[-] [email protected] 3 points 11 hours ago

Famous is different from working. I have known plenty of artists who just hustle and make a living - singing telegrams, weddings, bar gigs, teaching, they make enough to get by. They are working musicians.

Then there are all those bands who plug on, famous but not wildly so, I think they are making enough to live on just their band earnings.

Then a very few who get rich. Mostly those are kids of connected people, not always but often.

It's the same with any entertainment industry, right? Average earnings on onlyfans is something like $3 a month.

And there is just So Much Talent in the world, and people have limited entertainment budgets.

[-] [email protected] 9 points 13 hours ago

That headline. First I thought Iranians sunbathe and play with drones at the same time? Then had the unfortunate mental image of Trump sunbathing.

[-] [email protected] 4 points 15 hours ago

It's really hard to have a routine when your work schedule is irregular. I don't think you are wrong to rely on easy to prepare stuff but you need more nutrition, yes? My kids say I have ADD, and most of them do, my second to youngest was having trouble because Adderall so I got her some easy things.

Bagged salad packs with the dressing.

Packaged Hummus from the grocery, on Triscuit crackers, has a lot of calories with fiber & nutrition from the hummus.

Apple with sliced cheese or peanut butter

Do you like tuna? Make tuna salad at the beginning of the week, or a can dumped on one of the aforementioned bagged salad mixes.

Hard boiled eggs last a long time in the fridge, also an egg dropped into your ramen would add nutrition.

Keep your work schedule in your phone calendar and set an alarm for dinner.

For breakfast cold fermented oatmeal is amazing, we call it summer oatmeal. Mix rolled oats with yogurt, coconut water and/ or kombucha/kvass/tepache if you have it, juice or water if you don't. Mix in dried fruit and nuts and seeds, even chocolate if you want. It should start a little sloppy as the oats will take up the liquid. Taste and adjust, sweeten if you want, I don't. Put it in the fridge and each morning take a little for breakfast.

And also, don't stress about eating regularly if you don't have weight issues. If your body is feeling ok and staying in a healthy size you don't need to force yourself.

[-] [email protected] 17 points 1 day ago

I hate to be the one to tell you this, but your dad is a racist.

I would say it's a shining example of my theory. He wants to go back to when he was ignorant of the struggles of other people. They did exist, he just didn't know and now he does.

[-] [email protected] 2 points 1 day ago* (last edited 11 hours ago)

+3 or so, benign neglect, with unavoidable trauma. My dad died when I was a teenager and that sucked, my mom fell apart, also she was diagnosed bipolar and I didn't enjoy being a child at all, but do honestly believe my mom did her best, and we were fed, housed, schooled, (ETA including sports! She was big on physical fitness, and that is something that absolutely ended up improving my adult life, once I recovered from my own disordered/restrictive eating) and not interfered with much beyond that.

What score would the over-involved helicopter parents of my kids' friends land on this scale, though? Those kids aren't spoiled exactly but certainly not neglected.

[-] [email protected] 22 points 1 day ago

I think people who think the past was better are all white men, and it's because they didn't have to think about other people. They want to go back to ignorance.

He literally says that to you? The 1950s? Have you asked him specifically why? My mom had a great time in the 1950s and no way would she ever have wanted the world to go backwards to that time. She recognized, as she became older, how bad things were for her mom, for black kids (her school was segregated), for so many people.

The only reason I can imagine wanting to go to the past, is to try to make this future better, but I know better than to fuck with the timeline and can't imagine I'd be able to do anything about it anyway.

[-] [email protected] 2 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

Hozier

Father John Misty

SZA

Tyler Childers

And oh my God, the juggernaut that is Fontaines DC

ETA I agree with Future Islands.

[-] [email protected] 1 points 1 day ago

La Verdita

Zero-Proof Highball: La Verdita - Imbibe Magazine https://imbibemagazine.com/recipe/la-verdita-a-zero-proof-highball/

[-] [email protected] 2 points 2 days ago

When I was a dancer - if one of us was injured, they made us come & watch the practice because apparently your body does gain knowledge just by watching.

But that was with a baseline knowledge already.

I think it would help, learning about swimming before doing it. More so if you are already physically active in some other way though.

[-] [email protected] 10 points 2 days ago

Radio. I still listen to radio over the airwaves, and received by an antenna, as it has been done since 1920.

Bicycles are not much different since around 1900.

[-] [email protected] 3 points 2 days ago

English to Vietnamese or Vietnamese to English is harder than, say English to Spanish or Arabic because the sounds are so very different - I am sure I simply can't hear some of the different sounds in tonal languages, and had a friend who moved here from Taiwan when she was so young she learned better in English than Taiwanese but still she could not hear the difference between ear and year.

I don't think it's impossible but do think it's unusual. My dad was bilingual English and Spanish and I wish my parents had done the "one speaks English one speaks Spanish" language immersion but we only spoke English at home.

[-] [email protected] 21 points 4 days ago

Not necessarily at 3 weeks, it is so intensely stressful at the start. Crying is designed to make you feel upset, that is what it evolved for, so that you would check on the baby.

I did feel love for the newborns, but they aren't fun or anything, they are just babies. You were the same at the start of your life.

