RBWells
@RBWells@lemmy.world
- Comment on Mmm, roasted apples. 13 hours ago:
I love the apple rankings site but remain ever a Honeycrisp ho. I never liked apples until one day I was pregnant and hungry and at Target they had out samples of apple - out of desperation I grabbed one and holy crap, it was everything an apple should be, nothing like anything I’d had before, and I worked at a natural foods store, we got the pink lady and cripps and gala, it’s not like I had not tried to like apples.
It will ever be the Honeycrisp, the platonic ideal. Perfectly sweet, perfectly tart, and can be cooked in pies and taste good. I don’t need any other apple. My coworker prefers the Cosmic Crisp but I don’t.
- Comment on To those who think the economy will never get good enough to afford basic necessities (and you're probably right), what will you do to not only survive, but enjoy life with the only life you have? 6 days ago:
I have been very poor, homeless, middle class and everything in between. As long as you can get a job (and here, you can always get a job of some sort) all things are possible as long as you can stuff enough wage earners into your household.
I like roller coasters and Busch Gardens usually does a buy one ticket, come back all year thing, there’s a bus that comes from near me to near there. So that’s some cheap fun (I don’t buy anything there, don’t stay all day, go early, ride, leave before big crowds)
Have gotten pretty good at gardening so if there’s a yard there is some fresh food.
Lots of roommates, built in network.
Library books. Free concerts downtown. Whatever free events.
- Comment on Have any of you experienced that "snake detection" instinct? Do you think it's real? 1 week ago:
I don’t have a fear of snakes, and no, they can be right next to me and I don’t notice.
Most “water moccasins” are other black water snakes, rattlesnake won’t bother you, it will run away. We just don’t have any snakes where I live that are both venomous and aggressive. No cobras, no mambas nothing like that.
I was working in the yard once and a hawk was watching me. He saw the snake I did not, swooped down, grabbed it, and flew up onto the fence next to me, then ate the snake quite dramatically right in front of me. That’s how clueless I am about them. I do like to see them in the yard, but they usually hide.
- Comment on Why do we need legal genders at all? 1 week ago:
There’s a funny story here in the US about that. We were trying to pass the Equal Rights Act (ERA) - equal pay for equal work, and some Republican tried to tank it by putting in the bill that women would also be subject to the draft - apparently he figured that was so horrifying it would sink it. Supporters just said “yeah, that seems fair, good idea” and he had to scramble to take that wording out because he had so misjudged the situation. Still managed to sink the bill though:(
- Comment on Does the net positive of Eugenics out weigh the negative? How so? 1 week ago:
That’s gene editing, not eugenics. Taking an already created embryo and messing with it would be gene editing.
Eugenics is a government deciding you have undesirable characteristics so they sterilize you, or deciding you have desirable characteristics so they breed you.
- Comment on Damn. They went hard. 1 week ago:
We’ve seen them live twice! They are STRFKR now but still say it the same way.
- Comment on If the legalization of drugs reduces crime, why can't the same be said about the legalization of guns? 1 week ago:
Drugs don’t physically harm anyone other than the user, so if they are decriminalized it reduces crime (as using isn’t criminal) even if it increases use.
Decriminalization of guns would reduce arrests for illegal carrying but increase the rate of carrying and when a gun is used, or stolen, it will usually result in a crime. Because people aren’t just shooting at themselves, right?
- Comment on Why is the general consensus for making pan fried gyoza/dumplings at home to fry then steam in pan but restaurants par-boil then pan fry? 2 weeks ago:
I’ve done both and fry-then-steam is not as sticky, and the water deglazes the pan, if you cook them with anything.
Pierogi though? Boil then fry, they stick like the dickens either way, my husband is the one who makes them - always with kielbasa and sautees them in the sausage pan after boiling them.
- Comment on Anon isn't worried about population decline 2 weeks ago:
Yeah but that’s just a pyramid scheme. We can’t just keep growing the human population forever.
Started working at 15, figure I’ll work till I’m 75. Or until I die, whatever. If I can. It’s fine, not ideal but fine. I would have appreciated maternity leave more than retirement. The time then would have been a lot more valuable.
- Comment on Small kitchen appliance storage... 2 weeks ago:
On the counter: Microwave, kettle, coffee grinder, toaster.
Kept in pantry:
Blender, instant pot, food processor, slow cooker, immersion blender, big Kitchen Aid mixer.
There have been times the mix has been different. In my household it’s my husband who would want everything tucked away, I would keep more out.
- Comment on I despise laundry. How can I make my life contain less of it? 2 weeks ago:
The heck? I do have like ten pair of jeans and don’t wash them unless I get something on them, but still end up washing a pair of jeans every second week at least. Always manage to get them dirty in some way.
My husband used to not wash his much but got a rash on his thighs & the doctor said to wash them more often. Not like every time you wear them, but not just twice a year.
- Comment on I despise laundry. How can I make my life contain less of it? 2 weeks ago:
Can you dry your clothes on the hangers that go into your closet & just move them into the closet when dry? Or dry them in the closet with the door open? Do you need the rack at all? I dry my air dry stuff on hangers a lot.
I was going to say merino & silk, because I don’t have to wash mine often, until I read that it’s the putting away you don’t like.
Or maybe get nice baskets on a shelf, or a dresser with drawers, and go back to your sort-and-toss.
