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Comment on Confess your food crimes in ~food
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Comment on Confess your food crimes in ~food
Echeveria Link ParentI can't easily find guanciale out here either (or pancetta, which I've seen recommended as a good substitute), so I feel you on that one. Lardons (cubed pork belly) works nicely too. That specific...I can't easily find guanciale out here either (or pancetta, which I've seen recommended as a good substitute), so I feel you on that one. Lardons (cubed pork belly) works nicely too.
That specific recipe started out as a combination of "I need to find something to finish this Boursin with" and "we have too many apples and I don't want to make pie again" (we live near an orchard, so in the fall we're drowning in apples) and it worked surprisingly well. Add the apples towards the end so they don't get too mushy - I throw them in the pan for a couple minutes when I'm finishing off the bacon. If you don't have maple bacon on hand, I recommend adding a bit of maple syrup in your egg mixture (and honestly, you can do that even if you do have maple bacon).
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Comment on Confess your food crimes in ~food
Echeveria Link ParentUnfortunately broccoli is even worse for me than romaine, but the rest of it sounds quite tasty!Unfortunately broccoli is even worse for me than romaine, but the rest of it sounds quite tasty!
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Comment on Confess your food crimes in ~food
Echeveria LinkI use shredded cabbage or just bagged coleslaw mix as a base for Caesar salad instead of romaine. In my defense, I have Crohn's and lettuce doesn't like me much. I used to use spinach (which I can...I use shredded cabbage or just bagged coleslaw mix as a base for Caesar salad instead of romaine.
In my defense, I have Crohn's and lettuce doesn't like me much. I used to use spinach (which I can digest just fine) but Caesar dressing is too heavy for spinach and the whole thing just wasn't as pleasant as the real deal. A coworker has similar issues with lettuce and he's the one that suggested it. It's nice and crunchy and it works better than you'd expect it to. I'd like to try it with napa cabbage next.
This is mostly a food crime if you're Italian, but my (Italian, ironically) partner loves putting caramelized onions in carbonara. I find the sweetness of the onions balances out the richness of the pasta quite well. Then again, in the fall I love making a bastardized carbonara with diced apples, maple bacon, and half hard cheddar/half maple apple Boursin cheese, so I'm not much better when it comes to authentic pasta.
This one isn't quite to the extent as other things in this thread, but my partner thinks I'm insane for putting sliced bananas in my PB&J. My parents suggested I try it as a kid and I loved it so much I still do it. Then again, both my mom andy brother also put ketchup on things it doesn't belong, so I may not have had the best food role models lol
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Comment on Confess your food crimes in ~food
Echeveria Link ParentMy partner is lactose intolerant and I need to be mindful of my dairy intake too, so I swap out coconut milk for a lot of things. We usually have lactose free milk on hand (nothing else froths to...My partner is lactose intolerant and I need to be mindful of my dairy intake too, so I swap out coconut milk for a lot of things. We usually have lactose free milk on hand (nothing else froths to his liking for lattes) but we've actually grown to like the coconut flavour in some dishes more than using regular dairy. I buy coconut yogurt instead of regular yogurt too, for recipes that use it. (Plus coconut doesn't curdle/split in hot dishes like regular dairy does.)
As for peanut butter and curry, I have a peanut butter chicken curry I make every once in a while that turns out really good - it's a great combination. I should try your recipe too, it sounds just as tasty.
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Comment on How often do you replace your phone? in ~tech
Echeveria (edited )LinkI tend to replace phones when they get so old they don't function well (slow, freezes a lot, etc.), or they start having battery problems (if I can't replace the battery). My average is about 4...I tend to replace phones when they get so old they don't function well (slow, freezes a lot, etc.), or they start having battery problems (if I can't replace the battery). My average is about 4 years per phone.
