Ms. ArmoredThirteen

Got some real Paranoia ttrpg vibes here

Pre surgery was 18 most the time with a crushing longingness for being able to do 20 without my dysphoria flopping around every time I moved. Post surgery is 20 most of the time unless I’m extra leaky then it’s 18 or 19 depending on what I grab out of the hamper. Not pictured here but I also have “socks always on” variety of autism so I have socks while sleeping too. If it’s really cold I’ll sometimes switch it up to jammies (edit my jams are closest to 1) but I’m more likely to add blankets than clothes

Omg thank you I thought the picture was the seat of a car and could not figure out the perspective or color choice at all

Seems like you’ve got some feelings you should work out fam. I get it but like expressing it this way you just look like an asshole. Hope your day goes well

There’s so many reasons I’m not having kids. My brother on the other hand is having kids with half the state of Idaho. I’ll do what I can for my niblings but I don’t have enough damage control to go around

I already said that I don’t have dietary restrictions also biscuits are typically referred to as being made with biscuit dough, not biscuit batter (at least where I’m from). I think discussing the differences between a dough and a batter in this context though is straying too far from what we’re actually talking about so I don’t particularly want to get into that.

I don’t understand why you’re putting quick bread in quotes so I’m asking sincerely do you not know what I mean when I say quick bread? As in something that’s “leavened with a chemical agent rather than a biological one” such as baking soda/powder instead of yeast? Because this includes cake (and brownies and cookies even), I will change my case to be more like: Most people I’ve met in the US aren’t wrong when they say they like muffins but it would be more specific to say they want cupcakes. In my opinion, we often put enough sugar into the muffins to cross the line into cupcake territory. Since they’re both quick breads I’d argue cupcakes are muffins but not all muffins are cupcakes.

It’s like my roommate kept telling me they like pancakes and so I’d make pancakes and they didn’t like them because they were too thick. By the time I had thinned the recipe down enough for their liking I was actually making crepes, which are a type of pancake. They weren’t wrong by saying they like pancakes but they would have been better off just admitting they actually like crepes and not what is generally thought of when someone says pancake.

I’m not trying to say that if you reduce sugar it is unchanged. I am saying that quick breads are very lenient with how much sugar can go in them while still maintaining good mouth feel, especially when the recipe already has a considerable amount of sugar as do many recipes that cater to modern US sugar addiction.

Quick bread isn’t the same as bread… Although I am seeing that cakes can be considered a type of quick bread so again I think this might largely be related to semantics. Things like banana bread, corn bread, biscuits, zucchini bread, are all quick breads that work as muffins and can have greatly reduced sugar without damaging their structure. The wheat and bran blueberry muffins I make are similar to sweetened wheat bread in flavor but texturally they’re like a dense muffin. I’m not using gluten and yeast for the structure they use other leavening agents which is why they’re a quick bread. My substitutions are: Less sugar, use whole wheat flour, sub some flour with bran and wheat germ. No I don’t have any dietary restrictions

Edit to add: Also muffins don’t have to be sweet like at all. There are plenty of savory muffin recipes that have little to no sugar, because they’re a type of quick bread not specifically cake

It may be semantics but I do not consider muffins to be cake, that would make it a cupcake. Muffins are closer to quick bread to the point where any quick bread recipes I have tried work as muffins with no changes to ingredients only cooking time. For sure if you cut too much sugar out of something you lose structure but that’s why I specified American recipes. They generally have way more sugar than what’s necessary for structure and there’s a lot of wiggle room with how much you can take out

Pro tip for baking modern American recipes is you can cut about 1/3 of the sugar no problem, up to 1/2 on some recipes. Bran goes really well with blueberries. The blueberry muffins I make are basically lightly sweetened wheat bread and they slap. Muffins are a quick bread but somewhere along the line people wanted to lie to themselves and eat cupcakes while pretending they’re still muffins

Mayor of Bowerstone

What’s going on with lemmy.world?

Wait what this looks exactly like the art in the dentist office I go to. They have superheroes doing dental things, like Catwoman aggressively using their nails to pick at her teeth lol. Is this person near Seattle do you know?

I’m in this boat and I have a good job so don’t need the cash. I mostly just want people to show up to a party I host and talk to each other but not to me lol

Where I work they did something like this with our employee resource groups. When a minority had something to bring up the erg leader would get targeted and fired for various reasons. A new person from the erg with fight in them would step in and inevitably get axed down the line too. This went on for about a year and now we don’t have much voice left

Can’t get out of this fucking country fast enough. Just needs to keep it together for a couple more months then I’m escaping

“Should I take my heels off?” “NOooOoo”

Goodness you can hear it snap

Other than the coloration I’m actually not sure. I’ve heard wild ones are tougher but haven’t seen any actual sources personally. I’d really hope they’re smarter too otherwise everything I know about survival of the fittest is in question. Many (most maybe?) of the captive bred ones are descendants of scientific studies so there could be traits like increased regenerative abilities that were bred in but I honestly don’t know

Hell yeah 💪

I do love this but I wonder where did they get the Tesla from, not bought new I hope?

What was the thing that had a 90sec turnaround?