thinking for yourself isn’t very advantageous when everyone hates you for it.

it also just depends on how you sit. if you are sitting upright and more elongated, it shouldn’t happen. very different from say, sitting on the floor or squatting or sitting with a position where you legs are elevated to be the same height as your torso or higher.

your BP drops because all the sudden because heart has to fight gravity when it wasn’t doing it before.

do you want to eat 20lbs of cucumbers and tomatoes in a week or two?

i love my garden when stuff comes in, but after the 3rd week of harvest I basically throw it all in the garbage because i’m so sick of eating tomatoes. I only consume maybe 10% of what I produce in a year because it all comes in at once, and I can’t eat 50lbs of tomatoes a few weeks as a single person.

And no, I’m not interested in setting up a pickling/canning operation, thanks. Which is always the ‘solution’ people come back at with me, and then they tell me I’m lazy and wasteful.

I had one friend who did setup a huge terraced garden, but then basically gave up because it was consuming his life and his neighbors got so pissed off that it was attracting wildlife. He killed like 8 groundhogs in one year, and he hated doing it but if he didn’t’ the fuckers would destroy his entire crop. So he just gave up because the entire thing was just too much work and too much misery. Now he’s back to growing a few tomatoes and other plants in plastic tubs because it’s simpler and it doesn’t attract wildlife.

Yeah, if you live in a rural are with a few acres, go wild and create your personal Stardew valley, but otherwise, just do it for fun and chill out about ‘cost efficiencies’. Your backyard plot of a dozen plants is never going turn you into a self-sufficient farmer. It’s a novelty for some tasty veg for the summer.

sucks. my strawberries i started years ago are pretty dope. but the harvest is inconsistent every year, due to weather. some years I get a lot, some years I get virtually none.

it’s also cost you a lot of time

I’m so sick of dummies thinking they are going to survive the collapse of society or prevent it buy planting a vegetable garden.

And yet I see someone posting their anxiety cope on here once a week, at least. Asking for advice how to become a homesteader on their 1/4 acre lot in a city/suburb. They write a 1000 word essay on the topic, asking of r ‘advice’ how to learn a lifetime of veggie growing experience into a few sentences so that they can be coming ‘self sufficient’.

Grow plants if you want, for fun. But stop with the prepper bullshit. Stop being an paranoid egotistical idiot. If society collapses, you are fucked and there is shit you can do about it. You are not the protagonist of a apocalyptic movie, sorry to inform you. You are an extra whose only purpose in the story is to die or already be dead in the background of the shot.

people won’t go on pre-paid service because of the social stigma of it being for ‘poor people’

I’ve been on a 20-25$ cell plan my entire adult life… but it’s Boost, and people think it is ‘ghetto’ due to the fact Boost was originaly marketed as ‘urban’ cell phone company. It’s insane. I even got my mom to switch over to it when she retired to save money. but my sister found out and was RIPSHIT i put my mom on a ‘phone plan for black people’… because she’s racist AF, and she took my mom off the plan and put her back on a $100 Verizon plan again… and bought her a fancy iphone she had no clue how to use, because ‘successful people use iPhones, poor losers use Android phones’.

my plan on Verizon would be like 80 bucks a month. a lot of people take pride in throwing away money because it makes them feel they are ‘not poor’. and marketing loves them.

In other news, my nephew turned 18, wanted to get off the family plan and get his own phone and plan, and wanted Boost w/android because it’s cheap and he can easily afford it. She was furious with him and basically told him he can’t do it, because she’d lose the ability to track him via his iphone, which is precisely why he wants to get rid of being on the family plan… but she tells him he can’t do it because ‘people won’t respect him’ if he has an android and not using Verizon.

the bigger it gets, the more the memes will become everything.

agreed though. way too many memes, not enough legit information anymore.

it’s huge because real life romance is collapsing as people prefer imaginary romance.

the problem in real life is that if you are with someone you shouldn’t be with, there are usually real negative consequences in your life.

Mina’s Matchbox by Yoko Ogawa.

Everytime I am at a cafe there is a woman reading this book. I don’t think I’ve ever seen a man with a copy of it. Been seeing it around for few years now.

Is it one of those romantasy novels? Or is more like YA fantasy fiction type stuff?

or just go to your local library where they have 1000s of dvds/blu rays for you to borrow for free

I bought a switch 2 two weeks ago. used it on a 6 hour flight, was amazing.

I bought a PS5 two years ago.

I’m good for the next decade, thanks.

no

the instance is anarchist so i would assume it’s genuine.

right, ok please keep it up with the boomer takes on the economy that are utterly devoid of context because you want to bitch about high prices, despite the fact relative to wages they are not higher, at all…

like the dweebs who whine about video game/console prices being ‘so expensive’ when they are objectively cheaper.

economics doesn’t care about your feelings about the costs of things. call it stupid all you want, the numbers don’t lie. your feelings do.

i’m not. you just are offended because i disputed your simplistic narrative with some facts that dispute the ‘wah gas is so expensive’ nonsense, because objectively speaking, it’s really not.

other things are. housing prices are legitimately up way over wages and inflation, but gas is not.

your narrative is objectively false information. even if you ‘feel’ like gas is ‘so expensive’.

or that’s bullshit.

in 1980 gas was 75 cents, yes. but guess what, the minimum wage was like 3 dollars an hour. today it’s more like 15 and gas is 3-4.

or we could go by median income, which was 17K in 1980 and is 80K today.

gas has always been cheap and still is cheap in america. esp if you compare it to say the cost in Canada. our entire national and international policy is all about supporting cheap gasoline for almost three generations now.

you have never once in your life seen actually expensive gas. for it to be legit expensive, it would have to be closer to 10 dollars a gallon, and maybe then you’d see people stop driving monster trucks that get 15-20mpg and shift back to small sedans that get 30-40+. i drive a car car that gets 45mpg, so gas prices going from 3-5 bucks a gallon has basically zero affect on me, because I’m not blowing through 25 gallons of it per week, more like 3 gallons, so my gas costs went from about $10 a week to $15.

the reason toyota/honda etc got popular in the 70s was gas prices went up and people started buying smaller cheaper cars to compensate, instead of polluting landboats they drove most of the 60s and 70s that got like 12mpg and had 20+ gallon gas tanks.

ok, so why don’t i own an SUV then? I’ve been subjected to those same ads.

oh, did a advertisement on TV make you write this comment too?