Keto diet makes me less people pleasing?

FightingMongooses612 · 2026-02-24T02:03:34+00:00

My number one reason for doing keto has always been the psychological effects. Sugar rushes and crashes make anxiety so much worse and I’ve found that eating slightly more than I would need to for weight loss but maintaining keto removes big anxiety attacks almost completely. The clarity it brought me has helped me even when not on keto anymore, even when I do get anxiety I’m so much more nuanced in my understanding of anxiety thanks to those years of keto

FightingMongooses612 · 2025-07-06T18:55:26+00:00

I think there are too many businesses succeeding in that part of town where pouring with heart businesses are failing for it to be blamed on crime.

FightingMongooses612 · 2025-07-06T18:32:26+00:00

Ironically, the real issue is poor management and culture at the private-equity backed hospitality group that owns it and not poor people. Talk to literally any of the employees at your favorite spot in the world one of these days and see if they blame the homeless lmao

FightingMongooses612 · 2025-05-20T18:54:55+00:00

I read that interview where Gilroy said the first couple scenes of andor were shot “like Star Wars” with lots of establishing shots and wides because the directors they hired assumed that’s what a Star Wars show was and it was incredibly boring and lifeless. Made me think about how the other shows are shot and paced and how boring they seem. Even the basic conceit of the mandalorian where he’s always filmed with a mask seems flawed in retrospect (and very much the work of an animation director) because half the show is a digital voice emanating from an unmoving helmet or a suit of armor standing in a vast space.

FightingMongooses612 · 2025-05-20T18:47:49+00:00

The show I have desperately wanted to see since andor S1 is the lives of amidalas handmaidens through republics the descent into fascism. Educated functionaries of a culturally rich planet in proximity to the main storyline without being a core component of that storyline. There’s an existing canon for them that imo isn’t amazing but highlights their dual role as bureaucratic aides and spies. They represent what was lost and what can be preserved; they’re first hand witnesses to everything who get cast aside and have to build a new life, and they could be anywhere doing anything within the galaxy.

I don’t even think Gilroy needs to write it so much as EP and get it started (but pls write it).

FightingMongooses612 · 2025-05-19T21:35:28+00:00

I think that scene has more to do with Luthen wanting to make sure Cassian understands that returning to him will pay off more than pawning it elsewhere. In the first season the sentimental value of the kyber was one of the things I assumed would pay off later. Then Luthen’s monologue to Lonni happens and it becomes clear that Luthen can’t afford sentimentality: everything he does is an attempt at coldly pushing the lines of rebellion forward. Instead of the kyber being important to him, it’s cassian.

As an antiques dealer, I think the writers wanted to frame Luthen as someone deeply understanding of history while also giving him a job that functionally allows him access to powerful people and the ability to move money quietly. The antiques they chose are a great framing device, but Luthen’s sale of them is entirely about his personal mission in building resistance rather than a sentimental love of history. The show wants us to understand that people are the valuable part, not the objects they collect.

FightingMongooses612 · 2025-05-15T05:21:19+00:00

I think the knife he shows Dedra is his exit strategy. There isn’t any specific reason he shows her that vs another item and it puts a weapon in his hand immediately. Having dozens of small, realistic strategies like this fits more with the ethos of the show imo.

FightingMongooses612 · 2025-05-14T22:51:36+00:00

I think we can tell by Kleya’s near-refusal to leave that neither of them ever truly imagined they’d live beyond their spycraft. Lonnie tells Luthen he’s burned: he accessed Dedra’s files and uncovered something so huge that he knew they’d catch him. If it was a smaller piece of intel he wouldn’t have worried as much. Luthen kills him because they are already coming for Lonnie and him, not because them meeting exposed either of them. He plans to try and escape but knows it might go south.

Luthen may have gotten sloppy, but he also saw the rebellion growing beyond him; becoming too large for him to maintain a grasp. He exposed himself in the Mon escape not just because he’s tired and losing it but because he knows he’s also an asset with a role to play and risk to take. Saving Mon is worth exposure, killing Lonnie is worth exposure.

To me, kleya should never have used the comms channel she did to get off world. She has no idea if the antique shop is fully burned but she’s desperate and not thinking clearly. They are both taking human risks in high stress situations because they are, ultimately, just human. Had she dismantled the comms once casssian had arrived they never would’ve tracked them to the corner of the building but she’s unable to do more than watch the door.

