90377 Sedna

You're an irreplacable human soul with your own understanding of what it means to suffer

[moonstarfrost]

[90377-sedna]

Occasionally you have the pleasure of meeting someone who is in love with life. Someone enamored with existence and breathing. Someone who loves everything about being here.

I think most people have a comfortable but passionless marriage with life. It's the practical and normal way to be. They don't have to think about it too hard, but they stopped feeling anything intense a long time ago. Still, the thought of it ending is devastating.

I think my relationship with life is whatever the couple in No Children by The Mountain Goats had going on.

[itscoldinwonderland]

The idea that poor people can go vegan because plant-based options are cheaper (which is true), does not take into account those who are so much in poverty that they have to rely on soup kitchens and pantries. I get food delivered to my home once a week from a food pantry, there aren't many vegan options but the options that do exist could not sustain me for a week. This isn't a knock on veganism btw. I think people who can contribute less to factory farming should! But I think we also need to consider that poverty puts people at others whims. Yea I've been a poor vegetarian, and it is possible, I'm sure there are poor vegans who live on pantries too. Eating plant based is hard when most of the donations to food banks aren't plant based. Ya know what the pantry usually gives me? Mac and cheese! Eggs! And things I refuse to eat like chicken noodle soup.

[vegan-butch]

This one is really real actually, and I have been here before.

I told the food pantry I was (at the time) vegetarian and I still got canned meats, meat based soups, ect. I gave them away, but felt shitty for it. I needed the food, the calories, and I didn't think it was too hard of a request, as the pantry has plenty of options that I can eat.

Many of the people who make the argument online that it's too expensive to go vegan are simply ill informed, and don't understand what a vegan diet (can) look like. They picture buying justegg instead of eggs and not changing anything, and wonder how anyone can afford that when they eat 3 dozen eggs a week or whatever.

BUT there still is an issue of lacking the resources to meaningfully turn down non-vegan food. I am lucky - right now I'm bad off, but have a lot of vegan pantries and food distros available. I can still stay vegan, but if I was in a worse location, that would be a lot less viable.

Vegans can and should, instead of nit picking every little case of people who have poor food resources, to advocate for and increase in distribution of whole grains, starchy tubers, beans, veg, ect. within pantries, soup kitchens, food distros, ect.

[90377-sedna]

If you want to do some direct action to make it easier for food-insecure people to eat vegan, Food Not Bombs is a group that makes and distributes vegan meals for unhoused people. Check if they have a chapter near you.

[geospiral]

Java Sparrow: mistakenly thought to be dead upon arrival and thus discarded by recipient

[fortheknife]

[fortheknife]

[ymutate]

Jason Anderson

'TERRESTRIAL'

Oil on 50 x 50cm linen

[unusual-suspects]

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[90377-sedna]

Very cool of Ryan Gosling to be Ex-Mormon. Makes me like Project Hail Mary even more

[90377-sedna]

Very cool of Project Hail Mary to use real Astrophotography images in them end credits

[bebsi-cola]

health isn't a virtue.

[bebsi-cola]

people still go around acting like they've done something good in order to be able bodied and healthy. that they worked for it, that it's due to their moral fibre or good upbringing or self control. they genuinely, on some level, believe that they are a good person solely based on the strength of their physical abilities. they will resist the fact that it is largely down to chance that they were able to maintain such health. whatever they think they've built from scratch, the building blocks were already handed to them. not because they're more worthy of it, just by luck. and they really think they're worth more based on that sheer luck. i've met disabled people worth a hundred of the healthiest ableds alive.

[drethelin]

Ignoring luck is dumb, but claiming that health is entirely based on sheer luck is an extremely corrosive worldview. There are dozens of choices you make every day, every week, every month that contribute to your overall health and functioning. It's good to be healthy and it's good to make healthy choices and you do in fact have a lot of control over whether you are able bodied.

[bebsi-cola]

sounds like someone is mad you don't have a lot of control over whether you are able bodied

[90377-sedna]

When my spine got worse I had been vegan for 3-4 years, I was strength training 6 days a week, waking up at 5:30 after sleeping 8 hours, eating a high protein and high fiber diet, and I didn't drink or smoke at all. I still ended up needing another spine surgery, and in the two years it took for it to be approved, I lost all of that muscle and strength.

None of us have any real control.

[bootlickerphobes]

[dogpuppy]

[peteytheparrot]

Having scoliosis is funny because they’re like would you rather have a crooked back or five billion nails bashed into your spine and I’ll be like yeah I’ll do the second option sure

[90377-sedna]

It's insane that these are the only two options for most people.

Schroth PT took a long time to get FDA approval as standard of care for scoliosis patients with curves <45°—possibly (likely) because long spinal fusion surgeries make insurance companies and hospitals a lot of money (and let's be real, they also come with follow-up surgeries for a significant fraction of patients). Schroth is the only scoliosis intervention with substantial evidence that it can reduce your spine curve (no guarantee, but there are cases where it did).

Scoliosis also primarily affects teenage girls, so there's a medical misogyny conversation to be had here too.

I was diagnosed at 60° so there was never another option for me, but if you can avoid surgery with bracing and Schroth, DO IT. I'm getting a follow-up surgery in a week because my first surgery gave me adjacent segment disease.

[aroace-ryland-grace]

thinking about how Stratt calls Grace a coward for not wanting to die and go on the mission and how Grace says he could ruin the mission and condemn everyone on Earth just to spite Stratt but as soon as he's given the choice between sacrificing all of Erid so he can live or killing himself to save it he gives up his life in a heartbeat

[90377-sedna]

It's because he finally had someone worth sacrificing himself for!!! That's the whole point of the story! Compassion and empathy and love are abstract ideals we can try to live up to, but unless you genuinely do not value yourself, it is very hard to give up your life for someone else. BUT if you love a specific person, it's a simple (not necessarily easy) decision.

Grace did not have anyone before Rocky. First, he had to rediscover the best parts of himself. He had to remember that he was curious and excited about all the possibilities of what could be. Then, he had to connect with someone who cared enough about him to risk their life for him. Then, he was able to see all of what he COULD BE. He could see that he was capable of risking great pain (and later, even a slow death via starvation) just to ensure the person he cared about would survive.

Life is good because it lets us make connections. It is good because there are friends. It is worth sacrificing because real, tangible, love is the most important thing. It can turn the most cowardly, avoidant, self-serving person into a hero.

[agender-ryland-grace]

can he please have a break

[maryoliveoil]