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rodbiren, in How to stop eating junk food?

I love me some salty food so I feel the pain. I’ll echo the sentiment of not buying it in the first place. Will power is an exhaustible resource.

I find that it almost doesn’t matter what I snack on I just want to snack. I will literally buy a huge bag of carrots and just eat those. Or my other favorite is toss a couple of strained cans of garbanzo beans in an air fryer, spray a bit of cooking spray, toast those suckers for 25 min, and salt/season them for a protein heavy snack that actually has fiber. Cheap, easy, and gives me similar vibes to a potato chip in an incredibly more healthy way.

MrsDoyle,

Thanks for the chickpea recipe! To add to your carrot tip: when I buy them I peel them straight away and store them in a sealed container in the fridge. They stay crispy and juicy that way.

rodbiren,

I get them whole and eat them whole. So dang cheap. Like $3 for a 5lb bag. I get made fun of endlessly by some, but I joke that if it were a bag of Doritos no one would bat an eye and that says a lot about the state of things. My wife joked that I have “car carrots” and just leave a big bag of carrots in the car if the weather permits.

I am never hungry for a snack if I eat 2lbs of raw carrots.

MrsDoyle,

Car carrots! Genius.

pewgar_seemsimandroid, in Which of the U.S. national parks in this image do you think is the most worth visiting? There are three exceptions.

based on name: isle Royale

AlternatePersonMan,

Sounds cool. Isn’t that neat. It’s a little island on the Canadian border that you need to take a ferry to get to. It just kind of looks like the rest of the Northern Minnesota shoreline.

I love the state parks in the area though. Much easier and cheaper to get to.

bionicjoey, in what, in your opinion, drives the start time of factory and manufacturing jobs to 5am?

Often factories want to get the maximum use out of their equipment since it’s very expensive and only lasts some finite number of years. Many factories run 24 hours a day in rotating shifts to minimize the downtime of their machinery.

Usernameblankface,
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Hmm, that explains running more than one shift, but does not explain starting at 5 am

skydivekingair,

I used to work EMS 12 hour shifts 6-6. At one point management decided to stagger base start times. Some 6-6, others 7-7 & 8-8. So when someone flips their car and flies out at 5:45 they don’t have to wait for all the available service to finish their shift change, when the 8-8 team has 2 hours left they can get to the patient and back to base without extending their duty day too far.

Many of the workers who went 8-8 hated it. They complained nonstop about how it ruined their whole day since day shift they are headed out the door before the fam eats breakfast and get home after dinner. Same for night shift, rush through dinner or miss dinner and breakfast with the family.

Personally I enjoyed the 7-7/8-8 shifts more but enough people bitched enough they changed all but 1 base back to 6-6.

Usernameblankface,
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Huh. So it seems to me that when the job requires 12 hour shifts, the employees require at least one meal with their family, and the most common solution is to start early enough to let the employees make it home for dinner.

SquiffSquiff,

Or be home in time for breakfast

skydivekingair,

Yeah, not sure if I answered your question in regards to what you were thinking about but this specific scenario the 6am start time worked better for many of those with families.

flying_sheep,
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Why do 12h shifts exist?

skydivekingair,

It’s like that for the most medical communities. Some nurses and docs spend a full week at the hospital. We were an air ambulance so the FAA limited us to 12 hour shifts but many ambulance, fire fighters etc. are 24-72 hour shifts.

TootSweet, in What is your favorite part of the day?

8:00pm to midnight. When people leave me alone.

burliman,

Preach.

highrfrequenc, in How to respond to gf saying "I'm fat"

I don’t know what you’re talking about. Get naked and let’s have a closer look.

Presi300,
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I stand with this person

Rubisco, in Which of the U.S. national parks in this image do you think is the most worth visiting? There are three exceptions.

Gateway Arch? I think you meant to say City Museum.

FlyingSquid,
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City Museum is awesome, but we’ve been there twice.

Rubisco,

Yeah it is! And in that case, my recommendation is Shenandoah. Tube down to Harper’s Ferry and climb Maryland heights. Find one of those trails in the hills that follows a stream that slides down long smooth rocks into cool, clear pools.

dylanTheDeveloper, in Ancient wisdom often sounds like common sense now that it is commomly taught. What is some ancient wisdom that we no longer teach because it was wrong?
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‘A clock is right twice a day’ and ‘two stones one bird’

Popus,

But a BROKEN clock is right twice a day?

Reddfugee42,

The clock on my phone is right at least twice a day and it seems to be working fine.

throwafoxtrot,

No, your clock is right 1440 or 86400 times a day. Not exactly twice.

The saying is “even a broken clock is right twice a day”

uriel238,
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Lewis Carol noted that a clock that doesn’t work at all is right twice a day whereas a clock that loses a minute a day is right every 1.97 years, and by this calculation the broken clock is the better value.

daltotron,

But of course, if we know the clock loses a minute a day, you could derive the current time based on how long ago the clock was set to the correct time, or you could just throw it forward one minute at the end of every day and reset it that way with no reference. The broken clock is just completely useless as a timepiece, though. I think lewis carol was wrong.

uriel238, (edited )
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I’m pretty sure Carol was being facetious. There’s more value obviously in a mechanical thing that works — even if not well — then one that doesn’t. The joke is in the notion that we judge clocks based on how well they tell time, which is not a good metric once they deviate significantly from that standard.

