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  • Have you tried punching "batch recipes kale" into a search engine? (but instead of kale, put whichever vegetable you want to eat more of)

    "Batch recipes" are basically like meal prep. And they often taste amazing.

    My reasoning is: if you have leftovers in your fridge that are veggie-laden, tasty, and convenient, odds are you'll be getting your veggies without even trying.

  • But now I live in Nevada. I will be voting for Biden because

    • the CHIPS Act is going to put chip manufacturing at the mercy of union labor
      • and with the solidarity whipped up by places like Antiwork? It's going to be a bloodbath.
    • his bans on slave labor solar panel imports will do the same thing. Union laborers won't need to compete with slave owners.
    • he halted ICE worksite immigration raids, which were basically used to terrorize migrant workers and keep them complacent (hence lowering their wages, and by extension, lowering the market price of labor)
    • he "played the long game" and helped win rail workers those sick days they were fighting for.
    • he kept student loan payments paused for the first 33 months of his term and tried to get a decent chunk forgiven
    • he appointed trust-busting advocate Lina Kahn to the FTC, where she is now a chairwoman
    • he appointed pro-labor lawyer Jennifer Abruzzo to the NLRB, where she recently set an anti-union-busting precedent that, according to Harold Meyerson at Prospect.org, "makes union organizing possible again"

    He's silently, steadily, baby-stepping us in the right direction. And that's worth a vote of support, not just a vote for a lesser evil.

  • I didn't. I was in California, so my vote was irrelevant anyways. I've been living with my mom, so I decided to use it to make a point.

    I was like, "look Mom! I don't approve of Biden's hair sniffing, so I'm voting for Jorgenson! You can do the same! That's an option!"

    It didn't work. She voted for Trump. (Don't worry. She was also in California so her vote was also irrelevant). You'd think with her personal history, she'd have been AGAINST serial sexual predators... but I guess his cult of personality was just too strong. She still genuinely believes he "stood up to the globalists."

  • Yeah, the commenter above you is saying 200k installs, and you're saying $200k money.

  • It's very Putin-esque to sully the reputation of every institution and democratic process that could inhibit your power... by shamelessly abusing those institutions and processes so much that ordinary people associate them with shameless, partisan abuse.

  • Duly noted. Thanks for letting me know.

  • Ah...

    Well yes, your response did extend things quite nicely. I, for one, found it fascinating.

    I think it’s an interesting framing,

    Thanks!

    I’ve frankly learned a lot about game engines, 3D modeling, and coding via these groups. The illumination of all the systems behind the scenes is what has been most valuable and interesting. I’m having trouble pinpointing one thing. 😅 There is a lot of “trivia” or arbitrary facts to learn when dealing with game engines.

    Yeah, game design does sound like a pretty vast and complex topic. I can see it being tricky to just grab one thing without needing to explain a dozen other things.

  • I am contemplating stealing this and turning it into a prompt for !writingprompts@literature.cafe

    Something like,

    "you have recently noticed that your friends will do everything you tell them. Is it a prank? A superpower? Doesn't matter. You won't let this opportunity go to waste."

  • Or what if they are 100 people who are all lying in hospital beds with incurable illnesses that cause excruciating pain, wishing they could die, and now doomed to years more of their unbearable existence?

  • When I went to community college, I'd arrive early to one theater class, and sitting there already (from a previous class, I believe) were two girls/women who somehow managed to fill 75% of their conversation, every time, with "Eragon was such a bad movie adaptation."

    Which taught me that the movie was so bad they it genuinely hurt fans of the novel.

  • Yeeeeaaaaah... I can see that. All of it.

    • The "sharing shiny rocks instead of themselves,"
    • The shiny rocks getting exhausting
    • The sharing of them getting repetitive
    • The pushing away other people.

    That does sound tiring, man. Sorry you've found yourself in such a situation.

    But also.............. what's one random, interesting thing you learned from the group? (sorry)

  • Damn. This lemming found a fountain of knowledge somewhere and decided to kegstand the thing.

  • I mean, the real answer is for us to get around people who are tolerant of neurodivergents. Then our shiny rocks would be allowed. But it's hard for anyone to choose their social circles.

  • On the chance that you're a fellow neurodivergent, I'm going to share something I discovered after moving back in with my mom. We neurodivergents think of information like one might think of rock collecting. We collect information, compare its shininess and smoothness to other pieces of information, roll it over in our hands. We're eager to show information to people, and eager when someone shows us a new piece of information. Anyone enlightening us has our full attention and enthusiasm. And when we get corrected? That is the smoothest, shiniest stone. We collect that voraciously.

    But 1) not everyone shares our information-collecting obsession. And 2) everyone has a weakness to their own special kind of rock -- their own, private kryptonite. And we neurodivergents tend to ignore the pain when we pick up our own kryptonite because we figure "information is always good (even if it hurts)."

    But it's not good to expose a person to the information that is their kryptonite. Even our fellow neurodivergents, who will be begging us, "please, bring it closer! Knowledge is power! I must grow!"

    As a neurodivergent, you must learn which rocks are kryptonite to which people. You must learn to withhold extremely relevant information in the exact conversations when it's most pertinent -- and do so precisely because its pertinence is why it's kryptonite to the person. And you must learn to do so even with fellow neurodivergents.

    Acceptable:

    • ✅ - the social behavior of bonobos
    • ✅ - the Flynn Effect
    • ✅ - the origin of the name of various open source software projects
    • ✅ - the economic argument against slavery (that's Roman history)
    • ✅ - the fact that the McDonald's coffee lawsuit was actually justified, and the whole story was twisted by corporate propaganda

    Unacceptable:

    • 🚫 - "Tucker Carlson has been caught lying" >> [this logic here] >> "Tucker Carlson is probably not trustworthy, going forward." (people hate hearing about that logical bridge!)
    • 🚫 - the damage that you see a person's religion of choice doing to their psyche (people really hate that)
    • 🚫 - most of the situations in which someone's beliefs are incorrect

    If you want to discuss the "unacceptable" topics with people, you must look up street epistemology. But keep in mind as you learn it: discussing these topics productively will actually be painful for you if you're a neurodivergent. As you perform street epistemology, you will be asking questions, and the person answering you will be espousing an unbearable symphony of incorrect beliefs.

    And you will have to hold back your urge to say, "well, actually" dozens of times a minute, maintaining an outwardly calm appearance and somehow focusing on your next question in the middle of their blizzard of wrongness.

  • Or possibly neutral evil.

  • Damn it, it's now GNL and we have to rewrite all the textbooks!