piccolo

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[–] piccolo@hexbear.net 10 points 7 months ago (2 children)

PDFs are hard because you need a big e-reader screen. Text only formats like Epub or Mobi are much easier. If you think you can find epubs for all the PDFs you want to read, I'd recommend getting an old Kindle. I'm partial to the Kindle Touch (which can be jailbroken easily). You can often find them for around 20 USD on eBay, which is the cheapest you can get something like this.

[–] piccolo@hexbear.net 8 points 7 months ago

Intel laid off 1 out of every 5 people in the division I worked for about 8 months ago, myself included. I'm sure this will fix the morale problem they have!

spoilerYeah I know I shouldn't have been working there, but it was my first job out of school and they laid me off pretty soon after I realized how evil they were. At least I got some severance so they effectively paid me to quit, which I wanted to do anyways at the time

[–] piccolo@hexbear.net 22 points 7 months ago (2 children)

I'd say if tomatoes are out of season and you're cooking them anyways, like in a stew or a sauce, even bad canned tomatoes are probably better. If you have access to good fresh tomatoes, they can be better than most canned tomatoes, but like high quality canned ones are hard to beat.

Also, the less processed the canned tomato, the better it is. If you want the best tomato flavour, get whole canned tomatoes, rather than diced or crushed.

[–] piccolo@hexbear.net 46 points 8 months ago (4 children)

Lol I was there recently and also noticed that. The whole museum was full of propaganda, but it was cool to see some of the exhibits, like the Trabant. Some "fun" anticommunist highlights included:

  • The dystopian evil jail cell run by the communist dictators (about the same size as the room I rent in [major city, imperial core country])
  • The dystopian evil kindergarten with a rigid schedule including play and nap time
  • The dystopian evil standard allocated apartment that EVERYONE had and there was NO individuality (much bigger than the room I rent, and for much less money)
  • The dystopian evil SEX that all the HORNY EAST GERMANS were having (the museum explained it as a result of there being nothing else to do, lol)
  • The dystopian evil DIY repair culture
  • The dystopian evil tired bureaucrats who looked more like people than Bond villains
  • The dystopian evil LGBTs who weren't forbidden from existing by the state
  • The factory farming that happened under the DDR (which, like, as a vegan, sure, but it's not like the Federal Republic or any Western country wasn't doing this)
  • There was literally a panel saying that all Eastern bloc states weren't allowed to deviate from the USSR's policies or will, then gave an example of the DDR doing just that to resist Soviet reforms in '85

And every single bullet point here made my blood boil (supposed to be a translation of some of the key terms, without propaganda):

spoiler (sorry, I only photographed the English text)

Anyways, I guess I funded anticommunist propaganda by visiting and also buying a DDR patch

[–] piccolo@hexbear.net 4 points 8 months ago

Here's my experience (recently diagnosed ADHD, suspect maybe AuDHD):

Starting about 6 years ago, I started having fairly large amounts of caffeine (300-400mg/day), probably as a way of self medicating ADHD and compensating for too little sleep). At this point, I realized I was physically addicted to caffeine, and if any day went by where I didn't have caffeine by say 3pm, I'd get a bad headache. For the next ~3 years after starting this, I didn't go a single day without coffee.

Starting about 2-3 years ago, I decided that I really didn't like the idea of having to have a coffee every day, so I decided to try to stop my addiction. I stopped abruptly and didn't have any caffeine for a month (for me, I knew a gradual stopping wouldn't work, I had to fully commit to it to get it to stick). It was miserable, especially for the first 3-4 days. The first week as a whole was pretty rough, then week 2 was marginally better, week 3 a bit better still, and week 4 felt good, finally.

Since then, because I really like the taste of coffee, I've been consuming 2-3 coffees per week, but I try to avoid having them on consecutive days. I think it works pretty well for me, and I have managed to hold off the physical addiction like that (except for one time where I compensated for jetlag with lots of coffee, and got re-addicted and had to do the same miserable process as above).

Also, I recently started stimulant meds for my ADHD (Vyvanse in particular), and for a while I couldn't have caffeine because it made me too anxious. Now, I'm used to the meds and can have caffeine, but it's much easier to resist the temptation.

All in all, I'm happy that I'm not addicted anymore, and for me it was a painful process but worth it. I find that caffeine messes with my sleep even many hours after consumption, and I don't feel as rested on days when I have it. I've mostly switched to drinking tea or decaf coffee, and I think it's made me feel less anxious too.

Let me know if you have any questions!

[–] piccolo@hexbear.net 11 points 8 months ago

In my experience the red cups were used for mixed drinks being served by amateur bartenders (or jungle juice), or for kegs, or for drinking games. The latter was by far the most common - beer pong, slap/stack cup, etc. Often, people would rinse and reuse them to cut on waste and/or cost.

[–] piccolo@hexbear.net 16 points 8 months ago (17 children)

They are very very common at fratty college/university parties

[–] piccolo@hexbear.net 7 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

Can I be racist to Fr*nch and Br*t*sh people too?

[–] piccolo@hexbear.net 11 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Aren't hand counted ballots the most reliable form of counting ballots and the hardest to tamper with? I must say that I don't really trust voting machines

https://web.archive.org/web/20201105081005/http://berniewouldhavelost.com/

https://harpers.org/archive/2005/08/none-dare-call-it-stolen/

[–] piccolo@hexbear.net 1 points 10 months ago

The behind the bastards subreddit (which I think is connected to the show) was censoring posts about the Zionist entity's ongoing genocide and they seem to be NATO shills overall. Robert Evans is a fed (or at the very least fed-adjacent). If I were you I'd pick something else.

[–] piccolo@hexbear.net 2 points 11 months ago

Not the op but everyone raves about this tofu feta whenever I make it: https://erinireland.ca/vegan-recipes/the-best-tofu-feta-ever-hands-down/

Bonus: if you have access to powdered lactic acid (e.g. Druids Grove), use 1/4 tsp of that instead of each tablespoon of lemon juice

[–] piccolo@hexbear.net 6 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Xournal++ is my recommendation. It can annotate any pdf pretty easily. Just import the pdf, sign it, then export as pdf

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