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@ dandelion @lemmy.blahaj.zone

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Message me and let me know what you were wanting to learn about me here and I'll consider putting it in my bio.

  • no, I'm not named after the character in The Witcher, I've never played
  • pronouns: she/her

I definitely feel like I'm more of like a dumpling than a woman at this point in my life.

Hannah Horvath

  • What instance has mostly reasonable moderate conservative/liberal people?

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  • hey, just so you know blahaj.zone is not a tankie instance, it's an instance aimed at protecting oppressed minorities (it hosts a women-only community, protects LGBT+ users from bigotry, etc.).

    I think technically the instance doesn't take sides in terms of political ideology and is thus not a "political instance", but the top community on blahaj.zone is vehemently anti-tankie, so I would say they're the opposite of the people you're worried about

    You can read more about blahaj.zone's intentions as a space here:

    https://lemmyverse.link/lem.lemmy.blahaj.zone/post/14736607

    First and foremost, blahaj zone lemmy exists to give a space for queer folk to exist, with their needs explicitly protected as the highest priority, and with a particular focus on the needs of gender diverse folk. Most lemmy instances are not run by trans folk, and whilst many are still inclusive, they don’t always prioritise our needs. Others barely consider trans folk, and react only to the most blatant of bigotry.

    We are not a political instance, however political communities have a space here, as does any community that is actively protective of the needs of queer and gender diverse folk. Given the impact of politics on gender diverse folk, that means lots of dialogue and strong opinions exist, and as long as those opinions are honestly held, and not bigoted or exclusive, people are welcome to have and express those opinions here.

    For what it’s worth, I am a member of the Greens Party in Australia. I have no time for the middle ground politics of the Australian Labor party, let alone the right wing beliefs of the Australian Liberal party. Yet a community of queer Labor Party aligned folk would fit on blahaj lemmy, because the parties ideologies, are not explicitly anti queer. A community aligned with the Australian Liberal party likely would not have a place here, unless the goal of the community was to work at actively challenging the anti queer policies of the party.

    basically you'll only have issues with blahaj.zone if you're transphobic, homophobic, etc.

  • How do we feel about Odysee?

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  • bye, Felicia!

  • I made a recipe shared on lemmy: "smoky, brothy pinto beans"

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  • personally the texture and nutrition are major reasons to substitute pork with something like TVP.

    I really hate the way TVP tastes generally, it has this chalky off taste that I don't know how to get rid of. So this time, determined to eliminate that weird taste, I rinsed the TVP thoroughly in hot water, then boiled it in a separate pot with black pepper, no-steak better-than-bouillon, vegan Worcestershire sauce, etc. and then drained it again before putting it with the onions to fry it up a little bit.

    The TVP dramatically increases the protein per serving, it would have been probably 10 g or less in a bowl / serving without the TVP, and then it wouldn't have seemed like chili at all - just a thin bean soup. I try to aim to have around 20 g protein per 500 kcal meal, and it's even more important when vegan to pay attention to the protein content.

    The reason I want protein is mostly for energy and satisfaction reasons - I'm less hungry when I eat more protein, and I notice I have more energy, which is important for supporting healthy habits like exercise (besides generally making life easier, as fatigue makes getting your tasks and work done more of a drag).

    Also, adding the TVP didn't feel like too much of a hassle tbh - it was certainly easier to prep than cooking dry beans for hours, and having to do that prep a whole day in advance.

  • How do we feel about Odysee?

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  • I have no end-goal, I've already explained why I made my comment:

    I’m just clarifying why the Nazi bar problem is real and prevalent in so many of the decentralized, free-speech-oriented online communities (to help the person I was responding to understand the context)

    Sometimes people are just helpful and don't have a rhetorical point.

    If you keep at me with this aggression I'll just block you and move on.

  • Chocolate covered strawberry cake

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  • How does the sourdough work, I've never heard of a sourdough cake before - is it yeast-risen instead of using leaveners like baking powder, does it have a sour taste, how old is the sourdough?

    Looks delicious, though, well done!

  • I made a recipe shared on lemmy: "smoky, brothy pinto beans"

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  • It was pretty delicious, very similar to chili - but I personally felt it would have been better if it were expanded a bit more, maybe small, cubed potatoes to help add starch (I maybe rinsed my beans too much after cooking), or better yet is to lean into its chili profile and use diced tomatoes.

