I mean, there’s plenty of good meals that only take a half hour to an hour. I’d go as far as to say that if you include stuff where a pot is just simmering and you’re waiting, there’s a ton of options.

Depends on how fast prep is, I guess. I’m used to just zipping through prep since it’s something I’ve done since I was a kid.

Take something like beef stew. That’s twenty minutes of actual cooking, ten of prep, and a bunch of patience.

There’s complicated dishes that take more attention as it cooks, along with a lot of fiddly prep, like beef wellington, where you’re right on top of it the entire time.

I guess it also depends in what the standard of “decent” is lol. Spaghetti can take fifteen minutes start to finish, or it can take a couple of hours including simmer time for the sauce.

You do what you can, when you can.

Like, I’m disabled now, so the days of three hour long dedicated workout sessions are long gone. I can barely manage anything that takes longer than cooking a decent meal, and the more impact there is, the shorter the time gets. So, you know, serious cardio is out.

However, you can exercise anywhere, any time, assuming the situation makes it feasible at all (might have issues at work, etc).

So, you cram things in. Sitting at a desk for fifteen? Keep your legs moving. Reading files, you can do so while finding some kind of activity that fits how you’re reading. Laptop on your knees, maybe you do some curls. Have a tablet you can use, or paper files, do some pushups while you read.

If you’re going to have only one single session, make it cardio. Nothing else gives the same time/benefit ratio, and you can do different cardio depending on where you are. So, you might only have an hour, use it running since you don’t need a specific gym or piece of gear.

Gotta work with what you’ve got

Maybe…

I’m going to fuck it

Look, at this point, you’re intentionally misrepresenting everything, so suck my dick, you cretin

Thank you for making my point

Haven’t caught it yet. One of those things where it’s on a long list of stuff to watch, but there’s usually something more interesting for one of us.

Tbh, I can spend days during the Christmas holidays with Rankin-Bass. There’s not really a stinker among them for me, though the older ones are the really great ones.

C’mon

Rankin-Bass Rudolph or the list is bogus.

Same with National Lampoon’s Christmas Vacation.

Original Grinch is best Grinch, but I’ll accept them as a duo.

Die Hard is as Christmas as it gets, so yipee kai ay motherfucker!

A Charlie Brown Christmas is a must.

Emmet Otter’s Jug Band is almost at that level of necessity, though maybe only for us gen-x kids.

Anything else is open for negotiations on my end, I ain’t mad at anyone else’s list beyond joking.

However, Frosty the Snowman, also a Rankin-Bass production is awesome, and any of their Christmas specials deserve at least an honorable mention.

Nope, nope, nope, not playing your game, not gonna happen

Dude. Why you gravedigging? This conversation was dead, and it ain’t rising again.

Annnd there it is folks, the vegan that has to assume moral superiority.

Honestly, just don’t be a dick about it.

It’s like being a good insert religious group. You live your beliefs, and don’t push them on other people. It’s really that simple. That’s what people hate about vegans.

If someone asks, it’s perfectly okay to explain why you follow a religion, so it’s fine when the question is about being vegan. It’s when there’s a conversation about something else, and you insist on shoving your beliefs into it that’s there’s a problem. Or, when the conversation is such that talking about your beliefs is the goal, insisting that the other people agree with your beliefs.

It’s that simple. It’s that easy.

I troll vegans. It’s easy to do because a lot of them treat it like a religion and are zealots, or are arrogant enough to think that they’re better because of what they believe. But, irl away from the anonymity of the internet, it rarely happens, and the vegans I know are fucking great, because they don’t shoehorn their beliefs into things, and don’t act like jerks about it. It’s why I’ll gladly cook vegan for them when they’re guests.

You know how people bitch about jehovah’s witnesses and mormons knocking on their door, or the baptists (or other christian sects) leaving shit on their stoop or shoved into doors? Don’t be like that. If you’re in a situation where you would not be surprised that someone would be angry/annoyed by someone going on about being wiccan or christian, or hindu, they’ll likely be the same about veganism.

Live your beliefs, don’t show them off, and anyone that has a problem with you is the asshole, not you.

As always, why not both?

