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Opinions on hunting? in c/asklemmy@lemmy.world
[–] 2 points 3 hours ago

I agree that nobody should be eating anything they would not prepare - I don't hunt because I don't like camping and am a terrible shot, would be a menace with a gun. But I have gently raised chickens, and am at ease with eating meat, and DO want to know what I am eating. So hunted fowl and grass fed ranch animals are great, , I try to eat less meat humanely raised. We are animals and omnivores and we belong to this cycle of life.

People who want meat as a sanitized experience, who don't want to think about what they are eating, that does bother me. Vegans don't bother me, that makes sense. Hunters (for food) don't bother me. Fishing kinda does, because the oceans are so overfished, we need to lay off awhile.

Anyway - I do think it's ethical, a deer is going to be somebody's food and a quick death is gentler than what a different predator would do.

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    Hasan Piker Vindication: “I’m Libbing the F*ck Out” in c/fauxmoi@sh.itjust.works
    [–] 2 points 15 hours ago

    I was really happy to be able to vote for her, even though she didn't win & I hate A.Moody. It's so unusual to have a chance to vote FOR someone and not just against the greater evil. I really wish we could have turned out enough people to get her elected but it was pretty close and she is genuinely progressive.

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    • How do you get over stumbling upon the most beautiful girl in the world? in c/asklemmy@lemmy.world
    [–] 2 points 18 hours ago

    That is funny to me; I love seeing beautiful people but they don't stun me like that, I can't really be attracted to someone I've not met. And I couldn't define a "most beautiful" because there are just so many different ways to be beautiful.

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    James Talarico turns Texas blue in historic win for Democrats in c/politics@lemmy.world
    [–] 5 points 1 day ago

    I'm old enough to remember Ann Richards, and Lawton Childs here. Texas, and Florida too, are still close to 50/50, just gerrymandered to hell and back. It's nice for Texas, I am happy for them, and Georgia too. Sorry that we couldn't get enough people out, I kinda like Angie Nixon, it would have been great to have a progressive voice for FL. 4,207,947 votes for Moody (the traitor) 3,969,186 for an honest to God progressive.

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    • How can I have better social interactions? in c/nostupidquestions@lemmy.world
    Anon has a proposal for you in c/greentext@sh.itjust.works
    [–] 5 points 1 day ago (1 child)

    Nile crocodiles eat about once a week on average and can eat twice a year and survive. I wouldn't count on a t-rex expiring from hunger in a month. Maybe from all the new germs, if it was time-traveled in, but not starvation.

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    • hallucinations in c/general@lemmy.world
    [–] 1 point 2 days ago

    But it's in your field of vision like that, in the way of what it's blocking? Any sort of hallucination like that really should be explained by a doctor because what if it's some brain disorder that can be treated? And will harm you if untreated?

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    • Is passing a kidney stone as a man the real equivalent of a woman giving birth? Where do they register on the pain index/scale? in c/nostupidquestions@lemmy.world
    [–] 14 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

    I feel uniquely qualified to answer this, unfortunately, as someone who has given birth naturally several times and passed a kidney stone when I was 20.

    The stone was more terrifying because I didn't know what was happening, I had intense pain and was pissing blood, thought I was dying but by the next day felt nothing and when I went to the doctor he said "you passed a stone, it's gone now, drink more water."

    I have had migraines more painful than either, but not as urgent feeling as the bladder stone, if that makes sense. They are depressing not terrifying. Childbirth hurts but doesn't feel like either, it's productive and sort of exciting, you are having a baby. So it hurts a lot but without the negative emotions it's easier in a way.

    ETA after reading Velma's post - I never had labor for days with mine, 2 (the first and last) were "precipitous" which basically means I only got the worst part of labor and only for about 20 minutes, one I got the ideal, about 4 hours so time to get used to it and gentler start, and one did take over a day but that was because water broke and no labor, had to be induced (with acupuncture!) and an induced labor hurts more so that was the most painful one, but only a couple of hours. So when I say childbirth not as bad I mean not a complicated one.

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    What was the worst time & place someone tried to flirt/hit on you? in c/asklemmy@lemmy.world
    How can I have better social interactions? in c/nostupidquestions@lemmy.world
    [–] 7 points 3 days ago (1 child)

    Yeah this is for sure a good situation for "fake it till you make it."

    Just say hi to everyone when you see them. Once a day talk to a different person for awhile, you will find out who is more friendly. I'm not naturally social or outgoing and I'm at at ease with that, but people can interpret it as unfriendly, so I try to communicate the way each person likes, to some extent. It may not come naturally to you but YOU ARE NOT ALONE in that. We just learned by practicing.

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    • hallucinations in c/general@lemmy.world
    [–] 7 points 3 days ago (5 children)

    Oh no. Do you get migraines? That sounds a lot like the visual disturbance that comes before a migraine. Like a colorful something between you and whatever you are trying to look at?

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    How was your turnout this year? I got more than last year, but still not many. in c/spooky_memes@lemmy.world
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    Halloween! 2026 Edition (lemmy.world)
     

    We are having a party tonight(though nobody has arrived yet) and the cocktails are:

    Toxic Avenger - fresh pineapple juice, Mezcal, Chartreuse, honey.

