I remember a bunch over the years that I can still close my eyes and replay, so this is a harder question than it may seem on the surface.

The actual most unforgettable is a recurring nightmare that I’m not willing to talk about because fuck that.

But number two was a doozie. Heh.

Back in high school, I had one of those bonkers dreams that fucked me up bad for a while.

In the dream, I met a girl, fell in love, had kids and grandkids, grew old together. And I’m not talking about just those events and nothing else. There were entire days taking place, from waking up to going to bed in the dream. Entire birthday parties, vacations together, sitting on swings and swinging while holding hands and watching the kids play.

I lived an entire fucking life in a dream.

And I woke up from that still a fucking kid. And I immediately started crying because my family were gone, my dream family. I lost them just as sure as if they’d died. It was both beautiful and horrifying.

It fucked me up. Not that I wasn’t already pretty damn fucked up, what with PTSD already kicking my ass at that age. But that dream was brutal. Well, waking up from it was, the dream itself was amazing.

I’ve told the story of this many times online because retelling it tends to take the sting out of it a little more each time.

Not that I haven’t had a great deal of joy in real life, I have. And I’m happier with my wife and kid now than I ever was in the dream, plus it’s real. But that dream has sometimes made it difficult to be fully present in a relationship in the past. It was one of those things where knowing that the person I was with wasn’t the right one made it easier to end things before they went bad. But the fact that I would have to constantly compare reality to the dream meant that I could never be certain how much was a genuine incompatibility and how much was holding reality up to the lens of a dream.

But the older I got, the less that factored into things. Now, it’s more of a pleasant memory than a bad one. The dream has lost its sting from being only a dream, and reality is better in terms of having a fulfilling and real partner.

I swear, people posting about me all over the place!

Also, I would legit do that if I had chicks.

Luckily, she did okay with pad training. She isn’t perfect, but she makes sure her feet are on a pad before letting go. Since she’s only inside in the evening and night, she’s not running around as much as she does during the day, so we can make sure there’s a pad available no matter where she is with us.

It took about two months to get to that point though, and I suspect if she had been much older when we got her, it wouldn’t have worked out. It helps that she’s fairly prissy as well; even outside, she won’t poop near her food and water, which I’ve never seen a chicken care about. She also won’t poop in her nesting box (not that she’s in there long, she’s never gone broody at all).

Ed Norton is an automatic sign that even if the movie sucks, it’ll be worth watching once just for his performance.

I’m convinced chickens dream. They exhibit the same kind of involuntary twitches and wing flaps that are too akin to a dog running in its sleep to not see them as the same thing.

But chickens are also light sleepers. They’ll bump each other and do little trills and whistles to each other. So I’m not sure what exactly she was doing; dreaming or just reacting to tiny movements I was making while breathing.

Ngl, I’d definitely cut off clothing rather than disturb her in her sleep lol. I’m getting a reputation for being the crazy chicken guy because I talk about them so often, but I love these damn birds.

I keep wanting to record our pet hen doing her dream movements and sounds, but there’s not enough light in her indoor “coop”, so it ends up just being sounds. It’s freaking adorable though. She’ll take little naps on the arm of the couch, and do it there sometimes, but she gets woken up too easy to get a good recording of it.

Aight, I’m going to be blunt. I down voted this post because it is not only poorly framed, but you censored os names.

There’s no way this isn’t some kind of rage bait or troll with that.

However, I’m still otherwise going to pretend that it isn’t.

I’m not sure why you picked arch as the example that’s better, as it’s kinda behind in terms of functionality compared to other Linux for mobile devices. I’m curious about that because I’ve seen the usual suspects on devices, and arch was way less capable of being a functional, reliable phone os compared to Ubuntu, mobian, postmarket or sailfin. Arch arm is okay, but not ready for prime time. Lots of issues with actual phone calls.

