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Nefara

@ Nefara @lemmy.world

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  • Blender

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  • I have found two vintage Oster blenders at yard sales, each for under $10. They are from the 50s and 60s and are solid heavy metal things with glass pitchers. I needed to buy new seals for them and on one I had to replace the little star bolt that the pitcher locks into to turn the blades. Either of them will completely liquify things that my modern cheapo Hamilton Beach would meekly chew at. If you can find one online (ebay maybe) or better yet in person (thrift stores, yard sales), I can definitely attest they are built different.

    Edited to add: a search on US ebay for "vintage 60s Oster beehive blender" turned up some results that look like mine between $40-50 plus shipping. It's an excellent machine.

  • Rama Duwaji, First Lady of New York City

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  • "I don't think she looks good at pickleball at all, but at least she seems like she could hold a racquet"

    What if we used something else, aside from how bangable or pretty men think she is, as a way to judge a woman's value for a change?

  • Rama Duwaji, First Lady of New York City

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  • Politics, jostling for power, elevating herself through her relationship? nah she's got her own passions and things going on. Very refreshing to see that level of dgaf.

  • Nuts make brownies so much worse

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  • Enough.. chocolate... What is that? Ridiculous notion

  • What movies and shows had a positive influence on your life in your childhood?

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  • Good on you for setting up the Jellyfin early, it's still on my to-do list

    My personal favorite childhood movies/shows that made a real impact:

    Fern Gully, the Disney animated originals (not remakes) mentioned elsewhere in the thread, Nightmare Before Christmas, Princess Bride, Neverending Story, Star Trek 4 (the whales one), Toy Story

    Star Trek TNG and TOS, the old school B/W Addams Family, OG Looney Tunes, Nature on PBS, Nova on PBS, Mr Rogers, Arthur

    Additional stuff I'll be adding to my own kid's Jellyfin (when I get to it)

    Avatar the Last Airbender, Kipo and the Wonderbeasts, She-Ra:PoP (the Netflix one), Bluey, Storybots, Puffin Rock, Lucas the Spider, Trash Truck, Ms Rachel, Daniel Tiger, Elinor Wonders Why

  • What is your "great I am an old person now" complaint?

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  • I refuse to support or use subscription software, because back in my day we paid for software once and if we wanted a newer version we had the choice to just stew in our bug ridden version lacking the latest features forever and WE WERE HAPPY TO DO SO

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  • Ok but I already have about 700 hobbies and projects I could be working on or learning, I would just like to click the button that does the thing.

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  • People actually installed or used 8? 😋

    Lol agreed though, the entire reason I am attempting to swap to Linux is because 7 was the last good Windows.

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  • With Windows (pre-10+) at least I can generally avoid the frustration of fruitless internet searches by just mucking around in the control panel for a bit. Or even, yes, Regedit. I like to find a menu that offers me relevant options and then click a button to do a thing. Maybe it takes more time than just typing a command shortcut to do the thing, but clicking menu buttons is something I can just kind of figure out myself by exploring rather than reading the manual or consulting the eldritch lore of the internet every time I want to learn how to do a new thing. .

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  • I'm trying Mint too, for the most part it has been a relatively intuitive transition from Windows... up until the moment I try to customize things. Fuck me for trying to pin programs to my panel, make my own shortcuts/launchers, install things to my choice of directories or recategorize my start menu shortcuts. I'm so used to just being able to right click on something and have the thing I wanted to do be an option there, or be able to just click and drag something somewhere and it just does the thing. Looking up the directions for how to do a really basic thing after the third or fourth time gets reeeeal old.

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  • I've been trying to swap over to Linux and I don't like using the Terminal because I have zero memory retention for literally anything that isn't Weird Al songs

  • What Youtube channel has maintained high quality standards over the years?

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  • Also needs to be said that he's been creating for a decade and every video is consistently as good as the last one. The man single handedly spawned an entire genre and he just kept doing his own thing, algorithms and influencer culture be damned.

  • TIL that children also wore corsets

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  • Exactly, thank you. I also enjoy Abby Cox's videos on corsetry and living in period accurate 18th century clothes full time for many years. The "dream team" of Youtube dress historians got together to debunk common corsetry myths on this video which summarizes succinctly how these myths continue to propagate and where they came from. I jumped to a timestamp where they talk about where those images of deformed rib cages come from but the whole video is pretty entertaining

    https://youtu.be/4XBLBfWNH7I?t=616

  • TIL that children also wore corsets

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  • This blog perpetuates a lot of common myths about corsetry and I find that disappointing.

