"Grow up and live in the real world" / "Life's not fair" / other thought-terminating cliches used to shut down anyone who wants the world to be a better place than it is. Like, I fucking know it's an unfair place. The whole point is that I would like for it to be less unfair.

What do you mean by "misandry"?

If you mean "women venting about their experiences in a male-dominated world", then I don't give a shit. I just try not to be the reason they're complaining.

If you mean unrealistic emotional expectations for men, like we're not allowed to cry or be sensitive or feel any emotion but anger, it frustrates me. I don't really know how to handle it.

I was reading Matt Parker's new trigonometry book and they made some remark about triangles in spherical geometry and I went "wait, what if you did this"

Using "clit" as a derogatory term but running around calling "nazi" "the NA word"? Are you for real?

What's the benefit of leaving your house?

You can't just ask other people to do your work for you.

There’s evidence that trigger warnings actually worsen anxiety and are counterproductive

I'd be interested in seeing these studies.

The way to treat anxiety is to face the source of anxiety to try and change your relationship and reaction. The best way to do this is via controlled access that exposes one to the trigger gradually in a context that has no risk of harm (eg a media depiction, discussing the concept, building up to discussing the source of trauma that led to the phobic response if applicable)

Trigger warnings enable active avoidance. This sensitizes one to the aversive stimuli and makes the phobic response stronger. As a result when one encounters the stimulus (eg a friend, family, celebrity etc commits suicide, suffers an eating disorder, etc) your resilience to the trigger is now even lower and the response is more likely to be more significant than it was before.

These two paragraphs seem to contradict each other. Controlled access in a safe setting like a media depiction sounds great. That's exactly what trigger warnings are for. How can you possibly do controlled exposure without knowing if the content is there or not?

Trigger warnings enable active avoidance.

Incorrect. Trigger warnings inform you that the content is present in the media you're about to watch. What you do with that information is up to you.

Cheap and easy food storage.

Make a dozen extra servings of whatever I'm cooking and just leave it in the pot on the stove. When I'm hungry in the future I'll come back and serve myself up another bowl. When I take the last serving, I leave a note saying when I came from so I know to prepare another batch by then.

You asked anyway.

Beans and lentils are great for protein as well as being much cheaper than meat. You should definitely have them every day.

If you have the time and energy to do so, get dry beans and soak them overnight then cook them; they'll have less sodium and give you less gas that way.

I didn't even think of that. Another good question!

Pay a human to draw it for you.

It's not random! The placement is based on letter frequency.

Are they actually worse, or are they just not what you're used to?

They're not curved; the space they're embedded in is curved.

Unearthed for GBC. It's a fun little block-pushing puzzle game that just came out last month.

(Full disclosure, I'm one of the beta testers, but I didn't get paid or anything. I just really like the game.)

I miss multireddits! Is that a thing on Lemmy?

Metabolism does play a part, but people of all metabolisms can lose weight.

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I just open it.

Hmm, it's not the same, but I could sort RSS feeds for different communities into the same folder in my reader and that would do the trick. Thanks!

Same, actually.

What do you propose as the solution, then? Without any up-front disclosure of the triggering content being present, how can anybody make the choice whether or not to expose themself to it?

Mostly Thumb Key, but I'm trying out Heliboard right now thanks to the recommendations here and it's pretty nice. I haven't used a good swiping keyboard for a while.

My bad, I was only thinking of my own experience. Cool that peas are so cheep though!

It has the letters in a grid! It's unintuitive at first, but one you get used to it it's pretty quick.

ThumbKey on Fdroid

Everyone knows that, though. So what's the point of saying it when someone is trying to make things more fair?

I don't think that can be a thing.

Nah. Someone lamenting that the world is unfair and needs to change does not need to be reminded that the world is unfair.

I'm not asking about a Dorito shape.

How do you envision that going, exactly?