I did “tax included” when I sold stuff but it’s unusual. Yes we know there is tax, I know the tax rate here and it’s not difficult to calculate the total. Food, like groceries, is not taxable here.
I will say though - my husband wants a car and I keep having to remind him to gross up the price when he sends examples because on big things it is a big charge.
This is not how I would describe it, though I can’t speak for all women. Looks are a primary filter, if you don’t look good enough for me to have a possibility of being attracted to you, you are never going to dig out of that bucket by having a good personality, or intelligence, or lifestyle, matching in other ways.
OTOH, there is no scale, it’s a yes or no question. If you look adequate to my whatever subconscious filter that is, no extra credit for looking better than good enough, everything else is what matters. No man is so good looking that I could find him attractive only based on looks, but some are so bad looking I cannot.
We are in a very diverse city here, no matter what axis you spin it on, and not really conservative, it’s not any kind of monoculture in Florida. Spot on about taxes, though I’m sure they aren’t that much lower in reality, people move here thinking they are, then get hit with the sales tax, property tax, car insurance and property insurance.
Don’t all New Yorkers come down here eventually? NJ too. The influx of conservative northerners is a big part of the mess we are in.
Yes, actually. My process is in the pinned non alcoholic thread on !cocktails@lemmy.world
In short, I make a very sweet lemonade with cinnamon and pour it over the peels, the lemon seems to help the flavor a lot. And yeah flies love the fermenting fruit stuff.
I do a “dry July” so look for interesting things to drink, non alcoholic cocktails (meaning non intoxicating, I don’t worry about trace amounts) and found the friend zone, I made the syrup and the kvass, but threw the strawberry tops in there instead of trashing them, I make tepache a lot and this is similar, the fruit and sugar ferment naturally. The drink is great, sweet but complex, I have served it to other cocktail people and they liked it too.
Original kvass I believe is made with bread and more of a beer taste, I have only done the fruit ones.
Be careful with mango - I made a mango soda with ginger bug and it was slow to ferment, I left it in the fridge. Forgot about it for a couple of weeks. Opened it and it exploded out of the bottle. Thankfully it didn’t break but we found mango soda on the ceiling of adjoining rooms, it really went all over.
Opened the other one in the lawn, facing away from me. Tasted the little bit left in the bottle and my goodness it was glorious. All lost. Sugary and acidic juices can take a little while to get going but once they start, it’s usually about half a day here on the counter or couple of days in the fridge. I do use thick glass swing top bottles, and open them daily now once it’s done.
Strawberry kvass in my fridge right now, yum. Fermented and fruity sodas are amazing.
Well I am on the other side of this, I feel so fat even though objectively not overweight at all (BMI of 22, and pretty lean) because I was underweight a long time so in a relative sense I feel fat. I also feel better than I ever did when underweight, physically, and my bone mass is a little better (which is supposed to be impossible to achieve at my age) and that pisses me off, I want my healthiest weight to be the size I like better.
I don’t think it’s good for you to enable them in losing weight, no. Unless you are 100% sure they are not falling into disordered eating. It’s their body, you can’t control that but it’s fine not to support or help them with it.
As someone prone to eating disorders - the suggestion to work out is solid. I find it much better to focus on athletic goals and just let form follow function. It’s good to be able to feel good about what my body can do.
Yeah I rotate everything, usually would put them in the front garden since they are showy, this year in the veg garden because it’s so hot in the summer they give some shade to the rest of the stuff. It’s a mess right now, the butternut squash got attacked so bad I think it has to be removed in a plastic bag. And something is attacking the sprawling watermelon plants too, but those seem to be surviving.
It’s infantilizing. I would never treat a grown man that way, nor would I live with a guy who expected to be ‘taken care of’ to that extent. It implies a lack of trust in your ability to take care of yourself. I want a partner, not another child to take care of!
You are average in this, I would say.
My husband laughed at me for pulling weeds and throwing them in the yard, but they ARE the “lawn”, I don’t care if they grow out there, just want to advantage the flowers and food plants in the defined spaces.
I think sunflower seeds are just so delicious they get eaten by everything. Squirrels, birds, who knows what all. I can get sunflowers, but this patch of about a dozen sunflowers this year came from about 60 seeds.
I hate to be the one to tell you this, but your dad is a racist.
I would say it’s a shining example of my theory. He wants to go back to when he was ignorant of the struggles of other people. They did exist, he just didn’t know and now he does.
I think people who think the past was better are all white men, and it’s because they didn’t have to think about other people. They want to go back to ignorance.
He literally says that to you? The 1950s? Have you asked him specifically why? My mom had a great time in the 1950s and no way would she ever have wanted the world to go backwards to that time. She recognized, as she became older, how bad things were for her mom, for black kids (her school was segregated), for so many people.
The only reason I can imagine wanting to go to the past, is to try to make this future better, but I know better than to fuck with the timeline and can’t imagine I’d be able to do anything about it anyway.
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And oh my God, the juggernaut that is Fontaines DC
ETA I agree with Future Islands.
You know - the only thing you can really control at all is yourself. So it can be true that the world sucks, but making yourself suck is not going to do anything except hurt you, yourself. And make the world a little bit suckier.
So regardless of the outside circumstances, the best action is always to work on yourself. Generally speaking that does make you look differently at your circumstances too, so that you might be able to improve your situation with some action but even if those circumstances don’t change you are still better equipped to deal with them.
My kids have theoretical public transportation to school, work, we live near the bus routes in several directions.
To work or the high school - that bus runs 1 times per hour. So they can only arrive very early or very late, and it’s about an hour walk to either of those.
The bus route to the university is actually pretty good, runs every half hour, and takes about 40 minutes to get there (vs. 10-15 minutes drive) then you have to trust your luck with the loop runner bus that goes from the transit center around the campus, that adds between 10 minutes and an hour, randomly because it has no schedule, just drives the loop all day and arrives whenever. There is an app that tracks it so you can know whether to risk crossing the huge road between the transfer ramp & the uni.
Has this man never eaten a sandwich? Pizza? French Fries? Tacos? What is this nonsense?
Ha! Not religious, but yes from Catholic background both me & husband. I do like kids, and they are all glad now to have such an extensive network of siblings. White mostly by way of Southern Europe on my side, husband mostly by way of Eastern Europe.
I’ve not messed with commercial yeast but tepache is so delicious I’m sure this is glorious.