Here's a timeline of what I've owned:
2008-2011: Motorola Razr flip phone (gave it to my dad when I changed phones, he kept it until the 2G towers shut down in Canada)
2011-2016: Samsung Galaxy Nexus (still in use by my grandparents, who needed a basic phone just for phone calls when the aforementioned 2G shutdown killed their old cellphone)
2016-2017: LG Nexus 4 (aunt's old phone that was already ~2 years old by the time I got it, developed battery issues and had a finicky screen because of a poorly calibrated replacement screen)
2017-2021: Samsung Galaxy A5 (2017) (I loved this phone to death and only got rid of it because the battery life was harder and harder to work around and I couldn't find a replacement battery anywhere - my brother uses it for basic calls/text now)
2021-now: Pixel 4a 5G (battery replaced last November)
Soonish: Pixel 6 Pro (partner upgraded to a S25+ and is giving me his old phone)I don't do anything super exciting with my phone so I don't need a top-of-the-line model - my main priorities are battery life, the camera, and now repairability as well. As you can see, most of my phones have been in decent enough shape by the time I'm done with them that someone else got some use out of them. I might offer the 4a to my grandparents, as the GNex is so old that the battery dies after a couple hours, which makes it useless on longer trips out of the house.
I'm not sure what I'll get after the Pixel 6 though. My plan was to change the battery in my 4a so it would last until I could pick up a Sony Xperia on my next trip to the US, which would have been in the fall (Sony doesn't sell phones in Canada anymore) but for obvious reasons that isn't happening. I'm hoping HMD or Fairphone will have branched out here by that point. I don't like how "proprietary" (for lack of a better word) Samsung's phones have become, I don't like the direction Google is going in now (I'm only taking the Pixel 6 since I'm not paying for it...), and I've never been an Apple fan, so that doesn't leave a lot of options nowadays.
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Comment on Stellantis introduces pop-up ads in vehicles, sparking outrage among owners in ~transport
Echeveria Link ParentOh, I'm jealous of that Miata! I'd love to get one of those someday, I'm a sucker for those pop-up lights. Older cars are definitely a lot easier to maintain overall, I've also noticed that over...Oh, I'm jealous of that Miata! I'd love to get one of those someday, I'm a sucker for those pop-up lights.
Older cars are definitely a lot easier to maintain overall, I've also noticed that over the years even the most basic car maintenance has become harder and harder to do yourself... I definitely feel like it's being done on purpose. It's nice to just be able to fix it up yourself and not have to worry about a ton of other failure points on the car.
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Comment on Stellantis introduces pop-up ads in vehicles, sparking outrage among owners in ~transport
Echeveria Link ParentMy partner and I are in the same boat, though our current vehicles are a little newer than 2005 lol. He drives a 2015 Cadillac and he's told me that he actually wants to go for an older car as his...My partner and I are in the same boat, though our current vehicles are a little newer than 2005 lol. He drives a 2015 Cadillac and he's told me that he actually wants to go for an older car as his next one, for similar reasons as you. The Cadillac doesn't have much enshittification done to it compared to newer cars but it's just annoying enough to make him want to move away from that. (The fact that most of the dashboard controls are touch rather than physical buttons/knobs are his main issue with it.)
I drive a 2016 Toyota that I'd like to keep as long as I possibly can. It's fairly basic and the small touchscreen does absolutely nothing but basic phone call and music functionality, but that's really all I wanted/needed it to do (it has no connectivity besides the radio antenna and Bluetooth so a situation like the Jeep ads is impossible). Before that I had a 2004 Honda that I was really happy with and would have kept forever if I could, but I got it secondhand as a beater car and the previous owner wasn't diligent with upkeep (particularly the undercoating) so it unfortunately ended up rusting to death. Hold on to your Honda, their older cars are really solid if you take good care of them.
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Comment on Headlamp tech that doesn’t blind oncoming drivers—where is it? in ~transport
Echeveria Link ParentI've had the same experience in my hatchback. Somehow, with the height my eyes are at when I sit down and how my mirrors line up, it feels like every single SUV and truck has their lights at the...I've had the same experience in my hatchback. Somehow, with the height my eyes are at when I sit down and how my mirrors line up, it feels like every single SUV and truck has their lights at the perfect height to reflect in all of my mirrors and perpetually blind me. That combined with a bad case of astigmatism has made me absolutely hate driving at night.
