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But have you tried them sundried and in oil? Honest to God. They are so good that way. The flavor is better, the texture is better. Pretty sure, if your internal glibber is the same as mine, it isn't an issue in the dry ones.

What about pizza? Or soups?

I can't do chicken feet, either. My husband will use them in broth sometimes, and I have to pretend really, really hard I am unaware of this, or I can't even drink the broth. But I guess that means even they have their place

Same rule about trying things. It does help to know it's ok to quit, after trying something.

I think maybe trying tomatoes in a different form would help. Or whatever you chosen food is.

Ketchup is blended up tomatoes and corn syrup. I think it is super gross. The humble tomato, however, is a wonderful food. Eat the right tomato, in the right way, for you, will (potentially) change your mind. For instance, I am particularly about my textures. I love sundried tomatoes in oil. They are bright and punchy in flavor, and they are chewy, not mushy. If you like those things, try a bruschetta salad. The right breed can matter too. I think the Roma tomato is superior for sandwiches because of its flavor and lack of wetness, so the sandwich doesn't get sloppy. Ripeness is important, tomatoes should be firm.

I bet, if you figured out what it is about a food you despise, you could find ways that you might like it. I have a million food particularities, but a pretty diverse pallet, because I have tried those foods in different ways to eliminate what I don't like.

AI can point you in interesting directions, but if it is your first and only source, and you trust it to combine all these other sources together, you are shorting yourself. It does not do as well as you think it does, at combining ideas, identifying edge cases or real understanding. What it is teaching you may be or may not be, broadly accurate. It is a starting place, which, as I interpreted the OP, was their primary and often only, source.

The act of forming hypothesis, and researching to understand is part of learning. If all your learning comes from reading tailored answers to specific questions, you miss out on exposure to other thoughts, that you would bump into by researching.

I've used AI to try to research things, and EVERY time, on deeper inspection of an idea, some of the information it shared ranged from false to technically true, but not .... really right.

It is, at best, like a personal TA; someone who you go to the office hours of, when you are stumped on a thing you've learned and need the idea explained differently, or you have no idea where to start, and you need a point in the right direction. Helpful, but you would never use that person to write your research.

You are so right about how important the process of thinking and learning is, and that is where AI fails.

I am not a teacher, but a couple weeks ago, I was a guest speaker in a high school IT class. I told them all about how critical it is to be an effective communicator by documenting their steps in their tickets in a way that others can follow, and told them, straight up, that communication is a skill. If you can't communicate, I will not hire you. Told them I have actively declined to hire or promote because they don't communicate effectively.

I am not sure how to do something similar with, say, an English class, but I wonder if you could figure out how to expose them to the future professional repercussions of not understanding the topic deeply. I think it hit differently when the repercussion wasn't just that their instructor would be unhappy.

Juliette Mariller - Daughter of the Forrest

It is the first book in a historical fantasy series that follows a an Irish family through several generations.

It is loosely based on an old fairy tale where a witch turns 6 brothers into swans and their sister is set to an impossible task to free them.

The writing style takes a little time to get into, IMO, but once you do, I think it is un-put-down-able.

The rest of the series is also great, mixed gender protagonists in the other books.

Oh holey moley. That is a big windmill! I need like.. a rooftop windmill, or.. a couple rooftop windmills.

I am super interested in wind, but not sure if my house gets enough. My city is pretty windy in some areas, but I don't often get a ton.

Do you have them yourself?

Yep, the 'payoff time' on mine is long, but I am betting they last much longer than that, and that energy prices won't scale normally. I really want sodium ion batteries to work out, but they are sounding less promising.

We have a big natural gas shortage looming here, and most homes are heated with it. Such an obvious thing to be trying to prepare for, sure heat pumps won't heat all winter here, but... If I can generate heat using my free electricity 2 or 3 of the months needing heat a year, that is a permanent discount, that only gets better as costs go crazy. People around me don't really seem to be thinking this way.

I am investing in ways to make my future costs lower. For example, I have solar on my house. It covers about half of my bill, and will for the foreseeable future. I am looking into additions to solar, as I live in Alaska, and need to figure out winter times.

I am looking into heat pumps, they aren't great for dead of winter, but they might eliminate shoulder season heat costs.

We buy the best quality, and locally produced food and goods we can, to help support our health and our community resilience.

Buy once, cry once, whenever we can, because replacement of stuff will be harder.

We live beneath our means, and take the money we save being boring and pay off debt, so that we truly own what is ours, because someday, paying a mortgage or for a vehicle, might be too difficult.

Practice using what you have, instead of buying stuff to solve your problem. Ingenuity is something that can be learned and practiced, but isn't something that comes naturally to people.

Learn to make stuff, or about your surroundings. If you live in a place you can forage, learn about what you can eat in your area to supplement what you have to buy.

Plan to be a poor person, because that is a situation that is likely, and that you can survive.

Most people will not make it, if we wind up in a situation where you are dependent on what you plant, and goods you stock up on. That stuff is just prolonging the inevitable. Total independence is just not a thing most people are prepared for mentally, or have the skills to pull off. So, prepare for a future where luxuries are limited, material goods are in short supply, and you have to figure out how to make do with what you have.

I read the other day about a protocol called Gemini.

https://geminiprotocol.net/

It might fit what you are looking for, if you goal is just to publish interesting content, or get the experience learning something new and different, but not for you if you want to monetize.

It is an alternate to the internet. You can self host there, also, but they have built Gemini to be unable to support applications, bots, malware etc... it goes much deeper, if you are curious, you should read, I am fascinated.

It was a little popup that opened the first time I clicked the link. It does not open on subsequent link clicks.

Hey. That link said first name last name (presumably yours) shared that document with you.

Might want to clean that up for privacy sake.