    It's a pretty widespread and common thing that children wear similar clothing to adults, and whatever the adult fashion is, kids often get a miniaturized version of it. The children's corsets pictured in the ads there don't minimize the waist or attempt to give them an hourglass, and would have been lightly boned or have no boning at all. If there was boning, it would have been made of flexible material like whale balleen (the material filter feeding whales have instead of teeth, which behaves like a soft thermoplastic) or ribbons, cording or even paper. These are not materials that can damage a body unless maybe you stab yourself with them or light them on fire.

    Corsets were used to provide a smoothing layer under clothes, to give some structure and yes the fashionable silhouette. However, it was commonly understood that a body in clothing was very different from a body out of it. There was more body privacy and control over how your body was perceived. The combination of corsets, stays, "bodies" and strategic use of padding meant anyone could be the fashionable silhouette, no matter your natural body type. Far more women achieved those "tiny waists" by wearing bum pads, hip rolls, underskirts and crinolines, mutton sleeves and frilly blouses than tight lacing. It was all smoke and mirrors.

    Now with skin tight knits and thin leggings and exposed skin the only way to have a fashionable silhouette is for your body to actually look like that, which fuels the fitness and weight loss industry. I find it interesting that these articles always talk about "unrealistic body standards" when ironically body standards have only gotten more aggressively unrealistic and unreasonable, not less.

    Modern corsets have little to no resemblance to their historical counterparts, which were lightweight, flexible, practical support garments that provided some structure to the clothing of the time and bust support for women. Extreme outliers existed but were far from the norm. A lot of the period writing about the harm corsets were doing was written by men bloviating about how stupid they thought women were to wear the clothing they preferred, a time honored tradition which continues to this day.

    There is nothing controversial here, children wore underwear too.

  • Can anyone confirm? Am British so idk

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  • Excellent by American standards for most of Boston and Greater Boston, which is to say mediocre by European standards. It's entirely possible to be independently mobile and car free there. Most places are walkable and there are pleasant old buildings and green spaces or plazas or spots overlooking water to stumble upon. It's a lovely city.

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    As an asexual girl who still wants a male partner, would “scheduled sex” be a dealbreaker for men?

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  • Ace and demi men are out there, but I won't pretend they are easy to find. I'm demi and looking for someone else on the ace spectrum pretty much eliminated the idea of meeting someone out in the world and locked me in to finding someone online. Back when OKCupid was data driven it was the best way to find other aces and demis but I don't know the current state of it. There's not much visibility for aces so a lot of people don't know to identify themselves as such.

    I dated a variety of people but always came back to people who were ace/demi having the most potential for long term companionship. It just simplified everything, removed the tension, and potential for hurt feelings. Allosexuals might think they can manage a situation like you're describing but in the long term might end up feeling frustrated and sad about not being desired. It was always worth the search when I did find other aces.

  • What are some things you put a ton of effort & work into, but it pays you $0, and you wish there could be some reward for all your hard work?

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  • Chores, organizing, cleaning. I spent so much time working on home projects this summer and when I look around it feels like I lost time. Somehow I've been working consistently without getting a foothold or making progress. Still laundry in the dryer and a mess everywhere.

  • Grandventurer Granny

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  • My mother joined me for a one-shot once and this is basically the character we rolled up for her. She was Nana Ylva, a human barbarian. Her thing was generally trying to solve things non-violently (often using her "Mom Voice" aka intimidation) but if she saw her "cubs" under attack she would rage. She had the chef feat that gave food with temp hp boosts. It was a fun little game and my mom still talks about it sometimes.

  • The Dowager Duchess of Devonshire feeding her chickens, Chatsworth, UK, 1995

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  • She seems like she was a lot of fun

  • ADHD Women @lemmy.world
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    I can always find something to talk to someone about

  • Ice Cream @lemmy.world
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    Addictive and ultra rich peanut butter ice cream

  • Ice Cream @lemmy.world
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    Mango ice cream...

  • Gaming @lemmy.ml
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    They're doing Civ 7 already

  • ADHD Women @lemmy.world
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    What is your "trail of hobbies"?