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Cake day: August 25th, 2025

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  • (Past the actual joke in the meme)

    Same here. It’s why I can’t get through books with lots of descriptions of environment or characters. It takes a lot of brain power to visualize and it’s just the specific word I’m reading at the moment, divorced from the entire description (e.g. character descriptions, I can blurrily/faintly imagine just the eyes, then just the hair and it evaporates quickly). I’m jealous of people who can actually play movies in their head.




  • I think it’s been proven sugar is literally an addictive substance; it’s hard to say no when it’s not your rational mind in control.

    A coworker at my previous work laughed when I said I’m addicted to sugar in the similar way he’s addicted to cigarettes. Most people seem to be ignorant about it.

    I come from an ethnicity of starvation and poverty, and there’s growing research showing that diabetes actually used to be a protective adaptation.

    In a similar vein this is why island nations have the highest rate of obesity. Their metabolism adapted to scarcity. But some people want to convince everyone that it’s as simple as calories-in-calories-out, as if every body works the same…






  • Funny you should say that.

    We have a “purebred” and a rescue. The former is one of the healthiest breeds and the few genetic disorders (which can affect any breed/mix) the parents were screened for. The rescue is a mix and she already had a physical disability when we got her. For all the surgeries and care she’s needed, we could have gotten a dozen well-bred dogs. And that doesn’t account for all the stress and countless several hour trips and time spent on her recovery and treatment.

    I don’t really mind, we sort of knew what we were getting ourselves into. I do wish I could find the fuckers who caused her injury and then just dumped her on the street as a wee puppy. But yeah, a rescue can cost as much or even more than a well-bred breed dog.


  • Internet has a hard-on for virtue-signaling and black-and-white perspective, and “adopt, don’t shop” is one of those. There is nothing wrong with ethical, responsible breeding.

    There is, however, a lot wrong with unethical breeding (e.g. doll-face persians, scottish folds, pugs, frenchies, showline GSDs, etc., and backyard breeding as a whole) and official breed standards set by people who only care about the looks and not the health of the animal.