Among some friends I seem to be the odd one out who doesn’t like heat and the sun. To me an overcast fall day, 10C is perfect. Rain is welcome if it does not overstay its welcome.
Outdoors, I love our summer weather pattern. Warm evenings, mornings getting hotter, then beautiful thunderstorms in the afternoon to cool things off, nights usually more clear but often you can see lightning in the sky, dramatic and beautiful. Ideally I would want the top temp at about 90f (32) and evening around the 78f (25). Lately it’s been more like 99f (37) on the hottest days, which also means the heat pump can’t get the indoors to the 25 easily.
Hot and dry sucks, cold and rainy sucks. But tropical with dramatic rain is beautiful, so enjoyable. Our winter is what people visit to see, it’s mild and cool; but summer is my favorite even here. Tropical storms are also wonderful, the trees bending in the wind, the rain filling the streets and afterwards all the frog sounds.
I can’t navigate politics at all. Have done ok working at startups though, some offices are not at all political. Where I work, we can fix other people’s processes if we think of a better way, we work with other departments, I don’t have to go through my manager to talk to your manager to get to you, can go directly to you. Can talk to the CEO, to ex- employees, nobody is protective of their work, nobody is angling for my job.
I don’t know if nobody wants the job but I knew a guy who did stucco and absolutely loved doing it. Standing outside and wiping stucco onto walls was his joy.
No, a correlation between being black and being arrested for weed. In my city, they made the legal status of the drug indeterminate and gave cops DISCRETION on whether to arrest or cite someone for having pot. Not a felony now in any event, misdemeanor or civil citation or nothing but how do you think this discretion will be used?
I don’t order delivery of anything but pizza and only on the website of the pizza place, hate door dash and Uber eats. We occasionally get fast food Chinese or Panera or Starbucks but they all have mobile website and we order and pick up.
All those services are terrible, the food is never fresh, gets left at the wrong address or not at all, it’s not good or at least not good here.
If you got already a second opinion, same as the first one, it seems solid. I guess my question is, is the disorder causing you distress or making it hard to live your life? I’ve had three people in my life with schizophrenia but it became so severe they couldn’t function.
If you are functioning well enough in the world, and not in distress, you have time to try treatments. Even if you don’t feel different (that’s better than feeling worse, right?). Keep going to whichever doctor you liked better. Let them know how you are doing so they can adjust the treatment.
Just ate a kimchi grilled cheese sandwich for breakfast, yum. With a dip of gochujang, mustard, soy sauce, kimchi brine.
There is a Mexican fruit salad with pineapple, mango, jicama, onion, and cotija sharp cheese, in an orange juice dressing, it is so good with onion, I would not have expected that.
I am making tepache, and juiced the fruit of the pineapples. This is heavenly, if you don’t have the pineapple Amaro a spiced and slightly bitter but not too heavy amaro, like Toscana might work, or Ancho Reyes original but I highly recommend the Heirloom for fruity drinks, it’s so good....
I know this is kind of random. I’ve got a black necklace with a long round pendant on it, and I think I look better topless when I wear it. I’m not sure why.
I’m indifferent about jewelry on anybody, male or female. Like, the piece itself can be nice but I don’t ever seem to think it enhances the look of the person, except sometimes earrings. Very occasionally I think it detracts from the look of the person but almost always just neutral.
You are the arbiter of what looks good on you, though. If you like it, that’s all that matters.
Yeah I had a chiropractor (the woo woo kind, not the ‘have you been in a car accident’ kind) who could twist my head and make something crack and then I’d get no migraines for a year or more. So I would go back once every year or two when they came back, and he’d do it again. Nothing else has ever worked like that. $40 a year to prevent migraines?
He was older and is retired and I have not ever been able to trust any other chiropractor to be able to do that.
And one time my mom had shoulder pain and her doctor sent her to a chiropractor and they fixed that.
I don’t think it’s magic but also don’t think it’s nothing. Like massage or other physical manipulations it can do some things.
A global shortage of oranges that sent prices soaring has prompted some orange juice manufacturers to consider turning to alternative fruits to make the breakfast staple....
Evolution and Nelly’s are the only brands that get close, but nothing is like fresh squeezed (obviously, same thing with any citrus juice, right?) so I just make some when I want it, by squeezing some oranges. We can still get the juicing oranges here, not year round though.
There are greening tolerant (not resistant) varieties developed already, yes of course biologists have been and are urgently working on it. I have a “sugar bell” tree, that’s one of them.
I will say that one example for all is Abba’s “Mamma Mia” which I interpreted the beginning of chorus “Mamma mia, we are collagen” and the beginning of the second part of it “He’ll something broken hardly”. Don’t ask past me why I had to make it about intercellular matrix.
