We usually get things like the chocolate covered cashews or sea salt caramels. They occasionally have some peanut butter or maybe cashew butter cups and those I remember being really good.
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Aldi has such awesome chocolate! Thanks for pointing out the reason.
anon6789@lemmy.worldto politics @lemmy.world•Trump Administration Live Updates: Senate Republicans Push Ahead With Plan to Cut Food Stamps2·6 days agoPennsylvania, so it varies. My friends are of diverse backgrounds, but my extended family is very red and that was how I was raised.
Most people I talk to just follow what “their people” tell them and don’t learn about it any more. We’re on a political community because we’re into it, but the majority of people don’t know or care beyond the sales pitch they get from whomever their preferred media source is.
I find them more politically ignorant than malicious. They’ll say stupid stuff, but if you can get conversation going to where you can present things in a way that is equitable to most people you get “that sounds like a good idea” but tell them that’s a lefty stance and they dig in their heals and won’t believe it.
I’ll hear them say racist or sexist or homophobic things, but they’ve always been respectful to my girlfriends, my gay friends, and I’ve never actually seen them be rude to anyone they thought for their race. They’re just scared of shit they don’t know. Put something in front of them, they see it isn’t scary, and they can accept it because now it’s familiar.
The in laws are worse than my family, but they all drove 6 hours to the one cousin’s lesbian interracial half Jewish, half Christian wedding. They hated the food because it had flavor, but they didn’t make a deal about it in public, and they had a great time and celebrated them as much as at any other wedding, and they love her and accept them both.
Trust me, the cognitive dissonance blows my mind, and it’s hard to accept the duality that people can talk one way and support hateful things while they could turn around and be nice to the people they were just hating on, but that has been my years of experience with people here.
I got experience outside my bubble and learned to love it. I stopped being selfish, learned empathy for strangers, and started trying to understand issues, even if they didn’t directly affect me. They are capable of that. It might never work, but they’re not hopeless. I can’t say I’ve ever met someone who would look at anyone else and to their face wish harm or struggle upon them. They might not be immediately comfortable around them, but I can’t say anyone would wish something negative for them.
I know people that evil do exist, but I again say that is not the majority of people. Nowhere close to it. If we can’t see the potential of the other third to half of our country, we’re done for.
anon6789@lemmy.worldto politics @lemmy.world•Trump Administration Live Updates: Senate Republicans Push Ahead With Plan to Cut Food Stamps6·7 days agoMy patience is only for the everyday people in our lives. Most of them I think are poorly or wrongly informed or just have no interest or understanding of politics. I’m plenty interested in politics and the economy, etc, and I maybe have a solid grip on 1% of what all the government actually does or can do.
Those who are public officials, elected or appointed, or in some other way active participants such as citizen “militias”, Jan 6ers, etc… those people can burn in hell for what they’ve done to this place. They’ve done irreparable harm and did it purposefully over decades. They know and understand what they’re doing. They have no excuse. They’re criminals and traitors to our country.
I assume we’re all somewhere left of center here, so I may have not been clear on that distinction.
anon6789@lemmy.worldto politics @lemmy.world•Trump Administration Live Updates: Senate Republicans Push Ahead With Plan to Cut Food Stamps7·7 days agoI agree with the assessment of willful/blind ignorance. This could hardly be proven more than by Rep. Kat Cammack blaming the Democrats for Florida’s abortion ban almost killing her. But while she almost got her own face eaten by the leopard, there would be some karmic justice there one could argue, but again, to see people in America suffer or die for very preventable conditions is insane to me.
The real upside, if we wish to see one from this spiteful and asinine budget cut, is an opportunity to show we’re not whatever it is they’ve been told we are. Make sure your neighbors and family are ok, if they’re MAGA or not. We can look for revenge, or we can live in an egalitarian way that we’d want things to be. Don’t preach people your beliefs, show them why you believe it. You won’t always win people over, but most folks will remember if you gave them a hand when they needed it and didn’t guilt them or hold something over them, but were just a good human being.
We’re allowed to be mad. We deserve to be mad. But we should still act right. Somebody’s got to be the adult in the room.
anon6789@lemmy.worldto politics @lemmy.world•Trump Administration Live Updates: Senate Republicans Push Ahead With Plan to Cut Food Stamps15·7 days agoThe downside is those people have kids that didn’t vote for this.