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Comment on I hate alcohol. Totally hate it. in ~talk
Echeveria LinkI sympathize with what you're going through, even if I haven't lived it myself. My dad was apparently effectively a functional alcoholic at one point, but he stopped after my mom told him she...I sympathize with what you're going through, even if I haven't lived it myself. My dad was apparently effectively a functional alcoholic at one point, but he stopped after my mom told him she wouldn't have kids with him unless he gave up drinking. I'm 29 now, almost 30, and I can count on one hand the number of times I've seen him have a drink in my lifetime. He does enjoy non-alcoholic beer, though, and over the years those options have grown a lot (it's surprising how many restaurants have it on their menu now, even).
I was on antidepressants on and off from age 16 to 23 and had strict orders from my doctor to not drink at all while I was on them. I did once, accidentally (didn't realise there was alcohol in the punch at a party), and it ended up being a horrible experience. Even though it's only been a few years since all this happened, I remember it felt very isolating to not be drinking because that still hadn't really been normalized at the time. My classmates in college never invited me anywhere because they all wanted to go drinking and I couldn't, so making friends was extremely difficult during those two years (and ten years after graduation, I don't talk to anyone from there anymore). When I did go out, turning down alcohol turned into a contest of who could convince me to have "just one drink"... The peer pressure was unlike anything I've ever seen even now, years later. People wouldn't let it go until I went through half of my fucking medical history with them to "justify" why I didn't want to drink. I think situations like that are part of the problem - for each person like me who doesn't back down and refuses to drink, how many more cave in because of peer pressure, and then keep doing it again and again, and don't know how to regulate themselves because of how often they end up doing it?
People are a lot more open and candid about not drinking nowadays compared to before, and I'm really happy to see it. I have a lot of friends who openly talk about not drinking because of addiction issues in their families, and not even wanting to chance it at all because of how destructive it can be. I respect that a lot and I wish more people were willing to speak up about it. There's also a lot more options for fun non-alcoholic drinks now, so you can still have something nice when you go out with friends or whatever but you don't want to have any alcohol.
I hope your stepkid is able to overcome their addiction and comes out of it a healthier and stronger person.
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Comment on What was it like choosing your own name? in ~lgbt
Echeveria LinkI picked out my current name while I was still identifying myself as agender rather than as a trans man, but it kinda just stuck. I couldn't figure out something else that I liked better that...I picked out my current name while I was still identifying myself as agender rather than as a trans man, but it kinda just stuck. I couldn't figure out something else that I liked better that wouldn't be incredibly weird to other people, otherwise I would absolutely have named myself Sidonius which is probably my favourite name ever. (I'm using it as part of my pen name instead, which I guess works out in the end.) My main rule was to not pick a name of someone I already knew, family or otherwise.
The first name I have now was partially meant to be gender-neutral at the time (it's a different gender in different languages and I thought that was cool), but it was also just a name and spelling I really like anyway. My middle name choice I owe to wanting to keep an A name (my deadname started with A and, though I hated the name, I was attached to the way I sign my As) and a fairly well timed song on the radio in my mom's car one day. It's Latin though, and not everyone gets it right. When I was still deciding on names, I looked up advice aimed at parents picking out names for their kids and one of the suggestions was "if you want to give your kid a weird name, make it their middle name and give them a more average first name" which sounded reasonable to me, so I decided I'd roll with that.
I do kind of wish I'd thought about my first name choice longer, though. The name I have now is male in my first language (French), but I currently live in a mainly English-speaking area where that name usually reads female, so that's been a bit of a problem.
