RBWells
@RBWells@lemmy.world
- Comment on 1 day ago:
I have never heard the temperature expressed with decimals - my phone says “it’s 14, today’s high will be 20 and low of 4” or whatever. Do oven settings have decimals in places that use Celsius?
Is the temperature expressed beyond whole numbers?
- Comment on 1 day ago:
Wow people are so different. I grew up in Florida, without air conditioning until I was 25. 85F is so nice outside in the shade, and 80 in the sun is fine for working outdoors. In the shade, with a fan going, and something to drink, I am comfortable to mid-90s at least, just not moving so much, relaxing. Hot yoga at 103 is sweaty but not dangerous for me.
There are not enough clothes in the world to make me comfortable at 0 F, there is not gear for that, I don’t generate that much internal heat.
- Comment on 1 day ago:
I would prefer Celsius if it was smaller degrees, so 0 = freezing is great logic but boiling needs to be 1000 not 100. There just aren’t enough degrees between freezing and boiling, Celsius is too inexact.
And no way is 50 medium in F, it is cold. We might actually put the heater that low because the HVAC system we have is built more for cooling, but that is very, very cold feeling. 0 in F is beyond cold, that is 32 degrees (or 18 of your civilized degrees) below freezing. Hellish cold.
- Comment on A mural drawn by artist: Topsy depicting Alex Pretti trying to protect Lady Justice from ICE. 1 day ago:
This is amazing.
- Comment on If the United States of America was renamed, what should it be? 4 days ago:
South Canada?
- Comment on Banan 1 week ago:
I order exotic fruit plants from Sow Exotic, they have a pretty good selection of bananas.
- Comment on Do old people still remember their childhood? Do people just start losing their memories and their sense of self as they get older? 1 week ago:
How old?
I don’t feel like I’ve forgotten more and more. It’s more like I have only ever had a few memories from being a little kid.
Sense of self gets deeper, not lost. All those years of experience add up to more self, not less. I was, though, for sure more self-centered when young, less aware of others, more selfish.
- Comment on Are you people all bots? 1 week ago:
Beep beep boop.
Not only am I not a bot, I’m not a guy.
I think there are some here, but nothing like the more commercial spaces.
- Comment on The consequences of not building enough housing 1 week ago:
Ha!
I went from #3 in the 80s to #4, then to #1 in the mid 1990s.
I don’t think it matters where you start, what bothers me so much more is the lack of opportunity to move up this chart now. I knew, in my heart, that if I sold out and worked someplace evil I could have the big money, and what’s more, even without doing evil I could have the small money by following the steps - go to school, get a job.
I don’t feel like younger people have that. It always took some degree of luck, but more like bad luck would set you back. Now it’s more like you need good luck just to get started!
- Comment on Wokeness ended, check mate leftists 2 weeks ago:
Delicate angelic androgynous beauty.
- Comment on The forbidden fourth leche 2 weeks ago:
I thought that was only the one made from goat milk?
- Comment on [deleted] 2 weeks ago:
That is literally what Allegra D is.
- Comment on [deleted] 2 weeks ago:
I agree with the consensus here- you are thinking about this wrong. Allegra-D, the one behind the counter in my state, is an allergy medicine we use for colds, because it works better than anything labeled as cold medicine.
If you are saying you want something that treats allergies, and by treating them unstuffs your nose, that Allegra-D will work. I don’t understand why you think it won’t. The pseudoephedrine in it (the D in the name) is a vasoconstrictor that will open your nose.
If it’s the same drug labeled as a cold medicine, it would work exactly the same.
- Comment on Why do we have shampoo, conditioner, and body wash soaps? 2 weeks ago:
I’ve seen pictures of people from the past with my hair type, from the time before conditioner. I will buy conditioner. Styling goops too. Do you mean everyone should cut their hair so short it doesn’t matter? I like having styled hair - will agree it’s culture/marketing but so what?
I could use shampoo as body wash, sure, not so different. I don’t use natural soaps because in hard water they do more harm than good. Conditioner is a non negotiable. Sometimes I just rinse and condition, but never wash without conditioner-ing.
My husband keeps his hair very short but that involves haircut every two weeks, it’s not cheaper overall.
- Comment on The forbidden fourth leche 3 weeks ago:
Coquito I call Ron con 5 leches.
Leche evaporada, leche regular, leche condensada dulce (lechera), leche de coco, y crema.
Why have 3 or 4 when you can have 5 and rum?
- Comment on Does smelling your food while you cook it make it taste bland? 3 weeks ago:
That doesn’t happen to me, but I cook for my family every day, usually just once. (So not so infrequently It’s something unusual, but not so often it’s a drag). It’s more like an appetizer or something.
- Comment on Is there a science educator who shows in a video how they hand wash dishes? 3 weeks ago:
If you have enough sinks, or a big enough pot to soak them in, one soak in hot soapy water, wash them all in the next sink, do your scrub-scrub without rinsing then rinse them all in bulk, then final rinse by dipping them into a sink full of hot water with a little bleach.
Then dry them with a clean towel.
That’s how we hand wash when the dishwasher was broken and someone in the house was sick. Because otherwise my husband will wash them with the water running the whole time.
- Comment on I've never been in a situation where me having a gun would have made things bettter. 3 weeks ago:
Guy with knife in my face, I looked right at him and said what the fuck? He said he was trying to talk to me & I didn’t respond and I just said that a knife was NOT the way to get someone to talk to you and he put it away, walked me to my floor and said thanks & bye.
