Gotta start those “I hate my wife” jokes young…

I was wondering where the animal abuse charges were in all this.

Pasta is a great dish to get started, because you can expand upon it in tiny steps that also teaches you other cooking basics. Such as how to:

• cook up ground beef/turkey/pork (“brown”)
• sautee onions (“caramelize”)
• sautee vegetables of choice (peppers, mushrooms, kale, spinach, summer squash, eggplant, etc)
• mince garlic

Each time you make pasta, additionally cook one of the above add-ins to experiment with. Cook it in a separate pot/pan, then mix with the sauce once complete (if you pour the sauce directly into the meat/vegetable’s pot/pan, that’s known as “deglazing,” as it picks up all the yummy brown stuff stuck to the bottom of the pan, and also makes the pot/pan easier to clean later!)

Also, and this is a biggie, if you never had anyone teach you how to cook (it’s unclear from your post if you did), you missed out on a lot of critical kitchen safety instructions, such as how to not cut yourself on knives and other bladed kitchen equipment, how to not start accidental fires on the stovetop or in the oven (and what to do if one happens anyway), food-borne illness prevention, etc. Unfortunately I don’t have any specific resources for you, but please look into kitchen safety before diving in too deep! Don’t let it scare you off though; remember billions of people have been cooking around the world for thousands of years, and while there are dangers, basic safety precautions go a long way (also the modern kitchen makes cooking safer than ever).

There’s always the cross-post feature!

Oh sweet, I’ll go check it out!

I’m confused; how did this come to less than a dollar?

Idaho features beautiful nature and really interesting geology, so there’s plenty of tourism potential. If it weren’t for the people it would make for a lovely destination.

"J"FK Jr?

I wanted to learn more about this little guy, and found this amazing fact (emphasis mine):

LAWIL was Italy’s primary Microcar made in the 1970s. The LAWIL sold better in France where it was called the Willam. […] This car was popular in France because it could be driven by people who did not have a driver’s license. […] Top speed: 45mph.

(Source)

Hopefully you’ve got a designated driver that’s going to come and drive you home…

So much for that old joke about what countries oversee what aspects of society in heaven vs hell…

In addition to comments others have made about some of the colors being difficult to see/differentiate, I think it would be worthwhile to distinguish one-way defederation from mutual defederation, perhaps with a texture?

It would make the graphic busier, but I also would enjoy seeing population percentages next to each instance name (to give weight to the significance of certain defederations, e.g. how much of the fediverse are you excluding by defederating with hexbear vs lemmy.world).

Welcome to the party!

Some people here may be watching Star Trek for the first time.

Whatever do you mean? I’ve been under the distinct impression that all Star Trek fans came pre-installed with at least one TV/movie series already under their belt from watching it as a kid.

Anyway, I cannot watch this episode without also dwelling on DS9’s Trials and Tribble-ations, and all the other additions to the franchise featuring the troublesome fuzzballs or references thereabouts. The Trouble with Tribbles such a dumb, silly episode, but it manages to hit enough of the right notes to be memorable and likeable. I find TOS a bit difficult to watch compared to basically everything that came after it, but I always enjoy TTwT.

Nice! My first thought seeing the photos was “now replace the grass with creeping thyme”

The fact* that no one ever comments on or reacts in surprise to Data’s body temp following physical contact with him (even though many people react to his appearance, especially on first meeting) leads me to assume that it’s actual pretty close to standard humanoid temps. Perhaps his circuits run warm.

*IIRC; please correct me if I’m wrong

Article is from a month ago

“Rave Ramsey” makes him sound too cool

To learn more about earth-eating in animals and humans, check out the Wikipedia page on geophagia.

I feel like I had what wasn’t quite a stroke, but perhaps a minor brain bleed while reading that.