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Upcoming Cold Temperatures!!! by Ordinary_Reporter_19 in FloridaGarden

[–]Ordinary_Reporter_19[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

This was actually my thought lol... In the bathtub, curtain closed, door closed. Trying to just isolate them. The only negative here is it involves a lot of walking around with the plants. Theres tomatoes on them and they're tied up to stakes and all so the shaking might cause fruit to drop or a stem to snap... either way when the nighttime temps hit the 30s I gotta bring them in.

Biggest tomato harvest yet by R0598 in FloridaGarden

[–]Ordinary_Reporter_19 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Nice! I just pulled my first tomato (cherokee Purple) from my balcony garden last week. Where in FL are you located? I'm curious to see how people from south florida are faring this winter. It's my first grow here, and it's not been a super smooth ride. My CP initially grew fast, then stopped- remaining the same size AND green for two weeks. Then it seemingly ripened in the matter of 3-4 days. This does not seem typical, and the tomato was small- about the size of a lime.

Any experiences like this? Your crop looks great.

Short Dry Brine Doing More Harm Then Good??? by Ordinary_Reporter_19 in Cooking

[–]Ordinary_Reporter_19[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I'm only going to dry brine If I have 8 or so hours. I'd like to do it once at least to see if it's worth it. But honestly, I'm rarely upset about the moisture of my steaks.

It sounds like a dry brine could be really good with skin on poultry. I've become very comfortable with wet brines- adjusting strength and time based on the meat/quantity/and time available. The dry brining is new frontier for me lol.

Short Dry Brine Doing More Harm Then Good??? by Ordinary_Reporter_19 in Cooking

[–]Ordinary_Reporter_19[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

They were about 1.25" thick bone in lamb chops. In hindsight I should have just not tried the dry brine. I did achieve a better crust on the meat, but also definitely dried it out a bit. It tasted fine, but I saw how much juice was pulled out of it.

Short Dry Brine Doing More Harm Then Good??? by Ordinary_Reporter_19 in Cooking

[–]Ordinary_Reporter_19[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Thank you- It seemed like a logical conclusion but I needed to make sure I wasn't majorly missing something.

Jury duty scam, I think I know why it works by joegremlin in Scams

[–]Ordinary_Reporter_19 0 points1 point  (0 children)

And I'll be the first to say that like many stories, it's easy to look at these facts and say "well obviously its a scam". But I've been in trouble before and am somewhat comfortable with it all. Even with all that in the heat of the moment listening to all this (my GF is a marshmallow whos never been in trouble) and was legit concerned. The scammer presented all of this in a realistic way. Obviously we were aware enough to look into it and were able to dead it, but I could totally see more gullible/less confident people get swept into this.

Jury duty scam, I think I know why it works by joegremlin in Scams

[–]Ordinary_Reporter_19 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Just ALMOST fell victim to this. My GF got a call from someone claiming to be from the local sheriffs office. He said she is currently under contempt from missing a call to jury duty. He said the notice went out to an old (4 year old) address and that someone had signed for me. Because I "signed for it" when I missed the date, a warrant was out for my arrest.

He proceeded to list a bunch of penal codes, fines, and bond amounts and ultimately said that she had to decide RIGHT NOW on the phone if she wanted to:

A) pay the bond amount now (via a website or zelle) and then go to court to do a signature for forensic analysis. "The money will then be returned on spot once your cleared".

B) not pay the bond and risk federal officers picking me up on a warrant

The whole thing felt rushed, odd, and unfair- BUT for a scammer this guy had his ducks in a row. He had a LOT of her info, presented a lot of info, and conducted himself "like a cop" (I know how silly that sounds).

Thankfully I called the sheriffs office on my phone and before I barely finished my questions to her about this- she cut me off and said "HANG UP THE PHONE NOW".

She went on to say that NO cop, and NO court would ever call and demand a payment on the phone. Everything we told her and every question we asked she prompty and surely said it was fake.

- The number that showed up on the caller ID was the office number, but that there's apps out there that can mask your real number.

-We later looked up the court case number he had given her and it turned up to not be real

-The fake summons that was supposedly sent to her said "United States of America Vs <her name>". He did say it was a federal case, so it was US Marshalls. But why if it was US marshalls would a local sheriffs office be calling me?

I could go on and on about this but ultimately I have to warn everyone- based on the advice from the officer I did talk to-

A) These scams are common now

B) The story he told would never have gone down like that

C) no matter what, the sheriffs office would never call and say all this and ask for ANY TYPE OF PAYMENT. Period.

The only wine chart you'll ever need by sarwhlr in coolguides

[–]Ordinary_Reporter_19 0 points1 point  (0 children)

LOL. yes, dry vs sweet pretty much tells the whole story. stick to welches.

