Academic Lemonade

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See, that’s what the app is perfect for.

Sounds perfect Wahhhh, I don’t wanna
vwildmage
heavyweightheart

Research has shown that pleasure affects nutrient absorption. In a 1970s study of Swedish and Thai women, it was found that when the Thai women were eating their own (preferred) cuisine, they absorbed about 50% more iron from the meal than they did from eating the unfamiliar Swedish food. And the same was true in the reverse for the Swedish women. When both groups were split internally and one group given a paste made from the exact same meal and the other was given the meal itself, those eating the paste absorbed 70% less iron than those eating the food in its normal state.

Pleasure affects our metabolic pathways; it’s a facet of the complex gut-brain connection. If you’re eating foods you don’t like because you think it’s healthy, it’s not actually doing your body much good (it’s also unsustainable, we’re pleasure-seeking creatures). Eat food you enjoy, it’s a win-win.

jenroses

what

no seriously

what?

robotlyra

PLEASURE IS A NECESSARY PART OF HUMAN HEALTH, BOTH PSYCHOLOGICALLY AND PHYSICALLY

aleatoryw

this is why you should be eating your chips with salsa and guac instead of beating yourself up for not eating a salad with tomato and avocado (unless you are a salad bitch like me then enjoy both of them!)

killjoy

here’s a recent systemic review of all the research done on the subject

magicalmanhattanproject
lily-learns-finnish

So bachelor in Finnish is just “boyman” (poikamies)? That’s hilarious. So you can say “Sä oot niin poikamies”. (“You’re such a boyman.”)

linesca

The apartment in which a single man lives is a poikamiesboksi, a boy man box.

punalippulaiva

Ah, but let’s not forget bachelorette: rather than being the logical tyttönainen (girl woman), it is poikamiestyttö (boy man girl).

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txttletale

i dont agree with a lot of the posturing against people who only watch kid's cartoons because it feels mean-spirited. like if you want to do that it's cool and i don't think you're committing some moral or intellectual sin--but it is very silly when people who do this forget that they're watching cartoons for children, not in a 'you can't expect children's media to be good' way or even a 'the politics of children's media aren't worth analyzing way' but in a 'you have to be realistic about genre expectations' way. because that's how you end up with arguments over whether steven universe should have killed people or not

hacash

#children's media often has 'violence is bad' messaging in it that would be obnoxious in media for adults#this is bcos many little kids do need to be told not to bite their siblings (via @penny-anna​)

magicalmanhattanproject
mamoru

twitter rebranding as X sure is on brand for someone who threw one of the world's most expensive tantrums over being broken up with

mamoru

part of why elon is so openly transphobic now is how mad he is that his ex started dating a trans woman, and elon's trans daughter humiliated him by disowning him as her father. in case you were wondering. being transphobic is part of revenge to him. he truly is a professional ex. professional ex partner and professional ex father.

magicalmanhattanproject
cyborg-sevalle

You want some real legitimate advice about mental health? Stop being mean to yourself.

Like, when you wanna say mean shit about yourself either internally or externally, work to learn how to step back a moment and remind yourself that what you are doing is a form of self-harm and not a fair or legitimate judgement on you as a person, and furthermore is not productive to your survival or well-being.

Even if you fuck something up, you can resolve to do better in the future, you can tell yourself that you’re going to make this a learning experience, and even if you’ve made the same mistake 50 times already, telling yourself you’ll get it right someday if you just keep trying will always do you better than calling yourself an idiot and beating yourself up for not being able to get it right.

Take it from me, a lot of mental health shit is a product of your environment and personal history, and therefore you really don’t have the control over it that you need to get by without others’ help, but one thing you can have some control over is whether you’re going to be a friend to yourself or just another enemy, and if you want to survive, you’ve gotta strive to be in your own corner as best you can.

kedreeva

Started a discord server a couple of years back, and one of the rules is you can’t be mean to yourself. You don’t have to be nice to yourself, you just can’t be mean. If someone says something self-deprecating, they THEN have to say 3 nice things about themselves to make up for it. This was a steep and harsh learning curve because I can tell you NO ONE wanted to publicly say 3 nice things about themselves a second time (but also, hilariously, everyone else was very eager to inflict making their friends say nice things about themselves, because pretty much everyone wants their friends to be nice to themselves… Go ahead and think about that a minute and try to remember that you are that friend for others, and that they want you to be kind to you, too)

And… Actually it worked. It didn’t work just in the server either, multiple people admitted they caught themselves doing it in real life, and put themselves through saying the nice things to themselves about themselves. And you know, the server is a lovely place to be, these days. Watching people be kind to themselves had a great influence. Not being constantly exposed to people you like saying mean things about themselves actually makes it more pleasant to be there. More people voluntarily praise each other and themselves, and creativity and community remain plentiful. It’s contagious.

I stopped being mean to myself after seeing a post here which communicated the harm it can do, when you say something mean about yourself and then people who like or may look up to you hear it. When you’re a writer or something and you say you’re bad or that something you made is crap, any reader or writer or other creative doing the same thing as you that thinks you’re better at it than they are is being told (in their minds) that they’re worse and their creation is worse crap. That’s not a message I ever want to send, that is not a cruelty I ever intended to inflict even unwittingly. So I stopped.

And holy SHIT does it make a difference. Not even being nice, but just not being actively mean to yourself. Make a pact with some friends if you’re having a hard time stopping on your own. The first time you have to claw your way through saying nice things about yourself in front of someone else after they pointed it out to you will change you.

magicalmanhattanproject
mask-knife-is-kohgas-wife

Working at a movie theatre and a male coworker being like ugh all these guys being forced to dress as Ken for their girlfriends but every couple I see is just beautiful excited girls and their absolutely adoring boyfriends looking at them glowing in the sunlight from the theatre sunroof in the popcorn line and like

This is why you don't have a girlfriend man. Men in fact love and adore their partners wake up we love men sound in their masculinity