urban_strike

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by urban_strike 20d ago
I mean, I can look at something physically in front of me, like a still life, all I want and still draw it like shit. So I'm not sure what that would prove?
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by urban_strike 9mo ago
Thanks, that does help to see it as good faith advice. I'd be totally on board with a framing like "If you're alone and unhappy or dissatisfied in life, social connection could likely be the missing piece." Though it see
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by urban_strike 9mo ago
Yeah, I've been trying to wrap my head around this recently. I always get a bit irked by the inevitable comments confidently asserting things like "humans are social animals, if you think you don't need tight social connecti
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by urban_strike 10mo ago
I've seen that in some cases the definition of mental health will explicitly score against things like "lacks close relationships" or "does not seek companionship". So it always seems to me a bit circular to just a
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by urban_strike 4y ago
Another vote for a folding stand + separate keyboard and mouse at desk-level. I'm always working outside the house, and once you can adjust to working on a single monitor it's been great ergonomically.
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by urban_strike 4y ago
> They can't fight or flight so their defense is toxins. The very next sentence. Animals can run away or fight, so they don't have the need to develop other deterrents. I guess aside from a very few exceptions like Amazonian f
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by urban_strike 4y ago
For what it's worth, I had a similar experience trying a strict AIP diet for a few months - some improvements in my autoimmune symptoms (some psorasis I've had since childhood), but nothing definitive. When I tried a strict carnv
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by urban_strike 5y ago
> I have a hard time to see any relevance in a life without children anymore. In my view, having kids is a great way to take off the existential pressure of life being meaningless, by just having a default "do it for them" answ
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by urban_strike 5y ago
I think appetite itself has a lot to do with the nutritional density of what you're eating. I can eat 1000kcal of gummy worms and just be getting started, but 1000kcal of ground beef and I can't look at food for a few hours. Or
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by urban_strike 5y ago
I stumbled on this kayak "where can I travel?" map a few months back and it's been handy as a starting point: https://www.kayak.com/travel-restrictions I personally always double-check another source before b
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by urban_strike 5y ago
I'm not really one for parties or restaurants, but I really enjoyed the walkability of San Francisco when I lived there. It's something that I always miss anytime I'm staying in a more suburban/rural area, having to dea
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by urban_strike 6y ago
I think your teenage pregnancy example is probably reasonable, I could see that being a big turning point in a mother's life, where things began getting tougher/worse. I guess my point is that even if it's clearly an individu
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by urban_strike 6y ago
I'd agree that it's not fully solvable by the school alone. But zooming out, I'd be inclined to say the "society that forced a mother to work 3 jobs to get by" failed. I imagine it's hard to give each child i
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by urban_strike 6y ago
Longer on average, yes, but I highly doubt healthier. I think we'd be in awe of the average health/fitness of a 30 year old hunter gatherer from 100,000 years ago, compared with the average corresponding human in modern times.
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by urban_strike 6y ago
I think I'd be in the market for a new cult leader if they tried to pull that!
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by urban_strike 6y ago
Seriously. If a group of vampires have been sucking so much blood that everyone's anemic, the solution isn't to have "universal basic transfusions" to make sure all the victims aren't tapped out and die when the ne
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by urban_strike 6y ago
Flowers aren't consumed for survival, i.e. "essential". I'm not sure how intervals of time has any effect on that.
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by urban_strike 7y ago
> Beyond Meat has never claimed to be a healthier alternative to meat and it's a bit of a straw man to comment like they did. Not sure why you'd think that's a straw man when they explicitly state it on their website. Fir
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by urban_strike 7y ago
I mean, RxBars are full of dates, which are basically pure sugar.
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by urban_strike 7y ago
One thing that stuck out to me was you mentioned needing 10 more years of work to reach your early retirement goals. That sounds like a really long time to me, considering how negative your experience is with working. If you get your savin
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by urban_strike 7y ago
> I know people who think automatic transmissions makes people worse drivers. Well, it's certainly a bit trickier to to respond to texts or browse instagram when you need two hands to operate the vehicle.
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by urban_strike 7y ago
I think it's a pretty huge point that's overlooked, not just a quibble. If a group of kids were fed healthy, home-made meals all week and then get a piece of chocolate cake on Sunday night, it's clearly misleading to say &quo
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by urban_strike 7y ago
There's a lot more to achieving good health than macronutrient ratios. The plant-alternatives both 1) lack the abundant, bioavailable nutrients found in animal products and 2) include a lot of highly-processed and inflammatory ingredie
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by urban_strike 8y ago
Unfortunately chicken, like pork, is extremely high in omega-6 due to being fed unnatural modern grain-based diets.
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by urban_strike 8y ago
> the typical meat based, western diet is strongly linked to all of our most deadly diseases The standard American diet is composed of 70% plant-based foods, which is the same ratio found in the Mediterranean diet which is lauded as one
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by urban_strike 8y ago
That's certainly been my experience. Relationships and friendships tend to fall apart if one of them is emotionally self-sufficient. The core relationship-driver of emotional neediness and desire that's apparently the natural st