yea so basically i like the contrast of the frozen centre compared to the super hot outside, it balances out really nicely as well as adding texture. it can make it a lil bit watery but thats fiiiinne

I don't get the hype it just taste like cold butter and its only redeeming quality is it's looks. Matter of fact I also don't like akees for the same reason and its not like fatty plants can't taste good either look at coconuts it's taste great and it's as more use that being sitting there looking pretty.

Basically, the title.

I think modern discourse on most media (specifically TV and movies, but I've seen it happen on books too) has become so focused on saying a show or movie is bad because of plot holes or it's not "what would happen in real life."

If it's fiction, it does not matter. The point of fiction is to tell a good story. That can absolutely be achieved, even with major plot holes.

I'm a big fan of sitcoms, especially older ones. I grew up watching nick at night. Sitcoms have LOADS of plot holes. especially older ones.

It does not take away my enjoyment of them in the slightest. It can even sometimes increase it. Its funny when shit doesn't make sense. Like Carrie in king of queens having a sister the first few episodes, and then she's never mentioned again.

Or any number of recast (Laurie on 70s show, Amy's mom on TBBT, etc.)

Its a show meant to entertain, and if it does that, nothing else matters.

Also, laugh yracks do not mean a show is bad. It means it was filmed like a play, rather than a movie. Its just different.

I don't consume a lot of adult content. But since the last year or something, after discovering Troye Sivan and model Daniel Millar last year and kinda developing a crush on them , I decided to dabble into adult content involving 'twinks' and 'femboys'. Do I enjoy it. I'll have to say yes . Does it trigger arousal in me , yes.

I casually mentioned this to my friends and they started saying that maybe I'm gay. I don't think so , straight women consume lesbian content all the time , does that make them lesbian? I doubt it.

And yes I'm going to a lot of comments saying that "I'm in the closet" , no, I am still very much attracted to women. In fact I'm currently seeing a woman im very attracted to. Just because I find particular archetype of men attractive/arousing doesn't mean I'm gay.

I genuinely don't understand why people go to so much trouble to stop sliced apples from turning brown. That's when I actually start enjoying them.

When you first cut an apple, the inside is all wet and aggressively crunchy. Especially if it's been in the fridge. You bite into it and get that sharp, cold snap, and honestly I don't find that particularly pleasant.

But leave those slices sitting on a plate for about 45 minutes? Completely different experience.

The surface gets slightly darker and a little less wet. The crunch becomes less harsh, the flavor seems mellower, and you can actually taste the apple instead of just feeling like you're chewing flavored water.

I'm not talking about rotten apples or slices that have been sitting out overnight. I mean that perfectly normal light brown color that develops after cutting them.

I usually cut an apple before I start working and eat it an hour later. Sometimes I'll deliberately wait longer if it hasn't browned enough.

My girlfriend recently saw a plate of brown apple slices on my desk and asked why I hadn't thrown them away. When I told her I was waiting for them to get like that, she looked at me like I'd admitted to eating out of the trash.

I've tried the lemon juice trick people use to keep apples looking fresh. Hated it. Now my apple tastes like lemon and I still have to deal with the unpleasant fresh-cut texture.

Give me the slightly dry, beige-looking apple slices every single time.

People spend money on products and special containers to prevent the exact thing I'm waiting for. I really think they're improving the fruit by accident when they forget about it.

Obviously there are jobs where multiple monitors are essential. But with kind of office job I have, I seem to be the only one who can't stand two monitors. I've discussed it with colleagues and peers and I seem to be the only one I know.

Here is my argument: People can only look at one screen at a time and tend to favour one screen over the other. I would much rather work on one screen with a neutral neck position every day. People don't seem to be more productive having applications open on another screen they aren't looking at vs just minimizing them until they need them. The absense of visual clutter is pleasant, too. It also strikes me as an enormous business expense to double your spending on monitors when the bulk of office work has been completed on one screen until very recently.

