Horses. They’re dangerous and expensive and will take all of your free time. Despite all of that, they’re my passion.
Bjork. Some people just aren’t into her music, and that’s OK.
A few months ago I finally decided to force myself through her discography. I would probably love everything she has done, if I weren’t such a snob about electronic music. And by that I mean I’m one of those “eww electronic music, where is the real musicians?” type of people.
But anyway, I did find myself enjoying most of her stuff. Debut, Post and Vespertine are excellent albums. I also have Homogenic, Medúlla and Utopia on my playlist, but quite often find myself skipping those.
So based on that, I would recommend everyone to listen to her catalogue once and see if there is anything you like in there. Since there is such a variety of stuff from her, I bet everyone can find a song or two to add to their playlist. But yeah, I understand that not everyone is willing to spend a couple of days listening to one artists discography on the off chance of maybe finding something to like. But for me it was worth it.
Did you listen to Gling Glo?
Also, I’m totally with you on Debut, Post, and Vespertine.
The one with the jazz trio? I sure did. Its excellent, very cozy album.
I don’t like to recommend things to other people. I have terrible taste in about everything.
Warhammer 40K. Not even once.
Ill raise you Marvel Crisis Protocol. Same buy in, fewer players to justify it.
Just getting into building a Necron army and -whoof- this scratches an itch in my brain that should really go un-scratched.
https://www.crowdsupply.com/cool-tech-zone/tangara
It’s a dedicated offline music player. I use it pretty frequently, especially when I want to really focus. The OS is open source. I believe the hardware is too. I would buy it again.
Buuuut it is pretty buggy. And clunky. And you probably won’t like it…
Sounds cool, pretty sure I would like it. : ]
Are the bugs daily or weekly playback interruptions?
Do you know the Rockbox timeline for possible install on Tangara?
The bugs are random freezes and reboots… definitely not daily, but maybe every 2 weeks. Also, the UI is kinda awkward. Bluetooth is kinda flaky, but I mainly use wired headphones, so that doesn’t bother me at all.
I don’t know if Rockbox is possible to install on Tangara. I’m gonna say probably not. I didn’t find anything online.
I don’t recommend drinking NOS Energy Drink.
They already have kinda limited supplies; I don’t need more people drinking it and making the stores sell out so I can’t get any. It not only tastes way better than other energy drinks, it actually wakes my ass up.
Lemmy
Most things. I like stuff that isn’t mainstream (not in a hipster way, I just tend to like indie things), and it is very rare to meet someone who is willing to try anything that’s not mainstream or something they haven’t heard of.
Music: metal, hard rock, or “odd” things like The Hu or videogame instrumentals.
Movies: some of my all time favourites are things like Calvary, The Whale and Gully Boy.
Games: Indies that are well loved online, but hardly ever by normies IRL. Roguelite mostly. Dead Cells, Balatro, Ballionaire, etc.
Making things: Ikea hacks, or making custom mechanical keyboards or hitbox fight controllers.
Home server: obviously a common interest within a rabbithole like Lemmy, but normal people in my life (including my wife) still can’t comprehend why I would put in this effort when “you can just get Netflix/Spotify/Gdrive”.
I don’t think my interests are weird or unusual, but people aren’t interested so I don’t talk about my interests.
I was buying vodka yesterday and a guy in line behind me looked at what I was buying and he said he hadn’t heard of it and asked if it was good. I said yes. I don’t like recommending vodkas to people because it absolutely matters how you are drinking it. If he doesn’t drink it the way I do, he might think it’s not that good but I can’t stand there and explain this to him so I just said it was good and on sale.
Isn’t vodka supposed to be colorless, odorless, and tasteless by definition? I don’t drink it (and don’t want recommendations) but is the difference that the less expensive stuff is less pure and gives you more of a hangover?
That’s something that hardcore alcoholics believe. You can absolutely smell and taste it. You can smell it on their breath, and coming out of their pores the next day. In fact vodka breath is just about the most distinguishing liquor in that regard. I remember PT tests in the army and you could count them as you ran past them. Other drinkers, it was much harder, maybe they’re struggling cause they’re sick? But vodka hits you like the brick wall of Aunt Miriam’s perfume.
