It is, blessedly so. Maybe this will take the electricity-gobbling AI data centers off line and my power bill will go down.

Oh man, is it. That is exactly what got me banned from Reddit after 14 years. I’m on old.lemmy.zip and starting to spread out and check other instances and am finding so much delightful stuff! All of it is drama-free and I love it.

When I was a kid in the Bay Area in California in the 70’s there were dairires that made ice milk and it was like vanilla and chocolate sherbet. I know the texture you are talking about, and yeah, it’s delightful and smooth.

Now that is being damned with faint praise!

…Were they sold into the idea that when the company is making lots more money it can do lots more good with it?

This. I remember the PR that came out at the time.

More to the point, in America, the USDA regulations allow for hard pack ice cream to have up to 40% of its volume expanded with air.

WAAaaaay back in the early 2000’s after Unilever bought them, I bought a pint of Ben & Jerry’s Vanilla ice cream and got home and it sat on the counter and melted - much to my dismay - (It ended up under a towel and did not get put away.)

When I opened it, the level of ice cream in the container had dropped down by almost a quarter. What the hell? So I got another pint and at that time noticed that it was easier to scoop - a sign that there’s air being incorporated.

Yeah… nope. Done.

Haven’t bought Ben & Jerry’s in over 20 years. (besides, there’s a real homemade ice cream shop around the corner from my home - it’s what I get now and I support the woman that runs it.)

Seriously?

Pro tip: load up the iWhatever with music, pop in the headphones, blaze away and go to town. Have a pot of coffee on and don’t stop for texts or calls.

You’d be surprised how much can get done when you tune out the interruptions.

True, to a degree.

Though when I do smoke, I usually end up power cleaning the house…

Oh Jesus… not that shit.

I see you’ve met my husband. He is of course, a global leader in disgust gas.

I get deliveries sent to our bed. Usually accompanied by the sheets being pulled up over my head, the bastard…

LOL!

Haven’t heard Furii yet. Will go see what I can find. Love Figueroa as well!

Ambivalence gas. Ennui gas and my favorite (which I think already exists…) Procrastination gas.

To be honest, this has always kinda been how the conservatives in the US talk when they’re by themselves. I grew up in the 70s and heard it quite often from uptight assholes on the right.

It’s not anything new, really. It’s just that today the communications, instead of being face to face, are online and they leave records of their conversations.

Bigoted jackasses, gonna jackass.