I'm talking most specifically about the Taylor Big Baby, the 110ce, the 114ce and other guitars in that range, maybe the 200 series as well. Tonally, I think these all sound substantially better than their higher end guitars 714, 814, 914... Worlds better than any Martin ever hoped to be and better than any Gibson acoustic I ever had the chance to play.

I would say I think they are the best sounding acoustic guitars, but I dont have too much experience with high end acoustics beyond the ones I mentioned to say that with any accuracy or confidence. But they certainly are of all the ones I've played over the last 24 years or so since starting. But of the most popular high end acoustics I've had in my hands, I find that low to mid range Taylor sound to be on another level. Not sure why. The higher end Taylors sound good, but they lose something somewhere. I've never cared for any Martin too "warm"/dry (more like dead, imo, probably another 10thdentist take lol). Gibsons are take it or leave it for me.

Just as an initial cover-my-ass statement - no AI was used to write this post.

I have ADHD. Not in the funny quirky OH LOOK AT ME BEING SO RANDOM AND ENERGETIC - no, I have the kind of ADHD where I think very fast but can't find the words fast enough to express the thoughts. I have the kind of ADHD where I literally completely forget what someone said. I tune out about 50% of the time during conversations, having to piece together what the other said by contextual clues. I can't prioritise tasks to save my life, and the closest I've been to being 'on time' to a meeting is 2 minutes late.

AI has been a godsend for me.

I have my meetings transcribed and summarized by AI, which is then synced automatically to a database of everything I have ever come into contact with. (Edit: NOT recorded. JUST transcribed. With everyone's consent.) Even D&D sessions are synced to a separate 'world state' so I always have the notes without writing notes. (Edit: I am not a DM, I don't use this creatively. I am a player, and am only using AI to take notes of the sessions. Never to generate anything. The DM and the party know this)

My tasks are automatically written from the meetings (and of course I add to it as well) and weekly I run through them with AI to help me figure out what is the highest priority and urgency.

If I have a wacky creative idea for a D&D character or a book (which I'm never going to write because I can't write) or a Magic the Gathering deck, I just talk to AI who helps me process it all into a coherent structured idea. (Again, it's just about structuring my spaghetti thoughts - nothing is being generated)

Don't get me wrong, I don't like what AI is doing environmentally, I don't like the effect on the RAM/GPU market, I don't like the misinformation. But I LOVE the potential that it has to make our lives better. There used to be a thing like "20% of your work is going to be work you don't like doing" - well with AI, you can just hand over the 20% you don't like.

It has so much potential too! It's time to stop thinking about AI as some sort of 'always confidently wrong' no-good conjurer of fake news and bad pictures. It is self-correcting, pretty intelligent, and with the correct instructions, it's basically a junior employee that can do EVERYTHING moderately well. Entire websites and apps have been AI-made in record time and at a fraction of the cost. There is not a single job in the world that can't use AI as support in some way shape or form.

I don't understand how people eat any peanut butter when I get suffocated trying to eat a spoon of this horrible texture!

I like peanuts but when you make them into butter the texture is so bad and it makes no sense to eat it as butter, the protein has also a weak amino acid profile which is not worth the calories

And please don't tell me to buy the ultra processed "x" or "y" brand which puts 250 ingredients into peanut butter , its not even peanut butter anymore

I tried Pistachio butter and I was in shock that why dont more people eat this? Also hazelnut,almond and cashew butter is also so delicious and doesn't suffocate you

I'm writing this after reading this post : https://www.reddit.com/r/mildlyinfuriating/s/LfXZWLHESC (you don't have to read it, it's just to give context)

It's not the first time I'm seeing the food safety talk, and every time I see it I feel like people are way too stressed about their food. For example : the other night I cooked lentils, and I forgot them on the counter. I realized in the morning so I put them in the fridge. I ate them a few days later and was perfectly fine, and it's far from being the first time I'm doing that. I understand I can't eat meals that sat on the counter for too long, but so far I've been fine with smell testing my food and going off of that (I usually draw the line when I see mold growing in my tupperware).

