u/An_Awesome_sound

I can’t handle the Apple Podcasts app any longer, it just doesn’t reliably play episodes in my queue. I’m sure it has something to do with the fact that I live in China, but no combination of networks and VPNs can make it work smoothly. When I set foot in another country it works fine but I live here. No other app, Apple- native or third party, behaves this way.

So… I need a new podcast app, but what I’m really hoping against hope for is a way to transfer my quite-lengthy queue of episodes over to whatever new app I end up choosing. Appreciate all suggestions.

I finish, I feel confident I understood all the clues and their answers, yet something’s amiss. Makes me a little dizzy to have to scroll through each word in that huge grid and I just don’t really care about streaks or anything.

A begets B, or at least A severely exacerbates B.

Cue the haters

I’m a new dad and we just traveled halfway around the world to visit family so haven’t been able to keep up with the voting, but I did get to listen to 4-5 of the days’ picks and voted each time. Love Lucro and stoked for a live release. Can folks fill me in on how everything sounded snd felt overall? Surprises, questions or doubts that remain?

Massively struggling with the idea of letting our 3 MO cry without comforting him, even for just a few minutes.

Good, bad, and everything in between

I can’t find them anywhere (US shopping sites).

My wife is not a redditor, so I’m posting here for some support on her situation.

Our little guy is just over 3 months old and has very recently been struggling with breastfeeding. Everything matches up with descriptions I’ve read here/online about the 3-month crisis: often refusing to latch and screaming bloody murder, or if he latches he lasts 5-10 min whereas just a week or two ago he lasted 30-60 min calmly and happily, having most success in the wee hours, etc.

For my wife this is all compounded by a couple of things:

- Mat leave ended last week and she was back at work. We are incredibly fortunate to work at a place where baby can spend the day in an on-site nursery and to live in a place where a nanny is affordable on our salaries, so she is able to pop in and see/feed him a couple of times per day. Regardless, it’s not anywhere near how it was when she was at home with him.

- Breastfeeding has been very up and down for her. Main issue is she never has been able to produce enough milk for him and we’ve had to supplement with formula. However, latching was never really one of the challenges she’d faced.

She’s currently really struggling emotionally with the lil’ guy’s sudden refusal to breastfeed and wondering what she’s done wrong. Even though we’ve read many similar stories, it’s hard not to internalize it for her. I think it’s compounded by her roller coaster experience with feeding and a few other major things that she felt didn’t go as she’d dreamed, an emergency C-section being chief among them.

Long story short, we’re a bit at a loss for how to approach this. I know some folks say for them it only lasted a short while, but not sure if that’s always the case. If it continues, she’s concerned about her already non-abundant milk supply dwindling further, especially given the reduced nursing.

Any support, advice, encouragement, or perspectives are most welcome. Thanks in advance!

In a former life I spoke quite good Portuguese, having studied for several years and lived a short time in Cuiabá. Although many years have past, my comprehension remains great, and I can still maintain speaking and writing, albeit slower and more clunkier.

However, in addition to the rust of time, Spanish has become my dominant second language (workmates, Mexican wife, etc.). I’m now actively trying to revive my Portuguese, and overall it doesn’t feel too tough, but I can’t help wondering what Spanish calques I’m unconsciously working into my speaking.

So my question for native speakers is, what are the most common words or turns of phrase you hear Spanish speakers trying to make work in Portuguese? Maybe I can root my own out with a bit of help.

A couple I wondered about:
- I can’t remember if “já” serves the same function as “ya” in Spanish, which is basically an all-purpose word that can be used as a question and answer to determine readiness or doneness or other states of conclusion.
- I feel all wacky with my use of object pronouns. I know that colloquially Brazilian uses them differently than in standard written language, but I just feel my intuition with them is off.

Those are the ones at the front of my mind at the moment. Happy to hear what other ones folks are used to hearing - fire away!

Do sakes packaged in one cup-sizes tend towards certain flavor profiles or styles? I feel like the ones I readily find available are often genshus or are on the dry/earthy/full-bodied side. Are there many lighter, fresher, fruitier sakes that get the one-cup treatment? When in Japan, I often jump at the chance to pick up premium sake in smaller format, but I feel like everything ends up with a similar tasting profile. I don’t dislike them, but I don’t always crave those styles.

I’d like to pick up a few bottles on truesake. My taste tends towards fresh, mineral, fruity without being too sweet, umami. Dry can be fun, but maybe not classic Niigata dry.

Any recommended bottles that are available on truesake based on my preferences? I’m bad at remembering brewery names and combing through a massive online catalog and looking at descriptions is a bit of a slog.