Yup. I’m Bo7a alright.
I care. Because every day I wake up to more of this fucking nightmare and all I can hope for is that some of the gaping chasms ‘we’ see everyday becomes visible as cracks to the slavering base and peel off a few more. If one person sees the inconsistency and abstains or goes for 3rd party then I think the few seconds of time posting was worth it.
AND it’s incoherent.
I’m not in a position to do a bunch of journal sourcing right now. But you can get some information here as a start:
https://nalmclinic.com/blog-1/2021/1/22/vegan-diet-and-inflammatory-bowel-disease
The stuff in the spoilered section that follows is all from the clanker summary in a google search since I’m on my way out the door. My own experience is below if you wanna skip the summaries.
Crohn’s disease sufferers face immense challenges going vegan because a traditional plant-based diet relies heavily on foods that are structurally and texturally aggressive to an inflamed digestive tract. While plant-based diets offer great health benefits for the general public, the fundamental components of veganism directly clash with the physiological limitations of Crohn’s
The Insoluble Fiber “Sandpaper” Effect - A standard vegan diet is inherently packed with insoluble fiber from raw fruits, vegetables, whole grains, and bean skins.
Mechanical Irritation: Insoluble fiber does not dissolve in water and remains bulky as it passes through the intestines. In an inflamed, raw, or ulcerated bowel, this rough texture acts like sandpaper, causing intense cramping, bloating, and pain.
Stricture Risks: Chronic inflammation often creates strictures (narrowed sections of scar tissue). Coarse, fibrous vegan foods can get physically trapped in these narrow pathways, creating a high risk for dangerous bowel obstructions
Limited Safe Protein Options - Protein is essential for healing damaged gut tissue, but a vegan diet eliminates animal proteins, forcing reliance on plant alternatives that are notoriously difficult for Crohn’s patients to tolerate during flares
Legumes and Beans: Foods like lentils, chickpeas, and black beans are vegan staples but are packed with complex sugars (FODMAPs) and tough skins that trigger severe gas, pressure, and diarrhea.
Nuts and Seeds: These are incredibly hard to break down completely by chewing. The sharp, jagged fragments can scrape against the intestinal lining and easily irritate inflamed areas
Compounded Malabsorption and Deficiencies - Crohn’s disease already severely compromises the small intestine’s ability to absorb vital nutrients. Layering a restrictive vegan diet on top of an already malfunctioning gut drastically compounds the risk of malnutrition:
B12 and Iron: Crohn’s frequently causes deficiencies in Vitamin B12 and iron due to ileal inflammation and bleeding. Because plant-based sources of iron (non-heme) are much harder to absorb than animal sources, and B12 is natively absent in plant foods, vegan Crohn’s patients face rapid depletion.
Caloric Density: Plant foods are highly filling but volume-for-volume contain fewer calories than animal fats and proteins. When a flare limits how much volume a patient can physically eat, a vegan diet makes it incredibly difficult to consume enough daily calories to prevent dangerous weight loss
My experience:
For me, personally, when I try to go ‘more vegetarian’ what I end up with is undigested veg in the toilet and enough pain to keep me bedridden for a week or more. I have tried this many times over the course of treating my disease. From ‘meatless mondays’ to simply having all of my veg in boiled and mashed form (holy fuck does that get old fast).
The blood tests I take every month before my iron infusions show the impact even more clearly than my pain. When I cut out meat my blood work comes back with negligiable amounts of many important vitamin and minerals. A good example would be iron. I have to get constant iron shots even while eating a meat-heavy diet because my digestive tract does not absorb it from food, pills, or even the disgusting liquid format. The same goes for b12, magnesium, and a pile of other important compounds.
This is all not even mentioning the severe intestinal blockages and diarrhea (Yeah… both of these at once) associated with chickpeas, lentils, beans, or even commercially sourced protein powders.
I would very much love to be ‘more vegetarian’, But for me that trade-off would be endless suffering and an early death from malnutrition.
HTH
Humans don’t have a biological need to eat meat
I do. And so do a ton of other people with digestion/absorption diseases/issues. And for some of us it is a source of recurring stress. Maybe try to be as inclusive in your statements around diet as you would around anything else.
Maybe there is some cultural gap.
Note: I am not saying this commenter is correct. I am attempting to parse the words for you to get a better handle on what I think they meant.
