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Arkandel

@Miss-Demeanor I hope you get an itch right between the shoulderblades where it's really hard to scratch it.

Miss Demeanor

@Miss-Demeanor I hope you get an itch right between the shoulderblades where it's really hard to scratch it.

This is why I have a backscratcher. ^_^

Tinuviel

tek

The health problems that I've been having since age 19 that have just been dismissed as me being fat and needing to be less of a fatty look like they might be deep penetrating endometriosis. Of course, it wouldn't be deep penetrating at age 31 if doctors had taken me seriously over a decade ago. Fuck you, doctors who don't take fat women seriously. Fuck you.

Lisse24

@tek I have PCOS, which literally makes it near impossible to lose weight. The average calorie deficit needed to lose weight on this disease is 800 cals/day (yes there have been studies). Despite that, while I'm pudgy, I've managed to stay under 150 and maintain good blood pressure by working my tail off. At 4'11, this makes me a bit pudgy - pudgy, but not terribly obese. Yet, what do I hear every time I get sick and go to the doctor? Well, if I'd just lose weight...

tek

@Lisse24 I have PCOS for sure. I just feel so so so so betrayed by doctors right now.

Lisse24

@tek Ugh, that and endo? I feelz for you.

Auspice

@Lisse24 said in RL Anger:

@tek I have PCOS, which literally makes it near impossible to lose weight. The average calorie deficit needed to lose weight on this disease is 800 cals/day (yes there have been studies). Despite that, while I'm pudgy, I've managed to stay under 150 and maintain good blood pressure by working my tail off. At 4'11, this makes me a bit pudgy - pudgy, but not terribly obese. Yet, what do I hear every time I get sick and go to the doctor? Well, if I'd just lose weight...

I have PCOS and hypothyroid. The struggle is freakin' real. Thankfully, the doctors I've found more recently know I'm -working- on losing weight and that my body is working against me. But I've heard that so many times over the years.

Tinuviel

Given the primary drive of evolution is to procreate, our bodies have so many delightful ways to make it bloody difficult...

tek

@Lisse24 @Auspice The thing is, I should be treated like a human being who deserves to have her health concerns investigated appropriately regardless of whether I'm a "good" fatty or a "bad" fatty. I shouldn't have to make excuses for myself and go "I DID THE TRICK NOW TAKE ME SERIOUSLY" for a doctor to take me seriously. I enjoy physical activities because I enjoy them, not because I'm trying to get brownie points, you know?

Not that I've been able to do ANYTHING lately due to pain and fatigue. ffs.

tek

@Tinuviel said in RL Anger:

Given the primary drive of evolution is to procreate, our bodies have so many delightful ways to make it bloody difficult...

When I'm really down on myself, I feel like an evolutionary failure. Like, apparently my genes are such shit that they're not worth passing on... but my ex's ex who is a convicted child molester can keep having a baby every year that gets taken away by the state. That makes me feel /great/.

Tinuviel

@tek Evolution is weird. You're alive, thus you are not a failure of evolution. Your evolutionary purpose is to help protect against overpopulation, which is far more vitally important than spreading your genes. You are the bulwark of our security against self-destruction.

tek

@Tinuviel I'm pretty sure that's not how evolution works, but

Tinuviel

Please. I'm middle-class, white, and male. If I say something, it's the truth regardless of factual content.

Thenomain

@Tinuviel

One of the things that bugged me about The Matrix, or nerd-triggered me, or was such a minor thing that still felt like a splinter I couldn't get at, was the Agent Smith speech about how only Mankind spreads without care of its impact on the environment.

"Spreading" is genetics' motherfucking mandate. Evolution is its tool, and not even evolution has solved overpopulation.

@tek

Isn't it strange how much Idiocracy becomes more true year after year.

tek

@Thenomain As a historian, I just want to point out that there are more literate people alive in the world today than have every lived in all previous eras combined. I don't think that's where the world is heading.

Tinuviel

@Thenomain I understood that speech somewhat differently. It wasn't that spreading was the problem, it was spreading without regard to the environment that made humans somewhat unique. Though we could always assume that Smith was flawed, altering facts to fit his worldview. But that'd never happen in reality, right?

WTFE

@Thenomain said in RL Anger:

… not even evolution has solved overpopulation.

Sure it has. We just don't particularly want to experience its solution.

Tinuviel

@WTFE There are some hypotheses that indicate that homosexuality might be one of those ways. But I don't know enough to judge the veracity of those thoughts.

Thenomain

@Tinuviel said in RL Anger:

@Thenomain I understood that speech somewhat differently. It wasn't that spreading was the problem, it was spreading without regard to the environment that made humans somewhat unique.

If you think deer care about its impact on the environment, you don't know deer. No, animals don't have any regard to the environment. It's the environment, including other species and sometimes its own, that throws up the problems that creates the rules under which we define positive evolution.

@WTFE said in RL Anger:

@Thenomain said in RL Anger:

… not even evolution has solved overpopulation.

Sure it has. We just don't particularly want to experience its solution.

Reduced effectiveness in breeding? Yeah, no, that's alright.

Oh, wait, you mean death. We experience this solution all the time, though as higher thinking animals we are kind of shit in dealing with it. We work pretty hard to avoid it thus expanding our ability to breed. This is evolution working as intended.

If you mean disease, this isn't our evolutionary response to overpopulation, this is a consequence of it. Evolution isn't solving nothing...well, our evolution isn't. The disease is certainly taking advantage of it.

All of this means that: Evolution doesn't give one shit about the environment, and neither does any animal or plant life. At best, they're taking advantage of changing situations such as natural enemies being reduced or removed entirely when transplanted to a different ecosystem. Or dying off because of same.

The Matrix's "mankind as virus" speech is utter nonsense.