Could be as trivial as a type of food, a TV show, or something more serious.
Socializing. There are lots of benefits to being connected, but I just can’t stand people. People are the worst, and yeah, that includes me.
Cilantro. Fucking soapy-assed tasting bullshit. I want to like you, but genetics won’t let me.
Never got a soapy taste from cilantro, but as a kid, a suicidal stink bug landed on a PB&J I was eating.
At first I was pissed off at my brother, cuz that bastard put cilantro on a fucking PB&J!!! I spit the bite out. Wad of partially chewed sandwich, mixed with insect legs and broken shell lands on my plate: no cilantro. Brother is now looking up at me with a genuine expression of concern: not a prank.
Lesson 1: look before you bite.
Lesson 2: Stink bugs taste exactly like cilantro.
Lesson 3: …cilantro tastes exactly like stink bugs.
The tiniest little flek of that shit can ruin an otherwise delicious bite of food.
This for sure. I have the soap gene as well. I love Mexican food, and it’s nigh impossible to find much traditional Mexican without cilantro.
Is parsley related to Cilantro?
I really really cannot stand parsley in anything, it is bitter and disgusting and mu workplace puts it in everything.
I’m the opposite. I pretty much sub out cilantro for parsley in every dish.
Maybe I need to try some cilantro to see if I am some sort of rare mutant.
You have probably had it. It’s in tons of food. If you’ve ever had coriander, that is another name for cilantro.
If you like cilantro, you’re normal. The soap gene is the mutant gene. Like blue eyes, or being able to process lactose (I have both).
The sound of dogs barking. If I liked that, I‘d be so happy every single day. I‘d wake up and go to sleep to a sound I enjoy. As it is, I will have to move and rent is even more expensive now, just depressing.
I adore dogs but no one really loves dogs barking. Even dogs with a relatively discrete or non-annoying bark pitch will tire any ear if they go into a barking ceremony.
Exercise.
Math. I’m embarrassingly bad at math, like can’t do it in my head, don’t get the math meme jokes, can’t add fractions even on paper bad. I took 3 remedial math classes in college before they let me take the one that actually counted for credit. Just thinking about doing math gives me anxiety. I know I could get all sorts of better-paying jobs if I was better at it, but it’s like my brain refuses to learn it beyond the basics. I really envy anyone who’s good at it.
There are specific learning disabilities around math. If you think your issue might be something fundamental about how your brain works, you should look into dyscalculia
I have this and I always struggled with math. I was terrible at mental math and I wanted to be better. I changed all of my clocks to military time so I had to do a very small and easy mental math problem if I wanted to know the time. I started to get better at it and now I am better than most people I know (not by a whole lot, and it does still take me a while to get more difficult problems done). I now enjoy trying more difficult problems just for fun. I also developed some interesting methods to chunk problems in my head so they are easier to manage.
It’s not about hours of practice. Small incremental changes over time can be a better way to go about it.
I’m the same way. I just had to keep trying to figure it out, and eventually something clicked. I’m still bad at doing math in my head, and I found out that different types of math math more sense than others. Like I’m really bat at algebra and calculus, but I can get geometry and trigonometry. It just took WAY more practice for me than other people I know.
Reading novels (or just fiction, in general). Not sure why but I simply lost the ability to do it a few years ago. Still like to read a couple of nonfiction books every month, but feel like I’m missing something lately
I was in the same boat until about a month ago. Feel like I’ve figured out a brain hack for myself and I’ve been looking for someone to share this with!
Here’s what I’ve done; Kindle app on my phone, set to infinite scroll, white text on black background and the Kindle app widget on the home screen, displaying current book I’m reading.
Infinite scroll makes it feel like I’m just reading a really long article, something I’ve never had trouble with. White text on black background is easier on the eyes. The widget is 4 times the size of other app icons so drawn to it over Lemmy or Mastodon.
I’ve gone from reading nothing in about 5 years to about 200 pages a week!
Will try that out, thanks! I’ve enjoyed the Libby app a lot on an old ipad mini, bet they have a similar infinite scroll feature somewhere
Same. I’ll sit and veg out to shows or a movie occasionally but I get obsessed with nonfiction, mainly news (which isn’t necessarily nonfiction I’ll grant you). It’d be nice to get absorbed in a good story once and a while but I usually find it hard to just “push through” some books when the setting is rather alien (i.e. fantasy and sci-fi). That’s the kind of stuff I like to watch but maybe I’d do better reading stuff in a more real-world setting.
How do you feel about audiobooks?
Haven’t listened to any, but think I’d have a hard time hearing someone talk for that long. Really enjoy the silence of books
It’s good solution how to “read” while doing some manual chore, like cooking.
However, I don’t do it, but I think it’s worthy of a try.
Social connection. It would be nice if I could be confident and good at making friends with strangers. I have no idea why I feel so lonely when in the crowd and even more lonely when I’m alone.
I Think You Should Leave. I feel like something is wrong with me. On paper it should be right up my street and two of my closest friends (both of whom I have a near complete overlap with in comedy tastes) are massive fans but I just don’t get it? I get the jokes but I just don’t laugh. I feel like Bart in that episode of The Simpsons where he sells his soul when I watch it.
To me, the skits tend to go on about 10% too long.
The first thing I ever saw of his was a YouTube clip of the faux lawyer advertisement for homeowners that gets increasingly deranged, and the clip cuts short the ending, which tightens up the humor and makes it better.
I like absurdist humor, but there’s an element more than “wow wacky guy in normal situation” that needs to elevate it for me. Some of his skits have it, and some don’t.
Beer
I’m curious, why beer? I love beer and its many varieties, but not liking it seems like an overall win. It’s awful for your body, we (Americans at least) tend to consume way too much of it at a time, and if your aim is to get drunk there are far more effective ways to accomplish it.
