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- Comment on Avocado. Is it really so untasty or I am doing something wrong? 1 week ago:
Following others: definitely do not think of avocados as fruit, it’s closer to carrots (has some sweetness, but wouldn’t put it in a fruit salad).
Great easy combos I haven’t seen suggested yet: with bread and feta/salty cheese, with salt pepper and mayonnaise, with oil vinegar and mustard.
I haven’t ever had cooked avocado.
I guess I’m in the minority here, because I quite like avocados on their own. Getting a good one changes everything and getting it at perfect ripeness is important and impacts taste too. If it feels hard, it’s too early. It should have a little bit of give when you squeeze it lightly. If it has black or dark spots inside it’s starting to go. If it has air pockets inside and/or mold you lost your shot - you can still cut off those parts and eat the rest but it will not be at peak tastiness.
- Comment on It's literally science 2 weeks ago:
With a standing desk, you have to be very careful in not being stationary. Standing in the same position for an hour is not great for your back at all, but the goal of a standing desk is to constantly move a little bit and relax your back muscles. Ideally, you want some sort of standing desk pad that forces you to subconsciously constantly move.
- Comment on It's literally science 2 weeks ago:
The best exercise is the one you actually do
That’s how I finally got to exercise regularly. First, I spend way too long trying to hype myself up for running. Never happened. I hate running. No amount of convenience can convince me. Then I started hiking and yoga and swimming and whatever came my way. Sure, I don’t have any sort of routine, but I do some sport very regularly!
- Comment on Apologies if I'm making an incorrect judgement, but does anybody else get dystopian propaganda vibes from the Working with Cancer Pledge? 2 weeks ago:
There are many aspects of work one could consider. For me, the social aspect is a big one. I have been in sick leave for a while now, will likely be home for a while longer, and I honestly miss the social net that work gives - both friends, friendly coworkers and unrelated coworkers. Plus there daily structure, the feeling of accomplishment and “being an active part of society”. Those are all important mental values that work provides and that can help while dealing with a long term illness.
This being said, there is a gradient between encouraging people to work while sick because out provides mental health benefits and forcing people to work while sick because otherwise they’d be on the streets without health insurance… And providing easy ways to work part time should be part of the equation.
- Comment on Anon enjoys the little things 3 weeks ago:
Lol! Did not mean it like that…
- Comment on Anon enjoys the little things 3 weeks ago:
A little thing I love is people’s houses. There are always so many details that talk about their history, the present occupants, the place. I can pass in front of the same building every day and still notice something new.
- Comment on Can anyone explain why? 1 month ago:
Low quality wine is much worse than its alcohol content.
Random personal anecdote: I can’t drink stout beers anymore. A single one gives me the worst hangovers. Same quantity of alcohol in other beverages doesn’t have nearly the same effects.
- Comment on Just say the word 1 month ago:
But by then they have school, so I can as well have my own job.
Sure, I wouldn’t want anymore an all-encompassing job as I had before, but a 9-5 is perfect.
- Comment on Just say the word 1 month ago:
Counterpoint: I took some months off work when my first one was born. And I hated it. I felt that all my value was as “baby-sustaining-machine”, the highest mental skill requested any given day was loading a laundry load and it was very socially isolating (not many people available during working hours for socializing). At the same time, it was stressful being constantly the only one in charge. I was relieved to drop them at daycare and get back to work.
Now that they are of early school age, I enjoy spending time with them, but I also find it taxing. I know I wouldn’t be a good parent if I were to do it 24/7. But I am glad to spend every non-school moments together.
- Comment on Wokeness ended, check mate leftists 1 month ago:
“And the rest of her body?” She skinny!
- Comment on Everybody: Share Your Funniest Current or Past Desktop Backgrounds! 1 month ago:
Very pretty! Loving the fading of focus
- Comment on pasta bowl of nades 2 months ago:
Agreed on this. Polpette is supposed to be a second course, while pasta sauces are supposed to be “saucy”, not over-clumpy as polpette
- Comment on pasta bowl of nades 2 months ago:
In the north, they exist, usually in tomato sauce, but not as a pasta sauce
- Comment on pasta bowl of nades 2 months ago:
In the north, they exist, usually in tomato sauce, but not as a pasta sauce
- Comment on pasta bowl of nades 2 months ago:
In the north, they exist, usually in tomato sauce, but not as a pasta sauce
- Comment on Mom with the real questions 2 months ago:
The market has shrunk and the prices have gone up… there are still some good items on the second hand market, at times, depending on location.
- Comment on I'm there! 2 months ago:
Googling seems quite effective, honestly. For example here
For my friend, I think was a Google search as well
- Comment on Real 2 months ago:
The most groundbreaking moment in this sense for me was when I was writing course notes for an introductory course (level 300 on my specialty, I was ready). On a small topic, I had my references lined up, until a colleague shared that the obvious, well-known, widely referenced result had been disproven a couple of years prior. The new proof is far from simple, does not belong in a level 300 class and made me scrap the whole section.
For the interested: the course was Introduction to Numerical Analysis, the topic was the order of convergence of the bisection method. Widely known but wrong result Ironically, I can’t quickly find the paper disproving it.
- Comment on I'm there! 2 months ago:
Over the summer, archeologist groups look for helpers. Here is an example. It’s often mostly grunt work in a bigger group.
There are also plenty of small seminars scattered around the world with artisans teaching their techniques. A friend of mine made a sword for example.
- Comment on i can't handle coffee 2 months ago:
I learned the hard way that my limit is one and a half. The half means “sometimes, a second shot is fine, sometimes NOT”
- Comment on Off the Rails 2 months ago:
I haven’t heard of since there was a clear explanation of how the eye evolved - since that one was a specific example they were referring to
- Comment on My culture also loves music, dancing and telling stories 2 months ago:
Love your description! Incredibly fitting! It’s tasteless honey, basically. Very sweet but not much else
- Comment on My culture also loves music, dancing and telling stories 2 months ago:
Absolutely. And in the less extreme variants, there are cultures for which good food is the base of socialization - you mostly meet up for dinner or similar - and others where good food is the exception, happening for big occasions and parties but not an every day occurrence.
- Comment on My culture also loves music, dancing and telling stories 2 months ago:
Dutchies eat to survive, no care at all about what it is they are eating…
- Comment on My culture also loves music, dancing and telling stories 2 months ago:
Not drowns every flavor in corn syrup!
- Comment on Peas plz 3 months ago:
I heard the problem was with yeast interacting poorly with their digestion. Pear, power of the internet, tell me if I’m wrong!
- Comment on Honestly wtf? 3 months ago:
Ohhh daaaaam!!
- Comment on Honestly wtf? 3 months ago:
Wouldn’t there be other possible plants that would provide the same alkaloid compounds?
- Comment on Waiting for Capitalism to collapse, so we can get this over with so we can reverse climate change and have nice memes, technology and the good end 3 months ago:
We haven’t crossed the point of no return. We are accelerating because we keep press on the acceleration. If we stopped (as we did temporarily during Covid), stuff would get back on track. We have to act now
- Comment on Getting in on the library craze with the Reading Rainbow guy 3 months ago:
I don’t get it… I’m getting to the point that i dislike receiving most presents because i don’t have a use for them. Like: “ thanks for thinking about me and getting me this… plastic cheap Christmas decoration/little toy/picture book that I will never use”