I love a good gezpacho in the summer. Super refreshing

This one’s new to me and it sounds delicious. I love everything that’s in it. The colour is gonna be a challenge for westerners though… Pepto Bismol trauma giving me an unpleasant Pavolvian response to that shade of pink haha

Feel like it might be worth trying anyway

Oh man I absolutely feel this.

I’ve been self employed WFH for almost 20yrs now and the lunch-alone struggle has not gotten easier.

When I do make the effort though, it’s usually worth it.

Lately I’ve been in a rut where, if I get up from my desk at all, it’s to forage, not prepare a meal. Like, I’ll call a fistful of peanuts or a banana lunch, or some cold fridge meat with mustard and no plate. It’s depressing.

When I make something colourful and intentional, though, I always feel better. It forces me to get my head out of work mode and take a break, and it’s satisfying to make something that looks and tastes nice. I feel more like a person too, if that makes sense. Not to mention my brain works better when I actually feed it real food, heh

Like anything, it’s just starting that’s the hard part.

Ha, try it and see! I like it, my spouse does not.

If you just immediately plunk it on there it can definitely steam the greens under it, but I let the fish rest 5mins on some folded paper towel first so it works good enough :)

I’d be interested to see how they isolated use of AI from, well, everything else that’s happened in the last three years.

We are more stressed, burned out, socially isolated, broke, and pessimistic than ever.

The findings do make sense I think, if AI is replacing interpersonal collaboration and already dwindling social contact within that larger context, combined with the knowledge that (in my case, anyway) the very tool you’re using also poses a threat to your own financial future.

Yep. Expecting a lot of bot comments on bot reposts that are just copied portions of top comments on previous versions of that repost.

It had gotten to the point where I didn’t feel confident upvoting much at all anymore, because so many posts were automated content, and worse, more and more comments were just bots stealing contributions made elsewhere (or even further down in the same post) by actual people.

It’s only going to get worse now.

I really hope the fediverse is able to do something to safeguard against all that. Because if it’s not already testing the locks, it’s coming.

Mlem is coming along nicely. It’s a far cry from Apollo, but I feel for the devs in this space; they weren’t ready! It’s a lot all at once.

I’ve been flipping between mlem and kbin (as a pwa for now)

Kbin does have a bit more to offer right now in terms of customization, but it’s barely out of prototype phase itself. You can have a compact mode experience there, but both options are limited and struggling to catch their breath, in their own ways.

Mlem just implemented comment collapsing which I definitely appreciate.

At the same time I’m not mad about the lack of polish in this stage. A lot of the things people hated about reddit came from a particular type of mean-spirited and/or low-effort user… maybe the requirement of a little effort and patience/empathy on our parts now could be to our ultimate benefit :)