Notices by Alexandra Magin 🏳️‍🌈 (recursive@hachyderm.io), page 2

@inthehands darn autocarrot

@inthehands I generally consider "neurological" to be a hegemonic ideal, that some people manage to imitate sufficiently well

@thomasfuchs Oh, that one has a lot more added on than the ones I'd used.

@skinnylatte oh wow, I'm totally gonna make this

@skinnylatte modern day indulgences for wealthy white liberals

@skinnylatte and as far as I can tell plastic film recycling is completely a sham

@skinnylatte do you have any recommendation for a soy milk maker? I have been thinking about it for a while, and it is even more compelling now that groceries generally means carrying a few blocks (or Instacart), so heavy liquids I'd rather not

@skinnylatte Same. I want to live somewhere with in-floor heating (in every room) someday

@inthehands This is the essence of one of my frustrations with LLMs. It feels bad to me to use natural language when the other entity isn't capable of having a consent-based interaction.

@skinnylatte Hmm. I can visualize things pretty good (probably typically a #2 on that scale), but my experience is that I don't associate the visual memory of people or animals that strongly with the emotional stuff

@skinnylatte @jensilber the cultural programming around that being an essential component of health is amazingly powerful among a certain subset of folks in the US/western Europe. From a sensory issues perspective, I often just think, okay some of this is nice, but some of it is just too harsh and would be more enjoyable cooked. e.g. I only want the most tender carrots raw, and only Kale that's been grown under 70F/21C

@skinnylatte soy milk and you tiao may be mild-flavored but not sweet... Or is this my bias from growing up in the US?

Anyway it did teach me that I never want to drink sweetened soymilk like some of the milk-substitute-targeted products

@skinnylatte yeah, Mae Ploy is actually decent

@skinnylatte I think it's quite a journey for people to discover that as adults they can just do things which may or may not be optimal for themselves according to some arbitrary framework

They might become less attractive to some people

They might have a shorter life

And those outcomes are usually less horrible than living with constant shame!

@skinnylatte oh, that's interesting

And something I'm going to have to think about for myself

@skinnylatte I feel so weird being one of the only people with a mask on airplane flights now, but fortunately nobody has given me shit about it, and otherwise I've mostly been in places like the SF Bay Area or Seattle where it hasn't been actually criticized

@skinnylatte That's awesome

@skinnylatte I miss old Twitter sometimes

@skinnylatte It seems to be a Seattle thing too, I was noticing it there

@skinnylatte this is why I post so much