I mostly use my computer for Discord, watching videos, and just generally browsing the web. I'm not a huge gaming person, although I was as a kid. I don't know how to code or anything, though...I have a healthcare related job.
My computer isn't good enough to run a lot of games anyway. It's a laptop from around 2018 that I have hooked up to a keyboard, mouse, and second monitor.
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I don't buy this as a blanket statement. It highly depends on what sort of educational track you're pursuing.
At least in the US, there are many graduate level healthcare degrees out there that require you to pay for them. Yet they net a well paying career. Ex: physician associate, anesthesia assistant
If you're specifically referring to research-focused graduate degrees and not job-focused graduate degrees, then I agree with you.
Yeah exactly. I get that people are outraged at a lot of things, but I think many people calling for a strike don't realize what is at stake for a majority of people. You would have to do some serious organization among each individual workplace in order for it to be successful.
I'm guessing that's why it seems that many times when I see people protesting or calling for strikes, it seems to be students. Since they often don't yet have things like a full time job, a family to support, etc. they have far less on the line and far less potential consequences for doing so.
To be clear, I'm absolutely not against the idea of protesting/striking, etc. I'm just trying to say that it's a difficult thing to navigate, and not a simple "no brainier" like many people on the internet seem to think it is.
Considering a majority of my coworkers are brainwashed into the MAGA cult, I'd lose my job if I was the only one striking lmao. I have a really good job and it's hard to find another like the one I have now because I work in a very very small field. So I'm not personally interested in doing that. Sorry.
Is there a "normie" or more mainstream instance for Lemmy?
I mean, there are still multiple large and/or long standing instances out there. It's not like there is only a single one of them. I would just generally encourage people to utilize those instead. And if they choose a smaller instance that they should be aware of the risks.
Is there a "normie" or more mainstream instance for Lemmy?
Until the admin of a small instance decides to randomly leave the project one day and your account is gone forever. I've seen it happen multiple times and it's why I go for bigger or at the very least, long standing instances.
Meat is actually the easiest one because you can just freeze it like you said. Powdered spices are also a complete non issue. It's fresh produce that I struggle with.
But for example, the recipe I tried called for...
Jasmine rice - could only find it in a whopping 5 lb bag which was ridiculous for a solo person who rarely ears rice. I know rice keeps, but since I don't at all like to cook, it was very excessive. Even if I were to have made a larger quantity of the meal or make it multiple times, I still would have an insane amount left over.
A clove of fresh garlic - I know you can get powdered garlic or garlic in a jar, but people seem to say that it doesn't at all work the same, so I wanted to try it the way the recipe wanted you to. So I had a shitton of cut up garlic left over because I could only find whole garlic bulbs at that particular grocery store if I didn't want to go canned or powdered. Can you even freeze a portion of garlic?
A portion of whole fresh ginger - again same issue as the above problem I had with fresh garlic. Only this one was even worse because ginger rarely present in any of the foods I eat
Etc. for a lot of the ingredients for that recipe.
Yes, I get that you can do some complex puzzles and math to figure out how to use all of these ingredients in different meals without wasting the excess, but that is absolutely NOT for me. That's a whole additional ordeal and one of the many reasons I hate cooking. I don't want to have to perform an elaborate game of ingredient/meal chess to avoid significant food waste when I'm grocery shopping. I do enough work at my job and there are still plenty of other annoying tasks to keep up with like cleaning and laundry.
The point is I don't want to look at any of these as "investments". That is is an insane amount of work to put into something I hate.
That actually makes up a decent amount of what I eat already. The majority of my diet comes from the frozen food section at the grocery store. I get both the prepackaged dinners and also the precooked meats and "steam in bag" veggies you're talking about. But on days where I don't want that, I get takeout as a treat. Most often, I actually order food delivery instead of fast food, but I get fast food now and then too. I've actually got into the habit of going to the chick fil a near me because it's literally a 5 minute walk and they have a good salad. McDonald's seemed like they stopped selling salads some years back for whatever reason.