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Comment on I made a mistake, I started using Reddit again in ~talk
Echeveria LinkI've been on and off Reddit for the last ~10 years and it's pretty much been going downhill the whole time. I kept my current account solely to check in on a couple small subs that I still follow...I've been on and off Reddit for the last ~10 years and it's pretty much been going downhill the whole time. I kept my current account solely to check in on a couple small subs that I still follow and occasionally participate in, but I definitely don't use it like I used to. I stopped browsing on my phone when third-party apps were all taken down because I refused to use their app instead of RIF, and I always said I'd leave for good if they killed Old Reddit because that's the only layout that doesn't look horrendous to me.
I left a lot of larger subs I was reading because they all just turned toxic, and sadly I had to leave a lot of hobby subs too because they devolved from actual discussion about the hobby to post after post of "look what I just bought lol" and people humblebragging about all the stuff they have. A lot of threads nowadays are full of bots stealing replies from other users for karma farming or just using AI for all their posts. It feels weird to browse Reddit and feel like I'm in a room full of robots talking to each other instead of being able to have conversations with other people.
Your experience is definitely a frustrating one, and I get the feeling of hoping it'll become like the old days again someday, but unfortunately, the only direction Reddit is going in is even further down.
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Comment on Detransition is gender liberation, too - Here's to never being satisfied and forever changing in ~lgbt
Echeveria Link ParentThank you for the kind words, I appreciate it! Because of the reaction I got online and within the trans community when I talked about my experience, it took me a while to feel comfortable with...Thank you for the kind words, I appreciate it!
Because of the reaction I got online and within the trans community when I talked about my experience, it took me a while to feel comfortable with the idea of sharing it more openly. I realised, though, that it was important to share, both to be able to give other guys more realistic expectations of things and so they wouldn't feel like something was wrong with them like I did back then if they were dealing with the same thing. After I started posting on the Reddit sub I mentioned, a couple other guys chimed in with similar experiences to mine, and over time I've seen a few others who've gone through the same thing and said our posts helped them feel less alone. Though I rarely look at Reddit anymore, I left my account up to preserve those posts, and still check in on that sub from time to time.
Something I realise I didn't bring up in my original post is my experience with my current friends circle, most of which met me partway into my transition. They were actually a lot more helpful than I expected them to be throughout all that, and not for the reason I expected either. Sure, when I still looked very androgynous they did question if I was a guy or a girl, but when I told them I was trans and T was just taking a while to do its thing, their reaction was more along the lines of "well, puberty took a while for me, it's normal that it takes a while for you too" and they left it at that. They were so nonchalant about it that it made me realise just how ridiculous it is to expect to pass as male so soon, and how it's even more ridiculous that that entire concept became the expectation/norm in the trans community.
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Comment on Where are you on the spectrum of vacation planning? Detailed to the hour or floating like a leaf in the wind? in ~travel
Echeveria LinkI find a few things I'd like to do where I'm going, and plan ahead for those (buy tickets as needed), but that's about it. I aim for one "major" activity a day to give myself time both to enjoy it...I find a few things I'd like to do where I'm going, and plan ahead for those (buy tickets as needed), but that's about it. I aim for one "major" activity a day to give myself time both to enjoy it and to do other things as well. I travel to the same places often to visit friends so I have ongoing lists of places to visit there, but I don't pressure myself to go to as many of them as possible. I travel mostly to go to concerts, but while I'm away I also really enjoy museum and art gallery visits, so I always plan for a couple of those too. Too much planning stresses me out though, so that's why I stick to one planned activity per day.
As an example, my trip to London last year looked like this on paper:
Day 1: Nothing major planned that day in case of flight delays making us arrive late
Day 2: Meeting with two friends living in London that I usually only see every couple of years when we all get together at an industrial music festival in the US
Day 3: Meeting with two friends from the Netherlands who were going to be visiting London at the same time as us
Day 4: Trip outside the city to Royston because my partner wanted to visit Royston Cave
Day 4: Natural History Museum visit because I really wanted to see the Titanosaur exhibit
Day 5: Peter Gabriel show
Day 6: Tate Modern and Sky Gardens
Day 7: Nothing planned that day, we'd figure it out later...but in reality we did a lot more than just those things - those were just what we needed to plan ahead since we had to get tickets and arrange meetup times/spots with other people. We spent most of the second day wandering around record stores (which started after I found out Third Man Records opened a London location since my last visit), found a great little Georgian restaurant down the street from the Natural History Museum after our visit, and ended up using the last day of the trip to do a bit of extra shopping and go back to an amazing Indian restaurant we found on our first day there.
