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Posted by NaOH 3 days ago

I baked a pie every day for a year and it changed my life(www.theguardian.com)
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rwmj 5 hours ago|
I started practising guitar every day and it didn't change my life but I have a lot of fun doing it.
sejje 3 hours ago|
There's still time, my friend. Keep it up.
0xffff2 5 hours ago||
As someone who loves pie and has far fewer friends and family than the person this story is about, baking a pie every day for a year would also change my life.
imgabe 4 hours ago||
If you just place the pie to cool on your window sill, the smell will cause some nearby hobos to float over, or so cartoons have lead me to believe. Then you'll have some friends.
worldsavior 5 hours ago|||
Friends are always attainable via purchase.
embedding-shape 5 hours ago||
Also neighbours tend to be very glad to receive free stuff :) I usually end up with way too many Basil plants every season and give them away, gotten to know some new neighbours that way!
adzm 4 hours ago||
Do you have neighbors?
munificent 5 hours ago||
A very timely article when many of us are wondering if AI will eventually push us out of a digital career into something else.
kaon_2 5 hours ago|
I am hearing rumors that B2B sales is rebounding back to more in-person meetings. Cold emails don't work anymore. I've heard similar tales of current teens early-twenties that there is a trend of doing things in real life again. But... more likely if you start measuring it people are more reclusive than ever, and doing things that used to be normal is now considered "niche and trendy". Our sales process at least is very online-meeting oriented...
aziaziazi 3 hours ago||
Lovely story but the beautification is a bit off.

> Hardin Woods would bake [...] using fresh ingredients local to her home in Salem, Oregon

> She baked her first pie, a lemon meringue

> The next day Hardin Woods made a peach pie

> After that came a chocolate cream pie

Does lime, peach and chocolate ripen within the same season in Oregon? Vickie cooking for is community is already touching, this claim about freshness and locality is skimmed by people who are already convinced, spotted by those who disagree and raise critics of the skeptics.

bell-cot 2 hours ago||
Between "The Guardian" and it being a warm/fuzzy-type story, I'd read that as "fresh local ingredients when available".

Vs. too many pies have fillings straight out of a can.

sejje 3 hours ago||
I mean, the first pie was in California, per the text right before that. She was visiting family.
aziaziazi 3 hours ago||
Right, the location is off too! The ingredients probably aren't sourced in Oregon after moving to California, but anyway the season ("fresh") and location ("local") point stands. I guess she use local eggs.
medi8r 2 hours ago||
It is something hard wired in our brains. Cooking, social connection, giving, all in one. We evolved to cook for each other. No wonder she is damn happy. Being 60 helps too.
jdthedisciple 4 hours ago||
Refreshing. There truly is an almost mysterious bliss hidden in giving.
beauzero 3 hours ago||
This reminds me of "The Artist's Way".
zabzonk 5 hours ago||
Nah, that's not a pie! [brandishes a Yorkshire meat and potato pie] Now, that's a pie.

Apologies to Crocodile Dundee.

amelius 4 hours ago||
If AI continues like this, we can all retire and bake pies all day long.
top_sigrid 5 hours ago|
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