up: the meds are all necessary, even if they’re sometimes over prescribed for profit in some places.

Right on! Also, before they started dissecting dead bodies to find the cause of death in, like, the 16th century, nobody had cancer. We should put a stop to both autopsies and psychiatry! End cancer and mental illness now!

Men are people who are capable of respect and love for others and don’t deserve this