flippers and feet.

Who you going to call?

Maybe that’ll help take some of the attention from the fails in Iran.

Around and around we go.

Where?

Oh! On the web interface? n_n I don’t use the web interface. It’s video, so I use a video player. I see no ads, ~ if I do [like ads read out by the podcast host], I skip ahead.

on YouTube’s TV app

That’s where you went wrong. Come to the free software community. We can mend bugs (like malicious features (like ads)) with free software, being free to use, study, share & change the software.

“Villains who twirl their moustaches are easy to spot. Those who clothe themselves in good deeds are well camouflaged.” – Picard.

Need some video games that do not atrophy your ass to eternity.

You make it fun. And the fun don’t stop.

… Unless you burn out. Burn out is no fun. [<- To be clear, that is “no fun”, not merely “not fun”. Burnout blocks all fun. Which, recursively, is, no fun.]

No lower back pain these days much ever at all.

It’s all upper back pain and shin pain these days.

Upper back pain’s for pussies.

You want back pain, lower’s where the strong stuff is. Carrying more weight on it.

Shin pain, sharp and brutal, but at least it’s not hip pain.

Best I’ve had though, detatched muscle on the side of my torso. Every breath in, every breath out, like a breadknife being pushed in to, and pulled out of, my side. For months/years. That was my 20s. Still flares up every once in a while.

If only what-ails-us were as simple as to go by age. Then I’d have been spared winning a comorbidity jackpot of over a dozen autoimmune conditions and more.

Ones existence being what it is, is the existence one knows, and so it’s the norm, even if it seems to suck to others… No, but yeah, it does suck. Sucks being in this, one of the biggest minorities, the only one anyone can join at any time, like it or not, and probably not, … Sucks having people stop you in the street asking if you’re alright when you’re just hobbling along like your normal but they think you’ve just been stabbed. Sucks having stories of one ailment accidentally bring people to tears, and then think best not tell of the ten worse ailments.

No matter what condition you’re in, live life to the full. It’s too easy to squander the sunshine. Seize the moment. Find exuberant joy in everything you do, and do everything joyous, joyously.

Promise me…

*cough cough*

Promise me you’ll do this, no matter age nor ails, build no fodder for regretting having not done, by simply doing. Living. Appreciate that you can. Grant me this dying wish. Promise me you’ll live. Live. Live!

I mean… It’s not that bad. I’m not dying, soon, afaik. But still, like the OP says, live these decades correctly. Have fun.

(Like I did, writing this… Oh look, I am doing 40s correctly after all! Yay!)

Can make own at home, with a blender.

Roast your own nuts of choice.

Roasted Almond. Great.

Roasted Almond with roasted Hemp kernels. Great.

Roasted Almonds with roasted Hemp kernels, walnuts, pecans, pistachios, brazil nuts, hazelnuts, with a dash of chocolate, chilli, turmeric and white pepper… Great.

Taking the junk from the corporation… Not so great.

Much more fun exploring what ingredients go in your food, rather than have the corporation choose for you. They don’t choose for you. They choose for themselves, at you. You end up with junk instead of food.

Much more fun making your own. Healthier, cost similar, more nutrition, and no where near as much nutrientless white crystalline addictants… unless you want that, and can add sugar back in if you want. (Roasting makes it sweet though. Top tip. Healthy sweet.)

Just almonds, roasted, then blended smooth at a medium speed. Try it. See which wins your taste test.

Oops. Sorry. I’ve been doing 30s and 40s wrong!

That’s when I had lower back pain.

Girls of any size can adjust their browser settings…

Guy does not need girl (regardless of size) to adjust his browser settings.

Guy can adjust his own browser cookie settings.

… Wait. Have I stumbled into a euphemism?

And dwelled on.

And what happened before that too, for how long, and then before that for how long.

Good job, colonialism. /s

But no, seriously, good job civil rights campaigns. We’re not done yet.

Man smokes cigarette while receiving sloppy toppy from mentally unstable woman

You’d be amazed at how often this happens

I’ve been doing autism wrong.

Can I get that on the NHS?

