So literally “Bear Bear Bear”. The most bear a bear can be.
So bear. Much roar. Wow.
Also! The Arctic Circle is named for the bears, not the other way ‘round. It’s the Circle With Bears In, and the Antarctic is the Circle (and continent) Away From Bears.
Are you telling us that the poles of our world are Bear Continent and Anti-Bear Continent
For most of Western history, people sat on chairs that were relatively firm, flat and proportioned for the human body.
Then in the 20th century, designers got their hands on new materials, such as steel, plastic and foam. And chairs started blowing up in size and softness.
As a result, we’ve ended up with living rooms, offices and restaurants filled with chairs that are really bad for our backs, says Galen Cranz, who studies chair design at the University of California, Berkeley. “It’s shocking how poorly designed they are for our bodies.”
“Now we need to use props and techniques to sit in chairs in a way that’s good for our backs,” says Jean Couch of Palo Alto, who is part of a growing movement on the West Coast to teach people to move and sit as they did in the past.
Couch shares three tricks that can basically get you comfortable — with a straight spine — in any chair:
1. Sit on the edge of a chair.
In other words, forget about the back rest and use the wooden frame of chairs as a firm support. That makes it easier to keep your pelvis from tucking under your spine and your back ending in a C shape.
2. Build a perch.
Whether it’s a wedge, a shoe or your husband’s wool sweater, Couch says, these props help in two ways. First, they give you something firm to hold up your sitz bones (sitting bones). And second, the pillow raises your hips up a bit so it’s easier for your knees to drop below and your legs to find that sweet spot of comfort — 120 degrees from your torso.
3. Build out the back.
The first two tricks work great for most chairs. But there’s one situation in which sitting on the edge or perching on a pillow isn’t a good idea: in the car. "You definitely don’t want to be sitting away from the backrest for safety reasons,“ says Esther Gokhale, who also teaches posture and traditional movement in Palo Alto.
“The only solution is build out the backrest so it’s more planar,” Gokhale says, so you turn the C shape into an I shape.
To do that, Gokhale says, grab one of your perching props. Take a firm pillow, a blanket or sweater and stick it right at your mid back. "Then elongate your spine by gently stretching your back over the pillow,“ Gokhale says.
It really, REALLY bothers me when I hear people frame climate change and other environmental crises as something that everyday, average-ass people are responsible for, and not corporations and entire governments.
Like literally, how can a regular-ass person ~opt out~ of all damaging behaviors while still being able to function in society?
You literally can’t.
The future of our planet is not down to whether or not someone recycles their water bottle.
It’s down to whether or not governments and corporations decide to quit sucking up all our resources and poisoning the earth with reckless abandon.
I mean obviously people should still live as cleanly and as sustainably as they can manage where they are and with what they have, but like. THAT isn’t the major issue.
govts and corporations have deliberately put the onus on yr individual choices so the system can continue being as destructive/profitable
God bless this post this pisses me off so much
Also this hyper-individualist shift of responsibility is largely an American thing and consumerism is framed as a solution- e.g., buy more shit that’s sustainable! That’ll fix the problem (buy a new, green water bottle! buy a new, green car! buy a new, green whatever-the-fuck that’ll just ultimately produce more waste)!
I took a course in sustainable engineering.
The professor mentioned that even if every private individual in the world were to conserve resources and the environment the ol’ Jimmy Carter way- by turning down the thermostat, recycling your glass and plastics and metals, cut down on luxuries, take shorter showers, etc., it would only get us 10% of the way to where we need to be in order to avoid global catastrophic climate change.
Private individuals hardly make a dent, even in ideal conditions.
Thank you.
Extra important note for spoonies. Please don’t feel bad for needing disposable medical equipment, pill bottles, long showers, micro fiber blankets, packaged pre-made food, straws, paper plates etc. You’re not individually ruining the environment, you’re doing the best you can while taking care of yourself. The blame is on corporations.
This is so important!!!
So many things that people are leaping on bandwagons to ban ARE NEEDED BY DISABLED PEOPLE.
But no one cares! It’s just like the “Opioid Epidemic” and the knee jerk backlash to just cut them off. It’s ridiculous! It’s solving a problem by making another! But hey, it’ll make some people FEEL like they DID SOMETHING, so who cares who gets hurt? Who cares about the critical life threatening damage and death it causes? Because “Epidemic!” Because “straws are bad!” Because because because!
Because Disabled Lives Don’t Matter to Abled People.
That’s it. We’re already a burden to them. We’re already an annoyance. An inconvenience. We’re different, we’re weird, we don’t fit the mold. So, to hell with us! To hell with caring about us. Even thinking about us. Because it’ll save the precious turtles or birds or something. Because taking away everything that helps us survive is the only way to make people feel like they’re doing something about a huge problem like climate change, when it’s really just screwing people whose lives are hard enough.
I will forever reblog posts like this, because it’s SO fucking important.
Procrastination Station 