[-] [email protected] 8 points 3 days ago

I do think at some point you really can't call them shorts. Some of the "shorts" men wear are more like wide leg capri pants.

[-] [email protected] 1 points 4 days ago

So after taxes about $4B?

Take 500 million out for me, start a business and do all the stuff we want to.

If possible: Use the rest for a fund for perpetuity to fund transit all over my city, make the buses free and running every 15 minutes, and pay the drivers and all the other workers a really good wage.

If that's impossible, I guess I have to run for governor, win, and Make Florida Freaky Again! Work for the good of our state. Is billions enough to do it?

[-] [email protected] 3 points 4 days ago

$150 for weekends. We pay for house cleaning and lawn mowing so that we can have weekends free, and it's absolutely worth it to me. We don't actually get these done every week but together that is what we'd pay to be able to not spend the weekend cleaning and mowing.

My work? If I was providing what I do professionally to someone, I would say $50 an hour, for actual productive hours. But I've done odds and ends work for less, and very occasionally for more.

[-] [email protected] 2 points 4 days ago

Of your available options, I would definitely go with the shared housing. That's a great deal for your area and for your income. You could actually save/invest money.

And to the people pushing on you because you rent, oh my God what the heck? I hate housing as an investment, we bought a house but it's so expensive to maintain and the taxes and insurance, having somewhere to live for $600 a month seems like a great deal, take it.

I would hate the hour long commute, personally. Very sensitive to commute time. But if you are already doing it and don't mind, that's a separate consideration.

[-] [email protected] 16 points 4 days ago

You need roommates. When I was younger we lived in groups, to split expenses. Tackle this from that side first, get into a situation you can afford on your pay so that you aren't panicking. Even if you go live with your family.

Then you can work on increasing your income.

And don't think it's any kind of failure on your part. I have never lived alone, most people at my job make good money but nearly all do live in 2-3 earner households because it's better and more secure.

There is an economy of scale in multiple earner households. One house, not much more electric use, food costs less per lb in bigger packages, you might be able to carpool.

Can you get into a trade? Go to the electric worker union and start as a helper? Those jobs are getting so much more valuable and that trend is increasing. I don't think you need a college degree to get a good paying job, but you probably do need to put in that same 4 years working your way up.

[-] [email protected] 2 points 4 days ago

I crawl out and explore then. Hope to God I brought a straw water filter. Step onto the bouncy moss of the forest floor, look around at the landscape, happy I can breathe. Wonder how something horse sized can flit, then duck as it comes back towards me.

[-] [email protected] 3 points 5 days ago

I had a friend who was a great friend in so many ways, she was clever and very helpful when I needed anything, also would ask me for the same when she needed help. She told me once that it's way better to kill someone else, than yourself, because then you have time to repent before you die. What a horrible belief! But it's not like she actually went around killing people, it was hypothetical.

I don't have the answer but the belief did not make her act in any terrible way.

[-] [email protected] 2 points 5 days ago

Freak out. After that, it would depend on which world.

[-] [email protected] 3 points 5 days ago

I don't know. It's interesting tech, but just not useful. I don't need to start it from my phone when away from the house, and it loses its maps and makes new ones that don't have the whole house if it encounters closed doors; if you then put it into the room it forgot and start it, it just sits there confused. It gets confused when furniture moves too. We have to close doors a lot to keep dogs separated, teens close their doors all the time, my house is not static enough for this detailed mapping function. I tried giving it zones but even then the closed doors break the maps.

There are things I like about the app. Getting the details on what an error message means, finding it more easily when it's hiding. But overall losing the ability to just set it down anywhere and let it run without mapping was a bigger loss than what was gained.

[-] [email protected] 1 points 5 days ago
[-] [email protected] 31 points 5 days ago

Roomba. It got better in ways that made it worse. Really just want to put it in a room and let it wander around and vacuum. It doesn't need to map the house and then get confused if a door is closed. It doesn't need to tell me the filter is old. The old ones you could just put them wherever and close a door or put a box in the way to keep it corralled where you want it.

Better and smarter are two different things. Sometimes they intersect, other times they don't.

[-] [email protected] 3 points 5 days ago

Pungent onions, cooked, are much sweeter and more flavorful than sweet onions cooked.

Sweet onions are fantastic raw, but should be called Mild Onions instead.

White onion for cooking, sweet onion for raw, red onion splits the difference, but red onion quick pickle is better than any other onion pickles.

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The Fox River (punchdrink.com)
submitted 1 month ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

I like Punch's "bring back the" series. Readable and interesting, often like this one, new versions of old forgotten drinks. I wouldn't go to the trouble of making peach bitters, and not sure I could handle something so sweet but the flavors seem mighty interesting.