ToastedPlanet,

Do you mean ‘hit two birds with one stone’? That’s not advice, it’s a useful expression for describing getting good value.

LinkOpensChest_wav, in What's your favorite instrument that really gets through to you?

Hammond organ played well really makes me feel warm to the core

Kalkaline, (edited )
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There is a great Spotify playlist for the Hammond.

open.spotify.com/playlist/2z3UdHynR5SMUu1xW45EfI

LinkOpensChest_wav,

Link, please

Jakdracula,
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Yes, link please!

Kalkaline,
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Kalkaline,
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LinkOpensChest_wav,

Oh, this is great. Thank you very much.

Kalkaline,
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You’re welcome

Buffalobuffalo, in What's your favorite instrument that really gets through to you?

I find the speculum to be excellent at letting me see deep inside myself. Instruments like ribcage spreaders are too infrequently used to count I think. A good seasonal look with the speculum could save you a lot of heartache.

Golfnbrew,

OP didn’t say “musical”…

klemptor,

Oh man a nice cold speculum, nothing better

Nemo, in Which of the U.S. national parks in this image do you think is the most worth visiting? There are three exceptions.

I’ve only been to Indiana Dunes and Voyageurs, but they’re both nice enough. Voyageurs is like, bring a canoe and camping supplies, though, not necessary a day trip.

Consider some state parks! Turkey Run in Indiana is gorgeous, and Pipestone State Park in Minnesota is beautiful, historical, and unique.

FlyingSquid, (edited )
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We’re pretty close to Turkey Run and we always tell people to please go to Turkey Run and do not go to that horrible Shades State Park which is definitely not nicer in pretty much every way imaginable and will have an unpleasant lack of a giant line of people going down the trails.

Nemo,

Haha fair. I really liked Turkey Run when I went there, is all.

But seriously, check out Pipestone.

Sequentialsilence, in Which of the U.S. national parks in this image do you think is the most worth visiting? There are three exceptions.

Having been to all but voyageurs go to either the smokey mountains or new river gorge. I was going to put mammoth cave on that list but, you know fears and stuff. I will say mammoth cave does not feel like your typical cave, it’s way larger, and has been adapted for tourists.

FlyingSquid,
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I’ve been to Mammoth Cave before myself and really loved it, but she doesn’t care how big the cave is. She says she just doesn’t like the idea of all of that rock above her head. We tried to convince her a couple of years ago, but she’s dead set against it. Smokey Mountains sounds like the best choice.

Chetzemoka, in What's your favorite instrument that really gets through to you?

Cello. No idea why. Yo-Yo Ma slays me.

cheese_greater,

HE may play the cello but YOU the one that gets played ;)

Golfnbrew,

For a bit of fun, find the YT of Sulek & Hauser “Welcome to the Jungle”

ad_on_is, in What's your favorite instrument that really gets through to you?
@ad_on_is@lemmy.world avatar

Accordion… I love the sound of it, especially the Italian ones with chambers.

Golfnbrew,

Accordion is an unusual choice, but in Karla Bonoff’s “Water is Wide” the accordion is essential and beautiful. James Taylor sings back up.

kaffiene, in What's a food you love, that isn't worth making from scratch?

Crepes? Jesus, they’re one of the easiest things you can cook. Anyway, to answer your question: croissants! I’ve made them from scratch before and it definitely wasn’t worth it. Took half a day and weren’t a patch on the real thing

victorz,

Even I can make crepes lol. Have one of those small pans. Make the batter, open the butter, get cracking.

Knock_Knock_Lemmy_In,

Let the batter sit for 30 mins in the fridge

victorz,

Included in “make the batter” but yep, important step not to be forgotten 👌

Rednax,

Do you means from absolute scratch? Here in the Netherlands it is common to buy a can of pre-made dough for croissants. You have to roll and bake them yourself, and adding some egg is also a great idea. But it is technically not entirely from scratch.

They taste way better than the pre-baked ones that you have to re-heat. Absolutely worth the minimal effort.

june,

What you describe is not making from scratch at all. Those are premade save the final couple of steps, no different than a frozen pizza from the grocery store. No one gets a frozen pizza and says they made it from scratch.

Auriel,

What do you mean re-heat? Are you heating the ones from the bakery before you eat them? Are they not eaten cold in the Netherlands?

ericbomb,

I have a mental block against making things one by one that have like 20 calories in them.

Brain says small things bad unless can make a million at a time.

And yeah screw making those things from scratch.

Strawberry, (edited )

yeah it is annoying when using a small pan/stove as opposed to a giant griddle where one crepe is actually a lot

Elderos, (edited )

A crepe is like 100 calories and you can pour like 5 in less than 10 minutes. But anyway, to reach their own. personally I hate chopping stuff even if it takes 1 minute.

Chobbes,

I was surprised by this too! I mean I can understand thinking that crepes will be hard because they’re pretty dainty and might be delicate, but they’re surprisingly easy to do.

GrammatonCleric, in What's your favorite instrument that really gets through to you?
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PS controller

datavoid,

A true artist

GrammatonCleric,
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OP never specified what type of instrument. An Erlenmeyer flask is also an instrument. So is a stick 😂

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