As a fellow poor peater (pea-oorter? poor-eater? peatoor? peatsantry? peatverty?) My friend (also poor, but health conscious in a gym bro way) was criticizing me for buying various Peat items and kept insisting I eat beans and lentils. Much back-and-forth has transpired, but I did think it was worth mentioning rice and oats. From what I remember, those two starches are... not the worst... as long as one keeps their gut biome in check (I also got hearsay that Peat said oats were fairly benign if consumed with milk). Could do some discourse on that. He also claimed cottage cheese was the cheapest of all dairies (beside milk), though that likely varies heavily by location. Might wanna evaluate which sources of dairy are cheapest (if you think you need the saturated fat/its nutrients...)
On that note, remember you can recycle used eggshells for calcium. Did this myself with a mortar and pestle. I haven't seen any negative effects from it yet... and it does seem to work as intended. Brad Cohn's got a simple guide - boil for 5 minutes, bake for 20 minutes, powderize. Get it as fine as you can else it increases digestion risks.
Tahodama
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RE: Peating in poverty
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Epic Drink Recommendations For Starting Alcoholics
Been hearing constant musings about the benefits of alcohol around the Peat health sphere. Lipofuscin decrease, hormonal effects, etc. There's also the superstitious and mystical reasons people constantly invoke, so I was wondering what drinks might serve this purpose best.
I've lived a faithful life of a teetotaler up until now (or, more accurately, my childhood was so bereft of socialization that there came no occasions to drink in the first place (also it was a full of Christian puritans)), so peering into the alcohol world feels like joining a community for a 15 year old multiplayer game and seeing the players mention countless subjects and terms whose meanings seem unintelligible.
I was wondering if there were any straight answers on the matter and if one should even bother with it in the first place... I'm doing this only for health reasons after all, I still have no reason to drink in terms of socialization. -
RE: Peating in poverty
If you're going to shoplift I think you should at least do it with a sense of confidence and/or disregard for society and individuals, trying to justify all your actions from a moral lens just makes you seem insecure (not accusing anyone in particular of that). You're already committing a legal crime, just own up to it. "N-no, I am ENTITLED to this thing, you see! Society owes me this!" not a dignified way of standing up for yourself.
On a different note I used to think petty thievery was the "good" type of theft, because who cares about a bag of doritos? But after dwelling on it a bit I realized it was the more daring and intelligence-gated acts of theft that merit some admiration, and display a certain exertion of will over the world. Petty thievery just makes you seem, well, petty. Like a homeless loser who doesn't have anything better to do than to pilfer sloppily.
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RE: Peating in poverty
I had no issues taking aspirin alone for a long time. Only symptom after absurd usage (like 3g/day) was my skin got cut easily. Of course this isn't taking into account the unforeseen consequences, but the point stands that it depends on your constitution. If you're a big guy (for you) like me then you'll be fine, but less blockheaded individuals are prolly more sensitive to downsides.
The prior recommendations to eat ground veggies (carrots, onions, potatoes, etc) is good. Produce is generally pretty cheap, or at least you need to do homework on what the cheapest peaty (or peat compatible) items in your area are and prioritize them. My main concern is getting a good source of carbs - is fruit consumption enough? If not, then try looking at frozen berries, or refined sugar if you're willing (though that may be risky long term).
I want to jeer at CO3 for
recommendingmentioning shoplifting but I am a resourceful man myself and would regularlystealutilize free food from from the work break room. I'm pretty sure I'm the reason they stopped supplying it with oatmeal packets (saved my coworkers from a life of starchceldom btw). Now I just make use of the free oranges and pears. I would suggest similar resourcefulness in your case. Indulge in the packets of sugar at restaurants. Mooch off of your friends. Combine multiple small snacks into a meal. etcI would recommend vitamin E to cope with any PUFA you inevitably consume with a budget diet but the generic off-brand alpha-tocopheryl prolly isn't gonna do much. Stick to the aspirin and the coconut oil as tactical deployment.
