Fun video, but I’m not sure genetics, access to good healthcare, exercise, community envolvement and a healthy diet really qualifies as a lifehack. It’s more like, “hey, remember those things your doctor, every health blog, and your 7th through 12th grade health classes kept drilling into you? Yup, turns out they’re…

Missed one: fake overpayment scams. Happens on Craigslist, eBay, even local newspaper ads.

Yup. And bullies can and do use this against their victims. It’s the victim’s fault for feeling bad, because they should have full control over their emotions, like a robot.

Counterpoint: If you truly believe that you are hurt, because you let yourself be hurt, imagine that a bully uses exactly that, to torment their victims:

Yeah, this is a really privileged, I-got-mine kind of take. This just lets hateful people who are actively trying to cause you harm/pain/grief off the hook for their actions and changes nothing.

That’s an easy position to take from when you’re in a position of power. Words mean things. Words become actions. Actions have consequences, as do words.

Anyone who is a) near max and b) has a system for xp farming is by definition not casual. I play as I walk to and from the subway that is casual.

The money and suppression thing, mostly. The podcast itself is really interesting (I’m most of the way through episode 4), but she’s basically a spiritual guru who is fond of telling people not to bother with suicide hotlines, and that sometimes it just makes more sense for people to kill themselves.

This is what you get when your healthcare system stigmatizes mental health and refuses to pay for a psychiatrist.

I don’t have the time or attention span to listen to the podcast, so:

If you’re surprised California didn’t make the list

This kind of thinking is not just the purview of traditional religious conservative groups. Many New Age types, particularly those wrapped up in the “Indigo Child” movement, are anti-vax as well, as I believe this map represents that well in the West showing how the somewhat hippy-ish northwest coast melds into the…

As with all alternative medicine quackery...

I listened to the first episode and subscribed. I was surprised to hear Teal Swan mentioned in a mainstream space. I first heard of her a few years ago when I was watching some YouTube video and one of Teal’s videos was suggested. I watched a few while working on a Saturday where I could just kind of have it on for…

Her origin story isn’t dark, it’s a lie. According to a mayhem.com profile that’s since been removed, she was discovered by a NYC modeling agency and began traveling the world from age 12. She has lived in ten countries around the world, posed for Playboy, and trained for the Olympics. All under the name Teal…

That was immediately my thought as well. When the camera pans to Khosrowshahi, spread eagle on a bearskin rug, I’ll be on board, but not before.  

If one doesn’t include them redoing the I am sorry ads from south park I will not forgive them.

This. Any answer needs to be five words or less. Count them out before you say them.

I’ve been saying this for years..