There’s a little voice in the back of my head that hears things about registering/interning Muslims and the comeback in my brain is “but... but... this is America, while we may end up doing irrational things here and there, the People wouldn’t let that happen.” And then I remember Japanese internment. And…

I wonder if you misheard what he said—I’m wondering if he may have said that that there is usually one street that is a meridian (rather than “is Meridian”), dividing N/S or E/W.

The comparison isn’t with getting paintball tanks refilled, it is the convenience of swapping out Sodastream branded tanks at a bunch of different locations. I use Airgas for my welding gases. The ones around me don’t have weekend or evening hours. I find that rather inconvenient.

Does Spotify not include The Avengers? Surely “The American In Me” ought to be on any such list.

Not sure what your point is. If you are starting with a stud at the end of the top/bottom plates and sticking to true 16" OC, your studs are centered—measuring from the end of the top/bottom plates—at 3/4", 16 3/4", 32 3/4", 48 3/4". So the last stud goes from 48" to 49 1/2". That means a 4' sheet of drywall butted up…

This is odd to me—I do all the cooking in the house, and prefer to do the dishes. Those are my tools and I’m picky about how they get treated. Easier to just do it myself than trying to explain to someone else. Regardless, the idea that I’d choose to dirty dishes differently based on viewing cleaning as a free good…

That example is based on buying in 1l bottles. The economics change if your consumption is based on 12 or 16 oz cans, whatever the standard size is, which is what my wife was consuming. It is also a convenience thing, since I had to tote the things from the store. It also seemed like a wasteful purchase in terms of…

Because 2l bottles go flat. And because the payback, when the alternative is 12 oz cans, isn’t too bad.

As someone who buys welding gas on a regular basis, it is a PITA. None of the very few shops around me that sell commercial gases are open late night or on weekends. Which means I’ve got to hit them first thing in the AM and then be late to the office. As opposed to the multitude of Staples and BB&Bs that I can walk…

There is--at least according to what I’d consider more reliable sources than an anonymous LH commenter. See

Doing the math, based on $5 refills for the 24 oz bottles (Dick’s) and $16 for the 10 lb bottles, means breakeven at 230+ liters of soda for the $66 set up and 385 liters for the $119 set up. It is an interesting project, but I’m not sure the savings are worth it to me—potentially sketchy, non-food safe CO2, lack of…

Overall, pretty nicely done for a quickie light duty set of storage. Personally, I hate MDF--in addition to the nasty dust it generates and the fact it splits easily, it seems really flex-ey to me, so I always wonder how long it will hold up. I’d probably use another material, like baltic birch plywood. That all said,…

I’m sticking to Kenji’s method--air dry them on a sheet tray in the fridge overnight with some baking soda. Works fine for making crispy wings. Or, hell, just fry ‘em. If you aren’t eating them every day, can’t see that fried vs. baked wings is what is going to put you in an early grave.

Depends what season. That can be a bonus.

There is a reason there is a high temperature setting on your oven. Doesn’t mean you have to leave it on that temperature for the full cook.

Wait. Why isn’t running my oven at high temperatures for a long time “not ideal”? Isn’t that what it is designed for?

If you are seriously maintaining that “[i]t doesn’t take [you] any more time to pull this out of [your] cabinet and affix to the table than it does to pull a peeler out of a drawer,” you’ve lost all credibility with me. Go ahead and do it if you think it’s fun. Go ahead and do it if peeling six apples is too much for…

My sister has one for when she makes pies. From start to finish—getting equipment out, peeling, cleaning, putting away—I’m probably three times faster with a simple Y peeler. Bonus, you also don’t end up with strange serrated fruit, I generate less waste and cut less deeply into the apple, and my ability to deal with…

Love my Y peeler. But I swear by the Kyocera ceramic ones. They are $10 instead of $5, but I find them well worth the price.

Potatos are grated. So you make garlic hash browns. Obviously.