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Gheobhaidh mé bás ar an gcnoc seo.
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Now I'm curious what my blood pressure is. Must check the next time I go to give blood.
Funnily enough, one time I went to give blood and they checked my iron levels beforehand, and told me they were too low. The nurse explained that this can sometimes happen owing to recent intense exercise. I texted my brother "tfw pumping so much iron that I don't have enough in me :("
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Gheobhaidh mé bás ar an gcnoc seo.
4hr ago
Fair play to you!
The frustrating thing is that I do shitloads of cardio, but apparently not enough to offset my poor diet. So diet it is.
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Gheobhaidh mé bás ar an gcnoc seo.
5hr ago
When I first heard about this awful case, I intended to write a Substack post about what it implies about "identifying as" X. The moment's passed so I'll just post my thoughts here.
Children living with a stepparent (more specifically, a stepfather) face a vastly elevated risk of sexual abuse, violence or murder compared to children living with both biological parents. There are many competing explanations for this phenomenon, but no one really disputes that the phenomenon exists and can be observed in basically any country in the world. It seems that many men who would hesitate before striking or sexually interfering with a blood relative have no such compunction when it's the offspring of the woman they're dating. It's also interesting (and disturbing) to draw cross-species comparisons: when a lion becomes the new leader of a pride, the first thing he does is kill all of the cubs in that pride, as lionesses start ovulating again faster. Cheap way to ensure that all the cubs are related to him by blood.
I don't know how polycules with children work, but it wouldn't surprise me if all of the men dating this woman "identified as" the baby's father. But obviously, only one of them was actually the baby's father, and it wasn't the man who put that baby in the hospital. Just like a male person "identifying as" a woman doesn't in and of itself have any impact upon his capacity or propensity for violent crime, a stepfather who "identifies as" a baby's father doesn't magically stop posing just as much of a danger to that baby as any other stepfather would.
"Identifying as" is meaningless. If you have to say you are something, that's just another way of saying you aren't.
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Gheobhaidh mé bás ar an gcnoc seo.
6hr ago
Uhh... how did they not fall afoul of the authorities?
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Gheobhaidh mé bás ar an gcnoc seo.
6hr ago
Not quite Olivia Rodrigo level but close.
TIL Rodrigo is half-Filipina. I thought she was Hispanic.
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Gheobhaidh mé bás ar an gcnoc seo.
6hr ago
I can no longer stand catching the reflection of my beer belly when I walk past a window in the street, so promised my better half I'd commence a diet the Monday after I returned from our holiday. Since Monday the 13th my regimen has consisted of the following:
- Intermittent fasting (only eating solids between 4pm-midnight)
- No snacking between meals
- No fried food
- No fast food
- Only one caffeinated beverage with milk per day (e.g. if I have a cappuccino in the morning, I cannot also have tea with milk that day)
- No fizzy drinks (with the exception of sparkling water or mixers like soda or tonic water)
- No drinking alcohol on school nights
I grant myself one cheat day a week. The two bagels I ate on Saturday morning may have been the subjectively most delicious things I've ever eaten.
If my bathroom scale is accurate, I've lost 3.5kg so far. Will post here every week to keep myself honest until I've met my target weight or something approximating it.
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Gheobhaidh mé bás ar an gcnoc seo.
8hr ago
New Year's resolution check-in:
- Went to the gym three times last week, only doing cardio. Went again yesterday and got back into strength training, bench press and deadlift.
- Have not consumed any pornography since waking up on January 1st. Nearly at the halfway mark.
How goes it @self_made_human, @thejdizzler, @birb_cromble, @ThomasdelVasto and @falling-star?
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Gheobhaidh mé bás ar an gcnoc seo.
8hr ago
Donald Glover once quipped that Filipinas are the black women of Asian women. Did that jibe with your experience?
I find Filipinas almost unfathomably beautiful. And for some reason, 100% of those I've met have been either accountants or nurses (or some profession extremely similar to nursing).
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Gheobhaidh mé bás ar an gcnoc seo.
8hr ago
There is a reason why the global capital of snowflakes and the global capital of zero-to-one founders are the same place.
Which place is that?
Beating the snowflake out of people will usually work, but trying to beat a genuine physical or neurodevelopmental disability out of people will usually leave a wreck, and even worse is that beating the eccentric genius out of people will also work.
I mean, citation requested? Do you have any evidence that every eccentric genius in history (or even a significant majority thereof) was relentlessly coddled and indulged as a child, his every whim granted without a second's thought? That's certainly not the impression I get of the current generation of billionaires and tech geniuses.
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Gheobhaidh mé bás ar an gcnoc seo.
8hr ago
I don't recall ever suggesting banning anime.
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Gheobhaidh mé bás ar an gcnoc seo.
8hr ago
I mean, yeah, but no medical intervention has a 100% success rate, not even interventions widely considered miraculous.
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Gheobhaidh mé bás ar an gcnoc seo.
8hr ago
Probably Definitely beats a year sitting in your bedroom on your phone or PC.
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Gheobhaidh mé bás ar an gcnoc seo.
8hr ago
God, I hate seeing parents with their toddlers on leashes. I wonder they know what kind of deviant sexual appetites they're imprinting on them down the line.
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Gheobhaidh mé bás ar an gcnoc seo.
8hr ago
Let people enjoy things that aren't super bad for them.
Well, that's the thing under discussion, isn't it? "Anime isn't as bad for you as hard drugs or being an alcoholic" is hardly a high bar to clear.
Yes, that's what I was referring to. I recognised the woman's face and T-shirt.
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Gheobhaidh mé bás ar an gcnoc seo.
19hr ago
I mean there is a lot of nudity in that film, only some of it justified by the story.
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Gheobhaidh mé bás ar an gcnoc seo.
19hr ago
I would love to investigate this formally. Ask people about their sexual appetites, then take photos of them and ask strangers to rate their attractiveness on a scale from 1-10.
Unfortunately, doing so is considered a rude gesture, so this never happens in polite society.
Certainly not in the West. I understand that people in Asia have no such compunctions, and will tell you that you smell bad to your face. (And that you've gained weight.)
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Gheobhaidh mé bás ar an gcnoc seo.
20hr ago
Painfully accurate, except the woman on the right is too slim.
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Gheobhaidh mé bás ar an gcnoc seo.
21hr ago
They're also disproportionately likely to be drunk and/or high, which induces behaviour similar to what one would expect from a crazy person.
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Gheobhaidh mé bás ar an gcnoc seo.
21hr ago
There's that meme of people you think have orgies vs people who actually have orgies. The people who you think have orgies are the Chads and Stacies while the people who actually have orgies look more like the It's Always Sunny In Philadelphia bit.
It's never who you want to be polyamorous who is polyamorous.
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Gheobhaidh mé bás ar an gcnoc seo.
21hr ago
I don't think he literally has an eating disorder. I just think his parents indulged him as a child and refused to make him eat proper food, and he never learned on his own.
ARFID, where severely autistic children will only eat food of a particular colour and so on, is a real thing. This dude is just a manchild who wants his chicky nug-nugs. It's contemptible, and borders on outright neglect when he wants his children to follow the same diet he does.
Congratulations! But I would recommend waiting longer before looking at it.
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