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Are there any well studied evidence based lifestyle changes that can help prevent arthritis, especially in the hands?
Everyone in my family has it when they are over 70 and it freaks me out.
I've read some vague stuff about "hand exercises" and "don't let your hands get cold ever" but is there anything that's understood better like, for example, reducing sodium, and getting regular exercise for your heart?
It's very silly.
Everything can be made out to be "performative" -- if someone wants to say that an idea isn't effective, or that it's not cool for some reason explain that.
I think some people don't like the hat idea because of PTSD from the "pussy hats" from 2016 and that is valid IMO
But maybe things have been learned since then.
Also be nice to the knitters, they have sharp needles and frankly are kind of scary.
As authoritarians seek greater control actions that were once "performative" become dangerous.
People will complain "the protest is just a parade" but it still proves that at least on that weekend you could do a protest. Eventually the right will stop even performative push back... unless it's everywhere and impossible to stop.
RE: https://indieweb.social/@tiny_m/116040447914491756
There are people I know who removed their pronouns from their email signatures around last year and I'm deeply disappointed in them. More than adding such things in a "performative" way taking them down as the first sign of cultural push-back is a different kind of "performance" Who is this show for?
(It's really noticeable when someone is just swaying in the wind. This is why *some* Democratic pols have trouble, they are so quick to "change with the times" it makes them hard to trust.)
There is a very PERFORMATIVE debate going on in knitting and fiber arts about if this idea some people have about knitting red hats is performative or not.
I kid you not. Nice suburban white ladies are giving each other anxiety attacks Please stop. It's obvious that bringing groceries for your neighbor is more helpful than knitting a hat. But if knitting is what YOU can do now? That is AMAZING.
Kind of sad no one has noticed they have reinvented the liberty cap. Put that sucker on a pole.
Sometimes people start doing the right thing not because they understand why it's right but just to fit in. They can learn along the way.
And if you are "performativly filming ICE" you are still filming ICE nobody cares if you are pure of heart and a magical gnome who has never had a biogted thought in your life.
I think the real subtext to some of these debates is just that leftists can find liberals kind of corny and cringe. But we live in a post cringe era. Irony is dead.
I swear to god I love how liberals overthink everything. But I also hate it so much. It makes me want to die.
You know what's "performative" ? The most performative thing in the world?
Talking about what's performative is SO performative.
And here's the spicy take: performative isn't bad.
doing good things performativly is far far better than not doing anything and better than participating in harm.
Yeah I low key hate the chronological feed. I wish I could customize it more and design my own algorithm so I didn't miss posts from people who don't post frequently, for example.
I will take it over an algorithm I can't control, however.
The big sell for me is no ads, including fake bot accounts that are just selling something or pushing something. Getting out from the bubble of influence of the worse people in the world.
She's a pretty popular journalist who is at least interested in this place.
Eventually if someone never seems to comment people stop paying attention to them, well at least I do.
How do you know that? Seems like her loss if true.
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NPR - Scientists test a traditional method for fermenting yogurt... using ants. AILSA CHANG, HOST: What if I told you ants might be able to make delicious yogurt? NPR's Regina Barber reports on a study out of Denmark that put a traditional fermenting method to the test. REGINA BARBER, BYLINE: Imagine you're …
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I get why they call it a "decentralized network" but that description was kind of a turn off for me before I came here because I thought you were trapped in a little server with a few dozen people and what's the point of that?
The power is decentralized but the communication need not be. You can talk to anyone from any community. You can have all of those fun instances of cross pollination when different communities intersect.
The more the fedi grows the better this gets.
There are no ads.
There are no bots*
There is no secret algorithm controlled by strange billionaires and/or creeps trying to push agendas**
It's really fun and interactive and you meet great people, real individual people.
*Ya'll are such nerds you are going to bring up the good bots that we made and like, but you know exactly what I mean by this.
**ant propaganda doesn't count I'm not that rich either
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I'm still so upset about that. Imagine if I used YOU as a yogurt starter.
Depending on the audience you could also mention the ants? Or don't it's fine.
All the cool kids are already doing it and you are missing out.