I kind of learned my lesson on day 6 though, as I figured both visits were planned far enough apart to manage both (Tate was booked for 10 AM-ish for a special exhibit to start the visit with, and Sky Gardens was booked for 9 PM), but we spent so long at Tate Modern that we had to rush a bit to make it to Sky Gardens on time.The last time I went to Montréal I only got through about half the list I'd made of places to see and things to do, but at the same time it gives me more reasons to go again and see what I missed. I also bookmark places I really enjoyed (good restaurants and etc.) to return to on future visits.
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Comment on Online shopping - how convenient is it actually? in ~life.style
Echeveria Link ParentYeah, in situations like that, online ordering just becomes a lot easier. In a way that also makes said hobby more accessible to people that aren't near the areas where events are held, though, so...Yeah, in situations like that, online ordering just becomes a lot easier. In a way that also makes said hobby more accessible to people that aren't near the areas where events are held, though, so I don't view that as a bad thing.
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Comment on Online shopping - how convenient is it actually? in ~life.style
Echeveria Link ParentWhen you start paying more attention to it, you really realise how bad it's gotten. I see so many sites nowadays with those popups that are like "someone in X country just bought this item!" or...When you start paying more attention to it, you really realise how bad it's gotten. I see so many sites nowadays with those popups that are like "someone in X country just bought this item!" or huge timers saying a sale is ending soon (it never really ends, though) to pressure you into making impulse decisions. That sort of thing personally just turns me off from buying there entirely, but far too many people fall for it, sometimes without really realising it.
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Comment on Detransition is gender liberation, too - Here's to never being satisfied and forever changing in ~lgbt
Echeveria LinkTrans guy who once almost detransitioned here. I relate a lot to Devon's experience when it comes to the societal pressures placed on trans people and on those who choose to detransition. There's...- Exemplary
Trans guy who once almost detransitioned here. I relate a lot to Devon's experience when it comes to the societal pressures placed on trans people and on those who choose to detransition.
There's a stubborn stereotype among trans people that testosterone is magic for trans guys and everyone who takes it passes as male in record time. I'd never known a guy who didn't pass completely after a year on T... then I decided to transition myself, after realising (thanks to my psychologist helping me through it) that yes, I was indeed trans. Though my parents brought me up in a fairly gender-neutral manner and never denied me anything on the basis of "you're a girl, you can't have/do/look like X" or whatever, society unfortunately did not treat me the same way, and I felt out of place from the day my body started looking obviously like a girl's body because I felt like it was doing these things out of my control. I don't remember this, probably because I blocked it out, but my mom recalls me having a literal nervous breakdown when I had my first period. She said I cursed out basically the entire world and kept trying to understand what was wrong with me that made me deserve to suffer like this. I was nine years old, and in my tiny French Canadian hometown in the mid-2000s, no one had any idea what trans people were, much less the right words to describe them.
When I transitioned, I discovered the hard way that T was going to take its sweet time with me. I knew from the start I'd probably look a bit like a twink and would never end up hypermasculine-looking simply because of genetics, but this was ridiculous. I was over two years in, even having had top surgery by that point, and I was still being addressed as a woman with zero hesitation by literally everyone I met. That took its toll on me mentally, and I became a bit of a recluse because I was so anxious at the idea of leaving the house and immediately getting misgendered. Every time it happened, I was forced to face my body's failure, and I hated being reminded of it. It took me over four years to be able to pass consistently, which is basically unheard of even in the trans community. (I never figured out why it took so long, as I never managed to convince my former doctor from the trans health clinic to actually run the tests I needed to look at my T levels and absorption rate since he believed, like many others, that I "wasn't making enough of an effort to pass", and that it was all in my head/all my fault. After I left that doctor behind, I never got an endo to actually look at what was going on - the one I got referred to quietly closed down his clinic a few months later without telling anyone (I found out six months later when I tried to book a follow-up) and judged I wasn't one of his patients worthy of being transferred to another endo. Eventually the problem resolved itself, but only because enough time passed for my body to actually do what it was supposed to do.)
