Most of my soups are of the Clear Out the Refrigerator variety, so all are inventions in a way, I guess.

But recently made a dal with red lentils, coconut milk, Hong Tsoi, and Berebere and wow it was good.

I do, they just think it’s an unrealistic world, not a bad one. Something that could never happen here.

There was no control group doing the workouts without protein supplements?

How is your shower, though?

I don’t put tomatoes in salad or sandwiches (I don’t pick them out if they are in, but don’t affirmatively like them, texture and taste).

Onion and cheese are my non-negotiables in a sandwich. Pickled jalapenos or cucumbers can sub for tomato IMO. Fancy mayo can also be good for adding interest to a sandwich, or compound butter if you prefer.

For a salad, whatever the fuck you want can go in a salad! There is an Italian salad that is just shaved fennel, onion, oranges, and olives. I actually like it but my point is, if that can be a salad anything can. Also - if you like the taste of tomatoes but not the gloppy seed part, you can scoop that out of the tomato slices or just use the outside part and cut out the middle, like you would do with a bell pepper.

How do you feel about sun dried tomatoes?

This is not something I’ve ever offered, only show the rooms of the house if someone asks to see the house.

Never. Once I realize I am dreaming, I can act on my own. I try not to disturb or actively control the dream world though, always want to explore it.

I have 2 at a time, and yes it’s so I can coordinate the scents with perfume.

I’ve been to England and Scotland, and agree with you, this was in the 1980s and their idea of a dangerous neighborhood cracked me right up. London had no areas equivalent to what counted as a dangerous area in my city (though we have made great strides in the US since then in reducing violence, believe it or not. And in my city even more so, we went from so rough to relatively safe).

I don’t think I would have called it free-er though? Safer for sure though, and healthcare so much better.

Are you kidding? 57 is interesting. From Wikipedia:

57 is semiprime, a Blum integer, and a Leyland number.[3]

The split Lie algebra E⁠7+ 1 / 2 ⁠ has a 57-dimensional Heisenberg algebra as its nilradical, and the smallest possible homogeneous space for E8 is also 57-dimensional.

Although fifty-seven is not prime, it is jokingly known as the Grothendieck prime after a legend in which the mathematician Alexander Grothendieck gave it as an example of a prime number, not realizing it was divisible by three. The same error was made by another famous mathematician, Hermann Weyl, in a published article.

This just came up today when I was talking to me husband but Jolie Lade - unconventional beauty, someone who is beautiful without being pretty or handsome.

Si, pero Ingles es mas popular.

I do see posts in Spanish sometimes, and there are all Spanish communities too.

I do see also lots of German on Lemmy.

I don’t usually worry about that. Most people need a little armor between themselves and the world and they will open up slowly as they trust you. A persona to handle daily interactions with others is not necessarily a bad thing.

So I think my line is drawn more at manipulative. I would consider someone too “fake” if they did it on purpose to harm others or help themselves at the expense of others. Someone who would act nice to you while trying to harm you. Most people, in my experience, do not rise to this level of fake, so, like I said, I don’t worry about it.

I can’t say a believe in rules like the half your age plus 7 thing but barely adult and barely minor is not pedophilia, particularly if you were together before aging up to adult, but even if not. The line at 18 is arbitrary, some places that’s 16, and I don’t think 18 is adult like a grownup, that seems to take a few more years. There are also usually laws that say it’s not illegal if you are within some number of years, not a big gap.

That adult/minor split happened to my kid, they were a senior and girlfriend a junior so after graduation we tease them about “dating a high schooler” but they are the same couple as before.

A 3 year gap will just seem smaller and smaller (in that way the half plus 7 thing is true, it’s just stupid as a hard rule). I’m old and 5 years in either direction is about as far as I like to go, because I like guys my age, and that’s what seems “my age” now.

In my Florida city it’s high for several reasons:

Bad underfunded public transportation means everybody and their grandmas are driving whether they should be or not. With sprawl it’s difficult to keep a job without a car.

Cars don’t always stop even when pedestrians have the legal right to cross, they have a might makes right mentality or just aren’t used to looking for humans in the crosswalk at the intersection.

I will say that every person here knows someone killed by a car, the rate may look kinda low on a population level but it reaches across all of us, so I don’t understand how it doesn’t get addressed. The city government here does try, but is constrained by the county and state, and even the lighted crosswalks are often violated, they need gates like a railroad crossing, and more pedestrian bridges. There are a few places we can walk under a bridge here, they are old, and very cool, but no place to cross the river that isn’t a car road, not many places to cross the car road except on the surface of the road.

People. And people.

I had a boss that everyone else had trouble working for. He was a workaholic and openly told us that he would keep giving us more to do until we said it was too much. Crazy smart and didn’t sleep much, even after work he was working out or learning to play guitar or speak Spanish or how to cook. The combination of that edict and his own example, (he did more than any two of us put together) mostly people took it as a challenge, like they weren’t supposed to say no. I took it at face value, did what I could do well, goofed off plenty, took my PTO.

Whenever we got year end reviews he would give me points for time management and keeping a work/life balance. I do not actually have good time management.

We are still friends, years later. His work habits broke up his marriage but I don’t think he really slowed down.

I still have this job. Figure managers come and go, but honestly I liked working with workaholic guy.

On topic I think - sometimes I am looking at clothing or furniture and something wildly expensive will come across my screen, like this:

https://www.dwr.com/living-sofas/crystal-lounge-sofa-three-seater/2589749-2.html?lang=en_US

And I can’t figure out who the market is for that. If I had 30 grand budget for a couch, I would have something custom made. Same with the clothes. Who is buying the hyper- expensive ready to wear? I would have things made.

I am an accountant, literally work all day with numbers. 8+7, fine, that’s 16 minus one or 14 plus one.

8x7? Never managed to memorize the times tables so that is, well 4 7s is 14 +14, that’s 28, so 8 7s is 28 + 28, which is 40 and 16 so that’s 56.

Well thanks anxiety, I guess? When I eat like that I feel awful. As someone else noted though, fasting can feel good, too virtuous. Until the headache.

Falling asleep at night empty but not hungry, that is the best feeling to me. Like eating enough in the day that my body understands it’s been fed but long enough before sleeping so I don’t feel full at all.