I feel lied to. This is where the bugs bunny NO meme cokes from
Ah lads they fucking rotated him
NOW it’s you
Oh yea? Well guess what bro
Best post I've seen all day
This post can't stop me bc I can read upside down >:D
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"the problem with booktok is that it romanticizes toxic relationships blah blah blah" NO!! the problem with booktok is that its a community that talks about, produces, and consumes published novels the same way people talk about, produce, and consume fanfiction. every issue with booktok (lowbrow subject matter, oftentimes poor writing and editing, a disproportionately heavy focus on erotica, books described via tropes (tags) instead of plot synopses, thinly-veiled misogyny) boils down to that. i don't give a single solitary shit if colleen hoover is writing toxic step-sibling incest romance! i've come across weirder shit this week on ao3!! what i do care about is the fact it reads exactly like an unbetaed oc-centric slash fic and this woman is expecting us to pay upwards of $20 for a copy!! girl i can read mid-tier fic for free any time i want i don't need you!!
OP you are so right.
Like I don't care about the fact that people are writing shitty "problematic" erotica. Write what you want, blah, blah, blah...
It's literally the lack of quality and "fanfic-ifying" of books that I can't stand. Books are more than a collection of tropes you like. Like you have to tell a story.
These books don't have the advantage that fanfic provides which is characters I already know and love.
Like yeah, I love enemies to lovers as much as the next person but I don't know these characters well enough to care why they are enemies to lovers.
And nobody is willing to put in the work to make three dimensional characters to make it worth my time.
And don't get me started about how unedited these books tend to be.
And don't get me wrong I love fanfic. It's a work of love that someone made for free. And because of that there is a lack of quality control. (Which isn't a problem.)
But it's the fact that you expect me to pay for these books and now I gotta start complaining.
speaking as a copyeditor and former bookseller, i don't even think booktok is bad in and of itself. it's very much not to my taste, but people can like what they like. we go through this whole panic over "junk literature" once every five years; we had it with fifty shades, we had it with twilight, we had it with danielle steele and vc andrews, and let's not pretend there's zero misogyny involved, because millions of men adore james patterson and james patterson cannot write for shit. let's not fall into an "our noble fanfiction versus their evil booktok" thing. we all like to read crappy wish-fulfilment schlock sometimes! that's not the issue!
what does trouble me is how "booktok" has monopolised the market to the point where it's starting to affect how books are published and bought and sold. everyone complains about the "okay so your book has gay biracial vampires in it, fine, what's it actually about" thing, but that's usually not the author's fault. it's a marketing tactic. and it's a marketing tactic that's becoming the default. it's okay that colleen hoover exists; it's... less okay that she's seemingly the benchmark by which all other authors are now being measured.
that's not even getting into how authors are expected to become influencers just to sell their own books, or the commodification of "aesthetics", or the forcible categorisation of all literature into a narrow set of tropes, or the anti-intellectualism, or this current boom of virtually identical novels that just keep reproducing in a hellish ouroboros of "well, this book sold well, so let's pick up another that's exactly like it" while authors who are doing genuinely exciting, unusual things get relegated to the back shelf because they're not "sellable" enough. it's exhausting.
...and yes, the lack of editing is a problem too.
“how do you support multiple ships”
there are infinite timelines. in my mind.
[IMAGE ID: Tumblr tags read, "'how do you support multiple ships' dockyards 👍" END ID.]
and is your shame helpful? is it inspiring goodness and change? or is it keeping you frozen in time unable to move on and be everything you have expanded to be?
IMPORTANT REMINDER TO MY EUROPEAN FOLLOWERS AND OTHER TUMBLR DENIZENS FROM AN AMERICAN DESERT-DWELLER:
Climate change is a bitch and summer is coming. If you don’t already have an air conditioner and/or fans, NOW is the time to get them.
