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@ doug @lemmy.today

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average man by day, average man by night. / you get more points being on lemmy than you do on reddit / movie enthusiast / formerly /u/doug on reddit

  • 30 to 40 olives

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  • Even now some recipe apps— when I look for gluten free stuff— I can tell it didn’t filter my results and instead just appended “gluten free” to ingredients that normally have gluten.

    Which I get, but like… gluten free bread is gross/they haven’t mastered that at all.

  • 30 to 40 olives

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  • A while back a dev invited users to test out his app in beta that gave recipe ideas based on your dietary preferences (back before everyone was doing it).

    I told it I’m vegetarian, am lactose free (m’spouse is lactose intolerant), and gluten free (I’m not, but 23andMe told me to maybe cut back on gluten to avoid developing the celiac’s I’m at risk for/others in my family have).

    The only food it came up with for me— for dinner— was “a handful of almonds.”

    That phrase has become a running gag with friends and I whenever we’re hungry af, because I’ll never forget how hilarious of a dinner suggestion that was. It felt akin to my vegetarian experience of going to a stakehouse for my grandpa’s birthday and the waiter being understandably woefully unprepared for my dietary preferences.

  • I HATE email

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  • Zombo’s never left me 🫂

  • U.S. Scientists Warn That Trump’s Cuts Will Set Off a Brain Drain | As the United States cuts budgets and restricts immigration, China and Europe are offering researchers money and stability.

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  • I know it’s hella cheesy and there’s a masculinity joke about the fantasy of wanting to live out the cliche that is sacrificing yourself to buy time for others to run off and live, but honestly with fascism at everyone’s doorstep and me without ever having had a retirement plan or sense of purpose, I can’t think of a better opportunity to line myself up to live out that fantasy.

    …mind you I am not actively seeking to speed up that process right now/I’d like to live as long as I could, but I’ve just kind of been bracing for mental impact that that’s probably going to be the equivalent of my retirement plan.

  • There's gotta be a better way

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  • Yeah I literally got my diagnosis (without even really seeking one out) a week or so before RFK announced his database.

    Oh well, fuck him. I’m not gonna let that asshole rob me of my mental health journey.

  • U.S. Scientists Warn That Trump’s Cuts Will Set Off a Brain Drain | As the United States cuts budgets and restricts immigration, China and Europe are offering researchers money and stability.

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  • Anecdotally, a lot of my friends are doctors (/humblebrag) and are looking to gtfo of the states/have been looking do so since election night.

    I would myself but uhhhh, my spouse and I haven’t got any kids and I’d rather stay and fight/do what I can within the community we have here.

  • There's gotta be a better way

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  • anxiety meds, not beat myself up for feeling dead inside/the same level of emotions everyone else has (e.g. not crying when relatives die irl but crying at some movies), adhd meds instead of trying to rawdog curbing my procrastination with mindfulness and pomodoros and beating myself up when it doesn’t work; know what stimming is/how to explain the odd noises to my neighbors in case they ever hear me talking to myself aloud, also how to explain why I walk on my toes. know what alexithmyia is and that your body can have panic attacks while thinking your mind is 100% calm, thus making you think you’re having a heart attack.

    That’s a word vomit list of things; meds are the only things you need the diagnosis for/I don’t blame people for not pursuing an official diagnosis. But again I wish I knew sooner/I had seen more explicit depictions of autism in media other than movies (which I watch a lot of) like Rain Man or Mercury Rising.

  • I still give it a flick

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  • Brios? Those were great!

  • There's gotta be a better way

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  • Being diagnosed with autism at 40 didn’t help, wish I knew I had it sooner.

  • Yep

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  • Different strokes for different folks I know, but to me it’s just a cocktail of stress with nothing to show for it but souvenirs and memories that are too expensive to revisit.

  • New federal employees must praise Trump EOs, submit to continuous vetting

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  • Anytime I see him doing that fucking dance I just think of the end of Hereditary.

  • Yep

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  • The only silver lining I can think of to being forbidden to retire is the fact that a forced schedule and activity of something to do will at least keep my mind engaged and force me out of bed.

    Left to my own devices, if I had nothing but time and money, I would be bored out of my gourd and depressed.

    And no I wouldn’t travel; I am a hermit. If it wasn’t for my spouse I wouldn’t go anywhere.

  • White House refuses to come clean on Musk drug testing

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  • “Come clean” in this context means “go sober.” They are all refusing to go sober.

  • He abandoned his friends for some beach

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  • Do the dunes.

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    Guess I'm going this way

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  • This is a meme, not a comic. Tsk. Tsk.

  • Loading Artist » Inconsolable

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  • Actually it does exist; it’s on Facebook and— how I and my friends discovered it— Discord, under Activities.

    It’s actually kind of nice to just chill and play the stupid game while waiting for friends to join lobbies or between matches or if someone doesn’t really feel like playing but still wants to chat.

    It’s also not my first Freemium rodeo (that would be Clash of Clans, and Simpsons Tapped Out, which I stopped playing eons ago), so I’m kind of more aware/mindful of how it’s trying to hook me with a wall to pay to go beyond, but instead of paying I’m just like “oh! that’s all I can do for now. Cool. Closing the game/time to go do something else!”

  • My mortal enemy

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  • Sorry, I was oversimplifying/you’re right, time doesn’t slow down the smaller you get; I was thinking of how the smallest interval of time at the Planck scale can’t be defined with physics as we know it right now.

    But iirc the closer you are to a higher concentration of gravity the more time slows down? I read it in a book Reality is Not What it Seems so I’m just lazily parroting things I have a casual interest in.

  • My mortal enemy

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  • Time is not static. Once you get down to the Planck scale, time seems to stop. So just make yourself very, very, very small and you can experience time stoppage.

    Although it’s really our memory that dictates how we perceive the passage of time; our memory only records new information, if time stopped there would be no new information to record (nor could the neurons move to make a record). For all we know time stops all the time and we just don’t know it.

    nice meme. I’m just here to drive engagement.

  • Loading Artist » Inconsolable

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  • Hello, my name is Doug and I’m addicted to Farm Merge Valley.

  • Anime Recommendations

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  • To be clear; nudity is fine, just not all-the-time, male-gaze shots put in akin to commercial breaks. Like Gurren Lagan; someone told me to try that one and ye gods the amount of times it was about boobs was ridiiiiiculous.