Oooo, quercetin, so spooky like myricetin and kaempferol. I can’t even go outside for fear of the chemical cyanidin. Wait. Those are just banana flavour compounds. My bad.

For some that’s their main hobby. If they’ve got an emergency fund, retirement account, and can cover expenses, why shouldn’t they save for their hobby? Seems like they’re doing it the smart way.

“Taste the rainbow” getting new meaning

Scotland. Preferably Highlands but really anywhere in Scotland

“Ed…ward…”

I don’t know why people keep saying this. I wonder if it’s an old thing? I’ve got three people with dedicated Nvidia gpus on mint and they’re just fine. The driver manager just works.

I’ve work a costume the past several years. Halloween is my favourite time of year, the weather, the goths, the pumpkin spice lattes (yes I’m a mid 30s mostly straight dude so what).

I’m actually getting ready for a huge party tonight. Everyone’s going to be in costume. My wife and I have spent morning on ours. Part of the fun is seeing what we can come up with. Last year I was a tech bro, just wow a tshirt and flipped baseball cap and handed out papers with little doodles I called NFTs. This year thanks to my wife insisting I grow a mustache I’m going at Matty Matheson, have an apron and hat already.

Last year my wife went as Winifred Sanderson from Hocus Pocus. She used a ren fest dress she wears already and borrowed some makeup. This year she’s going as a pizza delivery girl I think from the movie Mystic Pizza? I dunno never seen it, something her and her friend cooked up, but again using stuff we have.

Don’t overthink it, no need to be perfect, no need to buy junk you’ll never wear again. Just go be free and have fun. Embrace the make believe

Although I agree and run a free grill myself, this looks like one of those computer controlled pellet smokers, not a regular grill. Not a straight comparison to grilling.

Sorry, only lambdas.

If there’s science for this you have I’d love to see it. I’m the exact opposite. Some good hot sauce on beans and rice and I eat twice as much it’s so good.

Yeah AI is not the right choice for this. Plenty of procedural algorithms for this already. It’s just very cost expensive hardware wise.

Yeah, sounds like you’re starting to figure some things out for yourself. This is all natural and fine. You’re empathizing with the choices they made and trying to understand why but also recognizing issues you have.

Keep thinking and growing. You’ll do fine.

I also didn’t have friends growing up. It’s never too late, just can take more effort. I didn’t really start thriving until after college.

It really depends on why you hate them. Lots of parents truly care but are terrible at expressing anything other than commands. This can lead to a lot of tension as you grow older and begin to want more freedom.

My parents were abusive assholes. Mother was a classic narcissist who would make us compete for signs of her affection. I hate her completely for how she raised us, but recognize that part of her had to actually care as she did put a lot of effort into our education.

It’s a complex relationship between a parent and child.

Here, you can correct me and feel more gooder. The area of a circle is pie are good

Came here to second this. Can not hear it without doing the arm pumps

I would recommend moving off of Duolingo if you can. What you move to depends on the language you’re learning. They fired a bunch of their language developers and went hard on AI.

I help run a community for Welsh learners and we’re finding more and more people coming in with questions about a Duolingo lesson where things are wrong and weird. Plus their business practices aren’t great. They realized that they make money from you staying on the app, not learning a language, so your progress is artificial stunted. Plus the complete lack of grammar explanation at all we’re finding hurts people more than helps

As a general recommendation, textbooks are so much better.

I also see Gmail. I don’t have a recommendation for a replacement as I’m doing my research on it now, but getting away from Google is a good idea

I get what you’re saying, and agree, but there were many more, Ancestry.com and findagrave.com and many more were also down (while I’m in the middle of an ancestry fact finding trip). It really was massive.

Usual caveats: I’m a person on the Internet, going off only what you’ve posted and just your side of things, so can only say so much. I’m also exhausted so probably rambling.

I am the gamer in my relationship. Married for several years quite happily. I spent ~24 hours gaming this week. I will spend about 0 hours gaming next week doing what my wife wants.

“She still makes time for me when we play video games” <- this right here is concerning to me. Not criticizing you at all but that isn’t the way. Just “sucking it up” will only lead to resentment and loneliness and fighting. Ask me how I know. If she’s only making time for you in her hobbies, that’s not really making time for you, which is why you’re feeling unfulfilled and asking on the Internet.

A relationship is entirely about balance. If you have hobbies and interests outside of gaming there should be time for those. She should be willing to go to those because she cares about you. Not always, and not at the cost of her fulfillment, but some. Once a week I go out to dinner and then watch a dumb rom-com or something. I have zero interest in it but I do it because it makes her happy. Then at some time during the week we I take time to game and she brings me snacks because it makes me happy. It’s a give and take and we’re both happy

Have you tried communicating directly to her “I want to do this, and I want to do it with you. Please join me because this is a way I enjoy spending time with you”? What was her response to that? My wife and I learned early in our relationship that we need to just be clear and say those things. Being able to not only express what you’rr feeling but understand and listen to what your partner is feeling is the only way it will last. And really think about both what you’re saying and what she is saying. Sometimes my wife and I still have to stop each and clarify what the other person actually means. You can’t read her mind so don’t assume you know what she means. Make sure. And visa versa.

It’s not easy. But seriously. Go have a deep heart to heart and figure out where the disconnect is and what balance is needed to make the relationship work long term.

Like four hours? Got some wine as a present and quick little walk.

Depression sucks. Hopefully you can find some meds and a process that works for you. As others mentioned, logging off really can help. It’s all about balance.

I would but I’m allergic 😭 to the shrimp, not the cesium just to be clear