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We talked stuff that works you up, how about things that you do to calm down? What techniques, activities, mantras, stims, etc. do you do to keep yourself comfortable and safe? Feel free to share what you'd like - and something kinda cool is that you might end up helping someone else down the line.

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[-] cashmaggot@piefed.social 1 points 1 year ago

I actually wonder about this. Because I am a complicated character, that enjoys eating vegetarian to vegan food (It's hard to break away from eggs on account of rice -> eggs kinda being programmed into my mind as the best breakfast). But I've eaten most things by this point (outside of frogs, seems stupid to eat your luck away) and I would agree that eating more fish is good (on paper?) I am not sure if it's sustainable though, because didn't the North East of North America kill off their fish by overfishing? So it has to be paired with sustainability. But I also heard something about how direly polluted our waters are currently and that it's being leaked into the fish. BUT!!!!! I also think a lot of Americans on the whole do not like seafood unless it's mashed, breaded and fried and that's always been a strange affair to me.

I talked about the petri-meat on here before. I think it's really crazy that most people I know don't even eat real food - and I am sure it's not just my folks living in isolation. I really think most Americans on the whole do not eat real food - and yet people are freakin' livid that the thing they're eating that is substantially meat didn't once live breathe or suffer for the cause...of feeding humans? Kinda weird stuff, but I can't say much because I do get how food companies bastardize food until it's just a slurry of diabetes inducing shit. I think more people like me are coming about and becoming nature's birth control. That's how I always saw myself, because I really had no interest in children ever. But equally, I think there's been studies showing that gay kids tend to act sort of as such. But idk, because I've known plenty of gays who want babies. I think it's more of a personal thing now.

We've always sort of had the system where the young take care of the old, and I do actually believe we have a duty to care for those who need assistance. And I mean it in all forms. But at the end of the day, I am not really sure of the systems we can put in place to do so. It's perhaps one of the biggest brain-teasers of my own life. Because I am not sure what is going to happen when I age. But bleakest outcome is - if I get sick and there is some sort of legalized assisted suicide - bing there. But I really do have this feeling like "I've so much to give." And have heard even Buddhist monks express mortal terror in the face of death. So humans, as a whole are just funny little creatures and we're throwing our shit all over the place but I think we're acting up because we're all (for the most part) a little scared and pretty burnt out by the way modern society has moved us against ourselves for such an extended period of time.

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