aiislove
5d ago
Other great sources of potassium: Potatoes with skin, spinach, beans/lentils, salmon and clams. I happen to dislike spinach, beans and lentils, so I don't get my potassium there. I'm not a huge potato person and didn't eat much seafood until a few years ago. Other people probably get plenty of potassium from those foods but I don't, so the bananas it is for me.
aiislove
5d ago
For me it's the weather that's they won't stop talking about. It feels like they're trying to control the narrative and manipulate you- they get to say how the weather is, you tacitly agree because who cares about the weather, so they can feel like they have the upper hand when they want to move onto more important matters
aiislove
5d ago
Where do you get your cramps? I have gotten cramps in my legs and feet, and occasionally elsewhere, for my entire life. If I eat a banana every few days I don't have cramps. I am sure it is tied entirely to potassium intake for me. I never get the cramps within a day or two after eating a banana, every time I get a cramp it has been several days since I've had a banana. I've looked up alternate sources of potassium- avocado is supposed to be one, but I find that avocados don't work as well as bananas for me.
aiislove
7d ago
I went to school with a girl named Alexa who no one liked because she acted like a know it all robot all the time so I find people barking commands at their "Alexa" charming. Whenever I try to think about the name Siri I think, isn't that what Tom Cruise's kid is named? And then I remember that it is not
aiislove
21d ago
I wish more publications operated that way. The $40 fashion magazine in the era of endless free entertainment baffles me (though I guess it makes me want them more since most people wouldn't pay for it. Maybe that's the secret.)
aiislove
21d ago
Yes when I hear "sailor" I imagine it can mean a sailor in the military or someone who sails on any kind of vessel. I like watching "maritime" videos on youtube and people who aren't in the military use "sailor" all the time generically
Apologies for referring to Navy sailors as soldiers in my comment below, and thanks for the correction. Actually it felt weird as I was typing "soldier" but I thought that was because a close relative was in the Navy and thinking of him as a sailor makes sense in my brain but calling him a soldier in my brain felt weird. Apparently my instinct was correct.
aiislove
21d ago
I am asking you because I know you're German:
How do people typically explain why East Germany today is seen as the most supportive of right wing politics in Germany? My imagination is that East Germans, having been communist in the past, would remain more left wing after integration with the rest of Germany, but that seems not to be the case. Is it because the East Germans have experienced communism and reject it, in a similar way to how Cubans in Florida often reject communism? If so, does the rest of Germany not have any instinct to trust the East German experience with their recent past of communism? Or is it because German politics are too different from American/anglo politics and left/right and communist/capitalist are too tenuously linked in the context of Germany today that I may be projecting dynamics onto the situation that are not correct?
aiislove
21d ago
Growing up I would read a ton of magazines, in highschool I probably read 6 or 7 different magazines every month. My dad would take me to the bookstore in my town and buy me whatever magazine I wanted. When I went away to college I had to pay for the magazines myself so I stopped buying them. I kept thinking about how nearly everything I use online is free- youtube, blogs (circa 2009) and so on, funded by ads, and how there were so many ads in every magazine I wanted to read, and how the good fashion magazines were so expensive even with so many ads. I didn't understand why they had to keep raising prices for the media when they were mostly probably funded by the advertising and I found it irritating to pay for something filled with ads. Lots of museums offer free admission now, you just pay for parking- why couldn't magazines be free and just get funded by the advertising? Wouldn't certain advertisers love to be in a free publication that people don't even have to pay to be exposed to?
aiislove
23d ago
$4k average spend sound right?
Oh, you don't know how cheap Thailand is and how far 4k will get you. How long will the sailors be in Pattaya? I couldn't spend 4k in Pattaya in under a month unless I was tipping literally everybody 100 USD and staying at stupidly expensive resorts (if those even exist in Pattaya, idk because my ex-bf insisted we stay at the sketchiest $20 a night place when we went) and you don't even have to tip people there and half of them won't know what you're doing if you try. Thai people are so bad culturally with money that I'm not worried about a theoretical 20 million dollar influx either- I've heard people in Thailand tell each other that if they have any extra money that they have to donate it to the poor or a Buddhist temple for example the mindset is just totally foreign to western thinking.
Pattaya probably the craziest party city they could go to, when I heard they were dumping soldiers there on leave the image in my mind was crazy. Would be a hell of a place to distract yourself from a war. Hope the soldiers are respecting the place (lol.)
aiislove
27d ago
Weed triggers ridiculous anxiety for me and a lot of other people I know anecdotally, absolutely would not recommend starting for stress or grief relief imo
aiislove
27d ago
I went on an SSRI in college when I was very suicidal. I probably would have killed myself without it so I am grateful that I was put on it, but I stayed on it for too long. I finally told my doctor I wanted off them when I was feeling much better about things, probably after being on them for 5 years or so. She halved my dose and then I just quit them without consulting her (I wouldn't advise others do it that way but I just wanted the agency to choose for myself.) I am generally wary of weirdo psychological drugs but if you are going to kill yourself or are a danger to yourself in some way I do think they can help. I had a few weird side effects going on them and similar weird side effects coming off them, and felt some brain fog while on them which is mostly why I wanted to stop, but I don't think the side effects were really bad and I didn't have enough trouble coming off them that I even remember what it was like.
