Oh, Garrett Borns. Such fantastic pop music, got accused of grooming, retired.

Came back, years with a whiny track about that, not even good, so bad, I guess it broke him.

I think it’s more like government can ban what can be sold as food and make advice. They can’t really stop you from drinking bleach or eating the grass in your yard or whatever. They can only prevent you from feeding it to someone else or selling it as food.

Meat isn’t a food that could be banned in the same way as, say, Red Dye #4 or force-hydrogenated fats or high fructose corn syrup. They could make farmers cull whole herds of cows if mad cow broke out i guess, but there are wild hogs, backyard chickens and goats, it’s just not a controllable food.

I say June 2nd of 2025

I type 2025-06-02

Handwritten it’s 2-June-2025

I’m from before 2000 and the turn to years being so small broke me, it used to be so clear which number was the year with just 2 digits, and day, month, year is sorting from smallest unit to biggest, it has logic. But then for awhile you could have a 04, an 05, and an 06 and I was working with other countries, it wasn’t at all clear which was year month or day, so I started sandwiching the month in the middle as a word when handwriting dates and using 4 digit year, and year month day sorts like a dream for filenames.

I get black bean veggie burger with bacon and cheese at the cafe at my work and it’s fantastic. I put mayo, jalapenos and onion on it, sometimes a little Sriracha.

The red light cameras here will call that running a red light, you have to leave it clear by law. That’s a spoken rule.

This is my husband’s “pet peeve”, as he puts it. “Don’t just throw on your brake in the middle of the road! Why are you slowing down? Signal!”

I guess I’d try some, regardless of the legal status of other meats. To see if I liked any. But the insect population has collapsed worse than other animals, I’m not sure how this is an environmental improvement.

Culinary-wise I think I’d do better being vegan probably, though I’d certainly miss having meat and miss cheese and eggs even more.

Maybe I’d get chickens again and let them eat the bugs so I could have the eggs.

That’s assuming I didn’t end up really enjoying cricket pancakes or popped flies or deep fried beetles or stir fried rice with ants or whatever.

Ah, I see, you want to be the pretty one in the relationship ;)

Your dad needs to get over it, I can’t imagine saying anything like that to any of my kids. Just "are you happy? Is he happy? Good, then "

I would personally be squicked out by that age gap because she’s young enough to be your kid. But I’m not you or her, it’s not my business, right? If your daughter thinks she’ll be good for you, the reverse matchmaking is funny, why not at least meet and see how you feel?

Maybe the iron skillets. I don’t think a day passes that I don’t use those. Or my house, it’s from the 1940s. Some of the furniture is older than that too, though I don’t think there is any one piece I actively use each day.

Truly oldest? Double entry accounting, I use nearly every day and that’s from around 1300.

Warrior. My God what a good show.

Wheel of Time, it kept getting better then they stopped.

Hmm. I would need to first be vaccinated vs. yellow fever, because apparently that hit so hard right then it left only a few hundred people. My own house is from 1940, though it’s in the city now it was not developed yet. Holy fuck, it’s also Reconstruction right after the civil war.

I don’t think I would even try. Would be enough of a struggle finding a way to survive. And if we have learned one thing from science fiction, it’s don’t mess with the timeline.

Hmm.

1. Absolutely fucked

2. Still absolutely fucked

3. Ok for awhile I think. Until I was captured and killed for being some sort of impossible demon, or sacrificed as a prize because of unusual looks. Knives, tools to barter, rope, food. Nothing particularly good for hunting with.

Measure your waist monthly. Yep just your waist. For me, I generally see weight loss over a few months of increased exercise. You will get better results with strength training, less weight loss but more lean, so just as much change in volume. Bodyweight will get you there but at some point you may want to pick up weights.

Remember that physical activity does a lot more than keeping your size where you want it. It’s good for your mental health, your bones, your heart, digestion, it’s an important part of a healthy life, be glad you are able.

Unfortunately mom & her mom got dementia, so unless something comes along earlier to kill me, or unless we get a good preventative, that is more likely my fate.

No, they weren’t overweight or smokers or physically idle, my mom was a professor and kept lifelong friends, really no lifestyle risk factors. Of course that’s only on the one side of my family, my dad died of heart condition that I don’t have and I’m not sure about his parents.

I have an ok lifestyle with the people in my house all working now, so would put all of it to use, that’s fine. If I am allowed to keep this in my community and city, I would put it in a trust that could only be used to extend the trolley system here back to at least what it was in the 1940s, and as much farther as practical with that $ and make it free to ride. An endowment that could generate enough money to keep that going and to modernize it.

If it must be global, how many people are there? 8,9 billion ? That’s not even a dollar each, I’m not sure. Maybe plant 5 billion trees, or buy up land & rewild it.

I run pretty hot usually, good sex drive, but nursing absolutely dampened that down to below zero. Plus sex is frightening after birth. Plus having kids hanging on you all the time can certainly make you long for some space with nobody touching you, and a guy asking for sex on top of that can feel like an obligation. Again - I am saying this as someone who literally has sex every day most of the time, and pregnancy made sex feel even better. Nursing killed my sex drive. YES it passes, assuming your kids are healthy, they are easier over time, and eventually even somewhat helpful. Once that babyhood was over, I’d say they were stressful in the way a second job is - it’s just more of everything.

Overall I would say kids were good for the relationship, we stayed together longer and happier because of them. My ex was helpful as a dad, wanted kids, as I did. Kids are hands down the best work I’ve done in my life, nothing else comes close. But it is stressful as fuck, yes. Especially at the start.

Obese is just a medical term. BMI is a height to weight ratio so it’s accurate in that way. It does miss as a measure of over-fat vs. overweight, but more often in the other direction (fat people with normal BMI) but it can err in the other direction sometimes, sure.

The easiest and most accurate way to tell if you are over-fat is waist to height ratio. Your waist circumference should be less than half your height. So if you are 198cm, waist needs to be less than 99cm. This is the only stat that’s been a reliable predictor for health problems from too much fat (because it’s the torso fat that’s more problematic health-wise)

The other thing to remember is that the risk curve for underweight is steep but for overweight it’s shallow - a couple extra kg has almost no extra health risk.

You are a NIMBY! Sprawl does suck, I just always think it’s funny that people move somewhere they like and then think nobody else will.

Where I live, yes you would have to buy the land, but then can get the government to pay you something back if you promise not to develop it, there is a conservation program to preserve wild land. Maybe there is something like that by you.

I have always felt a little out of synch like I was born too early. Not sure I need longer than a regular lifespan, but might consider pausing. The problem is that I have friends, kids, brothers and sisters, don’t think it would be pleasant to wake up with all of them dead or old. So probably not.