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Cake day: December 16th, 2023
  • mdalin@infosec.pubtoAsk Lemmy@lemmy.world•What's an online service you happily pay for?
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    16 days ago

    Mealime.

    Meal planning app. Has a database of hundreds of easy to make, healthy, tasty recipes. Tell it how many people you want to cook for, for how many days. It builds a whole meal plan, adjusts the quantities of all the recipies, builds a shopping list for you, and will even forward the list to Instacart for you if you’re into that.

    It also builds the meal plan based on reducing food waste, so if you have one recipe that uses half an onion, it will automatically find another recipe that uses the other half. You can also define ingredients you don’t like/allergic to and it will avoid recipes that use those.

    MASSIVELY increased the amount of at-home cooking I do by getting rid of all the boring/annoying parts. Kinda like Blue Apron, but you just go buy your own groceries. Best $2 a month I spend.

  • mdalin@infosec.pubtoShowerthoughts@lemmy.world•There should be smell museums
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    2 months ago

    Years ago I got to visit the perfume lab at the Fashion Institute of Technology in NYC, where students learn about making perfumes.

    It was kinda like this! They had rows and rows of little bottles all filled with concentrated oils of different aromas. Probably the weirdest one I remember is “money”. I cracked it open, and sure enough, it smelled just like a stack of well used bills.

    Was a really cool experience. Maybe see if there’s a perfumer anywhere near you who would let you come explore their lab?

  • mdalin@infosec.pubtoLGBTQ+@lemmy.blahaj.zone•A Muslim-majority city banned Pride flags. A judge just ruled on its legality
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    7 months ago

    As an out and proud gay man… I’m kinda with the city council on this one.

    I’m curious what flags that “represent the international character” means, but otherwise it seems like they’re only allowing official government flags on government property and banning everything else. That seems fair.

    Representation is nice, but I don’t need to see a pride flag hanging from every corner to feel seen. The only thing the government owes me is my civil rights, liberties, and basic human dignity. Slapping rainbows all over everything is just kinda performative lip-service, and is frankly cringy half the time.

    Also, fuck the misleading clickbaity title of this article.