It is good. I’m just insanely sensitive to bitter flavors and have a huge sweet tooth lol. I grew up drinking Southern sweet tea and have dialed it way back.

We have enough local dairy farms and stuff that I’m sure I can just go to a farm stand. First world, yeah, but if I can, it’s better than store butter.

I can’t agree. Only the absolute most lightweight teas (like white or a particularly fragile green tea) have few enough bitter notes that I don’t want any sweetener.

I’m down here to find literally this GIF, thank you. If it wasn’t here I was going to write about how nobody somehow posted this and post it.

I’m super surprised. There must be an awful lot of lines on those traps.

It’s so hard to screw up fatty meat. Duck has a lot of fat under the skin, and that will save it from drying out.

Wait, that was about whales? I figured it was because we’re over-harvesting lobsters. Unless right whales mostly eat lobsters, what is the issue here?

Common names for animals change all the time. We should be listing by proper species names if it’s that important.

Religions have sects. Some sects really suck. No one worth their salt is going to say that ISIS is a good representation of Muslims, and no one worth their salt should say that the religious alt-right is a good representation of Christians.

Darn the European peasant ancestry problem! ;) We apparently have to survive harsh winters with no heating but the fire in the hearth.

I have never heard of this, ever. o.O

I understand people love baskets, and sometimes I do too, but it also means I have to carry heavy shit because my husband doesn’t believe in carts lol. “We only need four things!” No, man, we’re going to end up getting 12 and it will be a like 30 pound basket I have to hold in one hand for an hour lol. Get a damn cart.

I agree with all of that. I do get the sense, though, that they are the “surgery is mutilation” and “you shouldn’t ever want to be conventionally attractive” sorts of people. Not a fan of that particular bent.

The actual success rates are with surgery and now with GLP inhibitors.

This is why I’m on medication that makes me feel nauseous if I eat slightly too much and kills my appetite. No other way. Being a short, overweight woman who was also an overweight kid is the best way to never ever have an easy time losing weight. It’s the absolute shittiest demographic for dropping pounds.

True, though I’m going to warn that the “willpower and grit” model of losing weight does not work for most people. There are always examples of someone who lost 100 lbs by sheer balls, but most of us just can’t do that. We’re overstressed, overworked people who just don’t have those mental resources. Medications go a…

Maintenance Phase, while really fun to listen to, is extremely biased in its own right. It goes way too far when it comes to “never ever diet ever.”

My doctor has me on a 1200 cal/day diet, and my resting metabolic rate is 1800. 2000 calories/day is bullshit, but not in the direction you think.

Play the Trails JRPGs. They have NPCs like this too. The world is very immersive.

Add a dash of cinnamon to anything chocolate for instant better.