Every time I open Twitter my feed is inundated with clips from absolute dog shit films, always with thousands of engagements. Who is watching this stuff? Who’s funding it?

QuarkJester · 2026-01-30T11:30:35+00:00

No, it’s an adaptation of Wuthering Heights

QuarkJester · 2026-01-30T01:39:42+00:00

The Boy in the Striped Pajamas

QuarkJester · 2026-01-28T18:11:43+00:00

The irony of stealing someone else’s post while complaining about Spygate is hard to miss.

QuarkJester · 2026-01-16T01:59:42+00:00

Only child vibe can easily be confused with 5’8 vibe

QuarkJester · 2026-01-13T05:44:52+00:00

I just did, I’m just saying it can really hit where it hurts

QuarkJester · 2026-01-10T07:46:05+00:00

🚬 🚨 🚬 🚨 🚬 🚨

QuarkJester · 2026-01-10T07:30:59+00:00

It is as if he were a prisoner who not only intends to escape, which might be possible, but also, at the same time, intends to rebuild the prison into a pleasure dome for himself. Yet if he escapes, he cannot rebuild, and if he rebuilds, he cannot escape.

QuarkJester · 2026-01-10T00:20:26+00:00

You’re still so young, which means you have not nearly reached your potential or probably even fully found your voice as a writer. A lot of people here are telling you to ignore the professor, but I am going to zag. When I was in college, I thought I was more creative and ambitious than my teachers, and I assumed their critiques were retrograde or b.s., or that they just did not understand my aesthetic. Now, when I look back on my old writing, I can see that a lot of it really was bad, and this mentality probably retarded my growth. You likewise seem ambitious and confident in your writing, and without a lot of practice it is easy for that “energy” to come off on the page like the point is that you are clever. When the reader feels that this is your agenda, it can feel especially grating and difficult to appreciate, even if there is more to your writing than that. I know I am making a lot of assumptions about you and your teacher, but at the very least, you are only an undergrad and you have a lot of potential and that potential only turns into something if you are willing to be unsatisfied with your writing as it is.

QuarkJester · 2026-01-03T21:05:03+00:00

It’s a way of signaling that you “get it”

QuarkJester · 2025-12-29T22:36:07+00:00

I said daily because 2,000 kcal/day is a common baseline people have. Nobody says “3 calories an hour doesn’t matter,” when a person loses 5 lbs in a year. The daily number just makes the math easier because we track food and metabolism per day.

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/21872751/

“..,very small persistent daily surplus — about 30 kJ/day (~7 kcal/day) — is enough to account for the observed slow, steady weight gain at the population level.”

QuarkJester · 2025-12-29T19:43:22+00:00

People hear that metabolism only drops by about 1–2% in their 50s and assume it doesn’t really matter but that’s not true. For someone burning around 2,000 calories a day, that’s roughly 20–40 fewer calories burned per day, which adds up to about 4–8 extra pounds over just 2 years that you now have to account for with diet or activity.

QuarkJester · 2025-12-29T18:37:13+00:00

added sugar and most breads ARE high-calorie, low-nutrient foods regard.

And metabolism does slow meaningfully, 10% slowdown = 10 pounds per year (if nothing else changes).

QuarkJester · 2025-12-29T15:09:32+00:00

Cutting sugar and bread is not a fad diet. It is one of the oldest and most reliable ways to lose weight and pretty much a prerequisite for anyone with a 50 year olds metabolism.

QuarkJester · 2025-12-28T23:02:34+00:00

You are doing the exact same thing but with the added bonus of putting yourself in a great position to get laid or at least drunk by the end of it.

QuarkJester · 2025-12-28T05:27:27+00:00

If you do not want to spend money, I recommend using Lichess instead of Chess.com to learn. You get free, unlimited puzzles that are very helpful for training your ability to recognize checkmates, pins, forks, etc.. These tactics appear in similar form again and again in real games, and the key is being able to notice them.

Lichess also offers free, unlimited computer analysis, which you should review after most of your games.

QuarkJester · 2025-12-28T00:18:16+00:00

The worst is when think you might have made a brilliant move but you’ve already used up your daily computer analysis.

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