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[–] ReeSilva@bolha.forum 38 points 4 months ago (2 children)

not today, nsa ,πŸ‘πŸ‘„πŸ‘

[–] xavier666@lemm.ee 11 points 4 months ago (1 children)
[–] Tippon@lemmy.dbzer0.com 9 points 4 months ago (1 children)
[–] bradorsomething@ttrpg.network 4 points 4 months ago

Sorry guys in 5 eyes

[–] Track_Shovel@slrpnk.net 6 points 4 months ago

I'm just bored, talk about what you want.

[–] Track_Shovel@slrpnk.net 21 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Lmao. my friend just texted me:

So somehow i managed to supercool like half this box of freeze pops, and now every time i grab one theres a 50% chance its liquid that freezes as soon as i touch it

This is the content I demand

[–] Perhapsjustsniffit@lemmy.ca 16 points 4 months ago (1 children)

I am one of a handful of people in the world known to have been diagnosed and treated for a rare sarcoma cancer in an even rarer area of the body, that generally effects only women (I am a man).

It's a really crappy club. I wouldn't suggest joining.

[–] Track_Shovel@slrpnk.net 5 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Shit.

I'm really sorry, dude. I genuinely hope you get better.

[–] Perhapsjustsniffit@lemmy.ca 7 points 4 months ago

I'm over it. Life goes on. Weird club though.

[–] WHARRGARBL@beehaw.org 16 points 4 months ago (1 children)

I have total Aphantasia. There’s no internal voice, ever. I’ve never pictured anything in my mind. No taste, touch, or smell can evoke a memory or whatever it is other people have. My husband says he battles negative voices from his past? I live in absolute peace.

[–] Track_Shovel@slrpnk.net 8 points 4 months ago
[–] ShadowCatEXE@lemmy.world 13 points 4 months ago (1 children)

I’ve never had to do a job interview. 5 different jobs, all word of mouth.

[–] hungrythirstyhorny@lemmy.world 4 points 4 months ago (4 children)
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[–] Mothra@mander.xyz 11 points 4 months ago (4 children)

I got synaesthesia, and Track_Shovel is a red and yellow name.

[–] Track_Shovel@slrpnk.net 4 points 4 months ago (1 children)

That's super cool! What colour is your name

[–] Mothra@mander.xyz 3 points 4 months ago

Mothra is kinda brownish-mauve, but my irl name is orange

[–] clark@midwest.social 2 points 4 months ago (1 children)
[–] Mothra@mander.xyz 2 points 4 months ago (2 children)
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[–] Squirrel@thelemmy.club 10 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Depression and anxiety greatly hindered my educational goals, so I only have an associates degree in accounting. However, the woman I married has a master's degree in computer science and a good, well-paying job. Our first child had medical issues requiring full-time care for several years, so I am now a stay-at-home dad to two kids, guiding them through homeschool.

[–] Track_Shovel@slrpnk.net 3 points 4 months ago

Hey man. I got 2 young kids too, and it is N O T easy. I'm not SAH: we both work, but I can't imagine how tough it is to go it alone every day like that.

Keep up the good work

[–] ClassifiedPancake@discuss.tchncs.de 9 points 4 months ago (1 children)

I used to not cook at all. Then I realized I can’t go on like this and started a challenge: Eat a self cooked meal every single day for a month. It was super challenging but I learned a lot (and initially wasted a lot of food due to bad planning). Now I still cook almost every day.

When you wanna know if a hobby is for you, try doing it every day for a longer time and see if you still enjoy it.

[–] toototabon@lemmy.ml 3 points 4 months ago (1 children)

may we get some pointers on what did you start with?

[–] ClassifiedPancake@discuss.tchncs.de 3 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

I don’t remember what meals I started with. Nothing too fancy but also not too basic. In Germany we have a cooking app called KptnCook that has very easy instructions with pictures and a shopping cart that’s integrated with major grocery chains to show the exact name and price of products. It was really helpful for the beginning and they have many recipes I still cook today. I’m sure something like that exists in other countries.

In the beginning it's important to read the recipe first before you even begin to plan it. You might need some utensils that you don't have or furiously need to search for during the cooking process. Later on when you're more advanced you will probably have everything (or something similar) on hand. It also helps in the preparation. Sometimes there is a step to add multiple spices at once. You can pre-mix them in a small bowl.

Do the preparation first and have everything ready. American recipes already often list their ingredients pre-cut. But in Germany it will just say 1 onion, 3 tomatoes and so on and then in the recipe it will tell you how to prepare it.

Look up Youtube Videos. It will have techniques and cool recipes. Pick Up Limes, Yeung Man Cooking and The Nard Dog Cooks are my favorite channels.