I don’t really know where that idea came from. Even pure ethanol has a taste and odor.
I’ve worked with a few dumb fucks that though it was impossible to smell on your breath.
I’m not sure either, but I guess the key term was “distinctive” in the United States federal guidelines, which might be where the misconception came from. Also, according to this article, in 2020 in the United States federal regulation, flavor was dropped:
Until recently, vodka’s long-standing federal definition was “neutral spirits distilled or treated after distillation with charcoal or other materials so as to be without distinctive character, aroma, taste or color.”
and then they go on to regarding the new standard:
we have a new standard of identity: “‘Vodka’ is neutral spirits which may be treated with up to two grams per liter of sugar and up to one gram per liter of citric acid.” While neutrality remains part of the definition, for the first time since 1949, the standard no longer defines vodka by the character it does not possess.
A little maybe. I can tell you that I hate the taste of alcohol. I have never in my life drank anything with any kind of alcohol in it, where I couldn’t taste that disgusting flavor. I do like being inebriated though, so I’ve tried a lot.
An uncle of mine, backwoods af, all kinds of stills, dozens of different homebrew alcohols, would turn anything that “failed” into this odorless, flavorless, perfectly clear shine that I could taste only as a faint idea.
It was so potent that even at his parties, with dozens of other backwoods alcoholics, that jar would go on the stage so we could all see who drank how much, and intervene if we thought they had more than the occasional small sip. It was murderously potent, and your body had no idea.
Do you mix your vodka with Tang?
“Bad” movies. I adore low-budget films made with love and sincerity (rather than the cynical cash-grab types). Even if those movies are made to ride trends and mimic successful formulas.
Why would you hesitate to share those when so many high budget movies are worse?
Gimme one of your faves.
Personally, I find Underworld to be wildly entertaining, kinda thoughtful, and delightfully sincere.
Bruh, underworld isnt even close to what he’s talking about. Go watch tubi or Amazon for the truly low budget. I recommend velocipastor.
Edit: and thankskilling.
Madame Web and Morbius
A1 sauce. I know it’s frowned upon but I enjoy it on steak and chicken sometimes in burgers
I hope that steak is cooked well done.
It’s not often I usually prefer medium rare and then I’ll only use it to dip in, but not all the time.
But it’s actually best on well done
Best on well done, because it moistens the overly dry meat.
I say this as a lover of A1, and lover of medium steaks.
I grew up with leather and A1, and I still like that from time to time. Now I’ve come to love medium steaks, and if seasoned and cooked correctly, I don’t need A1. Though I still crave it, and will use it on my own steaks at home.
All in all, steak is delicious.
Medium rare is where it’s at. But if you ever want to be brave. Go to a hibachi grill and order a tuna steak rare. I didn’t believe it but it’s like the best version of prime rib but it’s tuna. And I’m extremely paranoid of undercooked fish more so than red meat or chicken but man was that delicious
I won’t turn away a medium rare steak. It’s quite good on fact. But I’ve found with my palette, I’m more sensitive to being too rare than too done, having grown up on leather.
Like, rare is delicious, but if the cook does it wrong, myself included, then the texture and temperature of the meat is off putting to me.
My father in law gave a steak that was wedge shaped, so the thin end was overdone, but the thick end was beyond raw, on the inside. I struggled to eat that, though I did.
That being said, I also love beef tartare, so, go figure 🤷♂️
Thanks for the tuna recommendation, maybe I’ll have my SO order it and I’ll try some. I’m starting to like fish, in small doses. But my mom is allergic, so growing up we never even had it in the house, so I never learned to like it. That and my first introduction to it was some swampy pond Bass that my friend swore was delicious. It was not. It tasted like bad fish smells. That set me back a decade or two. But again, I’m coming around.
I like certain salmon meals, perch, crab, etc. Heck, canned tuna just went on the menu for me this year, so, progress.
When my daughter was two the first meal she ever asked for seconds on was Tuna helper. She also ate fish sticks.
