good luck with the diet! if you’re only trying to avoid specific foods like snacks or desserts, something that’s surprisingly worked for me is to eat more. if i am full after eating my meals, i’m less likely to snack constantly between meals. if i eat more fruit, i’m less likely to crave other desserts. if i plan an afternoon snack of cheese and crackers, i’m less likely to grab potato chips when i’m feeling peckish. keep in mind you still need to eat mindfully to not overeat so this approach might not be for everyone, but framing the process as “what can i add” has made me naturally reduce a lot of things i wanted to cut without feeling restricted.

you’re right, i think we’re in agreement. the side with guns and tanks retaliated against the side with bricks and molotov cocktails by opening fire

I’m less concerned about the specifics of where it happened and how many people died, and more concerned about how military personnel shot live ammunition at citizens.

According to the Tiananmen Papers, a collection of internal Communist party files, soldiers started using live ammunition at around 10.30pm, after trying and failing to disperse the crowd with tear gas and rubber bullets.

my favorite part about these kinds of comments is that the article they commonly cite basically says there was no tiananmen massacre because the massacre happened outside of the square in the rest of beijing, and that’s treated like it’s some big gotcha