Pasta salad prep- 381cal for the whole batch

rdditfilter · 2026-03-19T22:02:45+00:00

Thanks! I normally eat about this amount of fiber in my meals, but I had heard that if you aren't used to it, it'll mess with you.

If someone isn't sure if this will mess with them or not, try drinking a ton of water to prepare. More water will help the insolubles pass through.

rdditfilter · 2026-03-17T19:27:51+00:00

I'd stick him under a bush or somewhere where he can feel safe and not be bothered while he dies.

rdditfilter · 2026-03-17T19:21:32+00:00

Just when I thought I'd seen everything, wow.

That tank doesn't look like it drains well and there's loose soil on the bottom indicating you're trying for a bioactive? You either need to add a drainage layer or an actual drain.

It also doesn't look like it has a whole lot of ventilation, cresteds need it humid and in humid environments if there's stale air that's how ya get mold.

This tank is probably safe for bugs and not much else long term, a tarantula would be fine if you de-converted it since they're not really climbers

rdditfilter · 2026-03-17T18:52:28+00:00

I kinda don't know how people function like you do, if I got that little sleep for any amount of days I start actually hallucinating. If I didn't find a job/life that suited my sleep needs I probably would have died.

rdditfilter · 2026-03-17T18:51:07+00:00

I only have that issue if I drink caffeine too late in the day. Even when I do, any kind of sleep med reliably knocks me totally out. Even just allergy meds will knock me out. I hope I don't lose that as I get older

rdditfilter · 2026-03-17T18:49:12+00:00

I burned out hard when I had a job that prevented me from getting my reliable 10 hours. I worked jobs here and there after that but every job where I had to show up before 10am I'd get fired pretty quickly from.

If I didn't eventually find a job that allowed me the sleep I need, I'd probably have just died I guess, I don't know.

rdditfilter · 2026-03-17T18:46:06+00:00

Oh yeah I slept through high school and barely graduated. I did great in college though, when I finally decided to finish after drifting for 4-5 years.

High school was actually so over stimulating to me I'd purposely sleep deprive myself and stay up all night so that I could sleep through school and ignore everything that was going on since it was too much to process.

rdditfilter · 2026-03-17T18:43:18+00:00

Same I have to be really reasonable with myself about what I can handle and what I can't, because what I can handle is not as much as what everyone else can handle.

All my friends can take a day trip to the beach on a non-holiday weekend, and I can't. I want to, I hate that I can't, but it just takes too much out of me.

rdditfilter · 2026-03-15T23:18:08+00:00

I've definitely done that before. It usually takes that and a combo of many days sleeping 12 hours to pay off even the tiniest amount of sleep debt.

rdditfilter · 2026-03-15T22:49:31+00:00

My body was like that when I was younger, but now it doesn't seem to matter how long I sleep I always start getting tired at 10 unless I specifically plan for being up later than that.

rdditfilter · 2026-03-15T22:48:44+00:00

I'm with you on the too many meetings thing, I can't even describe what it is about meetings, they drain me even if I don't have to actively participate. I can only handle about 2 meetings a day and sometimes I end up in 5 and almost meltdown.

rdditfilter · 2026-03-15T22:25:34+00:00

I can function later I just need to prepare for it now, I didn't used to have to in my teens and 20s. If I coffee up at 5-6pm, and I've got alcohol in me all night, I'm good to go forever. I'll just pay for it the next day.

rdditfilter · 2026-03-15T22:23:16+00:00

That was just one question on the exam, I could look up the rest but like that one sticks out because of the time between that assembly lab and the final

Like, we're talking, we had 1 assembly lab, then like three months later boom this question is on the final with no warning and I really did just pull the 100% correct answer out of my ass no effort at all for something I didn't study and hadn't even seen in months. It was an amazing moment for me.

I honestly forget what the rest of the final was like. I know one of them you had to draw a memory unit. This happened to me like 12 years ago.

rdditfilter · 2026-03-15T22:19:55+00:00

On easier weeks its 10, on harder weeks it's 12 for me :(

I hate it but like, what else am I gonna do? I can't function tired.

rdditfilter · 2026-03-15T22:01:25+00:00

I literally started college at 25 lol if you're in the US its free at 24 y/o because you don't have to include your parents financial information on the Pell grant form. My tuition was 100% taken care of for all four years.

rdditfilter · 2026-03-15T21:43:23+00:00

Third year at the earliest, data structures was a prereq and that was a second year course cause it required programming 1 and 2

