Soggy

Congratulations on barely functioning as an adult, I guess.

It's not that fussy, you just need the freezer space and a plan. Slightly softened ice cream is easy to layer on and picking the right frosting keeps it from cracking. (I used a sweet marscapone) Totally worth it, btw.

Yeah but the traditional flavors are rose, mastic, and citrus fruit like lemon or bergamot.

Some people just don't like floral flavors. If your only experience with flowers is soap and perfume then of course that's the association you'll have. Me, I love em. Rose, violet, nasturtium, hibiscus, elderflower, orange blossom, lavender, I even eat dandelion heads from the yard.

Are you a young child living in besieged England with war-time sugar rationing? Are you a traumatized youth coping with an entirely new scenario with no safety net, with a powerful adult promising your safety? (Also, floral flavors would have been more familiar to an English kid than an American one. Familiarity is a big factor there.)

Don't pretend we're free to post literally anythere here, either. There's rules.

Pipe guns exist, you can build a device that fires a 12-gauge shell in a decent garage workshop. The fancy bits, like a break action that closes properly or a spring to eject spent shells/cartridges, are where the fiddly springs and such come into play. (Of course you know this, but for the sake of conversation.)

Those homemade submachine guns are properly crazy though.

If you carefully cultivate your subscriptions and watching habits it's not bad. I get mostly stuff I'm subscribed to, a movie cut into thirty second chunks (right now it's Braveheart), tv clips with one of three pieces of music overlaid, a mix of benign recommendations that are mostly meh but sometimes funny, and thirst traps. So... it's not good but I do sometimea see something worth following.

It used to be worse, I think abandoning guntubers was the right call. I used to have Andrew Tate and Jordan Peterson pushed at me.

Because banning Red 3 is theater, because the only studied harmful effect is specific to rat metabolism in ridiculous doses. It cannot be honestly applied to human biology and diet.

No mental gymnastics because I don't have orthorexia nervosa. There's no guilt or shame. (None that aren't universal to all consumption under capitalism, anyway)

Man, I wish I had a brain injury or something to explain why I can lose something I set down without moving from my chair. I learned long ago to just ask someone else and it's often right in the open.

That's a solid argument: we have several ways to achieve the same result and should limit the riskiest because market forces aren't going to correct for them. Much better than "get rid of this one possibly risky thing because I don't personally value it."