I think technically that counts as gruel. Don’t get me wrong, though, I’m all in favor of gruel, and the kind of thing your doing, but it’s a fun word to use.

I sometimes do something like this too, cooking oatmeal with extra water, some Better then Bouillon, some chopped onion, carrot or whatever vegetables I have handy. Maybe hot sauce or whatever spices I’m feeling. I haven’t done this in a while, thanks for reminding me, we’re getting into good weather for this kind of thing!

I think they forgot to tell you that you aren’t supposed to talk about it. You’re not very good at the “shadowy” part.

If you don’t mind the smell and smoke, you can save money by making candles out of tallow like our ancestors.

Agreed it’s rust. I’d eat them.

Now that you ‘get it’, can you explain to someone like me who still doesn’t get it, why they might want to use a tiling wm?

Homesteading is a much more apt analog then prepper. We are digital homesteaders.

I second this, with the caveats that it doesn’t need to be German made (I’m quite happy with my Rockwell), and the brush doesn’t need to be badger. I prefer the stiffer horsehair, and I hear synthetic brushes have gotten quite good.

Also, fuck ZDNet for autoplaying a video on this page.

Give each person a folder in which to stick whatever loose sheets they are currently working with. Keep these folders plus whatever music books are relevant on a shelf. Tell each person to put their shit away when they are done.

There can be another folder for sheets people fail to put away. Your wife can just stick everything left out into this folder when stuff gets left out and she gets annoyed. People will learn they have to look through all the shit in this folder to find their stuff if they leave their stuff out.

I’m not, I’m dead. BTW I ate a carrot that had been on the counter for almost an hour.

Could be, if it’s not very saucy and depending on the toppings, but I meant the focaccia and garlic bread.

Oil doesn’t count as moisture.

She sounds confused about what she feels and wants.

Well there’s been a number of such posts lately, and I was surprised when I checked the rules and there seemed to be nothing that covered it.

All. Part of what bothers me is the dishonesty of phrasing it as a question. It strikes me as counter to the spirit of asklemmy, if the question isn’t actually honestly seeking an answer. I’d be happy with a rule along those lines instead.

That did occur to me, but it such a rule were instituted and my post therefore deleted, I would be delighted.

That’s the one aversion I never got over. I’m not unhappy about it either, if there’s to be a thing I can’t ever drink, that seems a pretty good choice.

It’s funny, it seemed like blackberry brandy was a popular choice for getting fucked up underage drinking back in my day. But I don’t think I’ve ever encountered an adult use of it. Never knew anyone to drink it, or ever saw it in a cocktail recipe.

Sometimes we get stuck on the idea that a thing is supposed to be fun, to the extent of letting the idea override our actual experience of it not being fun. Especially when a thing used to be fun.

Some things that are fun at first wear out. I’ve had that experience with games where I become aware of the grind and it feels like just a bunch of work trying to constantly raise arbitrary numbers.

I’ve had the experience with partying too. One just needs to seek more fulfilling things, and be open to finding them.

I would just say that the psychological stuff it connects to varies somewhat person to person. For example, competitiveness and power dynamics don’t connect for me.