[–] toomanypancakes@lemmy.world 9 points 4 months ago (1 children)

I approve people for disability money when I can. It's a lot of reading medical records and ensuring I'm being compliant with some really stupid rules.

Depending on the kind of metal you like I'm a big fan of Delain, especially The Human Contradiction, The Agonist, especially Lullabies For The Dormant Mind, and Infected Rain, especially 86.

For useless tidbit, the barnacle has the biggest dick to body ratio of any animal.

Best meal I've ever had was the pizza my realtor made for me after hubs and I closed on our house. I don't know how he did it, it was an outdoor dinner in a frickin wood fired pizza oven, he made a margarita with miyoko's mozzarella and fresh basil he grew with homemade sauce. It was so fucking good.

Most fun place I've ever visited was New Orleans. I went on a cruise to Mexico once that left from there, and I had an amazing time both days I was in new Orleans and a miserable time while I was on the boat.

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[–] NorthWestWind@lemmy.world 9 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (1 children)

I'm an Asian (Hongkonger to be exact) and I speak Cantonese. I love sharing about my culture, most of the time including language. People don't quite like it tho.

Meanwhile I study CS, make vector arts, play piano, and stream.

[–] 0_0j@lemmy.world 6 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (1 children)

A proper Chinese always knows how to piano

[–] NorthWestWind@lemmy.world 3 points 4 months ago (2 children)

Of course I do, like half of my friends

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[–] PM_ME_VINTAGE_30S@lemmy.sdf.org 8 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (1 children)

What do you do for work, or what are you studying towards

Studying towards masters in electrical engineering.

Musical recommendations (bonus points for metal)

If you like the song by Beyond Creation, you'll love this.

Useless tidbit you know (bonus points for citing sources)

The Ibanez Tube Screamer pedal contains no tubes.

Best meal you've had

I have a sous vide machine. I've obviously done the whole "food porn steak" thing, but one time I took an entire chicken breast, sous vided it like a steak, breaded it, pan fried it, and ate it like a massive chicken nugget with a juicy interior.

Best place you've visited

Home lmao. Close second would be Cedar Point, although I don't think I can fit on roller coasters at my current weight.

[–] Track_Shovel@slrpnk.net 3 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (6 children)

That's wild about the tube screamer, given the chubbies pedal heads get over them.

I haven't had a pedal with a tube yet, but I've got a Wampler Pinnacle deluxe that covers some ground that my Supersonic 22 can't do.

That second recommendation is outstanding. First one is good, too but more prog than I usually go for. I like prog, but I'm so far down the atmospheric black metal rabbit hole it's dizzying.

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[–] ThighlanderEnjoyer@lemmy.blahaj.zone 7 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

I never quite understood emotions until I started hrt at 32.

[–] Sparky@lemmy.blahaj.zone 7 points 4 months ago

Im the person who's been "chosen by the people" to do "IT stuff". Family, friends, teachers, and neighbours reach out to me for the simplest tasks. Stuff they could probably figure out on their own, but insist I do for them.

I'm a nightmare for my school administrators, as I know my way around every blocking and monitoring thing they've set up on the school equipment.

I've also caused headaches for the entire city wide school system, as I got cloudflare to (unintentionally) block traffic from our ip address, and since all traffic is funnleded trough a VPN to a central gateway (all schools in said city use the vpn) ,meaning I blocked 66k kids from using the internet for 15m. ( I didn't get in trouble :3)

[–] sunbunman@lemm.ee 6 points 4 months ago (2 children)

I thought I only had some ADHD, MFW filling out the psychiatrist's questionnaire and I'm marking everything on the inattentive section as "almost always"

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[–] sharkfucker420@lemmy.ml 5 points 4 months ago

I really enjoy butterscotch and scotch

[–] Monster96@lemmy.world 5 points 4 months ago

I'm a storyboard artist/3d generalist and I'm working towards my dream of one day developing my own cartoon or video game. I'd love to be a showrunner or game director and this is one of the ways I believe I'd be able to get there!

A few of my favorite songs are Love You by Idenline, Sacrificial by Rezz, Over You by Flume, Paint It Black by The Rolling Stones, and Walk by Pantera.

Did you know that for the music in 2016s Doom they used an actual chainsaw as a sound one of the songs (https://www.reddit.com/r/Doom/comments/5i51ov/til_mick_gordon_pitchshifted_a_sample_of_a/)

Best meal I've ever had was a BBQ burger in New York. I can't quite remember the restaurant since thus was back in high school but I've never tasted something as good as that since.