It’s ubiquitous, cheap, many places only carry it and wine, and all your friends love it, plus craft beer is huge now. Being the weirdo that won’t drink it isn’t really fun.
As a huge craft beer fan, not to push anyone toward alcohol, but I feel like I need to point out there are many styles and strengths of beer to match a variety of tastes. Of course, then it’s no longer cheap.
If you do want to give it a try, most craft brew pubs will sell a “flight” for tasting several possibilities, that may be a good introduction, and the bartender can try to match your tastes with appropriate styles.
Although I do second the guy saying not liking beer is a good problem to have, for both your health and wallet
I’m a super taster so all beer just tastes like fermented garbage to me
Weed. Every time I try it, I regret it. I feel like with alcohol, I might be uninhibited, but feel in control internally. With weed, I feel like I can’t complete a thought internally and I hate it.
Do less lol.
That doesn’t mean go out and do it, but next time you might, cut way back on the amount. If one puff makes you feel that way, do 1/4 of one.
For me, it just makes me feel like I’ve taken a sleeping pill and not really anything else. I can see why people would like it if they can’t sleep, but it’s not exactly fun or enjoyable to me. I’ve taken very small amounts. With alcohol, you get a fun mental effect. With weed, I’m so drowsy and sleepy that I cannot do anything at all and it’s unpleasant. I don’t get a mental effect with it besides making it harder to concentrate.
It’s not for everyone, and I definitely wouldn’t imply otherwise.
That sounds like potentially it could potentially be lower quality stuff, though. The more plant material you have relative to the cannabinoids, the more dulling you get. (No I can’t source that. Just my opinion.) And also the actual blend between different chemicals.
Yeah I’m not in a legal area so my experience is minimal. I don’t have a “plug” and I’m not interested in finding one and getting in that mess. I wish they would just legalize it so I could try different types.
Yeah I for sure wasn’t trying to say that you meant it’s for everyone. I was more just relating to the topic of the OP about something I don’t enjoy but wish I could.
is it legal where you are? because I found out I like certain types that don’t do well on the black market.
Yes
IPA beers. Most of my friends like them but despite all the different IPAs Ive tried, not a single one of them was particularly enjoyable to drink.
Vegetables. And fruit. They’re obviously very healthy - essential even. I have them in almost every meal, but I hate the taste of all of them. Apart from potatoes I suppose, but all the others.
I don’t know if this is of any help, but herbs when cooking things like broccoli in the microwave works wonders. Also: if you pan fry zucchini or paprika, use butter or olive oil, or even roasted sesame oil, and give it some nice dark spots.
Yea, some grilled vegetables are so much better. And like you said, add butter, oil, herbs, lime or lemon… Just hide that shit under more shit.
Programming. I have a bunch of ideas that are actually useful for my job, but I can’t seem to keep track of the necessary steps to write the code. ChatGPT has helped me create a couple of programs: a discord bot and a very complex (for me) application that brings in NASA data that automatically runs through Stable Diffusion. The code interpreter is amazing… but there’s too much context I’m missing for these things to be truly fun the way I imagine them to be.
Look up UC Berkeley’s CS61A, B, and C, then start looking deeper into the CS curriculum to find the pieces you are missing. For me, it took trying to optimise the CPU scheduler for single threaded processes in Linux, specifically complex assemblies in FreeCAD. That lead me to a few lectures about the scheduler in the OS principals course. I’ve done a bunch of little embedded projects but struggle with complexity. The concepts around a scheduler are what I was missing. There are a lot of things like this that are readily available for free online if you just go searching for them specifically.
If you want to really free yourself, I run a offline Llama2 70B with GGML 4bit to code. It works well for snippets and can do better than 3 tokens a second on a 12th gen i7/64GB and 16GBV 3080Ti. It can run at around 2 tokens a second on just the CPU, but you’ll need a Linux machine with an additional 8GB swap partition just to initially load the model. It takes around 43GB to run after init.
Depending on what your level of experience is, it might just take more time and practice. When I was doing my degree, it took two years, an internship, and multiple serious programming courses before I truly felt comfortable programming.
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I agree with the gym. I hate being in the environment of the gym, way too many people and I hate working out but if I could do it, it would solve so many problems.
I hate the gym too. But I need to exercise. So I joined a soccer training thing. So happy.
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Coffee, it’s just too bitter for me, and by the time I get it tasting okay, it may as well be a dessert. People seem to form half of their personality around how much they love coffee, it makes me feel like I’m missing out.
First off, do not do it if you don’t want to, King. But I have found I enjoy light roasts with cream, and yes, that’s a very far departure from what macho men call coffee, but who cares. A light roast will be less bitter and more acidic and sweet instead. Also something I’ve learned is that most people use far too many grounds in their coffee, so you get what amounts to over-steeped coffee that again has bad taste.
Definitely medium roast for me, instead of dark roast that most people seem to obsess about. More complex flavours IMO and it’s not bitter at all. Lighter roasts also have more caffeine than darker ones.
I’m a medium light man myself but I didn’t want to go too into the frippery of it for someone saying they don’t like it at all. I need to get a hand grinder and grind my own beans at some point.
You might be a super taster like me, do you also hate wine, beer, and most fermented things?
Yeah, they taste awful to me, very overpowering. I think I’ve heard some people can be more sensitive to bitter flavors, so it’s possible that’s why I don’t like anything with bitterness as one of its traits.
Probably. I imagine I’m the opposite. I love bitter beer, chocolate, coffee: the bitterer, the betterer. However I really started thinking after a trip to India: I always loved spicy food, but the guys kept trying to find spicier stuff for me, and I outdid all of them. A culture renowned for spicy food had nothing on me