One of the points of my previous post is that I don't care about the cost though because I'm fortunate enough to not be scraping by. I don't get this takeout or fast food every day, but it doesn't bother me financially to do it a couple times per week. Plus, sitting in your car listening to music and browsing your phone while someone prepares food for you is hardly a comparison to putting together something yourself. The time might be the same, but the effort is significantly lower which is the point.
My friend with kids also talks about this. She is like I work so hard to cook and even make it simple for them but they still refuse to eat it half the time lol
I just hate cooking. I cannot stand it. It takes so much effort and you have to clean all the mess you made (even cleaning as you go sucks). And then you end up with something that may or may not pan out. And if you're trying to meal prep then you have to eat the same meal for the whole week which I hate also.
If this was the only thing you'd ever have to do, fine. But the majority of the rest of our time is spent at work or sleeping. We have few precious hours where these things aren't the case. I hope this doesn't make me sound too much like an asshole, but I'm fortunate enough to purchase things like pre-prepared foods and get takeout a couple of times per week. So I take advantage of that because I don't want to spend my few moments of free time slaving away over a stove or cleaning the mess of pots and pans and cooking utensils.
Another this about cooking when you live alone...a lot of perishable foods can only be bought in somewhat larger quantities and then they go bad before you use them all up. I tried to make a recipe out of a cookbook several months ago and I was frustrated at how many things I had to buy a large thing of when I only needed a very small amount for the recipe. Ended up with a lot of food waste.
I mean, regardless of whether or not you know it's been cleaned...it's ok to say "no". It's perfectly ok for some people to feel comfortable with this and for others not to be. Your average sex toy isn't that expensive. I can't imagine it would be a huge ordeal to just buy a new one if you are uncomfortable.
My son is also named Bort
Broo I feel that lol I am probably too mentally unstable for that shit. Who knows, tho.
At least when people only have one child, it almost seems maybe manageable. But people for some reason never seem to stop at one!
People have told me that I'm good with kids too. But here's the thing...it's actually super easy to give a child attention and follow them around for several hours. I'm not sure why people praise me for it. I guess because some people don't care enough to give the kids the time of day or something?
But the not easy part is the taking care of them eternally thing. Parenting through meltdowns...always being there 24/7/365 with no breaks...having to always feed and clean them...etc. The list goes on.
I know it's dark to say, but one of the things I fear I'd do is end up with one of those parents who is driven crazy and inadvertently kills their child from shaken baby syndrome.
Yeah, whenever people describe what it's like to have children or whenever I happen to observe it for myself, it looks like literal hell on earth. People try to choose their words carefully to not say how miserable they are, but I can see it. You can't even sleep anymore. Sleep deprivation is literally a torture technique.
And I mean...I get that some people have to have kids in order for the human race to continue to exist. And I'm glad my parents had me and that I got to experience life. But I just don't know that I could do that myself. I don't think that I could selflessly endure torture every day for years and years just to try to help another human being survive. I would like to think that I am a giving person, but not to that degree.
Racoons are called some variation of "wash bears" in many languages because they like to dip their food in water before eating it!
Actually that part is a legitimate classification and not part of the AI nonsense. Broadly, lung cancers are classified as either "small cell" cancers or "non small cell" cancers based on how the tumor appears microscopically. The "non small cell" cancers can be further subdivided into various types.
The reason for this distinction between the two is due to the significant difference in clinical management and prognosis. Having "small cell" lung cancer is effectively a death sentence, whereas the other types are a lot more treatable.
I don't even think physical activity helps. I started trying to run in March. I still do it relatively consistently, but it doesn't seem to do anything. I have no suggestions. Other things I do are turn to alcohol, harm myself, or act like a crazy person around people. None of it helps lmao.
How do I become a better person and stop doing it? I find I am constantly making mistakes and bothering people. I think a solution to this would be to stop interacting with people as a whole so my presence isn't harming anyone, but that often isn't really feasible. Like at work I often have to interact with people to do my job for example. Occasionally I have thought about quitting to save people from me, but then I wouldn't know how to pay my bills. And idk that I'd want to be homeless.