yumcake

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[–] yumcake@lemmy.world 16 points 2 years ago

Some women's libido goes down from the stress of seeing a lot of chores needing to be taken care of. Doing those chores reduced the stress. Going further and doing what is normally their share of housework can be an act of affection.

It's also noted in a study of women asked to rate a number of pictures of men on various factors including attractiveness and reliability. When they are also asked for dating preferences, as the age range went up, the prioritization on reliability ratings also went up. Doing chores is reliable AF.

More to the point, she's already told you she likes it. Just believe her.

[–] yumcake@lemmy.world 4 points 2 years ago

For daily upkeep it's best to clean as you go. Little tasks embedded in your other tasks. Like if I need to change my shirt, grab the laundry on the way and put it away before putting on that shirt. It saves 1 trip of walking along the way. Same principle as cooking, you clean as you go. Like you slice meats and start the browning...so turn around and clean the cutting board while you wait for it to brown.

For monthly upkeep we hire cleaners to go through the whole place for 200+25% tip. It definitely costs money, but saves on our time and sanity to not have to remember to do all these little cleaning tasks all over the house that just keep piling up until you "find" time to do it.

[–] yumcake@lemmy.world 3 points 2 years ago

I have been playing this game for years. A20 on all characters. Bought it on 3 different platforms. I am still playing it daily, and I'm not sick of it.

[–] yumcake@lemmy.world 1 points 2 years ago (1 children)

I feel that. Trying to make friends online and realizing everyone on the other side is typicallu in their 20s, and while you can enjoy the same things, it's hard to relate to each other. We're just not in the same place in life. Joined a discord called "Old Folks" and it's still people aged 20-30.

[–] yumcake@lemmy.world 4 points 2 years ago

Nothing wrong with mundane hobbies. Seems like a lot of people don't even have mundane ones. Or if they do, they don't talk about it much. Seems lonely doesn't it? It feels that way for me. This thing you spend so much of your free time and enthusiasm on, but not many ways to share this enthusiasm with others.

[–] yumcake@lemmy.world 1 points 2 years ago (1 children)

I feel like I haven't seen enough of that happening in the past though. Can you share some examples of where you'd seen it? Maybe Steam? No Man's Sky?

What other apps debuted early to a poor public reception that got people to come back and try it again and successfully change their minds?

[–] yumcake@lemmy.world 1 points 2 years ago

Isn't it possible to also create a gatekept community on the fediverse by just filtering to "local" on an instance that has the same current state barriers to entry? That'd prevent you from seeing the posts on instances that have lower barriers to entry.

[–] yumcake@lemmy.world 2 points 2 years ago

Yeah, that was my immediate next thought as well. I've gotten so much benefit, developed so many interests from large scale community postings. I don't know where such a thing will exist in the future for my kids, if at all. I hope time proves this to be a foolish concern and I'll look dumb for posting such a question on the platform that answers the question.

[–] yumcake@lemmy.world 7 points 2 years ago (2 children)

I feel like Reddit had improved me a lot in other ways. It taught me a lot about the experiences of demographics that I don't deal with frequently, learned a lot of guitar, apps, shows, science, cooking, lawncare, etc, etc.

I used it to consume jokes and entertainment and stuff sure, but it also was my entry point into a lot of topics and really jump-started my ingestion of that information in a way that would be hard to replicate on any platform without a similar scale of adoption.

All the negative aspects of using electronics still applied, but I was getting a lot of positive results that I'll miss now.

[–] yumcake@lemmy.world 2 points 2 years ago

To a degree yes. Moisture in general will limit browning. Fresh ground beef is usually dry enough. Frozen and defrosted ground beefwill have ice/water. Patting it dry with a paper towel takes care of this.

Ground turkey in particular is super wet all the way through so paper towels won't really be able to get it all. To brown ground turkey, you put a big patty on the grill and don't break it up, then wait for several minutes. This allows the surface to evaporate the water and then begin browning. If you break it open it will release the water inside the big ball of meat and it'll take forever to evaporate enough for browning to start. You break it open later on after you've browned top and bottom.

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