I was almost 25, in the 1990s, singing along in my car to Elton John, confidently belting out “"Love, I feel it in my hands, I can tell by the things I would do with another man”" when I suddenly realized that it was unlikely a guy would have a hit song about what he’d do with a guy in the 60s or 70s. Even as a little kid I’d known Elton John was gay, and hadn’t really been brought up to think that was weird (thank you, mom and dad and your theater friends) .
I looked up the lyrics and it’s love lies bleeding in my hands, it kills me to think of you with another man and the name of the fucking song is love lies bleeding, I didn’t know that either.
Like: Chlorinated water smell, so yes bleach, there was a chlorinated water fountain in a building I used to work in and I would just go sit by it and smell it, so relaxing. Pot and tobacco both smell so good before they are burning, too, but the smoke, no, yuck.
I’ve heard of things like Nair that make it fall out… if that was a one-and-done solution I’d be all for it, but I’m hoping for something that slows or stops it from growing....
The places I waxed had very coarse and curly deep rooted hair in sensitive areas and yes it sure hurts, but shaving always caused ingrown hairs and razor burn, it doesn’t really anymore. So like an acute pain instead of a chronic pain I guess.
Lasering probably does the same more efficiently but maybe too efficiently if you want to keep your options open. And it hurts too.
This is my husband’s face hair strategy as well. Clippers most of the time, shaving the edges occasionally. I don’t like beards but got beat over the head with images of hot guys with stubble for long enough it just looks good to me now.
Your comment about the long johns made me laugh remembering my friend - he had very pale skin, very dark hair and such hairy legs, one time he shaved a racing stripe down the sides of his legs :)
I figured a close stereotype for men, would be that they should all be farmers. The thing is, there are under two million farmers in the US as of 2023. So statistically, an equivalent occupation/role should have a larger number.
If women don’t find you handsome, they should at least find you handy!
The direct analogue would be “men should single handedly provide income to support a family”. So not farming necessarily, but men are pressured to be something other than just men, they get defined by their jobs more. Be a businessman, a farmer, a soldier. Women get defined more by their relationships to other people - a mom, a wife. Both of these are problematic in their own way.
What are your ideal temperature and weather conditions?
Among some friends I seem to be the odd one out who doesn’t like heat and the sun. To me an overcast fall day, 10C is perfect. Rain is welcome if it does not overstay its welcome.
What's the most basic thing you can't do?
Who have you known that was extremely good at a job no one wants?
Thou'st see-eth me rolleth, thou'st hateth (files.catbox.moe)
Joe Biden suddenly leads convicted felon Donald Trump in multiple battleground states (www.newsweek.com)
What service do you prefer and why to order food to your home?
Thinking of trying this out. I am seeing GrubHub, DoorDash, Postmates, UberEats. Where to go?
Do I have schizophrenia or I am scammed by psychiatrist?
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the GIRTH (lemmy.world)
What's an unusual but excellent food combo you've tried?
Always looking for new food ideas.
Pineapple & Bourbon cocktail (lemmy.world)
I am making tepache, and juiced the fruit of the pineapples. This is heavenly, if you don’t have the pineapple Amaro a spiced and slightly bitter but not too heavy amaro, like Toscana might work, or Ancho Reyes original but I highly recommend the Heirloom for fruity drinks, it’s so good....
People who are attracted to male bodies: Do you think necklaces/chains on men are sexy?
I know this is kind of random. I’ve got a black necklace with a long round pendant on it, and I think I look better topless when I wear it. I’m not sure why.
Full points for confidence (lemmy.world)
Orange juice makers consider using alternative fruit as prices skyrocket (www.foxbusiness.com)
A global shortage of oranges that sent prices soaring has prompted some orange juice manufacturers to consider turning to alternative fruits to make the breakfast staple....
Which adaptation do you think has surpassed its source material in quality?
Any funny/interesting misheard lyrics in songs?
I will say that one example for all is Abba’s “Mamma Mia” which I interpreted the beginning of chorus “Mamma mia, we are collagen” and the beginning of the second part of it “He’ll something broken hardly”. Don’t ask past me why I had to make it about intercellular matrix.
Do you have any smell you like/dislike even though most people don't?
I’ll start with the fact that I kind of like the smell of gasoline, and also bleach for some reason.
Anyone have luck with a hair growth *inhibitor*? Especially my fellow gentledudes who could be mistaken for sasquatch after skipping a day of shaving.
I’ve heard of things like Nair that make it fall out… if that was a one-and-done solution I’d be all for it, but I’m hoping for something that slows or stops it from growing....
What is the equivalent stereotype of 'women should all be homemakers,' for men?
I figured a close stereotype for men, would be that they should all be farmers. The thing is, there are under two million farmers in the US as of 2023. So statistically, an equivalent occupation/role should have a larger number.
What's the most seeming trivial thing you'll turn down a GF or BF for?