My wife hates all seafood, refuses to eat it. So my daughter hears her say that’s disgusting. Hasn’t touched it since.
And I’d really like her to try it again. I’ve actually been secretly pissed at my wife for about 10 years now. Our daughter only listens to her. Sometimes I’ll get the rate victory of her trying something I’ve told her is good. But she looks to mom first. I’ve told my wife to stop doing that
A1 is really good on brats.
Meal prepping the same lunch.
Been doing this for over a decade now. Minor variations in veggies, switched from chicken to beans and rice about a year ago. I love it. Very affordable and I never have to think about lunch.
I’ve had a co-worker call me a “bad man” when I told him I just eat the same thing everyday. I get it tho, people need to change things up. But for me as long as it has nutrients and doesn’t taste bad I genuinely don’t care that it’s exactly the same.
I wish I was like this. I grew up on a lot of the same meals over and over because my mom worked her ass off and didn’t have time to cook fresh all the time. Now I can’t stand having to eat the same meal even twice in a week. It wasn’t so bad when I was less busy but now I am busy and feel exhausted when I have to think of new meals to make.
Yeah, dinner is where I get variety, as are all weekend meals. On weekdays breakfast is the same quick and easy meal, and lunch is the same easy to throw together the night before meal. On rare occasions I’ll switch it up for a time or change the meal, but it’s been a few years of lunch being the same.
It’s fine, sure I’d love more variety, and if I retire I’ll probably never fall back to this meal again. But I appreciate the fact that I don’t have to think or plan or anything.
What is your lunch? Rice and beans with a veggie side? Anything else?
1 bag frozen corn, 2 green/red/yellow peppers, refried black beans from a can, rice with a packet of taco seasoning thrown in for flavor, and a grilled sweet onion. Split across 5 glass Tupperware containers.
Used to do broccoli, brussel sprouts, mushrooms for a little while, but the corn, peppers and onion keep really well. Its that last meal on Friday that could sometimes get questionable lol
“bad man”
What was his fucking business? no one forced him to do the same, fuck that guy!
Right?! I love a good time-intensive meal now again, but other things can be nice too. If I can make 7 days of food in the time it takes to make 1 day of unique meals, that frees a dozen hours to do something else. I can wait until Christmas to try that 5 hour lasagne recipie. Meanwhile I can focus on what’s important… like shitpost comments
What do you make that lasts 7 days? Or do you freeze it?
The Fediverse. I can’t be bothered explaining what the Fediverse is or how it works or how it differs from traditional social media. I can’t be bothered recommending browser add-ons that correct issues that might not actually be ‘issues’ to the person in question. And even if I did all that, there’s a 1/100 chance they’ll actually care enough to try it, and an even smaller chance still that they’ll stick with it. I don’t even tell people that the memes I send them are from Lemmy, because I can’t be bothered with the follow-up questions. My parents, for example, who use Facebook exclusively, could not be paid enough to even try the Fedi equivalent (Friendica). The average person doesn’t care about their private data being sold or the behaviour of tech CEOs or the abuse of their psyches by algorithms, so there’s no reason for them to go to the pain of learning an entirely new ecosystem that’s less ‘good’ but requires more effort. The average person simply wants AI-generated images of lions with racist anti-immigrant slogans printed under them, and Facebook is unbeatable in that regard. I just can’t be bothered. Plus, I like that it’s comparatively less crowded here. Let Facebook keep their race rioters!
Yeah I can’t be bothered to do that either. I post links from Lemmy, people ask “whats this?” I say “its Lemmy, like a reddit thing but different” if they are interested after that, I just tell them to go in and click things, maybe make a account and see if it keeps their interest. I’d say 1 out of every 30 people are interested enough to make a account but not sure how many of them stay active. Maybe 1 in 100 lol.
Is new, and can do some of the explaining for you.
I can’t believe nobody’s said “my dick” yet. So I’ll go with that/procrasturbating.
Also, I don’t drain or soak up fat from meat I cook that goes into soup. That grease is what makes you keep licking your lips for hours after the meal is gone.
Self hosting. You have to be a bit nerdy to like doing sysadmin work.
