RBWells
@RBWells@lemmy.world
- Comment on What is bacon not good with, on, or in? 1 day ago:
Yes, well full disclosure - I don’t actually like hamburgers in general, but the black beans specifically do have an affinity with the bacon, it’s very good. And instead of making an already greasy situation greasier, the cheese and bacon offset the usually dry burger. This is my standard burger order at the grill in the little cafe at my work.
- Comment on What is bacon not good with, on, or in? 1 day ago:
Black bean burger with bacon, cheese, onion & jalapeno is delicious.
- Comment on how/will climate change impact hardiness zones in the US? 1 day ago:
Already in my lifetime my area has gone from zone 9 to 10. Which means now we can grow mangoes. But yeah. It’s changing.
- Comment on [deleted] 3 days ago:
Ha! I am nearly 60 and don’t think I can afford to be wrinkly and old for at least 15 more years. But on tattoos, I worried that I might not like mine in my 40s but knew that I would love being a tattooed old woman. And this was way before they got popular - I certainly didn’t expect that!
- Comment on Anon is a carpenter 3 days ago:
Low cost area you won’t be making $50/hour though.
- Comment on Return to basics 4 days ago:
Beans
- Comment on ¿How communism actually work in practice? 4 days ago:
The Bruderhof Christians are communist in the way I understand it. They live in community with all assets belonging to the community, and it works for them.
I don’t think anyone really wants that as some universal scheme, mostly people just want to have way more worker-owned businesses and still have an economy based on money, just a fairer one.
- Comment on WaPo IRL 5 days ago:
Maybe 1/3 of straight women, 2/3 of bi women, and most gay & bi men is enough of a dating pool, though? I’m sure not near 1/3 of straight and bi guys would be into me personally.
And I can believe the 2/3 thing. I land in the 1/3 and it feels like a minority view.
- Comment on Anon is a doctor 1 week ago:
Medical degree can be used for research though? Anon doesn’t need to work patient-facing to use his education, surely there is a better position for them.
And this sounds like a pretty good life, time for reading and working out, enough free time to have a relationship. Most doctors don’t have such a cushy schedule.
- Comment on [deleted] 1 week ago:
10% sounds ridiculous.
- Comment on Cheapest sandwiches 1 week ago:
Sardines are great in a sandwich and are healthy. I love sardines and thin sliced onions with some mayo as a sandwich, yum. Homemade hummus also cheap and healthy, and if you bought mayonnaise make a little slaw for that too.
Lentils on toast are good & healthy, not a sandwich but would leverage your bread.
- Comment on How I have better social interactions? 1 week ago:
Cheap and comfortable at least. Easy only after you figure out what suits your figure and style. At which point I think I’d even add “fun”.
- Comment on Anon has a proposal for you 1 week ago:
Nile crocodiles eat about once a week on average and can eat twice a year and survive. I wouldn’t count on a t-rex expiring from hunger in a month. Maybe from all the new germs, if it was time-traveled in, but not starvation.
- Comment on Is passing a kidney stone as a man the real equivalent of a woman giving birth? Where do they register on the pain index/scale? 1 week ago:
I feel uniquely qualified to answer this, unfortunately, as someone who has given birth naturally several times and passed a kidney stone when I was 20.
The stone was more terrifying because I didn’t know what was happening, I had intense pain and was pissing blood, thought I was dying but by the next day felt nothing and when I went to the doctor he said “you passed a stone, it’s gone now, drink more water.”
I have had migraines more painful than either, but not as urgent feeling as the bladder stone, if that makes sense. They are depressing not terrifying. Childbirth hurts but doesn’t feel like either, it’s productive and sort of exciting, you are having a baby. So it hurts a lot but without the negative emotions it’s easier in a way
- Comment on How I have better social interactions? 1 week ago:
Yeah this is for sure a good situation for “fake it till you make it.”
Just say hi to everyone when you see them. Once a day talk to a different person for awhile, you will find out who is more friendly. I’m not naturally social or outgoing and I’m at at ease with that, but people can interpret it as unfriendly, so I try to communicate the way each person likes, to some extent. It may not come naturally to you but YOU ARE NOT ALONE in that. We just learned by practicing.
- Comment on Try to be "elegant" while getting wasted 2 weeks ago:
Leon Bridges (with Hermanos Gutierrez ) does such a good cover of Elegantly Wasted.
- Comment on Do millennials keep looking significantly more youthful than previous generations? 2 weeks ago:
I have a funny experience with kids and people guessing my age. I had one set in my early 20s, and another set in my late 30s. People who knew me from my first kids thought I was the age I am, people who sawe with my second kids thought I was much younger than I am, and people who saw me with all of them thought I was older than I am because they thought I was the grandma. Except occasionally my oldest complained, she said people thought we were a lesbian couple with kids, that people thought she was a lot older than she was.
Which taught me, people don’t really look at you much, they make assumptions based on your situation, and that colors how they see you.
- Comment on Do millennials keep looking significantly more youthful than previous generations? 2 weeks ago:
A hat helps too, every inch of hat brim helps.
I was allergic to every sunscreen on the market from when I was 12 and got a bad allergic reaction to one (face swelled, such a rash) but then the mineral ones eventually got better (that’s what I mostly use) and the Korean ones got available here (those are amazing, gentle and effective) so for the last 30 years I have been able to screen and my skin is good enough people comment & ask for my routine. In my early 20s, like you, there was a period I could only use water, or a little pure jojoba.
So I think to some extent you can recover it. Retin-A and sunblock every day.
- Comment on Anon hears a dying wish 2 weeks ago:
BMI is bullshit but mostly in the other direction - people who are overfat without being overweight by BMI. It’s much less common to be overweight without being overfat.
What is also true, though, is that the risk curve for underweight is sharp but for overweight is pretty flat - a few pounds over just doesn’t add much risk, while a few pounds under does add some risk.
- Comment on Do millennials keep looking significantly more youthful than previous generations? 2 weeks ago:
GenX - I think I look my age but when I tell people my age at work they look so surprised. So to some extent I think people just think, say, 50, looks older than it does. It’s true I don’t look like my mom did at this age (and she wasn’t a smoker) skincare and sunscreen do work. And I work out more. Like the lady in the images, I did look about 25 at 15 but then looked like that for a long time.
As someone else here said though - if you are looking at celebrities, in general they have also had work done, and Botox, the lady in the picture looks botoxed for sure.
If you go farther back, most people had harder lives. My maternal grandmother aged faster because her husband beat her; her mom was in the Great Depression, and so on. We complain now because we see how good it could be but it’s still better than the past was.
- Comment on Mmm, roasted apples. 2 weeks 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? 3 weeks 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? 4 weeks 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? 4 weeks 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? 4 weeks 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. 4 weeks 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? 4 weeks 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? 4 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 4 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... 5 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.