When I thought I would get support and understanding for what I was going through, I instead got the opposite; the trans community shunned me for "making them look bad" and told me I couldn't talk about my experience because it would scare people into thinking T doesn't work, and I often heard the words "if you want to be a man, why aren't you making an effort to look like one?" I did my best considering the hand I'd been dealt - there's only so much you can do to look like a man when you're 160 cm/5'3" and have a DD chest that even binders can't fully hide. I left my local trans community when a similarly non-passing friend was banned from the support group we were both a part of because their "lack of effort at presenting as a woman" (which was really just a similar situation to mine of hormones taking forever to do their thing) made others uncomfortable. I knew they'd come for me too eventually, and that just cemented the fact that I was never going to be accepted for who I was.
I thought of detransition a lot, and even posted on a detrans sub on Reddit for a while. It wasn't that I didn't want to be a man - I did! - but if transition had failed me and I wasn't being accepted for who I was because my body wasn't good enough at looking the part, then what other options were left? I spent a while weighing out which option would be the lesser of two evils long-term: to keep trying and hope eventually I'd look like a man enough for the rest of the world to take me seriously, or to admit that I failed what everyone else was able to do seemingly effortlessly (from my perspective) and go back to being a woman for the rest of my life. I ended up going for the former, because the thought of having to live as a woman again felt like an even worse version of hell.
Seeing what detransitioners went through also made me worry - so many of them were told they were making trans people look bad and that they were better off just continuing to perform as something they weren't. I knew from the beginning it wasn't about making trans people look bad (not for most, anyway, though some do decide to go that route, unfortunately), it was just about figuring out what worked for you specifically, but a lot of people from outside the detrans community don't see it that way. I also had a friend at the time who detransitioned and that opened my eyes to their situations a lot. There were a lot of people who realised it wasn't right for them, or that the transition was just a way for them to avoid facing something else, or who - like me at the time - felt like it wasn't working, or felt a lot of societal pressures, and were debating if they were "better off" stopping.
In the end one of my friends ended up having a similar experience to mine, and I did find support on one Reddit sub where a few other guys had also had slow transitions (shoutout to r/FTMMen) which helped me realise I wasn't as alone as I thought I was. My foray in detrans spaces and experiences with detrans people makes me wish they were heard more, and makes me wish that society didn't demonize gender exploration and the realisation that sometimes things don't work for you as well as you thought they would. No one should be attacked for saying that or sharing their experiences.
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Comment on Online shopping - how convenient is it actually? in ~life.style
Echeveria (edited )LinkFor those of us with niche hobbies, sometimes buying online is the cheapest option, or even the only option depending on location. I enjoy building model kits (no Gundams, but more mecha musume...For those of us with niche hobbies, sometimes buying online is the cheapest option, or even the only option depending on location. I enjoy building model kits (no Gundams, but more mecha musume type kits), and most of the time, even accounting for shipping fees and taxes (inevitable on international shipments here in Canada), it often ends up being cheaper to order from Japan than buying it locally, if that same kit even makes it to a local shop. Most of my kits are either from Kotobukiya or from smaller Chinese companies, and the two places in the nearest city that stock model kits only stock Bandai kits. Same idea with some of the parts that my partner needs for his game console restoration hobby - those little electronic bits are often cheaper on AliExpress, and most of the other sites selling them are sourcing from Ali anyway.
I'm not really bothered by how long it takes a delivery to arrive. When I order my kits from Japan I just send them by boat and they arrive ~45 days later. It's the cheapest option and I'd rather do that than pay more for it to arrive faster. My main issue with deliveries is just making sure I'm awake when it arrives, since I work night shift and sleep until mid-afternoon. The post office holds a lot of stuff for us (my partner is also on the same schedule as me), and the couriers here have very predictable schedules, so that helps.
