KatyaV

Whose food is it really?

Some fats which are bad for you are wrapped around internal organs. Subcutaneous fat is easy to separate though.

While consuming more than you burn will lead to weight gain regardless of what you eat, I think modern foods are more likely to cause this because of the addictiveness of their high sugar levels, and also the fact that each item contains a LOT of calories… it would be much harder to get fat binge-eating celery than it would be for Doritos.

Plus, if something goes wrong, I can guarantee there will be more than enough objection to it… people have a track record of leaping to the opportunity to defend freedom, even at the cost of common sense.

Sure, it’s a very subjective term. But if you read even the oldest laws which we take for granted, those concepts (such as “reasonableness”) are designed to be open to interpretation. If someone were to stand trial for this, it would be up to the Court to determine whether what they said satisfies the definition provided by the legislation, and that in and of itself is a lengthy process that is designed to be as just as possible, which I can say with some certainty because Canada’s rule of law is relatively good. There are absolutely merits to the policy considerations of this term but what statutory interpretation guidelines haven’t covered, the case law will eventually iron out. In any case, this is not the type of vague wording which triggers an Orwellian collapse.

And this comes as a surprise to whom?

I guess he anticipated it to an extent, but theory always pales in comparison to experiencing reality. And not just the reality of knowing it’s out there, but being asked to produce it…

Appropriating an old movie that was a product of its time to make it more palatable for later generations is normal, and nothing to get riled up about, even if no one knows what “hottentots” means. They didn’t even remove it from the film, they just changed the age rating. Aren’t there more pressing concerns?

I guess it depends on what the goal of your blog is. If you’re only using it as a vehicle to let your thoughts out or scream into the void, there’s probably no need for comments or sharing. If you care about your content getting seen, however, you’ll need to do SEO optimisation which is sometimes stupid and brain-numbing (recipe websites put their grandma’s entire life history before the actual recipe because it keeps readers on the website for longer, which means it shows up higher in search results; clickbait-y titles like “10 Reasons Your Partner Hates You” or “How To Do So-and-so, Updated 2024” will get more clicks and move themselves up the search page). So a blog that starts off as an innocuous photo dump might end up looking more like YouTube’s homepage: titles and photos that are vague enough to pique interest, but mind-numbing content that makes you wish you’d never clicked; a heavy emphasis on liking, sharing and subscribing; and eventually, ad sponsorship. Personally I hate this type of content, so if I were to start a blog I would pay for an ad-free website out of pocket or use something like Substack.

I’m also neurodivergent and have learned to overcome this problem by associating the sound of the word/how the word looks like with a particular picture or concept in my mind. I think this is how babies learn language, by relating the contextual application of the word to its sound and tone. So maybe repeating the word while thinking of a related image or sense which is easy to recall during the appropriate conversational context will help. Alternatively, it might help to have “pre-set” phrases in your head to reduce the amount of pauses you make. This is something children learn through reading a lot when they’re little, which allows them to intuitively pick up the author’s sentence structure and colloquialisms (you might notice a child starts talking in the manner of a long and wordy book they’ve just read). However, the degree of difficulty of this depends on your natural born verbal reasoning abilities. So if you’re finding it harder to pick up sentence structure and incorporate it into your own speech, it just means you need to try a bit harder. Something which helps is attempting to imitate the style of the author through writing– as you consciously replicate their choices in diction, you learn new vocabulary or new literary techniques and actively incorporate them in your writing. Hope this helps!