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

I'm kicking off a long weekend with a paper plane with one oz of cognac added. Perfect.

Has anyone tried Frapin 1270, their entry level congac? I have the namesake perfume and like it a lot, but that doesn't seem like a good enough reason to buy the booze.

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Siesta-Paloma (lemmy.world)
submitted 1 month ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

A hybrid.

2oz tequila

2oz fresh grapefruit juice

1 oz fresh lime juice

1/2 oz Campari

1/2 oz simple syrup

Shake all, add 2 oz fizzy water, dirty pour into glass.

Delicious, honestly. Increase the sugar if you want it more Paloma like, or more of the Topo Chico, to make one like like Texas ranch water. Sub mezcal if you really hate Campari, but you may like it in this.

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

I'm having a bourbon and amaretto sour (inverted Morganthaler recipe, basically). Are you having a Saturday drink?

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Riff on Pas de Loup (lemmy.world)
submitted 1 month ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

Not much to look at but tastes good.

1 oz whiskey (bourbon is all I had but I would try with Scotch)

1oz Mezcal

1/2 oz Ancho Reyes

3/4 oz Cynar

1 oz lemon, 1 oz honey syrup

It's quite good, I found the original on Mixel app, it seems they scraped it from Reddit? Original omits the whiskey, halfs the lemon and sweetener. But even with the additions I taste mostly mezcal and Ancho. Bitter in a good way.

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submitted 2 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

I'm just having coffee (moka pot coffee with foamed milk!) and water today, can't relax yet. Considering what to make in the weekend.

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submitted 2 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

A boozy Saturday drink.

2oz bourbon

.75oz good mezcal

.75oz berry liqueur (any will work, or berry syrup, I used Montbisu Framboise)

Bare splash of vanilla liqueur, shake of bitters, or splash of absinthe or amaro (I used the vanilla, if you have a more interesting berry liqueur it might not need anything here but mine is not complex)

2 dropperful of fire tincture

4 strawberries plus one for garnish

1/2 tsp sugar (might not need if you have better strawberries)

3/4 of a lemon

Quarter the strawberries and put in shaker with 1/4 if the lemon, add the sugar and muddle the fruit. Add the booze, tincture, and juice of the half a lemon. Shake with ice and double strain, serve over big ice, garnish with the remaining strawberry.

It's very good, I like bourbon with mezcal and like bourbon with strawberry so thought it worth trying. Lemon peel muddled adds bitter edge, don't omit.

I was trying to make a strawberry heart but it came out more like wings!

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Queer Old Friend (lemmy.world)
submitted 2 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

I am really sorry I didn't get a picture of the finished drink, too dark but it's gorgeous. I don't like the gin I have and thought vodka and mastiha would be more to my taste so:

1.5 oz vodka

2 oz adjusted grapefruit juice (juiced one sweet pink grapefruit and one lime, mixed, then measured 2 oz of the mix)

1/2 oz each of the St. Germain, the Campari, and the Mastiha.

Shaken, poured what fit into a coupe and drank the rest from the shaker, it's delicious and the dark pink with foam is really beautiful.

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submitted 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

Congratulations to [email protected] on the win for April, and to the closest challenger and most active participant BigGovernment[@lemmy.world.

For May, the challenge is a less sweet rum drink. Roll out the barrel, pirates!

The rules are even fewer than before, not requiring pictures since that's not working for everyone but a picture may get you more votes.

The drink must be original (as far as you can tell with a quick online search). Can be wholly original or a variation on a standard. A complete recipe and your impressions - what does it taste like? Winner is the most upvoted, downvotes are discarded.

Winner of the May contest can have glory unending, and can pick the theme for July.

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Whiskey Business (www.thespiritsbusiness.com)
submitted 2 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

I feel out of the loop, did not know that Jim Beam and Makers were owned by Suntory, now Suntory Global.

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Paloma de Jarritos (lemmy.world)
submitted 2 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

2oz tequila

Juice of one lime

Grapefruit Jarritos

Stirred and poured.

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I feel seen - cocktail ice (www.insidehook.com)
submitted 2 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

I've been an ice geek for 10 years, ever since we got 2 freezers. First with a lunch cooler, used to fill it, then melt off the cloudy part with hot water, then whack the clear ice with a rolling pin to break it into wee icebergs. The cooler cracked and I got a more intentional setup, now it's big cubes of clear ice, and big globes. I don't think it tastes better, it looks better and the size does matter. I shake drinks with regular ice, but almost always serve them on big clear ice. Love it.

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