Why, you’re welcome for the link to the PDF! I’m glad you enjoyed reading it and appreciate your insightful and loquacious feedback on the matter at hand. You are a true gem of the lemmyverse, evenglow.

They’ve done that in the research, it’s just a clickbait headline with very, very light details. After following a few clicks I found the PDF [1] in which they break it apart by many groups and factors (age, race, savings plan, income, student loan debt, all sorts of stuff) and that $955 figure falls under the “workers who do not have $1 in a DC” (meaning workers with no access to a savings plan). For those with access, the number is $40,000 average.

[1] https://www.nirsonline.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/02/NIRS_2026-Retirement-in-America-FINAL.pdf

happy birthday!

Lentils are a complete protein, along with quinoa (one can be allergic to the coating on raw quinoa, wash thoroughly and test your compatibility carefully. I’m allergic.). Pea protein is great, my fave fake meat is pea protein based rather than soy. Rice balances out beans (black beans if possible) to make a complete protein, it’s no accident that combo is standard in many latino dishes. Obviously tofu, it’s just more work to prepare especially if it’s only 1 or 2 ppl.

Slow cookers are great, most veggie dishes are ~4 hrs since no need for meat safety, you can make a billion things and Tupperware it for 6-8 meals. Celery works great as a natural salt, stands the heat and gives a dish some character (mince it). Half a jalapeno minced up brings nice fire to veggie dishes, goes well with chopped green onions which is also friendly to many dishes.

BH cheeses != meats. They don’t own the cheese factories, they partner with established cheesemakers in a partner network.[1] (no comment on meats, I don’t eat them)

[1] one of them was in the news recently for a recall so it’s not all roses in the cheese world either :(

It’s about the cheese - for example Boar’s Head is $12/lb (baby swiss) to $14/lb (imported Swiss or Grueyere) and that’s worth eating ramen to subsidize. :) We can’t be eating any of that basic cheese oh no no no…

PieFan: “Piefed has better features and looks better.”

The thing for me is that… piefed.social webUI looks like ass. It’s the victim of “we have to look different so everyone knows we’re different!” - many, many years and people who study UX to arrive at the common interface standards we see on all “clone” sites - where the vote numbers are, where the vote arrows lie, how the images work to open dynamically, etc.

The Lemmy webUI is just better UX engineering and layout which conforms to mental norms which were invented by Digg, Slashdot, Reddit, even Freshmeat back in the day or HowardForums of old. Piefed reeks of the “not invented here” syndrome of having to eschew norms to try and prove some point about “not being Lemmy” for political reasons. As a user, the visual layout and operation of the Lemmy webUI is what I want and expect to be using.

All that said, I’m a die hard F/OSS person and all competition is good, it drives innovation and progress. Best wishes to Piefed on their journey.

Conversely, I chose this instance specifically because it runs Lemmy (and doesn’t use Cloudflare). I have an account on piefed.social and do not like the webUI at all, it’s just janky compared to lemmy web UI. Changing this site’s software stack to Piefed would simply make me leave as I specifically choose the lemmy webUI to interact with on a daily basis.

$ . /etc/os-release && echo ${NAME}
Arch Linux

Sadly, no - I run an extension called “Don’t accept webp” causing that, I disabled it as soon as I saw the param to test and there’s no difference with or without the param. (webdev console request headers)

Firefox webdev console request headers (minus my personal cookie), where I’m already on the page and just click the refresh button. No if-modified-since sent to the server to trigger a proper 304 response:

GET /pictrs/image/7285a9e0-5492-4461-8188-6778d7d594c7.jpeg?format=webp HTTP/2
Host: discuss.tchncs.de
User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:145.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/145.0
Accept: image/avif,image/png,image/svg+xml,image/*;q=0.8,*/*;q=0.5
Accept-Language: en-US,en;q=0.5
Accept-Encoding: gzip, deflate, br, zstd
Referer: https://discuss.tchncs.de/
Sec-Fetch-Dest: image
Sec-Fetch-Mode: no-cors
Sec-Fetch-Site: same-origin
Connection: keep-alive
DNT: 1
Sec-GPC: 1
Priority: u=5, i
TE: trailers

Here’s the basic set of response headers showing the server is sending the proper cache-control directives on the image. The problem appears to be on the Firefox side using them properly.

$ curl -I https://discuss.tchncs.de/pictrs/image/7285a9e0-5492-4461-8188-6778d7d594c7.jpeg

HTTP/2 200 
server: openresty
date: Tue, 02 Dec 2025 12:51:29 GMT
content-type: image/jpeg
access-control-expose-headers: content-type, accept-ranges, transfer-encoding, date, cache-control, last-modified
vary: Origin, Access-Control-Request-Method, Access-Control-Request-Headers
cache-control: max-age=31536000
last-modified: Mon, 30 Jun 2025 11:02:52 GMT
expires: Wed, 02 Dec 2026 12:51:29 GMT
cache-control: public
access-control-allow-origin: *
x-cache-status: HIT

I assume you are just asking for clarification about the Far Side part of this, but for anyone who does not understand the It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia part:

No, that was me too - I eventually figured out that looked like Danny DeVito’s head, made the connection it was something about that Sunny show and shrugged. I don’t watch that show so the context is/was completely lost on me, thank you for replying.

Can someone explain this to me and why it’s being upvoted in Far Side comics area?

I was taught at an impressionable age that the only winning move was not to play. Advice that has not failed me in some 42 years now. Thanks Joshua!

To share a bit more because people think it was “good”, the Battle of the Alamo was specifically because “About one hundred Texians, wanting to defy Mexican law and maintain the institution of chattel slavery in their portion of Coahuila y Tejas by seeking secession from Mexico, …” (emphasis mine) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_the_Alamo

I cannot confirm that (I have nothing to do with lemmyverse), but it was/is up and functioning so my instinct is “yes, it does not use cloudflare”.

I grabbed a quick screenshot hours ago showing the trauma; based on my recollection that I typed into the registration box of tchncs, these of the top 20 instances were all down: lemmy.world, sh.itjust.works, lemmy.dbzero.com, lemmy.zip, lemmy.ca, programming.dev, lemmy.blahaj.zone, infosec.pub, aussie.zone, readthat.com, lemmy.today. Sister sites on the piefed side (e.g. piefed.social) were also down because they’re the same admins using the same tech stacks.

A lot of lemmy instances put all their eggs in one basket and found out.

While the downtime was most active, most of the top instances were down. Lemmy.ml, feddit.org, discuss.tchncs.de and behaw.org were all up. You can use https://lemmyverse.net/ to browse things and the ones offline all show a “content error” in lemmyverse.