THINGS YOU SHOULD BE SHOPPING FOR NOW:
—clothes made of cotton or linen
—air conditioner
—fans
—frozen meals that can be cooked in the microwave
—potable bottled water; you want five days’ worth per person and pet in your household
—bottled fruit juices; it does not matter if these are sugar-added because you’ll want the electrolytes
—electrolyte drinks
—electrolyte pills (you can get these online, I get mine from Amazon)
—popsicle molds to use with fruit and juice
—ice cube trays
—nonperishable salty snacks like peanuts
—one charger brick per adult in case of rolling blackouts or power outages; charge these at the beginning of May, and drain them via use once a month if they’re not needed
YOUR TO-DO LIST:
—check your home’s HVAC system if you didn’t do it at the beginning of winter. Make sure all the filters are clean and replace them if needed
—check the seals on your sinks and bathtub in case you have to run water to handle shortages
—make and freeze meals you can cook in the microwave or simply defrost. Remember to select light summer fare, not hearty winter soups and gravies
—purchase and freeze lunch meats and cheeses you can defrost and use this summer for sandwiches when it’s hot
—assemble your check-in list: elderly, pregnant, disabled, and immunocompromised friends and relatives who may struggle to get things they need when the heat wave hits. Have this list posted and ready to go through daily once the heat gets high. DON’T JUST ASSUME YOU WILL REMEMBER. WRITE IT ALL DOWN.
—create a list of emergency contacts in case of fire, heat stroke, and other heat-related emergencies. This should include your local version of 911 (I think in most of Europe it’s 112, but don’t rely on me as an American, LOOK IT UP NOW before you need it), your doctor’s phone number, and two emergency contacts. Keep it in a place where it can be easily found if someone needs to make these calls on your behalf.
—ask your doctor for an additional prescription for any medications you take, and fill it now. Extreme heat can cause disruptions in the supply chain. Make sure you cycle these meds; that’s to say, always use your oldest bottle first so you don’t end up with expired meds in an emergency.
—stock your first-aid kit. If you don’t have one, now is a good time to make one.
—if you own a car, get your yearly maintenance done now. You don’t want to be dealing with an inoperable vehicle if you need to evacuate.
Staying safe this summer starts now. Get your prep done.
Someone in the notes tagged this as yet another sign of Tumblr’s aging user base, and while this is kind of true (I’m 35), if you are a European minor I ENCOURAGE YOU STRONGLY TO SHARE THIS POST WITH YOUR ADULTS. If these are not things you can do yourself—I don’t expect a 15-year-old to know how to check the HVAC filters, for example, although if you’re old enough to be on Tumblr you’re definitely old enough to learn how to do it—enlist those around you who can.
This isn’t just a post for the adults. It’s for teenagers to use to educate their families and those around them, as well. I want ALL of you safe in July. (And yes, as we get a bit closer to the summer months I’ll make another post detailing how to utilize the items I’ve told you to purchase now.)
Re: the "stock up on medicines" part - MAKE SURE YOU HAVE A COOL PLACE TO STORE YOUR MEDICATION. This is important year round but ESPECIALLY during a heat wave. Most pills aren't meant to be stored above 25 degrees Celsius; prolonged exposure to temperatures above that means they can start to break down, and become less effective or even toxic!
Find a space in your apartment that doesn't get above that temperature even during hot days. Alternatively, check with your pharmacist if your particular medicine is safe to store in the fridge, or with a freeze pack - it's not a *great* idea because of the damp, but it could work for pills in foil packets, for a limited amount of time. As an absolute minimum don't put your meds anywhere where they can be exposed to direct sunlight.
OK, Tumblr on mobile is not cooperating with me so no links, but please look up your medicine + sun sensitivity or photosensitivity, or even better, ask your pharmacist- every year, I see friends on antidepressants and similar get unpleasantly surprised by this and say they've been on them for years and never knew.
(This is very definitely not exclusive to antidepressants- again, please check with your medicine provider- but the people I know are mostly on those).
Anyway, it's probably a good time to find a sunhat, sunglasses, SPF that doesn't make you break out, etc- @gothiccharmschool.tumblr.com has written some nice stuff about being a goth in the sun, which I think can be useful here. Hopefully most people know about medicine side effects already, and I'm just posting out of caution.
Thank you for the shout-out, @mordantcuriosity! Here's the most recent Gothic Charm School article about goths and summer (from 2018, I have got to find the energy to start writing again); if you search "summer" on the site, you'll find more articles. In the tags there was a comment about electrolyte pills, especially if you're sensitive to heat. I agree, especially if you're susceptible to migraines. I like Vitassium Fast Chews; they taste like chewable kid vitamins, and are one of the "oh no, I feel a migraine lurking" or "oh no, I am overheating" treatments I always turn to.
Up until now, scientists have studied us like they study animals — not asking our opinion or considering that there may be a complex system of mind behind the behaviors that they do not understand. They theorize that we are less empathetic, less aware of others, less social. More like robots than people.
They have largely not tried to understand the biological mechanisms that create our experience of self. Instead they have tried every means possible to force us to act neurotypical.