They are explaining how if you are paying for sex and you are waiting for the sex worker to show up (indicating that they hold some power in the transaction) then they are an escort or a call-girl.
If the sex worker was standing around waiting for a client (indicating less power in the transaction on their side) Then they are a ‘whore’ or ‘hooker.’
The ‘one of them has more rules’ comment is saying that the group being called escort or call girl has more rules about what you are allowed to do/have done to you than the group under the banner of hooker or whore.
Again - not my words, not my belief. I am only playing translator.
Read it again.
I was mostly kidding. But the little bit that bothered me was the idea that ‘it is so simple here are 8 pages to barely scratch the surface.’
cron works fine for me. And if I ever have to work in an environment where I can’t use cron and systemd is available, then of course I will use it. Thus far that has never been the case.
I’ve been doing this stuff for 30 years. The helpful blog post that took 8 pages of text to explain how to schedule a job just made me angry.
I think I am finally into greybeard territory even though my beard made the change a few years ago. Damn.
I have been doing mutual aid in minority spaces since the 90s. Teaching classes on survival, self defense, and gardening/animal husbandry since the 2000s.
I’m building an intentional community and giving away land (99 year lease for one dollar) to those who share the inclination towards helping each other without the state where possible. We now have half a dozen people with plans to move up, and I have built the infrastructure up over 4 years to support those people’s dreams of being themselves and having a place to be safe doing so.
I grow food, rescue animals, and write letters of character for people who are going to court for small infractions against the capital class.
I support and volunteer at more than a few shelters and abuse centers.
I’m all just trash talk though… Sharing memes is where the real action is.
Note: I am also not against sharing memes. Generating cultural knowledge of how fucked the system is is an important part of progress. What I am against is useless memes that shit on one group for doing nothing while giving a tacit pass to the actual fascists doing the majority of the damage to any progress being made.
Contrary to your belief, posting a meme is not ‘doing something’.
Ok so let’s try an experiment. Where on the circle are you? And what are you doing to put brakes on the fascists?
Oh, nothing? Yeah… We know.
This is also happening less and less as farms consolidate under disadventure capitalists. I’m in my late 40s, and the town I went to highschool in was the type to have 2 weeks off at harvest and seeding time because so many kids had to go out and help on the farm.
Last year they did not have any time off for that because only one family was left actually working their farms, the rest are working them for a corp and the corp hires transient labour to do the heavy work.
Hi. Much like passerby, I am also “Almost Nobody”. I haven’t stepped foot in the office since 2014, and I have travelled extensively during that time. At one point all of my clients were in NA so my wife and I would travel in our RV to somewhere in the same timezone and then bum around different lakes and mountains. When the client-base trended to EU we moved to switzerland with the intent of doing the same thing there, but covid forced us to stay in one country for most of our time there.
Don’t kid yourself - There are many of us. We just don’t all have the same experience so giving advice on how to get there is generally a waste of our time.
Which story?
‘globohomo bullshit’ doesn’t strike you as a red flag?
Maybe they are trying to ‘take back’ a bigoted term, but I don’t get that feeling. Especially since the vast majority of people using that term are shithead chuds.
Yeah I don’t think that one will go over well with the current wording on their FAQ.
Frequently asked questions What is this? This is a metasearch engine that gets results from other engines, and strips away all of the tracking parameters and Microsoft/globohomo bullshit they add. Most of the other alternatives to Google jack themselves off about being ““privacy respecting”” or whatever the fuck but it always turns out to be a total lie, and I just got fed up with their shit honestly. Alternatives like Searx or YaCy all fucking sucks so I made my own thing.
The problem with logging roads is the logging trucks.
Source: I live on a logging road that I thought would be a lot more quiet. How many damn tress are up that there hill?
Sticky Fingaz 2028
I despise hearing/reading my name. So much so that when I found a book series I loved, but the MC shared my name I actually put down the paper version, grabbed the e-book, and did a global find/replace on all 12 books to remove my name.
That is a pretty weird take to me. Especially with all of the other, much more visible, reasons democrats keep losing. But I’m not here to change your mind. Nor do I think there is a ton of hope in changing hearts and minds when both of the organs are rotten to the core by 70 years of rightwing fuckery in schools, media, and public discourse. But hoping when hope is mostly gone is kind of my thing.