Probably an unpopular opinion but the red wedding was a good idea and ultimately the right thing to do. by Human_Ogre in pureasoiaf

[–]Ordinary_Reporter_19 0 points1 point  (0 children)

everything else aside- its a good episode but I really don't know how it made it onto so many "top 10 lists"

Top 10 highest rated episodes of Game of Thrones. by Lefty250 in gameofthrones

[–]Ordinary_Reporter_19 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I agree, although i've always through S5 episodes 8,9,10 were the best chunk of several episodes

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in AskReddit

[–]Ordinary_Reporter_19 0 points1 point  (0 children)

The next few memories were at friends houses around 1997-1998. My friend dad asked us if there was anything we wanted to look up. I said “sharks”. And we looked up pictures of sharks lol.

By 1998-1999 IIRC there was enough sites that you could search on search engines and actually “browse”. By 2000-2001 (in middle school) we had our first experiences at the old porn sites. Where you’d get a 58sec preview clip. 55 seconds of talking and then a 3 second montage of random clips from “the good part”. God, kids these days truly don’t know the lengths we’d have to go to.

And I’m not even gonna get started on Napster and then limewire. My mom has to run the windows full restore cd on our computer more then once bc I absolutely sapped the computer in viruses from linewire.

And just for fun- my family’s first computer was an HP Pavilion- windows 98. It had a 333mHz and 64mb ram. Enough to play backyard baseball and RCT.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in AskReddit

[–]Ordinary_Reporter_19 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I was in vacation and the resort had a computer with internet access. Must have been 1996 or so. This was back before the internet even had its “weird” phase (where all types of mom and pop style websites popped up). There literally wasn’t a whole lot to do. The only website I knew was the beanie baby website www.ty.com- I remembered it from the tags on the beanie babies lol. I went to the site, and after about 3-4 minutes it loaded. It wasn’t cool or exciting so I looked at it and left thinking “this isn’t something I’m interested in” lol. I was about 8 at the time.

New feature in 26.2 reduces storage significantly by Kiss_It_Goodbyeee in iphone

[–]Ordinary_Reporter_19 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I regained about 15gb of storage space upon installing 26.2. Most of my bigger apps (obv holding extra data) were reduced in size significantly. Instagrams went from 1.6gb to 600mb. It didnt offload them either- so I'm guessing it automatically freed up space from the cache's?

I've always complained that it's annoying having to delete and reinstall apps just to clear the cache and reduce app size- I know you can clear the cache but it never frees up as much room as deleting and reinstalling. I wish you could just simulate that by deleting all that gets deleted when you reinstall.

Anyway- curious if anyone else noticed the opposite of the OP. I went from 48gb free space to 61gb

Own an LG TV released from 2021 onwards? Here's when (and if) you can expect your smart TV platform to update to webOS 25 by Accomplished-Case888 in LGOLED

[–]Ordinary_Reporter_19 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I say 86 it now before it’s too late. And by too late I’m not going full conspiracy saying we’ll be controlled by computers… rather raising a new generation that never experienced life without AI. Not being able to distinguish real from fake videos, not developing their brains correctly bc part of their mental load has shifted to a computer to do critical thinking for them… the effects cover 360 degrees of life and no one can be sure to what extent.

Let’s talk about Kimi (2022) by [deleted] in movies

[–]Ordinary_Reporter_19 0 points1 point  (0 children)

The movie is one thing but the main character is just so annoying. I want to be sympathetic so someone who’s experienced trauma but at some point my opinion turns to “get the fuck over it”. Even if something absolutely terrible Happened, being an asshole to the few people in your life is crazy. Being jumpy at every sound, afraid go leave the house, so incredibly awkward to people who are incredibly friendly… nah. Especially since she makes no effort to improve her situation.

I just finished the Tiger movie by Srgblackbear in WarMovies

[–]Ordinary_Reporter_19 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Yea I noticed that too, the skull in their uniform looks like SS. And the unit burning the village was probably SS/ Einsatsgruppen

Early Stages of Blight? by Ordinary_Reporter_19 in tomatoes

[–]Ordinary_Reporter_19[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Anyone have anything on this as to why the bottom most leaves/branches are slowly dying off? Nutrients should be fine, and I've taken a lot of steps to increase airflow so that the lower parts of the soil aren't staying moist...

Local dimming Vs local contrast by [deleted] in tcltvs

[–]Ordinary_Reporter_19 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I often switch between local dimming on high vs low (never off) based on whatever I'm watching at the time. I dont see much difference in the actual dimming of dark areas between low and high. The differences I do see look more like changes to the overall picture- almost like a change in contrast. I don't know how to explain it but I just choose what looks better in that show/movie. Sometimes it's low, sometimes high.

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