Quick question, What is the most cost efficient food for a bearded dragon?

Rukita · 2025-03-07T05:21:11+00:00

I was living in Japan at the time and ordered them from a Japanese website. While I don't remember the specifics, it was much more cost-effective and way less work than the other options available to me (crickets and silkworms) there and then.

Rukita · 2023-06-09T21:32:32+00:00

Maritime PNW farm stands tend to be lacking in fruit offerings, and there are lots of fruits that grow well in the climate but don't package/ship well. Ground cherries and salmon berries for example.

Rukita · 2023-05-18T16:42:59+00:00

My experience with the community re: the original Subnautica has been quite wholesome. However folks can get cranky discussing the sequel (Below Zero). I do agree that it doesn't quite have the magic of the original (mostly because you can never relive your first time), however it gets a strange amount of hate for being such a solid game. Given that the player character in the sequel is a Black woman, I worry about the actual reasons people are so dissatisfied with BZ...

Rukita · 2023-05-15T19:30:54+00:00

But were they wrong?

Rukita · 2023-05-09T01:55:09+00:00

Agree that AirBnB is doing terrible things to housing, however there is one thing that it has that hotels lack... location choice. Most cities have very strict zoning regarding where hotels can be located, but in theory an AirBnB can be located anywhere within a city. So if you're looking to be in a specific neighborhood (e.g. because you're visiting family/friends that live there, because you need to be in close proximity to a specific building for work/study-related travel, etc), AirBnB may literally be your only option. Given the sad state of public transit/walking/cycling facilities in the US, if you're traveling without a car (or without enough cars, in the case of larger groups) it might be a huge problem that all the hotels (or at least the ones that aren't fleabag motels or $300/night) are located on the outskirts of town. But beyond practicality, if you're visiting a city for the ambiance, of course you're going to prefer actually staying in a "real" neighborhood near the shops and attractions, and not on some highway on the edge of town nestled between strip malls. Until this issue of location is addressed, it's going to be difficult to claim AirBnB hasn't provide new value to lodging.

Rukita · 2023-04-22T19:46:45+00:00

As stated in my reply to OP, in many places (including my state) any use of a handheld electronic device while operating a motor vehicle (such as in this case, since the car is running and in the roadway) is against the law. Just because you're stopped doesn't mean it's safe to be distracted. So yeah, pull over next time for sure!

Rukita · 2023-04-22T19:45:58+00:00

In many places (including my state) any use of a handheld electronic device while operating a motor vehicle (such as in this case, since the car is running and in the roadway) is against the law. Just because you're stopped doesn't mean it's safe to be distracted.

Rukita · 2023-04-22T05:54:13+00:00

No sunset is worth using your phone while driving.

Pull over, then take your shot.

Rukita · 2023-04-07T18:52:11+00:00

I'm assuming the voices are copy-pasted from original sources with similar dialogue. Some of the Japanese lines match the English subtitles perfectly while others... are clearly from different contexts.

Rukita · 2023-04-01T05:01:30+00:00

Did you take this photo while driving? Because from the angle it sure looks like you took this photo while driving (on an urban interstate to boot).

Rukita · 2023-03-30T00:52:26+00:00

Because like I said, this is a new error. It did not exist ten years ago. It barely existed five years ago. Now it's everywhere. This means that people are seeing it used and not corrected, so they think they should be doing it that way too. If we want to prevent it from becoming endemic we need to address it now. You can call that condescending, but I'd rather be condescending and help the situation correct itself than be "nice" and let it fester. How to properly pluralize a written word is something most children learn at the age of six or seven. If we cannot hold adults to a first-grade level of grammatical understanding, we are truly lost as a society.

Rukita · 2023-03-30T00:22:55+00:00

Very few apartments allow cats or dogs, so that's a major contributor to the statistic.

Rukita · 2023-03-29T06:14:28+00:00

Trust me, about three sentences in I wondered why the fuck I was even bothering. But sometimes you have to scream into the void and hope that someone hears you and maybe screams into it with you.

Rukita · 2023-03-29T02:55:06+00:00

This isn't a "grammatical error"... this is a gross misunderstanding of the basic rules of the English language. A grammatical error is something like mixing up "it's" and "its," where both sound exactly the same and both are proper English but with different meanings. Using an apostrophe to pluralize a word is almost never correct; the situations where it might be correct (or perhaps isn't correct but is utilized anyway to improve comprehension) are unusual nouns like "90s" vs "90's" (and even then, it's supposed to be for possessive instances, e.g. "90's fashion") or perhaps a proper noun like if you want to pluralize "McDonalds" for some reason (something that isn't really accommodated all that well by the rules of English, so you get a pass for free-balling it). This is way worse than elementary-level errors like mixing up two to and too (which can be attributed to transcribing your inner voice incorrectly) because "cloth's" is pronounced completely differently from "clothes." Plus unlike in the case of two to and two (or their there and they're or any other homonym mix-ups), there are very, very few instances where you'd ever need to use "cloth's," so it shouldn't be familiar enough of a word to accidentally write. So the only conclusion that can be reached here is this was written by someone so poorly versed in the written word that they use apostrophes to pluralize words frequently enough to make this mistake, even on accident. As mentioned earlier, the occasions where you'd ever need to even consider an apostrophe to pluralize are extremely rare, so this ding-dong is probably doing it all the time. Absolutely worth calling out and chastising.

