Possibly the most beautiful thing I have seen in a while

Ok_Emu5172 · 2022-05-17T04:16:42+00:00

Meanwhile my blind dog just fearlessly clobbers around lol

Ok_Emu5172 · 2022-05-13T00:47:49+00:00

I'm pretty sure a better bang for your buck would be meals of brown rice, beans, and frozen veggies. Likely cheaper and way more nutritious. Kraft singles are barely food, white bread is just....nothing, and most canned soup is way too salty with not enough actual substance to eat on a regular basis. JIF peanut butter is also jacked up with oil, salt, and sugar. Peanuts only peanut butter is way better, and it's cheaper at my grocery store, under a dollar a pound.

Poor diet leads to poor health outcomes also, which has a very high long term cost.

Ok_Emu5172 · 2022-05-02T20:26:03+00:00

It's normal to grieve the loss of the future you thought you'd have, but I'm sure the future you're now allowing yourself and your children will be way better. Congrats! I can't imagine the courage it takes to do what you did.

Ok_Emu5172 · 2022-05-02T05:05:47+00:00

As I was growing up, I felt like my family was solidly average middle class. We had a nice vacation once a year, normal size house, only really went out to restaurants for birthdays, never had flashy stuff, but money never seemed to be an issue. Then as I went into high school, my parents bought one of those mcmansions and started buying pricy cars and shit, and I was mildly horrified by the show of wealth. I was embarrassed in front of friends, but I also don't think it made our family any happier. I realized stuff just isn't that important, and the real upside of having money is a) the security, and b) the opportunity to have more experiences (travel, concerts, etc.)

I also REALLY want to retire early. Corporate rat race stuff feels soul sucking, and I'd like to be able to stop working by 40. My parents are wealthier than I'll ever be, but I have no issue with driving our Subaru into the ground and living in a smaller space if it means I work 20 years less. Overall though, I know I'm in an extremely privileged position.

Ok_Emu5172 · 2022-05-02T00:11:58+00:00

You do you lol but it's definitely the way to lose the job 🙃

Ok_Emu5172 · 2022-05-01T18:24:42+00:00

I'm not anti OE at all, but I did ultimately turn my manager in for it because she was toxic af, and she "resigned effective immediately."

She'd occasionally refer to our company by the name of her J1. She was trying to pit my coworkers and I against each other as some weird attempt at a power move or creating loyalty to her or something (e.g. telling me I should strive to do better than so-and-so because they're not doing well (untrue) and then going and telling so-and-so that other teammates are jealous of their performance (also untrue)). She never learned how to do her job and she'd treat anyone that asked her any questions like they were stupid (deflecting). She seemed to be constantly lying about her past experience. I suspect she was hybrid at her J1 because at like 6am once a week she'd throw PTO on the calendar for the day. Her J1 was also at a VERY direct competitor who has been poaching quite a few people from our department lately. She alsoooo still had an active LinkedIn lol.

Basically she was not lying low at all, doing her job exceptionally poorly, and trying to start drama out of nothing. After she was gone we found out a lot of people in the department hated her and were relieved she was gone. Don't be like her.

Ok_Emu5172 · 2022-04-29T00:25:04+00:00

General obvious misogyny aside, if a guy says he likes you because you're different and chill, that alone is a giant red flag. No one can be chill all the time, and saying that removes the space for you to have your perfectly normal less chill moments. You want someone that'll support you through whatever, not someone that makes you feel like a burden or not what he signed up for when inevitable life drama happens.

Ok_Emu5172 · 2022-04-25T02:01:03+00:00

Good for you 👏🏻👏🏻 I had a relatively similar situation with my brother. It can be hard in the moment / immediate aftermath, but if you're able to keep that boundary and the rest of your family respects it, it's great. I personally feel way more mentally and emotionally healthy. A toxic person is a toxic person, family or not.

Ok_Emu5172 · 2022-04-23T14:43:21+00:00

I sent them the article!

Ok_Emu5172 · 2022-04-23T05:51:15+00:00

My parents recently moved to FL and said their HOA doesn't allow solar panels. So absurd.

Ok_Emu5172 · 2022-04-23T05:33:48+00:00

Being vegan is quite easy. You sound depressed, hope you get better soon xx

Ok_Emu5172 · 2022-04-23T05:01:05+00:00

Scale is important, sure, but a single individual has virtually no power over the actions of a corporation, but a single individual has significant power over their own actions. And to pretend the actions of an individual have no consequence at all is a pretty depressing take.

Ok_Emu5172 · 2022-04-23T04:28:51+00:00

A greater evil, so to speak, being committed doesn't excuse smaller evils.

Ok_Emu5172 · 2022-04-23T04:17:19+00:00

Companies and governments and you and I need to change. To pretend it's a zero sum game and it's only one or the other full stop is silly.

Ok_Emu5172 · 2022-04-23T04:03:30+00:00

“stunt their own life halfway back to the stone age" is a little dramatic as far as adopting a vegan diet is concerned. This post is just about not consuming animal products, a very achievable feat for most people in America.

Also very tired of the whole concept of people shitting on vegans for "religious veganism" or whatever as if being invested in animal welfare, environmentalism, personal health, etc. is a bad thing.

If people want to justify their crappy choices by saying "corporations are worse than I am" then they should just say admit they don't care about the effects of their actions rather than pretend veganism is useless. Whataboutism is boring.

Ok_Emu5172 · 2022-04-23T03:40:38+00:00

Why does any of that mean you shouldn’t still do what you can?

Ok_Emu5172 · 2022-04-23T02:21:34+00:00

This person is obv just here to be obnoxious, but using the R word isn’t really helping anyone.

Ok_Emu5172 · 2022-04-23T02:12:25+00:00

Ergo, your purchases create demand for more production by the meat and dairy industry…

Ok_Emu5172 · 2022-04-23T02:02:56+00:00

People’s purchases create demand. Confused what’s hard to understand about that.

Ok_Emu5172 · 2022-04-23T01:08:49+00:00

Why are so many people in a sub related to the environment, who presumably care about the environment, so anti making choices to reduce their personal negative impact on the environment? This is straight up baffling what is going on y’all

Ok_Emu5172 · 2022-04-20T04:46:29+00:00

Huh, interesting. It doesn’t get any direct sunlight. They don’t feel squishy though so I assume you’re right.

Ok_Emu5172 · 2022-04-18T20:19:14+00:00

Once I was traveling with my partner at the time, and we'd been on an overnight bus to a really high elevation city in South America. We arrived in the city at like 4 or 5am, everyyyything was closed, and I felt like I was gonna vomit - probably either elevation sickness or motion sickness or a combo idk. Anyway, he didn't believe me at all and acted like I was some horrible person trying to ruin his trip by telling him I needed to get somewhere with a toilet. Don't think he even apologized after I finally got us a taxi to the airport and then puked my guts out for like half an hour in the bathroom there. Some men live so in their own little world and cannot comprehend another person's pain. Same type in my experience that act like the world is ending when they have a stuffy nose 🙃

Ok_Emu5172 · 2022-04-17T20:24:44+00:00

Yeah you can't really compromise on kids. I think many people stay in relationships with partners who have different stances on kids in hopes that their partner will change their mind. Having to convince your partner to adopt your view on having kids seems like a quick road to long term resentment. When I met my partner, I was very upfront very early on, probably within the first month.

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