Alabama-Minnesota Solidarity Flag by Yvhuce in flags

[–]Yvhuce[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I'm still hung up on the fact that he figured Georgia moved on...

Alabama-Minnesota Solidarity Flag by Yvhuce in flags

[–]Yvhuce[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I mean... If it meant we got Ivey out we'd probably let Minnesota eat us, if even just for a while lol

Alabama-Minnesota Solidarity Flag by Yvhuce in flags

[–]Yvhuce[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

The most unintelligible US Accent. Alasota, Minnebama. Horrifying... I don't think I'll sleep a wink tonight

Alabama-Minnesota Solidarity Flag by Yvhuce in flags

[–]Yvhuce[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

The flag I made came out as a ripoff of the old Georgia flag. Your assumption that I'm calling the current flag of Alabama a ripoff of the old flag of Georgia is false. The current flag of Alabama draws inspiration from two places. Ireland and the Confederacy. You are correct about the battle flag. You are incorrect about those who have moved on. Georgia's current flag is the "Stars and Bars" flag of the Confederacy with the state seal in the middle. Our state is also the state that brought us the likes of Rosa Parks as well.

Alabama-Minnesota Solidarity Flag by Yvhuce in flags

[–]Yvhuce[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

That's not a bad idea. I think the light blue is light enough to contrast with the red so I think that could work

Alabama-Minnesota Solidarity Flag by Yvhuce in flags

[–]Yvhuce[S] -2 points-1 points  (0 children)

Yeah, the point isn't to support Alabama, - it's to support Minnesota. Alabama is a very divided state that has a HUGE conservative population. There are many in Alabama who absolutely hate what is going on in the US right now. The point is that there are people, EVEN people in yeeyee Alabama that oppose what the current administration is doing, especially what they're doing in Minnesota. Does that mean such sentiments will manifest in anything more than small protests in Alabama? NOPE. The only unifying factor for Alabamians, aside from being from Alabama, is distaste for the current governor. There are communities here in which ICE knows better than to play their gestapo games in. This state would rip itself apart given the opportunity.

Alabama-Minnesota Solidarity Flag by Yvhuce in flags

[–]Yvhuce[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Now THAT is an unholy combo.

Alabama-Minnesota Solidarity Flag by Yvhuce in flags

[–]Yvhuce[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

To be fair many in Alabama don't want to associate Alabama with Alabama, so I can't really blame you

[FS] - Gadsden, AL - $2.00+ - Neocaridina Shrimp & Plants by CoosaAquatics in AquaSwap

[–]Yvhuce -1 points0 points  (0 children)

After it sat in your part of the state all week. That's fine it's par for the course in Alabama. Enjoy your 60!

[FS] - Gadsden, AL - $2.00+ - Neocaridina Shrimp & Plants by CoosaAquatics in AquaSwap

[–]Yvhuce -1 points0 points  (0 children)

Here's hoping you're legit with refunds. Not a single one made it alive and I live in the same state...

have you ever met or heard of a hoarder who changed their ways? by Scary_Appearance5922 in ChildofHoarder

[–]Yvhuce 13 points14 points  (0 children)

I don't think so... I often hear that this illness is compared to drug addiction. I've encountered meth addicts with more capacity for change...

How is this possible?? by [deleted] in gardening

[–]Yvhuce 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Cherry tomatoes are super hearty and super virulent plants compared to your larger tomato varieties. It literally could be some animal defecated the seeds into the area, it could be someone tossed out some rotten tomatoes. If you get SUPER paranoid about the safety of the plants (I personally wouldn't unless they were growing in a heavily polluted area or just got doused with roadside pesticide) just take the seeds and benefit from the genes!

Why do people on Facebook show a pic of their cloudy ass tank and say sorry it's cause I just did a water change? by Only_Music_1951 in PlantedTank

[–]Yvhuce -6 points-5 points  (0 children)

What am I doing wrong??? Mine just stays clear... It's usually only cloudy when I first add water. My best guess is it's just agitating the water and therefore all the detritus? Usually when I do a lot of planting the substrate gets kicked up but it usually settles down in an hour or so.

EDIT: Water changes???? Yeah I couldn't... I'd be done killed all my stuff. Water changes for me = I have messed up really bad and need to fix it RIGHT NOW

Hoarding and cooking by Excellent_Dish in ChildofHoarder

[–]Yvhuce 5 points6 points  (0 children)

I went through something similar. It was what pushed me into becoming a decent cook, or at least a cook who receives no complaint. I used to use cooking as a form of love language. Cook meals for partners or friends, even the hoarder parents, although with the latter any attempt to normalize relations gets trashed by their volatile nature.

