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sab, 9 months ago (edited 7 months ago)

In terms of nutritional value it's actually quite a huge difference, with homemade mashed potatoes being a lot better for you. Something about food being healthier when it's less processed.

Still, the powder one is not the worst thing, and boiling up potatoes takes too long some days. I like keeping some texture though, so for me it's homemade whenever I feel like having it. :)

sab, 9 months ago (edited 7 months ago)

It's more recent science, but it seems every step of processing food (boiling, mashing, drying etc) breaks down cell structures, and that this in turn can make it harder for the body to take up nutrition. So you end up eating more but getting less nutritional value.

Research is still ongoing though, and of course mashed potatoes from powder is obviously still much better than ultra-processed food.

Here's a source

sab, 9 months ago

I'm currently seeing a girl I started dating after she had problems with her regex and I helped her out.

So far so good.

sab, 9 months ago

That absolutely sucks.

But, coming from a family where we all suck at gifts, it is somewhat relatable. It is unbelievable how difficult and anxiety-provoking gift buying can be for some people, and caring more about someone only makes it harder. In the end one could land on something awful and last minute after worrying about it for months, and it seems like one simply doesn't care.

I of course don't know this specific situation, and it is indeed a particularly bad gift considering your allergy. But don't read it as a sign that they don't care - it could be that they care quite a lot, and that it's a case of something else entirely.

sab, 9 months ago

It seems like you're going through a rough time, but that you're dealing with it in a healthy way and set to find true value in life. You will be out on your own soon enough, and you'll do great. Time goes by very fast at least in retrospect.

It seems your parents have their set of pretty deep issues, but it's at least cute that they are making the effort.

Hold on there!

sab, 9 months ago

What the fuck.

Hope you're both doing alright. I guess one could say something about how helping others is what Christmas is all about or whatever, but seriously, what the fuck is wrong with people.

Good thing you were there to be a decent human being in a shitty situation.

sab, 9 months ago

It's like a trope. Old men who used to be really shitty fathers and now desperately try to cling on to the image of themselves as the heads of the family even though they will never truly be forgiven for who they used to be, and everyone are kind of afraid that they still are.

It's sad, it's painful, and it's fucking impossible to deal with in a good way.

sab, 9 months ago

That's fucking great! Keep it up!

sab, 9 months ago

I'm swimming in it! We always have a white Christmas, but this year it's spectacular. You could already ski (cross country) on the 23rd, since then there's 20 more centimetres of crispy new snow on top. It's amazing!

Obviously doesn't compensate for the heat elsewhere, but it won't stop me from appreciating what we've got!

sab, 9 months ago

Always wanted to go to BC, it seems incredibly beautiful. So sad to hear how noticeable the effects of climate change are there already.

sab, 9 months ago

It's not really one of those situations where knowing what you're doing makes anything any better, is it

sab, 9 months ago

As a Scandinavian, I'm genuinely super happy to hear that! As far as I'm concerned the Christians are very welcome to celebrate whatever they'd like, but they have no right to monopolize the festivities. It's winter solstice goddamn it, it's been celebrated since the beginning of time and belongs to everyone!

sab, 9 months ago

Everything appears to be drifting towards him.

I think the joke is that the guy is unbelievably cartoonishly lucky that all those things are floating too him on a deserted island all at once, put in juxtaposition with the one element of bad luck (that he's already long dead).

sab, 9 months ago

There's a slight chance I could be convinced to accept the french R into the company of real R sounds, but I agree the rolling one is where it's at. The American one is something special.

sab, 9 months ago (edited 7 months ago)

If I ever have kids I plan to coordinate a common gift with everyone I'm celebrating with; just have them all chip in a bit, and buy one very nice gift rather than adding to an ever-growing pile of plastic garbage.

My sister has made real effort not to spoil her kids, but it's hopeless. They get so much sparkly trash at every occasion, and I feel like I could might as well have given my gifts directly to the landfill.

sab, 9 months ago

Not that you'll be able to see content posted to Threads from Lemmy anyway - you cannot post threads (in the Fediverse sense) from Threads (the platform), and microblog posts are generally not visible from Lemmy. So it might make sense as a matter of principle, but it's not going to change anything for you.

sab, 10 months ago (edited 9 months ago)

And discoverability, it still has ways to go on the social networking integration. I still don't know how to go from watching a peertube video on a peertube instance to liking/boosting it on another fediverse service, even if I wanted to.

That said, I have been following Peertube for a couple of years, and the progress has been incredible. It makes sense to create a solid foundation for video playback first, and a lot of people seem to not understand the extent of the innovation Peertube has made in that regard. Social media tools obviously come second after providing a solid service, and I have no idea it will develop in great ways in the coming years. :)

sab, 10 months ago

I guess people tend to look to astronomers for information about space, while the Fermi paradox probably borders more on philosophy than on astronomy. And in a lot of people minds philosophers are not real scientists, unlike astronomers.

sab, 10 months ago

Reminds me of this classic from Montparnasse, 1895!

sab, 10 months ago

He participated in a parade in Washington in relation to Roosevelt's second inauguration. This landed him an audience with the President, in which he asked for the pardon of himself and his fellow prisoners of war. Roosevelt rejected him personally.

He was happy to parade him in front of the nation as a symbol of national unity though.

sab, 10 months ago (edited 10 months ago)

I have understood the parade to be supposed to symbolise that the hatchet was buried and that all peoples of the nation rallied behind the republican idea of America. But I'm by no means a historian - would love to hear a more enlightened take on it!

sab, 10 months ago (edited 10 months ago)

I guess it's also a period in which people were going crazy about Buffalo Bill's Wild West show - it's a strange period of history in which the glorification and mythification of the past started before the dust had even settled.

sab, 10 months ago (edited 10 months ago)

I suspect it could be from an old postcard, which might indeed have had some artistic retouching done to improve upon the original photograph. If so, the version hosted on Wikimedia might be more true to the original. :)

sab, 10 months ago

I find it easy to read, but in terms of constructive feedback I would try to write the letters larger. As there's a lot of whitespace in the speech bubbles, the text could be made quite a bit bigger without even needing bigger bubbles.