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0x4E4F, in Which carbonated soft drink is the best?
@0x4E4F@sh.itjust.works avatar

I kinda like tonic myself… though I usually take it with gin 😁.

I drink coke only when I got stomach problems, it goes great with mint tea, a 50/50 soltion, try it 👍.

stoy, in What salary do you think would make you happy?

I’d be happy with 50k SEK/month after tax with the current inflation.

Vanth, in Which carbonated soft drink is the best?
@Vanth@reddthat.com avatar

Sunkist and Squirt are my fave mainstream sodas available in my area.

I am on a constant hunt for best craft brew root beer, ginger beer, and birch beer. I recently found a ginger beer in Phoenix that is my reigning favorite for now.

Lennnny,
@Lennnny@lemmy.world avatar

Squirt is amazing. Not only does it have a humorous name, but it’s delicious ice ice cold. They also now have Squirt Zero, which not only is extra humorous as a name, but also very delicious. We use it as a mixer for cocktails.

trafalgar225,

Any recommendations for root beer or birch beer? I’m on the US East Coast. Thanks!

Vanth, (edited )
@Vanth@reddthat.com avatar

Mostly I just keep an eye out when visiting beer breweries to see who has sodas as non-alcoholic options. I don’t really buy soda to have at home.

Tower is an old-timey New England option, been around for like a century. I like their creme soda too.

If more South towards the Carolinas, Blenheim for ginger beer.

felixwhynot,
@felixwhynot@lemmy.world avatar

I used to enjoy Boylan’s, and there’s a brand called Journey that made a “Borealis birch beer” which was my favorite

jj4211, in You have a magic pill, which de-ages you by 20 years. You can take it once in your life only, so long as you are at least 20. What age — past, current or future — do you reckon is best to take it?

I’ll go for another angle, since the ‘about 40’ has been done to death.

If this is a pill that de-ages but does not de-mature you, go for it at 20. On the way to 20 you are maturing, but also aging. Who knows what mature, but with newborn level ‘age’ health might look like. Imagine the boost from a 40 year old to a 20 year old, but starting from a baseline of a 20 year old.

lucullus,

Sounds like a Black Mirror episode: The mind of a 20 year old in the body of a newborn. Incapable of doing all the things, that a 20 year old would think of. Many years until you are allowed again to do things, that you are actually mature enough to do.

jj4211,

Well, if it ‘de-matures’ then certainly would say older, at least mid 30s.

Lots of wiggle room in the question.

Some assume outright time travel, to repeat your life exactly as it were.

Then there’s the question of maturation versus just the degenerative effects of aging.

Is it just the natural break down or is it also “wear and tear”, and if “wear and tear”, does that extend to damage from disease or injury? Can you reset to before an amputation if one were needed? If that’s the case you’d want to hold on to that pill until you really start feeling things or have an injury. In school a girl was in an accident and got her leg amputated at 7 or so, so I wager for her the answer would have been certainly under 27 if it got her leg back, even if it meant dealing with a preteen body for a while.

PM_ME_VINTAGE_30S, in What salary do you think would make you happy?
@PM_ME_VINTAGE_30S@lemmy.sdf.org avatar

$69420

No but seriously, about $70k would make me feel a lot better.

RubberElectrons,
@RubberElectrons@lemmy.world avatar

You’ll make that easily on the west coast of the US. We have a lot of aerospace and green energy companies, startups and behemoths in the mix.

But… Rent is quite high.

PM_ME_VINTAGE_30S,
@PM_ME_VINTAGE_30S@lemmy.sdf.org avatar

I applied for several West Coast positions and was not even interviewed for them. I applied for literally over 300 positions in my field all over the country and got no offers, so at least for the near future, I have to conclude I’m unhirable. Most companies I applied to do not offer relocation assistance, so even if I was hirable then they would pick a West Coast local instead.

RubberElectrons,
@RubberElectrons@lemmy.world avatar

Hmm… Sounds like a “you gotta know someone” kind of thing. Are there any networking or trade events that could help? When was the last time you looked for an event?

PM_ME_VINTAGE_30S,
@PM_ME_VINTAGE_30S@lemmy.sdf.org avatar

I went to the college career fair twice last year as well as a co-op fair, and I’m going to the career fair again in February.

