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RBWells

@ RBWells @lemmy.world

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  • What's your favorite band?

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  • That's an impossible question.

    The best live shows I ever saw in my life were Fela Kuti, Henry Rollins.

    Right now I love Fontaines DC, Joshua Ray Walker, Leon Bridges as recording artists.

    Favorite old album is Silk Degrees, but I wouldn't say I love Boz Scaggs, just that one album is so ridiculously good.

    Favorite new album definitely Romance, Fontaines DC.

    Best 'underrated' J Roddy Walston & the Business, their live shows and records were amazing.

    Can't say I have a favorite band though.

  • What's your favorite band?

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  • We saw them here, and yeah what a great live act!

  • [QUESTION] nonstick cookware?

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  • I am on team cast iron, nonstick coatings always seem to be problematic. Cast iron gets better and better with time, and I cook with fats, so it works for me. Buy once use forever, other pans have come and gone but my cast iron is still here and my kids argue about who will get it when I die.

    But as I'm sure others have already noted, technique makes a big difference too - oil into hot pan, food into hot oil and not moving the food at the beginning helps it release.

  • MAGA loves bad dads

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  • I have a big family and cannot understand thinking everyone else in the world needs to do the same thing to make me feel ok about it. Like, how insecure do you have to be to need that? Can't you just do what you want to because it's your preference without needing it to be the only 'right' way? Just because something is good for me doesn't mean it's good for everyone, and it's a good thing, too. I figured the only reason I even can have many is because others have none.

  • Can you touch type?

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  • Yes. My kids would laugh at me when I worked from home because I would not stop typing when I looked up to answer something they were asking me. I suck on the phone keyboard but good with QUERTY big keyboard. My fingers can talk on those

  • How do you learn to be happy by yourself?

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  • For me, it's just such a rare treat to have time to myself, so I like it. If you mean without a partner or family, I dunno either, I did enjoy being alone in that way too. I guess I think if you aren't happy with yourself, you aren't going to fix that by being with someone else.

    If it's literal loneliness, I would say make sure to build habits that involve others. Go to yoga class, don't do it at home. Go get coffee every morning at the same local place. Walk your dog, sit on your front step. Get a job that isn't done at home. Be in the world, don't isolate yourself.

  • What are some uplifting/inspiring/empowering songs? (I mean like songs about personal struggles... or political struggles...) (pls link if possible)

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  • Seconding Michael Franti & Idles.

    Michael Franti said he used to make political music to try to improve the world but decided music that made people happy made the world happier more directly.

    Idles are like your asshole friend who refuse to let you beat up on yourself. They are so good.

  • Ram

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  • One year on my birthday, years ago, my mom gave me a gift in a jewelry box. I was inwardly groaning, but when I opened it, it was memory for my computer. Which was a thoughtful gift, and a funny way to package it.

    Way ahead of her time I guess.

  • Can you change your body temperature at will?

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  • Shivering does nothing, rubbing my hands together just makes my arms tired. When it's not cold just cool, I can exercise (like go run up and down the stairs) and build internal heat. But not when it's really cold.

    When I was pregnant I couldn't get cold, it was nice, I think that must be how a lot of people feel - I had a heater inside me. I wasn't really too hot in the summer even pregnant, could still be still and cool, but not too cold in the winter at all.

  • Can you change your body temperature at will?

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  • I can cool right down by being still, when it's hot.

    Can't do the inverse though, when it's cold I'm just cold.

  • What are your favourite jokes and puns?

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  • I went to a zoo, it sucked and had only one exhibit.

    It was a shitzu

    And

    Why didn't the skeleton go to the party?

    He had no body to go with!

  • For those who tried to enter the dating pool, how did it go?

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  • This was my experience as well, everyone had calmed down and just staying in shape put me in the better looking bucket. Duck to swan thing, I didn't get to feel that when I was young so it was kinda nice.

  • Which high school friend took a path you didn't expect?

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  • Oh I had a friend who was a cheerleader, she stayed with her high school boyfriend, he had a bad health crisis, recovered but she then rethought her life and became an artist, sort of dropped out of participation in anything that didn't really make her happy. Has done fine, too, not starving or anything, they are still together, or were last I saw her.

  • TIL there are four major blood types: A, B, AB, and O. Mosquitoes love to drink O blood, they think it's delicious.

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  • I dunno, I can sit by my husband and not get bitten, they don't like me much so unless there is no other choice they leave me alone. I think they like people who are warmer and emit more carbon. It doesn't seem like blood type is a strong factor.

  • What's the minimum number of food items you can survive on exclusively and what are they?

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  • Me personally? I could probably make it years on beans, rice, and greens if I had to. Collard greens, rice and beans, oil and spices to season them, and onions.

    So glad I don't have to, but if I had to choose that would be it.

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  • I thought I'd hate working from home, it wasn't too bad. Then they made us hybrid, I thought oh no, worst of both worlds, it wasn't that bad either. I went back to the office full time because I don't have a home office and wanted to reclaim that space.

    It's pretty much the same job but teams meetings suck even more than in person meetings, and training new people too, worse.

    What I do not like is a commute. I live about one mile from work so don't even have to drive most days, if it was farther the calculation would be different.

    My family loved me working from home because I did more of the cooking and housework, it kind of intensifies that inequality I think.

    So I think personally I didn't get much benefit from working from home but it was not nearly as bad as I thought it might be, if I had to I would.

  • Hated homework, hating WFH

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  • I really do not like homework for little kids, they are in school 8 hours, that's time for a study hall and recess, they aren't going to forget how to read overnight, and don't have enough free time as it stands now. So much of what little kids need is time to develop, not just academic instruction.

    From 12 yo or so, sure, but school should be fewer hours then, like college, classes for lecture and questions, and work done outside class. 2 of mine had high schools that worked like that, with a long study hall period because school district mandates on campus time, and those two were the most successful in college, and so far also in career.

  • What lyric has stood the test of time for you?

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  • Hayes Carll sings, in his American Dream song - "Nothing changes, even when it wants to" and that struck me pretty hard.

    Older-

    Emmylou Harris the whole Red Dirt Girl song, my goodness but particularly "she loved her brother, I remember back when he was fixin up a '49 Indian. He told her "little sister gonna ride the wind, up around the moon and back again." Well he never got farther than Vietnam, I was standing there with her when the telegram come."

    @FinjaminPoach@lemmy.world my kids absolutely LOVE that Vincent song. It's so good, straight through.

  • What’s a food you love that everyone else seems to judge you for?

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  • Anchovies. I wouldn't say judged but I'm alone in my love for them. Everyone in my house likes kimchi. It is loud smelling, I can sort of understand your family.

    Make them a kimchi grilled cheese, or the kimchi/butter noodles - sometimes having it cooked lets it "click" for people, that was the gateway kimchi for everyone else in my house.

    At work it's licorice, though the old lady directly across from me does like it. I can imagine not liking it, but yum it's my second favorite candy.