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Ah, no worries! Taste is hard to describe. 🫠

The vegan philosophy isn't an all-or-nothing never wanting to cause any pain philosophy. It's a philosophy of reducing suffering as much as reasonably possible while being able to still live your own life.

But any argument about plants feeling pain is completely sideways to that whole issue anyways, because farm animals eat more plants per calorie than when humans eat plants directly. Those farm animals need to use some of the plant calories for sustaining their own life, which will not make it into the meat, egg or milk. Even if you hate animals and love plants, you have to snack on plants to cause as little harm to plants as possible.

I'm not saying, that the taste isn't strong enough for me. I'm saying that it actively adds a taste, which I can best describe as "hollow". Falafel or hummus with cumin tastes worse to me than without...

Yeah, I was thinking that recently when I realized I've known

the crazy plot twist in Star Wars

(Luke's daddy issues) :::for as long as I can remember.

I've also known::: spoiler so many iconic characters and scenes (Yoda, R2D2, Chewbacca, the metalkini, C3PO, when they boop the Death Star etc.)

before I was even old enough to watch the movies, too.

I'm sure they're cool movies, with lots of cultural relevance, but they've been spoiled in every possible way for me, specifically because the older generation loves them so much that they can't shut up about them.

Oh man, what the fuck. What I really don't like about this is that you assume some sort of motivation when someone submits a PR. When they provide a feature implementation, a bug fix or a configuration change, you assume that the way things were before did not work for the contributor. That it was so problematic, that they invested quite a bit of time to scratch their own itch.

You simply can't look at a PR in complete isolation and just evaluate whether its changes are positive or not. On some level, you'll decide that, sure, if this user is better off with this change and it doesn't break anything, then might as well merge it.But there is no user here. It's going to include pointless changes that just need to look plausible enough, so that this bot can bolster its credibility.

I can't imagine the kids of today finding pogs particularly interesting, when they've got smartphones in their pockets. Maybe if you equip the pogs with an NFC chip that ties into some online game to give you monsters or items or such. But yeah, even that's going to be a hard sell, unless the game happens to be Roblox or Fortnite.

That's pretty damning evidence that switching to plant-based alternatives for milk products isn't just helpful towards beating climate change, but rather a necessity.

The face being preferrable kind of makes sense to me, since cats will often socialize by rubbing their heads against each other...

I mean, we're not talking about a clean or fresh or citrussy taste of perfumed soap. We're talking someone did the dishes with dish soap and didn't properly rinse afterwards. That's genuinely what I thought had happened when I learned of cilantro.

I mean, there can be multiple different gene variations. I have the soap thing and I can't remember tasting anything other than soap, although admittedly I haven't tried cilantro in isolation or in enough dishes to be able to tell for sure.

That would be a great scam. Just offer unparfumed soap and some of your customers will never know.

I mean, those customers would also be entirely unlikely to want anything with cilantro in it, but you know, I'm sure there's someone you could fool.

Hmm, is that olive thing not a universal experience? I always figure the cooks are just too lazy to cut up the olives, which would help a lot.

Well, and what also helps is to combine the olives with lots of different veggies. Don't just serve an olive-tomato salad, but rather throw in cucumber, bell pepper and garlic as well, along with maybe some beans, a bit of rosemary and thyme.

I guess, the cooks have a hearty salad like that in mind, but then start bargaining whether they could leave out one or two veggies.And then they never figure out that, no, they cannot. You need a rich base flavour to compete with the olives, but then you want it to be light to balance out how heavy the olives are. Well, and a surefire way to get rich+light is just lots of different veggies.

I have a really weird one where shandy (beer mixed with lemonade) smells like rubber to me. Like when you rub a balloon really hard.

You guys can smell balloons being rubbed, right? 😅

I think, people are largely not aware that genetic differences can affect the taste so much, so they just assume that everyone experiences the same taste, just with different preferences for different tastes.

But yeah, when I learned that cumin is another candidate for genetic differences in taste perception, I also had to ask a friend to describe the taste, because I've never seen the taste described anywhere. For me, it just tastes extremely hollow, while it's apparently a rather rich taste for other folks...

Damn, that's a thicc case then. Probably a good idea, though, when you give it to a kid, especially a kid trapped in VR...

Imagine having space for a toaster or an oven.– a pan lover

Is that a VR Etch A Sketch? I'm not sure, I understand the future either...

You can buy artificial diamonds for fairly cheap. Like, we're talking so cheap that they're put onto angle grinder discs.

It's just propaganda/stupidity that folks continue to pay insane prices for mined diamonds. Well, in part it is the point, to spend a lot of money. If we didn't treat diamonds as expensive, we'd find something else to waste money on. It's not like diamonds were so beautiful or useful, that they were worth the price to begin with.

Well, much like the other person, I can only share my experience and you'll have to decide whether it feels right for you.

It is just a lot of going through rejection, isolation and feeling like what I say doesn’t get taken seriously (in regards to when I went to the hospital

Yeah, at this point, I believe, that is a pretty universal frustration. I could tell you my own share of being told I'm simulating, while having three illnesses, which really shouldn't have been too hard to detect. It is just perhaps more frustrating to folks on the spectrum, because we have a stronger sense of justice. But yeah, you can try to bring that up as a conversation topic with regular folks, too. They might not have quite the same frustration as you, but still typically their own story to tell.

So basically I have like decades of built up issues because I don’t have a means to get it out of my system, so yeah it is like a stewing pot that is always too full and bubbles over when I try to “serve” up information - it can get messy.

I would say stuff like that to myself, as sort of rationalization for why I'm having a different experience to everyone else.But yeah, since I've accepted that I'm very likely on the spectrum (I don't have a diagnosis, but I score quite high on internet self-tests), it is starting to feel more and more silly that I tried to come up with these explanations, because well, I guess, I am just different.

To me, that has made it easier to work with being different. I recognize that if I put people on blast with information, they will naturally get overwhelmed. Meanwhile, I have a friend at work, who I assume to also be on the spectrum + ADHD, and I can blast her with information and she really appreciates it, because she is always interested in my infodumps and does not get overwhelmed.

Well, and for everyone else, I can microdose the infodumps and then they do appreciate them, too. Like, you can put me up to talk about a topic and I can easily fill half an hour. People wouldn't want me to fill half an hour in a normal conversation, but in a dedicated talk, it's greatly appreciated.I do actually work as a software engineer and sharing information between colleagues is one of the biggest challenges we have, so it's quite a useful skill to have, especially also for training new folks and such. I'm not 100% sure what you have in mind with "information systems", but any interpretation I can come up with would have the same challenge and the infodumping would be a strength.

That's kind of the thing in general. I wouldn't be too self-conscious about being different, when it comes to employment. Any employer worth their salt will recognize that being different is a strength, if applied in the right context. They might not have the right context where your strength is useful, so you will still need to search around for the right employer, but if you can find your place, you can likely be invaluable for that employer.

One last thing: This doesn't work too well for me personally, but perhaps journaling or writing a diary might help you to get your frustration out of your system and to order your thoughts somewhat. It kind of feels like telling another person, I find, so I do try to do it every now and then, especially for topics where I don't have anyone to tell it to...

Yeah, I'm all for a place like that existing, but it really doesn't need to exist in my timeline, which I might scroll while I'm on the bus or such...