Not my choice for sure, but since I have to live in it, committing it to memory seemed worth it.

Good to know a few phone numbers even if you aren’t at a protest, though. Everyone should memorize the phone number of at least one partner/family member/friend who lives local to them in case of an emergency. Lawyer is a bonus.

If you cook, bake, brew, anything with food and drink.

Common volume conversions: 3 teaspoons in a tablespoon, 4 tablespoons/2 fluid ounces in a quarter cup, 8 fluid ounces in a cup, 2 cups in a pint, 2 pints in a quart, 4 quarts in a gallon.

Common weight conversions: 28 grams in an ounce, 16 ounces in a pound, 2 pounds and 3(ish) ounces in a kilo.

And common volume to weight conversions based on ingredients you use. For me: 200 grams in a cup of sugar, 125 grams in a cup of AP flour, 6 grams in a tablespoon of cocoa powder.

Makes it a lot easier to halve/double recipes, or use a scale for a volume written recipe.

It’s not about the specific year though, it’s just that the average life expectancy includes infant and child mortality, which used to be a lot higher in most countries. This pulls down the average but there were still plenty of people who lived to 50-60. Our upper life expectancy is higher now, but not 50 years higher.

Feeling like my body is fat and gross and there’s nothing I can do about it. (Even though I know I can.)

Have your asked your dad? What does he say? Did you tell him that you think it would be harder for you and ask what his opinion is?

Not saying you have to, just curious if you did how it went. I’m in a similar boat.

When you can’t tap a button to fill the text dialogue, and have to wait for each letter to individually populate for 15 speech bubbles in a row.

Let’s be real “starting a business” probably means she sells essential oils in an MLM

WikiTok Bloomscroll through Wikipedia articles

This gives me the same feeling that I got from StumbleUpon

cut a sliver out of it with a breadknife

what??

Better to use mineral oil to condition wood cutting boards since it can’t go rancid.

A lot of good recommendations in here, some I’ve played, some I’m adding to my list!

I’ll share one that I haven’t seen in the thread yet: Crypt Custodian. You play as a ghost cat sentenced to clean garbage in the afterlife. Good mix of exploration and combat. I personally hate when combat keeps me from progressing in a story, so I like that they have Easy/Normal/Hard modes but that you can also further customize assists, like adding up to 3 extra hit points. You can also buy a market to show you the next place to go when you’re feeling stuck. Very good cozy-gamer territory.

The story wasn’t overly complex, but very sweet–the ending made me cry. I loved elements of the story like one of the bosses being the personification of grief.

I played it on XBox Game Pass, but it was worth paying for.

A lot of recs for this one, it might have to be my next!

When I’m making something with fresh criminis I like to rehydrate some motels and porcinis to throw in. Not necessarily because they’re dried, I just never have those fresh. But they add such good, deep flavor and umami.

I could never get down with wood ears, sitting about the texture gives me the ick. But totally agree on shiitakes. Shiitakes and kombu soaked in water makes a great base broth–basically a vegan dashi. Sometimes I’ll even just sip it with a dab of miso, like a savory tea.

I don’t know, tell us about it. What’s it like and why do you like it?

“Man Tasked With Making Score for a Monkey Riding a Swordfish Underwater Creates Transcendent Piece of Music”

I love that the whole reason he even became a video game composer is because his boss promised an extra day off to anyone who could learn enough about the music computer to demo it to customers. Just floating through life by happenstance, and then becoming the most revolutionary person in the field.

If they’re not selling your data, they have to get paid somehow. Pay for the premium subscription.

Just guillotines

Hard agree on Pepsi is better than Coke