Enekk
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- Comment on This is what Democratic voters are saying. Will the party listen? 1 week ago:
I really suggest everyone listen to Jon Stewart’s interview with John Fetterman. Fetterman demonstrates what is the rough draft on how establishment Dems will talk about these policies and the people supporting them. It’s not pretty.
- Comment on Chef 1 week ago:
That’s pretty cool. Your pot should be sufficiently able to retain heat for pasta, but for something that needs long term heat, this would work.
- Comment on Chef 1 week ago:
If you’re constantly struggling with this, there is a better way. Bring a pot of water to a boil, salt it, add pasta, set a timer as normal, bring back to a boil and stir the pasta well after a minute of boiling. Put a tight lid on, turn off heat. Yes. Off. Rarely, a shape might need a minute extra, so try one when your timer goes off.
Unless the pasta is a really really weird shapes, the residual heat in the pot is more than enough to cook pasta in the normal time. No boiling over chance. The stir after one minute prevents sticking. Less energy used.
- Comment on Chef 1 week ago:
Pans are actually less likely to boil over and make a great way to cook pasta. The increased surface area makes it harder for the starch to build up and foam up. You also need less water and it comes to temperature easier.
- Comment on the Home Alone house then and now 2 weeks ago:
I disagree actually. If you think this is what wealthy people decorate like in either era, you haven’t been around rich people.
For the movie set, you can’t forget that sets and the photography of them is designed to help push the message of the movie and a sense of realism is rarely a priority. With the realty photos, they want to emphasize a clean, neutral setting that is full of potential.
It is also important to remember that this grey aesthetic arose from the concrete homes that were in vogue with the rich in the 2010s. Those homes were grey, yes, but they also emphasized textures, unusual materials, and lighting. The home photographed here is clearly middle class because it has none of what made concrete homes interesting.
I could write an entire essay on this, but I think I have made my point. The only comparison that matters here is that both sets of photos are fantasy. One is literally a movie set, the other is an advertisement. Neither capture any sort of reality about rich people or even people. It is silly to say that the movie set looks lived in as an example. They are both, however, what middle class people imagine rich people are like.
- Comment on the Home Alone house then and now 2 weeks ago:
The thing is that the 90s shots are from a movie, the others are from a property listing. They have very different purposes. A movie needs to be visually interesting. A property listing needs to be as neutral as possible so people aren’t put off by the house before even looking at it.
Two completely different genres of photography.
- Comment on Remember, Kids: 4 weeks ago:
Relevant: youtu.be/gFjKPLc5qD0
- Comment on Well you see, uh... 1 month ago:
I found you need to tailor the questions a bit more to their question and enter their frame as much as possible.
Daddy, why are there police?
Well, that’s a good question, what do you think police do?
Put bad guys in jail.
Hrm… Well, do you remember the movie we saw last month with the sheep? (Sheep Detectives it is very good and everyone should watch it.) Was the spoiler a bad guy?
No… But they did arrest her. Why?
And then we slowly work through a conversation about policing without going too deep into the details.
- Comment on Well you see, uh... 1 month ago:
What you’ll discover is that there is often a very weird something behind the question. It is often as important to understand what that thing is as it is to answer the questions. The problem is that you can’t directly ask that lest they shut down.
The problem is that a question like, “how can the floor” might be related in the kiddos mind to something as seemingly unrelated as “why did we eat hamburgers last week?” and if you go down the wrong path, suddenly your kid has a link between hamburgers and orbital motion that doesn’t necessarily link up in any real logical way.
My approach is not to just answer questions, but to help them think through their questions and how they might answer them. No clue if that works.
- Comment on Surviving a heatwave : Prison Edition 1 month ago:
And, if you actually do this, you can poke a small hole in the foil and create a camera obscura!
- Comment on AAA Dominance Is Eroding: 56% of PC Gaming Revenue Now Goes to Games Outside the Top 20 4 months ago:
Can I suggest occasionally buying stuff through something like Bandcamp? You get digital music and support the artist. Or, just buy some merch I guess.
- Comment on He's not sure but he thinks he knows what she is shopping for 6 months ago:
They literally sell sex toys at Target and other such stores these days. It’s not as edgy as it used to be. Spencer’s feels like that “hey fellow kids” meme at this point.
- Comment on Don't fix the problem just change the parameters 9 months ago:
What’s interesting about this is that we are not taught how to take notes. People used to have classes that taught what is actually a complicated skill. I have gone through enough schooling that my note taking just happens without much thought, but it took me real effort to get there.
- Comment on USA 🇺🇸 USA 🇺🇸 USA 1 year ago:
So was I.
- Comment on USA 🇺🇸 USA 🇺🇸 USA 1 year ago:
The legal decision is important for a slew of reasons including taxation, SNAP benefits, etc. The decision was less about science and more about the reality of how tomatoes are used in our society.
- Comment on Anon likes a thing 1 year ago:
I am an avid collector and drinker of Chinese teas, particularly oolongs and puerh. I had been drinking them for years when suddenly the absolute asshole Dr. Oz went on TV claiming that puerh tea was some magical cure for anything and everything that you might have.
Normally, I get excited for new people to share tea with, but this fad caused prices to rise across the board and caused the market to get flooded with awful quality tea. These people were drinking some of the worst quality (fishy, shou/cooked puerh) teas and were more obsessed with how to mask the flavors with milk and sugar than actually slowing down and enjoying the tea.
The fad faded and people went back to putting matcha in their morning milkshakes. Even so, I still run into people that reflexively associate incredible tea with Dr. Oz and the disgusting teas he foisted upon his audience. Sad.
- Comment on Luv Me Chips, 'ate Seagulls... 1 year ago:
They were trying to capture the dialect of a pensioner. I’m positive the word choice was intentional.
- Comment on Steam Winter Sale 2024 Has Begun! 1 year ago:
Just a reminder that the designer of the ,West of Loathing, games is an accused abuser.
- Comment on Movies that “go from 0-100” in the last 15 or so minutes? 2 years ago:
Jojo Rabbit goes from a heartwarming dark comedy about a boy that is living through WW2 and his imaginary friend, Adolf Hitler, into something very different that is too much of a spoiler.
- Comment on 1.1 History 2 years ago:
- Comment on No one is safe from these psychos. Please stay safe 2 years ago:
Interestingly, they were designed for warmer environments where Kinder eggs would melt. The fact that they circumvented the weird US restrictions was a side effect.