- Comment on Anon isn't worried about population decline 2 weeks ago:
I’m not worried about population decline but regret to inform Anon that I was around when there were half as many people and it was not better. Sorry. There was terrible pollution and more crime.
- Comment on Keep Em Guessing 2 weeks ago:
Oh God his knees are facing forward though. That is someone looking at a lifetime of pain. Hips rotate, that’s how ballet turnout works. Not by torquing your knees. Keep your knees pointing in the same direction as your toes, or pay for it in pain.
- Comment on Christa Pike at 18 years old when she was sentenced to death. She is now 50 and they are supposed to kill her this week 3 weeks ago:
The midwife who delivered my kids in the 90’s was a lesbian mom, and one of my friends at school (in the 1980s) had a lesbian mom. One (friend) because her mom decided after getting married she was not into men after all, the midwife, she just had a turkey-baster insemination from a friend, was never straight. If I personally knew 2 it can’t have been so vanishingly rare.
Not really relevant to this whole rant but it’s not like the 1980s were the 1600s.
- Comment on Nuh uh, lady. Not happening 3 weeks ago:
Our cats knew the sound of the foil package the flea medicine came in. Would run and hide the moment they heard it. I had to open them a couple days earlier so that I could catch them and put it on them.
She needs to put out the clippers early.
- Comment on Is gender affirming care for cis people a thing? 3 weeks ago:
Courtesy costs nothing so I would call anyone whatever they want, honestly.
- Comment on If French people are strict about eating on a set schedule, then when do waiters and cooks eat? 3 weeks ago:
That’s how it was at the restaurant I worked at here, also the waiters were union. They all ate together before the supper shift.
- Comment on Is gender affirming care for cis people a thing? 3 weeks ago:
My trans kid uses transgender because his body is still female in most ways but he does use T and is a he. I think only when you change genitals that’s changing your sex, right?
- Comment on Is gender affirming care for cis people a thing? 3 weeks ago:
Very relevant username.
- Comment on Is gender affirming care for cis people a thing? 3 weeks ago:
Sure. I am past menopause and take low dose hormones (more to avoid migraines and stay healthy than to be more ‘feminine’ but could take more, a lot of doctors do try to reach some level, mine does MHT not HRT ).
Middle-aged guys, yes, I think testosterone is certainly gender-affirming care, and there is no MHT equivalent for men, testosterone requires blood tests, you can’t just find the lowest dose that relieves symptoms, they always aim for some level in the blood. The Viagra/Cialis I think is more to correct for a problem. Or for recreation.
- Comment on Bound to Isaac 4 weeks ago:
Charlie in there with the cervix stabbing stem and skin tearing texture, what is that, some instrument of torture? Ouch.
- Comment on According to the New York Times, Game of Thrones is the 6th best TV show of the 21st century 4 weeks ago:
I used to dance and one of my teachers, in a situation where we had to improvise a little at an event that had hired us said “you need a very strong beginning and ending, people can forgive a lot in the middle.”
So the end season of a show being shit is worse than a bad season in the middle. I didn’t watch it through but that makes logical sense to me.
- Comment on Sacre blu 4 weeks ago:
Le fromage americain?
I am mostly sort of a cheese snob but just this morning had Cuban cheese toast - Cuban bread with white american cheese - not swiss - and butter, pressed in the sandwich press. Such nostalgic food for me and utterly delicious, utterly without nutrition. Has it with a big ol’ cafe con leche. Bliss.
- Comment on 🍳 challenge 4 weeks ago:
I would even be willing to add the egg in a pan emoji to every message for that money.
“Thanks, your presentation went so well!” 🍳
- Comment on Is there a difference between "comfortable space" and a "safespace"? 4 weeks ago:
I like this definition the best. The rules are there to serve a group you don’t belong to - so from the outside they look silly or heavy handed. But that just means you don’t belong there. Uncomfortable topics may need more rules.
- Comment on Can I break my sense of taste? 5 weeks ago:
We used to occasionally have to put our kids on “sugar fast” when they ate too much sweet stuff because they then couldn’t taste sweet in lightly sweet stuff. So their palate needed to be recalibrated. I’ve had to do the same with salt before.
And I am desensitized to spicy things but like that because I can appreciate more foods that way, or more of the ones I tend to like. But surely it’s a form of damage.
- Comment on ‘I feel invisible’: over-50s reveal harsh realities of trying to get a job 5 weeks ago:
Right, because people not working for 35-40 years is good for the economy somehow? Work for 30 years then retire for more than that? This makes no sense, it’s not a zero sum thing but you can’t have the population idle for more years than they work.
I have a 401k - told the “planner” app to assume I will work to 70 & I might live to 90 and it says my plan has “longevity risk” . Basically that any woman who gets to my age may well get older than that.
I know that people don’t like retirement age going up and up, and it would be lovely to not have to work, but on the other hand all my kids are finally adults, so these are my available prime earning years.
- Comment on Winter is coming 5 weeks ago:
I just really hate cold weather and short days. My body is better at staying cool than warm. When you ask people what they like about winter they always say sweaters and fires, being warm. I like doing that without gear.
- Comment on Is being apolitical and being Independents in politics the exact same thing? 5 weeks ago:
Does nobody understand sarcasm? Twinklebreeze said all independents are secret republicans. Godric says if that’s the case, Sanders is playing a very long game.