    It was pretty tasty, though - despite the brown slop look.

    To be honest, the recipe is not impressive and not helping my biased perspective that "all" vegan recipes are terrible (i.e. most vegan recipes create terrible tasting dishes) - it really do be like that. When I was a strict vegan, I usually would lookup non-vegan recipes and then learn techniques to adapt them to be vegan. That was usually more successful than starting with a vegan recipe.

    I think the reason vegan recipes are so terrible might relate to how much overlap exists between vegan food culture and health food culture (like, going back at least over a century - e.g. checkout at the Grahamites of the 19th century), so there is kind of an inherent asceticism in vegan food culture on average, I find.

    (Just to be fair, notable exceptions to vegan asceticism I know of include SauceStache and Bryant Terry, both of whom seem invested in making food that actually tastes good. Even if the generalization holds in my experience, it's not really all vegan recipes.)

    I had to add a lot of ingredients not in the recipe to make it suitably rich and tasty - like I added liquid smoke, some vegan Worcestershire sauce, white miso, mushroom seasoning powder, etc.

  • How do we feel about Odysee?

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  • whoa, weird hostility - I don't care about this at all, and I'm not making a point; ironically I'm someone who has spent time in communities like ZeroNet where this is an issue. I'm just clarifying why the Nazi bar problem is real and prevalent in so many of the decentralized, free-speech-oriented online communities (to help the person I was responding to understand the context)

  • How do we feel about Odysee?

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  • the point is that the free-speech platforms generally try to make it harder to remove content, so that the typical moderation that happens on more mainstream platforms isn't possible

    it's for this reason Nazis in particular flock to those spaces and form their communities, because there's no one to stop them

  • How do we feel about Odysee?

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  • any platform committed to free speech and no censorship will attract Nazis, fwiw - so it wouldn't be surprising a decentralized blockchain project that is committed to free speech might have Nazis on its platform

  • Chinese chefs summoning the fires of 8 hells just to make some fried rice

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  • oh, then maybe as others mention, it's a quality issue?

    I can't hear the whine on the same model of induction cooktop that I used as a teenager, so I know it's my hearing that has gotten worse 😅

  • Chinese chefs summoning the fires of 8 hells just to make some fried rice

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  • it really bothered me as a kid, but then I got old and my hearing went to shit and now it doesn't bother me - give it a few decades and revisit 😅

  • How many of you are substance free?

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  • I have a mood dip from caffeine usually on the 2nd day after I take it - it always makes me think I just shouldn't have done caffeine in the first place 😅

  • Idaho Republicans pass bill making it a felony for transgender people to use public bathrooms

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  • tbh that's most places - a city of people surrounded by "barbarians"

  • Idaho Republicans pass bill making it a felony for transgender people to use public bathrooms

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  • at my workplace when I first transitioned there was a single gender-neutral bathroom in the entire building, and it was frequently occupied because every white woman in the building had the same idea to use it as the "pooping" toilet ... so when I was early transition and didn't pass, instead of use the women's restroom on the same floor as my colleagues (where I might run into them and make them uncomfortable), I would have to walk to another floor of the building to use another business's women's restroom so I didn't run the risk of seeing anyone I know.

    I understand trans people aren't that common and it can feel absurd to have all this infrastructure for a small minority you never see, but ... like, sometimes we do exist and need to use the toilet that was built and set aside for us to use. (I'm sure people with disabilities feel the same way, as the gender-neutral toilet is also often the one built to be ADA compliant and accessible.)

  • Idaho Republicans pass bill making it a felony for transgender people to use public bathrooms

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  • as a woman I see so many boys in the women's restroom, it is very common

  • How long do you typically use a water bottle/tumbler before you wash it?

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  • that's probably bad, huh?

    <starts nervously chewing fingernails>

  • Flank steak tostadas.

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  • <drooling>

    this looks so good!

  • How long do you typically use a water bottle/tumbler before you wash it?

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  • 6+ months 🫠

    I usually clean it once I can no longer ignore the pink scum and black mold growing in it 🙊

  • Are blind people less racist, on average?

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  • She wasn't bothered by the smell of these spices until she became a house cleaner and she had to clean an Indian household, and I guess there might have been some resentment about this or inferiority issues? She generalized an aversion to the smells and associations of Indian people from there (but to the extent that I personally felt was racist and probably related to self-esteem issues).