And while I’d like the people that did vote for this to understand what they supported, I really don’t want them to starve either. It feels more cruel than helpful. If we’re supporting basic human rights, which we should, that includes shitty people, for better or worse.
anon6789@lemmy.worldto politics @lemmy.world•Gavin Newsom sues Fox News for $787M in defamation case over Trump call23·7 days agoAgreed. While people should continue to fight politically as well, that is much slower and more stacked against them. They (the MAGAs) have been and continue to lose the lawsuits and civil cases against them. Mike Lindell just lost his $2.3 million defamation case and a Jan 6 rioter lost a $500,000 case for wrongful death of a capital police officer within just the last few days.
While I hope Newsom wins this lawsuit, he’s not going to get my vote in a presidential primary. He can certainly be right in one circumstance and not in another.
anon6789@lemmy.worldto Ask Lemmy@lemmy.world•US question: Would you approve of your state seceding from the Union, declaring independence from the United States? I think California, Oregon, and Washington would, and probably Colorado too.6·12 days agoI am very aware, as someone in one of Pennsylvania’s blue dots. But I don’t want to live fully encircled by active hostiles.
Close down a few major roadways and it’s siege tactics, and blue areas would get starved out or cut off from water pretty quickly. Most people won’t be fighters, and it just seems like a bad situation.
Plus that red land, while not necessarily lived on is where a lot of food, resources, and commerce is. How much food can we grow or raise in cities. How much defense industry do we have? Where do we get wood or my minerals/ores?
Secession just seems like a way for a lot of people to suffer. We need to get the whole place back, not specks here and there that are dependent on (?).
anon6789@lemmy.worldto Ask Lemmy@lemmy.world•US question: Would you approve of your state seceding from the Union, declaring independence from the United States? I think California, Oregon, and Washington would, and probably Colorado too.9·12 days agoI vote Nay.
While land doesn’t vote, if you look at a county election map, anyone seceding is not going to just walk away with current borders intact, and even if you establish a new border, you’re going to be in the middle of enemy territory no matter which state we’re talking about.
anon6789@lemmy.worldto Ask Lemmy@lemmy.world•Does anyone else feel overwhelmed by how the world is going this year?43·12 days agoYes, so I am overwhelming myself with good stuff so I don’t have as much time to let that stuff bother me.
I joined an animal rescue that I work at every Sunday and busy my butt there. I also started participating in community events with other people through my music teacher, so I’ve always got new songs to work on. These national protests also have a more uplifting vibe than I’d expected, so I’d like to participate in more of those too.
So I’m feeling better about my own actions, developing more skills, helping my environment, giving entertainment back to my community, and seeing hundreds of other people that also want this place to be a bit better.
Sure the news is still a total buzzkill, but I can only dwell on it so long. I put off doing these things for so long saying I didn’t have time or energy, but now they are wonderful healthy distractions, and even if we do pull out of this tailspin, I’d love to keep doing all these things anyway.
Don’t let jerks keep you down. We can’t stop all of it, but we can all find some way to be useful and successful, and other people seeing you carry on will keep them motivated too!
anon6789@lemmy.worldto Ask Lemmy@lemmy.world•How do we feel about Lemmy communities that ban others based on a protected characteristics e.g. gender, sexuality, etc?2·13 days agoThe conversation there looked great, so I kept finding myself there, so I just sucked it up. I always saw them politely ask people to respect the rule, but I know it’s gotta get old repeating themselves every time. Guys got literally every other community! Let them have one in peace. They know where to find us fellas if they really need us. 🤣
anon6789@lemmy.worldto Ask Lemmy@lemmy.world•How do we feel about Lemmy communities that ban others based on a protected characteristics e.g. gender, sexuality, etc?4·13 days agoIt’s like eves dropping on a group of people in public. Yes, they’re talking where anyone can listen, but it tends to make people uncomfortable if you lurk there obviously or chime into their conversation, so it’s polite to move on or ignore them. I just blocked them, out of respect, not frustration. It just removes the temptation while not affecting them in any way.
