• Some people get a kick out of making you feel bad about anything and everything you enjoy by reframing it in the worst possible light.

      Oh, you bicycle to work? Enjoy breathing in all that carbon monoxide from the cars passing you and a greatly increased risk of dying due to a driver not thinking that you’re a human being. Hope you don’t cross a street and inconvenience a driver you selfish prick!

      Oh, you eat primarily vegetarian with only a little bit of meat? One, meat is still murder, you’re a prick. Two, of course you would mention it. Three, fuck you and your entire family and your entire gene pool you piece of shit.

      I could probably keep going but you get it right? Don’t let the things that you enjoy be taken away from you by people who are chasing clout and will say anything that they possibly can in order to get it.

    • I read it as cutting through the spin. We use contemporary words like overnight oats, instead of words like gruel that have strong connotations of poverty, for essentially the same food, to obscure the fact that we are the same working class as medieval peasants were. There’s nothing wrong with gruel; and we’re just not as far removed from peasantry as we’ve been led to believe.

  • absGeekNZ ( absGeekNZ@lemmy.nz ) 
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    I make overnight oats nearly every night.

    I use steel cut oats in the slow cooker over night, add dates, apple, cinnamon and chia seeds.

    It is ready for me before I leave for work at ~6:10, and ready for the rest of the family when they have breakfast at 7:30.

    What is not to like.

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        And while the church wanted a tithe, the manor lord required you to work one or more days per week on his field, using your own tools. This was rent. There might’ve also been monetary rent in addition to work rent. And in addition to the church tithe, the manor lord wanted a tithe too. You couldn’t choose to rent somewhere else, either - while the manor lord didn’t own you, he owned the piece of land you lived on, could dictate your terms, and you’d have to pay a fine for moving away to another manor lord’s service. If he sold the parcel of land, you’d have to do all the same to the new landlord. If you could manage to hide in a city for a year + one day, you’d be free. But if you got caught, you’d be imprisoned until your lord came and picked you up.

        These were the general rules in my area, others would differ. Obviously they changed over time and so on. And much of this is from the chronicles and those were written by the Order, so the real situation might’ve been worse even.

        There’s plenty wrong with our current situation and we seem to be sliding back towards serfdom, but serfdom is definitely worse than what we have now and we can NOT afford to go back.

  • you can criticise the world without resorting to past = bad which often hides things we have lost.

    Also oats are nutritious, delicious, and efficient.

    How about pointing out how hard you work to afford food that is often thrown out lest it undermine keeping you slaved to “the economy” etc.

    No actually I’m not done. Wanting fewer material things is good actually. Opulence need not manifest in terms of the aquisition of territory and things. What if you have a tiny home and breakfast gruel but you get idle time, community, gorgeous views, freedom etc.

    the problems with society aren’t that you can’t eat figs every meal and stroll around your estate, it’s that mere subsitence demands your soul.

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      And they’re amazing for your diet in general. M-F such an easy no brain option for a meal. Make individual containers Sunday night. Food for the rest of the week.

    • ToxicWaste ( ToxicWaste@lemm.ee ) 
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      make your own call to action, decide for yourself. you don’t need random strangers on the internet showing you the directiosn. they already showed you where you stand, go and make your own path.

  • I get the sentiment, but overnight oats with honey and banana fucking slaps. I’d eat that if I was queen of the world (ignoring the fact that I wouldn’t be queen of the world very long because I’d use my unquestioned power to dismantle all the fucked up systems that made a “queen of the world” possible)