Fine, don’t offer to clarify what you meant.

Seemed like noise. When seeking signal, got evasion, in tone policing and presumably some kind of gaslighting attempt, and projecting.

That Aries, eh? Control drama demos.

That makes the plausibility of projecting even more curious.

Also [that and the blog post posted 2 weeks before I said the thing] does not explain, nor refute, only further lending to my suspicions, like maybe something got misunderstood about some/all of what I said in:

Or, vote for something other than going to the bad place?

Someone offers you two pills, you don’t have to take either. You can make your own, and seek other options.

to make it mean

I don’t care, I have absolutely no preference

that you’ve twice reasserted

So yes, you did say “I don’t care, I have absolutely no preference”.

you’re saying you don’t have a preference

means I’m saying I don’t have a preference, without yet having demonstrated why… which is delightfully ironic from how that blog post starts…

Wernicke’s Aphasia (pronounced ver-nick-ees) is a neurological disorder involving damage to the part of the brain that comprehends the meanings of words. Patients with Wernicke’s Aphasia communicate with perfect rhythm, pronunciation, and fluency, except that words in their speech don’t mean what the patient thinks they mean. If you haven’t heard of it before, you should absolutely look up a video of a person with this disorder talking, it’s very interesting.

I bring up Wernicke’s Aphasia in the context of voting because I’m trying to come up with a good metaphor for what I mean, here. This idea of a person who miscommunicates in a way that is invisible to themself, but which utterly garbles their meaning. Maybe a better metaphor is those white people who get Chinese tattoos that don’t mean what they think they mean, but I can’t think of a quippy way to reference that. But the idea of losing something in translation is very much what I’d like to talk to you about today.

and from my suspicions from

Well, there’s this thing called voting literacy, and the thing is, if your voting literacy is poor, you can say things you don’t intend to say. So yes, you did say “I don’t care, I have absolutely no preference”. And it’s your responsibility to learn enough mathematics to be able to say what you mean. I’m not gonna treat you like a baby and find the intended meaning in what you say, you have to grow up and say what you mean.

and the context of no explanation offered to hold to account.

But I remain hopeful a clear simple (not time wasting) explanation can be given for such a simple thing that can be explained, rather than condescending self aggrandising hot air red-herring wild goose chase.

How is

Or, vote for something other than going to the bad place?

Someone offers you two pills, you don’t have to take either. You can make your own, and seek other options.

interpreted as saying

I don’t care, I have absolutely no preference

?

… Frankly a question made all the more needed to be re-asked since the blog post’s broadly making the same point I’m making with that statement, my comment in question is not falling foul of it, and certainly not saying "I don’t care, I have absolutely no preference”; all the more looking like it was not understood, and the reluctance to offer coherent illustration of how that’s been interpreted so, further lends to the suspicion of psychologically projecting, and succumbing to the psychology and philosophical communication fail mentioned in the piece about “voting aphasia” in that projection.

I don’t know when that time frame is, but, I have noticed an increase in poor modding in some places [which also lowered my interaction rate with the whole of Lemmy], and a drop in correspondence quality to nearer reddit level. But maybe that’s just from me as I expand out to more places in Lemmy.

Never saw that before.

Never going to unsee.

Slanderous misrepresentation. Did not say that.

So implausible, it seems you’re just trolling. Or maybe have crossed wires, replying to the wrong thing? … Or maybe have some psyop programs running that you truly believe what you say, with your perception perverted by some kind of groupthink and the false dichotomy fallacies the programming produces? Or maybe narcissistic deflecting and blame shifting and trying to save face rather than entertain an idea and concede the logic and learn from it? Or… maybe you’re on to something sound that you’ve just yet to effectively convey? But then, even if that’s so, we’re back to projecting, with the peculiarly expressed accusation of failing to communicate effectively (~ with mathematics?). And the condescending gaslighting hypocrisy doesn’t help your case much either.

If you can quote the relevant parts, I’m happy to hear out your explanation that refutes my claim I did not say that. Especially if you can do it without the inflamed ego toxicity. LOL.