roertel

joined 10 months ago
[–] roertel 4 points 9 months ago (4 children)

Additionally, going out to eat has many hidden costs, like liquor tax in some cities on an already overpriced drink. Soda or Iced tea is $2.50 or more. Now add tax and tip and your $7 cheeseburger & coke is $25.

It's not for everyone, but my family has been enrolling in CSA (Community Supported Agriculture) produce. It's cheaper and local. Granted, I'll get 3 eggplants in a box one week and I need to get creative to be able to use it, but that's part of the fun. I've expanded my produce repertoire 5-fold and now know how to cook fennel.

[–] roertel 6 points 9 months ago

I'm using "did I take my meds" from F-Droid. It's not for everyone, but I love that it's privacy focused and FOSS. It can also track when you're getting low and need to reorder.

[–] roertel 3 points 9 months ago

I'm so glad you asked. I had improperly assumed.it was referring to native or indigenous peoples from tribal land. I couldn't figure out why all the hate.

[–] roertel 7 points 9 months ago

This is like those sites where you just need that recipe for the Bloomin' Onion sauce because you forgot one ingredient and you get the life story of the author:

"We were riding on horseback around Tuscany when my riding boot got scuffed by the buckle, so we stopped by a local cobbler to repair it while we listned to the church bells of a nearby..."

3 screens later...

"There was an Outback Express at the airport and I asked the waiter..."

"Horseradish" Oh yeah!

[–] roertel 6 points 9 months ago (2 children)

a friend of mine will eat the whole sunflower seed including the shell. This confuses me.

[–] roertel 17 points 10 months ago (1 children)

The ironic thing is that when I write it down, then I remember it without needing the list (I can see the note in my head), but if I don't write it down, I forget it. It's not exactly a list, but my home and office spaces are littered with post-it notes.

It's no surprise that I'm a visual person.

[–] roertel 1 points 10 months ago

As Cory Doctrow says, voting with your dollar is a fixed game because he who has the most dollars wins. Not to discourage it, though, because that would be pretty hypocritical to publicly condem the same store that you shop at, for example.

[–] roertel 7 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Most government sites must be accessible to individuals with disabilities such as low vision or other imapirments. You can't require a blind person to use chrome to apply for a job.

[–] roertel 1 points 10 months ago

The question was about keeping the occupants comfortable with minimal fuel energy. So far, this is the only answer that factors in the human element of cooling the occupants with their own sweat. Frankly, I'd take a 5F warmer day with a breeze over a 5F cooler day with no breeze. The same goes for in a car.

On a hot day, I'll start with the windows open and AC running just to push the hot air out and give the AC a lower ambient starting temperature, but the question wasn't about how to cool the car the fastest.

[–] roertel 3 points 10 months ago

I couldn't find this one, but if you're interested in playing vintage games, Archive.org has a pretty good list. They also had a way to play some of these in-browser, but I can't find it now.

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