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1. rice straight out of the bag isn't 'dirty'. The stuff that comes off in water is just starch i.e. rice dust from milling off the outer husk. Washing rice only really changes the texture (unwashed is a bit sticker). There's no right way here and many European recipes ( like risotto) actually need the extra starch. Anyone who criticizes this doesn't know where they're taking about.

2. lol whatever keeps you clean, too many people never wash their ass at all.

3. I might try this

Maybe try the sugar free ones? If you're gonna be drinking a triple shot if caffeine, at least it doesn't need to send you to the brink of diabetic shock. That's where I'd probably start if I was hooked on them. Baby steps, y'know?

I think I can relate a bit; I applied for a job and I thought I had it in the bag. Then they told me there weren't interested. Finding jobs, making relationship, and starting big projects is hard because failure is scary and sometimes inevitable, but we are stronger and more resilient than we usually expect. Be brave, and give life hell.

Best of luck to them. I can't say I was impressed with my single previous visit, but I'll give it another shot if one opens nearby.

I'm not gonna bring a quarter for the cart, though. Fuck that noise.

Kinda. There's not many locations. There was one near me, but it went out of business a couple years ago; they're stock was pretty sporadic and I couldn't rely on them to have everything I'd need, thus I would have to go to the regular grocery store anyway. The inconvenience of going to two stores took away most of the advantage off the (fairly small) savings they offered, and anecdotally I'm not the only one who felt that way.

Not sure, but I'd guess at some point someone posted the screenshot on a platform that had rules against vulgarity, and the image was copied from there. After a long chain of reposts on different platforms it eventually made its way here.

It refers to the northern part of whatever state the speaker happens to be in. It's mostly used by New Yorkers to refer to the more rural part of New York State which is North of New York City.

Downstate is a thing, I guess, but neither upstate nor downstate are used much outside of New York in my experience.

Oh yeah. Big time. Stems from a broader social anxiety, in my case.

Phones are easily tracked, and police generally can get that info. As for the beatings, in the US police commonly aren't held responsible even when they've clearly broken the law. Often, they aren't even charged.

AFAIK, the supreme Court can reverse itself in a future case so maybe not.

Of course that would hurt their integrity and public approval, but that hasn't stopped them yet.

Part is the fact that the Americans most likely to be upset by the violence in Gaza are the same that are likely to vote for him. And he's being largely unreceptive to their criticism. In any other election, that would mean his base would probably just let his opponent win. There's an obvious problem with that this time.

Basically, Biden is forcing the nation's left wing to pick between showing their disdain for genocide overseas and stopping fascism to at home. It's not a fair choice and people are bitter about it.

I expect it would be more able to cleanly cut through the bodies or throw them out of the way with more momentum. If it's going slow it's more likely to ride up on top of a body. Anecdotally, I've heard that derailers tend not to work on fast moving trains.