Natural habitats for the uninitiated! Absolutely wonderful little web series. I first discovered them through Lemmy and I have binged the entire catalogue several times. Here are some faves:

1. Mouth

2. Blue Prints

3. Fast fHOOD

They are also on IG!

Use a calorie counting app like lose it. Log everything you eat. It’s very tedious at first but pretty soon you get really good at judging how many calories are in things. Don’t stop logging! Track your weight. When you hit plateaus zoom out on the time scale and look at your trend line going down and feel good about yourself.

The trick is being honest with yourself. There are no free calories. Those 2-3 little cookies you had at work? They count. The extra scoop of rice? That counts. Most people have no concept of how many excess calories they’re really taking in.

Over COVID lockdown my wife and I both gained 10-15 pounds and I was already a good 20 pounds over where I wanted to be. We both started this and never stopped. I lost 40 pounds in about 9 months (230 to 185) , she lost 20, 155 to 134, and we’ve both kept it off for the last three years. We log all our meals and we exercise. Exercise becomes rewarding because burning extra means you can cheat! Did you bike twenty miles today? HAVE YOU A FUCKIN DONUT THEN!

Because the people at the top who greenlight everything are rich and think anyone that would live with their family past the age of 18 is a lazy shit stain. That’s the answer. It doesn’t matter if it doesn’t make a shred of sense, it’s just the truth.

FYI if you, like me, did not realize the third book was out, it is! I just bought it, gonna start it tonight

It owns. Haven’t read the third one yet. Not even sure if it’s out but if it is it’s next on the list.

Children of Time is nearly exactly what you’re looking for. The whole series doesn’t follow nicely with what you’re looking for but the focus remains on that aspect of things for lack of wanting to spoil anything. If nothing else read the first book, it’s exceptional.

Every time I hear my voice it sounds like I just huffed a liter of helium. Apparently my wife doesn’t mind but damn man. My shit is ANNOYING

Red boys, fall down and flail around.

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The water still escapes the rice in an air tight container it just stays in the container as condensation. It won’t soak back into the rice without heat, and even then the texture of the rice will not be the same. It won’t be fluffy and soft like fresh rice is. If you aren’t worried about adding extra calories, you could try pan frying the rice before freezing or after thawing. The texture will change but it should be very flavorful thanks to the oil and added moisture.

So you froze rice and then ate it cold? Like frozen cold? If you ate it frozen, it wasn’t good because it was still frozen. If you ate it “room temperature” cold it wasn’t good because it dried out as it thawed! It also probably dried out a little before you froze it.

Out of curiosity why can’t you just make fresh rice for the reheated dish? Is it all too mixed together?

I’m in my late 30s and nobody I know thinks Facebook is fine, including the few people I know that still use Facebook.

Rice doesn’t freeze/re-cook well because when you cook it it fills with water. When you freeze it you trap that moisture in it and there’s really no way to reheat it without all that moisture escaping. It’s the same reason rice gets hard if you leave it out too long - the water evaporates.

Can’t argue with that!

I forgot what it was called and rolled the dice on mini. I should’ve known whichever one I picked would probably be wrong 🙃

Did I hit my head and wake up in 2002?

Pretty sure it’s easier to find a phone with a mini SD slot than a phone with a CD player.

Your reading comprehension and understanding of English vocabulary is about on par with your lemmy account age.

Til things like “urban sprawl” are inefficiencies inherent to electric cars, and the lengthy list of these inefficiencies are definitely not drawn parallel to ICE in order to suggest that people should instead drive neither as the underlying theme of the post, particularly given the theme of the sub, which I am able to observe because I’ve been here longer than 16 hours.

Oh I’d love to hear your explanation for why it’s irrelevant, and what crucial oversight I’ve made that you’ve managed to in your extensive 16 hours on Lemmy.

My favorite part about this sub is how everyone acts like the entire world is able to just stop having a car and be able to carry on normally about their lives as if cars haven’t been forced into nearly all infrastructure plans globally since this inception. Like it’s every citizens personal choice that nobody built a functioning transit system in the many decades before they were born, or that the place they can afford to live is too far from the place that pays the wages they need to live is too far to bike or bus to.

Like, push for fewer cars and less car centric design, but also stop being a fucking cunty dick about it.