aiislove
29d ago
Oh, ugh. It looked like the 90s to me because Adam Sandler looks like the 90s to me
aiislove
30d ago
I did not go see it in theaters but I would have walked out of Uncut Gems (2019.) It is one of the few movies I have stopped watching out of aesthetic disgust. I am biased because I can't stand Adam Sandler, the 90s, drab colors, New York City, irritating people, tedious plotlines, debt, money problems, greediness, stupid decisions, arguing, basically the entire thing was unbearably ugly to me. It is ironic that such an ugly movie could be made about beautiful jewels and gold and opals
And this is coming from someone who loves the grittiness of 70s films like The American Friend and various Fassbinder things which are drab in a beautiful way, I can't stomach it after about 1978
aiislove
1mo ago
If I were antiarminianist, such as I'd imagine a predestinarian sorting hat would be, I'd be eager to sort Arminianists even more than anyone else, purely out of contrarianism
aiislove
1mo ago
Dick means thick or fat in German. I went to school with people with the last name Dicke which is a variation of dick. (Though they pronounced it like "Dicky" whereas Germans would pronounce it like "dick-uh.") We also had a Mr. Cox who was a dick
I have a really crazy classmate name that I can't share without doxing myself but every time I tell people irl they think it's wild.
In highschool our German teacher had a French last name and our French teacher had a German last name
aiislove
1mo ago
Which Harry Potter house would you be sorted into? I’m either a Slytherin who thinks he’s a Hufflepuff or a Hufflepuff who thinks he’s a Slytherin. I’d rather go to Durmstrang or Beauxbatons though.
aiislove
1mo ago
Your lack of self awareness is unfortunate.
The sass and disrespect probably feels cool to you but delegitimizes your authority and makes the quality of the forum a little worse. I usually don't disagree with your modding or your points and I'm sure it's very stressful and irritating to get abuse all the time but you're not setting a great example of civility.
aiislove
1mo ago
modern journos decided to start capitalizing "Black" specifically because it's silly and wrong
No, I don't think this is a charitable interpretation. I think modern journalists started doing it to be respectful. I capitalize Black because I think it is silly and wrong and points to the hypocrisy of the left and the surrealism of our society as a whole. I do it because it is the "correct" way in the style guide newspeak of today. It is similar to how some American Indians prefer to be called Indians as it points to the idiocy of the explorers who believed they were in Asia and so on.
aiislove
1mo ago
No no no he was simply very low intelligence in terms of math and verbal intelligence and so on. A huge chunk of my family on one side are teachers or work in education and I don't buy the "blame the schools not the students" line at all. I grew up in a relatively affluent suburban school next to a northern migration city with a huge Black population, and the Black kids in my very same school were all in remedial education programs while all the Asians were in advanced programs. I don't know how everyone didn't notice this in first grade and then assume HBD was right from the start, it boggles my mind.
From what I understand teaching methods in Mississippi are closer to traditional education methods rather than the liberal "phonics isn't real" thing so I'm imagining that explains that
aiislove
1mo ago
I don't disagree and I understand your point of view, but as someone who travels a ton, and who can see the good in the Mexicans and Thais and Jamaicans of the world as much as in the Swiss and the Japanese and the WASPs, I don't accept the given superiority of the latter group over the former in a cosmic sense, while at the same time, hoping that the latter people can have the conscientiousness to assert their values over more dysfunctional ones. HBD is actually the most effective and kind tools we have to do this. I don't believe in lying to anyone, I believe that even Black American people can accept HBD statistics if they are spoken to like mature and intelligent people. A huge percentage of them don't like a ridiculous dysfunctional leadership any more than the rest of us.
aiislove
1mo ago
Please try harder to step out of your point of view. If you truly believe that Black people are inferior, which you just said, this is because you have accepted a certain set of rules that means the qualities of Black people are inferior to the qualities of other groups of people.
A long time ago I had a boyfriend who was Black. He could barely count when he went to pay for things (this is not an exaggeration) and I'm not sure he could even type to text or if he used speech to text for everything he wrote. Yet still there were qualities he had that impressed me. He was so kind, had a great memory, so musically talented, so friendly, even when we were doing something so casually like going to a movie or dinner he made it feel like a special occasion. He passed away a few years ago but I still remember him fondly and think I became a better person and my world was improved by being with him even though it was for such a short time. He had various health issues he was saddled with from his birth he had no control over that eventually ended his life far too early. But despite all this I do not today or ever in the past see him as inferior to me in any way. I am not religious but I believe every person is equal and that we must treat each other as such. It offends me that people might have seen him as an inferior person to me. And I feel the same way about other boyfriends I've had in the past, regardless of their race, people in my family, who are all the same race as me, and every other person living or dead.
The broader point I want to make is that there is more than one measure of a man. If you belong to mainstream bourgeois western society today, there are certain skills and traits that are predominant and revered. I have Noticed that most of these traits align with the traits of White people especially and to a lesser extent East Asian people. These traits are portrayed as intelligence, time efficiency, cleverness, and so on. But intelligence brings with it an arrogance, time efficiency the specter of impatience, and cleverness a tendency to manipulate. These are not inherently superior traits, and often are perceived badly by people outside of the modern West.
In other words, if you buy into a worldview that places Black people as inferior to any other race, perhaps your worldview is wrong.
I have very few opinions on a huge number of political issues which I think skewed my strange results
I took the 60 question version. I guess I lean toward federalism as a midwesterner with certain Appalachian tendencies. I have never thought very much about Elon Musk in general and don't think we're very similar people. When I read "Montesquieu" I was imagining Robert de Montesquieu for a moment which I thought was a very glamorous person to include as a result in this type of quiz.
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