To decrease gas from dried beans: while soaking change the water once (roughly one hour in) or boil them 2-5 minutes before the soaking and throw the boiling water. This second method also shortens the soaking to only an hour if I remember correctly.

Really? I thought both autism and ADHD had enthrallment basically as a symptom. I admit I am not familiar with any other neurodivergency, so my knowledge is definitely limited

Exactly! You go in with negative expectations, and end up pretty surprised!

Many hobbies don’t require much to start! Gardening requires an investment of some 20$ and a decade of your life

The Lost City of D is a masterpiece in light weirdness definitely highlighted by Harry Potter popping up and messing things up!

You know one snippet of my father in law. Is it really sufficient for you to judge the whole man? I sure hope never to be judged so harshly!

In my case, they are overall nice and caring people with, sometimes, a bit of a blind spot. I was very glad when they came around on the climate change issue, that was the only sore spot between us.

This gives me flashbacks to the one time in my life I really wanted to answer “okay boomer”

My father in law was supporting the claim the climate change might exist, but it’s nothing we have to concern ourselves about because it’s going to take decades to do anything.

And I was like: you have grandkids, they will be there in decades! And: you just experienced the first drought of your country, how is that not climate change??

After half an hour going in rounds I gave up and bit my tongue to not torpedo our relationship. Two years later he admitted that maybe there was something about climate change nowadays…

Honestly nothing unexpected. Also: night ÖBB trains have showers and room options (and are slow because if you take a night train you only care about arriving by tomorrow). And have similar furnishing dating from last century.

Main takeaway: I want serious night trains in EU!

Wild Robot!

I cried so hard watching it. Told a friend, they lightly made fun of me but accepted the suggestion. They cried the whole movie too.

I reasonably liked it, but I agree. For me, the series had built enough suspension of disbelief that I was able to accept the explanations, but it did feel overly complicated, with flashbacks and flashforwards and what not… not on par with the rest

My partner was a GOT fan. He was so utterly disappointed by the ending that still nowadays he would randomly stop doing whatever he was doing to look at me and say “I am still mad”. He is such a peaceful person this is honestly the only thing he has ever been genuinely mad about… so I always know what he is referring to.

Even more far fetched: Italian fascism considered itself the continuation of the Roman Empire (the middle ages did not count, somehow). Does it mean that they were 2000 years old for a bit? But then, nowadays Italy consider itself the descendant of fascism (with a tinge of shame) but not of the Roman Empire. Can we pick and choose our lineage?

China consider itself ti have been a consistent country since (handwave) basically forever. Is that enough?

This is pretty as fuck!

All of this sounds good, honestly. I’m cynical and think that loopholes are always present and there is a risk that applying laws that are too strict could push companies to move out (I know this is often also used as a cop-out to not do anything…)

I also wonder: what’s the goal of teaching this? Sure, a cursory lesson is a good idea, but making it a fundamental step seems nonsensical in a world that doesn’t require it at all. It’s like teaching how to sharpen a quill, it’s not needed anymore

Hyperion is a sci-fi version of the Canterbury tales, each chapter the story of one of the characters with an overarching mystery. It’s an absolutely great book that i don’t see recommended enough

Yah, there are both cultural and societal elements to be considered. In US, the socialized safety net is basically nonexistent, while in Norway, Denmark and Germany (countries from other comments), it’s doing very well. Thus both mean that you can achieve different things with different levels of struggle and that “failure” has a very different meaning.

There is also the component of what the parents can offer. If economic support would be of little help, of social change the landscape, if they are able to do it, and so forth. A first gen college student will not get much useful advice from their parents, a second gen could get really useful guidance.

Take also meant more unstable, so there was a component of an engineering challenge.

You can peel them and put them all in a bowl. So you can gobble them without really noticing that you have gobbled them all.