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You’ve been tasked with defining a new area of criminal law called “economic and financial violence,” and creating laws to prevent it. What actions would you try to criminalize? in c/asklemmy@lemmy.world
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No more externalized costs. Pollution? You pay the entire cleanup cost or straight to jail.

All companies employee owned not investor owned would be nice but for now - lowest paid employee no less than 1/4 the pay of highest paid employee, more than that considered financial fraud or extortion, straight to jail.

And oh my God, insurance companies - taking all the premiums, paying yourselves huge bonuses then going bankrupt, not paying claims, leaving the state then coming back as a different company, rinse and repeat? I cannot believe that doesn't break existing laws but that is our home insurance industry. Please put all of those guys in jail immediately and let us just all use a state run plan, it will be cheaper.

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    Even more laundry questions regarding wool and cotton . Please answer any that you can? in c/asklemmy@lemmy.world
    [–] 1 point 50 minutes ago

    I have washed my silk and wool in my shampoo, the same one I use for my hair, since forever and it's fine. Some of this stuff is over 10 years old. I don't wash any of it very often, except merino underwear, that I throw in the washer, hang dry, and it survives but I'm not expecting to get ten years out of it.

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    Regional identity in c/comicstrips@lemmy.world
    [–] 6 points 2 hours ago (1 child)

    They are building those in my (mainly 1940s) neighborhood and yeah I hate them. Half the bottom floor is a garage, no front porch, front door recessed so unfriendly and people just drive into the garage, close the door and enter the house without ever stepping outside. And so very ugly and builders ask 1.5 million for them. They buy one lot then build two mc mansions on them. I get splitting the lot but we don't need those monstrous buildings.

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    Simple food is best food in c/cooking@lemmy.world
    [–] 2 points 3 hours ago (1 child)

    Lentils cooked in coconut milk and curry are so good, and has some extra calories from the coconut milk, if you need that. Add any veg you have.

    Breakfast for supper.

    Leftover noodles fried in chili garlic oil. (I guess not healthy but easy and delicious)

    You have a lot of fermented pickles? Chop and put in a grilled cheese sandwich!

    I like complicated food but yes if you have glorious condiments, as you seem to, you've already done the complicated part. Pile those fermented veg on brown rice and that would be so good just by itself.

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    Question: find ANY diet in which a person can bulk BUT they cannot eat any starch, fructose, dairy proteins, or meat please in c/fitness@lemmy.world
    [–] 2 points 4 hours ago

    That exclusions list looks like you can't eat anything. What can you eat? Eat a little more of whatever that is, and lift heavy. Bodies are pretty good at figuring out how to use what you eat.

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    [please post photo] What haircut/style would you have if you could have **ANY** hair, hair type, and hairstyle? in c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml
    [–] 2 points 16 hours ago*

    Oh I'd like my hair, just more consistent not such a mix of curly-wavy-coarse-fine. And sometimes I wish it would go up not just flow downward. But the overall loose curls I like and it's holding up nicely, and feel lucky it's hair I like.

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    What are 5 things to be a new Press Secretary starter kit? in c/asklemmy@lemmy.world
    Wait, if I click this “off” does that mean it turns off NOT sharing & selling my information?? So, should I leave it on? in c/assholedesign@lemmy.world
    [–] 9 points 1 day ago

    I have screenshotted and sent to customer service to ask every time this happens, so far they have all said sliding to no means do not sell and I agree this is remarkable asshole design. It hurts my head!

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    Why is being a nice and good person less rewarding? in c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml
    [–] 1 point 1 day ago (1 child)

    Ok let me tell you what I think about life.

    Baseline existence would be to be paralyzed and in pain, blind and deaf. There are people in this situation. I do agree that they have it bad - the only thing they are getting out of life is physical existence nothing else. They don't have much to be happy about at all. Some of them manage to, but I couldn't.

    You and me though? We can hear, see, taste, touch, have much of our time without constant physical pain. Can read, hear music, dance, eat good food, enjoy a beautiful day, see a cute cat or dog. I just enjoy being physically embodied so much, and appreciate how good I have it.

    Specifically though, as you are asking, the outward stuff got better in my early 40s. More money, better relationships, better job, gained some weight (I have mixed feelings about that but do feel physically healthier not underweight). Better emotional regulation, less hot-headed.

    If you have some bad friends, find better people. If it's you who are the constant in the bad friendships though, you may need to consider that you may be the problem. Jobs are kinda different, I do think even sort of awful people can be successful in the right professional position.

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    • Yo, I’m at the pizza place. Y’all want anything? in c/asklemmy@lemmy.world
    Why is being a nice and good person less rewarding? in c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml
    [–] 1 point 1 day ago (3 children)

    Yes I agree external conditions can harm you, but it's also true that the only thing you really have control over is yourself, your reactions, your actions, your inner dialogue, and so on. You aren't likely to be able to influence other people or events much.

    I can say - if you can make it through a bad time, things do often get better - they did for me. If you are surrounded by toxic people find new people, and also if you are seeing someone for your mental health make sure you tell them what's going on.

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    • Wanna see me doing something really silly? :P in c/trans_joy@lemmy.blahaj.zone
    [–] 6 points 2 days ago (1 child)

    Delicate androgynous beauty. Your shoulders are fine, that's dysmorphia. You don't see what others do.

    Really, a face that would look good whether boy, girl, or neither, you have nothing to worry about.

    I am mom to a trans son. Same sort of situation, he was so pretty as a girl, is very good looking as a dude - I think there is just much less difference than people think. Extreme feminine or masculine features just are not as good looking ever, classic beauty is always somewhere towards the center.

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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 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week 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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    Frankenstein (thelemmy.club)
     

    This was a test-and-adjust drink. I was looking for something with Fernet & Mezcal and everything I saw were stirred very boozy things, I was not in the mood for. I saw one though with cachaca and lime so tried a margarita approach.

    Started with these, shaken:

    1.5 oz tequila

    .75 oz each Fernet and Mezcal

    Juice of one lime.

    Nope. Too flat, too sour. Added about 1/2 oz Pineapple Amaro, and a squirt of Agave, shook again and THIS is a keeper. I guess Fernet does like sweeter drinks more. This one is balanced and I can taste all the ingredients but they did cocktail into a new taste. I usually don't taste the pineapple in the pineapple Amaro but it's shining in this drink - I may try another Fernet-Mezcal-Pineapple Amaro variation (when I am in the mood for stirred and boozy) as I think those together are the magic here.

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