(Article does link to some tweets that, unsurprisingly, contain particularly sexist, racist and islamaphobic statements)
That’s right bros, the Red Menace is back and it’s already taken your fighting fucktoys from Mortal Kombat. Though if you’re wondering how, I’ll save you time - none of them have any theory on the how or why beyond buzzword salad.
Companies making or localizing games in a way that does not cater to the way a particular (insensitive, misogynistic) audience demands are not engaging in censorship; they are simply marketing to wider audiences. Ironically, the same people who claim to be fighting for free speech in video games are now trying to punish NetherRealm Studios for making a game they’ve deemed offensive. But what they consider “offensive” is reducing a character’s visible cleavage and slightly changing her facial structure.
Ironically, as the article points out - it seems that Netherrealm did make some backsliding in terms of their (minimal) LGBT+ representation.
But to finish on a positive note, finally Sheeva actually looks like a demon warrior who could break you in half:
Whether it’s cucumbers splashing into water or models sitting smugly next to a pile of vegetables, it’s tough not to be sucked in by the detox industry. The idea that you can wash away your calorific sins is the perfect antidote to our fast-food lifestyles and alcohol-lubricated social lives. But before you dust off that juicer or take the first tentative steps towards a colonic irrigation clinic, there’s something you should know: detoxing – the idea that you can flush your system of impurities and leave your organs squeaky clean and raring to go – is a scam. It’s a pseudo-medical concept designed to sell you things.
“Let’s be clear,” says Edzard Ernst, emeritus professor of complementary medicine at Exeter University, “there are two types of detox: one is respectable and the other isn’t.” The respectable one, he says, is the medical treatment of people with life-threatening drug addictions. “The other is the word being hijacked by entrepreneurs, quacks and charlatans to sell a bogus treatment that allegedly detoxifies your body of toxins you’re supposed to have accumulated.”
If toxins did build up in a way your body couldn’t excrete, he says, you’d likely be dead or in need of serious medical intervention. “The healthy body has kidneys, a liver, skin, even lungs that are detoxifying as we speak,” he says. “There is no known way – certainly not through detox treatments – to make something that works perfectly well in a healthy body work better.”
This “detox” thing is also intrinsically connected to ugly social prejudices: associating certain types of food consumption that are only available to privileged individuals with “cleanliness” and morality (and these two things have gone hand-in-hand forever in Western culture - I’m a medievalist, so the first thing that pops into my head is “holy anorexia,” which is an interesting topic if you’re ever interested in reading up on the history of this association) encourages people to see white, thin, economically privileged people as “cleaner” than people of color, fat people, and economically disadvantaged people. Good old racism, classism, sizeism, (and misogyny and ableism, too, when you look at who’s expected to diet and who might not be able to adhere to a particular diet without compromising their health) with a shiny “green” 21st-century label.
intermediate fasting is what actors practice to achieve amazing results and it isn’t expensive to cut carb/sugar intake into less than 4 hour period daily, it’s just hard to accomplish with all the stress of attending schools or jobs or $uch $hit. celery isn’t expensive. broccoli isn’t expensive. the foods least drenched with pesticides aren’t as expensive as those sprayed constantly with pesticides like strawberries.
not claiming detoxing is a scam, just claiming that healthy eating doesn’t have to be as expensive as eating fa$t phood $hit or anything not fresh found within grocery stores along the aisles. there is also freeganism and dumpster diving and all the insane amount of waste with more edible food finding it’s way in dumpsters rather than being digested. world is different than individuals trust/believe. and learning about maintaining ketosis with anti-inflammatory zero sugar/carb resources is priceless advice for treating and reducing the symptoms of countless medical conditions.
Expensive super health foods would be
Chlorella
, Cannabis, Psilocybin, Ayahuasca, Reishi, Chaga, lol.
Chia seed might seem expensive but when a spoonful can make one feel full for hours it might be much cheaper than continuing a sugar/carb addiction/habit. Can message if interested in more information or terms to research/investigate/test/verify.
Did I just see with my own two eyes someone claiming that Psilocybin and Ayahuasca are health foods.
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State health officials say the number of measles cases is up in California this year and much of the increase is linked to overseas travel.
Dr Karen Smith, director of the California department of public health, says the state recorded 38 measles cases as of Thursday, versus 11 around the same time last year.
She says the state typically sees fewer than two dozen cases a year.
This year, California’s cases stretch across 11 counties and affect patients from five months to 55 years of age.
She says more than 76% of patients were not vaccinated or did not receive the recommended two doses of vaccine.
Fourteen of those infected had traveled overseas to countries including Philippines, Thailand, India and Ukraine.
It sure does piss off a lotta men when women don’t walk, express themselves, or think in ways that conform to their desires. Men who “think” that way believe that the only purpose women serve is pleasing and serving men. Such men should only get sex for which they’ve paid up front.
