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Acamon

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  • [SafelyEndangered] Responsibilities

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  • Yeah, I caused myself a lot of misery by trying to follow the "eat the frog first" strategy, and get the big important stuff out the way before the easy / less critical things. Just led to me wasting days not doing the big thing, and all the little things were snowballing into much larger problems.

    Now I go with "put the frog on your plate" - I tell myself honestly that the important task should be top of my list, and then proceed to avoid it by doing all the other shit. Sure, I have to deal with the problems of leaving something important til the last minute (and they are numerous) but at least everything else isn't also on fire.

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    Does TERF give a damn about Trans men going to Men Restrooms?

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  • I don't hear them talking about trans men and toilets (I guess they think they're st risk, but it's their own fault?) but I've heard lots of criticism of trans men as telling women they aren't allowed to be masculine, or erasing lesbians, or other poorly informed things.

  • Marshmallow Test

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  • Same, was confused until I zoomed in.

  • What actors/actresses make you immediately not want to make a movie/show?

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  • This. I'm sure Mission Impossible series are entertaining action movies, but I really can't stand looking at his smug face.

  • What crazy pickup line worked on you? (or for you?)

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  • "I'm bored, wanna fool around?" sometimes, that's all it takes.

  • What’s a thing you miss that you’re 90% sure was objectively awful?

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  • Only knowing small TVs. Step by step, displays have inarguably improved massively, and I do love my giant OLED flatscreen. But watching TV was still great fun in the before times, people still watched the hell out of it, so can we say it brings people more joy now? Or is it just technically and visually better?

    I think if you're the kinda person watching beautiful premium shows, that's an experience you couldn't really get before. But I like TV that I can have on in the background, while I'm doing the dishes, and now we're expected to pay attention to details on screen. Back when half the audience had tiny, grainy or monochrome displays, shows were written to suit listening as much as watching. And it's not just scripts, shoddy visuals allowed costumes, sets and design that was evocative but cheap, in a way that cannot pass muster today.

    And by comparison, it's reduced the justification for going to cinema, and even kinda made the real world look bad. It used to be worth going somewhere in person because it would look infinitely better than seeing it on a screen. But now, it can actually be a disappointment, as the carefully composed filmed version with post production actually looks more impressive than irl. It's the Connoisseurs Paradox, has it really deepend my pleasure, or merely raised my standards so much that I'm actually less satisfied?

  • What are your go-to comfort foods?

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  • I believe the root of the word means 'bread' etymologically. But even in Hindi, नान means a flatbread that looks very like what English speakers would mean by naan, a flat bread, ideally baked in a tandoor.

  • What is your favorite way to Jazz up cheap ramen?

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  • You should try it! Personally, I don't find butter weird (I think it's just people don't think of it as an 'Asian' ingredient) but I was shocked by the mayo. But a couple of folks mentioned it, so I'm going to try!

    And thanks for this post BTW, I'm a bachelor again for a week while my partner is away, so I'll defintely be cracking out the ramen. And now I can pretend I'm experimenting, rather than just being lazy!

  • What are your go-to comfort foods?

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  • How do you make your naan bread? I've been making a quick and easy one with yogurt, flour and baking soda, and they're good, but not quite as good as 'real' ones.

  • What is your favorite way to Jazz up cheap ramen?

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  • If I'm trying to make it a real meal whatever veg / seafood / meat I might have around. But my lazy addition is a spoonful of crunchy peanut butter (and usually some extra spice) makes it feel more nutritious creamier and kinda like satay.

  • Name them

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  • Yeah, the one table i saw eating in was a group of young guys in smart suits looking very serious.

  • Name them

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  • Had an amazing Chinese restaurant near my old place, really excellent food but always completely deserted. They always seemed so surprised that when we called for takeout and whenever we collected it they'd chat about how busy they'd been, and how bus loads of tourists stop by, it just happens to be empty right now... Uhuh. Surrre. I live in this street, I don't see busses of anyone. But the food was consistently excellent, so they must have actively not advertised because otherwise they'd been super popular.

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  • I'm fine with doing housework, and doing chores for a two person house isn't much more work than when you're living alone, and is often easier than splitting chores and getting annoyed at the other person not doing stuff promptly.

    Only you have a sense of your relationship, and what your roommate is like. It could be an efficient exchange, a risk of exploitation, or an generous opportunity. I've let people live with me rent-free, mostly because I know they're broke and I had space. Generally it's good when they did the housework, because then it feels like a good deal for us both rather than charity - but if I was solely interested in getting the house work done I'd rent out the room and pay for a regular cleaner, which makes more sense financially. But for the same reason, the real motivation could be weird / problematic, so you have to trust your gut.

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  • Yeah, I think there's a difference between "I hate housework and have spare cash, how about you do it all" and someone thinking they've hired a live in servant for a few grand. I've lived with friends and family rentfree before and done all the chores, because I'm genuinely appreciative and I have the time. And people have genuinely been sad about me moving out because they loved having a tidy house and home cooked meals. But it's never been an "arrangement" and they've never complained if I don't clean the bathroom to their specification or go away for the weekend and they have to go back to cooking for themselves.

  • 3 minutes and 8 seconds in Google Slides. Remember to study your humanities as well kiddos

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  • Infinitely better.

  • Lemmy post relevancy

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  • It's really depends what your interests are, and what your expectations are. I think my interests are pretty lemmy adjacent (nerdy stuff like games, tech and such) and there's daily posts on big general groups, but even slightly niche groups like c/dnd only get a couple of posts a week. And even when small communities are more active, it's often just a couple of brave posters keeping things going.

    Lemmy has a tiny fraction of the user base of a site like reddit (who claim 97 million active daily users, while lemmy probably has less than a million unique users ever). So, for now, your unlikely to see the frequency or range of posts and comments you would get on reddit. Tbh, for me that's not an issue. I feel like the conversations and chat that happens even on main communities like asklemmy feels personal and more interesting, and I'd rather read four interesting comments than scroll through a hundred hot takes and dumb jokes.

    I think lemmy is at a difficult point where people who use it need to step up and post more, and be the community they want to see.

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    Why do you think JD Vance killed the Pope?

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  • Same as Liz Truss killing the queen. Sometimes, when you're old and in poor health, you just experience something that makes you think "fuck it, I don't need to put up with this shit anymore."

  • Name of exercise machine (?) with three concentric rings and a person strapped into the middle spinning in all directions?

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  • Adorable. But if anyone is curious (as I was)

    Fluffle was a word inserted into a Wikipedia page as a joke in 2007 by some Canadian students, before rising to Internet popularity. This doesn't make it "not a word", but makes some other website's claims that it's 'primarily used in British English' unlikely.