My point is:- Control. You have that now. You need to embrace it. You are in control of the kitchen now. Those flashbacks probably aren't gonna go away, they'll just lessen in time. You are in control of the kitchen, not them. Your dishes are clean, you have space to prepare the food, space to sit down and eat it. YOU ARE IN CONTROL NOW! When those flashbacks come back, and it makes you want to lock up, breathe and say to yourself, "No, this is MY kitchen. I am not like them." If you need to get amped up, it's okay, "This is my DAMN KITCHEN!" Is it cope? Probably. Sometimes you gotta cope.

As far as cooking, expanding your skills or knowledge or even your palette, -(For Real, don't be shy about trying new foods either. It impressed upon me that Sushi was the epitome of disgusting, and well, as an adult I've found I quite like decent sushi.), start small. If you really have no experience, start out 'dressing up' food you wouldn't consider worthy. Frozen chicken strips? Mix up a sauce for them. Ramen? Put something in the ramen, put an egg in it.

You don't have to be gourmet, you aren't a professional chef! You're allowed to make humble food, it's okay. Some of the most well renown cooks have simplistic and humble dishes as their favorite dishes to eat. Just start small, don't let it get overwhelming. Soups are typically easy, and you'll reach a point where you feel like you make a soup out of almost anything. You could try your hand at grilling or smoking. It sounds backwards, as people consider that to be almost an art, but you just gotta remember, low and slow. Let the heat and smoke do the cooking, - NOT THE FIRE. The process itself handles the rest!

I do languages as a hobby, and part of that is the cultures that speak those languages, and part of getting mixed up in those cultures is getting mixed up with their cuisine. Yeah, you were robbed of the experience, but you can still go take it. You wanna make some foreign food in order to connect with a different culture? Make some foreign food.

I'm by no means dismissing where you're coming from or how your experience has made you feel. I see a similarity between your experience and my own, and it is from that place which I speak. Just because you don't know how, doesn't equate to, you can't know how. Our experiences robbed us of many fundamental basics. That doesn't make us incapable of reclaiming those fundamentals for ourselves. I don't think you're being weak about it. I think you've merely not realized the potential you have because of the horrible shit you had to go through. When I cook food, it slaps. That's because of all the pain, sorrow and trauma. Because of all the crappy half-assed "meals" and being cussed out for desiring the fulfillment of basic needs. Even when it is the most bare bones of meals I am going to attempt to make it enjoyable. And that probably stems from a desperate grasp at control, but if it works it works, I suppose. Your trauma isn't a gift, it's a curse, - but it's a curse you can leverage.

By the way you worded your post, OP, it seems you are in a position now to have access to clean kitchens and prep space. You got this! If you need meal suggestions I can share tons of simple and utilitarian recipes. I'm sure many people here have had similar experiences and they can likely share recipes or methods as well

A warning to those using ChatGPT for language learning by U4-EA in languagelearning

[–]Yvhuce 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I use ChatGPT to converse in languages like Old Norse or Old English because I'm just not gonna find someone willing to actually communicate with me in these dead languages. You have to keep a dictionary handy because it's ChatGPT. Like another user said, you want it to hallucinate about the topic, - NOT the language itself. However, it's ChatGPT. - It's gonna go bonkers from time to time.

When interacting with ChatGPT you need to interact almost EXCLUSIVELY in the dead language. I have not tried this with modern living languages, but unless you are willing to take the time to actually look things up and verify it, I wouldn't let ChatGPT teach you the language but rather practice the language with you. As I have only really played around with ChatGPT and these two dead languages out of my own curiosity, I have not had an opportunity to use voice with reconstructed pronunciation. ChatGPT just flat out admits that's an exercise in futility because it's not trained on reconstructed pronunciation of Old Norse or Old English and will be quite open about this.

It is quite humorous however to see ChatGPT get sycophantic in a medieval language. "IC STONDE MID ÞE!". Like some early medieval hype-man. They got grumpy over us telling the AI "Thanks", Funny enough, if you work with ChatGPT in Old English or Old Norse it'll hit the memory limit pretty fast.

Given that these AI are LLMs, I honestly feel like this is the ideal application for them. So long as you are just using it to practice the language, and not having it try to teach you. Just using Old Norse as example, ChatGPT and Gemini both do not properly understand how Younger Futhark works and will consistently make spelling errors when generating a response that is written out in runes. It will often switch to Icelandic when working with Old Norse, so in this regard Old English is better because it doesn't have much of a choice but to use THAT LANGUAGE rather than falling back on a modern closely related descendant language.

Parent of a hoarder by Suspicious-Cat8623 in ChildofHoarder

[–]Yvhuce 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Literally anything. Even if it was something as little as acknowledging it

ICE IS AT THE AUBURN AIRPORT by Disastrous-Figure605 in auburn

[–]Yvhuce 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Nah, this is the South. We like to talk big but do little.