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Acamon

@ Acamon @lemmy.world

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  • I need a savoury, summery drink as an alternative to beer

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  • There's lots of dry / tart option, especially if you like tonic water and that dry quinine taste. Add a dash of citrus or bitters and it's not much more trouble than a beer. There's also some intresting non alcoholic herbal 'spirits' that bring complex (and often dry / bitter) flavours, and could be used to make something nice with tonic or plain soda water.

  • How much of your interest in something is subtly based on esthetics?

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  • I love old, heavy furniture, and have managed to aquire a lot of nice stuff for free at house clearances by being willing to turn up with a trailer and take something off their hands. I love how it looks, and it really suits our old farmhouse vibe.

    But it can be pretty damn annoying to use. Drawers that are a struggle, inefficiently large spaces, and it's dark and akward to find things in. Sometimes I think about being old and having to downsize, and how I'll live in a nice bungalow with a fitted kitchen and have closets with lights and spinney gadgets and shit. But til then I'm going to man up and continue wrestling with solid wood armoires.

  • Coco Channel - Adam Ellis

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  • I think she has the earing on, they're just small studs and it's hidden by her hair in that panel.

    But who knows, maybe she was taking one out? Maybe because she doesn't want to wear too many accessories to dinner?

  • Coco Channel - Adam Ellis

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    1. Putting in an earing?

  • What's an album with a completely unique sound

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  • The Hissing of Summer Lawns by Joni Mitchell. I like JM well enough, but don't really listen to many other albums of hers. But HoSL just has this unique vibe that keeps bringing me back, especially on those slightly delirious hot days of summer.

  • What game or platform has the best character creation setting?

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  • It's been a whole for me too, but I think some mods are better applied before a starting the game. Even if you save just after character creation the game has initialised a bunch of things and that might cause problems.

    I do think being able to save preset faces would be great. Sometimes when making a character, I make a model I kinda like, and I have to decide if it's worth the risk of trying something different and not being able to remake my original if the new one doesn't work out. Some games (mass effect?) represent each model with a code, which works pretty well. But I don't think skyrim does.

  • How much money do you think those generic porn sites that just link to other porn sites make?

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  • Definitely closer to 6-7

  • DAE in their 30s/40s/50s not really feel like an adult?

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  • I only really feel like an adult when I spend time with kids and young people. Even though the students I teach are at university, and thus technically adults... I'm always struck by how often they seem 'immature'.

    And to be clear, I don't even really mean that as a criticism. Sure, at times they don't pay attention and forget to do things and seem akward/nervous. But "adults' do all those things too. The difference is the adults have generally accepted these flaws and come up with coping strategies (both good and bad) like avoiding those situations, or blaming other people.

    So, what makes me feel like an adult is not that I'm on top of things, or that I'm no longer a mess. It's that I know I'm a mess, and I no longer hope that one day I'll get everything sorted, and tbh, that's fine.

  • Cloudflare went down today and took half of the internet with it. How does one company have that much impact? Do you think that's concerning?

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  • I think it's very concerning, but not exactly surprising. It makes sense that there ends up being market leaders for digital services, because they can provide economies of scale much more than traditional services. As another commentor pointed out, they're are alternatives, even just for back-up service providers, but most sites don't pay for them.

    What was more personally distressing was I realised how much I rely on lemmy when my instance, and backup instance, both went down. I'm not sure where I'd go for immediate news, especially about something niche like "why is lemmy down?". I don't use other social media and I found myself checking r/redditalternatives just to see if there was some info about the shutdown. Obviously, it was useless because reddit...

  • Widespread Cloudflare outage blamed on mysterious traffic spike

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  • Was there a specific event that coincided with the blackout? I don't know the details of current US events, just that they're crazy and depressing.

  • Homemade baguettes

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  • Those look amazing! Share the recipe of you find it!

  • Is Pepsi ok?

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  • I don't drink them that often so I'm not sure I'd necessarily notice, but I strongly prefer Pepsi. And I have repeatedly been a bit meh about about a cola I've been served and discovered it was Coke.

  • What is your favorite kitchen gadget?

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  • Guh, I think I even have that sharpener. But it's been in a box since I've moved house years ago an I've always assumed it was too late for it to save them. You've inspired me to find it and give it a go! Thanks!

  • We've got it all worked out

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  • Yeah, I think the "simulation hypothesis" is a super pointless take, partly because it is so profoundly unfalsifiable. It's no more plausible or convincing to me than "the universe exists in God's mind" or "we are figment within a dream of a dragon".

    Propenents try to argue things like "if we can create lifelike simulations, then we'd create loads of them, therefore we're statistically likely to be inside one". But that's to draw conclusions about what the "outer" universe is like from features of the simulation. If our reality is within a greater one, I don't find more evidence for it being a "computer simulation" than for it being inside Tommy Westphall's snow globe.

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  • I think you're right. If someone genuinely likes a product I'm happy to hear a recommendation, or even if they've used it but don't love it, just a description of what they think is good or bad.

    But when someone is just reading a prepared ad it's a turn off, and makes me trust the creator and the product less. I get that people need to pay the bills, so I'm willing to ignore it a little. But it makes me pretty suspicious of everything else the person is saying, now that I see how little integrity matters to them.

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  • People are homophobic for a variety of reasons, and people who aren't particuarly homophobic might still use slurs or be offensive about gay people, just because they're used to it and don't think very much. Sometimes people just hate a caricature of a group, but when they meet individuals and they aren't like what they expect, then they can get along fine with them. Sometimes they genuinely don't like a characteristic, but that doesn't outweigh the other things they do like about someone.

    I was worried about coming out to my dad because he definitely "gay = bad", although he's generally decent person so he's always been very kind and supportive to my gay friends, even before I came out myself. When I finally told him, he made clear that I was his son and he loved me and that would never change. I imagine initially he probably still thought itwas bad, but was willing to accept it because they could see how happy I was with my partner. But over time, he's moved on from his negative attitude to homosexuality in general, because he's been able to generalise from me to the rest of the world.

  • What is your favorite kitchen gadget?

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  • Immersion blender is great functionality for a small size / cost. But for a more gadgety choice, I'd go for my sous-vide / immersion heater. Got gifted it a few years back, but didn't get round to using it for ages, partly cause I suspected that it was too much of a hassle and wouldn't make a huge difference to quality.

    In reality, it's really not a lot of trouble, especially if you vacuum pack meat and stuff for storage anyway. And I've made all sorts of different meats and marinade and they've been reliably great. For something like a pork chop, that can risk be a little dry, but you don't want undercooked, being able to precisely control the temperature has given me the best, most tender and flavourful pork chop/monkfish/venison I've ever eaten.

    Similarly, stuff for the bbq, deepfried chicken or even chunky côte du bœuf, where I really want a crispy sear but still need the middle to hit the right temp have all been made so much easier. Really surprised how much use I've got out it!

  • What is your favorite kitchen gadget?

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  • I've got a couple of really good chef's knives, but I've been a terrible failure at keeping them sharp over the decade. I was trying to finely dice an onion yesterday and felt like I was back in a student flat with a blunt handmedown. I think they've gone past the stage of just using a regular sharpener, but I don't know where I can get them re-edged.

  • Are yall okay with this sub turning into some AI led corporate icebreaker?

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  • Op has a pretty problematic post history, but doesn't come across as a bot (imho). Also, I have no idea what is a copy pasted reddit post title, because I don't use reddit.