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  • RoquetteQueen RoquetteQueen 1 day ago 100%

    I just say no and shut the door. I don't say it rudely but I also don't wait for a response. It's really not that hard?

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  • asklemmy Asklemmy When was the last time you felt guilt about something, as in that emotional pit you noticeably feel in your stomach when you have done something wrong towards someone?
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  • RoquetteQueen RoquetteQueen 2 days ago 100%

    Every time I lose my patience and yell at my children, which is way too often.

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  • ontario Ontario Ontario considers further expanding pharmacists' scope to include more minor ailments
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  • RoquetteQueen RoquetteQueen 3 days ago 100%

    I'm prone to UTIs and my doctor is two hours away.

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  • worldnews World News Man Self-Immolates Outside Boston Israeli Consulate in Protest of Gaza Genocide
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  • RoquetteQueen RoquetteQueen 5 days ago 100%

    To any one else who may be considering doing this: please don't. Nobody with the power to actually do anything cares if you die. You can't help anyone when you're dead.

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  • aboringdystopia A Boring Dystopia Colorado teen shot in the face by town councilman after going to home to ask permission to take homecoming photos
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  • RoquetteQueen RoquetteQueen 6 days ago 100%

    Personally it makes no difference. This wouldn't happen if you guys had sane gun laws like the rest of us.

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  • aboringdystopia A Boring Dystopia Colorado teen shot in the face by town councilman after going to home to ask permission to take homecoming photos
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  • RoquetteQueen RoquetteQueen 6 days ago 100%

    I don't think anyone outside of the US is going to care at all about this distinction. I know I don't. Accidentally shooting someone because you're an idiot with a gun is just another reason why people shouldn't be allowed to own and carry guns.

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  • parenting Parenting Trick Wednesday - what is the latest parenting "hack" you figured out?
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  • RoquetteQueen RoquetteQueen 7 days ago 100%

    I figured out how to bake bread with meal replacement shake mix. Now I have homemade, ultra-enriched white bread for my incredibly picky children.

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  • asklemmy Asklemmy What is your favourite animal?
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  • RoquetteQueen RoquetteQueen 7 days ago 100%

    Red fox is the prettiest wild animal for me.

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  • asklemmy Asklemmy What is your favourite animal?
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  • RoquetteQueen RoquetteQueen 7 days ago 100%

    The way they climb and headbutt everything is adorable. I love goats. They also have good hair for clothes. Mohair and cashmere is goat hair.

    Edit: The fact that goats are incredible climbers has always been so funny to me. They definitely do not look like they can climb anything.

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  • asklemmy Asklemmy What is your favourite animal?
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  • RoquetteQueen RoquetteQueen 7 days ago 100%

    I saw a video on youtube about an ant supercolony maybe 20 years ago now and ants have been super fascinating ever since. They farm fungi! They ranch aphids! They have designated trash dumps! They go to war and take slaves! They build ventilation chimneys (whatever they're called) so air can move around in the colony tunnels!

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  • asklemmy Asklemmy Which TV has a (mostly) ad-free OS and works with a few regular apps?
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  • RoquetteQueen RoquetteQueen 1 week ago 100%

    My ten year old dumb tv died recently. I got a samsung smart tv and just never connected the internet, like everyone is suggesting. I have my playstation and an old laptop with kodi plugged into it. I personally hate smart tvs (even without internet, it's still more annoying than old tvs) but this works well enough.

    Edit: the Samsung tv remote works with my Playstation, too, and I could probably set it up with my computer but I like using the wireless mouse and keyboard.

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  • cooking Cooking [QUESTION] What are some of your favorite spicy/super flavorful dishes?
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  • RoquetteQueen RoquetteQueen 2 weeks ago 100%

    Indian. My favourite is chicken vindaloo which is fairly spicy and sour.

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  • solarpunk Solarpunk Parenting Was Meant To Take a Village
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  • RoquetteQueen RoquetteQueen 3 weeks ago 100%

    I think it's quite literally supposed the be the village. We lived in smaller groups for most of history and would have known all of our neighbours. They'd be our friends and family. You don't need to get babysitters because the kids just run around outside all day and whatever adult is around and free would supervise them.

    We kind of have this going on where I live. I'm on a dead-end street and the kids all play outside together and there's usually at least one adult outside keeping an eye on them. I'm way too shy unfortunately but the other parents have made friends with each other and they take turns taking their kids out for activities and having sleepovers.

