evasive_chimpanzee
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- Comment on Does different parts of the world use different standards for water pressure similar to voltages? 1 day ago:
These pressures are all gauge pressure, not absolute pressure. 1 bar gauge pressure would be about 2 bar absolute.
- Comment on Ironing 6 days ago:
Elbows have always been allowed on the table. The rule for fancy dining was that you couldn’t have elbows on the table during a course, i.e., when people are actively eating, but before/after, it’s fine. That’s a reasonable rule to be considerate of space.
- Comment on Ironing 6 days ago:
Fold your clothes immediately after drying, while they are still warm. Also, dryers that can add steam really help if you’ve got a few things that need wrinkle removal. Also, handheld steamers are cheap.
Mostly, avoid needing to iron by avoiding wearing formal business attire.
- Comment on If an oven only has fan forced mode do i still need to set it to the fan forced temperature in recipes? Ie 160 instead of 180. 5 weeks ago:
Yes. It cooks faster with the fan. Btw, it’s also referred to as a “convection” oven as opposed to a “conventional” oven. Air fryers are just small convection ovens.
- Comment on Calculus made easy 1 month ago:
Read “a mathematicians lament”, by Paul Lockhart. It was originally a short essay (25 pages you can find free online), but expanded into a book that I haven’t read yet.
In a similar vein is Shape, by Jordan Ellenberg.
- Comment on United Scams of Assholes 2 months ago:
Maybe, but it wouldn’t be a fast process or guaranteed, so I didn’t risk it.
- Comment on United Scams of Assholes 2 months ago:
This is an area of law governed at the state level. Some states are much better than others. Personally, I have not lived in a state that has a 3rd party hold the money (and I’m not sure if any do that). I did rent in a state where any charges that the landlord claims that they shouldn’t is met with triple damages. So if they keep $200 instead of the $100 of actual cost to repair something you broke, they owe you $300. It really incentivizes landlords to only charge accurately (e.g., not for standard wear and tear), and generally deposits were much lower there than in other states I’ve rented.
Lots of states also charge interest on any deposit money not immediately given back to the renter.
- Comment on United Scams of Assholes 2 months ago:
They gave me an itemized receipt where carpet cleaning was the only item on the receipt when I moved out of a place with wood floors. I actually recorded the whole final walk through with the person from the company walking through saying that it was perfectly clean and that I should get my whole deposit back.
When I complained, they said that it wasn’t carpet cleaning, it was just regular cleaning billed as carpet cleaning. I said I would take it to small claims court, but I never told them about the recording.
They decided to refund me just enough that the money they kept was equal to the cost of filing a small claims suit.
- Comment on puns 3 months ago:
- Comment on Why is the current temperature sometimes lower than today's low temperature? For example right now it 13F with a predicated low today of 16F! 5 months ago:
My understanding is that the predicted low is for the upcoming night, not the lowest temperature in that 24 hour block
- Comment on Price of electricity in Finland peaks at 2.35€/kWh today. Keeping my tiny granny cottage warm costs me over 50 euros for a single day. It's negative 25C (77F) outside. 5 months ago:
They are mostly ground source over there, which shouldn’t be affected by cold snaps.
- Comment on Another example of shrink flation... oh, my beer... 6 months ago:
It’s a plastic ball with a tiny hole in it. When you open the beer, the compressed gas, nitrogen and co2, sprays out of that hole into the beer, making it creamy and frothy. Guinness isn’t meant to be carbonated like most beer, so it’s never “foamy”
- Comment on Another example of shrink flation... oh, my beer... 6 months ago:
If I’m not mistaken, the guinness can is the same size as other US pint (16 oz) cans, but there is less beer volume because of the widget.
- Comment on Where can I find recipes without the author's personal anecdotes? 8 months ago:
I think what happened is that back in the day, recipes were super sparse and crappy. Think of the typical “grandma’s recipe” written on an index card with half of the ingredients not listed as having any specific amount, and the only directions would be “mix” and “put in a hot oven”. Then you had websites that basically did the same thing. Allrecipes is a good example of this; not too much fluff, but there are so many crappy recipes on there. Unless you know who made the recipe (like chef john), it’s hard to trust a lot of them.
Then you had websites like serious eats where they wouldn’t just give you the recipe, they tell you how and why they made choices about ingredients, process, etc. That stuff is all super helpful if it’s what you are looking for, so Google et al. would give them and sites like them search priority. They also need to make money, so the added space for advertisement is a plus for them.
Now, anyone can spend a little bit of money to start a website, throw down a lot of useless preamble, and get the same search engine priority as serious eats. Most of those are garbage.
No one is going to do the work to put out great recipes for free, though, so there’s gotta be some compromise. If you are willing to spend money, there’s a lot of great cookbooks, and the ebook versions of them are easily searchable. New York times cooking, Bon Appétit, and America’s test kitchen/cooks illustrated have extensive catalogs of fairly barebones recipes if you are willing to spend money on a subscription.
There’s also apps and browser extensions that chop the unnecessary stuff off of a recipe, but just keep in mind that a lot of those sites that pop up when you just Google a recipe suck.
I think some of the best recipes you can get with no pay wall or unnecessary text are from the websites of companies that actually sell ingredients or equipment because they are basically just advertising for themselves. For example, king arthur baking company has good bread recipes cause they want you to buy their flour. Similarly, anson mills has a lot of good stuff. Those companies have dedicated test kitchens of professionals.
What I wish I had was a way to create a whitelist of sites/authors that I could search for recipes
- Comment on why isn't the use of the bidet more widespread? 10 months ago:
Washlets don’t require hot water or electricity, though, they can pull right from the toilet water supply
- Comment on Would it make sense for a person in a "privileged class" to move from a red state? 10 months ago:
This is something that I think about often. There is an argument that progressives should try to stay and change things for the better where they are. I think to some extent, though, that only works if everyone is operating in good faith. The government there is essentially conducting a full assault on any progressive measures. Just recently, Texas passed a law that automatically overrules any city ordinances that they dont like. More progressive cities like Austin can try to pass laws to protect tenants or workers, but it won’t do anything. It’s hard to make a positive impact in those circumstances. You also have to balance out the fact that by living there X% of your paycheck will go to that govt via property/sales tax.
On the other hand, where do you move to? There are lots of communities with skyrocketing real estate prices that they blame on remote workers (not sure how legitimate that is), so people are getting priced out of the communities they’ve been in for ages.
In the end, I think it’s impossible to make a complete moral determination either way. The only thing you can do is just try your best at whatever you do. Whatever you do, I’d definitely recommend trying to build a community wherever you are. You might not be able to get the local laws around you to reflect your values, but you can do your best to help those around you.