Personally, as with a lot of the comments, I’m in the food-prep and make it yourself crowd.

I found a book that dives into the details of when it is and isn’t worth making things from scratch.

It’s called Make the Bread, Buy the Butter.

Honestly, I haven’t read it yet. I bought it and let my mom borrow it immediately, but when I get it back I think it will an interesting read.

Fairly consistently: 3D printing, wood working, amateur radio, RC cars, and cooking.

Also playing with: sewing, tablet weaving, lifting weights, and guitar.

I was with you up until big thighs. …though I will say I don’t mind them, I wouldn’t call it a hobby.

Toats down with brewing, baking and 3d printing fo sho though.

As a subset of this, the fact that carburators worked as well as they did, until we had the technology to invent the simpler fuel injector, I think is pretty cool.

“previously owned”

I’d like to suggest wallet chains and Discman portable cd players get added whoever is making this list.

Yep, exactly this. Wash the plates and silverware now before stuff gets dried on there… Except that casserole dish with the crispy baked on border of crust. That is soaking for a couple hours to save me a little effort. I’ll was every dish but two just because it’ll be easier later.

I’ve got a weird version of "net lazy"motivation. Anything I can do now to make a future task easier, I am strongly motivated to do. Anything that would be easier if I wait for [blank] I will ignore until the ideal moment that would make it the easiest.

It oftentimes leads to peculiar optimizations, but it has worked surprisingly well for me so far.

Ferris Bueller’s Night Out

No, it is not the world I want to live in, but I am not convinced it would be worse than the current world.

There’s a lot of “billionaires shouldn’t exist” and “eat the rich” sentiment out there. I often suggest jokingly that it should be legal to murder someone once they reach a certain level of wealth. It might motivate them to limit their greed at some point, perhaps be less exploitative of those who are working to generate their wealth or share more of it. And even if they pass the threshold, they may give more concern to how they treat people and how they are perceived.

No.

Same with Caribbean. Royal Caribbean and Pirates of the Caribbean both sound wrong if you use the alternate pronunciation.

I honestly can’t remember how she looks with makeup on. She has worn it maybe a dozen times in the decade plus that I’ve known her.

She looks fine without it. She seems happy without it. I don’t really care either way.

Oh man, I watched this a couple weeks ago. It had probably been decades since I last saw it. It was just as awesome/terrible as I remembered.

For the most part, you are right, and I’ll acknowledge that how I worded that it sounded more complain-y than I really meant to. If anything I was trying to say that I thought it seems silly that things like that exist, and not that I have a big problem with it.

That said, I don’t buy those products, but they still work their way into my life. If you have a vegan in your circle of friends or go out with one you’ll eventually find yourself at a vegan pizza place, or being offered vegan “bacon” with breakfast.

I don’t have a problem with veganism. I love eating vegetables, and enjoy plenty of meals without any animal products. What I could do without is the vegan products that imitate animal products. I am so much happier with a vegetable “burger” that embraces the taste of vegetables instead of one that tries to mimic the taste, texture and appearance of beef.

This, like absolutely everything, is different depending on who you are. Nothing, everything and anything is important to someone and not important at all to someone else.

My wife had to do the low fodmap thing for a while, but I’m usually the one who does the cooking. She is also vegetarian which limited things even more. The best thing I learned was you could get decent pizza dough by combining gluten free flour and adding back in vital wheat gluten.

As you probably already know, regular flour isn’t low fodmap, but gluten free flour is. As long as you don’t have an issue with gluten, you can buy and vital wheat gluten separately and mix it in and end up with something that more closely resembles regular dough.

Unfortunately I don’t remember what ratio I used. I also never tried extending it to other bread-like foods but it might be worth a try. I hope the general idea is enough for you to start some experiments.

Good luck!

I picked up my sunfish sailboat for free off Craigslist. It even came with a trailer. I had to do a little fiberglass work to keep the water on the outside, but considering the price it was well worth it.