So for the plants that have died in my care, if I didnât kill them, was it self-inflicted? Were they trying to escape my company? 
You might find this Book Publisher interesting, a few of their books Iâve read have a similar vibe to your post.
Oo, these do look interesting! Thanks!
Since yâall seemed to enjoy my âgardening is metal afâ blog post, hereâs another one.
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updated my new diary on nolove, hereâs the latest entry where i ramble a bit, complain. a bit dull if you ask me, but hey, itâs a post. trying to write more regularly, which is in my opinion why this one is so drab. boring, negative, nothing cool whatsoever. just mind fodder. donât read this, please.
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slight rant about one of my favorite games
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Iâm back with another tiny article:
I mean, the whole Reddit thing is a solved problem though, even on Reddit itself.
On well-moderated subreddits, thereâs megathreads meant to collect those repetitive posts in one place, exactly like on forums. âLook at my first printâ posts could easily be confined to a megathread and deleted wherever they otherwise appear.
I think the main issues with Reddit (and the reason why the problem you mentioned still exists) lies elsewhere:
- Vote economy and awards massively rewarding clickbait and attention seeking.
- The centralised structure and size of Reddit means that moderators of a specific subreddit are not invested in their own communities as much as a specialised forum owner is in the forum they maintain â after all, itâs just one of many Reddit communities, and theyâre not even the boss there.
- Focus on time-based ârelevancyâ of posts; on larger subreddits, this means that anything older than a day or two isnât âhotâ anymore and loses relevancy immediately. On forums, topics are more permanent and less fleeting. Replies also take up more space, incentivising thought out responses over quips.
Love this, and I look forward to seeing how the turf wars play out in your garden! I myself have been dealing with invasive Flowering Trumpet Vines, which put up shoots all over the place if you let them. Theyâre loved by the local bees, so I keep a clump of them against my back fence (also, the alleyway is infested with them, so I donât think theyâll disappear completely), but I have to prune frequently otherwise they just go insane. Iâm currently trying to introduce some blackberry plants a few yards away from them, soâŚweâll see how that goes.
Our place was a rental before we got it, so Iâm mainly just trying to beat back the monoculture and introduce some healthy variety to this place!
Thatâs exactly it, though. Not all subreddits are well-moderated like this. Itâs especially noticeable in smaller ones where the mod is just one random guy who doesnât moderate anywhere else.
On top of that, I personally find megathreads to make for a poor user experience. If youâre searching for a solution to a common problem, itâs really hard to find it in a megathread comment because it could be buried by hundreds of other irrelevant comments and the thread title and text are not helpful hints as to what exactly the comments are about.
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Agreed on the lack of usefulness of megathreads, definitely.
The moderation issues however can and do impact forums too. Itâs just that mis-moderated forums usually go under and die, while badly moderated subreddits can continue existing, coasting along on the rest of Reddit.
It might skew the perception.
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Never mind being negged by a Tamagotchi, do I really want a bunch of techbros with App Store/Google Play accounts to know what and how much I eat, or that I am participating in socially acceptable disordered eating (aka dieting)?
Hell, no.
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âThis cute raccoon will die if you eat another donut holeâ isâŚan approach. I guess.
Yeah, I hate this app.
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Interesting post, I hadnât heard of that app yet! Iâm just gonna share a few thoughts because I myself have used apps to lose weight and count calories in the past.
I agree that image recognition is probably not a very good method for counting calories compared to the good olâ kitchen scale. Any app including traditional database ones can misidentify foods and nutritional data, but it does let you correct it if itâs wrong. Thatâs fair.
The idea of gamification with a pet avatar isnât a bad one though. The extra motivation to check in daily is something that a lot of people who want to gain or lose weight are missing, and I know from my own experiences with self-care apps that feature a mascot that they do work.
Eating disorders can be triggered by anything, including regular counting of calories. I donât think thatâs an argument against the app.
I donât know, I gotta disagree with a lot of the points in the post a little too though.
For instance, the app didnât call you âfatâ or âa fattyâ, according to the screenshot you embedded. It says âslightly overweightâ; the âyouâre a fattyâ message is something you just seem to have made up there? I donât see âsmall steps are bestâ as condescending either, itâs just a fact, especially for people who tend to be overwhelmed by how long the way still is.
It feels a little like youâre projecting something like insecurity or frustration on the app that it isnât actually doing, which honestly, I kinda get because of the general hostility against âAIâ companies, but itâs not really fair either because itâs just⌠made up at a lot of points?
Also, white bread is incredibly unhealthy. Itâs pure carbs and tons of calories with almost no nutritional value or saturation. Iâm German, I know how much we love our bread â but letâs be honest, bread is just not healthy. No need to make a culture thing out of it.
if something has carbs and calories, it has nutritional value! your body needs those to live.
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Yeah, and our body also needs sugar, but generally, sugary food is considered unhealthy.
The average Western diet has too many empty carbohydrates, too many calories, and not nearly enough of anything else. Hence why white bread is about the most unhealthy thing you can put in your body â other than cookies, perhaps.
thatâs true! bodies do need sugar, and sugary food is indeed generaly considered unhealthy. 
a food being âgenerally considered unhealthyâ is a completely different statement from a food âcontaining no nutritional valueâ ! i think itâs important to be specific & accurate when making claims about the health effects of dietary choices, especially when it comes to common misconceptions. some people really believe that there are foods with literally no nutritional value! 
iâm not sure why youâve brought up the average western diet, but thatâs a fun fact! another fun fact is that in medieval europe they used large slabs of stale bread as plates called âtrenchersâ.
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you have all the right to disagree tbh. however turning it into a game can end up being toxic.
me being frustrated overall is also somewhat true. i am frustrated because i keep being targetted with weightloss/calorie tracking apps, meanwhile i never ever searched something of that sort, or shown any interest in such thing. i eat when hungry (normal food), and junk and sugars whenever i crave it.
i havenât even measured my weight in months. i generally donât care about those things, and being bombarded with such advertisements can feel like youâre being called âfatâ.
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Yep. Thatâs why I said almost no nutritional value.
Yep. Thatâs why I said almost no nutritional value. I think you might have just missed that word, of course I agree that nothing has no nutritional value.
Because according to the continent poll, 80% of us are European or North American, and so is the author of the post. What is and isnât unhealthy is relative to your diet â someone who is overweight will need less calories, someone who is underweight will need more calories.
Both need certain types of underrepresented nutrients. US-Americans for example eat way too salty, for example, while other people might even miss sodium.
Thatâs why I brought up the average Western diet â because it applies here. To at least 80% of us, white bread is the opposite of what our bodies need.
I hope this makes it more clear what I meant.
Yeah, I agree. This is what Harvard says on the matter:
Unhealthier sources of carbohydrates include white bread, pastries, sodas, and other highly processed or refined foods. These items contain easily digested carbohydrates that may contribute to weight gain, interfere with weight loss, and promote diabetes and heart disease.
â Carbohydrates - The Nutrition Source
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