Can your wife visit a lactation consultant? I remember my kids falling asleep nursing, is that not normal? They nurse, fall asleep, wake up and are happy for awhile, then cry, nurse, and fall asleep, that's the whole newborn cycle. I don't think that means they aren't getting enough, of the baby was that hungry he'd stay awake long enough to eat enough and remember, the milk in the first few moments has the most fat & calories.

Basically - I would not trust your feelings right now, while sleep deprived and stressed. You may enjoy the baby when it is more enjoyable. Like 2-3 years old is blistering cute, and then they are learning so much you can see it happening, and teenagers are fun and keep you aware of pop culture.

I don't remember my mom being, well, mom-ish, not very nice when we were little, we weren't neglected at all she was just never close with us. I asked her about it when I was grown and she said "I don't like kids." And I was like "WTF, you had so many kids!" And she said "Well, I like you all now, I knew you'd grow up, you don't have kids to have kids but to raise people.". And I guess she has a point. It's nicer to enjoy the ride, I did, but she didn't and we were ok.

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submitted 6 days ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

1 oz Pathfinder non alcoholic liqueur

1.5 oz lemon juice (one lemon)

1 small bottle (4oz) Crodino

I started here, but it is was tart and not quite good. A little yellow Chartreuse, about 3/4oz, fixed it. Stirred with ice (since it had soda) and strained over new ice.

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submitted 1 week ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

2 oz bourbon, 1oz of everything else, shaken with lots of ice.

I was looking for something with these ingredients, gave up and just mixed them together. It's good.

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Tiny cocktails (www.thespiritsbusiness.com)
submitted 2 weeks ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

I am all in favor of this. There are beer flights at so many restaurants but tiny strong & delicious cocktails with small foods would be such a great starter to a meal. Something bitter but not enough to get drunk and not be able to enjoy the food.

When I am working up a recipe, often I will invite people over and make 4 different versions but then split each drink into 4 little dixie cups so that each of us have only one drink's worth of alcohol. That doesn't fix the drink getting too warm problem but does let us test them clear headed.

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Cue up your ad blocker, a short and easy to implement list from J Morgenthaler - make sure your recipe doesn't suck, use stronger ingredients, and ice ice baby, keep cold drinks really cold.

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A Sunday Spritzer (lemmy.world)
submitted 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

Wanted something not boozy for today. Have some really nice white wine open but didn't want that straight either, so this is a sort of sangria, sort of spritz.

3 oz mixed citrus, mostly grapefruit, some orange some lemon.

2oz Aperol

4 oz Chateau Guiraud 2022 Bordeaux (mostly Sauvignon Blanc, it's really good)

3 oz Topo Chico sparkling mineral water

Poured over frozen cantaloupe and a little ice.

It's good and just what I wanted. I'd never actually had an Aperol Spritz before, was at a bar this weekend and there were ladies demoing it (not the canned one) and I'd never tasted Aperol as bitter - in mixed drinks I can't tell, it's just sweet & citrus, but in the wine it did shine and was bitter. And this drink is just right in the same way, but lighter.

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Satan's Circus (lemmy.world)
submitted 3 weeks ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

2 oz rye (Emerald Giant)

3/4 oz Aperol chile infused (I used the habanero tincture)

3/4 oz Cocci Barolo Chinotto (did not have, sub with Crodino and a splash of Campari)

3/4 oz lemon juice

Shake & strain.

Kimchi says hi!

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submitted 4 weeks ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

I am having a Pas de Loup for this Friday the 13th. Mezcal and Cynar have such an affinity.

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submitted 4 weeks ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

I fucking love the zero waste ideas, kvass, tepache, the orgeat from avocado pits. Funny that the drink doesn't seem to use the strawberry syrup that gave her the idea in the first place, and I don't think you would need to throw out the tops for kvass, they can go in.

Definitely gonna set this up for July.

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submitted 4 weeks ago* (last edited 4 weeks ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

I fucking love the zero waste ideas, kvass, tepache, the orgeat from avocado pits. Funny that the drink doesn't seem to use the strawberry syrup that gave her the idea in the first place, and I don't think you would need to throw out the tops for kvass, they can go in.

Definitely gonna set this up for July.

Also I have no idea how this got cross posted to the same community it's in, or how to undo that, I only see one instance of it when I look at the community but there are two comment threads! My apologies!

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submitted 1 month ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

The Blue Blazer I've never heard of, but 11 cocktails that are still pretty popular, with a little history in there.

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submitted 1 month ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

I invite you to join me in having the most popular cocktail of the year 2000, a Cosmopolitan.

2 oz vodka

2 oz sweetened cranberry juice

1 oz lime

1 oz orange liqueur

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submitted 1 month ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

This is shockingly good.

2 oz bourbon

1 oz lemon

1/2 oz St. Germain (i think fresh pineapple juice would be a good substitute)

4 blackberries

5 leaves basil

1/2 tsp aged balsamic vinegar

Demitasse spoonful brown sugar (probably half teaspoon)

Muddled the sugar, basil, blackberries and balsamic, added the rest and shook with ice, strained through a fine mesh strainer over one big ice cube.

I wasn't sure at first sip, just thought "I'd serve this to someone" but it is very, very good. I don't taste the individual ingredients, it all combined into a delicious whole.

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