Android phone, old android phone (for bedtime audiobooks without any distractions), Linux desktop, windows laptop (for work), Supernote writing tablet, kobo ereader, pixel watch. I fly quite a lot and always get a look at security when I pull out my 5th device…

My mother, grandmother and great grandmother all have same name, but used different short forms to differentiate.

I’m sure that’s a good community for lots of folks, but I’d defintely be up for a more random facts / trivia / history / science type stuff rather than American politics, Israel / paltestine, etc. Anyone else up for something? We could start one.

I think that a lot about how many couples I know have mild friction because one of them is an early riser and the other more of a night owl. It can be a bit annoying, but for most of human existence splitting the time you’re awake and vigilant must have been quite an advantage.

Why would I have to abduct my alternate? Can’t I just make a living for myself in the the other universe? I’d be going to one that had much more liberal ideas about identity and needing money. I’m old enough that decisions made during my lifetime could* have lead to fairly different state if lefty / anarchist forces had been more successful than oligarchs and right-wing reactionaries.

*I’m assuming the point of multiverses is they don’t need to be highly likely, just logically possible.

Yeah, I caused myself a lot of misery by trying to follow the “eat the frog first” strategy, and get the big important stuff out the way before the easy / less critical things. Just led to me wasting days not doing the big thing, and all the little things were snowballing into much larger problems.

Now I go with “put the frog on your plate” - I tell myself honestly that the important task should be top of my list, and then proceed to avoid it by doing all the other shit. Sure, I have to deal with the problems of leaving something important til the last minute (and they are numerous) but at least everything else isn’t also on fire.

I don’t hear them talking about trans men and toilets (I guess they think they’re st risk, but it’s their own fault?) but I’ve heard lots of criticism of trans men as telling women they aren’t allowed to be masculine, or erasing lesbians, or other poorly informed things.

Friend did this for an art project, it didn’t smell. Like all blood it dries to a kinda browny colour, but beyond that it was fairly unremarkable. The reactions from other people were certainly interesting though!

Same, was confused until I zoomed in.

Yup, looked weird to me, like some only had one central eye, or they looked mishapen. But since I was focused on the cross, they were out of focus, so it didn’t seem very significant that I couldn’t see them clearly and they looked weird?

Then for the last couple of seconds the faces started appearing in the centre of the screen, where I was looking. But they looked normal then, so don’t know of they started showing the same faces on either side so my brain started compostiting each eyes vision into a single central face. And that made me wonder if that’s what was suppose to happen with grotesque faces, they were suppose to composite and appear clearly but gross? Rather than just vague and peripheral.

This. I’m sure Mission Impossible series are entertaining action movies, but I really can’t stand looking at his smug face.

“I’m bored, wanna fool around?” sometimes, that’s all it takes.

Looks cool!

Only knowing small TVs. Step by step, displays have inarguably improved massively, and I do love my giant OLED flatscreen. But watching TV was still great fun in the before times, people still watched the hell out of it, so can we say it brings people more joy now? Or is it just technically and visually better?

I think if you’re the kinda person watching beautiful premium shows, that’s an experience you couldn’t really get before. But I like TV that I can have on in the background, while I’m doing the dishes, and now we’re expected to pay attention to details on screen. Back when half the audience had tiny, grainy or monochrome displays, shows were written to suit listening as much as watching. And it’s not just scripts, shoddy visuals allowed costumes, sets and design that was evocative but cheap, in a way that cannot pass muster today.

And by comparison, it’s reduced the justification for going to cinema, and even kinda made the real world look bad. It used to be worth going somewhere in person because it would look infinitely better than seeing it on a screen. But now, it can actually be a disappointment, as the carefully composed filmed version with post production actually looks more impressive than irl. It’s the Connoisseurs Paradox, has it really deepend my pleasure, or merely raised my standards so much that I’m actually less satisfied?

I think it was just that those were the four main classes in 1st and 2nd edition, with others seen as variations of those (e.g. paladins / rangers were basically fighter subclasses). In the Basic D&D line, they were the only four human classes.

Due to this, adventure designers would include challenges that took advantage of thief skills, or Turn Undead, or whatever, to help all players contribute. Therefore, a smart party would have a mix of the main classes, because they knew they’d encounter obstacles that needed them (although it was never hard and fast, and a good adventure had multiple routes to victory.)

I believe the root of the word means ‘bread’ etymologically. But even in Hindi, नान means a flatbread that looks very like what English speakers would mean by naan, a flat bread, ideally baked in a tandoor.

You should try it! Personally, I don’t find butter weird (I think it’s just people don’t think of it as an ‘Asian’ ingredient) but I was shocked by the mayo. But a couple of folks mentioned it, so I’m going to try!

And thanks for this post BTW, I’m a bachelor again for a week while my partner is away, so I’ll defintely be cracking out the ramen. And now I can pretend I’m experimenting, rather than just being lazy!

How do you make your naan bread? I’ve been making a quick and easy one with yogurt, flour and baking soda, and they’re good, but not quite as good as ‘real’ ones.

If I’m trying to make it a real meal whatever veg / seafood / meat I might have around. But my lazy addition is a spoonful of crunchy peanut butter (and usually some extra spice) makes it feel more nutritious creamier and kinda like satay.

I’m fine with doing housework, and doing chores for a two person house isn’t much more work than when you’re living alone, and is often easier than splitting chores and getting annoyed at the other person not doing stuff promptly.

Only you have a sense of your relationship, and what your roommate is like. It could be an efficient exchange, a risk of exploitation, or an generous opportunity. I’ve let people live with me rent-free, mostly because I know they’re broke and I had space. Generally it’s good when they did the housework, because then it feels like a good deal for us both rather than charity - but if I was solely interested in getting the house work done I’d rent out the room and pay for a regular cleaner, which makes more sense financially. But for the same reason, the real motivation could be weird / problematic, so you have to trust your gut.