Consider also your physical needs. If 1) your life circumstances are not physically demanding, and 2) you don't really care about being a beefy haidutian lifter then you can maybe skimp out on fat and protein. Or at least I eat a lot more fat than I should and get away with it because of constant physical laboring. But there are cheeky ways of getting these macros, if you calculate the costs of the cheapest sources - eggs, creams, gelatin, etc. Maybe there's a clever way of integrating some new cheap food item to meet these demands.
You can also simply fortify existing meals with good food items. This is what I do with cheap meals, like adding sour cream and coconut oil to box mac and cheese for extra fat content. If all your food is homemade (which it should be, poor people who only eat premade food deserve it) it should be possible to customize it a bit in your favor.
Lastly, find some way to do all of this in a way that is stimulating rather than taxing. When I cut costs and do budgeting work I like to pretend I'm some guru doing dramatic calculations, like I'm playing a survival game and I'm solving exactly how to manage my limited resources. It helps to keep things fun and exciting rather than boring and stressful, which will indeed cause problems as this state persists.
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RE: Is being incel the "new normal" in 2024?
@CO3 I work a job where I have to socialize with people every 5 minutes and have found each and every one of them to be shallow and devoid of any worthwhile insight. I'm afraid my biases have been hardened, not softened, the more I experience.
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RE: Is being incel the "new normal" in 2024?
@ThinPicking It wasn't too big a deal, or at least I've been good at dealing with stress from a young age and, strangely, aspects from the divorce are less painful aspects of my childhood to remember than others. I'm in good standing with both my parents. But the separation was hard on my dad financially and socially for a good 10 years, if that tells you the toll it took on him. He recovered from it though.
Regarding my own high score of not talking to women, that's mostly a circumstantial thing. Ever since my midteens I lost all contact with my female friends and just never made any to replace them. Since then I've never had any indepth conversation with them, although I don't mind interacting with them. Just never felt the desire to do so since I have more pressing matters to deal with in life, and I don't view having female friends as an end in of itself.
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RE: The ethics of having children while in sub-standard metabolic condition
@DonkeyDude You can certainly say so; I'm speaking in the terms of moral theology, and admitting one's parents weren't ideal is not the same as saying they committed an unjust act, although that's being very technical.
Nobody in this day and age is thriving everybody is fucked in some way or another plus everybodys diet is shit
This is both a saddening and encouraging statement. Sad, in the sense that life quality is so poor, or to put it with more stinging words: So far below what it could be! But encouraging in the sense that this almost endows one with a sense of duty to procreate in order that humans collectively can rise to higher standards of life.
I think it's almost a noble instinct to be hesitant to procreate, for it at least displays an awareness of the common good (a trait of hajnal civilization) and concern for societal wellbeing. But in a case when we're all at a disadvantage it might be time to put those concerns aside, at least when most of us have an equal chance to provide society with better progeny, and thus equal duty. -
RE: Is being incel the "new normal" in 2024?
@CO3 Also, peepees and vagoo is a more important topic than actual political thought. HAHA! Go read more useless theory and see what good it does you.
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RE: Is being incel the "new normal" in 2024?
@CO3 I haven't interacted with a girl in 8 years so it's hard for me to think about them, at least outside of principle, abstract terms.
In any case I watched my own dad get screwed over by divorce laws. I don't think he was blameless, but it was bizarre seeing courts just brutalize him.
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RE: Is being incel the "new normal" in 2024?
a deep seated problem with sexuality, using terms like vulgar and hypersexual and gluttonous
Also I just wanted to note that the reason I invoke gluttony in regard to hypersexuality is because sexual appetite and literal appetite are very closely linked. This is why fasting calms the libido, why eating red meat stimulates it, why women eating sloppily can be erotic to some, why those with overeating disorders also have masturbation addictions, and why excessive displays of both are disgusting to more sensible, "artful" types (Not saying I am one, I don't consider myself very artful). Oral sex was once likened to chicken soup. The analogies go hand-in-hand.