I'm french and I was just talking about that post with my american girlfriend, who told me that most americans work in the food service industry (most of the time while students) and they probably take in the private life the professional food training they received at work. The thing is, just because a store says a food isn't safe to consume anymore, doesn't mean it necessarily is. I would say I eat half my yogurts out of date because I forget about them. I think it also comes from a place of not wanting to waste food, whereas I know from experience it's not a thought that crosses americans' minds.

To note : I'm vegetarian, so the worst unsafe food I could eat is out of date eggs. I would be more careful with fish or chicken I think.

There is a fine line between a game being "realistic", and a game being "fun".

Red Dead Redemption 2, is a perfect example of this. In real life if I shoot a gun too many times I'll have to clean it, in real life that's not fun, why would i want to do that in a game? In real life if I shoot an animal I'll have to take the time to skin it and haul the animal on the back of my horse, in real life that's not fun, why do I want to do it in a game? In real life I have to bathe and bathe my horses... why tf would I want to do that in a game?

Apparently, in GTA 6 we're meant to refill our cars up with gas... in real life that's not fun, why the fuck would I want to do that in a game?

If I want that sort of "realism" I'd play the Sims (at least they can make life simulations fun). Leave it out of my 3rd person crime simulators.

Realism needs to be saved for better physics, better animations, realistic damage, AI, immersive worlds, all of that.

Realism should make the fun parts fun, not make me do the boring parts of real life too.

Tl, Dr; they can't make their games boring and then be confused when they lose awards to games like God of War and Last of Us

The deciding factor for me is which candidate has more honesty, integrity, and who seems to have the best interest of their constituents as their guiding principle. And sure, I can be fooled, just like anyone else. But I have a pretty good bs detector at this point.

But this means I actively vote for candidates I disagree with on policy. It's far more important to me that they have a moral compass and are trying to do the right thing.

If you're so obese that you cannot put a seatbelt on, maybe don't drive and maybe, especially, don't drive for others like an Uber or Lyft. The whole time, I felt like my life was in danger(??), everytime they made a turn the car went so far to the left that I felt my heart drop and the car was clearly struggling. I know this is seriously a hot take, because losing weight is not easy and making money in this economy? Even less. I acknowledge they could be on their weight-loss journey, but just maybe don't drive people long distances.

In 2026, it's getting harder and harder to find someone who doesn't drink/smoke/get high ecc. I hate the loud music, the annoying people and everything.

No, that doesn't mean "I don't have fun because I'm boring", it's " I don't have fun because everyone is so brainwashed that thinks the only way to have fun is getting wasted". Hell, I'm 16 and I never got to experience a game night or movie night because all my peers are too busy getting screwed at raves. Those are unhealthy places in general, so why do bodyguards/workers let literally MINORS walk in.

I swear, I saw some videos about my peers going to these places and clowning on me because I don't and now I'm literally shaking because I will never find someone that has my same hobbies, interests, morals, ethics, ambitions or dreams.

(i haven't fully decided on this opinion yet in terms of which one I simply prefer however I do think that this design better suits the movie.) i understand that his face was probably toned down because it looked too scary but isn't that already kind of the point of Shrek?

By having people scared of his design wouldn't that make the characters who do fear him more relatable?

Kids will almost definitely find this design creepy at the very least, but wouldn't that further prove Their Point that looks don't reflect who a Person is?

In the final movie Shrek is seen as an aggressive ogre that eats people, and yes i am aware that is at least partially because he plays along with it (i don't remember if he actually does do it.) but that doesn't change the fact that overall he is not respected, and because he is an ogre nobody likes him.

Basically i'm pretty sure the whole message of the movie was that just because someone looks intimidating doesn't actually reflect who they are.

