In America, you first become a legal permanent resident (we would say you have a “green card”). Once you have lived here for five years then you can apply for citizenship. The whole process is slow and can be somewhat arbitrary.

Another option is to enlist in the US military. After serving for several years you can get preferred status for citizenship.

As others said, this is a difficult time to be an immigrant in America. The current government is arresting and deporting legal residents based on flimsy accusations. You should consider waiting for Trump to be gone, or look at other countries.

Also at the AMC huts up in the Presidential range of New Hampshire. If you stay overnight in winter, there is no lingering on the pot.

The folks that host the toast.ooo instance have run an event like that for us the past two summers. Check out [email protected] to see last year’s result, and watch for news about the next one.

This reminds me that I need to plan some art for the next event!

At work I usually need to have multiple windows up, so no one window spans the width of the display. It’s often nice to have two documents side-by-side instead.

Tunde Adabimpe (from TV On the Radio) has a solo album coming out soon, and the pre-release singles are pretty good. They got me to go back and relisten to TV On the Radio’s older albums. I forgot how much I liked that band.

Tbh, I copy-pasted this from a health website. As far as I know, dried and canned beans are comparable. The biggest difference is that canned beans usually have added salt, which a lot of us could probably do without.

Yes. About 75% of Google’s revenue is from ads. Most (all?) of their free products exist to feed the advertising business in one way or another.

Wrong community?

I would rather find ways to encourage people to eat foods that are natural sources of magnesium. They provide lots of other dietary benefits beyond just magnesium.

• Soy products (milk, flour, tofu)

• Legumes and seeds

• Nuts (almonds, cashews, Brazil nuts)

• Peanuts and peanut butter

• Whole grain breads and cereals (brown rice, millet)

• Fruit (bananas, dried apricots, etc.)

• Vegetables, particularly dark green, leafy vegetables (artichokes, chard, beet greens, avocados, etc.)

• Dried beans (lima, black-eyed peas, navy)

Not like commercial AM/FM radio stations playing music, but radio in the more general sense. 5G cell phones and satellite-to-earth communication systems use that frequency range, for example.

2.4 GHz and 5 GHz are both “ISM bands.” These are frequencies that regulators have set aside for unlicensed use.

Fun fact: 2.4 GHz is free to use because of microwave ovens. Microwaves are really noisy around 2.45 GHz. Rather than try to regulate their radio emissions, or make people license their kitchen appliances as radio transmitters, the FCC allocated that patch of spectrum for free use. Any device that can tolerate the noise can use that bit of the radio spectrum.

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Favorite #1, Greek-ish:
Olive oil
Lemon juice
Crushed or minced garlic
Salt
Black pepper

Favorite #2, Mexican-ish:
Olive oil
Lime juice
Chili powder
Cumin
Salt

Favorite #3, lazy pseudo-Japanese:
Soy sauce

Idk the exact proportions. Just wing it. With a bit of experience you’ll get it dialed in to suit your taste.

Marinate anywhere from 2 hours to overnight. Longer time = stronger flavor. Cook the chicken on the grill if you have one. Otherwise, bake it in the oven.

Absolutely. Like Gillian Welch sang, I’ve been in the lowlands too long.

I have big plans for the spring and summer: multiple backpacking/camping trips in the mountains, a week-long family vacation, and (hopefully) getting back into mountain biking after a multi-year break. I can’t wait!

That’s the spirit!

Some instances also offer an “old Reddit” UI called mlmym. For example:
old.lemmy.world
oldsh.itjust.works
mlmym.lemmy.blahaj.zone

Product designer/engineer in the US

If the team is going out to lunch to celebrate a special occasion, then a single drink has always been fine in the teams I worked with. I don’t partake anymore because it makes me really sleepy in the afternoon.

I worked at one company that hosted a weekly happy hour. I was one of the employees who took turns setting up the kegs in the common room, and pouring drinks during the event. That was a fun place. The extra social time really improved some working relationships. And we got a surprising amount of productive work done just by talking for an hour or two while standing around sipping microbrews and wine.

After all, you can’t drink all day if you don’t start in the morning.