Unfunny PSA because this is my field: Posture gets over-focused on a lot of the time, but sitting for some amount of time in “bad” posture isn’t going to give you shrimp neck forever. Stiffness is the thing to combat, not posture. It may actually be worse to overfocus on tensing yourself into “good” posture. Instead, whenever you notice you’ve been sitting in the same way for a while, try to settle into the “opposite” position for a little while - activate some muscles that haven’t been working much, stretch out the ones that have.

A little strengthening of the shoulder stabilizers and deep neck flexors can go a long way too. For “tech neck” (forward head posture) I usually assign many of the exercises in this article. I also like wrapping an anchored resistance band around the back of the head and pulling the head back over the shoulders against the resistance, holding until fatigue.

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You absolutely can, if that’s what works for you. Nutritionally, there’s no difference between eating oil with a meal or separately. Lots of people take olive oil shots or mix butter in coffee or whatever and that’s OK. That approach can be particularly good if it’s helpful to think about it more like a supplement than a meal.

People may recommend against that in favor of working it into a meal you won’t hate eating, and there’s some merit to that for some people. But if eating is going to suck either way, just start by doing the thing that gets you calories. Work toward getting a mix of protein, fat, and carbohydrates (with potatoes + oil + eggs you have all 3) and fiber too. (potatoes have a bit) The rest can come later.

This page has a table of cheapest cost-per-calorie foods alongside some other general recommendations that may or may not be helpful. Notable items from that table are flour, bread, sugar, pasta, rice, olive oil, ramen, peanut butter, pinto beans, and lentils.

Ultimately though any food you’ll eat is always better than any food you won’t. A calorie is a calorie pretty much no matter what form it takes. You got this!

yeah, a distinction has to be made between real choking (which can’t really be done safely, even a little bit) and mimicking choking with minimal pressure placed somewhere it won’t actually affect blood/air flow. I am willing to do the latter but would never ever consider the former.

Knowing some anatomy helps, as it’s a lot safer to put pressure on muscles like the upper trapezius that are fully behind the trachea or major arteries/veins. Combine that with light pressure in the front on the collarbone and you have a relatively safe approximation of choking.

yeah, I felt very similarly. the games are a lot better at character drama than broader worldbuilding, so anytime the cases became more about the outside world it wasn’t quite as good.

Danganronpa. (the games, not the anime) It’s hard to defend in some places, with its abysmal minigames, nonsensical plot, and anime tropey story that gets very uncomfortable and insensitive at times. I am also of the opinion that to be cringe is to be free, but it’s one of those franchises with an online fanbase that turned me off of the entire thing for a long while.

But, when I was encouraged to actually give it a fair shake, I enjoyed it a lot. At its best moments, there’s some solid murder mysteries surrounded with entertaining characters and a tense atmosphere. Camp doesn’t excuse the worst parts, but it definitely makes them suck a little less.

The third game in particular gets a lot of flack for its ending and I get it, it’s not a very satisfying conclusion for the characters or universe and a little up its own ass. But as a reflection on the franchise, I do see what they were doing and thought it was interesting - probably more interesting than if we got actual answers for the worldbuilding questions it bypasses.

Definitely skip the anime covering the first game’s events, it’s way too compressed and just heinously awful in a lot of ways. Can’t speak for the other anime series, the movie, or the books, though I’m still interested enough to give em a try sometime.

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Two-eyed lie, is it fight or fly?
I wanna be the shoelace that you tie
'Til the end, will you be my friend?
I wanna be the mountain, kiss the sky
Yeah, I wanna be the vapor gets you high
Yeah, I wanna feel so happy that I cry
Yeah, I wanna be the shoelace that you tie
Yeah, I wanna live forever 'til I die
Yeah, I wanna live forever 'til I die

Big Thief - Blue Lightning

It’s a verb! It’s a verb!
Freedom is a verb
Something never finished, never done
It’s something you must make
It’s something you must take
It’s something you must constantly become

Daniel Kahn and the Painted Bird - Freedom is a Verb

I got a houseboat docked at the Himbo Dome
And a wristwatch that’s a pocket knife and a megaphone
And a wristwatch that tells me I’m on my own

MJ Lenderman - Wristwatch

good creature / good critter