Tbh, none of them were perfect in that regard, which is a giant problem for a phone. But even manjaro was better at that time (maybe a year and a half ago), and it’s arch based.

Linux phones are getting closer to being a credible third platform. If you’ve got the right devices, I could see an argument that it is, within certain limits.

There’s other arch derivatives out there that I haven’t been able to play around with, if that’s what you’re basing your opinion on, but arch arm, I dunno if I can even call it credible, much less better.

If your argument is about the companies that control android and iOS make both or either of them such a nightmare that anything is better, well, that’s an opinion that isn’t popular, but I’d have trouble arguing against it. But, being real, if you can’t rely on a phone that the dialer will come up and make a call so long as the device itself is intact, then it isn’t realistic choice.

I think you’re locked into the idea that a single place should be an alternative. That’s part of what allowed reddit to go full asshole the way it did. A one stop shop is convenient, but only so long as it doesn’t become malignant.

Switching over to a multi platform media model is just better. You’ve got multiple threaded options that duplicate the mid length discussion format. There’s two or three options for shorter form/microblogging level discussions. Your supplement that with some corporate options for broader options, and you’re both having the same degree of information, and having it impossible for any single source to shut you out entirely.

Hell, once you get used to the lower user base, the fact that lemmy has advantages just by itself becomes a very nice thing. When you mix in mastodon, piefed and mbin being crosstalk compatible, you don’t even have to have accounts on those platforms to gain extended reach.

I mean, it is what it is, if you need to be able to post and comment on reddit, jumping through ever narrowed hoops is your only option. I’m just not of the opinion that there’s really much of value in gaming at all that can’t be gained passively. Tech wise, yeah, you’ll get a wider range of answers faster on reddit. Not necessarily better answers, depending on the exact tech branch, though.

I’d also argue that people in the fediverse are more likely to put in effort into advice they give than on reddit. Shit, on reddit, you type more than three paragraphs, somebody is going to whine about a wall of text and tl;dr. So there’s no point in putting effort in. Here, you get thanked for going the extra mile, so people are more willing to do it.

But reddit is dying for human users. It just is, because they don’t want people using it the way people need a service like reddit. I’m not personally willing to bang my head against the wall when I can end up with the same information in roughly the same amount of time by chilling and waiting.

5p extra for ketchup

Used to be 1p, but the damn dwarves have driven up prices after their efforts on treacle mine road

I don’t know why you were banned, but they’ve been throwing bans around left and right, and damn near all of them have been bullshit. No real reasons given, no appeal responses, etc.

So, yeah, they seriously expect people to fuck off and never post or comment again. That’s their goal, and they’re leveraging every tool at their disposal to do so.

They want numbers, but numbers they can control. Anyone that’s the tiniest bit off of the kind of user they want posting and commenting is a detriment to their actual goals. But, since there’s plenty of them that will keep coming back anyway, they still get their ad revenue from whatever percentage of those that aren’t using methods that bypass ads entirely.

You can keep trying, and maybe you’ll find the right combination of things to bypass their fingerprinting methods. But you’ll eventually get banned again and have to start over, while having refined their fingerprinting of you. Each time, it gets harder and harder to bypass.

Now, if that’s how you roll, have at it! Fuck reddit. Anyone willing to jump through those hoops does cost them a teeny tiny amount of resources to maintain their bans. Added up over enough users, maybe they’d give up. But, it’s all automated now, so the amount it costs doesn’t go up far per user trying. So I don’t believe they’ll ever give up; I just don’t want to say never ever.

Me? I use stealth for the very few things I can’t find elsewhere. It’s supposedly archived now, so there’s no telling how long it’ll keep working, but it is currently working. I have no need to post or comment there though.

But they want people trying. Because every new account artificially inflates user numbers. Oh, look at how many people are signing up! We’re doing great!.

I swear, I wish the room that was disclosed in had been archived.

