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Nora Reed 
hello fediverse. i have a prompt/question for you. do you have a little tip? like just a small bit of advice. can be about anything.
mine is: the timer app on your phone can label the timers. you can label one "potatoes" and one "cookies" if you're cooking them simultaneously. it's really good if you're cooking a bunch of things for a big meal.
somcak@nora that's brilliant! I never thought to do that!
Flatbush Gardener 🌈
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kulupu jyn@nora listening to people, and especially listening without judging, is a very rare skill. getting good at it is a great way to make friends
Gary Ghoul's Ghoulatorium@nora the "close door" button in the elevator doesn't actually do anything
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Rodbotic@BDA our local costco definately has a working elevator close door button.
it has 2 floors of underground parking.
it has 2 floors of underground parking.
James BrittThe behavior of certain elevator buttons may depend on whether someone has used a "fireman's service" key.
The key can be used to pull all cars to the ground floor, and to operate a car in a special manual service mode.
In this mode, the car stays on a given floor with the doors open. When ready to leave the floor you use the close button.
Bluefox Longtail ΘΔ@nora So here's a random cooking tip, I find myself giving to friends who are intimidated by cooking: A huge number of recipes are all the same basic flow. A lot of cooking is just putting different things into placeholder concepts in your flow.
@BluefoxLongtail i read this one out loud to my husband and he liked it a lot!
Greg Haas@nora @BluefoxLongtail it’s a dance! :-D
@nora always return your library books, even if late, even if they've billed you. We just want the book back and have leeway in waiving fines.
Moosey 
GeePawHill@somcak @nora Virginia and I always cheerfully paid our fines, sometimes to the surprise of the librarians. We regarded it as tithing. In later years, with vastly reduced library usage -- that may be changing again soon as we go on fixed income -- we just started making direct contributions to the library instead. :)
OkazuYuri@nora Turn off notifications on every site, platform and app you're on, except the one your family contacts you on.
You don't need to know if someone on X liked a post or someone commented on Facebook. It can wait.
Whitney McNamara@nora Stay hydrated, and wear comfortable shoes.
monument valley girl@nora it's easier to clean your home if you listen to music while you do it
@nora (i have a lot of bits of advice that i could give but most of them are specific to various games and not really useful to people who aren't fans of those games)
@wehpudicabok i do make these prompts pretty vague in case people want to make super specific answers if you do want to!
@nora okay! in that case, if you're playing a tabletop card game like Magic: the Gathering and there's something you have to remember to do at the start of your turn, you can put a die (or another readily available small object) on top of your deck, so that before you go to draw a card for your turn, you will see it and remember to do the thing!
@wehpudicabok i think that this is probably a very adaptable strategy too for other things. like putting your medicine next to something you do automatically
@wehpudicabok my husband also recommends putting on a video on how to play pikachu in super smash brothers but says he's not sure if that works for things other than mopping
@nora i love how specific that is
@wehpudicabok i thought it was funny and cute
#[deprecated] Qyriad@nora @wehpudicabok by chance is the video in question IzAw's "Art of Pikachu" because if so we second this recommendation
Andrew Certain 
Always hold the handrail
@nora That one was from my father. Another one from him was "never take a job with 'interim' or 'coordinator' in the title." 😂
GentleMan GefIf you enjoy iced coffee, freeze a tray of coffee cubes so as they melt they won't dilute your delicious bean water.
Edit: Also works great for things like lemonade and iced tea. While thinking about it an idea popped into my head.
Red juice cubes (strawberry banana juice maybe) in a pitcher of lemonade. Flavor would change as the cubes melt!
Edit Edit: Just add Champagne?
Andrew Geng@SecularJeffrey @nora Fun, I want to try this now!
Ice cubes of unusual composition is also my strategy for saving sauce—if you're only going to use half that sauce jar and are unlikely to want it again before it goes off, make the other half into ice cubes and store them in the freezer in the (washed and dried) jar. This has brought my alfredo sauce usage up from "never" to "almost never".
Depending on your ice cube shape, the jar miiiiight fit as much as 2/3 of its original contents.
