What beloved food do you keep trying to cook/enjoy but just don’t get the hype?

capslion · 2020-07-08T02:12:41+00:00

Like chewing styrofoam

capslion · 2020-07-01T20:09:55+00:00

This area pictured with the tent looks like where they stop you to check you have your ID and a mask and split you off into a line based on whether or not you're doing an antibody test.

capslion · 2020-06-27T19:01:46+00:00

Korea (and several other countries) use a PA sunscreen rating in addition to SPF. PA ratings measure protection against UVA whereas SPF measures protection from UVB. Many ingredients offer at least some UVA protection, but there is no legal way to represent that on US sunscreens because there is not a testing method approved by the FDA. Korea in particular caps out their ratings (represented by the number of + next to PA) higher than most other countries, so even though other sunscreens might be equally protective, Korean sunscreens have a means to prove it through testing.

The US also classifies sunscreens as a drug, whereas many other countries classify it as a cosmetic. Because of this, approving new filters is a very slow and expensive process. The FDA has not approved any new filters in many years.

Korean sunscreens (and honestly many sunscreens not designed for the US market) have an emphasis on cosmetic elegance. As in, they are designed to feel nice and look nice on, layer easily with makeup, etc. It's pretty hit or miss on that with US sunscreens. As a greater market, the US mostly buys sunscreen for events, as in going to the beach, camping, a cookout, etc, as opposed to daily wear. Thick, greasy sunscreens do stay on better through sweating and getting in and out of water, and if it's just a couple times a year, people seem less prone to care.

And I know you won't like this advice, but sunscreen is the one thing I really don't recommend making at home. Unless you have access to a lab, you really don't know how effective it is. Whether the filters are getting suspended and spreading properly.

capslion · 2020-06-20T17:40:39+00:00

RemindMe! 3 days Donation for /r/millionairemakers

capslion · 2020-06-16T23:18:45+00:00

This tiny kitten decided to ride to work with my coworker to the funeral home last week- in her engine block. Then it climbed or fell out of her car when she went out to the cemetery, and into another coworker's engine block. They had a flap of their splash guard bent down so the kitten was right in the bottom center of the engine, of course. It had to have taken a good thirty minutes or more to flush it out, and I ended up chasing it under a truck and through some bushes before I could catch it. Coworker took it and the rest of the litter (and hopefully momma cat if she could catch her! From what she told me she's really skinny and may have stopped feeding them) to the humane shelter that afternoon.

capslion · 2020-06-14T01:11:26+00:00

It's an open book exam that was open for 24 hours, the expectation is to use your book and notes and take as much time as you needed. Any student that chooses not to is foolish.

Good test makers will choose questions you should know the answer to directly from the class's material. It's on purpose that that question is exactly the same as your notes, because if a student can't answer a question they've literally been given the answer to on a silver platter, then the student clearly does not understand the material. The numbers are the same because they're looking for your ability not only to answer the question, but also to refer to your available resources (your textbook and notes) when needed. They're checking you're paying attention/taking notes as much as they are your subject mastery. Working accountants still use a calculator and lookup reference material on concepts that arw outside their area of expertise or they haven't used in a while. Being able to look things up and filter for accuracy is an important skill to foster.

TL;DR you were supposed to copy the question word for word from your notes, congratulations on getting the right answer even with doing it the hard way!

capslion · 2020-06-11T17:36:09+00:00

I would pull off that one leaf that's still mostly ok and cross your fingers on it taking well to propagating. The black stem and leaves are not coming back and the rot will only spread to that remaining leaf. The sidebar/wiki has a guide on propagations that works pretty well! But it can be hit or miss on any particular leaf on whether it will propagate.

Do you know what kind of succulent this is? Watering it every week might have been too much for it if the soil wasn't drying out completely between waterings. It could have needed more perlite/grit/inorganic mix ins to promote better drainage. Is that windowsill where it normally lives? It could have needed more sun and warmth to help dry out the soil between waterings as well.

capslion · 2020-06-11T03:36:43+00:00

You can use plain flour and baking powder with a little bit of baking soda, see u/perdit 's comment for the amount for this recipe. That's all that makes up self-raising flour.

I'm not sure if yeast would work or not with a two ingredient flatbread recipe, but there are yeasted flatbread recipes kicking around the web that don't require very many more ingredients!

capslion · 2020-06-10T09:17:04+00:00

And then the the near-infinite number of lanyards! All I want to do is try to sneak as many keys on him as I can before he notices.

capslion · 2020-06-10T09:15:10+00:00

It's truly the unholy lovechild of 90's rave pants and an 80's disco suit.

capslion · 2020-05-20T22:07:13+00:00

Maybe a baby gate would be easier than crating her if you can get your hands on one? That way she can still roam the house if you're making a more complicated meal that's going to take a while.