Anyway, my advise is to not log in at all, just use the revanced reddit app, stealth, oldreddit or whatever passively, and use lemmy/piefed/mbin for any discussions. A lot less hassle.

You aren’t supposed to use it again. That’s the point they’re making

I base mine on his dark Knight performance

In fairness though, the shirt is padded to achieve that

I once slept on the couch because our itty bitty chicken fell asleep in my beard and didn’t want to be moved. May not seem like a big deal, but I have a back filled with multiple injuries, so it was a lot of pain.

She’s too big for that now, which is sometimes sad, but spending the night pinned down by cuteness as she trilled and peeped in her sleep was absolutely adorable.

My problem with boost is it’s double column layout sucks for readability. It’s great for images, but text based posts are too cramped up.

I err to eternity over boost because of that.

I’ve been cooking at home, and occasionally in restaurants, since I was about ten or so. So, 40ish years.

No single standard is better than the others. It does suck that there isn’t a single one that is used as a base, and then gets converted by the cook into their preferred units and structure, but even that has issues.

The good news is that most cooking, and even most baking, is very forgiving of the kind of discrepancies between sizes of lemons, onions, etc. You don’t really run into trouble until you’re dealing with things that react chemically based on the ratio of ingredients, which is still most common in baking, and not even all baking.

Even in those types of recipes, it’s usually flour that’s the problem, not leaveners, since flour compacts readily and to a high degree. But, then again, most modern recipes like that are going to be in weight measures, or in baker’s ratios. You’d be using a scale for the fiddly recipes.

So, generally, just guesstimate your produce size the first time you make something. It’s not going to be so far off that the results will suck if the dish itself doesn’t. Then you tweak things until it fits what you prefer, which is what happens anyway as you build your recipe book/collection.

My old recipe book had scribbled notes in the margins from years of refinements. When I copied that into a digital recipe manager, I added them in directly. Now, I’m able to just enter the original recipe, then add my notes as parentheticals or whatever as I refine.

Even with those detailed notes, a given recipe won’t always be reproducible as exactly the same. That’s because you just can’t standardize everything. You use good produce, there’s going to be varying water content, slight differences in flavor compounds, more or less sugars, so to get the same results over time, the cook has to know how to adjust for those things on the fly.

Of equal import is that no matter how scientific your process of recipe development is, the table is never the same as the cook. My taste buds and brain aren’t the same as my wife’s, my kid’s, my cousin’s, etc. So there’s limits to the benefits of standardized recipes on the plate.

Now, formatting? That’s a huge help.

You want your ingredient list to include instructions about when an ingredient is used in multiple places. You want lists broken down in sections when a recipe calls for multiple procedures (like making the main dish, a sauce, and a crust).

In the instructions, make sure the ingredient quantities are included for redundancy.

If there’s an instruction about duration that’s variable explain what the variables change. As in: bake for 10 to 15 minutes. Okay, great. What’s the difference? If my stove runs hot and I go for the short time, will I see golden brown, and will 15 be burnt or just really dark? Yeah, you can’t expect identical results from one circumstance to the next, but at least drop an “until golden brown” at the very minimum.

That applies to any variable, imo, but it can get to be too much detail in complicated recipe.

Cooking and baking are chemistry, physics. But they’re also an art. The more you try to strip a recipe of flexibility, the less successful it’s going to be for the next cook.

Eh, everyone’s taste in humor is different.

To me, without the ability to joke about a thing makes it more difficult to bear. The world is an ugly, dark thing, filled with horrors. Sometimes a whistle in the dark is what keeps things from snowballing into an unbearable weight.

Check out vornado. They make, or at least used to make, a few models that might fit your needs. I’ve had one of their vent fans for a couple of years now, and it gets the job done well. Definitely not going to leave a gap anyone can get through, puts out good air flow when blowing in, plus can serve to vent air outside when needed. But they’ve got other options.

Pfft, everyone does that

Preach!

You’re wrong! And you should feel bad!