Tar_alcaran
@Tar_alcaran@sh.itjust.works
- Comment on An uplifting message for you. 1 day ago:
Well, since this is a russian soldier, their life getting worse is a good thing.
- Comment on [deleted] 2 days ago:
it is a psychoactive stimulant on par with coke
That’s… only true in the most pedantic of ways. The same kind of comparison would say that a supersonic fighterjet is on par with my inline skates, because both are modes of transport
- Comment on [deleted] 2 days ago:
Fresh beans make SO much of a difference. It doesn’t even matter much how it’s made, slow drip, french press, who cares.
- Comment on Causes of death, or track list for latest black metal album? 3 days ago:
It can also be when toothdecay spreads sideways through your mouth.
- Comment on Dear Faith X 4 days ago:
It’s a creative writing exercise someone is posting to Lemmy.
- Comment on It's all SO simple! 5 days ago:
Running sucks, doing a sport you don’t like is impossible to maintain. Thankfully there are a LOT of fun things out there.
I used to hate “every sport”, but after losing weight I took up bodybuilding/weightlifting, and HEMA for years (can’t recommend sports that cause brain damage though, regardless of fun)
- Comment on It's all SO simple! 5 days ago:
The magic number for me was “calories per kilo”. I made a list (I’m sure you could just Google it now) of foods graded by calories per kilo, and just ate the lowest ones.
And presto: suddenly you’re full much faster, longer and you’re losing weight.
Then it was a matter of not snacking out of habit, which is MUCH harder. Of course, you can’t eat food you didn’t buy, so i really only diet at the supermarket.
- Comment on It's all SO simple! 5 days ago:
A healthy body evacuate from the other end of the system most the excess calories taked in.
It really doesn’t. Your body is amazingly efficient, and it really only stops absorbing nutrients if you’re very sick, or doing something moronic like drinking a few glasses of oil a day.
- Comment on It's all SO simple! 5 days ago:
Cucumber, tomatoes, celery. And if you’re willing to prepare something, basically every vegetable qualifies.
Nobody has ever gotten fat off of spinach or mushrooms.
- Comment on It's all SO simple! 5 days ago:
The vast majority of obese people are not willing to admit they caused their obesity, because it’s a human trait not to admit your faults.
Humans would much rather paint themselves as the victim because that’s mentally much easier. “I’m obese because of PCOS/thyroid/magic/metabolism” or “obesity isn’t unhealthy, everyone should be like me”. The alternative is “I caused this, I’m maintaining this, and thus I can stop maintaining this”.
Once I made the realisation that I was working hard to be obese every day, it was super fucking easy to lose weight. But to find the solution, you need to identify the problem first, and if that problem is you, it’s going to be an uncomfortable problem.
- Comment on It's all SO simple! 5 days ago:
Not the same person, but I’ll add my 2 cents.
Eating less of what you always eat is HARD, because you eat that much to stay full. Feeling hungry 24/7 is super fucking hard, and I don’t think anyone can maintain that for long.
But it’s amazing how not-filling most processed foods are. Swapping out high-calorie, unfilling food for low-calorie filling foods made it pretty much effortless.
I didn’t feel hungry, I didn’t need to eat that much. But dieting is still hard, because I also ate out of habit. A bag of snacks in front of the tv, a snack with a drink after lunch, etc etc. Not because I was hungry just because it’s tasty.
Breaking that habit was also pretty easy. See, you don’t need to diet 24/7. I only need to focus on dieting half an hour every other day, when I’m buying food at the supermarket. If I don’t buy snacks, I can’t eat snacks, it’s really simple. Anyone can be strong for 30 minutes every other day, that’s easy.
So yeah, dieting is done first your head, and then in the supermarket!
Step 1: admit your obesity is your own fault, and thus within your control Step 2: buy better food, buy less crap. Step 3: keep doing step 2 forever.
- Comment on It's all SO simple! 5 days ago:
Are you telling me an AI made this stew?
- Comment on It's all SO simple! 5 days ago:
That’s all true, and it’s all pointless.
It doesn’t matter whose fault it is or how hard it is. There literally is only one person who can fix your obesity, and it’s you. Yes, that’s hard. Yes, that sucks. But it’s also the only way.
