Are You Cut Out for Social Media?

and freedom

it is much, much harder when eating out, and all I can do is just not think about it unless it's impossible (a few years ago I'd ordered fried mushrooms that were very obviously coated in a huge amount of onion powder, and it took me like 10 minutes in the bathroom washing my mouth out and eating a couple tangerines I was lucky enough to have taken home from work to stop being nauseated

do you hate other aliums like garlic or spring onions or is it only onions

also I would have thought Japanese food is your friend here

I could literally eat sushi for every meal if I was allowed

srsly if u conflate those neophyte vatican scum with the old faith again

cool those Cypriot fires a moment, imago. the word catholic has broader meanings than just the faith defined by the papal succession.

" I don't know what to think, and generally speaking, in situations that are framed as (quoting the Onion) "this decision will harm people"

One needn't take on the burden themself of ensuring that no one anywhere is ever harmed. Again, there's a happy medium between an inconsiderate jerk and perpetually fretting over whether your every single thought and action is harming people in any way.

also isn't there like a while Ayurvedic thing about onions, I feel like hare Krishna food has no onions for this reason, not that I really know what Ayurvedic actually means

garlic is fine, spring onions/scallions/leeks/chives are not

srsly if u conflate those neophyte vatican scum with the old faith again i will call u an ashkenazi

― imago, Friday, May 22, 2020 11:01 AM (eighteen minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink

splitters!

also isn't there like a while Ayurvedic thing about onions, I feel like hare Krishna food has no onions for this reason, not that I really know what Ayurvedic actually means

― plax (ico), Friday, May 22, 2020 11:23 AM (three minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink

some buddhists don't eat alliums because they inflame the passions, get the blood flowing type thing. antithetical to divesting yourself of desire. there is also the fact that they have to be uprooted, destroying the plant, to be consumed (I might be wrong here, probably), rather than picked from a plant which keeps on living like a tomato or what have you.

Jains do not eat onions or any other root vegetable bc you have to uproot and kill the plant to get them

xp
yes, I've been wondering if I should point out that among some religious South Asians, onions and garlic are forbidden

afaik, it's for the reason that jim mentioned

crut is also right about Jains specifically. geez these are incompetent posts, sorry

(quoting the Onion)

well played

Didn’t the queen prohibit onions and garlic on the QE2 for years because plebe food?

no she just had mad farts

And yet she allowed leeks, although it is an oceangoing ship and leeks pose a danger of sinking. curious.

Are You a Cut Up on Social Media?

Voting something between no and very no

anyway sorry if I upset anyone

I'm upset that you're apologizing ;)

Exactly, no-one is upset.

Well somebody might be but they shouldn't be.

Rather than an apology, it would be better to hear that you have reevaluated your approach to dealing with online strife.

Yeah, ^this. No pressure, though :)

I would like to tell you my own story of improving my ability to deal with such strife, but I am afraid that if I did so my contrary nature would immediately cause me to get into a few intranetz beefs pronto.

I think most of us are just confused by why you place so much value on what these people on Twitter (or Facebook or wherever) think about minor issues.

apparently I made this at some point pic.twitter.com/xrrWeZRUQ7

— Jerry Choke (@jerrychoke) May 22, 2020

well to be fair the assault on the dignity of the person is constant and fought on all fronts simultaneously

Small pantry humiliation porn

:) sesame oil in cooking is great though, sorry to add to the off-topic discussion of food items here but I recommend buying it in small quantities and keeping it in the refrigerator, because it goes off pretty quickly otherwise

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I ended up voting 'no' after discounting ilxor.com.

Did I miss anything?

(Kidding--I never have a problem with threads taking unexpected turns. I've sent them off in that direction many times myself.)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=soBNbkGl4Z0

You're psychic--one of only two Cure songs I unequivocally love (+ "Boys Don't Cry").

Thanks, I try. Or ITRY as we say on This is the crossword puzzle thread

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Hmmm...

Great revive

ffs

i don't even own a social

What’s your social? *snaps chewing gum*

So...I read the Jia Tolentino blog post about her parents' legal troubles the other day, thought "Man, that sounds rough," and liked her tweet that linked to it. Today I searched her name to see what other people were saying about it, and found a LOT of tweets from people accusing her parents of being human traffickers and posting screenshots of court documents and clucking at the "blue-checkmark elites" who were sympathizing with her.

And so I suddenly found myself feeling the way Katherine did about the shallot pasta. I really like Jia Tolentino's writing, and so my initial reaction was to feel empathetic toward her and to take her side, so to speak. But when I saw all of these people voicing outrage -- it wasn't just one or two -- it made me think, "Is there something more to this that I should be mindful of? Is it OK to still like Jia?" Someone tweeted "Keep in mind that Tolentino has a vested interest in minimizing what happened," and that seemed kind of persuasive. Then I found someone else's thread about how the charges against her parents were a total joke and ultimately dismissed in court because they were so weak. So then that seemed persuasive. Mostly, though, I found it all kind of dizzying.

The thing that I'm still struggling to understand is why these people are so motivated to tear her down. I don't want to accuse anyone of "virtue signaling," but I genuinely don't get why random people on Twitter would become so invested in this case. And it makes me question whether my opposite impulse to believe her and take her side is justified, given that it's based on little more than liking her writing. Does she deserve the benefit of the doubt? I hope so, but I genuinely don't know. The whole thing makes me uneasy.

Online: it's bad!

Liberals love cops and the George W Bush administration I guess is the motivation

Except that I get the impression that most of the people outraged about this are leftists who are resentful of "media elites."

well, there are seemingly a very small number of slots for well-compensated high-profile media (read: writing) jobs, so aside from the other reasons for finding gratification in tearing down strangers online, or affiliating yourself with others by triangulation against those strangers' (images in the relevant circles), maybe a lot of people just feel resentment at these authors taking up the lion's share of their own attention. kind of the personal correlate of the much-noted now-we-only-look-at-five-websites phenomenon. as if there is some quiet bargaining going on—if we're going to have to pay so much attention to a limited range of thoughts and words and personae, they had damn well better be sturdy as vehicles for our ideals—and then angry retaliation as soon as those bargains are inevitably felt to be broken.