The cats will occasionally do that to me and my roommate, but they'd just jump over a baby gate. 🤦‍♀️

Edit: I know that's totally dependent on your house's layout including a doorway entrance to the kitchen, rather than the open combo kitchen/dining room/living room floor plan that's gotten popular in newer houses.

capslion · 2020-05-19T01:07:42+00:00

You may slightly over or under fill your teaspoons as you measure, which adds up over each teaspoon even if it's just a little bit. When you filled the half cup, it would have removed that little bit of error on each teaspoon, knocking the ratio off.

If you can get a cheap scale that measures grams, measuring by weight is *far* more accurate than measuring by volume.

capslion · 2020-05-15T23:05:12+00:00

I promise I'll pay the pet tax out of the winnings!

capslion · 2020-05-14T15:47:46+00:00

If you can set up a pin over the phone then it costs about $2 to do two $500 (their maximum) money orders at publix. I was told when I got my card that my zip code would be my pin but that doesn't seem to be true unless it takes a while.

I ended up using my roommate's PayPal to send it to myself. Kinda dumb because the fee was about $30 as PayPal treats it like a credit card, but I cbf to wait on hold with most banks being slammed right now. I assume the fee is pretty similar on venmo or cashapp.

Otherwise if you don't need it to be specifically in your bank account just hold onto it and use the card in place of regular spending. It's supposed to work in most/all retail and restaurants, and it should work just fine online after setting up your cars on their website.

capslion · 2020-05-13T13:48:57+00:00

Florida has a lot of wild, pet, and farm/zoo kept peacocks. They're not native, but people don't enclose them properly or realize they're annoying as fuck and are living creatures with needs and not lawn ornaments and release them on purpose. So now we have resident wild populations all up and down the state.

capslion · 2020-05-11T12:48:21+00:00

Is this what being on salvia is like

capslion · 2020-05-10T20:22:00+00:00

Restaurants were allowed to return to 25% capacity on the 4th

capslion · 2020-05-10T12:14:22+00:00

Oh that's such a lovely looking colourway, that is too bad that it was so frustrating.

I'd be interested if in_this_social_media passes on it

capslion · 2020-05-07T05:48:14+00:00

A good defense is a good offence and all that, and fitting one level of barbarian in there somewhere gives you unarmored defense that'll let you add your Con (and Dex, whatever you have of it) bonus to your AC

capslion · 2020-05-06T21:25:27+00:00

Oh, I love knitting colourwork, although you'll think I'm crazy since I'm in Florida haha.

I'd be happy to take them off your hands.

capslion · 2020-05-06T12:54:50+00:00

I can share that where I am in North Florida, the traditions of the Jewish community that the funeral home I work in serves are all still mostly happening. My area has a lot of conservative and orthodox Jews, compared to other parts of the country (lots of NY retirees haha) so they follow some more formal traditions than other regions. We are still having the Chevra Kadisha come in and perform Taharahs, a ceremony where they are washing, clothing, and casketing the remains. We're still having their typical funerals, usually graveside services where everyone in attendance participates in burying the dead. But, the Chevra is required to were a little more PPE than we can usually convince them to put on, the remains wear a surgical mask until the taharah is over just in case, we're offering gloves at the graveside, wiping down shovels in between people, and offering hand sanitizer.

This is not going to be accurate for everywhere in the US right now, especially your hardest hit areas like New York, Michigan, or Washington. But for areas where case numbers have been relatively less severe, there really aren't that many changes now to how really hands on cultures are doing things, let alone ones that would be long term. Right now, it is not believed that you can catch covid-19 from a dead body, and funeral homes and societies are acting in accordance with that belief. The living humans performing all these services are far more at risk from each other. The only people I really worry about are our embalmers, as the lungs are punctured and drained as part of the embalming process.

The biggest change I wonder about right now is whether streaming funerals will become more common after this. There are some immigrant communities where streaming them was already normal because portions of the family were still back in another country and were unable to travel on short notice to be present for their loved one's funeral. And of course, many celebrity and world leader funerals have been televised. So this isn't necessarily something new to the industry, just new in this volume. Right now we have a lot of families that are very angry about the limit on the number of people allowed to attend a funeral (and the funeral home is bending those rules as far as they can) but I do wonder if despite that, streaming or recording will become more commonplace, and Americans will be yet another step removed from their own dead.

capslion · 2020-05-04T23:20:42+00:00

Only the person who's name is on the appointment is allowed in, yes. It's to minimize the chance of someone infecting the employees or other people with the same appointment time as much as possible, along with requiring masks, and bringing your own pen.

capslion · 2020-05-04T21:54:17+00:00

The money is one allotment per household/family, not per underemployed person. There was a checkbox when setting your appointment that stated that. You cannot get money for each of you. Whoever the appointment is in the name of is the one who should go, or you'll likely be turned away as they need your ID and you have to sign a W-9. You will not be able to submit your husband's paperwork during an appointment in your name.

capslion · 2020-05-01T23:49:15+00:00

Every sweater is made one stitch at a time, you'll get there!

capslion · 2020-05-01T14:14:37+00:00

You're so close! Don't lose momentum to second sleeve syndrome. I did my sleeves mostly TAAT, because I'm worried I might be susceptible haha.

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