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  • I went through something similar and had my blender sitting for a while. Then I had kids and decided to get on the smoothie train again.

    What I found regarding blandness was never add ice, never add water. Use whole milk or heavy cream or half and half. Unflavored yogurt is good and tastes like fruit when blended with frozen fruit. Bananas turn into a smooth thick liquid when blended. Frozen Bananas are often recommended but don't help texture as much.

    To summarize, frozen fruit is already bland and cold, don't add water or ice. Skim milk is water for this use case so avoid it.

  • People are seizing, being intubated after eating microdose chocolates
  • These internet chocolates never contain mushrooms according to everyone I've known or read about who have had them. If you're lucky you get 4-aco-dmt which is safe and hard to tell apart from the real thing. This is an unregulated market and no one else cares about your health. Be careful out there.

  • Why we gave up on learning how to play an instrument?
  • I've played and given up the mandolin several times over tge past several years. Longest continuous before now was maybe three months. What I've learned through my own learning process is:

    1. Practice in time. Even if it's slow.
    2. Playing with backing tracks helps a ton
    3. Posture is key. On my current streak of playing I was able to go from playing the melody of kids songs to the rhythm of some grateful dead songs (at 80 bpm instead of 140 bpm) after spending time watching videos of how to hold and sit. I then had to relearn all my fingerings but it didn't take nearly as long this time.
    4. Sucking is just part of learning anything new. I guess one either enjoys the act of improving independent of the current result or one doesn't.

    Post script: The reason I quit when I do is because I become frustrated with plateaus. I now believe a lot of these plateaus came from bad mechanics. My pinky could not reach the 7th fret no matter how much I practiced. I could not switch chords without destroying my rhythm or muting extra strings etc.

  • Morgan Spurlock, documentary filmmaker behind 'Super Size Me,' dies at 53
  • His show had an episode with a mom trying to drink like her college daughter. The mom starts going out most nights, eating like shit and feeling bad during the day. The part that has stayed with me for almost 20 years is how the mom was definitely having a good time towards the middle of the month. When I first saw it I was a little younger than the daughter and now I am a little younger than the mom was at filming. When I question if I should start drinking more again, I think of that lady and say "Maybe."

  • ‘A deranged fringe movement’: what is Maga communism, the online ideology platformed by Tucker Carlson?
  • MAGA communism is when instead of returning the means of production to those doing the work one just starts a authoritarian state capitalist regime. I don't think the government funding gyms is some terrible thing but it won't stop the "feminization" these people decry.

  • How can I access my own ebooks?
  • I keep my dropouts free ebooks in Dropbox and use moonreader + to read them and sync across devices. Until I lost my library in a hdd failure I had 10k books self hosted with calibre and that was straight forward and worked well. I do also use Google Books for things I buy and like it although it lacks some QoL features of moonreader

  • DeSantis Vetoes Blanket Social Media Ban for Youths Under 16
    www.nytimes.com DeSantis Vetoes Blanket Social Media Ban for Youths Under 16

    The statute, passed by the Florida Legislature last week, would have required sites like TikTok and Instagram to deny accounts to underage users, even if their parents permitted them to do so.

    DeSantis Vetoes Blanket Social Media Ban for Youths Under 16
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    XMLTV providers

    Are there any good websites that host xmltv info that I can just point my addon to? For context I'm using simple iptv with kodi to stream from my tuner card, through nextpvr, to other tvs in my house via the m3u nextpvr generates. I can see utils to create one but was going for just a web address and have been unable to find one. Do I just misunderstand how this should work?

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    A City’s Campaign Against Homelessness Brings Stories of Violence
    www.nytimes.com A City’s Campaign Against Homelessness Brings Stories of Violence

    Local officials called for residents to deter the homeless in Kalispell, Mont., but unhoused residents said they were then accosted and attacked.

    A City’s Campaign Against Homelessness Brings Stories of Violence

    archive sad to see this happening here. Roving gangs of youth harassing the homeless with support from the local government should worry everyone.

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    Beeper Mini is down

    Well it was a fun few days but beeper mini is down. Someone supposedly affiliated with the project said on reddit it was on Beeper's end but people testing it say Apple has blocked something.

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    Police say there’s an active shooter in Lewiston, Maine, and they are investigating multiple scenes
    www.politico.com Police say there’s an active shooter in Lewiston, Maine, and they are investigating multiple scenes

    Central Maine Medical Center said staff were “reacting to a mass casualty, mass shooter event” and were coordinating with area hospitals to take in patients.

    Police say there’s an active shooter in Lewiston, Maine, and they are investigating multiple scenes
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    ‘Fully expected the downfall’: Inside DeSantis’s brawls with Fla. Republicans
    www.washingtonpost.com ‘Fully expected the downfall’: Inside DeSantis’s brawls with Fla. Republicans

    Some who knew the Florida governor in Tallahassee say they expected him to have trouble translating his governance of the state into a coalition that could win him the presidency.

    Sort of hit piece against DeSantis by members of his own party who support Trump.

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    How Donald Trump tried to undo his loss in Georgia in 2020
    www.washingtonpost.com How Donald Trump tried to undo his loss in Georgia in 2020

    Trump and his allies aggressively pushed to overturn the 2020 election results in Georgia -- taking actions that could result in criminal charges.

    How Donald Trump tried to undo his loss in Georgia in 2020

    Breakdown of known information regarding possible Georgia indictment.

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    Democrats press Homeland Security about domestic extremism among employees.
    www.washingtonpost.com Democrats press Homeland Security about domestic extremism among employees

    Reports of Oath Keeper members in the Department of Homeland Security and Border Patrol officers collaborating with militias continue to concern Congress.

    Democrats press Homeland Security about domestic extremism among employees

    Reports of Oath Keepers in the Department of Homeland Security and Border Patrol officers collaborating with militias continue to concern Congress.

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    French Parents Don’t Know What They’re Doing, Either
    www.newyorker.com French Parents Don’t Know What They’re Doing, Either

    An ongoing debate in France complicates the notion that there is an overarching secret to raising kids à la française.

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    Waiting for the Justices
    www.nytimes.com Waiting for the Justices

    We’re covering the coming affirmative action ruling, the search for a submersible and Hunter Biden.

    Waiting for the Justices
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