robolemmy
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- Comment on How do you get people to wash their vegetables when you're at their house and you don't wanna seem rude? 1 week ago:
From Serious Eats:
First off, it’s true: mushrooms do absorb water when you wash them, but it’s only about 2% of their total weight, or, translated to volume, that’s about 1 1/2 teaspoons of water per pound, which in turn translates to an extra 15 to 30 seconds of cooking time.
“Soggy” is an exaggeration.
- Comment on How do you get people to wash their vegetables when you're at their house and you don't wanna seem rude? 1 week ago:
There are a lot of people who think, largely due to misinformed cooking shows, that you shouldn’t wash mushrooms, just wipe them off.
If you want them washed, maybe say “Hey, I can help out by washing those for you.”
- Comment on "Select a size" when it's just standard paper towel roll. Literally the same way it's always been. 3 weeks ago:
Tell me you’re young without telling me you’re young.
Paper towels, for most of my life (I’m old AF), were as long as they were wide. Square, they were. Bounty originated select-a-size by perforating them twice as frequently, so they were half as long as wide. Others eventually followed suit and now youngsters think that’s how it’s always been.
- Comment on Does Multipoint functionality in headphones allow you to listen to two different devices at the same time? 4 weeks ago:
I’m not sure if it’s even possible to mix two sources with Bluetooth multipoint. I’ve never seen a device that could.
The few that I’ve seen that can mix sources have all had Bluetooth plus a wireless dongle and they could mix the two connections.
- Comment on meme 1 month ago:
- drunkle
- Comment on How G.M. Tricked Millions of Drivers Into Being Spied On (Including Me) 2 months ago:
Unfortunately, on a Chevrolet, it also kills other things in the overhead console, such as the mic for making hands free calls.
- Comment on How G.M. Tricked Millions of Drivers Into Being Spied On (Including Me) 2 months ago:
- Comment on RIMJOBS 2 months ago:
But not everything that kills you is fun
- Comment on China’s Electric Vehicles Are Going to Hit Detroit Like a Wrecking Ball 3 months ago:
This is going to be another (chicken tax)[en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chicken_tax] situation
- Comment on ‘NCIS’ Prequel Series About Young Gibbs Ordered at CBS 5 months ago:
Are they gonna call it Gibblet?
- Comment on This was sold as a "fruit salad". Technically the truth, but not the best kind of truth. 5 months ago:
You sure they didn’t say fruit sadness?
- Comment on Only two days to go til' 24! 5 months ago:
Sounds like somebody has a case of the Mondays
- Comment on For folks who write for Medium.com, what's your engagement like, and how much do you make? 8 months ago:
My favorite quote from the interwebs about medium.com is “they call it medium because it’s rare to find anything well-done there.”
- Comment on Another lost TV show question 8 months ago:
I think you’re describing a TV show called Being Erica 
- Comment on An £8 sandwich in Starbucks 8 months ago:
As a supertaster and inveterate picky eater, that actually looks pretty good. Could use some mayo and/or mustard though.
- Comment on What's the difference between asking someone title or someone's pronouns ? 9 months ago:
They lost their minds back in the 60s/70s when women started using Ms instead of Mrs/Miss. Even into the 1990s, some conservative men were still butthurt about it. Rush Limbaugh was particularly offended over Ms Rodham-Clinton’s title and hyphen.
They lost the battle over women’s titles and the pronoun thing is their new hill to die on.
- Comment on How do I tame my frustration toward my aging parents? 9 months ago:
Agreed… doctor up, hit the gym, eat some veggies.
Seriously though OP, if they haven’t seen a doctor, try to get them to go get tested for environmental toxins and nutritional deficiencies. Some of this stuff can clear up like magic once you’ve identified the problem.
- Comment on How do I tame my frustration toward my aging parents? 9 months ago:
Speaking as a 57 year old, it seems odd that they’re both having cognitive problems. As you might guess, most of my friends are around my age and literally zero of them are in any kind of decline like that.
Out of curiosity, do your parents have a carbon monoxide monitor in their home? IANAD but it’s my understanding that long term, low level CO poisoning can lead to symptoms like you’re describing.
- Comment on GOG Autumn Sale 9 months ago:
Shame to hear it doesn’t run on the steam deck. I use Linux on my gaming desktop and if it won’t work on the deck it usually won’t work on my desktop either
- Comment on GOG Autumn Sale 9 months ago:
Oh wow… they have The Saboteur for $5. I didn’t know it was available on the PC. I loved that game, warts and all. IIRC it was the first game I ever worked to get 100% achievements on.
- Comment on inundated by ads on iPhone. how do i stop them? 10 months ago:
I would recommend, at a minimum, two things:
Once you have those set up and working, if you’re feeling adventurous, try:
- StopTheMadness for iOS (costs $10)
Just NextDNS will block a lot of stuff, as long as you’re not on a VPN (Using a VPN will switch to the VPN’s DNS servers). AdGuard takes a little more work to set up, since you have to enable content blockers, but it’s not too hard as long as you carefully read and follow the instructions in the app. The 3rd thing is a lot more involved, but it adds a last little bit of protection in the browser.