Gu said there were three main findings from the study:
Taken together, these results suggest that ASD is marked with aberrantly higher level of sensitivity to upcoming aversive stimuli, which may reflect abnormal attentional orientation to nociceptive signals and a failure in interoceptive inference.
Or in other words if your person on the spectrum is not very empathic, that means they are either in pain or anticipating you to hurt them ... so maybe ... idk ... stop hurting them? Stop making them unsafe?
Becasue the part of the brain that feels empathe is also the part of the brain that feels pain ... and the brain can not multitask. NO IT CAN’T
Is this about how ppl born in the late 20th century have a unique and fluid experience of navigating barriers to information access and its our responsibility to teach the younger folks how to tinker with technology to avoid being spoonfed everything we experience in order to have critical skills that keep us informed, autonomous, and able to hold power despite looming threats of authoritarianism or..........???
i love love lOVE the additional element of “the only information that’s free is the ‘how we’re going to hell’” BS. Chef’s kiss.
[Plaintext: very very funny how intersex transfems are by far the most vocal haters of tme/tma as binary terms because of the way that perisex people use them to discredit intersex trans people's complex experiences. but sure it's just those horrible afab trans people again!! End Plaintext.]
(also do not fucking try to witch hunt these people. i will block you on sight, i cropped out the urls for a reason)
[Plaintext: i did fucking mean that last part btw. trans women have experienced enough harassment lately, it doesn't matter if they have shitty takes. do not fucking witch hunt them. End Plaintext]
Even as a perisex trans women this shit sucks.
TME/TMA:
The way they are used also implies that being subject to transmisogyny is an innate feature to being transgender, when it is a behavior / social construct which is directed at trans people. Transphobes are not stopping to consult about whether someone is intersex or nonbinary or anything before expressing prejudice, because they operate on the belief they can just tell. Prejudice isn't innate to being a minority, it's constructed by social organization and personal bias, and it should be attributed to the bigots, not the victims.
To sink a behemoth,
Displacing gallons of incomprehensible measurement,
Feeding villages into civilizations on blubber and marrow.
To bequeath a legacy,
Of decade filled descendants and ecosystem genesis,
Generations uncountable of hagfish and plankton
To birth a lineage,
Evolutionary fractals of kinetic biodiversification,
Footprinting beyond fossil record where blue bleeds abyssal
To submerge an ascension,
Where rising demiurge grasps reflection in fraying corpse-fat,
Haloed by bacterial mats and winged in polychaeta.
To conclude a promise,
Life renewed in matching exchange of a single lived,
Archimedean overflow flushing Lethe’s tidal shallows in rebirth
listen listen @just-an-adventurer i am SHAKING YOU by the shoulders thank you SO much for the block of analysis text this thing took me like 16 rewrites to do originally, and it STILL doesn’t feel quite perfect I am SO happy you picked up on all of this but you NEED to know that the two images my brain overlaid when I wrote this was the image of a whale’s corpse sinking and that upside down scene from Spiderverse where we know he’s upside down but because the camera’s also panned upside down, he’s actually ascending from our perspective and the two images walloped me upside the head so hard I had to write about the immortal angel rising from beautify of putrefaction
(via @genericpoetryblog)
Mia I really feel like these tags should be included as part of the poetry, i am OBSESSED with the idea of inversion of ascension and the holiness of decay and the wording here fits the above poem SO WELL
i mean thanks for the highligh but I’m not sure I could work in another stanza about it? I’d needta shuffle a bunch of stuff around lol
beeen a whilllleeee but usual reminder that I handful of poems that I’ve written for the poetry sideblog have corresponding prints you can buy! we got:
Proof of your Progress (which is part of a longer poem found here)
Legitimate *pro bono legal services* don’t exist without a good reason. In a few of the exmormon groups I’m in you’ll see regular posts saying stuff like “Look what my lawyer sent me today!” with a pic of their resignation confirmation letter from the church.
You know. Just stuff that a normal average church that is definitely not actually a cult would do. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
🙄
As an ex-mormon, I’m gonna look the fuck into this. I want nothing to do with the church that shaped so much toxicity about my self image and my sexual orientation.
Not sure if any followers need this but if you do, here you go.
Everyone should be able to choose their religious beliefs and community, and leave any that they find does not work for them.
Ex mormon here - this guy’s legit. The Mormon holds your files for eternity, and when they find out that you’ve moved to a new area, they will send members and missionaries from that region to harass you. I know this sounds like dystopic bullshit, but they followed my father through three moves before he rejoined the church.
