“Brutal honesty” motherfuckers just want to be mean. Also they can’t handle honesty from others at all.
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Allied with - "I just say it like it is", nope motherfucker, you say it like you see it, consider you might be wrong.
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Water is really good, you should drink it every day.
My girlfriend prefers her water room temp, and as someone who loves ice cold water, it's so weird to me. So I think I'm gonna start thinking of this as her lukewarm take.
I am also a woman of room temp water preference, I'm glad to know there is hope for me in finding a boyfriend
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Your girlfriend scares me quite a bit!!
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I don't want to hear about your dog or baby.
What about baby dogs?
oh, go on then
Puppies are always nice
I don't like puppies. Also unrelated Christmas. I'm a kid's cartoon antagonist ready to happen.
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Pizza is one of the best food forms we've ever come up with. I don't even care if you use wildly nontraditional toppings, like a chicken vindaloo pizza or a chili dog pizza. Just put the shit you wanna eat on a giant dough, cook it, then cut it up and eat it. Genius.
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I am convinced beyond contestation that carpeting a bathroom is an exceptionally stupid thing to do.
This is not warm, this is cold hard facts
The assignment was "not super controversial, but I still really stand by it."
My bathroom was carpeted. By my direct ancestors. They built the rest of the world I live in, too.
People who are the most uptight about manners and language are the rudest and most vile shit talkers.
A great realization that I had was that many of my language pet peeves were really preferences and not hard and fast rules. Language constantly evolves, regardless of how any one person feels. Clinging to my pet peeves was really just a form of elitism.
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The most important political issues are education and the environment, because those determine the future.
Honesty is the most important factor in any relationship.
Any home that doesn’t have central air conditioning should at least have a dedicated circuit outlet by each window. It’s like home designers are trying to make people sweat.
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Lukewarm water is great for showering
Humans have intrinsic value and nobody should be treated cruelly without cause. Aside from in relatively marginal places, that worldview has largely won.
I'd extend it to "people are basically the same everywhere", but there's actual disagreement about that.
I'm okay with piracy. I think a lot of people feel the need to justify it with phrases like "it's not stealing it's just copying," among others. To me that seems like being in denial about the moral ambiguity of what you're doing. There's so much free media out there you don't need to pirate the stuff that isn't.
Personally I'm okay with being told I'm a thief and am scamming the creators who worked hard on a product. Idc I'm broke, bored, interested in your thing and can steam it in HD from a website instantly. No login, no ads, no worries. I'm a pirate through and through and part of being a pirate is being morally bankrupt lol.
You are mostly scamming the corpos who host the content, which is a-ok in my book. If you really want there are lots of ways to support the actual creator much more cheaply than paying for a subscription to the hoster of the content. It always helps me to remember all the times that those companies screw us by changing rates, adding ads, restricting starting options, etc without providing better content to justify it. This is just payback, really. See also, stealing from your employer
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From a technical standpoint and a legal one, piracy is copyright infringement, not theft. It's a similar behavior but fundamentally different altogether at its core, largely because the victim of piracy does not lose anything tangible, only a perceived opportunity of a sale (which can be argued as not having been an opportunity in the first place depending on who is performing the piracy).
Both are bad, but people calling piracy theft have a terrible misunderstanding about it.
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I like putting black cardamom in my chai
You can't just make up words like that
Today is your lucky day!
Ingredients:
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5 green cardamom
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1/2 black cardamom (or more but it can be overpowering)
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a bunch of ginger, chopped a lot (idk how to measure ginger)
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5 peppercorns
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2ts indian black tea
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water
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3% milk (enough to equal the amount of water because I love milky chai)
Ingredients but optional:
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1 edge star anise (or fennel or smnk)
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a bitta cinnamon
Directions:
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put spices in mortar
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pulverize with pestle
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but in water with ginger on stove
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simmer 20 minutes
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add tea leaves
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simmer 10 minutes
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add milk
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simmer 10 minutes
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let cool
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strain
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enjoy!
Can be simmered for longer but I don't have time for that in the morning. Smells great tho
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Bleu cheese is the best cheese.
To each their own, I think a good parmesan is my favorite, but blue cheese is pretty up there
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Different strokes for different folks.
As a stroke survivor, I knew I was always getting the short end of the stick, but damn I really struck out
Wherever you go, there you are.
People who are always the hero of their own stories are not trustworthy narrators.
Either watch the movie OR read the book. Never both. Both just leads to disappointment at the cost of your time.
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Private soil farming is a great business model. Low cost, high demand. With fewer chemicals and wider practice, the trade will be more sustainable.
More houses will be 3D printed — and smaller — in the future.
The internal combustion engine is the largest technological mis-step in human history.
I think components being 3d printed is more likely. It's pretty hard to do cookie cutter complex objects like apartment buildings and family homes. Things like bricks, supports, ducts, pipes, insulation are much more adaptable. I think a hot take of mine is that 3d printing isn't gonna be the next big thing in construction and manufacturing. There's really sophisticated and efficient methods of doing those things on an industrial scale now that I don't see 3d printers matching. I do think 3d printers will play a bigger role for personal use. Having a tool that could print out many different household objects just for one person seems useful. Things like toothbrushes, housing components for electronics, ceramics like plates and glasses.
A violent revolution won't solve anything
That's warmish on Lemmy, although even here 99% of them are armchair revolutionaries and actually quite comfortable as things are.
People who destroy public toilets with piss or shit should be forced to sit down for a year. Public bathrooms would be cleaner for it.
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