Acamon @ Acamon @lemmy.world

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It's not even upgrade, even twenty years ago, most of them were either always rinsing or on some sort of intermittent timer. I guess when they were just a big communal trench it didn't make sense for them to be flushed by an individual. (UK / various Europe)

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!

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.

There's quite a lot of reviews and comments from the time hating ESB (a muppet as a spiritual guide? Contrived twist!) and RotJ (too cheesy! Just an excuse to sell toys!).

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.

Yeah, the one table i saw eating in was a group of young guys in smart suits looking very serious.

Like others are saying, we don't have the full story, but from this your partner sounds like they don't understand / take account of your needs and abilities. But you've said in another reply that they're considerate at other times.

Something to add is that stuff about sleep is highly emotional for lots of people. I'm the adhd one, but I have a much earlier body clock than my partner. If I've been up early and want to go to bed, I want to go NOW, but they like us to get ready for bed together, which just ends up with me hassling them to go to bed and I often get irrationally angry with them because I'm worried about not getting enough sleep and my next day being ruined and so on. But I make a specific effort to try and mask that because I know it's irrational, and they have their own sleep issues, that I want to be supportive of... But when you're tired and worried about sleep it's hard to stay reasonable. So, just worth keeping in mind when thinking about their reactions, that they themselves might see that they were being overly sensitive?

Had an amazing Chinese restaurant near my old place, really excellent food but always completely deserted. They always seemed so surprised that when we called for takeout and whenever we collected it they'd chat about how busy they'd been, and how bus loads of tourists stop by, it just happens to be empty right now... Uhuh. Surrre. I live in this street, I don't see busses of anyone. But the food was consistently excellent, so they must have actively not advertised because otherwise they'd been super popular.

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.

Yeah, I think there's a difference between "I hate housework and have spare cash, how about you do it all" and someone thinking they've hired a live in servant for a few grand. I've lived with friends and family rentfree before and done all the chores, because I'm genuinely appreciative and I have the time. And people have genuinely been sad about me moving out because they loved having a tidy house and home cooked meals. But it's never been an "arrangement" and they've never complained if I don't clean the bathroom to their specification or go away for the weekend and they have to go back to cooking for themselves.

Do you mean math classes/teaching? At school or university? Or just 'mathematics' as a concept? It's pretty hard to be less abstract, when the basic idea of maths is abstraction.