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BenVimes

@ BenVimes @lemmy.ca

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  • What do you miss that's ultimately inconsequential but still deeply personal?

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  • The scent of my grandparents' house.

    It had a very distinctive sweet aroma. I was never sure what is was, and I never asked. The scent followed them when they moved into a condo in a retirement facility. The last time I visited them in their condo was 2019, and they've both since passed away.

    They gave me a book many years ago, the pages of which used to smell like their house. I know if I dig that book out of storage, it might still have a trace scent in it. But otherwise, it is now just a memory.

  • How surrounded are you by opposing political views?

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  • Disclaimer: am Canadian, will be discussing using that lens.

    On a daily basis, most people I interact with are about where I am. I probably have different reasons for believing and voting how I do, but if an election were to be called tomorrow, all my friends and most of my co-workers would be voting in roughly the same direction as me.

    My family is a mixed bag. On the one hand, my father has never voted for anyone further left than the old Progressive Conservatives, and has even voted for the Christian Heritage Party on occasion. My mother also normally votes conservative, though she has confessed to be that she finds American-style conservatism in general and Pierre Poilievre in particular to be too odious to stomach and so I think she may have been spoiling her ballots recently. I don't know how my one sister votes, but her husband is a also an outspoken conservative, being a card-carrying member of the CPC.

    On the other hand, my other sister has never voted for anyone further right than the NDP, and her husband is apathetic - he thinks all politicians are the same and doesn't bother voting.

    Holidays are generally fine, as political opinions are generally off-limits, though inevitably at some point my father and brother-in-law (the CPC one) have an extended grouse session about the state of the country and how much they hate the Liberals.

  • How true is this?

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  • Except the demon is also an idiot because she doesn't have a tail and is way less agile than she thinks she is.

  • Picky eaters of Lemmy: Why?

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  • I simply don't like the taste of many things. I've never been officially tested, but I suspect I may have extra sensitivity to certain compounds, such that no matter how many other things are in a dish, I can still taste that one thing that I don't like. I also suspect that I am more sensitive to all tastes in general, as there are many foods that have been described to me as "mild" that I find are quite strong.

    Now, I'll still try most things once. There are limits, mostly involving spiciness,, but I wouldn't want to be thought of as ungrateful or close-minded. It's just that I've disliked far more things than I've liked when trying new foods.

    I also resent the common refrain of, "You just haven't had good [food in question] yet!" Actually, I probably have, and I still didn't like it. It has nothing to do with how it is prepared or what other ingredients are in the dish, that food still has its fundamental taste that I don't like.

    It's not food, but I like using wine as an example. It doesn't matter whether it's the cheap boxed stuff from the supermarket or some expensive vintage at a fancy restaurant, because both taste like overripe grapes in addition to whatever other flavours present, and I don't like the taste of overripe grapes.

  • nur Bahnhof verstehen

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  • I think it's the case with most Slavic languages. My wife's native tongue is Serbian, and knowinf when and how to use articles was one the hardest parts of learning English for her.

  • Happy Monday

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  • "Donald Duck-ing it."

  • All Hail Gamblor [PizzaCake]

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  • I'm really hoping that legislation will be in place to curb this sort of thing by the time my kids are old enough to want to watch sports. I'm not thrilled at the prospect of those ads marinating in their young brains, and I don't relish the thought of trying to explain to a credulous 8-year-old that we can't win millions of dollars betting on hockey games.

    Hoping is different than expecting, unfortunately.

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  • They've moved on to generating images and videos with ShartGPT now.

  • What piece of media thoroughly disappointed you?

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  • I started with the Eisenhorn omnibus, followed by Ravenor. Currently I'm nearing the end of Gaunt's Ghosts (I think). I'm not sure where I'm going after that.

  • What piece of media thoroughly disappointed you?

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  • Cowboy Bebop. Not even the Netflix adaptation (which I haven't seen), but the original. I got told by so many people that it was the best anime series ever, but I just couldn't connect with it.

