If your food is bland: season it. That's it, that's the solution.

Most recipes either write "season to taste" or leave even that out completely, because it's just such an automatic part for every experienced cook.

I don't know if there's a good guide to seasoning out there, probably.

But apart from that, it's not too hard to build your own knowledge. Just go to the grocery store spice section, and buy a bunch of the generic grocery store brand spices (those will be the spices most used in your region) and just start putting them on your food.

My personal suggestion:

Salt, salt, saaaaalt (/Soy sauce). Put some salt in the water that you cook your noodles with. Put some salt in your sauce. Put some salt over the final mix. Do all this slowly, only a bit of salt at a time, and mix and taste each time. Repeat until it tastes good. It's almost always salt missing if it's too bland. It matters, too, at which point you add the salt, if you put salt into the noodle water, the noodles will already absorb some of it. That's different than putting it on top of the noodles later.

Pepper(/chili). Almost all dishes want some of this, even if you don't like spicy food. Even if you only put a bit on it where the result doesn't register as "spicy", it still makes a lot of difference.

With all the other spices you'll just have to experiment with, see what you like.

Because most people are overworked and incompetent. In short, yes, they are stupid.

Most of the time, they're not doing it out of malice.

When you're dealing with stupid people, you can't expect them to magically be non-stupid. You then have to be smart yourself.

How far away is the neuropsych evaluation?

Which country is this?

Either be scared not to find a better job or scared by skill atrophy. Your choice. But if you find a better job, no need to worry for a while, while the skill atrophy worries will keep being around.

I personally would choose to put all effort into looking for another job than putting in effort to get better at one I don't like.

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WTF is this article

Yes, but if you read my statement carefully, I ever only speak about "very little" in the context of "compared to what will still happen".

I mean, this isn't even a trans issue. Everyone has family, and even if you're gender conforming they can be a net detriment to your life.

But still, all that was done through political ads and algorithm changes, and I literally haven't seen any ad in years, and so far Lemmy's algorithm is very transparent.

It's pretty much always materially possible. It'll likely severely reduce quality of life in the short term if you're in a bad situation materially, but it's almost always worth it. Obviously everyone has to make that kind of decision for themselves, but I know what I'd choose.

Yes, but compared to what humans later will see, that is very little.

I'm a big proponent of cutting ties with family that is a net detriment to one's life.

Sure, but what they're gonna do with that is the question. Like even if there is a profile on my Lemmy account, which ads are they going to send me? How? Where is that data going to be worth anything?

You do know that until 2100, there is still very little effect of climate change?

The actual timescale for most of the effects is in the span of hundreds of years. Because the catastrophic effects are so far in the future is why people do so little about it.