Hey, some of us are stupid with tech too! 😤
The old name for villager of course, TESTIFICATE
That does sound like a fun Friday night
oh dang, only 3 days? I kinda just skimmed the store page and it said around 7, which would be on the lower end of acceptable for me. So that alone is a deal breaker, thanks for the input!
Like, specifically as a woman? I think all the common net safety advice still applies - don't use your real name, don't be too specific on where you're from, don't post pictures of your face etc.
I might not have the best insight tho, since I've always preferred to present somewhat gender-neutral with all my online personas 🐍
I'm from Germany, there's an App here called Vinted which is a platform for people to sell Second Hand Clothes to each other (afaik it's also available in many other European countries). Just the sheer amount of users usually means that you can get any item that you could get at a store. I usually use it to buy Eco-friendly brands that are too expensive for me to buy new (I found several of my favourite ArmedAngels Jeans there for like 30€ tops!)
I've also been dipping my toes into sewing clothes myself from thrifted fabric. Made these cool pants just last weekend!
That seems like quite the generalization
omg, gorgeous babies!! 😍
What morphs are they?
I have one and love her very much!! 
I don't have time to elaborate on all questions at the moment, but snakes definitely don't ever try to kill people out of aggression. Little nips can happen if your snake is defensive/ fearful or mistakes you for food (which, food for them is usually the size of a rat), but there is never malice behind it.
Most snakes aren't really social, so they probably don't even recognize different people as anything more than warm trees that smell slightly differently. Which for me personally is perfect, since I couldn't care for a social pet whenever I fall into depressive episodes. It's also just nice how clean and low maintenance they are. My snake only eats every 2 weeks or so, and poops maybe every 2-4 weeks. If I go on a trip for a few days, she doesn't even notice that I'm gone. Plus, she'll live for 20-30 years.
edit: more snake pros I just remembered:
- They just hang around, so no zipping after a hyperactive pet. I find it quite calming.
- They don't bite or scratch anything in their enclosure, so you don't have to constantly change out decorative items (you should still rotate them for enrichment)
- Completely silent, except for the occasional fart at night
- Probably can be kept solitary, I'm actually still waiting for the scientific consensus on that. In comparison, having a solitary rat, bunny or guinea pig is just plain unethical because they're so social.
- They're trainable! Not to the extent that a dog or a horse is, but you can teach them basic shifting behavior which really helps reduce stress from handling. Lori Torrini is the biggest resource on snake training right now, it's amazing what she achieves with her own snakes!
I only committed to being vegan like 6 months ago, so the tips I needed for the beginning are still in recent memory 😄
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Install Happycow and check out lots of vegan restaurants in your area. Find some dishes you really like, so that you have something to fall back on if you're really craving super tasty food. Your own cooking might suck for a while until you figure out some of the tricks to getting vegan foods right, and you don't want to reinforce the notion that vegan food tastes bad.
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If you need exceptions, take them, but be aware of the slippery slope.
When I was deciding whether to stick with being vegan, my biggest problem was that I am absolutely unwilling to give up my pet snake. I'm aware of how shitty life is for feeder rodents, and having them right next to the beyond burgers in my freezer is certainly aesthetically uncomfortable... but in the end, it seemed like a stupid excuse to not be as vegan as I can be, just because I can't do 100%.
There are a lot of stories from vegans who slipped from "oh, I could have some milk in my coffee if there's no other options" to "Cheese once a week is okay" to "Might as well have a burger if I feel like it" so be aware of that pipeline. I'd suggest actively reframing all exceptions to "Because I have this exception, I gotta be extra diligent with everything else" ^^ -
Find some positive reasons to stay vegan. Anger about the world can be a strong starter, but being angry all the time isn't great for your health. And Anger doesn't last indefinitely. So instead, be introspective in your first few weeks and see what positive reasons you can find for sticking with it. My personal reasons are currently mostly that I just really like the predictability of vegan foods (weird textures, random sinew and bone parts and weird smells really upset me when I was eating meat, the fact that I don't have to deal with that anymore is quite freeing). I'm also very excited about the progress in food science that I'm financially supporting -- things like Precision- and Microfermentation and general research into alternative food sources is just pretty cool! I also kinda like being extra. As in, I got socialized to always compromise and never inconvenience anyone else, so having a hard line "No, I'm not eating that no matter how annoyed you are" feels very empowering.
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Nuts!! They're great. Get a big bag of mixed nuts and eat at least a handful every day. They keep away cravings for other fatty foods really well.
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It's not brownies, but this vegan chocolate cake is absolutely incredible. The frosting is sooo good!!
It's been really warm around here at night (like 26-28°C in my bedroom) so Revy has been super active and zooming around all night
Now that I'm in an age and income bracket that can afford it, I've been trying to be more liberal with donating to causes that seem worthwhile. Yesterday my partner and I were walking around a large cultural event thing in Kiel (Germany) - thousands of people, lots of overpriced food trucks, lots of local bands and artists.
One artist had a workshop in a little glass cube and was making wooden sculptures all day. Huge crowd all around watching him. He had a sign up front explaining that he had been struggling financially because art is a luxury and one of the first things people stop buying when the cost of living goes up. The sign also had a QR link to his Gofundme, so I tossed him 5 bucks with no second thought. Kind of assumed that he'd be getting plenty of little donations like that, just because there were so many people and the event overall was very "12€ avocado toast" coded.
But once I got home I checked the donation history and it turns out I was the only one who donated at all that day:
Ngl, I was kinda upset about that and even checked the Url from different devices to make sure it wasn't a website caching thing. I definitely will be upping my donation once I get home tonight, but in the meantime I'd be curious to learn about the average consensus on donations - How much and under which conditions do you donate (or would donate if you could afford it)? Do you do rare but big donations or small ones spread over lots of causes?
They've started posting a link to ask them anonymous questions a few weeks ago and answering the questions on their whatsapp status. And those questions were getting weird to a point where my partner and I had a betting pool on whether they're shitposts or bullying.
Today I noticed that "sent with ♥️ by team ngl" text at the bottom and downloaded that app to check. And yup, they're just random default questions:
It seems like no one has ever sent a real question. I need to share this to distribute my bewilderment
Hat wer ne Idee warum Bitburger da extra Vitamine mit reinwerfen würde? Das alkoholfreie Naturradler von Gösser hat z.B. keine, und schmeckt soweit ich mich erinnere identisch?
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First shot at vegan baking... it smelled burnt the entire time it was in the oven, somehow?
(lemmy.world)
It's my turn to bring cake to work tomorrow, I found this recipe .
I added some instant coffee but my jar slipped and I probably added too much... now I'm contemplating whether the buttercream might cover it up or whether I'm just baking a second cake and freezing this one for myself
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Yeah, I definitely fucked up with the instant coffee haha
Still edible (especially with the buttercream, it's still a 6/10 cake), but I don't want to bring it to other people.
Made a new one instead, which this one I actually took the time to sift the baking powder and instant coffee so that it doesn't stay in random bitter chunks
i will not elaborate
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idk dude
The vegan sandwich cheese I buy is 1,29€ / 150g, cheapest animal cheese is 1,59€ / 150g.
The vegan lunch meat I buy is 0,95€ / 100g, the cheapest animal lunch meat of the same kind (Mortadella) is 1,49€ / 100g.
The vegan butter I buy is 1,59€ / 200g, the cheapest animal butter I could find is 1,99€ / 250g (equivalent to 1,59€ / 200g).
Bread is usually vegan either way.
Making a sandwich isn't crazy cooking