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Cake day: July 5th, 2023
  • jpreston2005@lemmy.worldtoAsk Lemmy@lemmy.world•What are reasons to push through pain?
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    3 days ago

    Everyone experiencing pain, has to find their own reason to push through it, or they will succumb to it. Whether it’s emotional or physical, most of the time the best way out is through. If you’re in dense brush, with thorns all around, you can stop, and hope that by remaining perfectly still you’ll avoid being poked, or you can clench your teeth, move as much as you can out of the way and push past the rest. Sometimes it’s remaining still that becomes more unbearable.

    Whenever I fall out of running, and try to pick it back up, my inner mantra remains the same. It doesn’t matter how many times you stop, as long as you start back up again.

  • jpreston2005@lemmy.worldto196@lemmy.blahaj.zone•America No RuleEnglish
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    4 days ago

    French fries

    Well,

    Thomas Jefferson had “potatoes served in the French manner” at a White House dinner in 1802. The expression “french fried potatoes” first occurred in print in English in the 1856 work Cookery for Maids of All Work by Eliza Warren: “French Fried Potatoes. – Cut new potatoes in thin slices, put them in boiling fat, and a little salt; fry both sides of a light golden brown colour; drain.” This account referred to thin, shallow-fried slices of potato. It is not clear where or when the now familiar deep-fried batons or fingers of potato were first prepared. In the early 20th century, the term “french fried” was being used in the sense of “deep-fried” for foods like onion rings or chicken.

    One story about the name “french fries” claims that when the American Expeditionary Forces arrived in Belgium during World War I, they assumed that chips were a French dish because French was spoken in the Belgian Army. But the name existed long before that in English, and the popularity of the term did not increase for decades after 1917. The term was in use in the United States as early as 1886. An 1899 item in Good Housekeeping specifically references Kitchen Economy in France: “The perfection of French fries is due chiefly to the fact that plenty of fat is used.”

    Americans coined a phrase and ran with it, it seems 🤷‍♂️

  • jpreston2005@lemmy.worldto196@lemmy.blahaj.zone•America No RuleEnglish
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    4 days ago

    This reminds me of when americans renamed French fries “Freedom Fries.”

    This level of pettiness is something I am truly proud of, and love to see. When Canada floated that idea of welcoming in California, Oregon and Washington state as territories, my first thought was “I would move there so fucking fast, I’d leave a me-sized cloud of dust in this shithole regressive country and never once look back”

  • jpreston2005@lemmy.worldtoPublic Health@mander.xyz•What's the deal with the gut-brain connection?
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    5 days ago

    I’ve wondered about this, and think that maybe this reinforces an age old method of “fake it till you make it.” with the added benefit that once you “make it,” your gut microbiome is primed to help you stay in that lane. if that makes sense? Like, it takes 3 weeks for a habit to become a habit, and the rate of turnover within your gut microbiota suggests that after 3 weeks of a sustained new diet, or sustained exercise, would lead to a gut that expects that, or perhaps even craves it. It’s the communication of that to your central nervous system that’s so interesting, but if we take it at face value that the two do talk to each other, then it’s like extra motivation for sticking with your good habits. Because you know that once they’re established, you’ll have millions of gut germs rooting for you (and even helping you) to continue.

    Another idea is that if they have found a correlation between some diseases, like long COVID or Alzheimers or Parkinsons, and some specific set of microbiota, then it could make diagnosis of these much simpler (I bet dogs could be trained to smell a healthy vs. diseased gut fairly simply). And perhaps, with a fecal transplant from a healthy doner, we could even help to counteract some of the symptoms. It wouldn’t be a cure, but anything that could help is something worth taking a look at.

  • jpreston2005@lemmy.worldtoAsk Lemmy@lemmy.world•If money was no object, where would you be booking your next holiday?
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    6 days ago

    It’s amazing. I recommend sitting outside the central train station in Amsterdam and people watching, as thousands of tourists attempt to bicycle or walk somewhere, and they’re just in everybody’s way. It’s hilarious. If you’re going to cycle (which, yes, you should) stay to the right and signal where you want to go. There are bike lanes there for you to take, don’t just be off in the middle of the street. Also, they want you to pay for an extra ticket to bring your bike on the train with you, I found that this can be ignored if you’re not a jerk about it.