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Yup, and even surgical sterilizations have failure rates.

An exercise routine has helped me a lot, exercising sporadically, not so much. I don't really feel a sudden sense of relief from a single session, but I've noticed that when I'm working out regularly, I feel better overall. It's not a sudden change, and not a "cure all", but it helps me focus better during the day, sleep better at night, crave less junk food/alcohol, and just feel less sense of "everything sucks". The routine also really helps me stick to other daily habits that I'm embarrassed to admit I struggle with, such as brushing my teeth.

I'm currently working to get back on my full routine, but in the past, I did weightlifting Mon-Fri, with intense cardio (running, stairs, etc.) MWF and chill cardio (walking) TTh. When I was really, really into it, that naturally led to being quite active on weekends too, such as 5k's, long ass walks around town, and hiking.

My advice to anyone trying to start a routine is to start small and gradually build it up. So step 1 for getting back to my full routine right now is a short daily walk. Once the short walks become a natural part of my daily rhythm, I might make the walks a little longer, add in a little running, and/or add in some light strength training moves, all depending on my overall goals and what feels within reach.

The one that really drives me nuts is when the faucet is too short/too far back meaning that your knuckles are constantly hitting the rear edge of the sink in order to get your palms under the stream. This is especially annoying when it's in an otherwise large sink!

In the short term maybe, but there's definitely some areas where things become more affordable when you have two incomes contributing. Housing is a big one, and apparently also taxes.

Recent article about that: https://www.vox.com/the-highlight/24055481/single-benefits-married-couple-taxes-money

Oh man, I've really slowed down my dating, so it's hard to remember many of them. I know some of these are actually reasonable, but others are just me looking for faults/expecting perfection:

• Is a night owl
• Works in a field that requires odd hours
• Isn't 100% against having kids (most recent one said they didn't mind either way, which makes me worried they'll eventually realize they want kids)
• Has children, even if they're already adults
• Laughs weird
• Previously married (most recent one lost their previous partner to cancer a few years ago)
• Not regularly physically active
• Has dietary restrictions/allergies
• Doesn't drink alcohol ever
• Obvious political differences
• Doesn't like cats and/or my cats are scared of them
• Has a dog, especially if it's small and/or if they take it everywhere
• Has "weird" pets, like snakes or spiders
• Has a messy home
• Still lives with their parents

Dating/romantic relationships. I usually manage to uncover multiple deal breakers on the first date, and I'm pretty sure that's more of a "me" problem, than a problem with the type of people I date.

My team is currently hiring, and I got to listen in on the conversation with HR when they were developing the job posting. The job posting includes requirements that the team knows they are unlikely to find, especially finding all of them in a single candidate. The posting calls them requirements, but really it's more of a wish list. If you come across listings where you meet half of their requirements (wish list), and think you can learn some of the others, you should apply.

I hate it because income feels like a number that the studios really care about, but what about number of tickets sold? A movie released this year has a huge head start on box office income when compared to a movie from 20 years ago, since ticket prices have easily doubled. Plus, theatres often have different prices for students, children, seniors, matinees, and even IMAX/3D. So wouldn't it be more apples to apples over time to compare number of tickets sold, rather than total income?

Some from my recently played:

I Wanna Dance With Somebody (Who Loves Me) with a boner

Rhythm Is A Dancer with a boner

What Is Love with a boner

Show Me Love with a boner

I'm Too Sexy with a boner

Gonna Make You Sweat (Everybody Dance Now) with a boner

Beat It with a boner

Don't Stop 'Til You Get Enough with a boner

She Works Hard For The Money with a boner

Never Gonna Give You Up with a boner

I'm Every Woman with a boner

Girls Just Wanna Have Fun with a boner

It's Gonna Be Me with a boner

Tearin' Up My Heart with a boner

It Ain't Me with a boner

Wannabe with a boner

Cry For You with a boner

Five Hours with a boner

I'm Not A Girl, Not Yet A Woman with a boner

I read somewhere a while back regarding the contaminated apple sauce, that it may be added intentionally since the ground cinnamon powder is generally sold by weight, and I guess lead is cheaper per gram than cinnamon? I believe there's also a few ways it could become contaminated accidentally.

Do you know if there's a way to do this other than DND? I just set up a profile that's scheduled to be active 24/7 where only people in my contacts can call, but my problem is that it puts the DND icon in my status bar, so I lose the visual indicator when my phone is in a more restrictive DND profile, which I do use sometimes and also occasionally accidentally trigger.

I'm in the US, and this has been my technique too. I've found that listing things for free gets me people with a million questions and complications, but if I list something at a cheap price, the whole process is usually much smoother.

Maybe we have different microwaves, but I'm pretty sure that on mine, typing 130 is the same as typing 90 (1 min, 30 sec) and typing anything larger than 99 is automatically interpreted as m:ss, so 150 would mean 1 min, 50 sec, not 1.5 min.

Yeah, I would never use the canned pie filling, only canned whole pumpkin, although I haven't done any side by side comparisons, and only have a slice or two per year lately, so I can't say quite as confidently that I could identify the difference.

As I mentioned in another comment, I actually prefer a graham cracker crust for my pumpkin pie, and I don't think I've ever seen that anywhere other than my own kitchen. It can be a little tricky to get the filling fully cooked without burning the crust, but I've found that chilling the crust until just before baking helps a lot.

Similar to your example, I do sometimes have a "brain fart", thinking that X:50 means half. So, like if the microwave says 1:50, I might think that means 1.5 minutes left, but I generally catch myself pretty quickly, and it's never caused any real problems.

I did my undergrad in a science that lends itself to lots of metric measurements, so even though I'm born and raised in the US, I'm pretty comfortable with metric and tend to set my defaults to metric.

I generally browse via kbin.social, with lemmy.world as my backup, but since Ernest has gone MIA, things have become quite laggy and the frequency of errors is getting to be too much, so I've been exploring other instances and apps. One of the key things I'm looking for is an alternative that provides keyword filtering, so I can block out the majority of posts on certain topics. The Thunder app has keyword filtering, so I've been using that for the past couple days, and I'm definitely enjoying myself more and engaging more.

I've had to block a lot of communities from my lemmy.world feed since they're in languages I don't understand or are porn (I don't want porn popping up while I'm killing time on the bus!), but it's like whack-a-mole, so I'm really looking forward to instance blocking!

Oh, I actually prefer a graham cracker crust for my pumpkin pie, and those are definitely easier than traditional crusts!

Huh. I guess I think of a "slide deck" as the (usually PDF) version that is sent to everyone in the meeting so they can refer to the slides before/after the presentation, and a "PowerPoint presentation" as the live presentation of those slides.

I hear what you're saying, but I also hear, "no, just do even more work!" Haha. As it is, baking a single pie is already more expensive than a single store bought pie, and the people I'm pawning my leftovers off to don't seem to know the difference.

On top of that, I live in a high rise in the middle of the city, so home-grown squash is impossible (I barely have space for a few window sill herbs), and anything "local" is going to be even more expensive. Just not worth it to me so I can have a few slices of pie.

Quick, someone photoshop the legs to complete the third heart!