    Blood Orange Margarita with green mango tequila.

    Black Jellybean, always my Halloween favorite - vodka, sambucca, vanilla, cream soda, this year no lime just a pinch of citric acid in the pitcher, much cleaner

    Mojito.

    Friend Zone (N/A) - strawberry kvass, tonic, lemon. Shockingly good.

    Also: Tepache de pina, coffee, diet coke. Beer & cider.

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    Some of the watermelon (thelemmy.club)
     

    Got near a hundred mini watermelon this year, the very late ones were no good but for a couple months they were glorious. Mini love variety, it was a brutally hot summer and they flourished, I let them take over the whole garden.

    Two plants survived being overrun by watermelon, the asparagus and the hong tsoi. I'm sort of resting it until "spring" which is planted around Feb here.

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    This weekend's bread (thelemmy.club)
     

    Very basic scoring this time. One line one x. I was happy to find some "golden whole wheat flour" yesterday.

    350g Golden whole wheat flour

    650g strong white bread flour

    20g sel gris

    675g tap water

    200g starter made with all purpose white flour and tap water, hydration 100%.

    Just mix, rest, stretch and fold 4x at 30 minute intervals. Bulk rise took awhile, maybe 4 hours this time (it varies, one hour to 8 - is a condition not a time). Split and bench rest then shaped, into cloth lined baskets wrapped in plastic bags, overnight in the refrigerator. Baked cold bread in very hot closed pans 20 minutes then open lids and 20 minutes more. 450F.

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    Breakfast in Tampa (or, guava pastry & a cigar, while reading la gaceta) (thelemmy.club)
    submitted 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) by [M] to c/cocktails@lemmy.world
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    (Sorry for the mixed measurements - I had a bunch of egg white so had to weigh out 1 egg worth)

    35 grams egg white

    1 Tbsp guava jelly or guava paste

    1 oz good mezcal

    1/2 oz over proof reposado tequila

    1/2 oz Aperol

    3/4 oz lemon juice

    ETA I failed to list one step. First: whisk or muddle the jelly and booze to incorporate it.

    Shake without ice, then with ice. Just as good as it sounds and so beautiful.

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    El Diablo (thelemmy.club)
     

    It's not a looker, but tastes great.

    2 oz tequila (any)

    1 oz lime juice

    1 oz creme de cassis

    2-3 oz ginger beer (I used 1 oz ginger syrup, 3 oz fizzy water, 2 squirts of fire tincture)

    Result of googling "what else can I make with tequila and lime"

    Husband is having a Stella, that's the bottle in the background.

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    Legolas lounging (thelemmy.club)
     

    He's up to 7.5 lb from under 1 lb when we found him. (From 300 grams of baby to 3.5kg of kitten in only a few months, crazy.)

    Here is a "before", the day my kids texted to say they found the source of the meowing I had heard before work. Just a wee handful. Always bold as anything though, he was never afraid of us or our 75lb mutt of a dog.

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    Today is Yesterday is Tomorrow (thelemmy.club)
     

    1 oz barrel strength bourbon

    1 oz barrel strength reposado tequila

    1 scant oz Aperol with a splash of Campari to make an ounce.

    1 oz Amaro Nonino

    1 oz grapefruit juice

    1 oz lemon juice

    Shake together with ice. If you are somewhere it's not still summer, serve up in a chilled coupe. Tart enough for a sugared rim. But it's still hot here, so everything is iced. This is sort of 1.5 servings, I just find it fussy to measure .75 of an ounce. Equal parts is the key.

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    Banderilla (thelemmy.club)
     

    https://makemeacocktail.com/en/cocktail/9953/banderilla

    Equal parts tequila, mezcal, Apricot liqueur and lime, half part Aperol works best IMO, any more Aperol and it gets too sweet.

    This is a pantry recipe for me as I keep Giffard Abricot in stock always. You want a good apricot in this, I think passion fruit or peach would be equally delicious but make sure it's made from real fruit. Also can sub Campari for the Aperol if you want a little more bitter.

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    Clarified watermelon tequila drink (imbibemagazine.com)
     

    Ok so my garden is basically a watermelon patch right now, so I was interested in this as it uses one whole mini watermelon, but this says the juice lasts one day, the drink once clarified lasts months.

    I guess I could freeze the rest, or simply make less, or since the final version keeps well, make more of that - but why does the recipe say to make so much more of the watermelon juice than one would use, if it doesn't keep?

    Has anyone on here done milk clarifying, is it very fussy?

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    Infuriated on behalf of my coworker - US push to disenfranchise women (lemmy.world)
     

    My coworker went to renew her driver's license.

    They sent her back, said she needed a birth certificate because she didn't have the star on it yet. She's old and from some small town up north so this took 6 months plus another to get another DMV appointment.

    She went back yesterday and they said no, you also need the marriage certificate from your first marriage, the divorce documentation, the marriage certificate from your second marriage and the divorce documentation from that too.

    So now her license is expired, and she can't renew it until some tiny vital statistics department far from here responds to her with paper copies of all those items.

    I am wildly infuriated.

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