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Vanth, in What is your earliest memory?
@Vanth@reddthat.com avatar

Around two years old, my mom fell and went into really early labor with my baby brother. Ambulance taking her away, lots of scared adults, I don’t have any other memories for a good two years after that one.

surewhynotlem, in What are your best air fryer/oven recipes?

Leftover pizza in the fryer is next level. Often better than when it was delivered. But I like them a bit crispy.

bstix, in What is your earliest memory?

My first conscious memory is of me gaining consciousness at age 3 or so. Everything before that are visual or tactile memories that are difficult to describe.

Anyway, when I had children myself, I suddenly remembered a lot more of those. Things that I never knew that I remembered somehow got recalled by watching my own child do the same things. So at age 40 I vividly and weirdly remembered what it’s like to be standing in a crib, holding and twisting the bannisters.

Tactile memories are weird. I’ve always enjoyed coming to my grandparents house later in life, because of the way the handles on the cupboards feel just the way they’re supposed to.

Maddie, in What has been the best thing that has happened to you so far?
@Maddie@sh.itjust.works avatar

Meeting my girlfriend!

SuperSpruce, in Who doesn't use an adblocker and why?

I turn off my adblocker for YouTube if it’s a creator who should be getting revenue from the video. I’m not happy with Google’s cut of it though…

Theharpyeagle, in What are your best air fryer/oven recipes?

Be sure to preheat it before use! You can prep while it’s preheating and it really cuts down on cook time.

One of my favorites is sweet potatoes and kielbasa. Cut up the sweet potato into 1/2 inch chunks, toss with a little olive oil, salt, and pepper (I also like thyme and a little rosemary, but that’s up to you). Toss em in for 14 minutes at 400 or so, until they’re fork tender and the sugar has started to caramelize on the outside.

While that’s going on, slice the kielbasa into ~3 inch sections and slice each section in half length-wise. Fry in a bit of olive/vegetable oil until warmed through and crispy on the cut side. Combine and serve.

Might find it’s not to your taste, but I find the sweet and salty combo to be a real winner.

PancakeBrock, in Who doesn't use an adblocker and why?

The biggest thing I miss from seeing ads is knowing what movies are in theaters… And I never think about looking haha.

lud,

2 alternatives could be to follow an RSS feeds for trailers or turn on notifications for a movie trailer or review YouTube channel.

AlfredEinstein, (edited ) in What is your earliest memory?

I can remember learning to see in three dimensions - that what I was seeing was objects in space rather than simply different colored patches on a flat background. I think it was a big mistake because my vision has always been shit. Something clicked before it should have.

I was in my crib, holding the spindles and looking between them at the room around me.

Jerb322, in What has been the best thing that has happened to you so far?
@Jerb322@lemmy.world avatar

My son was born healthy. Became a father I guess would be more “to me”…

7355608, in Who doesn't use an adblocker and why?

I asked a friend of mine about this recently and she told me it was because it helps her kids learn patience.

That got me thinking about it, I personally learned a rather large amount of patience because of ads when I was growing up so it made a lot of sense to me.

LemmyKnowsBest,

Ads teach people patience? That is the worst justification for ads I’ve ever heard. She’s probably in the advertisement industry so she’s pro-ads.

or she’s not computer literate enough to install ad blockers and too proud to admit her lack of computer literacy.

Piemanding,

As long as she doesn’t buy anything they ask for that is coming from ads and tells them that the products advertised are probably the worst of their kind I would be okay with it.

focusforte,

No, they have a point. In hindsight, I definitely can see how the unskipable ads of cable TV resulted in a greater deal of patience. I’d be interested to see a more academic study of it, but anecdotally I definitely can see it.

Tja,

Holy shit, this is worse than reddit lately. You read an anecdote about a lady, made up her whole life and got angry about what you just made up. Fucking hell.

Honytawk,

Not her whole life, just the argument she was using.

cjsolx,

And as the coup de grâce, their name is LemmyKnowsBest.

AtariDump,

Ads growing up didn’t track you all over the internet.

wren, in What has been the best thing that has happened to you so far?
@wren@sopuli.xyz avatar

I love this question, super interesting to think about. I feel very lucky that it’s hard for me to pick one, between meeting my fiancée (she makes my life better in every way), getting on adhd meds (a lot more things about life make sense now), or getting my job (since it’s made me grow into a completely different, more capable person). Sometimes it’s easy to get caught up in the negative thoughts, so thank you.

If you don’t mind sharing, what about moving out has helped you? I’m sure there’s as many different ways as there are people who would answer similarly, increased independence, escaping the power imbalance, having to grow as an adult, and so on

toasteecup, in What has been the best thing that has happened to you so far?

Cliche but meeting my partner, girl has saved me from so many dumb decisions and she has no idea.

jjjalljs, (edited ) in Who doesn't use an adblocker and why?

Lady I used to sit next to at work didn’t use an ad blocker. She also would have like the “do you want to install this plugin?” thing open in her ide for weeks. I don’t know how she did it. She’s a software developer so she’s reasonably tech literate. It just didn’t bother her enough to think about doing something about it.

LemmyKnowsBest,

reminds me of one of my coworkers years ago, we all had cubicle desk computer jobs but oh Lord she had so many scribbled on post-it notes stuck all over her cubicle and all over the edge of her computer screen 🤦‍♀️ She was an older lady close to retirement age.

Poem_for_your_sprog,

Some people just prefer post it notes.

I used to use a notepad but now there’s too much going on so I have to use a spreadsheet.

Quik, in What has been the best thing that has happened to you so far?

Falling in love

eksb, in What has been the best thing that has happened to you so far?
@eksb@programming.dev avatar

Escaped religion.

0x0001,

Same, what a challenging but worthwhile journey.

Growing up in the clutches of devout religious thinking had such a profoundly negative impact on my mental health and view of the world in general that relinquishing it was one of the most refreshing and revitalizing experiences of my life.

Religion teaches you that this life is only important as a stepping stone to eternity, that leads to some incredibly short sighted and unhealthy living. Accepting that this life is actually important for its own sake instead of as some sort of twisted game from some random deity helped me begin to make choices that objectively did more for humanity and myself.

Religion teaches you that evidence and logic are not routes to “truth” but feelings, faith, and obedience are. Untangling that mess was tough, as a result for decades now every single thought and belief has been in question. The pain of being so wrong but so convinced I was right has led to a bit of an issue allowing myself to believe anything

Religion is one of the largest stains on our species. I don’t blame religious people, they’re victims, but by george do I hate that we have perpetuated such tragic belief systems.

Jakdracula,
@Jakdracula@lemmy.world avatar

Religion is the worst thing to happen to humanity.

ohlaph,

100% agree with you.

theangryseal,

Me too. I was going to be a preacher. I went and studied at a place where people from all around the world (mostly Africa) came to live and study. I met some interesting people and I loved the experience.

That was going to be my life. I thought nothing was more important than saving eternal souls.

I met the only atheist I had ever known at that point. I was 17. I just couldn’t convince him. He told me to go online and look at other religions. Not the religions themselves, but the people who practiced them. He asked me to observe their passion and relate it to my own. He said that if I asked the right questions I’d come to the same conclusions as him. He wasn’t trying to convince me, he wanted me to convince myself.

Oh boy, that changed my life forever.

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