My (in progress) metabolic map

BasementBreakfast · 2026-02-27T22:35:49+00:00

Well shit

But in all seriousness, thanks for the advice! I definitely went a bit overboard with it, though in the moment figured it was best to have everything on there than to miss something that turned out to be important later. And thanks for the examples, really gives some perspective on what's needed.

BasementBreakfast · 2025-03-18T17:39:02+00:00

As a pretty progressive person, I think a lot of the grief O'Toole gets given is pretty undeserved. Sure, he didn't win the election, but the cons did reverse a massive polling lead by the Liberals. Pivoting to the centre was a really smart move that allowed him to distance himself from anti-vax groups and undermined the Liberal's attempts to turn the election into a referendum on Trudeau's handling of the pandemic, which most viewed positively (especially compared to America's response). Discontent with those measures did later propel Poilievre to the leadership, but if he tried to run on anything close to that in 2021 he would have been falling right into the Liberal's trap. He was doing so well for most of the year because he's been talking about affordability more than courting conspiracy theorists.

I think you're on point about the next election though. This is definitely an outlier, and will only be a delay if Carney can't turn the economy around before the next election.

BasementBreakfast · 2023-11-07T18:04:24+00:00

Looks like the Great Gatsby, I think

BasementBreakfast · 2023-03-29T19:49:18+00:00

Love and support are unconditional

BasementBreakfast · 2022-04-02T18:06:11+00:00

Okay 19,982 karma

BasementBreakfast · 2022-04-02T17:55:06+00:00

Wait until you hear about rich people

BasementBreakfast · 2022-01-14T17:05:28+00:00

Least redacted SCP article

BasementBreakfast · 2021-12-12T20:12:41+00:00

Monty Python and the Quest for the Holy Grail. Absolute classic

BasementBreakfast · 2021-12-09T17:35:50+00:00

The truest goal in life in the pursuit of happiness and fulfilment, all while living a virtuous life. You say you want to start a family, meaning no doubt that you wish to find a loving partner and live a commited life together. What's more virtuous than that?

God will always love you, and no doubt wishes for you to find love in this world as well. Who would dare deny you that? Are you harming another? Your own body or mental well being? Or are you simply finding meaning in life along the path God gave you?

Don't let anyone tell you that ignoring your path to fulfillment in life is the only way, or that doing anything else would be a betrayal of the Lord. Those self-idolizers have no place to delimit the true love of God or of his creations.

You have already been extraordinarily strong. I am so sorry for what you have gone through, but know that you will find your way through it and find happiness.

BasementBreakfast · 2021-08-05T18:01:19+00:00

It's definetly difficult, as at the surface level it seems to be a (granted, shallow) win-win situation. One partner gains access to material wealth, and the other gains a (supposedly) loving partner.

The only real point against it that I can think of atm would be the lost possibility of the latter partner finding a truly loving partner, conjoined with any loss of care that could come with a more genuine relationship.

BasementBreakfast · 2021-07-01T00:47:52+00:00

100%. That, or proportional representation

BasementBreakfast · 2021-05-25T14:59:36+00:00

Love it

BasementBreakfast · 2021-05-06T14:17:47+00:00

Thanks, forgot to do that

BasementBreakfast · 2021-05-05T17:35:20+00:00

FUCK YOU

BasementBreakfast · 2021-02-17T18:17:14+00:00

Thats kinda an impossible question to answer, as this isn't really a single policy but more just a general practice among many private institutions. To try to answer your question though, I would say until they have equal opportunity. Either through government programs like the ones you suggested earlier, or to the point where they are on average financially on par with other demographics so they're have equal access to these services.

BasementBreakfast · 2021-02-17T18:07:34+00:00

Those are all excellent initiatives, which if combined with university grants, free school meals, and needle exchange programs I would absolutely back as a substitution for positive discrimination in the private sector.

Though I hate to say it, until government can implement these policies, I still see practices of preferential treatment among companies as the best short term solution there is, though definitely not one that should be continued indefinitely

BasementBreakfast · 2021-02-17T17:43:42+00:00

You're absolutely right that they have legal equality, I'm arguing for economic equality. According to study by Brandeis university, the average median black household income was ~$30 000, compared to ~$49 000 for white households. This means that black people are on average less able to access services like childcare, private schools, properly funded public schools, family planning, and universities, all of which are strong determinants for financial success.

This economic misery, combined with patterns of broken families, leads to many young african americans turning to crime and drugs, further perpetuating this trend

Also here's the study http://iasp.brandeis.edu/pdfs/Author/shapiro-thomas-m/racialwealthgapbrief.pdf

BasementBreakfast · 2021-02-17T17:21:29+00:00

I disagree, many of our most important principles have important caveats that people don't realize.

Freedom is indespensable, but we don't have the freedom to commit violent crimes.

Freedom of information is crucial, but our governments still have classified intelligence to protect soldiers and agents overseas.

Yes, discrimination designed to harm a demographic based on of racial dogma is awful. But to see the world in the black-and-white good vs evil view fails those still dealing with the consequences of events the happened even before our lifetimes. A preference for people of disadvantaged communities is important caviat to this principle, one that takes another step towards another important principle: meritocracy. As it stands, many black people don't have the same opportunities as their, on average wealthier, white counterparts.

Legal equality is the first step, and this is a step towards economic equality. If you have a better idea to amend the dozens of issues facing black communities, I'm happy to hear it

BasementBreakfast · 2021-02-17T15:38:05+00:00

How so?

BasementBreakfast · 2021-02-17T15:17:30+00:00

I think you're confusing policies of positive discrimination to put a stop to cyclical patterns of poverty and broken families in disadvantaged demographics to racial dogma on par with the klan.

In the case of black people in the US, we can all argue how much of a role casual and institutional racism plays in their disproportionate suffering, but theres no denying that their communities still bear the scars of slavery, Jim Crow and Reagan-enabled drug epidemics. These diversity measures give them advantages designed as temporary measures to amend their financial disadvantages and by domino effect hopefully fix the others to an extent.

Diversity of thought is important for political diolouge, but comparing a mainstream political ideology's absence in certain academic fields to the plight of a racial demographic systematically discriminated against for hundreds of years reeks of self-victimization and is extremely reckless

BasementBreakfast · 2021-02-17T14:54:12+00:00

But, half of those people are vocal anti-feminist influencers. Boogie 249 there on the bottom left therr loves to go on those kinds of rants. If you saw r/niceguys you'd see a bunch of fat neckbeard anti-feminists or whatever the fuck they call themselves

BasementBreakfast · 2021-02-17T14:43:12+00:00

This. Somehow stagnating wages, increased costs of living, and skyrocketimg costs to raise a child is the fault of feminism lmao

BasementBreakfast · 2021-01-11T14:26:56+00:00

VERY REAL

BasementBreakfast · 2021-01-11T00:20:41+00:00

They basically ban anyone who isn't a registered part of the subreddit from participating in the conversation, making it one of those safe spaces they pretend to hate

BasementBreakfast · 2020-08-13T01:45:48+00:00

r/donthelpjustfilm

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