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- Comment on How do I get over fear of cooking? 1 week ago:
Also as far as cooking hardware, glass-top stoves are very difficult to start fires on, and induction cooktops are even more, at least for stuff like boilovers and spilled food.
I’d also suggest taking some sort of cooking class, many community colleges have classes that you can take at night, and there are several businesses that offer classes as well. Getting used to the tools and techniques in a supervised environment can go a long way for confidence at home.
- Comment on Withdrawal is going to make people go mad 1 week ago:
In practice, that’s not what happens generally. A widget is $100, the 5% tariff brings it up to $105 and company bumps the price to $110. People need the widget so they buy it at $110. Tariff goes away, but company knows that people will pay at least $110 for the widget, so they try bumping the price to $115. Maybe it doesn’t sell, so they “discount” it back to $110 and people will happily buy it thinking they’re getting a deal, while the company is pocketing that extra $10.
- Comment on I would personally just treat whatever direction I'm facing at the time as North and go from there. 1 week ago:
google also allows offline caching, but also needs to be set up ahead of time. AFAIK once you set a region to download, it will update that cache regularly.
I would expect this is a feature that most map apps would offer
- Comment on Git good, son 1 week ago:
telling/showing the right way is a turn-off
I don’t think OP is talking about a PowerPoint presentation (unless that’s your kink, you do you), but more like some verbal cues “faster” “don’t stop” “a little lower” etc. If the guy has a reasonable amount of attentiveness and experience, he should be able to get her 80% of the way there. Also, little cues like that can be hot as well because we know she’s into it and stuff.
- Comment on Withdrawal is going to make people go mad 1 week ago:
The worst part is that when the tariffs are lifted, we’ll thank them for lowering the prices by buying more of their shit. We’ll be grateful for the opportunity to pay even more into their profit margins.
Prices won’t go down, companies will pocket the difference
- Comment on Parasitic Isopods 3 weeks ago:
I am currently reading The Apocalypse Codex, and immediately thought of that :) Great series so far
- Comment on You have 8 seconds. 3 weeks ago:
- Comment on Proud globohomo 4 weeks ago:
Do what I do and stash an emergency bottle in the ol’ prison wallet
- Comment on Anon plays shirts vs skins 5 weeks ago:
When I was a kid (80s-90s), we just wore a coloured pinny.
- Comment on Joy & Curiosity 5 weeks ago:
I wonder if they pitch-corrected it so it plays correctly in the Martian atmosphere…
- Comment on Ok boomer 1 month ago:
Sometimes… I’ve had lots of bad experiences with super slow checkout people. I would say most of the time, they were boomers themselves and spent half the time trying to make chit-chat.
That being said, I will still line up for a staffed checkout if I have a cart full because it is easier since I can bag and put in the cart as they’re scanning. But also, many of the self checkouts here have a limit of like 10-20 items posted.
- Comment on Home Depot 1 month ago:
Best part is, there’s a hitch on the back, so buddy has used it with a trailer, just not this time when it would have been the ideal solution
- Comment on Posting the shopping cart theory because people had questions in a separate thread 2 months ago:
Why not put the hospital in the train? Instead of taking the train to the hospital, the hospital comes to you
- Comment on Seriously. 2 months ago:
After a few weeks, the humidity is driven out of the air, and humidity is what allows heat to transfer to/from your body more efficiently. Hit feels hotter when it’s humid, and the same with cold, however hot air can hold more moisture, so it tends to build humidity over time. After a couple weeks with cold weather, the humidity drops and the cold starts to feel less cold.
- Comment on Anon boots up a game 2 months ago:
GTAV was great for that, I could use KB+M for shooting and stuff, then switch to a controller for driving/flying, which is much easier with analog inputs
- Comment on Deficiencies 2 months ago:
As for the “you can’t clean it” it’s BS in and of itself. I use a chainmail scrubber to remove the big stuff, then soap and one of those green scrubbers to get it good and clean. The trick is, no matter how you clean it, you need to dry it COMPLETELY (I use paper towel) then oil it immediately. Doesn’t take much oil either, maybe a drop about the size of a nickel for a 12" skillet. My wife has alpha-gal syndrome, so all cookware needs to be thoroughly cleaned with soap and water, no exceptions.