Also ex mormon here who used this. It’s a ridiculously helpful service that is incredibly easy to use. They keep you updated throughout the whole process, and it’s totally worth it since the church doesn’t get to keep all your private information and pass it around once you resign :)
Okay. There’s a social interaction concept that I’ve tried to convey multiple times in multiple conversations, so I’m going to just go ahead and make a graph.
I’m calling this concept “Affordance Widths”.
Let’s say there’s some behavior {B} that people can do more of, or less of. And everyone agrees that if you don’t do enough of the behavior, bad thing {X} happens; but if you do too much of the behavior, bad thing {Y} happens.
Now, let’s say we have five different people: Adam, Bob, Charles, David, and Edgar. Each of them can do more or less {B}. And once they do too little, {X} happens. But once they do too much, {Y} happens. But where {X} and {Y} starts happening is a little fuzzy, and is different for each of them. Let’s say we can magically graph it, and we get something like this:
Now, let’s look at these five men’s experiences.
Adam doesn’t understand what the big deal about {B} is. He feels like this is a behavior that people can generally choose how much they do, and yeah if they don’t do the *bare minimum* shit goes all dumb, and if they do a *ridiculous* amount then shit goes dumb a different way, but otherwise do what you want, you know?
Bob understands that {B} can be an important behavior, and that there’s a minimum acceptable level of {B} that you need to do to not suffer {X}, and a maximum amount you can get away with before you suffer {Y}. And Bob feels like {X} is probably more important a deal than {Y} is. But generally, he and Adam are going to agree quite a bit about what’s an appropriate amount of {B}ing for people to do. (Bob’s heuristic about how much {B} to do is the thin cyan line.)
Charles isn’t so lucky, by comparison. He’s got a *very* narrow band between {X} and {Y}, and he has to constantly monitor his behavior to not fall into either of them. He probably has to deal with {X} and {Y} happening a lot. If he’s lucky, he does less {B} than average; if he’s not so lucky, then he tries to copy Bob’s strategy and winds up getting smacked with {Y} way more often than Bob does.
Poor David’s in a situation called a “double bind”. There is NO POSSIBLE AMOUNT of {B} he can do to prevent both {X} and {Y} from happening; he simply has to choose his poison. If he tries Bob’s strategy, he’ll get hit hard with {X} *AND* {Y}, simultaneously, and probably be pretty pissed about it. On the other hand, if he runs into Charles, and Charles has his shit figured out, then Charles might tell him to tack into a spot where David only has to deal with {X}. Bob and Adam are going to be utterly useless to David, and are going to give advice that keeps him right in the ugly overlap zone.
Then there’s Edgar. Edgar’s fucked. There is *NO AMOUNT* of behavior that Edgar can dial into, where he isn’t getting hit HARD by {X} *and* {Y}. There’s places way out on the extreme - places where most people are getting slammed hard by {X} or slammed hard by {Y} - where Edgar notices a slight decrease in the contra failure mode. So Edgar probably spends most of his time on the edges, either doing all-B or no-B, and people probably tell him to stop being so black-and-white about B and find a good middle spot like everyone else. Edgar probably wants to punch those people, starting with Adam.
In any real situation, the affordance width is probably determined by things independent of X, Y, and B. Telling Bob to do a little more {B} than Adam, and Charles to do a little less {B} than Adam or Bob, is great advice. But David and Edgar need different advice - they need advice one meta-level up, about how to widen their affordance width between {X} and {Y} so that *some* amount of {B} will be allowed at all.
In most of the situations where this is most salient to me, {B} is a social behavior, and {X} and {Y} are punishments that people mete out to people who do not conform to correct {B}-ness. A lot of the affordance width that Adam and Bob have would probably be identified as ‘halo effects’.
For example, let’s say {B} is assertiveness in a job interview. Let’s say {X} represents coming across as socially weak, while {Y} represents coming across as arrogant. Adam probably has a lot going for him - height, age, socioeconomic background, etc. - that make him just plain *likeable*, so he can be way more assertive than Charles and seem like a go-getter, *or* seem way less assertive than Charles and seem like a good team player. Whereas David was probably born the wrong skin color and god-knows-what-else, and Edgar probably has some kind of Autism-spectrum disorder that makes *any* amount of assertiveness seem dangerous, and *any* amount of non-assertiveness seem pathetic.
There’s plenty of other values for {B}, {X} and {Y} that I could have picked; filling them in is left as an exercise for the reader.
