Please_Do_Not

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[โ€“] [email protected] 10 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

I don't think people in the US have ever heard the term, so we probably don't know exactly what type of behavior it refers to.

[โ€“] [email protected] 1 points 2 weeks ago

"life, uh, finds a way"

[โ€“] [email protected] 13 points 3 weeks ago

She's a homersexual

[โ€“] [email protected] 21 points 3 weeks ago

You hear it as a joke when you're young, but it's not til you're old that you realize "you are what you eat" is literal.

[โ€“] [email protected] 13 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago)

If someone edits your manuscript, you should, like, read their edits maybe.

The whole "it wasn't me it was a friend who was helping me" claim doesn't make it any better...

[โ€“] [email protected] 2 points 3 weeks ago

Ah I didn't see that little spiral graph. I agree with you for anyone who keeps their knives sharp. But if you're trying to cut thin slices off a roast and have to choose between a bread knife and a dull chef's knife, I'd likely go for the bread knife. That said, I don't know they intended it that way, and it totally could have just been an error.

[โ€“] [email protected] 0 points 3 weeks ago (3 children)

I don't see this suggesting a bread knife for meat, but a dull serrated blade beats a worn plain edge for any purpose. And produce is anything grown like fruit and veg.

[โ€“] [email protected] 51 points 3 weeks ago (20 children)

As a chef, the only inaccuracy I see here is that bamboo cutting boards are good for knives. They are a great, cheap, sustainable option, but the silica content makes bamboo incredibly hard, and it will dull your blades faster than wood or plastic cutting boards.

[โ€“] [email protected] 13 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago)

I'm this way 100%. Feels like I'll be able to do it better and be less distracted by questions if I get to know something from the ground up, and just doing it a certain way because everyone agrees it works that way is never satisfying/I never feel like I can trust that completely.

[โ€“] [email protected] 22 points 1 month ago (12 children)

In the US, servers and restaurant staff tip like 100% of the time they go out because they know how important it is with our current pay laws, and they know that the waiter expecting that tip isn't the one making the laws or who deserves to be punished for them. So that tip is almost always going to someone else who also tips.

Btw, don't bother arguing with me that tipping is wrong so we shouldn't do it. I agree that it's wrong, but abstaining punishes the wrong people (servers, not owners or policymakers). So instead of writing a comment, write a letter to you local govt to eliminate sub-minimum wages for tipped workers, and keep tipping poor waiters and drivers til they change something.

[โ€“] [email protected] 8 points 1 month ago (5 children)

What are fishersaxons?

[โ€“] [email protected] 13 points 1 month ago

Can't comprehend what? Proceeds to focus on a single element of the photo and contextualize it within American culture

 

Connection: the actual best song featuring T Pain. Instant platinum.

 

I said that's ok, Doc, I prune up after just a few hours.

 

It often surprises me to see people with time, money, and knowledge settling for subpar experiences that have night and day differences to me. Even at my brokest (pretty darn broke), speakers, headphones, and glasses were always worth researching and some saving up, and the difference between what I'd end up with and the average always feels like it paid off tenfold.

I've got a surprising number of friends/acquaintances who just don't seem to care, though, and I am trying to understand if they just don't experience the difference similarly or if they don't mind. I know musicians who just continue using generation 1 airpods or the headphones included with their phone, birdwatchers who don't care about their binoculars, people who don't care if they could easily make their food taste better, and more examples of people who, in my opinion, could get 50% better results/experiences by putting in 1% more thought/effort.

When I've asked some friends about it, it sounds as much like they just don't care as they don't experience the difference as starkly as I do, but I have a hard time understanding that, as it's most often an objective sensory difference. Like I experience the difference between different pairs of binoculars and speakers dramatically, and graphical analysis backs up the differences, so how could they sound/look negligibly different to others? Is it just a matter of my priorities not being others' priorities, or do they actually experience the difference between various levels of quality as smaller than I seem to? What's your take on both major and, at the high end, diminishing returns on higher quality sensory experiences?

 

Pretty much all posts linked to redgifs produce the same error, which messes with how the feed looks and loads. Incredibly grateful for all you've done with the app!

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