I think it’s intolerance. I’m autistic so of course I have IBS. It seems like I just get worse at digesting things as I get older. I went to a GI doctor years ago and got a list of foods which commonly cause issues for people with IBS, and apples are on the list.
I will look into Elstar apples. I appreciate your response! Apples are my favorite fruit, and there’s just no replacement for that crunch.
I have the same issue! I had to stop eating lactose, then gluten, and apples are the most recent. And I miss apples even more than I miss bread, which is saying a lot. I knew it was a fructose problem, but didn’t think about apples with lower levels of fructose in them. I might have to look into that.
Parabol/Parabola by Tool has the most uplifting lyrics I’ve ever heard.
The pretty areas of Minnesota are fantastic, they’re just too small and too few for me. I go on weekly hikes/camping trips here in Washington, which is why I moved here. There are so many trails here that I could go on a different hike every week for years and years before I repeat anything. I tried to do that in Minnesota before I moved and ran out of new places in just a few years.
Most people go to these sorts of places just a few times a year, so Minnesota has plenty of gorgeous places for them. It’s just not adequate for backpackers like myself.
St Paul is a solid choice, especially if you want to buy a house. The city of St Paul has a lot of empty houses that they’re trying to fill, and they have a program for lower income people where they’ll help you with your down payment. Make sure you check into this program before moving because it’s been a few years since I’ve lived there and it might’ve changed.
There’s a light rail that links St Paul and Minneapolis together so you get the benefits of living in a city that is less crowded and cheaper than Minneapolis while being able to cheaply get into Minneapolis for events and such.
Minnesota is showing the world what kind of people live there and I imagine there’s going to be a lot of people moving there after things settle down.
The climate and geography are the worst things about Minnesota, so if you can tolerate those things you’ll do fine. Giving up the California climate and national parks is going to sting, though.
Madison and Milwaukee are fantastic cities. The Wisconsin college system never really recovered from the Scott Walker days (he cut $250 million out of it) but I imagine that Madison is still a solid place to go to school. Milwaukee is a very cool city, right on lake Michigan and there’s a train you can take to Chicago, which isn’t far. Northern Wisconsin is quite pretty as well and is attached to the upper peninsula of Michigan, which is a nice bonus.
Wisconsin broke my heart in 2016 when it went red, and again in 2024. It used to be a solid blue state. Wisconsin is prettier than Minnesota, with more interesting geography and better rivers, but I would still rather live in Minnesota because of the political climate and strong social programs.
I can’t seem to control my emotions when thinking about Renee. Her murder was a hate crime. Obviously Alex Pretti’s murder was every bit as tragic, but the way the media has moved on from the death of a queer woman is really disturbing.
The GOP candidate for Minnesota governor reacted to Renee’s death by offering legal counsel to her killer. He reacted to Alex Pretti by dropping out of the governor’s race. What a twisted fucker.
Props to celebrities like Peter who do things like this. It does mean something.
Was Zack busy? While it’s very cool to see the people of Minneapolis performing the vocals, it would’ve been amazing to see the full band. Zack always struck me as the most political of the group, so it surprises me he wasn’t able to make it.
Gorgeous is a liiiiiiiitle bit of a stretch. While there are absolutely gorgeous areas of the state, 96% of the old growth forests in Minnesota were clear cut in the 1930s, so there are almost no old trees in the state. It’s such a tragedy. I grew up 30 miles from Minneapolis, and I love that city and the state, but the geography isn’t why people love living there. I moved to the West coast because the hiking in Minnesota is pretty bleak.
Lake season is phenomenal, of course, and there’s always people grilling and having a good time at every lake, all summer long. Clips like this make me want to move back to Minneapolis, but it’s so hard to give up actual nature to go live among unhealthy secondary forests in the Midwest.
They should’ve been more careful with the trees in Minnesota. Itasca State Park should’ve been a national park, and significantly larger.
I play Guild Wars 2, and I’m worried if I bought an OLED I would end up with the UI permanently burned in. The technology just doesn’t seem compatible with games that feature a persistent UI.
I have a conflicted view of Netflix. They’re a classic big American corporation and come with all the bullshit that entails, but at the same time they do occasionally do some cool things.
Like releasing queer content despite the backlash from the right. They released that “gay boot camp” series recently and it absolutely enraged right wing bigots. This thing with blender is another example.
I am very nervous about their Warner Brothers purchase and am hoping they prove to be responsible owners of all those IP’s. It seems quite unlikely, though. There are so few American corporations who aren’t shitty.
Yes, Qobuz definitely needs an artist blocking feature. It’s been putting Taylor Swift in my daily playlists ever since I listened to a Feist album and I am actually pretty fucking offended by that, to be honest.
I mostly like Qobuz, though. It’s been a solid Spotify replacer outside of a few issues.
Bile acid malabsorption, eh? I need to look into that. I don’t know much about malabsorption other than what I just found online, but it looks like there’s overlap between IBS and malabsorption. Definitely worth looking into.
I’m autistic and suffer from hyper-vigilance which can absolutely cause IBS and other stomach issues, but maybe there’s more here than I realized.