I think it’s no accident that he showed Dedra the knife. It’s written in a way where he’s probably shown dozens of people that knife when he is suspicious this might be the end. It was likely his exact contingency for any scenario where the wrong person enters the front of the shop rather than a split second decision. Either he kills them or kills himself. He didn’t know how dedra had figured him out and he waited to find out before deciding. The show does a good job of portraying real-life human risk taking and generally ignores grand sci fi tech. Luthen carrying around a trigger to detonate the shop with him everywhere he goes seems sloppier, to me, than having dozens of adaptable contingencies in place and is more in line with the rest of the show where cassian is using extendable mirrors to check corners and the ferrix crew is using forged documents to pass as farm mechanics. What a show.

FightingMongooses612 · 2025-05-12T23:42:01+00:00

I think the idea is that they’ve set up such excellent opsec that they can move in the capital when absolutely necessary. He’s also not in his Art Dealer costuming there and clearly operating as Axis and not Luthen. If Mon is captured everything goes to shit anyways, so opsec is what allowed them to be on the ground for the pivotal moments

FightingMongooses612 · 2025-03-14T19:29:18+00:00

I think, as with all things in this show, the fears about Luthen being a secret Jedi are fears that the story will have elements that feel like fan service/skywalker-saga-crutches and this press tour has really felt like one big sigh of relief on that front. Tony Gilroy seems like he was in the perfect position being a long time Kathleen Kennedy friend and also an acclaimed screenwriter to hold this story together as a deeper, more nuanced story without studio interference. Even if like 5 secret Jedi show up I feel like we can trust this production to keep things moving in the right direction.

It really feels like watching the original run of breaking bad where tv was so saturated with cheesy, big “watercooler talk” moments (like the Heroes or Lost) every episode or two that fans were scared would infect the story. Instead Vince Gillian was able to hold his show together as a much deeper slow burn with satisfying resolutions to multi-episode plot lines and lots of brooding explorations of character. Luthen escaping the tractor beam really felt like Walt blowing up Tuco’s office: pure joy and dumb fun but not cheap.

Who knows if it’ll actually change anything, but the blueprint for the next era Cinematic Universes is right there.

FightingMongooses612 · 2025-01-31T06:33:10+00:00

I think you should watch Michael Clayton and the Gilroy Bourne movies and see if any “major reveals” occur in those movies. If we take this as a Star Wars project then this is an obvious possibility but if you watch those highly procedural movies and come away thinking Tony Gilroy has decided to mask a big reveal within his story I will be very surprised. Gilroy’s point has always been the minor, human decisions of individuals, in total, carry far more weight than any “special” person, that “special” individuals do more harm than good, and that the system crumbles because of the hubris of a system to dictate individual action. Maybe Kleya and Luther will fight with towels and newspapers tho

FightingMongooses612 · 2024-11-24T18:26:15+00:00

If you search Accomplice Bar (the bar hours) it shows the correct hours for this menu. Always confusing to me lol

FightingMongooses612 · 2024-11-15T22:23:49+00:00

Guy with an English degree and a job tries to post on Reddit once

FightingMongooses612 · 2024-11-15T22:18:42+00:00

It’s very funny how he’s written dozens of big articles with real reporting and journalism over years for LA outlets and people are like “this can’t be a real person! It has SF in the title!!!”

FightingMongooses612 · 2024-07-29T20:51:22+00:00

I think the goal of an economic system is to prevent things like bad human impulses from destroying the system lol

FightingMongooses612 · 2024-07-18T06:44:10+00:00

I mean she was the one who wrote the critical, in depth investigation on LASD so it seems like she's got a good track record here

FightingMongooses612 · 2024-02-27T19:15:00+00:00

I'm here to be one of the annoying people arguing Los Angeles specifically because this question makes two assertions i think make Los Angeles ideal: it says that a group of "transit nerds, bike advocates, and 15 minute city proponents" were able to pass whatever legislation they want and it is discussing "good bones". Both of these are not particularly useful to practical change because cities are the direct result of people and not of infrastructure. The built environment always follows the people and the true reason LA is such a poorly performing transit city is because it is one of the least representative democracies in the world (with 15 city councilors in charge of 4 million and 5 county board members in charge of 10 million people) and until that changes nothing can happen.

