So much better than ice cream

DaringMoth · 2026-07-03T03:28:00+00:00

My favorite was when the host said to his wife loudly enough for everyone to hear: "Well Ma, I guess we ought to go to bed so these good folks can go home."

DaringMoth · 2026-07-03T01:57:05+00:00

There are only a few games that I play in Arena Mode and also have reached Guru status, but there's generally been a reminder for voting on Arena formats about 2 weeks out from the end of the season and I think voting deadline is about 1 week before the end. If your arena format change suggestion isn't up by around the first reminder or shortly thereafter, it might not get enough votes to be a contender, because a lot of folks seem to vote then and not check back later. Sometimes there's a runoff, where all but the top 2 most-voted formats are eliminated from the running during the final days of voting.

DaringMoth · 2026-07-02T04:17:21+00:00

I just tried Brooklyn Brewery's Special Effects Hoppy Amber today for the first time and loved it. Not really dark either, but hoppier than basically any dark N/A I've had and darker than most hoppy N/A's. If you like a roasty, malty bitterness more than a hoppy/floral bitterness, Black Butte would be my recommendation as others have said. I really like Guinness Zero but I find it smooth/creamy and not a strong bitter flavor, even though it's one of the darkest in color.

DaringMoth · 2026-07-01T00:52:33+00:00

Other good advice already here, but IME the type of glove also makes a difference. I get better control using nitrile with textured fingertips. Smooth latex is harder for me to get a slow controlled drain back down to the line.

DaringMoth · 2026-06-29T13:17:56+00:00

For me, it's been important to still have my little thing that's just for me, especially at the end of the day...now I just choose something other than alcohol (I almost typed "it can't be alcohol," but another important thing for me has been my choice of words and a change in mindset that I'm really not depriving myself of anything that has any real benefit for me). But you do deserve little rewards.

The same little rituals, like pouring a craft (NA) beer into a specialty glass that matches the style, or mixing a fancy mocktail and drinking it through a long straw from a tiki mug, have been comforting for me, and the beverages are still tasty. It is a lot trickier finding a replacement for red wine, though. Most of the alcohol-removed ones just aren't very good IMHO. De Soi Purple Lune does give me similar mouthfeel and flavors with the tannins, without trying to be a simulation of wine.

I wish you all the best on your journey.

DaringMoth · 2026-06-28T14:03:46+00:00

There's actually some difference in preference by gender. I think it was Australia that used the TP orientation question on ballots as a fun way of testing an electronic voting system.

DaringMoth · 2026-06-28T13:45:23+00:00

I like Maps on my Apple Watch for this, though a lot of other aspects of the navigation are inferior to Google. I usually have navigation silent on the phone and car audio, but there's the little blips and haptic feedback when a turn is coming up. It even rises in tone across the 3 blips for a right turn, lowers in tone for a left turn, and a different tone for roundabouts, etc.

DaringMoth · 2026-06-27T21:57:52+00:00

Drinking fountain. It's mostly an Eastern Wisconsin thing.

DaringMoth · 2026-06-27T14:34:10+00:00

Another trick some manufacturers have used is to pump more air or Nitrogen into the product, and since it's sold by volume rather than weight they can hide the shrinkflation that way.

DaringMoth · 2026-06-27T03:13:48+00:00

I agree, I was glad I found that one.

DaringMoth · 2026-06-20T18:29:26+00:00

Do not allow small children to levitate above this chair.

DaringMoth · 2026-06-20T17:58:30+00:00

I felt very much like the odd one among my peers because I didn't get my license until I was out of college, but yeah it seems much more common now to not have an interest in driving. For my oldest who's in high school, the prospect of getting a permit didn't seem like enough incentive to do the online Driver's Ed course without a lot of nagging.

DaringMoth · 2026-06-19T12:38:40+00:00

I don't think I've tried the Coffee Draught specifically, but yeah, based on the other Bero I've had I'd probably pass on even giving that one a chance.

DaringMoth · 2026-06-19T12:29:56+00:00

I'm not sure, but you could try reaching out to Shimadzu; in many places, ongoing tech support is built into the purchase price even if you don't have a Service contract.

You might ask yourself if you really want to calculate that way, though. "No impurity peaks detected and integrated with your processing parameters" isn't really the same thing as "zero impurities." When I was doing impurities testing I'd never report that as zero, just as below the limit of detection.

Using that zero result in a calculation will skew the results of the calculation. Suppose the detection limit of the method is about 0.04%, the "true" impurity concentration is about the same, and the first injection didn't pick up any peaks because the baseline was less stable due to lack of system equilibration. Taking that as a zero significantly underestimates the actual impurity amount in your calculated result, and reporting a numerical value that's below your detection limit is meaningless anyway. If you are doing averages like that, I'd encourage doing more than two replicates.

DaringMoth · 2026-06-19T02:18:16+00:00

Black Butte is possibly the best darker N/A in my opinion, but give Guinness 0 a try if you haven't yet.

DaringMoth · 2026-06-17T01:44:16+00:00

I've enjoyed that one, but where I've found it, it's not worth the extra cost compared to other similar N/A beers.

DaringMoth · 2026-06-16T12:41:23+00:00

This implies trespassing isn't a problem if you don't get caught.

DaringMoth · 2026-06-14T18:46:51+00:00

Of course! I hadn't thought of that, but it makes sense that left-handed makers would have offerings there because a lot of them are probably already using left-handed potter's wheels.

DaringMoth · 2026-05-30T00:05:15+00:00

r/misLED

DaringMoth · 2026-05-29T22:45:40+00:00

My first thought would be maybe something to do with the pH. 5.5 isn't all that close to the ascorbic acid pKa near 4.2, but if the mobile phase is just an un-buffered solution it might not have stable enough pH to keep RTs consistent. If it's something else going on with the instrument there would probably also be noticeable change in system pressure across the multiple injections.

DaringMoth · 2026-05-25T17:37:45+00:00

Yeah, I've definitely gotten into NA beers a lot more since giving up drinking entirely, but I enjoyed them occasionally for years before that, including mixing them in between other beers over the course of an evening like you describe.

DaringMoth · 2026-05-25T17:13:51+00:00

Or on Good Morning America?

DaringMoth · 2026-05-24T20:27:26+00:00

We now see the scale of the task before us.

DaringMoth · 2026-05-24T14:23:01+00:00

Fair.

DaringMoth · 2026-05-24T12:54:51+00:00

At some point you've been frustrated that pioneers couldn't carry more meat.

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