RBWells
@RBWells@lemmy.world
- Comment on What was your social media path? 20 hours ago:
1990s Usenet
Nothing
Reddit
Lemmy
- Comment on Tune a fish 1 day ago:
Well, where I live, Tuna is also a cactus. Prickly pear is often called tuna. So yeah, tuna (fish) and tuna (fruit) can need disambiguation.
- Comment on Is ironing clothes significantly less common now? 5 days ago:
No tengo una plancha.
I have never had an iron, just wear knits mostly, natural fabrics. If absolutely necessary, will steam them, but only a couple times a year.
My mom didn’t iron much but she did have the board and the iron. Some of my coworkers do iron their stuff.
- Comment on Why was Rock 'n' Roll seen as the grooviest shit in the 50s when it's just averagely groovy (ie. unremarkable) today? 5 days ago:
My mom talked about staying up late to hear the black radio station because everything on the radio was so boring. She ran away from home to see Elvis!
You live in a different world, with streaming, you can listen to so much music. I can remember before that - we at least had community radio with volunteer DJs who played different stuff but top 40 radio literally played about 40 songs on repeat.
I suppose your grandkids will also consider whatever you think shocking music to be boring too
- Comment on Grapefruit Redbull 1 week ago:
I would be shocked if grapefruit flavored red bull contains any part of grapefruit the fruit.
- Comment on The radical woke subliminal message in Bad Bunny's halftime performance 1 week ago:
Watch his Tiny Desk Concert on NPR, it’s amazing. Arena shows are just arena shows, the music gets a little lost in all the rest of what’s going on.
- Comment on Did you all know these things can be pickled??? 1 week ago:
Fermented pickled radish is glorious. Just a salt brine, and time. I put a tight lid and shake daily until they are done, a weight or airlock works too.
- Comment on Man posts his incorrect opinion online 1 week ago:
We have hard wood floor not carpets, have dogs so it’s never going to be some “you can eat off the floors” situation. We run a Roomba thrice daily, my shows are kept in the bedroom so that’s where I put them on/take them off. So in general it’s the big open room with the kitchen/dining and living room and lounge areaY’all really ask everyone to take off their shoes at parties & all? Like a barefoot cocktail hour, barefoot dinner?
The Roomba vac makes an enormous difference, I CAN walk around barefoot without feeling grit on my feet. But it doesn’t bother me that the floor is not pristine, no. And cooking feels safer in shoes.
In other people’s houses I do whatever they want, obviously, but I would never tell someone to take off their shoes for my floor’s sake.
- Comment on Are there any women here who felt they didn't deserve to be called women? 1 week ago:
I have never tried to be feminine, and believe strongly that “womanly” is the sum total of what women are and do, we define it every day by being ourselves. “Feminine” to me is the things people would do to impersonate a woman, if an alien came to earth, for example, and was performing to try to be like a woman - the outward behaviors and paint and hair and all.
So no, and I think it’s nothing to fret over. I want to be myself and help define what womanhood is, not chase after some stereotype. I’ve never felt particularly feminine, but do feel very attached to being female bodied, enjoyed being pregnant, nursing, love having sex as a woman. Just don’t see any point to stereotypical “femininity” or “masculinity” those are unnecessary, and actively harmful in some cases.
- Comment on 1 week ago:
Self care for me:
Yoga class with other people.
Going out for a Pokemon go walk
Making healthy food that I enjoy (not trying to be virtuous and not junk either - nourishing and delicious).
Having a drink on the porch - ONE drink - with my husband.
Going to bed when I get sleepy and getting up when I wake up.
- Comment on do most people really like the taste and smell of eggs? 1 week ago:
Smell, no. Taste, yes. I don’t understand how something that stinks so much while cooking can taste so good but yes, I like fried eggs, boiled eggs, scrambled eggs, as long as they aren’t overcooked they are good.
- Comment on How long does it take for pregnancy to become noticeable? 2 weeks ago:
The first time, I was 5’9" and 125lb when I got pregnant, so not like I had anywhere to hide it, but I worked until 6 months without telling anyone and that is when it became impossible to hide.
The subsequent times it happened faster, the belly was noticeable by 4 months or so, I could feel it before anyone else could tell in all cases.
I had a history teacher who was hugely fat - she warned us she would be out on maternity leave, we thought she meant later in the year but she was gone the next week, and when she came back, looked no different at all.
- Comment on What is the best way to drop 50lbs in two months without spending alot and no fad diets? 2 weeks ago:
That sentence makes no sense. Figure out the amount you would need to eat and work out to MAINTAIN your desired weight and start doing that. Let it take however long it takes, then keep doing that to maintain, or tweak it to improve.