Best place I've ever visited was Banff in BC, Canada. I went with a lot of friends and to this day I still cherish those memories of walking around the town, having ice cream, and just having fun.

[–] clark@midwest.social 4 points 4 months ago (3 children)

I am a woman who prefers short men.

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[–] xavier666@lemm.ee 4 points 4 months ago (1 children)

I once intentionally starved myself till the point of a huge headache as a personal experiment

[–] Cataphract@lemmy.ml 5 points 4 months ago

Did a 30 day fast years ago, definitely need to look up medical information beforehand though. There's some nutrients your body needs to function but it's a short list which you can take with water (stuff that helps your neurons, etc). Was truly a different experience, would probably do it again if I had the time available.

[–] RandomStickman@kbin.run 3 points 4 months ago (1 children)

I'm going to a King Gizzard show next month, pretty excited.

Best meal I probably had was an emotional support curry I made for myself.

I'm also excited about restarting my D&D campaign after a small hiatus.

Currently I'm pretty tired but I'm also going though some revenge bedtime procrastination...

[–] Track_Shovel@slrpnk.net 2 points 4 months ago (2 children)

I've never actually sat and listened to Gizzard. On my list, but my free time is chronically limited.

Curry is love. Curry is life.

What are you going as for DND? I don't play, but know enough to be dangerous. Also, I'll make an AI drawing for you if you like.

Example:

Goblin Cleric

Hope you rest up. I burn the candle at both ends so I know the feeling.

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[–] gerryflap@feddit.nl 3 points 4 months ago (1 children)

I work as a Java programmer, which means that I spend about 50% of my day complaining about Java. Why doesn't it have enums like Rust? Why are there no tuples? How many goat sacrifices do the Java gods require to support named optional arguments to functions like Python? In the remaining time I have meetings, write docs, write tests, and sometimes even code. Nothing to complain about though, seeing how we are treated compared to people I know who work as taxi drivers or in elderly care, we programmers are basically treated as gods.

As for music, I like Hardstyle and Drum and Bass primarily. Examples: "Phuture Noize & Devin Wild - Waves", DnB: "Telomic & Susan H - Underwater". I'll be visiting the DnB festival "Liquicity festival" this weekend so I'm very hyped right now

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[–] tiefling@lemmy.blahaj.zone 3 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

What do you do for work, or what are you studying towards

My day job is in tech. At night, I'm a bonafide freak. I perform with fire and sharp things.

Musical recommendations (bonus points for metal)

In This Moment - Ritual

Useless tidbit you know (bonus points for citing sources)

The tongue consists of two muscles that go down to your throat. I know because I have a forked tongue.

Best meal you've had

I will kill for sweet plantains

Best place you've visited

Salem, MA is one of my favorite places. I go very frequently (just not in October)

[–] cheesymoonshadow@lemmings.world 3 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (1 children)

Part-time cashier at a big orange hardware store while trying to get my degree in horticulture.

Best cake I've ever had: Chocolate Chocolate Chip by Nothing Bundt Cakes. Seriously, if there's a location near you that you've always passed by, stop by and try it. Their Carrot cake and Lemon cake are also amazing.

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I have a bachelors of science dual majored in microbiology and chemistry with a masters in education and I work in IT.

[–] MxRemy@lemmy.one 2 points 4 months ago (1 children)

I work in a makerspace, that's in a public library.

[–] weeeeum@lemmy.world 4 points 4 months ago (1 children)

What are your tips for a library opening a tiny maker space? Some libraries near me have been given grants to have a "tool library" section, with some work benches and basic hand tools, that can be borrowed.

[–] MxRemy@lemmy.one 2 points 4 months ago

I think my biggest suggestion might be to try to avoid the huge industry of companies selling "makerspace" stuff to libraries, i.e. GlowForge, etc. All of it is wildly overpriced and underpowered, at the supposed tradeoff of having a lot of support. It's a bad trade, the support isn't worth it.

Try to build your own open source equipment, like Voron for 3d printing, OpenFlexure for microscopes, all the Precious Plastics designs for plastic scrap processing, etc. Building these from scratch is ultimately cheaper. Also, it means you'll know how to fix anything that could possibly go wrong, since you know it inside and out

Don't worry about not having the necessary skills/experience. It's all very learnable by anyone, and also there are definitely members of your community with those skills willing to help out. On that note, you really want the community running this thing more than the library admin. They know what they want/need.

Pay attention to the environmental and health consequences of this stuff EARLY ON, before you invest in something terrible. Use easily compostable materials like PHA and hempwood, or post-consumer recycled stuff like PETg from used soda bottles. Get into making/recycling your own materials if/when you can.

That's what i can think of for now, hopefully that's at all helpful.

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