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When I was online dating I would definitely hit a limit of how many folks I was able to talk to.

I’d stop engaging with the match component at that point, until I had more time/energy to talk to someone new, but some were already out there.

It can also be a mismatch in expectations about first messages. I’d generally start on the short end, and messages would naturally get a bit longer over time.

Conventions for your dating app may be different, but as both a recipient and a sender I generally found these guidelines to be true: “hey how are you?” might be too short and not engaging enough. Anything longer than 2 sentences might be too long and overly forward.

That cheese has had most of the moisture cooked or aged out.

This is very different from a pizza where even if you did cook the cheese like that, it’s often sitting on a layer of wet sauce.

Or even more granular. There’s folks that make a large number of posts that I do like in some comms, and a large number of ones I don’t care about in other comms.

If they’re the main one making low effort posts in the Weevil community or whatever, but everyone else is great, it would be preferable to prune the community for myself instead of blocking it or them.

I still think they’re a net positive for Lemmy and want to interact with them, just we may not like all the same things in the exact same way.

I used to work at a summer academic program. I don’t know how expensive it was, but some of the students were quite wealthy.

One 13 year old international student was homesick, and to try to get them to agree to stick it out, their parents promised to buy them a new car if they stayed.

The food was generally good enough to pass for restaurant food or a corporate cafeteria. It was on a college campus, so I think it may have been the same staff and repertoire as the school year. Sometimes there would be something more interesting like fried plantains. The staff would flock to it and the kids would ignore it.

Kids by and large didn’t care. Some still stuck to their beige diets aggressively; only eating hot dogs, plain chicken, white bread, vanilla ice cream, etc.

One year before the kids showed up there was a chilled strawberry and mint soup that I’ll still occasionally try to find a recipe for. I don’t even care for mint.

I had a similar experience with broodje haring in the Netherlands.

Why remove Nova before you’ve got things set up? Get a feel for whether or not your new launcher works for you for probably at least a month before removing the old.

If you don’t find any issues you can’t live with within a month, you should be fine.

Lawnchair seems to do a good chunk of what Nova does. I haven’t taken the time to fully recreate my setup, but most things I’ve tried have worked so far.

With Nova I have a setup that more or less fits everything on my home page without looking too busy. Lawnchair is letting me change the number of rows and columns, shrink icon size, choose a monochrome theme as a default, make folders, etc.

Same here, it seems to be the most common in tech circles online. I’ve never once said it and have someone understand. Not the meaning, nor the words.

Regarding milk as a name: plant milks are not new. Whitish liquids just get called milk. Even the real weird ones like pigeon milk.

Do you happen to know the brand of mycelium bacon you had? I’d be interested to try it

It’s an iPhone, I’m not sure how much of a thing those are. I know for the handful of specific apps that I’ve bothered to check for my significant other, I’ve always come up empty handed.

Playing Worms at a friend’s house around that age is one of the fondest memories I have of any game.

I was specifically addressing your line about Latin.

I’m not really clear on what the aim of your broader point really is actually driving at. If someone struggles with language acquisition or production, yes they may struggle with the complete name of their specific diagnosis.

If communicating the specific name to the outside world is important, having it written down somewhere may help. We use tools to help move our bodies. Why wouldn’t we use tools to help extend our brains.

If it’s truly important to have the specific name, the other party may need to look it up anyway, which is easier with a spelling.

You don’t need to speak Latin to notice common roots and get a gist for what a term means.

If you’re actually in a position where it’s useful to distinguish one type of dementia from another, having a meaning that’s linked to what the symptoms are may help you remember both name and symptoms.

If you’re not a medical professional, remembering either name or symptoms for specific types of dementia is unlikely to be useful.

I don’t use any of the emoji that could have a skin tone. I will occasionally use emoji, but don’t find that the faces or hands are useful.

Oh yeah, being turned into a book is unlikely to be worth the headache for anyone involved. The tree burials that are legal in some spots is a reasonable option. Or just donation to science.

Whatever is cheapest/lowest fuss is fine. If that means I get reused or recycled great! If not, just don’t let me be a bother.

Sky burial is also awesome. Hopefully there are enough vultures to keep that up in at least some places. There’s a 99% Invisible episode that talks about collapsing vulture populations resulting in issues with doing it in India.

Same for human parts for me.

Weirdly enough, I still think my preferred way to dispose of my eventual cadaver is being made into a book.

I wouldn’t want to own book me, but I love the idea of being a book. Not like a gruesome one where someone could tell right off, something more boring than that.

This is in line with other comments. Embarrassing yourself in public with her is potentially funny for both of you.

Trying to embarrass her more directly than that may be crossing a line.

I’m surprised by anchovies lacking it but you appear to be correct, even for raw anchovies. I tried looking at a handful of other raw fish and they also have no vitamin C.

I guess that makes sense, if fish could supply vitamin C I can’t imagine scurvy would’ve been a problem for long.

I’m not sure why the need to draw a firm distinction between the two. I’m quite focused on lyrics if they’re present and in a language I understand. I’m not fussed if they aren’t.

If you find the music in some way engaging, that’s enough. Denigrating other music as in some way lesser than your preferred genre is odd.