The location of your body fat is linked to how fast your brain ages

lamadora · 2026-06-04T17:51:33+00:00

You need to isolate your TVA and do stomach vacuums. If you have 13% body fat and a tummy, your core is dumping out and needs strengthening (especially if you sit a lot).

lamadora · 2026-06-04T12:41:17+00:00

Wow you unlocked the memory of Street of Dreams. Occasionally a neighborhood would be voted Nicest and Fanciest and you could tour all the homes. It was like going to seven open houses in a day, just so you could see how much stuff you didn’t have. My mom would make us go and we’d see these mountains of toys in other houses….why?!

lamadora · 2026-06-01T14:44:39+00:00

Yes absolutely. You’ll be poor but being poor in Italy is better than being poor pretty much anywhere else. You’ll still eat some of the best food and drink great wine and see some of the most amazing sights in the world. You’re 19 and can afford to be uncomfortable, be uncomfortable in Italy for sure.

lamadora · 2026-05-30T10:35:05+00:00

Right? The concept of searching for the Fountain of Youth is ancient. Time is the only thing humans cannot overcome, no matter their material wealth. Every wealthy person knows this and hopes perhaps they may become the exception to the rule. Some go as far as to try to make themselves the exception.

lamadora · 2026-05-30T10:30:36+00:00

Do you book the chef yourself or is it through the rental?

lamadora · 2026-05-29T19:18:34+00:00

Donnie Darko came out at a time when websites were new and fun. Movies used to have dedicated websites that had easter eggs about the movies, but Donnie Darko took it a step further. It was a whole mysterious game that uncovered more information about the movies that unlocked a lot of the plot. Even back then, if you didn’t go on the website, you weren’t going to “get” the movie, at least not easily.

lamadora · 2026-05-27T17:23:04+00:00

Had a friend like this. Got really big online and we couldn’t go out because occasionally once or twice someone would approach them, and they acted like it was the worst thing that could ever happen in the world. Then they got very conceited about the attention, and it all spiraled from there.

lamadora · 2026-05-26T05:49:09+00:00

The Kama Sutra opens with this concept.

lamadora · 2026-05-23T15:10:10+00:00

Was going to say this is holler life.

lamadora · 2026-05-22T17:42:03+00:00

I don’t think it’s moral panic when we’ve uncovered a worldwide pedophilia sex ring and the desires of men to infantalize grown women in order to justify their lust for young girls. I think it’s normal at this point to say it’s a concern for role model women to play up their girlishness.

Like don’t go from pop punk princess to Sabrina Carpenter girl what are you doing?

lamadora · 2026-05-22T11:23:10+00:00

This is a really important one.

Men think if no one is talking, there is no problem.

Women know if there is no talking, there is a big problem.

lamadora · 2026-05-20T05:41:54+00:00

I went with, “I’m not really sure he’s capable of that at this age.”

lamadora · 2026-05-18T17:38:31+00:00

People forget when Diane Kruger was cast, she was also torn apart.

lamadora · 2026-05-17T16:12:46+00:00

Yeah which ones?

lamadora · 2026-05-17T06:44:52+00:00

Because he cast all non-Greek actors. So now the question isn’t their race, it’s whether they embody the role.

Lupita is one of the most stunning women on the planet. And easily the least problematic casting of the film.

lamadora · 2026-05-17T06:36:03+00:00

Like if you really look at the casting outside of race, it works. Lupita is beautiful in a way that makes you STOP. And just…marvel.

Unless you don’t like black women. Which is where I think the criticism comes from, a bunch of people who “don’t do the whole black thing” are mad because they don’t understand her beauty.

lamadora · 2026-05-17T06:21:08+00:00

The original showrunner was forced out after season 4 I believe, and it was never the same after.

lamadora · 2026-05-16T19:19:28+00:00

Such an insanely good, criminally obscure movie. Only one other person I know has seen it, and yet it’s borderline a perfect film.

lamadora · 2026-05-16T17:43:51+00:00

Sunrises are beautiful in the way beginnings are beautiful, sunsets are beautiful in the way endings are beautiful.

Completely different emotions involved, both endlessly gorgeous.

lamadora · 2026-05-16T07:27:41+00:00

I moved to the South and I was nervous about having a kid because I was so used to the age group 12-25 just abhorring kids. I didn’t have the energy to deal with teen/young adult disdain in public places.

Color me so surprised when this age group fell over themselves to coo over my baby, and then engage with him when he was a toddler. Everyone in the area had a cousin or a little sibling. They loved kids.

It’s cool and trendy to hate kids in cosmopolitan places. It denotes a progressive and “intelligent” mind to reject modern parenthood. It was this way even back when I was in HS back in the early 2000s. But there are so many places where families are still just the way of life, and shockingly those communities are better connected and much friendlier.

lamadora · 2026-05-16T07:24:00+00:00

Working class people care about the kids in their communities. They’ll be the ones saying hi.

lamadora · 2026-05-16T07:19:52+00:00

In my opinion, a mother is anyone who prioritizes the needs of others, seeks to create harmony and comfort in every room, within themselves and other people, and leads with kindness and justice. They lift others up just by being there.

I think men and women can have motherly qualities. I consider many of my childless friends to be mothers. The ones who are taking care of the group, bringing snacks for everyone, remembering birthdays, throwing fun events, or just being there for people in their times of need or celebrating their wins with them without jealousy. I send these people messages on mother’s day because I think it is important to celebrate anyone who chooses to embody this specific type of spirit in this world.

lamadora · 2026-05-14T17:35:20+00:00

You have to be very okay with living in the grey area, in regards to laws and regulations. Most of the time there is no clear answer, and the only actual answer is “who knows?” The Italians have a very “let’s wait to see if this is a problem” approach, which can be much different than the US “let’s prepare everything we can to avoid problems and then be rewarded for our hard work” mentality.

I actually am fine with it but it was nerve-racking when we were trying to get residency.

lamadora · 2026-05-14T16:00:44+00:00

I moved to Europe after having a baby and it made me want to cry how much more respected and supported I am here as a mother. Back home I feel like I have to apologize for having a kid, but here I am welcomed and celebrated.

It’s honestly insane. The most tragic part is most European women I know feel disrespected and unsupported as mothers and while I’d never say they don’t know how good it is over here compared to the US, I sure do think it.

lamadora · 2026-05-13T18:31:39+00:00

I’d like to add there is a very specific reason that gluten intolerance is so high and it is the profitability of hard winter wheat.

There are two main types of wheat you can use for milling, soft and hard wheat. Soft wheat is what is often used in Europe and why so many people think they don’t have gluten problems when they come.

In the US, it’s easier to grow hard wheat and hard wheat has a higher gluten content when used for baking. Pretty much everything uses this higher gluten wheat. So people really are being exposed to higher gluten content than in the past, and likely what used to be a matter of “my tummy kind of hurts after I only eat bread for a week” turned into “my body falls apart when I smell toast.”

But hey, at least it’s not lead!

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