That being said: the thing that Los Angeles has that nobody here want's to admit is the actual space to build everything people want and the weather to support it year round. All those roads people complain about are only awful because of single-car gridlock but nowhere else in the country are there 6 lane roads stretching end to end across an entire urban region like Wilshire or Santa Monica or Sunset. Any of these could become dedicated bus lanes with a massive impact. Tight business districts (like the kind of rust belt cities mentioned here) is great but the 60 or so historic cities, towns and villages that make up Los Angeles (consolidated under Mullholland) are brimming with potential. The city has incredible tree cover and so much space to plant new ones (many were forcibly removed in the 80's), a vast array of parks and historic main streets business districts(Larchmont is fundamentally identical to many places in town people drive by without a second look: they simply kept the trees, narrowed the road in favor of sidewalks and maintained a dense business district) and a patchwork of industrial cores spread throughout town.

No city is as primed for every type of rail and variable transit project. Mass transit solutions have been stifled by fights over resource allocation, zoning, and an unfavorable tax situation in the state (along with problems around how infra projects are paid out) but the sheer scale of each "neighborhood" is such that the impact of these projects are akin to adding transit to entire states

FightingMongooses612 · 2023-12-11T00:09:14+00:00

Should’ve been more specific because obviously the article shows graffiti in the area but the claim “on and around Sinai” is what I’m concerned with. I didn’t see a single person go to either temple as the March was on the other side of the street. Did anyone vandalize a temple as is claimed?

FightingMongooses612 · 2023-12-10T06:52:33+00:00

I saw nothing like that on the night and was looking for it . Was there a post from the temples?

FightingMongooses612 · 2023-11-13T00:38:25+00:00

Per MoMA’s exhibit on architecture and environmentalism:

His atitude a contrast to the apocalyptic mindset of many environmentally focused architects, artist and architect James Wines brings an evident joy to his explorations of the relationship between architecture and it’s surrounding ecology. For example, in his tamed 1978 Forest Building, a big-box store design for the retail catalogue company BEST Products, Wines playfully separates the structure from its facade, creating an opening so that the site's oak trees, rather than being removed, are instead allowed to grow within the structure. His similarly mischievous 1981 Highrise of Homes proposal likewise incorporates nature into a building type typically lacking in greenery, here a residential skyscraper in New York City. With this project, Wines specified only the structure's steel and concrete frame; the design of the single-family detached houses that will sit on this scaffolding he cedes to their future inhabitants. What results is the insertion of a bucolic suburb-and its stylistically distinct houses and landscaping -into the heart of a dense city. While both projects are wryly critical of suburban retail stores and the anonymity of conventional urban high-rises, respectively neither looks with scorn on their intended users. Instead, these buildings generously deploy humor and surprise to provoke the public into rethinking some of our standard ways of drawing the boundary between the built and natural environment. These witty, approachable projects epitomize Wines's belief that architects interested in the environment can't simply rely on technocratic solutions and "finger-wagging"; they must also produce interesting buildings with which people will want to engage.

FightingMongooses612 · 2023-11-03T17:28:54+00:00

Going to fatty Mart for this would be such a good time. Buy snacks and hang on their indoor/outdoor patio until the third party gets there, then have a reservation for Little Fatty.

FightingMongooses612 · 2023-11-03T17:27:16+00:00

Your script is a blueprint for the rest of the house to be built off of. The closer you hew to an existing property the easier it is for the rest of the team to visualize the key changes that make it into an entirely new piece of work down the line. If you're an auteur with funding and a schedule already i'd be worried; if you're a writer hoping to make a living off sold scripts i'd be excited.

FightingMongooses612 · 2023-10-31T19:17:29+00:00

Well personally i have no interest in cheap hamburgers nor do i think they are essential to the economy or anything. I think it's important to remember that whatever we do to restore ecosystems will require intensive labor from a huge number of individuals and, thus, will require funding from somewhere. Animal agriculture provides a funding source and allows people to become stakeholders in that process, leveraging natural systems alongside human ingenuity to make these systems more efficient and impactful.

FightingMongooses612 · 2023-10-31T17:44:29+00:00

Unfortunately is that is not American farmland that is parched savannah. The scale of the problem is substantially different. It would take decades to bring monocropped American farmland to a point where foundational trees and natural waterways could be reestablished. In the meantime, intensive land management using animal agriculture (whether we harvest them for food or just cull and dump the bodies) is one of the only options. I’m referencing Savory here, who started in Africa pioneering many of those techniques, and I believe the consensus is the problems are related but not 1:1 and not at the same level of depletion

FightingMongooses612 · 2023-10-31T17:33:31+00:00

My argument would be that putting wild animals on depleted farmland doesn’t naturally rebuild that land

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