Mike@nora Comfortable warm waterproof shoes are worth it.
Sasha 
@nora Don't accept advice from people you don't respect.
Old Man in the Shoe@nora when playing roulette and other casino games realize the history of play is there to feed into the gamblers fallacy among other things
Jens@nora work out. Even if its not much and you're not doing crazy weights even just going through the motions of squats, dead lifts, rows, curls, bench press and shoulder presses with almost zero weights doing that two or more times a week for 30 min to an hour will save you a TON of muscle, joint and back pain in the long run
Cassandra is only carbon now@nora When running a tabletop game, keep a list of "spare names" and a few random details so that you aren't completely flat-footed when players encounter someone you hadn't made an NPC for.
samir, a terminally deprecated method@nora Here’s one I always fail to follow:
Time spent organising the work to be done is almost never wasted. Time spent doing the wrong work, or the unimportant work, is.
Jonathan Dresner@nora
When doing fried food with some kind of corn meal or bread crumb coating, start with dipping the wet food in flour, so the egg will grab on more effectively, which will make for a better coating.
You can also add some seasoning to the flour to give more flavor (I'm partial to fine-ground white pepper and garlic powder).
When doing fried food with some kind of corn meal or bread crumb coating, start with dipping the wet food in flour, so the egg will grab on more effectively, which will make for a better coating.
You can also add some seasoning to the flour to give more flavor (I'm partial to fine-ground white pepper and garlic powder).
CamwynI've heard the standard breading procedure described as 'dry the wet stuff- wet the dry stuff- dry the wet stuff- cook the dry stuff'. Wet meat goes into dry flour, goes into wet egg, goes into dry crumbs, goes into the oil or the oven.
quadrivial, tall and graying@nora when cooking from a recipe, chopping/dicing/measuring/whatever prep is needed for all of your ingredients first makes the rest of the cooking easier and more relaxing.
Skylar MacDonald@nora if you can afford to, buy the Nice Upgrade version of the appliances you need to buy when you need to buy/replace them (even if you think it’s silly to spend that much on a toaster/microwave/fridge/etc). you use these things every day, and you’ll just have a better day if you don’t hate using them.
Kim
Luka Rubinjoni@nora Always check if there's sufficient toilet paper before (yes, before) using the toilet.
@rubinjoni like to keep an extra roll of tp on the back of the tank just in case too
PorkrollPosadist
toni 
@nora Take breaks.
alarmingly large glaceon girl 🍓@nora in newer mario kart games (i think wii was the first to work this way?) you generally want to enter a drift by hopping while driving straight, then pushing your stick in the direction you want to go just before you land. you charge a miniturbo faster on a tighter drift, which the game uses change in facing angle to determine. if you're still pointed basically straight when the drift starts and then turn to where you want to go, you'll get your miniturbo faster
1e1001@nora when standing in a bus / tram / other moving vehicle try spacing your legs further apart (forward & backward) to make abrupt stops & starts gentler
maple hoppet official@nora the hole in pasta spatulas is sized so that a single bundled serving of dry spaghetti can fit through it, which you can use to measure before adding to the pan
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It is Swiff@nora when planting or repotting seedlings, make sure you tease apart the roots before burying them-- even if you have to break some of the more tender roots to do so, the plant knows how to mend/regrow its roots much better than it knows how to untangle them.
Alexis@nora if you feel like you need to sneeze and just want to get it over with, look directly at the brightest source of light in your environment - except for the literal sun, use a reflection of it in a window if you're outside - and blink rapidly for a few seconds.
not every brain is vulnerable to this exploit, and it does have a non-zero risk to those at risk for seizures brought on by visual stimuli, but it *does* work for those whose brains are a very particular way.
Packbats, HTML fangirls ΘΔ&@nora if you're writing tracker music - like in PICO-8 or on an old Amiga or something - you can fill in the line after each note ends with the same note played quietly, and it has an echoey effect
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Monica Rooney@nora when retouching, always clean your screen first. Otherwise you’ll be trying to edit smudges on your screen.