I mod the [email protected] and usually will put something once a week or so. It sees slow and steady growth but not sure if I have much to do with that.

I have 2 at a time, and yes it’s so I can coordinate the scents with perfume.

I’ve been to England and Scotland, and agree with you, this was in the 1980s and their idea of a dangerous neighborhood cracked me right up. London had no areas equivalent to what counted as a dangerous area in my city (though we have made great strides in the US since then in reducing violence, believe it or not. And in my city even more so, we went from so rough to relatively safe).

I don’t think I would have called it free-er though? Safer for sure though, and healthcare so much better.

My second to oldest daughter used to be “the nuisance”, an antihero, to play with the younger set of kids. If they opened a door she would close it, she’d step in front of them or turn them around, grab them and gently lay them down on the ground, just generally jam whatever they were trying to do. It was really funny and the first thing I thought of when I saw “inconvenience imp”.

Are you kidding? 57 is interesting. From Wikipedia:

57 is semiprime, a Blum integer, and a Leyland number.[3]

The split Lie algebra E⁠7+ 1 / 2 ⁠ has a 57-dimensional Heisenberg algebra as its nilradical, and the smallest possible homogeneous space for E8 is also 57-dimensional.

Although fifty-seven is not prime, it is jokingly known as the Grothendieck prime after a legend in which the mathematician Alexander Grothendieck gave it as an example of a prime number, not realizing it was divisible by three. The same error was made by another famous mathematician, Hermann Weyl, in a published article.

This just came up today when I was talking to me husband but Jolie Lade - unconventional beauty, someone who is beautiful without being pretty or handsome.

Si, pero Ingles es mas popular.

I do see posts in Spanish sometimes, and there are all Spanish communities too.

I do see also lots of German on Lemmy.

I don’t usually worry about that. Most people need a little armor between themselves and the world and they will open up slowly as they trust you. A persona to handle daily interactions with others is not necessarily a bad thing.

So I think my line is drawn more at manipulative. I would consider someone too “fake” if they did it on purpose to harm others or help themselves at the expense of others. Someone who would act nice to you while trying to harm you. Most people, in my experience, do not rise to this level of fake, so, like I said, I don’t worry about it.

I can’t say a believe in rules like the half your age plus 7 thing but barely adult and barely minor is not pedophilia, particularly if you were together before aging up to adult, but even if not. The line at 18 is arbitrary, some places that’s 16, and I don’t think 18 is adult like a grownup, that seems to take a few more years. There are also usually laws that say it’s not illegal if you are within some number of years, not a big gap.

That adult/minor split happened to my kid, they were a senior and girlfriend a junior so after graduation we tease them about “dating a high schooler” but they are the same couple as before.

A 3 year gap will just seem smaller and smaller (in that way the half plus 7 thing is true, it’s just stupid as a hard rule). I’m old and 5 years in either direction is about as far as I like to go, because I like guys my age, and that’s what seems “my age” now.

Medication can absolutely affect dreams. Flu shots give me weird dreams the first night. Benadryl suppresses my dreams, but the next night they are so intense.

Also, realize the time you wake up makes a difference - if you sleep and wake up naturally you may not remember that you dreamed, but that is very healthy. The dreams taper off as the “awaken” chemical increases.

It is vanilla (almost certainly artificial), sugar, and gelatin. You can make marshmallows at home.

There is a marshmallow plant, the roots used to be used to make a whipped candy (that’s where the name comes from) but now they are literally just air and sugar, gelatin and vanilla, maybe a little cream of tartar.

People. And people.

Kind of. I eat well, not much junk, and was underweight for most of my life, hit menopause and now at a normal BMI but that is like 25lb (11kg) more than I weighed when young. I do work out heavier now, but no way could I have maintained this much weight as a young woman, my body would not do it.

Stable again now, it’s not like I keep putting on weight just not skinny like before. More like a medium - not average for the US, our average would be fat - but true medium like about the middle of how much my body can healthily weigh, rather than a little less than it should.

My mom and grandma both gained in midlife then lost weight in old age and told me not to diet in midlife because that weight you might be glad for when old, it is cushion for getting sick and losing weight.

That’s not even in town, New Tampa is technically part of the city but way north, past parts that are unincorporated and farther than Temple Terrace.

We bought our house a few years ago for nearly 300k, and I was so upset because I thought we were at the top of the bubble then. Like, there is no way a house is worth that, it’s insane. But now a smaller house on our road wants $600k (new coat of paint, as you say) a literal empty lot sold for more than our house cost, and they are building horrifying monstrosities like this, it’s so ugly!

https://www.zillow.com/homedetails/1808-W-Erna-Dr-Tampa-FL-33603/2052977072_zpid/

I am old enough to remember 2 crashes, one I bought my first house, a shithole but so cheap, and then the bank bailout crash. What goes up comes down, and it always begins with the ‘we will buy your house’ flyers in the mail and people saying real estate always goes up.

I had a boss that everyone else had trouble working for. He was a workaholic and openly told us that he would keep giving us more to do until we said it was too much. Crazy smart and didn’t sleep much, even after work he was working out or learning to play guitar or speak Spanish or how to cook. The combination of that edict and his own example, (he did more than any two of us put together) mostly people took it as a challenge, like they weren’t supposed to say no. I took it at face value, did what I could do well, goofed off plenty, took my PTO.

Whenever we got year end reviews he would give me points for time management and keeping a work/life balance. I do not actually have good time management.

We are still friends, years later. His work habits broke up his marriage but I don’t think he really slowed down.

I still have this job. Figure managers come and go, but honestly I liked working with workaholic guy.

I live in Tampa. Houses around me are getting pulled down and replaced with 1-1.75M houses at a frightening pace. This has to be a bubble, nobody who works here could afford the rent or mortgage on that. Taxes alone on a 1.5M house would be 24,000 per year!

Wait, are you a lady? Just say you are 5’10". I’m about your height and guys are always telling me I am at least 5’10".

Not exactly. I am old enough to remember wondering why gay couples couldn’t get legal marriage, and when interracial couples were stared at, and the ozone layer had a hole, and the Satanic Panic, but it felt like we were in a shitty spot but moving in the right direction just painfully slowly. Lots more violence than now.

Huh. I get my money’s worth and more from streaming, have found so much music I like, and before streaming I listened to the radio (we have good community radio here, I still do listen to the radio and go to live shows) and went to concerts but didn’t buy music because I despaired of ever building or organizing the sort of collection that would contain even close to the amount of music I want to listen to.

If streaming disappeared tomorrow, what I’d save wouldn’t pay for even one concert a month.

I really, really use the heck out of it, my whole family does.

On topic I think - sometimes I am looking at clothing or furniture and something wildly expensive will come across my screen, like this:

https://www.dwr.com/living-sofas/crystal-lounge-sofa-three-seater/2589749-2.html?lang=en_US

And I can’t figure out who the market is for that. If I had 30 grand budget for a couch, I would have something custom made. Same with the clothes. Who is buying the hyper- expensive ready to wear? I would have things made.