Discussing whose fault it is and what of blame there should be is, at an individual level, completely pointless. There is one person in charge of what you eat, and it’s you. Factors may influence it, but in the end, you move the food to your mouth. You are the only person in the universe who can fix the situation, and if you don’t, it won’t get fixed.
Taking the position that you’re a powerless victim of circumstances will just hurt. Admitting that you’re obese because you eat too much, and that you can control how much you eat, will help fix your problems.
Every time you hear someone say “it’s my thyroid” or “I have PCOS” or “I can’t afford the gym”, or “I have a food addiction” or “I have BED” as an excuse, you’re talking to someone who sees themselves as a victim rather than the person who can fix their problem. All those things might be true, but none of those issues move food into your mouth. You do that, and you can stop doing that because you’re a thinking human being and not a seacucumber or a daffodil.
Getting from “I am obese” to “I am keeping myself obese” was very hard too. It requires taking ownership of your mistakes, it requires introspection. And then you go into a long and uncomfortable process of fixing the problem you caused, and it sucks. Losing weight is shit. Feeling hungry sucks, and it sucks 24/7. But damn, losing weight feels amazing and it’s all worth it.
- Comment on I was on social media before web browsers existed. I am Legion. 6 days ago:
Oh yeah, mines 6 digits, but the first 3 are 101. I started using it more when Reddit enshittified too much.
- Comment on the world 1 week ago:
“wait! I can explain!”
No waiting or explaining ensues
- Comment on Candy cigarettes are illegal because they encourage kids to smoke 1 week ago:
It’s not illegal here, but sufficiently heavily discouraged and socially frowned upon that indeed, you have to look hard to find em.
Instead, we let 11 year olds order vapes from china now.
- Comment on "It’s a beautiful thing, the destruction of words." - Specialist Syme 1 week ago:
Strange New Worlds is great for all of those reasons too. It’s so much better than Picard or Discovery.
- Comment on Let Trump cook... 1 week ago:
Nah, the DoD contract is also very likely running at a loss, like every other subscription.
- Comment on big facts 1 week ago:
But the Force is Mass times Acceleration!
- Comment on The jokes write themselves... 1 week ago:
When somebody publishes a bullshit paper that is eventually withdrawn, every subsequent paper citing the fraudulent work can also be withdrawn as being unreliable.
It depends on how foundational it is, of course. If you could swap it for a dozen other papers, nobody cares. If you’re continuing the work from a retracted paper, you’re fucked (but then, you probably would have noticed some errors pretty soon anyway).
I have a friend who basically ran a series of experiments based on a paper that was complete bullshit. And like any good biochemist, he figured he was screwing up, or the equipment was faulty, or the substrate was more cursed than usual. Lucky for him, after weeks of smashing into a brick wall of failure, he started asking other people, who also kept failing and then they figured it out.
- Comment on accused of being a man pretending to be a woman, CCP incel, ragebaiter, let know i've been blocked... but i'll keep going on here🫶 1 week ago:
Im so secret, not even my evil overlords know I work for them.
Unfortunately that means they don’t pay me either.
- Comment on 🐲 mg 1 week ago:
Well, not all the time anyway.
- Comment on justgermanthigs 1 week ago:
Dutch people: “ik ga de kookwas doen”
- Comment on We All Know This Guy 2 weeks ago:
And Harm is a fairly common first name in the Netherlands.
We can do the best thing together
- Comment on Riddle 2 weeks ago:
Well, I AM pretty happy
- Comment on Riddle 2 weeks ago:
1025, if you don’t count regional variants that have the same name, and many have multiple forms now.
I remember being upset that I just learned 2nd gen when they added a third. My hair is turning grey.
- Comment on sales =/= quality 2 weeks ago:
Ohhh thanks for that!
- Comment on Word up 2 weeks ago:
Exactly. Bunch of posers have no clue how it’s done. smh.
- Comment on Word up 2 weeks ago:
Not very different…
- Comment on Make a note 2 weeks ago:
And preferably whenever you do drugs for the first time, get a sitter. Everyone being drunk/high/tripping/whatever makes for a poor situation if something does go wrong.