    I'd maybe say it's because I prefer more optimistic stories, but then I started reading Warhammer 40k books last year, so maybe I just have trash tastes.

  • OP is shocked that an import tax is not paid by the exporter

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  • Also: I think it would make more sense for those targeted tariffs to be one of the last steps in creating a home-grown industry, and not one of the first. Rather than slapping down some tariffs and hoping that your captains of industry will build the infrastructure to meet the demand, you'd instead want to subsidize the industry first, and only put the tariffs in place to curb imports once domestic production has ramped up. By applying the tariffs first, you're just taxing your population with no incentive for change, because the demand doesn't disappear while waiting for the industry to be built, and the people who might do the building can just pass the import costs on to the consumer anyhow.

  • Stop Defending Bari Weiss. It is impossible to take her actions at face value given the context in which she is operating.

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  • This is something that needs to be grappled with, because it's such a fundamental thing. On a philosophical level, Christian conservatives in the US don't recognize their double standards as hypocrisy.

    I thought long and hard about this, and my best explanation is that it comes back to one of the defining elements of Christianity, something that sets it apart from other major religions: that people are to be judged based on their beliefs and not their actions. Yahweh's grace is available to, "the vilest offender who truly believes," as the old hymn goes.

    This is why AOC is condemned as a harlot for dancing to music in university, while Lauren Boebert is forgiven for going to second base with her date in public. AOC doesn't believe the same things the Christian conservatives do, while Boebert (presumably) does.

    It seems this view, that belief informs morality, is so ingrained in the politics of the USA (and probably other places) that it even affects non-Christian strata.

  • Do any of you actually call your cats by their names?

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  • We have two cat, both female, and neither goes by their registered name.

    One was mine from before I moved in with my partner. Her actual name is masculine and uncapitalized. But we only use that name for vet visits, and to differentiate her from our other cat. Otherwise, she is just Kitty, or "Wow," after the sound she typically makes.

    The other cat we adopted together, and has a female name that is properly capitalized. We normally call her one of dozens of nicknames, though most of those are derived from her name and not just random terms of endearment.

  • Trump announces plans for new navy warships to be known as ‘Trump-class’

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  • Bit of trivia: the mid-life refit program for Canada's Iroquois-class destroyer was called TRUMP: Tribal Refit and Update Modernisation Program.

    That program happened in the 1980s, so Mr. Trump is 40ish years late to claim the name.

  • earth, fire, water, wind - it's not hard

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  • Orgo was the one core course where we couldn't bring any supplementary material to the tests - no textbook, no handwritten notes, no molecular kits. But they still stapled a periodic table to the back of the test.

  • earth, fire, water, wind - it's not hard

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  • Yeah I don't get it either. My degree is in chemical engineering, and I always had a periodic table available for every test going to back to grade 11 chemistry.

    In high school, my teacher gave us a printed copy on the first day of class and said, "This is your best friend." We could bring that page into any test. He also allowed some handwritten notes and alterations to the page, notably a list of polyatomic ions, and colour coding of certain elements. But if you forgot your personal copy, he'd give you a blank one before the test.

    In university, I wasn't allowed to bring a loose sheet with the table on it, but one was stapled to the back of every test and exam if it was required (you don't really need chemical properties to do fluid mechanics and heat transfer). Also, most tests were open book, and most of my textbooks had a periodic table printed on the inside cover anyhow.

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  • Trump strong-arms studio into making cop movie sequel: 'Dumbest possible state-control'

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  • I never truly appreciated this recurring gag in the Buttons and Mindy segments of Animaniacs until I had a toddler of my own.

  • Retired WoW players, how does that part of your life shade your current life?

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  • I played at varying levels of intensity between 2010 and 2015.

    I met my first serious girlfriend through the game. It was also a long-distance relationship, and led to the frankly absurd story of how I lost my virginity, which involved a massive snowstorm and a lost passport. The relationship didn't work out, but it was formative for me as a person.

    These days, I still occasionally hang out with some of my old guild mates, who still play the game. Not as much anymore, especially after our D&D campaign ended, but I still consider them some of my closer friends.