I don’t know, exactly, and just like a gun surely it wouldn’t work in every situation but de-escalation works more often than you might think.
Only once have I had to use violence, I kicked a guy off me (I am physically stronger than I look, not objectively strong but enough to surprise someone) kicked like a fucking kangaroo, so hard he hit the wall and believe it or not, it shocked him into stopping what he was doing and I left.
- Comment on I've never been in a situation where me having a gun would have made things bettter. 3 weeks ago:
Ha!
- Comment on I've never been in a situation where me having a gun would have made things bettter. 3 weeks ago:
Same here. I have had a knife pulled on me in a dark stairwell, have had several dangerous situations and at no point did I wish for a gun, it would have escalated those situations and made them worse. I have been able to deescalate, shock guys into being nice way more often than I would ever have imagined possible.
I’m not saying NO situation is better with a gun but not nearly as many as you think. Hopefully most people with guns never need to use them. People who sell guns sell fear, it’s becomes the “if all you have is a hammer, everything looks like a nail” problem.
Figure if I have made it half a century without needing one, it isn’t likely I will need one now.
- Comment on Mom with the real questions 3 weeks ago:
I like those big cabinets in place of kitchen cabinets. Glass front makes everything look better, I don’t put curios in them. Plates, glasses, bottles, booze, whatever goes in them ends up looking good.
- Comment on How much money should one person realistically make or have? 4 weeks ago:
A house, a car, and enough to pay all the bills and still have some lifestyle, without the terror of knowing you are one job loss away from homelessness and starvation. Able to retire for 25 years before dying.
I think for us (a family not a single person) that really is a million in the bank and 200k per year. We don’t have that, nor do many others.
As a cap? I think nobody needs to accumulate more than 5 million in cash and other assets. Less if you live somewhere with reasonable pension and healthcare.
- Comment on 4 weeks ago:
This looks like a style thing, not anything ugly about the person. Haircut, wardrobe. Not even wardrobe, never mind. Better haircut and glasses, maybe teeth? Guy has good bone structure in his face and looks built ok.
- Comment on How often do you change your towels? 4 weeks ago:
We do exactly the same as you, with one difference. For bath towels we have 2 sets and alternate them, so as we wash one set, we put out the others and put away the washed ones when done. Only replace if they fall apart, I don’t know how liking that takes, maybe 15-20 years? So maybe yes with one set 8-10 years sounds about right?
Kitchen towels wear out faster, harder use and hot water wash with bleach. Bath towels last a long time, cold water wash then dryer.
- Comment on Why aren't tall people also wider? 4 weeks ago:
I am bigger around than a short lady, but proportionally more taller than wider, elongated. I am not sure why it works that way.
What I wonder about more is fat people. My shape is defined by my skeleton, I’m not that skinny but like, my ribcage and hipbones, shoulders are my frame, the outer edges of my body shape. If someone is so fat, how does their body extend far past the bones, what holds it up? Or do they have a wider skeleton?
- Comment on Are we truely prisoners of our upbringing? 5 weeks ago:
I am never sure how time works at all. It’s possible that everything we experience is just rolling out from some original cause, everything happening is just an effect caused by what came before, essentially has already happened, in a way, you cannot change anything.
If that is true, then yes. You are an effect caused by your parents’ actions and they in turn were an effect of their own parents’ actions, on and on back to the origin of the universe.
If it works the way it feels to us, and we are choosing actions, then no. You can modify yourself and choose to do things not caused by your upbringing, there is not just one path already laid out before you. If that’s the case, I’d think just asking the question at all is a good start, deciding what you want to keep from your past and what you want to change, living intentionally, mindfully.
I do think upbringing plays a big part in shaping a person and have often said that if a baby was dropped on my doorstep I do think it would end up being like my other kids, more than different. Especially at this point when all those other kids are adults and would also be influential.
- Comment on Is there a real, actually working way to earn money online without having a job? 5 weeks ago:
Little bits of money, sure. Surveys, selling stuff on eBay or Etsy or whatever. I never found it worthwhile, can make so much more money working at a job. Most I ever made was $200, twice. Once for designing logic for a quiz to determine hair porosity, once for an interview when some medical product I got failed.
That is over the entire history of the Internet. Otherwise it’s just been a dollar or two once in a while.
- Comment on How do you "feel" gender? 1 month ago:
I don’t know if this helps but I do very much enjoy being female -bodied, like I loved being pregnant and nursing, love having sex, I enjoy the body I am in. I don’t think much about any mental or emotional aspect to being a woman, don’t feel particularly feminine or anything like that.
But I suspect if I had been born in a male body, I would feel “off” and wish for a female one.
- Comment on [deleted] 1 month ago:
The fuck? Fishy smell is an infection, not a healthy vagina. You are usual, no worries.
- Comment on Why does everyone put celery in soup stock? 1 month ago:
I think you are an outlier in your palate for celery. Could you have an allergy or something? I like it fine, it tastes good and adds a really nice flavor to stock for soup. If you don’t like that flavor just leave it out when you make it, the rest of us might think your dish is missing something but who cares, if the something it’s missing is something you don’t like?
My penultimate child loves “cooked salted celery” as she puts it - she will rescue it from the stock pot, and likes stir fry of just celery and beef.