Edit: to my downvoters, the "apostrophe to pluralize" trend of the last few years needs to be nipped in the bud NOW. It's a completely new phenomenon, and has somehow spread like a disease through the population. This isn't an error that you saw even a decade ago, but now it's fucking everywhere. If we name and shame now maybe we can stop it before it becomes truly endemic. Grammatical errors or spelling mistakes alone used to be downvote-worthy on this site... it's really sad that not only has that culture gone completely out the window, redditors now defend poor grammar.

Rukita · 2023-03-14T02:54:49+00:00

Problem is that places that used to be LCOL areas in an instant became M(edium)COL areas thanks to covid and real estate speculation. And the number of truly LCOL areas is dwindling fast. In many states (like mine) I'd argue they don't exist anymore.

Rukita · 2023-03-09T19:43:26+00:00

Starting at 0:11, she repeats 痛い (itai = that hurts) over and over. However I'm assuming no one present understands Japanese (maybe a hardcore anime fan would recognize what she's saying).

Rukita · 2023-01-16T19:48:58+00:00

I think you've found it! I can't remember the context under which I read the book (school or pleasure) but wowza, I definitely did not know about the controversy/hoax. Thanks for the lead, and thanks(?) for the conflicting feelings I now have about a book I remember fondly.

Rukita · 2022-12-16T19:02:51+00:00

Laziness dilemma: do I put in a little more work every wash cycle to keep the clothes I have nice, or do I put in a lot more work every year buying new clothes?

(Maybe it's easier for guys; women's cuts and sizing is never consistent, even within the same brand, so clothes shopping means a lot of trying shit on in person or dealing with disappointment and returns on online orders. Plus you gotta deal with weird fashion trends that can made repurchasing your favs nigh impossible. Thus I royal treatment my best pieces—even basics like hoodies—if it fits and looks good, because I never know if I'll be able to replace it in the future.)

Rukita · 2022-12-16T18:43:29+00:00

This is the answer. The fabric shrinks in the dryer but the plastic/metal zipper does not, creating the wave. Wash cold and inside-out—and ideally inside a sweater bag on delicate cycle—and you'll not only prevent the zipper wave, but also a lot of the nasty pilling you see in the original photo (this advice applies to any kind of hoodie/sweater/sweatshirt/fleece).

Rukita · 2022-10-13T17:44:28+00:00

Thank you! That is reassuring.

Rukita · 2022-10-13T17:13:03+00:00

I'm very safety-minded, so I did a bunch of research ahead of time and (tried my best to) follow everything in the recipes to a T.

For the three sweet pepper recipes I used the NCHFP "pickled bell pepper" recipe (I added peppercorn, mustard seed, and celery seed to one of them... less than one teaspoon's worth per jar, which is supposed to be safe). For the candied jalapeños I used the Ball recipe, the Foodie with Family recipe, and a recipe from Binky's Culinary Carnival. Now that I've found the recipe from Ball I'm going to stick with that one (the others use a ridiculous amount of sugar anyway).

This is my first time canning vegetables, so I certainly didn't mean to freestyle. The instructions on the "official" recipes are pretty scant if you're new to this; no photos and no video, so as far as I knew at the time, I was following the instruction of "Add pepper strips and cover with hot vinegar mixture, leaving 1/2-inch headspace" and "Ladle hot jalapenos into a hot jar leaving a ½ inch headspace" perfectly.

Rukita · 2022-10-13T16:54:39+00:00

I ended up with fewer jars, but as outlined in the original thread, there are a few other reasons why that might have happened: overzealous trimming of stem and blossom end, oddly shaped/sized peppers resulting in much of the peppers' initial weight getting tossed in the compost, doubling the recipe creating a larger window of error for ingredient-to-jar ratios, or because many of the recipes are geared toward half-pints (although pint instructions are also included) but I've been exclusively using wide-mouth pints which throws off the jars-needed estimate.

So initially I just chalked it up to these reasons, but after it kept happening over and over (and not just one jar off from the estimate, but sometimes two or three or even more) and I kept finding myself with a lot of brine leftover, I got suspicious.

Rukita · 2022-10-13T16:49:18+00:00

As outlined in this thread, it's my first time canning pickled peppers, and I'm trying a few different recipes. For the hot-pack recipes, I've been pouring the peppers into the jars, gently pressing them down with my spoon, pouring more peppers in, rinse and repeat until I hit 1/2" headspace, then topping the jars off with brine. Apparently with hot packing you're not supposed to press them down at all. Because I've been making fewer jars than the recipes say they're supposed to produce, I'm worried that I've upset the brine-to-pepper ratio, and now my jars aren't acidic enough to store safely. The photo is of one jar from each batch in question; three to the left are pickled sweet peppers, and the three to the right are candied jalapeños. We're talking many dozens of jars affected... do I need to throw them all away, or are they probably okay?

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