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  • cooking Cooking Autolyse and stand mixers.
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  • RoquetteQueen RoquetteQueen 4 weeks ago 100%

    What are you making? The long ferment is usually to give a stronger flavour and it might affect the final texture too. Personally I'd make a different recipe if you want it to be faster.

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  • whitepeopletwitter People Twitter Shopping in bulk
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  • RoquetteQueen RoquetteQueen 4 weeks ago 100%

    If you don't use a bidet, your butthole is already calloused. I learned this the first time I pooped in a normal toilet after getting my bidet.

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  • insanepeoplefacebook InsanePeopleFacebook Antivax dog breeding is a thing.
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  • RoquetteQueen RoquetteQueen 1 month ago 100%

    It's not new either. I worked with a guy like ten years ago or something who also bred dogs and he was very antivax for his dogs. I never asked about it so I have no idea if it was just his dogs or if he was fully antivax.

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  • parenting Parenting It would be impolite not to answer
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  • RoquetteQueen RoquetteQueen 1 month ago 100%

    My kids had that toy and now its song is stuck in my head.

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  • workreform Work Reform Welcome to 'The Great Detachment': Workers are checked out—and so are their bosses
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  • RoquetteQueen RoquetteQueen 1 month ago 100%

    I love being on or near the bottom of the corporate ladder. I'm not interested in extra responsibility. I just want to clock in and clock out and not think about work when I'm not there. I have too many other things I want to do with my time.

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  • whitepeopletwitter People Twitter An honest mistake
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  • RoquetteQueen RoquetteQueen 1 month ago 100%

    I'm Canadian. We know America is the entire continent. We still don't want to be called Americans. The US can keep that.

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  • insanepeoplefacebook InsanePeopleFacebook Is the QR code in the room with you now?
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  • RoquetteQueen RoquetteQueen 1 month ago 100%

    What does she think a QR code is?

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  • whitepeopletwitter People Twitter Coca-Cola Taxes
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  • RoquetteQueen RoquetteQueen 1 month ago 100%

    I've known pepsi addicts.

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  • comicstrips Comic Strips Parenting in the Animal Kingdom
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  • RoquetteQueen RoquetteQueen 1 month ago 100%

    I once found a baby bird and took it home. (Don't do this. I was a kid and didn't know any better.) Bird parents are amazing. They found the cage I was keeping their baby in and they came every day to feed him.

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  • asklemmy Asklemmy Pizza Hut, Papa Johns, Domino's OR local takeaway
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  • RoquetteQueen RoquetteQueen 1 month ago 100%

    It was started by someone who used to work for Dominos and is very similar.

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  • RoquetteQueen RoquetteQueen 2 months ago 69%

    Anti-vegans are way more annoying and overzealous in my experience. I rarely see the stereotypical asshole vegan but I do often see the obnoxious anti-vegan.

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  • funny Funny This would get me to actually watch a remake
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  • RoquetteQueen RoquetteQueen 2 months ago 100%

    Also why are these recent live action remakes so boring? Even my children couldn't get past five minutes in any of them.

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  • asklemmy Asklemmy Opinions on Snapchat
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  • RoquetteQueen RoquetteQueen 2 months ago 100%

    I just use it to chat with friends. I like that the conversations disappear. I don't give it location permission and I don't use any of the other stuff it has. Honestly I don't even know what else is on there.

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  • space Space Signs of two gases in clouds of Venus could indicate life, scientists say
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  • RoquetteQueen RoquetteQueen 2 months ago 100%

    To be honest, I'd be incredibly excited to find out that life from Earth had managed to survive on Venus.

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  • insanepeoplefacebook InsanePeopleFacebook Sovcit secured a carrier, Josh helped.
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  • RoquetteQueen RoquetteQueen 2 months ago 100%

    I thought he meant his old shitbox finally died and he just chose his words poorly.

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  • insanepeoplefacebook InsanePeopleFacebook Sovcit secured a carrier, Josh helped.
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  • RoquetteQueen RoquetteQueen 2 months ago 100%

    I've always wondered how these people are constantly lying about this crap (and the antivaxxers, too) and yet somehow it never occurs to them that maybe everyone else is lying, too.

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  • asklemmy Asklemmy Is cake a sort of bread?
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  • RoquetteQueen RoquetteQueen 2 months ago 100%

    And the texture of actual sweet breads is way different than the texture of banana bread. Breads are chewy, cakes are crumbly.

