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How to gain weight from eating almost exclusively bread and potatoes?

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No, drop the energy drink completely. What are you thinking, that's your problem right there. It's expensive, and probably accounts for half your food spending. It's also fucking terrible health wise especially if you aren't eating much of anything else. There is no such thing as "supplementing" with an energy drink.

Things that are cheap and good imo: rice, lentils, bulk nuts, canned beans, tuna tin cans and veggies in general. Porridge sucks but it's easy to make and cheap. If you want to avoid energy use while cooking, look into cooking in a thermos, stuff like couscous, porridge or noodle soups.

Hunt specials and change where you buy thing if needed. If you don't like veggies, boil and blend. Ration of like 1/3 potato, 2/3 veggie, stock, plus some onion and garlic.

Get the oil, it's basically where people get half their calories.

What's your budget anyways (food total, include the money spent on fast food and energy drinks).

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Beginner Guide for Easy Fish Keeping

The secret to an easy aquarium is live plants imo.

I'd start with 15 gallons personally, but you can go higher since more water means it's more stable. More water does mean harder water changes.

I usually try and aim for a more natural aquarium, I usually fill mesh bags with dirt and then pour sand over it (I like black sand). I aim for 2 inchs in the front, three in the back of more (a gentle slope is really important lookwise).

If you pick easy plants, you won't need much lighting, I have one bulb from above angled and a cheap Amazon led light directly above it. Look up the plants online and aim for something that doesn't need CO2 or intense lighting. In my current one I have: Christmas moss, dwarf sword grass, polysperma rosanervig and water sprite.

I basically plant and then add water, I wait a week or two, then add snails (super important, just get bladder snails, your local fish place will probably be okay with giving them to you, they are technically pest snails but they do good cleaning up). A week or two later if my parameters are good, I add a few shrimp. Then after a month or two aonce the shrimp have bred and their young are a good size, I add fish.

For fish it really depends on what you want, you will have to look online. I only get nano fish really since the bigger ones will eat adult shrimp (eating shrimp babies is fine tho). Shrimp are super cool and keep the tank clean for you so they are a must in my tanks. Fish are added last. Some fish like pygmy corys can be clean up crew as well.

Never ever get live breeding pairs of fish or live breeding females (guppies, platies, etc). They over breed and out compete everything in the tank, females give birth months after their last breeding. Males are fine though, and guppies cannot be killed tbh.

I also like to add a purple mystery snail, there's a lot of really cool snails, as well as an amano shrimp sometimes. African dwarf frogs can be cool too, but are rough on plants. There's more than just fish. Depends on the size of the tank and all. Some fish jump out more than others.

I have a simple sponge filter but tank kits usually come with a hang on back filter. I like the little magnet sponge to make cleaning the glass easier. My lights are on timers and I have an auto feeder that lasts a month. I change about a bucket of water every month, as well as prune the plants. If you want, get an autofeeder with little compartments, not the one that has a screwing motion. Also an air stone and compressor are also a must.

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How do you use your Hario Switch?

I put it above my cup directly (I have a smaller one). I would pour some water in, enough to cover the grounds, then wait 30 seconds. Then I would put the switch half way (to reduce pull speed), empty it, refill until grounds, wait for it to empty, I would repeat this a few times (enough to use up half the water). Then I would close the switch, fill up the switch with the water left and let it sit for 4 minutes, then I would drain at half speed the rest.

I switched for a French press a week ago because mine has a rubber base and even though it was technically food safe, the thought of running hot water through rubber a few times a day didn't really sit well with me.

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Yandex outage: data shows that instead of going dark, malicious bots went on the move

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My point is that it isn't bullshit. We should hate both, and clearly the Russian one more, but we shouldn't assume only one exists.

Look at how valmond is responding. He's clearly a moron that would rather stick his head in the sand. It's silly behavior imo.

It's a shame because the usual tankie suspects are more active lately with the election coming up and everyone seems on edge. I get it but that doesn't mean refusing the bootlick the American imperial war and propoganda machine automatically makes you a tankie. People have to get a grip.

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The Average Man Is Such a BSer About AI That He’ll Claim to Know About an AI Executive Who Doesn’t Even Exist: Men caught hallucinating.

I realized a while back I do this. If someone's ask me if I know or have heard of someone, even if I don't, I'll squint and go "Hmm, ya, I think I heard the name".

I never have, it's more to keep the conversation going since I expect them to tell me, but it did strike me as a petty and silly thing to do when I realized I was doing it. Just can't admit to not being knowledgeable, gotta just stay vague about it and pretend. Bad habit.

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'If you can’t show your game to the world without fearing it’ll be cloned, something’s broken' says Moonlighter studio on its canceled demo

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That's not how the projects in his example work. It's closer to a game which you can play for free but getting it to start is a bit of a hassle if you aren't tech oriented so they offer to host it for you.

It wouldn't work for all types of games though. And some products do keep part of their offer behind a pay gap. Some work with donations, including governmental.

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My GF uses AI

She agrees with me every time and says she will decrease her usage but at the end she uses it still.

How often are you "explaining" to her the dangers of AI? Honestly, yes, just ignore it. Outside looking in, you sound tedious and mildly controlling.