50lb in 2 months sounds dangerous as fuck. You could stop eating and probably lose that much, fuck up your metabolism, and immediately gain it back without even eating as much as you did before.
- Comment on Anon likes pizza 2 weeks ago:
$1.50 how? Is he having a sliced tomato on cardboard?
- Comment on 2 weeks ago:
I have never heard the temperature expressed with decimals - my phone says “it’s 14, today’s high will be 20 and low of 4” or whatever. Do oven settings have decimals in places that use Celsius?
Is the temperature expressed beyond whole numbers?
- Comment on 2 weeks ago:
Wow people are so different. I grew up in Florida, without air conditioning until I was 25. 85F is so nice outside in the shade, and 80 in the sun is fine for working outdoors. In the shade, with a fan going, and something to drink, I am comfortable to mid-90s at least, just not moving so much, relaxing. Hot yoga at 103 is sweaty but not dangerous for me.
There are not enough clothes in the world to make me comfortable at 0 F, there is not gear for that, I don’t generate that much internal heat.
- Comment on 2 weeks ago:
I would prefer Celsius if it was smaller degrees, so 0 = freezing is great logic but boiling needs to be 1000 not 100. There just aren’t enough degrees between freezing and boiling, Celsius is too inexact.
And no way is 50 medium in F, it is cold. We might actually put the heater that low because the HVAC system we have is built more for cooling, but that is very, very cold feeling. 0 in F is beyond cold, that is 32 degrees (or 18 of your civilized degrees) below freezing. Hellish cold.
- Comment on A mural drawn by artist: Topsy depicting Alex Pretti trying to protect Lady Justice from ICE. 2 weeks ago:
This is amazing.
- Comment on If the United States of America was renamed, what should it be? 3 weeks ago:
South Canada?
- Comment on Banan 3 weeks ago:
I order exotic fruit plants from Sow Exotic, they have a pretty good selection of bananas.
- Comment on Do old people still remember their childhood? Do people just start losing their memories and their sense of self as they get older? 3 weeks ago:
How old?
I don’t feel like I’ve forgotten more and more. It’s more like I have only ever had a few memories from being a little kid.
Sense of self gets deeper, not lost. All those years of experience add up to more self, not less. I was, though, for sure more self-centered when young, less aware of others, more selfish.
- Comment on Are you people all bots? 4 weeks ago:
Beep beep boop.
Not only am I not a bot, I’m not a guy.
I think there are some here, but nothing like the more commercial spaces.
- Comment on The consequences of not building enough housing 4 weeks ago:
Ha!
I went from #3 in the 80s to #4, then to #1 in the mid 1990s.
I don’t think it matters where you start, what bothers me so much more is the lack of opportunity to move up this chart now. I knew, in my heart, that if I sold out and worked someplace evil I could have the big money, and what’s more, even without doing evil I could have the small money by following the steps - go to school, get a job.
I don’t feel like younger people have that. It always took some degree of luck, but more like bad luck would set you back. Now it’s more like you need good luck just to get started!
- Comment on Wokeness ended, check mate leftists 4 weeks ago:
Delicate angelic androgynous beauty.
- Comment on The forbidden fourth leche 5 weeks ago:
I thought that was only the one made from goat milk?
- Comment on [deleted] 5 weeks ago:
That is literally what Allegra D is.
- Comment on [deleted] 5 weeks ago:
I agree with the consensus here- you are thinking about this wrong. Allegra-D, the one behind the counter in my state, is an allergy medicine we use for colds, because it works better than anything labeled as cold medicine.
If you are saying you want something that treats allergies, and by treating them unstuffs your nose, that Allegra-D will work. I don’t understand why you think it won’t. The pseudoephedrine in it (the D in the name) is a vasoconstrictor that will open your nose.
If it’s the same drug labeled as a cold medicine, it would work exactly the same.
- Comment on The forbidden fourth leche 5 weeks ago:
Coquito I call Ron con 5 leches.
Leche evaporada, leche regular, leche condensada dulce (lechera), leche de coco, y crema.
Why have 3 or 4 when you can have 5 and rum?
- Comment on Does smelling your food while you cook it make it taste bland? 1 month ago:
That doesn’t happen to me, but I cook for my family every day, usually just once. (So not so infrequently It’s something unusual, but not so often it’s a drag). It’s more like an appetizer or something.
- Comment on Is there a science educator who shows in a video how they hand wash dishes? 1 month ago:
If you have enough sinks, or a big enough pot to soak them in, one soak in hot soapy water, wash them all in the next sink, do your scrub-scrub without rinsing then rinse them all in bulk, then final rinse by dipping them into a sink full of hot water with a little bleach.
Then dry them with a clean towel.
That’s how we hand wash when the dishwasher was broken and someone in the house was sick. Because otherwise my husband will wash them with the water running the whole time.