Does this make sense to people?
Everybody want to do me a personal solid? Yeah? Good.
Add on some example behaviors that fit this. They don’t have to be gendered or something like that. They can be very specific, they can be broad. Just things people can do an amount of and that bad things happen if they do too much or too little of them.
I’ll start with eating. You can eat too much food (short term sickness, long term obesity) or too little (starvation).
This applies nicely to gendered vs. cross-gendered behaviours with punishments of negative stereotyping on either end.
Adam, as an attractive heterosexual man can appear as butch or as femme as he wants within pretty large limits and people are just going to compliment him on it.
Bob, a less-than attractive heterosexual man can act more masculine without too much fear of reprisal but can’t generally slip into more effeminate behaviours without negative comments about his presumed sexuality. Charles, as a gay man, needs to ensure that he confirms to gendered expectations as much as possible to avoid derisive stereotyping for effeminate behaviours.
David, as a trans man, is pretty much screwed if he acts the least bit feminine, but can occasionally avoid accusations of transitioning poorly if he loads up on balls out machismo.
Emily, being a trans woman, gets screwed over in that she can’t act effeminate without being accused of re-enforcing sexism and can’t act masculine without getting accused of not-being-trans-enough and pretty much gets assaulted with both negative outcomes simultaneously anyway.
Emily feels sick when she sees Adam dance around in lingerie she fears even buying, David considers punching Bob in the face for always being on his case about going to the gym too much.
Thanks for the addition! This is a really insightful take on this. I’m glad to see people contributing as I think the original post was missing at least one good example. It’s also enlightening to see just how well this can apply to such a wide array of social behaviors and expectations.
HOT SHIT THIS IS A GREAT MODEL FOR A THING THAT I HADN’T THOUGHT MUCH ABOUT BUT IS REAL AND IMPORTANT.
Also… The OP made a graph. Bless you, OP. 😍
I’ve thought about exercise like this for a long time. X is when you aren’t really doing anything, like, heart rate isn’t up, muscles aren’t trying that hard - it’s not bad, but it’s not actually helpful in any way. Y is when you do too much, end up aching and exhausted in a bad way, maybe feel like barfing or just lying down and not moving for a week. Or worse. The goal zone is where it feels good - the pleasant burn, the breath lost but catchable, the actual building of muscle and slimming of fat and etc. Endorphins.
Most people are in the Adam or Beth group. I, with a muscle tissue disorder and one partially collapsed lung, am a Charlie. I’m a fan of powerwalking and yoga. And I know people who are Denise or Elton, with chronic pain and no or very minimal win conditions.
Exercise was the first thing I thought of when reading this, too. Also, there’s Fritz and Gus.
Fritz’s graph changes from day to day, too fast for them to make plans that will help them stay between X and Y, plus other people are going to keep saying “why can’t you do that today? you managed it fine yesterday.”
And Gus’s measuring, graph-making, and/or graph-reading apparatus is broken, so they can’t monitor what’s happening with their body (or with their social reception, if this is about gender presentation not exercise) and have to rely on other people for input on how much of the thing they should be doing. Which is a problem if the person advising them is Adam, and Gus’s graph (if they had one) is more like Charles’.
The scale of baby hummingbirds vs a human hand
The inside of the nest is white because they're so tiny they line them with spiderwebs!
ok. 🥺🥺🥺
you may also notice that the babies have tiny little nubbin beaks! they hatch like that so they fit in the eggs- the beak doesn't actually grow in for another week or so.
@aquilathefighter @delta-pavonis LOOK! Look how tiny!!!!
The tumblr experience is having politics that make the most left leaning progressive you know irl blush and then logging on here and getting called a bootlicker fascist because you said that you dont think we should make the reign of terror happen again
Me irl: the problem isnt taxes, youre thinking too small. The problem is that the federal government isnt taxing the right people the right amount. Theyre taking all our extra cash in our measly little wealth bracket and letting the billionaires hang on to more money than they can ever spend in a lifetime. The only way anybody gets a single billion is either through exploitation or inheriting it from someone else who did the exploitation, nobody who has that kind of money earned it legitimately. Not only do we need to strip that back into social safety nets for those of us theyre bleeding dry instead, but they need to establish hard laws and regulations to prevent that kind of exploitation from happening in the first place!
My coworkers: man, youre a real red-card commie, aren't you? You gonna start telling us to vote NDP and that healtcare isnt a scam too? Jesus christ go give someone else your goddamn revolution pamphlets, lenin.
