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Cake day: July 2nd, 2023

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  • Too many. I wish Lemmy had post tags, it would make things easier. There are communities I would be interested in, if I had any tools to help see the things I care about.

    I’m left with more politics than I’d like, but that’s still preferable to anything I block.

    Broadly speaking:

    Memes Anime, mostly due to all the anime girl communities Sports Foreign language communities if I really can’t read anything, or I’m seeing too many posts in a row from them Communities that aren’t for memes but that are overrun with them. Sometimes if this is driven by a particular user I might block them instead Communities with porn in the name



  • They also get more bitter the longer they’re cooked. Even with the new variety, I suspect boiling Brussels sprouts might be off the table. Higher temps, or raw (shredded and put in a salad) may get you results you actually like.

    Roasting at 230C (450F) for up to about 20 minutes should be good. You may be able to go as high as 260C (500F). If they look slightly burnt when they come out, that’s good. The bitter flavors that develop from burning are related to sugars, so brussel sprouts are largely immune.

    I didn’t have brussel sprouts I liked until the 2010s, but now they’re one of my favorites.







  • It really depends what sort of recipes you’re making, but for cooking very loose approximations are often fine.

    I often have to convert to weight/mass in order to find out how much of an ingredient to buy. I have no idea how many cups an eggplant is. But once I get it home the recipe might as well say “however much eggplant you have.”

    If I’m truly off, I will typically scale up the recipe adjusting for the extra meat or vegetable content. I’ll more or less assume that 1lb of meat is interchangeable with 1lb of veggies. That’s not quite true, in particular with salt.

    Your mileage may vary though. Some recipes and ingredients are much more sensitive to deviations.








  • I don’t think they’re confused by times like 1pm.

    At least for my brain, 12pm and 12am are the sticking points.

    As you note, pm is Latin for after noon, yet we call noon 12pm. Noon isn’t anymore after itself than it is before itself. Neither makes any sense.

    With 12am, we generally seem to think about midnight as the end of the day, even though it’s really the start of the new day. The Latin isn’t confusing here, but the numbers get real weird. We start the day counting at 12:00, go up to 12:59, and then reset the count to 1 an hour in? Our 12h clocks are split between being 0-indexed, and a weird variant of modulus 12.

    I’m clearly overthinking things, but I don’t always immediately remember which 12 is which. Latin doesn’t help.

    With 00 it’s clear which time we’re talking about, and which calendar date it’s part of. It’s also the easiest way to sort out which 12 gets mislabeled what.





  • No disagreement on raspberries, but your comment makes me think you might like mangos in plain yogurt. The tartness of the yogurt works beautifully with the extreme sweetness of the mango. It tastes like a fresher more balanced version of flavored yogurts. So if you’re into the flavor of mango, but the sweetness is off-putting, this could be a way to still enjoy them.