rbos
@rbos@lemmy.ca
Canadian, sysadmin, trans rights are human rights, puncha-the-nazis, cats are pretty great, GNU Terry Pratchett.
- Comment on Anon comes up with a dating strategy 4 days ago:
Lass needs some extra buffer to survive the English raiders.
- Comment on Microsoft plans thousands of job cuts, impacting less than 2.5% of workforce 4 days ago:
“Golden 80” is a pretty common formula here. Service plus age. 70 is pretty crazy.
- Comment on Are you worthy of this little treat ? 1 week ago:
Definitely the kind of thing you want to have sorted out beforehand.
- Comment on No, you don't escape this one Microsoft! 1 week ago:
Microsoft: if you can’t make it good, make it mandatory.
- Comment on can I skip the exercise part? 1 week ago:
Got it in one!
- Comment on can I skip the exercise part? 1 week ago:
Just add a little squirt of lemon for flavour.
- Comment on magic 1 week ago:
Sounds promising. My shoe guy charges $50CAD tor redoing the bottoms.
- Comment on magic 1 week ago:
10 years without being oiled, i guess. The leather would dessicate, maybe?
- Comment on Do you think that Edward Snowden is a hero? 1 week ago:
The USA has stretched ‘technically not torture’ too far for that to be comforting.
- Comment on is our battery/junk drawer dangerous? 2 weeks ago:
I use jars small enough that they are physically unable to do so.
- Comment on is our battery/junk drawer dangerous? 2 weeks ago:
Dunno if it helps but I put batteries in glass jars. Keeps them from getting contacted by metal things, keeps the leaks contained.
- Comment on "If you can't afford to tip 40%, then don't eat out" 3 weeks ago:
I tip 0% at places where I go to the counter, order, wait, pay, and retrieve my food. That is a base level expectation, not a service or a favour.
It helps that we don’t have a ‘tipping wage’ anymore.
- Comment on I miss Wilfred 5 weeks ago:
That sounds incredible actually.
- Comment on 👴☝️I did that 5 weeks ago:
In both cases. We don’t pay nearly the real cost of gasoline.
- Comment on I miss Wilfred 5 weeks ago:
That sounds revolting and it makes my teeth hurt.
Eat a GD vegetable
- Comment on Must have apps 1 month ago:
Interesting. Worrying, even.
- Comment on Must have apps 1 month ago:
This is new to me, I can’t find a reference. Can you share?
- Comment on baby blues 1 month ago:
A “school bus” can be a local mini that’s like 8-10?m long, or a medium like 15-metre one. A “school bus” (as it would be near me) can also be an articulated main route bus that has three high schools and a major university on both ends of the corridor, at like 30 metres long.
Ditto pizzas. A “large” is such an arbitrary measurement.
- Comment on baby blues 1 month ago:
And yet I still have no idea how big the squid is. Buses range in size dramatically.
- Comment on Real or not bitch? 2 months ago:
What are fake pickles in this context? Lacto vs vinegar ferment?
- Comment on Anon teaches you about their culture 2 months ago:
Doesn’t change how great high-quality butter is. :)
- Comment on Anon teaches you about their culture 2 months ago:
It’s not super difficult to make. Basically eggnog.
My stepmother make advocaat with (shudder) vanilla pudding mix and gin. It’s an abomination, but it’ll get you plastered pretty fast and it has the right consistency.
- Comment on Anon teaches you about their culture 2 months ago:
You can take my dropjes out of my cold, dead fingers. :D
- Comment on Anon teaches you about their culture 2 months ago:
So many people don’t appreciate how good high-quality butter is!
- Comment on Anon teaches you about their culture 2 months ago:
I do love (quality) sprinkles on straight-up white bread, but I will usually toast the bread first and put on a thin layer of peanut butter instead of butter.
Dollar-store generic sprinkles are AWFUL. De Ruijter or bust.
- Comment on Anon teaches you about their culture 2 months ago:
Funny story, we were in the Netherlands around the holidays last year and COULD NOT find advocaat. :( It definitely seems to be an old-person drink.
Comes of being a second-generation Canadian. I grew up with advocaat but I guess it’s a snapshot of ye olde times.
- Comment on Anon teaches you about their culture 2 months ago:
My culture has this one food that takes a lifetime to learn to like, that nobody else seems to appreciate. We will aggressively push it on you every dinner, partly to watch your reaction!
- Comment on Anon teaches you about their culture 2 months ago:
I get mushy peas on Australian style meat pies a lot. It’s really good, especially with a shittonne of gravy.
- Comment on Anon teaches you about their culture 2 months ago:
The best Dutch food owes a lot to the occupation of Indonesia.
- Comment on Anon teaches you about their culture 2 months ago:
On the other hand… Bitterballen, poffertjes, awesome cheeses of all sorts, rookworst, stroopwafels, spekkoek, speculaas, advocaat…