The best part is, as another person said in this post, is any questions you do have that are female related, you can ask in another community and those same nice ladies will answer you. 😁
anon6789@lemmy.worldto Fediverse@lemmy.world•is there is any Lemmy server that care about privacy(does not require email), Does not impose limits on community posts like my current instance and does not have high amount of restrictions?English3·14 days agoHah, I figure I do bother some people with my block of posts, but 1) I put all my posts up and breakfast so people have all day to ask me questions and I have all my down time at work to answer them so you get quick replies before you forget you even asked something, and 2) if seeing 3-5 owl photos is a row is that big a deal, congrats on having no real problems! 😜
I really do feel that way I do it is an advantage for anyone who develops a real interest in the content. It works for me in a way that it isn’t a burden to do it every day, and you get my mostly undivided attention to reply to you.
anon6789@lemmy.worldto Ask Lemmy@lemmy.world•What grocery items are always worth the extra $1-$5?2·15 days agoIt does meander a bit, as it’s more a reflection of the author’s history with Petty on the one year anniversary of his passing that just happens to eventually settle on a tale about coffee perfection.
I like it overall as a tale about simple pleasures and what will people remember most about us after we’re gone rather than a guide on how to achieve the perfect cup. I have reservations about if I’d agree that was the best cup ever if I had been there with them, but that was what reminded me of the story while I was reading about you having a mug of instant coffee with your family. 😊
anon6789@lemmy.worldto Ask Lemmy@lemmy.world•What grocery items are always worth the extra $1-$5?3·15 days agoI didn’t drink coffee for half my life because I was usually always around burnt, bottom tier coffee.
After moving largely away from whiskies and runs due to medicine I was on, I wanted a complex beverage to fill that void and gave some decent coffee a shot. It was of course worlds beyond most of what I’ve had anywhere else, and now I try different single origins every month.
But the real wild thing, is now I apply that tasting ability I’ve developed to diner coffee, and now the particular funk of a Waffle House cup gives me the memories of old road trips. The coffee from the local diner reminds me I’m home. Now that I can pick out one cup of low grade from another, it lets me appreciate the times I do go low on coffee.
Your comment made me think of the semi-famous Tom Petty coffee story from Rolling Stone. In searching for the article, I saw something claiming his daughters refuted the claims of his brand of choice, though still others claimed Mr Petty had personally verified it with them, so who’s to say for sure at this point. But anyone who likes coffee, Tom Petty, or some food storytelling should like this tale of a man and his quest for the perfect cup. For anyone that hasn’t read the story, I really enjoy it and think it’s a fun read and a reminder of simple joys in life.
IceRaven on mobile mostly. Was diehard for Kiwi, but it’s stopped development and is being absorbed into Edge. Tried all the current stuff, and IceRaven was the most like what I was used to.
anon6789@lemmy.worldto Ask Lemmy@lemmy.world•What's one beauty standard that you don't agree with?50·18 days agoI don’t get why people try to hide freckles. They’re so unique!
anon6789@lemmy.worldto Ask Lemmy@lemmy.world•What game changing item*s can you buy for $100 or less?3·19 days agoGlad to help! I always kinda wanted one but wasn’t convinced I’d use it, but I borrowed a real basic one from my brother and found so many uses for it. Now having one with pulse vacuuming and the hose attachment, I do even more things! I may just love pressing buttons though. 😁
anon6789@lemmy.worldto Ask Lemmy@lemmy.world•What game changing item*s can you buy for $100 or less?7·19 days agoFor my coffee stuff, I typically make Aeropress ($40) with a metal filter for the lady and use the OXO pour over ($18) for myself.
I like manual brewing so I can regulate all the ratios and temps to my liking. It isn’t as fun to do both of those right after waking up though, so I make them at night into mason jars. Now I got a jar sealer attachment for my vacuum sealer ($10) and the coffee stays dang near at original quality until morning, so I just pop the top and have nice chilled pour over every morning. They make standalone jar sealers for cheap, but I have a spendier tabletop unit to do bags and jars.
I seal the beans in vacuum sealer containers as well now and they seem to be maintaining potency longer. I’m on week 3 of the current bag, and it still smells almost brand new every time I open it compared to my old airtight but not vacuumed container. The special jars are pretty cheap or a pound of beans should fit in a 32 oz mason jar.
So if you’ve already done the basics, think about checking out vacuum sealing. I use it for bunches of things. Pre-chopped veg for recipes (diced onion in 1/2 onion portions, 2 chopped celery and 2 chopped carrots for soup/stew, etc), wild game, make big batches of long cooked tomato sauces so we can have weekend meals during the week, resealing chips, cookies, and crackers so they don’t get stale. All kinds of stuff.
I’m grateful it’s off the table for now. We best keep an eye on this guy though, I’m sure he’s not going to quit trying.