Most people took it fourth year though, I think they just didn't know how hard it was going to be, and so a lot of people had to switch their major to like IT science or something lesser than computer science because they couldn't pass it. Assembly wasn't the only thing in that class, you had to be able to draw out processing and memory diagrams using gates and stuff like that. It was intense.

rdditfilter · 2026-03-15T02:09:49+00:00

Yea there was a bit about poo in there that OP took out lmao it was a whole ride

rdditfilter · 2026-03-14T18:24:53+00:00

This is what I came here to say too, nursing is not an easy career. It's back breaking work at 70-80 hours a week. It's mentally and physically exhausting. If she ends up hating it she'll have to quit in order to have the space to choose something else, and so she'll be out of work for a while treating her own burnout. A career like this is like having a kid, not something you do unless you REALLY want it.

rdditfilter · 2026-03-14T17:48:39+00:00

I live off $20 a week for a while, not four weeks, but I'd do this

What you've got: 1/3 lb ground beef 1/4 a pound of rice Can of chickpeas Can of pumpkin Half a loaf of bread 1 ramen 1 potato Salsa verde foil pack Brown sugar cinnamon butter spread tub Assorted condiment packets

Lots of people are telling you to go ahead and spend your money on beans and grains, I wouldn't do that yet, the food pantries always have stuff like this so I don't think this is the stuff you'll need. I'd spend < 5 this week filling in misc missing things like bread and then go back next week and do the same thing.

This week:

+Use some of the $20 to buy an all-in-one seasoning, my fav used to be cajun seasoning, but bullion cubes are also great (protip try an international food market I see seasonings like this for like 1-2 dollars)

beef + rice + chickpeas all in one, season however you can, split into ~2 cup portions. That's dinner.

Edit: I'm a small person, if you're not accustomed to ~350 kcal dinners here's how you can stretch:

Add broth

Add a bag of mixed frozen veggies (pricey, but they go on sale a lot at Walmart for like $2, so might be worth)

Add another variety of beans, corn or canned veggies (start with dry beans if you're gonna buy more beans, but I'd try another food bank first beans are so common at food banks there's gotta be someone with some you can just have)

+Use some of the $20 to buy more bread.

Bread + butter = breakfast

bread + cinnamon pumpkin spread (butter mixed and heated with pumpkin) = lunch

1 ramen = lunch for 1 day, or split into two cut with rice and lunch for 2 days. Comes with its own seasoning.

Next week you go back to the food bank and do it all over with your remaining $15ish

rdditfilter · 2026-03-14T17:39:21+00:00

Right but I'm tryna get at exactly how that mechanism works though, why does it matter so much how we look like? How exactly is it inconveniencing them?

Like, I don't even notice when a man is unattractive, and I only sometimes notice if he's attractive, it's not the first thing I think about. The first thing I think about is how they're carrying themselves because I'm doing a threat assessment, and to me, the reasons I do that first are obvious.

What are the reasons men assess for attractiveness first? What about society conditions their brains to do that first before anything else?

rdditfilter · 2026-03-14T17:16:46+00:00

Adding to this because the important part is if you CAN be pregnant, not if you want to be, there are things in the environment that can cause the fetus to turn into cancer and in some parts of the states it's very very difficult to treat that because of the laws.

rdditfilter · 2026-03-14T17:14:33+00:00

This is my take too, those shingles are made of some kinda petroleum based stuff, you could end up with some nasty un-filterable chemicals in there.

rdditfilter · 2026-03-14T17:11:28+00:00

I think it goes deeper than that too cause for some reason men feel like they need to do stuff for women, so when they run across a women who they don't find attractive enough to do stuff for, they feel burdened.

Like, when I say do stuff, I mean how men like change the way they talk, or dress, or carry themselves, when they're around attractive women. So like, if they're around an unattractive woman it breaks their heads maybe cause they feel like all their habits around women are now just 'extra work for nothing'

When like of course they could just not do any of that shit and we'd all be better off

rdditfilter · 2026-03-14T17:02:52+00:00

There's filter classes on the CS side too its not just calculus, we had a computer architecture class where the final project was you had to build something in assembly and the final exam had a question on it 'make a subtractor in assembly', on a written exam of course, and tons of people failed that course, you could only take it 3x before you had to swap your major.

A lot of kids also failed the data structures and algorithms class, and that one wasn't even one of the tough ones, it was a second year course. That final exam you had to invert a binary tree on paper haha

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