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  • asklemmy Asklemmy Is cake a sort of bread?
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  • RoquetteQueen RoquetteQueen 2 months ago 75%

    I wouldn't consider banana bread a bread. It's a cake and the bread part is just a name.

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  • whitepeopletwitter People Twitter What girls want
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  • RoquetteQueen RoquetteQueen 2 months ago 100%

    Actually, yeah, that would be really cool

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  • whitepeopletwitter People Twitter Sizing pants: men's vs women's
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  • RoquetteQueen RoquetteQueen 2 months ago 100%

    Sometimes you are different sizes in the same brand. And I don't mean you might need a small shirt and large pants. No. Sometimes, this pair of pants only fit in large, and this pair of pants only fit in medium. Same brand.

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  • parenting Parenting Stuff I never thought I’d say Sunday
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  • RoquetteQueen RoquetteQueen 2 months ago 100%
    • Please eat your pancakes.
    • Please eat your pizza.
    • Please eat your quesadilla.
    • Please eat your chicken nuggets.

    Fuck it. I'm feeding these children nothing but boiled chicken and canned peas from now on.

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  • asklemmy Asklemmy What would you like for everyone to know about the type of job you have?
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  • RoquetteQueen RoquetteQueen 2 months ago 100%

    I don't really know how to feed everyone without TFWs either, to be honest. They really are so much better at this work than any local Canadians I've met, myself included. And people are only willing/able to spend so much on their food. I'm paid better than most farm workers because my boss is idealistic and willing to pay himself very little in order to pay us more and sell at a price regular people can afford, not just wealthy people. He can only get away with paying himself so little because he lives in an off-grid cabin and I'm pretty sure his parents are rich. It's a nice job for me and we do feed quality produce to people who normally couldn't afford it, but it's only about 200 people. Places like this aren't going to feed all of Canada.

    I hope you get your farm one day, though. It feels good feeding people.

    Editing just to clarify that I don't think it's okay to treat TFWs like we do. People need to be paid and treated properly regardless of where they come from.

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  • RoquetteQueen RoquetteQueen 2 months ago 100%

    I work on a small farm and am treated well but my understanding is that the big farms that supply the grocery stores employ almost exclusively underpaid temporary foreign workers (TFW). A lot of the farms that sell at farmers markers also employ underpaid TFWs or idealistic young people who will work for food, a room to sleep in, and a $50 a week allowance.

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  • RoquetteQueen RoquetteQueen 2 months ago 100%

    I chose to do it. I like it. I have a good boss who pays well and gives me a lot of freedom and flexibility. The vast majority of farm workers aren't as lucky.

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  • RoquetteQueen RoquetteQueen 2 months ago 100%

    I work on a farm. Where I live (in Canada), farm workers don't have the same rights as other workers. We don't even have to be paid minimum wage.

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  • asklemmy Asklemmy Your first anime show/film
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  • RoquetteQueen RoquetteQueen 2 months ago 100%

    Pokemon or Sailor Moon. Movie, probably the first Pokemon one.

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  • whitepeopletwitter People Twitter Mint is absolutely killing it
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  • RoquetteQueen RoquetteQueen 3 months ago 100%

    It tastes like how I imagine bleach would.

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  • "Initials" by "Florian Körner", licensed under "CC0 1.0". / Remix of the original. - Created with dicebear.comInitialsFlorian Körnerhttps://github.com/dicebear/dicebearBR
    Burger buns!

    Just made another batch of my favourite burger buns. [I use this recipe from King Arthur Baking](https://www.kingarthurbaking.com/recipes/beautiful-burger-buns-recipe).

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    "Initials" by "Florian Körner", licensed under "CC0 1.0". / Remix of the original. - Created with dicebear.comInitialsFlorian Körnerhttps://github.com/dicebear/dicebearBR
    Do cinnamon rolls count?

    My favourite dessert to make! Yeast dough is just really fun to work with. We always eat them all before remember to get photos after baking. I use [this recipe from King Arthur Baking](https://www.kingarthurbaking.com/recipes/cinna-buns-recipe). Pretty much all my bread recipes are from there, since they have the ingredient weights listed.

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    AI Generated Images RoquetteQueen 1 year ago 95%
    Forest fairy

    I don't remember the prompt nor where I generated this. I think my favourite thing about AI art is how eerie it can be! The subtle wrongness is so fun.

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