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[–] [email protected] 6 points 3 days ago

Travel bidet. You're welcome.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 weeks ago

I think they mean that the MAGA crew voted themselves (further) into the poorhouse just to "own the libs".

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)

What about the grocery store? How do you load your groceries into the trunk when you're backed in? How do you even get the cart back there? All logic breaks down at the grocery store.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 3 weeks ago (7 children)

Oh glob, don't start that argument about whether water is wet again.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago

"Not enough gold, start over."

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 month ago

Yes. 100%. It was very easy.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 month ago

Heh. Yeah I guess I did my math wrong there hahaha. Let's quietly subtract 10 and forget it ever happened...

[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 month ago (2 children)

Telling my kids I love them, regularly and randomly. My parents only told me they loved me after yelling at me (or worse) and it took a long time for me to understand the toll that's had on my relationships with them.

Out of the 31 meals i eat per week, i usually cook at least 27...most of those from scratch.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago

I made a dish recently that called for these mushrooms (should be "beech" instead of "beach", since they grow near trees not oceans) and they were readily available at an Asian grocery. A farmers market might also have them.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago

Or pay them and have it both ways.

[–] [email protected] 17 points 1 month ago (1 children)

i THINK that whoever marked up the photo he's holding was trying to indicate that the symbols tattooed on his knuckles represent the characters M-S-1-3, not that the letters themselves are tattooed on his knuckles.

That said, given his history of drawing shit with Sharpies, I totally understand why some might think Trump is trying to pull a fast one...he might even think those letters are actually tattoos.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 2 months ago

Another good one is black box markups in a PDF that never get flattened.

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Melancholy Soap (sh.itjust.works)
 
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Bowl (sh.itjust.works)
 

My kid's cereal bowl

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How to tie your shoes (royalsocietypublishing.org)
 

I found this white paper very interesting when I ran across it years ago; YMMV.

I struggled to keep my shoes tied for as long as I can remember. I'd wind up having to double knot em, then I'd be too impatient to untie them, now I've got slip-ons...OK, but (k)not ideal. I came across this paper and, looking down, realized I had been doing it wrong. Just pay attention to how your knot sits. If it tends to lie horizontally (parallel to the floor) you're good to go. If it sits vertically (perpendicular to the floor) you've tied a granny knot and whipping and inertia will pull it loose all the time.

The fix is simple: change nothing about how you tie your shoes EXCEPT switch which lace is on top when you make the first half knot.

I was doing left over right, switched it to right over left. Loop up the right, floop the left over the top. Granny knot transforms in beautiful strong reef knot. Glorious. It felt unnatural at first, but after two weeks it was as easy and simple as could be.

(K)not too long afterwards I discovered a modified shoelace knot that upped my game even further. I'll share that in another post.

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Another Set (sh.itjust.works)
 

This time I opted for a buntline hitch (left side, ABOK 1209), diamond hitch over the top, and a round turn and two half hitches (left side, ABOK 1720) to finish it off. I also used a clove hitch (not pictured, ABOK 1245) on the opposite side to secure the first half of the diamond hitch, but it was unnecessary and only made it more time consuming to untie the whole thing. I will not use the buntline hitch again either; while it seemed very secure, it was much more difficult to untie than other knots I've used.

I secured the loose line after the final knot with a chain sinnet (see below, ABOK 2868) to avoid any mishaps on the ride home.

 

Been strapping my work bag to my seat, taking the weight off and vastly improving my ride quality. I settled in an a variation of a diamond hitch (shown below) started with a fisherman's bend (ABOK 1723) and finished with a round turn and two half-hitches (ABOK 1720).

May try a buntline hitch instead of the fisherman's bend next time.

 
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Freedom (sh.itjust.works)
submitted 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
 

Independence from the tyranny of commercial soaps.

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OK Ok (sh.itjust.works)
 

Let's see how this goes. Water and raw honey, 4:1, hoping for a wild yeast mead. First time, so fingers crossed

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Update! (sh.itjust.works)
submitted 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
 

Lavender bar soap unmolded and a week deep into its cure. Had some issues unmolding where the soap stuck in the corners, which is visible in the bottom right bar. Color is better now than it was out the gate, but still not quite what I had hoped for. All issues with this batch probably stem from the high proportion of Shea butter: crack after pouring into mold, sticking in the mold, bars feel a bit too soft. Proportion of butter was twice as high as it should been, but lesson learned. Will report back when it's ready for use!

 

First attempt at a ginger bug. Today is day 3 of fermentation, unsure what I'm going to soda-fy yet...maybe some apple cider? Still pretty cool.

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New Stone (sh.itjust.works)
 

I know its nothing fancy, but it's a huge step up from the no-name, no-info stone I picked up from a restaurant supply shop years ago. I'll keep y'all posted on my adventures.

Also, where is everyone?

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submitted 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
 

...and whipped up a few pounds of this lavender scented olive oil, coconut oil, and shea butter behemoth. Color is a not exactly what I was after and I think the proportion of the shea butter was too high (hence the crack), but I'm hoping it'll still be a nice batch. Will update when I unmold and again after the cure.

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