I avoid Amazon as much as possible and would rather buy locally if I can. The nearest city is half an hour away which is reasonable to travel since we regularly go that way anyway (for groceries, my plants and plant-adjacent items, overall anything that needs to be bought in person), but it's a different story for my family which is much more rural than we are and an hour+ away from anything even resembling a small city. While there are shops there, Amazon can be more reliable and faster for a lot of stuff they need. In remote communities here in Canada (think the territories and very rural Newfoundland type areas), they're very reliant on Amazon because it's just easier/faster than traveling hours to a shop and maybe not even finding what you need. Amazon is also, to my knowledge, one of the only places that doesn't upcharge for delivery to the territories, which is a major advantage to people living there.
It's definitely easier to get carried away shopping online, and that can spell trouble for people who are prone to impulse purchases. Shopping addiction is very real and for a lot of people it started online and spiraled from there. Making sure you're only buying things you really need and that you can budget properly helps a lot on that front.
As for safety, the one time I had my credit card number stolen wasn't even linked to an online purchase, but to an in-person one (at least I'm fairly sure it was, since I didn't use that card for a week after going to that location and then ended up with a fraudulent charge). I noticed it right away since I get transaction alerts to my phone, locked the card immediately to stop other transactions, and called my bank right away. It was resolved in maybe ten minutes at most, and I got a new card a few days later. If I hadn't noticed it that soon though, it could have been much worse.
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Comment on What have you been eating, drinking, and cooking? in ~food
Echeveria LinkI made tonkatsu on Sunday for the first time in a while and it was pretty tasty. My partner had bought pork cutlets specifically for me to make it with. We had some left over, so yesterday I made...I made tonkatsu on Sunday for the first time in a while and it was pretty tasty. My partner had bought pork cutlets specifically for me to make it with. We had some left over, so yesterday I made a slightly altered version of my miso ramen and had the rest of the meat on top of that, among other things. It turned out pretty nice.
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Comment on Hey, monthly mystery commenters, what's up with the hit-and-runs? in ~tildes
Echeveria LinkLate to the party here, but... there's a few reasons I end up not following up to comments. The main one is that I sometimes just forget I commented something, or I read the comment and don't...Late to the party here, but... there's a few reasons I end up not following up to comments.
The main one is that I sometimes just forget I commented something, or I read the comment and don't reply immediately, but by the time I remember, it's been too long and I feel like it would be awkward. (I'm either very forgetful or this is another sign I might have ADHD.) Having been told off for necro-ing threads on forums in the past, I always worry I'm going to accidentally do it again.
Though I browse on my phone, I tend to just bookmark stuff intending to get back to it later (and then by the time I do, it's been too long to comment; see last paragraph) because I don't like typing long text on my phone. I only turn my computer on about once a week, so that gives me less opportunity to comment on anything to begin with.
I'm also not an anglophone (French is my first language) and the process of trying to translate my ideas in a way that makes sense is just exhausting sometimes, and some days I just don't want to bother with it. My work environment in daily life is mostly anglophone and I deal with enough misunderstandings/mis-translations there that I don't want to do the same online too.
Lastly, I came here from Reddit where this sort of thing isn't looked down on like it apparently is here (which I didn't realise until I saw this post), so I guess it's force of habit to a point. On Reddit there's also not much of a point in commenting on posts older than a couple of days unless you're in a very small sub where that's the norm, so often I'll see something interesting here but stop myself from commenting because the post is too old, or as I said previously, by the time I can actually get back to a comment to reply properly, I feel it'll be awkward because the post/comment is too old by now.
I didn't realise this was considered such a big problem/faux pas here. I'll try to do better.
We make it with onions most of the time now, it's that good! We use one medium onion per person since it loses a lot of volume as it cooks (we also just really love onions), but feel free to experiment till you find what works for your tastes.