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@trinsec Gini index @freemo

@pony There's one possible reason coming to mind why electricity could consumption be high: heating with it it. Or then a bunch of graphics cards in a closet 😄

@pony Do you have a smart meter at home, or is the old tech? The former makes debugging of such stuff easier. Of course only if you care and if you are tempted to do that.

@pony Seriously? What do you do with all that electricity on your own? I live with 2 youngsters and we consume 1,5.

## Quark cheesecake on puffy yeast dough base

Version #2 is already near perfect, it will only get better from here. in the future.

@hob #cakeposting

@academicalnerd

> I’m wondering if it’s prominent in other places as well.

I guess that heavily heavily depends on the social stratum AND age group, rather than geography. Over time I lived in several countries and the more the situation gravitates towards "family" (married vs. single, children vs. no kids, outgoing vs. couch-potatoes, etc.) the more people cook at home. Because they must/want/prefer/enjoy, whatever. Students would cook much less than 40-year olds with kids at home. And I think this is universally so. Now what you cook might differ very much. I know people who'd cook mostly from pre-made/frozen dishes/half-made ingredients, as well as those (like myself) making things "from scratch" (well, I obviously don't butcher my own meat, or grow pumpkins).

@academicalnerd Yes, I do and always mostly did regardless of the current (growing/shrinking) family config. I like good food and baking, so if I want to have it, I need to make it myself. I don't eat too much meat these years, but some yes. Lots of dairy, eggs, etc., trying to increase the vegetables proportion too. I found myself reducing meat mostly because of the carbon footprint reduction reasons, so 90% of my meat is either chicken and sometimes fish and sometimes pork - I almost totally removed beef, although a steak 1-2 times per year as a treat is still nice. But over the last years I found myself also watching my calories intake a lot. Not because I badly need it, my BMI is reasonably healthy at <22, but I run faster/longer/more efficiently when a few kgs lighter and that counts for me 🙂. But that is also reasonably easy, as the only thing I need to "guard" is to reduce snacks and sweets and that's it.

@academicalnerd I am thinking of you every now and then. Since I visit fedi only occasionally (let's call it intermittent), I easily miss your updates, so I need to explicitly go to your profile to check - like now. That + the "intermittent" leads to very occasional check-ins. Anyway, wishes of luck there and of course I am curious how's does your non-academic life _feel_ in the country which is becoming stranger to me day by day.

@academicalnerd Hi there young d'Artagnan!

> Do you people read me? Are the texts clear? Or is it an indistinguishable mess of words?

Yes. Yes. No.

But given the question, I am starting to wonder whether you are not some ChatGPT, or something. Given your English lang skills, it's surprising you'd even ask that.

@piggo [AndrewPerpetua](https://twitter.com/AndrewPerpetua) has also a fun one on [his map](https://map.ukrdailyupdate.com/)

@z428 I see. Your impressions radiate quite some "bleakness". Maybe you just need to turn around and read more "society" a "lifestyle" sections of the daily/weekly newspapers. For instance stuff like this https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2023/aug/21/a-new-start-after-60-im-a-short-greying-woman-and-the-worlds-oldest-battle-rapper . See? World is not falling apart yet! 😄

@z428 Well, "interesting". Let's debate it a bit before we apply such a positively loaded label... Specifically this post of yours reminds me of stills like these below - I hope you recognise the movie. I wouldn't call that one "interesting" 😄 (I just committed a crime of stealing random images from the Internet... See what you made me do?! 😉 )

@z428 Very Americana '60s imagery. Your Germany is interesting and "different".

@simongerman600 For completeness, even though probably not as big as others, Spar franchise claims to be in 28 European countries - out of the total of 48 countries globally.

@piggo Yeah. Some people have lives full of eventually useful things. It's also called hoarding sometimes 🙂

@piggo The other day I read somewhere that laws of physics do not apply to some members of certain income brackets...

@z428 very cool pic. Thanks! Finally some bright light in your gloomy cityscapes :-)