Doxatek, (edited )

(sorry for the story)

I think I’m okay. So far I guess. I’m in my first job after grad school and am almost there a year. I was hired at 58,000 but they did an adjustment because retention was so poor and now I make 69,000.

When I was younger I always thought 70k would be the number I would be totally fine with but adjusted for inflation 70k then was a lot more than now.

I had been making about 10k a year before now working fast food while in school. It was a weird feeling for me because I was so happy to pretty much meet my “goal”. I thought I would feel so rich after that jump. I have no lifestyle inflation because I live in the same place and drive the same shitty 500 dollar car I have for years.

But for some reason I feel just as poor as I always felt and it feels like nothing changed and it’s not going as far as I thought it would. I thought it would be life changing. And it is I suppose but not like I thought.

I feel bad complaining when it’s a privilege and many people make worse. Even I made less until recently. The entire system is just fucked and I feel bad for anyone who makes less than me because I still feel pressure and I don’t even really have anything.

Sorry if this makes me sound like a piece of shit I’m not trying to come off this way

PM_ME_VINTAGE_30S,
@PM_ME_VINTAGE_30S@lemmy.sdf.org avatar

(sorry for the story)

All good; I’m usually on your side of this interaction.

But for some reason I feel just as poor as I always felt and it feels like nothing changed and it’s not going as far as I thought it would.

I mean I made 15k a year doing fast food before I went back to school, and even that was hugely important for me to get my mental health in order. I can’t go back now though; too much has changed, and I need to focus on grad school.

I feel bad complaining when it’s a privilege and many people make worse.

Don’t. It sucks that we have to work at all. You always have a right to vent and be an emotional human no matter how safe your situation actually is relative to others.

Blaze, in Howard Zinn people's history of America, I'm reading it at the moment, is there any alternative?

Hello,

Maybe a question to crosspost to !history too!

solitaire, (edited ) in What salary do you think would make you happy?
@solitaire@infosec.pub avatar

I reckon I’d have severely diminishing returns past 6 figures, and I would (and do) trade income for less hours with a better work environment well before that.

PonyOfWar, in What salary do you think would make you happy?

Something like 100k€ would enable me to do all the traveling I want to do and simultaneously save up enough money for a comfortable early retirement. Currently I’m focussing more on having a job that isn’t soul-crushingly stressful and full of overtime though.

Aussiemandeus, in Can anyone recommend a countertop microwave with a SILENT DOOR?
@Aussiemandeus@aussie.zone avatar

This one here. www.lg.com/au/microwave-ovens/lg-MJ3966ABS

The door opens from the top down and is opened and closed by hand without latches etc so its quiet.

And you can turn off the beep

JimmyBigSausage,

Thank you. Will check it out. Looks like it may not be available in US where I live.

Boozilla, in What's the best football team and why?
@Boozilla@lemmy.world avatar

Ludicrous Display football club, sponsored by Reynholm Industries.

Chickenstalker, in What do you think of sports analysts ?

We need to tell us that scoring more points is better than scoring less points.

NigelFrobisher, in Does AI-generated art posted on lemmy bother you?

I don’t really get it. Reminds me of the guys who’d send each other fractal images on floppy disks in the early 90s, which they must have got something out of, but to everyone else it’s just pictures of maths.

Etterra, in What do you think of sports analysts ?

They’re even less worthy of their excessive paychecks than the people involved in the sports. That money could end homelessness.

ani, in Thunderbird or Betterbird. What is better on Windows?

You can use gmail.com on any web browser. No need to install any app.

xkforce,

Read the room.

Kuvwert,

You’re not gonna see a lot of love for Google products here dude…

Asudox,
@Asudox@lemmy.world avatar

Does OP use gmail?

Rhynoplaz,

It’s fine for on my phone, but the Gmail UI is trash on a PC.

MicrowavedTea, in Whats the difference between the language codes ro and ro_v26 (romanian)?

With a quick search it seems to be a translation specifically targeting Android 8.0 (API 26) but I only see it in the TBLauncher project. Some small details here but not sure why there is a separate translation for it github.com/TBog/TBLauncher/issues/90.

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