Once you get a good seasoning set in, it’s almost indestructible, unless you seriously mistreat it… and even then it’s fixed pretty easily with an SOS pad, oil, and an hour or two in a hot oven.
My cast iron is more non-stick than any so-called ‘non-stick’ pan I’ve had, and I have one of those The Rock pans. I think the only caveat is you have to get a decent one. Anything made in China is no good (nothing necessarily about the casting or finish of the pans themselves, they just have very low quality iron); I personally buy Lodge, but there are a few other good brands to look in to.
- Comment on Anon meets a good man 2 months ago:
About as often as the Keanu Reeves breastfeeding one
- Comment on Amazon Contractors can't even sing in their cars now. Unions protect against this micromanagement. 2 months ago:
It’s not necessarily a lack of options, it’s also about the inertia of having the job and getting over the hump of deciding to look elsewhere. You know you can get another job, but doing that is work, so you have to decide if the BS of the current job is enough to warrant the effort of finding a new place.
- Comment on DuckDuckGoose 2 months ago:
Are you saying his income will be … ahem … a goose-egg?
- Comment on Cords 2 months ago:
In household wiring polarity does matter, especially if you are assembling plugs. Only one of the three wires is carrying live current (hot), the other two are the neutral return path, and ground which is for safety. If you accidentally switch polarity, you can cross hot to neutral and cause a short circuit.
- Comment on Anon drives a bus 2 months ago:
Pretty much the first thing that needed to be solved when moving from 1-way pagers to 2-way phones. Pagers could just get a broadcast analog signal and determine themselves if they were the intended recipient. 2-way needed more bandwidth and a dedicated communication channel to a specific device, so broadcast wasn’t feasible. Thus, phones would send a registration signal that a tower would pick up, and that specific tower would handle all communication to that phone. If another tower got the registration signal, communication would switch to that tower.
Interestingly enough, there was a period (for a fairly long time) that if you were travelling too fast, you could either a) not be able to register on a network, or b) overwhelm the network with registrations - part of the reason why phones had to be turned off on airplanes
- Comment on Anon gets banned from Walmart 2 months ago:
didn’t offer the manager a foot rub first. Power has perks
- Comment on Just do it ✅ 3 months ago:
Fiskars sells splitting axes and mauls fiskars.com/…/fiskars-pro-isocore-wood-splitting-…, I have the x11 splitting axe and it has a reasonably sized wedge head on it
- Comment on Technically Correct 3 months ago:
Special fuck you to the TSA agents at the Vegas airport, they’ve confiscated my lighter twice even though it’s allowed. Never had a problem at any other airport with them.
- Comment on What has he done to deserve this? 3 months ago:
The “intuitiveness” of imperial measurements is that they’re sorta human-scaled, at least for human-sized measurements. An inch is about the same length as the tip of my thumb, a foot is about as big as my foot, a yard is a single pace if I stretch a bit, etc. which makes it easier for a person to picture it.
Once you get out of that scale it really starts to break down though.
- Comment on What has he done to deserve this? 3 months ago:
The really neat thing about those changes to the meter is that it didn’t really change how long a meter was (-ish), it changed the precision of that definition, as well as the ability to reproduce an exact meter, reducing the need for a specific piece of material to define the meter (which changes length based on environment). Now, an exact standard meter can be reproduced independently in any lab with the proper equipment.
- Comment on First-time buyers spending 40% of pay on mortgages 3 months ago:
Pay went down? Rent still go up
- Comment on Anon has a question 3 months ago:
Where I live, it goes to the dump, they have a space dedicated to hazardous liquids/containers. However, you have to leave the whole container there, there’s no spot to dump it
- Comment on You can't act fabulous after a hip surgery. 3 months ago:
- Comment on "30 minutes or it's free" back then was wild 3 months ago:
Good backup in case your phone shits the bed or you end up somewhere with no data