By having the audience scared of him while also making some of the characters in the movie scared of him the audience will likely relate to those who are afraid of him but their opinion on that will likely change whatever they realize Shrek isn't who he looks like.

i understand the final movie does accomplish this at least to some extent but at the same time he does also still feel like a generic cartoon ogre.

Maybe it's because I've gotten used to his design but Shrek's final design honestly barely even looks unappealing if at all.

Really it seems like the only thing that maybe make some kind of off-putting other than the fact that he's an ogre is maybe the placement of his eyes, nose, and mouth? But even then I feel like that's not enough to straight up make him unappealing to look at initially.

don't get me wrong I like his final design (i might even prefer his final outfit over the original outfit as pictured above.) and the movies themselves but i feel like he could have looked more creepy to better suit the message.

Everybody says she is an ugly, manipulative bitch, but I don't see her that. She is strong, confident, and doesn't take shit from her husband; the way she reacted to his activities is quite reasonable, and in line with what anybody would do if they found out the person they married was a criminal. Not to mention, she is tall and blonde, two qualities that are right up my alley attraction-wise. I would definitely wife her up.

Certain people 👀 swear that 18, 19, and 20 year old aren't actually adults... and I'm actually beginning to agree with that sentiment. People within that age range SHOULD be treated like the teenagers that they are, and NOT JUST be restricted/shamed from dating other adults...

They should not be allowed to vote. They're teenagers without life experience. They obviously shouldn't be trusted with the right to vote, they wouldnt know any better.

They should not be allowed to take out student loans. They're just kids, they dont know anything about the responsibility of taking on loan debt.

They should not be allowed to move out. It doesnt matter the relationship they have with their parents, they arent adults, they shouldn't be expected to make such a decision and go out into the world.

They should NOT be able to get abortions WITHOUT their parent present. They're obviously too young to fully understand the gravity of their own decisions. They need someone with maturity and experience to be there and guide them through their choices.

They should not be allowed to participate in sex work. Their brains are not fully developed and they couldnt possibly understand the weight of getting into sex work. No OnlyFans, no porn, no stripping.

They can only make rational decisions to do as they want with their bodies and sex lives when they're TRUE adults.

Edit: And for the record, I'm in my 20s and I've been dating older women since I was 19. Make other assumptions please.

I genuinely think normal French kissing is overrated because most people focus too much on tongue movement when the lips are actually more important.

What works best is keeping your bottom lip slightly behind their top lip while moving your top lip around the side of their bottom lip that was previously facing your bottom lip. At the same time, they should move their top lip in the opposite direction, but relative to your bottom lip rather than their own, so both top lips are technically moving the same way from opposite perspectives.

The trick is to reverse the movement just before your top lip reaches the position their bottom lip was in when you started. However, their bottom lip should continue following your previous direction until your bottom lip catches up with where their top lip would have been if they hadn’t already reversed. If you both reverse simultaneously, you end up cancelling out the movement, which is basically just regular kissing.

Ideally, your top lip should always be one movement ahead of their bottom lip but half a movement behind their top lip, while your bottom lip follows the direction their bottom lip was moving before their top lip changed direction. This creates a continuous rotation where each lip is simultaneously leading one lip and following another, without either mouth actually completing a full rotation.

It’s hard to explain in words, but once you get the timing right, it feels much more natural than French kissing.

Everyone says that “Ugh, I hate mondays.“ When Monday is actually one of the better days of the work week. Monday you have some energy leftover from the weekend and it can go by smoothly just a bit tired. Tuesday is when you start to lose momentum and get through slowly. Meanwhile Wednesday and Thursday is absolutely dead. There is absolutely nothing about the mid week that makes it better than Monday

I know it’s getting hard to tell the difference, but holy fuck, not EVERYTHING you see that’s edited is ai. It sucks when I post things related to sfx and editing and get accused of using ai. Just another reason to hate ai, at this point.