Sekanjabin is an Iranian vinegar-based drink that’s easy to make and stays good in the fridge as a concentrate for a long time.

My favorite kind is made with strawberries, honey, and apple cider vinegar.

Refreshing, sweet, and sour. Water it down to taste when serving.

Technically baroque, but Bach’s lute suites are incredible.

Pigeonsense

That’s incredibly controlling behavior from them. The privacy violations are egregious.

Get out into nature. Take frequent walks.

Be social, even if you don’t want to in the moment.

Have a goal to work towards that doesn’t have anything to do with employment (learn to draw, or play piano, or cook).

Be patient with yourself and others. It’s rough out there.

What kind of music do you make? There may be a com just for that that could appreciate what you do. Also, I’m just curious.

I agree with Tal though, the music production one seems to be the most active.

I really hate when people call them “skeptics.”

Skepticism is a questioning attitude or doubt toward knowledge claims that are seen as mere belief or dogma.

They’re the dogmatic ones; there are multiple converging lines of evidence showing that man-made climate change is a real danger; to deny that is not skeptical, it’s delusional. It’s motivated reasoning. It’s believing a lie because the billionaire propaganda machine told you to believe it.

They work really well in third-person games for camera control. I beat Elden Ring on a Steam controller; you have a lot more speed and precision than with a stick.

It used to be that they’d put baseball games on broadcast TV.

Now you basically need a subscription to watch the team in my area. It’s like they don’t want anyone to see the games.

Thermal mask against FPV drones.

And a cool sword, that’d be sick.

I’d say the Coen brothers are the most consistently good filmmakers.

There’s absolute bangers like Fargo and True Grit. Even their lesser known ones like The Ladykillers and Hail Caesar are worth a watch.

There’s O Brother Where Art Thou, and Barton Fink, which are their most underrated in my opinion.

I don’t think they put out a single stinker, and most are A or A+.

Hell, they gave Henry Kissinger one. That basically means it’s worthless.

We played Quake World Team Fortress on the high school LAN. It blew my mind.

I hate the word, but I’ll make an exception when Ripley says “get away from her, you bitch” to the alien queen.

I generally prefer movies, books, or video games over a TV show. There are exceptions, but there’s just a lot of filler on TV shows; even good ones.

I didn’t know alemán was another way to say “German.” I play early music, and it’s also a type of song known as a “German dance,” so that makes a lot of sense.

Irish and Caribbean. The accents sound musical.

Someone should invent a way to get a video file off of a phone without cracking it open and letting the Internet leak out.

I cut down construction paper to use as the front and back covers (I usually print a front cover, but the back is black), then use a sheet of transparency film on each side to protect the whole thing and give it a more finished look.

Edit: example

A comb binder for bookmaking.

I print off a lot of RPG books and music that would otherwise cost a fortune. Now it’s basically the cost of toner and paper.

I like having an e-reader for most stuff, but some things are just better as physical objects that can be marked up and tabbed.