It’s easier to get the oil to fully cover your hands and stay in place long enough to really cling to all the spicy stuff. With a few ounces, you can really cover your hands, get throughly under you finger nails, and feel out any spots you might have missed with just soap and water. The real trick is to use dish soap after. Hand soap doesn’t have the same oil and grease grabbing strength. It works like you said, but because now you’ve basically painted your hands in oil, you can really feel how well you’re getting all the oils off your hands. You’re essentially making a solution of oil and spicy solute, diluting it before washing the solution away. If the dish soap only gets 99% of the stuff off my hands, I’d rather that remaining %1 be mostly oil with some dissolved spicy solute, than %1 of the just spicy stuff.

Maybe it’s an indication the “joke” just wasn’t that funny.

This, but once I’ve caramelized the exterior by setting it aflame, I slide the toasted bit off and eat it. With the fresh white gooey flesh of the marshmallow exposed, I again set the whole thing aflame, blow it out, and eat the next layer of crispy caramel skin. This method works best with one of those jumbo marshmallows. Once the jumbo marshmallow has been roasted and skinned enough to reach regular size, it gets the chocolate and graham cracker s’mores treatment.

And for a final hot take, only Hershey’s milk chocolate will do for the s’mores. You need that choco umami to balance out the marshmallow sweetness. Fancy expensive chocolates, super dark chocolate, and most European chocolates just cannot make a good s’more.

CARE BEARS

They are Care BEARS, not Care Dogs.

Effective Altruism just feels like rebranded Trickle-down economics.

Equal-Earth is just as flawed as Mercator, just in different ways. Mercator made sense in an era of navigation based on compass measurements, astrological observations, accurate time keeping, and dead reckoning. Mercator still makes sense as a projection associated with local navigation, even in an age of GPS, for the way it preserves angles. Equal-Earth makes sense for the symbol of a global organization, but is mostly useless for navigation. Equal-Earth is really only good for global economics and politics. Waterman butterfly is my favorite for obvious reasons. Then there are the satirical map projections.

No, manipulation is inherently dishonest. That’s how you know it’s manipulation and not just honest discourse seen in the meme.

First definition in the American heritage dictionary states this pretty plainly, “Shrewd or devious management, especially for one’s own advantage.”

“The Incroyables wore eccentric outfits: large earrings, green jackets, wide trousers, huge neckties, thick glasses, and hats topped by “dog ears”, their hair falling on their ears.”

That sounds remarkably similar to other recent fashion trends.

Aren’t most milkshakes and soft-serve “ice cream” bought in any number of businesses essentially just that very thing? Corporate America has already figured this out, they just don’t want you to see how the sausage is made.

I delight in reporting genuine emails from my company that look like sophisticated phishing attempts, bonus points if they send a follow-up assuring us that the previous sketchy email was in fact genuine.

If the fake phishing emails can be caught by my very rudimentary filter they weren’t particularly good anyway. Besides, I still have to look at those emails and report them, otherwise my IT still counts it as a strike against me. Win-win. IT continues to keep me on my toes and I don’t have to take another 30min training course because I ignored an email for a day or two.

I’ve never noticed a duty cycle with my induction, only conventional cooktops. Is that a problem with particularl makes, models, or price points?

My induction just sets the power output to the level I choose and holds it there. It doesn’t hold a temperature, just a power output, so I do have to watch it because setting it to medium will be very different on a hot pan vs a cold pan.

Similar to when you “drop the dime” on someone, i.e. using a dime to call the cops on a payphone. Although in my lifetime, I don’t think I’ve heard anyone but Bradley Nowell use that phrase.

My parents, grandparents, and maybe my great grandparents used gas. All my other ancestors used wood. I cook with the power of science on my induction range because I’d rather not drown in carcinogens in my own home for the sake of boiling a pot of water and I’m not a fucking troglodyte.

Hold the pan with the left hand (handle on the left) and do the precise work (moving and flipping stuff) with the right hand. Why would a left handed person prefer the left burner?

Apples to oranges comparison. Look into how helicopters generate lift, you seem to be misunderstanding the physics of the situation.

Because everybody knows to dive out of the path of overhead helicopters lest they be crushed.

Most of the US standard units these days are defined in terms of metric units. But lots of individual laws and regulations from the federal down to the state, county, and municipal level are still worded in terms of those US standard units. This means that ultimately the U.S. is already using the metric system in actual fact, while the US standard units are used in name only. For example, the U.S. Standard foot is common throughout the country to define the boundaries of real property (land), but since 1959 1 foot has been defined as equaling 0.3048 meter exactly. The US foot is set to be replaced soon with the international foot, similarly defined by the meter, when the National Geodetic Service finalizes it’s new datums and state plane coordinate systems.

Point is, the US is already using the metric system, with a heavy accent.

Empathy begins with relating to others experiences by comparison. I did not intend to minimize or be dismissive of your experience in the way your reply to me was. They are two sides of an unfairly balanced coin. Most men are never going to be able to really empathize with high heels and make-up, but they can understand being stuffed into uncomfortable and impractical clothes. We should be able to commiserate and relate without being dismissive and hostile.