I’ll clear my throat, jingle my keys, make louder footsteps to make my presence known, especially at night or when turning a corner. It’s not just for women, but for any person or animal to not be startled.

I think it’s a combination of courtesy, habit from having worked in a restaurant kitchen, and camping in bear country.

Sad music is the best. Deftones are way more horny than angry.

Anchorman

Nope. If they are given about 3 hours to cook, I find they are softened enough (use higher heat if the duration will be shorter). That’s not to say you can’t pre-fry them or something if you want to!

I should have mentioned that I usually make my chili vegetarian. In the rare occasions where I do add meat, I will pre-cook that, but it’s mostly because of paranoia and because I don’t own a cooking thermometer.

Usually red kidney beans (canned), and/or dried lentils in a bag. No prep necessary (besides cutting up veggies) as long as you know there will be enough time for the dried lentils or other ingredients to soften in the slow cooker. I like to leave it on low heat all day or all night to be sure. You could boil/pre-cook them if you needed it to be ready in only a few hours, though.

I’m a big fan of slow-cooker chili. It’s easy to make different variations by throwing in whatever leftover ingredients you have, and stuff that would otherwise be going bad soon. Like the last bit of pasta sauce, random veggies. Always have some beans or lentils on hand to fill it out. It’s easy to make lunches for a week in one go.

Stir fry. Similar to above. Use the last of the broccoli, onion, carrots, even peanut or almond crumbs that would otherwise go to waste.

Feta. Sure, pizza tends to be already covered in cheese, but this is different cheese, and that is a good thing. I think it goes well with some of my other faves, such as green olives, pineapple, banana peppers.

Salami. It’s like pepperoni, but different.

Alfredo sauce instead of tomato sauce, together with a few toppings like chicken and red onion, is heavenly, and doesn’t seem to cause heartburn.

Cloud Rat

hevy

calm

Without knowing your music taste I’ll say some with more broad appeal:

Third Eye Blind - self-titled

Deftones - White Pony

Boards of Canada - Geogaddi

Radiohead - Kid A

The Shins - Chutes Too Narrow

Jerboa. Of the ones I have tried, it feels the most like Baconreader (RIP) to me.

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Livin’ in a lonely world

No. We would go camping and do cool stuff together. The only conflict I foresee is taking turns on the gaming PC, but we would be happy to work together to build a second one.

Look at your phone and say “Gotta go. See you later”. Maybe say something relevant to the discussion to acknowledge them, like “I hope your dog’s rash heals quickly”.

Did you get an important text? See the time? It doesn’t matter because you are already walking away.

Primitive Man, on tour for their 2017 album Caustic. They’re one of the heaviest bands I’ve ever heard. I saw them at Lee’s Palace in Toronto and they made debris fall from the ceiling.

Spectral Voice opened for them and were also incredible - maybe as good or better than Blood Incantation who they share members with.

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When I look at your profile and go to posts section, I see one page, and all but the last few are to Erotic Art. Your profile only shows Cooking under the “Moderates” section.

Maybe whatever instance the Art and Design community is on is defederated from my instance (Lemmy.ca)? I’m not sure.

Whether I’m blind or not is none of your concern, and saying that isn’t helping your cause.

You moderate Cooking, but all your posts are to Erotic Art. I took a guess based on the information I see. My other points still stand.

You’re getting downvotes because you are insulting real people, and you didn’t ask a question.

Why do you care so much about followers? You’re not going to monetize your Lemmy account. If you stop posting, your community will see less activity as you discovered.

I looked at your profile and I have to assume the community you’re talking about is the “Erotic Art” one. Personally the only time I visit NSFW communities on here is so that I can block them. Maybe enough of the regular user base browsing All did that and now you see a decline in traffic. Or, maybe there is some demand for it and you just need to keep posting consistently to see growth.

Either way I think you should delete this post and reflect on how you’re behaving. It’s ok to get frustrated, but taking it out on all of Lemmy isn’t going to help.

Have you all received any updates about beef strogonoff lately?

Why? Did something big happen?