Jfc, that trustpilot page is hilarious

Heh

If the voting guideline isn’t there (whether or not it gets followed), then this just becomes a vent/random post/whatever community. The unifying principle is about whether or not the opinion is popular or not, and having the policy there makes it clear what the focus out the discussion should be on.

Things like that voting policy are subtle, but they really do work to keep a community more coherent and on track than it would be otherwise.

I hate to break this to you, but christianity is a massive religion, and the opinion you’ve expressed here is common as hell among its followers. So, definitely not an unpopular opinion in general.

Yeah, it’s unpopular on lemmy, but I don’t think that counts for something like this.

Did you hear the new album yet? It’s brilliant. His voice keeps getting better.

Man, the only time it’s too late to rain a dog is when it has dementia. Which sucks, not that they cease to be trainable, but that they get dementia; it isn’t fucking fair.

All you have to do is find the right reward, and break down the desired behavior into steps combined with signals.

You want a dog to sit, as an example, you find their magic reward. For the example, let’s stick with a food treat. You get the dog’s attention, you give a gentle push on their rear while giving the signal and when they get a little lower, you give the reward. Easy peasy.

You expand that by extending how far into the sit they get before they get the reward. Most dogs, you can have responding to a verbal sit command in ten minutes, and they’ll remember it for ages. Once they’re responding to a verbal command at all, give another signal with it, like a finger moving from pointing at them, then down. That way, they’ll be able to respond to visual signals as well, which is handy when there’s a lot of noise and they need to obey a command for safety.

It doesn’t even have to be a word or a gesture, you can do whistles, clicks, whatever. The key is that each command needs to be distinct, and short. Trying to say “hey dog, jump up into my arms” might eventually work, but it’ll take longer.

Which leads into training to get them doing something like that. Easiest is when they already display a behavior, like jumping. They jump up, you say “good jump” and give them a treat. Eventually, you say jump and they do it. More importantly, if you switch to only rewarding them when you give the signal, they’re less likely to jump in their own, which is nice when you want to stop a behavior.

All training is a variation of that, with complex behaviors needing to be broken down into small steps, like “sit”, then “sit up” when you want them to raise their front end off the ground after sitting. If you want them to go get a beer from the fridge, you teach them what beer is by first teaching “touch”, which is making contact with something on command, then having them touch a can and saying beer. Then you have them go to the kitchen. Then to the fridge. Then pull the rope, then get the beer out. Eventually, you chain the commands, and they learn to do it all when you tell them to “fetch me a beer”. What’s really fun is when you extend that and get them to bring one to whoever you point at, or to someone whose name they know. This example here isn’t structured perfectly, it’s just to give the idea.

Timing signal, behavior, and reward is the key to all of it. Works on humans too, btw.

But you never need to use negative reinforcement at all. To the contrary, doing so delays training, and makes it harder. All positive, all happy, all reward based. You can get the dumbest dog on the planet to follow basic commands with the right reward and some patience.

Now, food rewards tend to be the easiest. They’re portable, they can be used almost anywhere, and most dogs respond to a treat enthusiastically. But our isn’t the only possible reward, nor will it always be the magic reward for every dog. Sometimes play is the magic reward, sometimes it’s praise or touch. But once you find the thing your dog wants the most, give it to them regularly and connect it to behaviors, and they’ll learn fast.

My little girl? She was amazing. She was trained to go get a treat, bring it to you, give out to you, and wait until you gave it back before eating it. Took a week. But, if you said “go eat a treat”, she would go, get one treat, bring it to where she could see you and then eat it. If you said to bring treats, she’d bring the bag and give it to you, prancing the entire way since she knew it was play/training time and she’d get lots of treats.

She knew the names of every toy she had. She would go to the box and bring whatever you asked for, then “clean up” at the end of a play session by taking all the toys to the box.

Which, that’s going off topic, but I can’t talk about dogs without thinking of her, and the two year date of when she was put down was not that far back, so I’m missing her extra hard lately. She was best girl. Fifteen years of love, and I hope the best girl or boy you’re asking about brings your family just as much joy.

That’s the point, it’s a non issue.