Me on tumblr: while i appreciate the animosity towards billionaires, i dont think literally dragging a guillotine into the streets and beheading people as a public spectacle is going to actually solve the problems inherent in the system considering the french already tried that and it didnt work out well for them. Also i dont think anybody has the right to decide who lives and who dies, im pretty anti death penalt-
Tumblr users: how does that boot taste, fascist?
An ad for your deepest desires :)
You know what I just admire the graphic design on this
It FEELS so much like a real ad I expect to be sold some sort of car tyre or something but it’s just about biting
1000/10 excellent job
This scam made the California University study 124 imported oils and found that over 70% of samples failed the tests.
These failed:
These brands passed:
Also, test the olive oil yourself at home. Put the bottle out when cold, or in the fridge for 30 min. if it gets solid, it is pure and has monounsaturated fats.
The lies!!!!
*throws out all the bertolli*
IM SO PRESSED/SHOOK RN
this is a real scandal
Ain’t that a bitch
They selling fake olive oil.
they been selling fake olive oil from the time of the ancient Greeks and Romans
http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2007/08/13/slippery-business This is a cool article on how they do it now and what they tend to substitute it with.
In 1997 and 1998, olive oil was the most adulterated agricultural product in the European Union, prompting the E.U.’s anti-fraud office to establish an olive-oil task force. (“Profits were comparable to cocaine trafficking, with none of the risks,” one investigator told me.) The E.U. also began phasing out subsidies for olive-oil producers and bottlers, in an effort to reduce crime, and after a few years it disbanded the task force. Yet fraud remains a major international problem: olive oil is far more valuable than most other vegetable oils, but it is costly and time-consuming to produce—and surprisingly easy to doctor. Adulteration is especially common in Italy, the world’s leading importer, consumer, and exporter of olive oil. (For the past ten years, Spain has produced more oil than Italy, but much of it is shipped to Italy for packaging and is sold, legally, as Italian oil.) “The vast majority of frauds uncovered in the food-and-beverage sector involve this product,” Colonel Leopoldo Maria De Filippi, the commander for the northern half of Italy of the N.A.S. Carabinieri, an anti-adulteration group run under the auspices of the Ministry of Health, told me.
In Puglia, which produces about forty per cent of Italy’s olives, growers have been in a near-constant state of crisis for more than a decade. “Thousands of olive-oil producers are victims of this ‘drugged’ market,” Antonio Barile, the president of the Puglia chapter of a major farmers’ union, told me, referring to illegal importations of seed oils and cheap olive oil from outside the E.U., which undercut local farmers. Instead of supporting small growers who make distinctive, premium oils, the Italian government has consistently encouraged quan-tity over quality, to the benefit of large companies that sell bulk oil. It has not implemented a national plan for oil production, has employed a byzantine system for distributing agricultural subsidies, and has often failed to enforce Italian laws and E.U. regulations intended to prevent fraud. The government has been so lax in pursuing some oil crimes that it can seem complicit. In 2000, the European Court of Auditors reported that Italy was responsible for eighty-seven per cent of misappropriated E.U. subsidies to olive-oil bottlers in the preceding fifteen years, and that the government had recovered only a fraction of the money.
I’ve been reading Extra Virginity: The Sublime and Scandalous World of Olive Oil by Tom Mueller, and wow, the things that get sold as ‘extra virgin’ olive oil are kind of scary, especially if you have any allergies. Or if you’re trying to use olive oil for health reasons – you’re likely paying a premium for something with none of the benefits you’re looking for.
Also, you could write at least 8 different genre novels about skullduggery in the olive oil trade, starting with a murder mystery and working your way out, because there’s just so much to unpack.
Well, that explains the rash of migraines/respiratory issues I had last month. I was cooking everything in whole foods oil and couldn’t figure it out. If it was cut with canola oil then there’s my answer. Son of a bitch.
(“Profits were comparable to cocaine trafficking, with none of the risks,” one investigator told me.)
YO FUCK THESE GUYS my mom is allergic to corn and some of them were cut with corn oil. We very aggressively research any oil we purchase now.
I tried to click on the original article and got sent to a weed site, but here’s a Forbes article from 2016
Some of these old games go wayyyyy back… :/
“If you have time to watch Netflix you have time for a side hustle” my side hustle is relaxing so that my body and brain can heal from by this nose-to-the-grindstone bullshit. I refuse to feel guilty for being a human with the need to relax sometimes. my side hustle is no.
