The notion that assholes can be forced to develop empathy is flawed ab initio.

The whole “everyone should do X to develop empathy” strikes me as misplaced. Shitty people who treat other people shitty aren’t going to be cured by having people treat them shitty too. Face it, the way that people treat servers is probably very well correlated with how they treat people generally.

I love pickled beets. But hate the part the next day when I forget, see the toilet bowl, and think I’m hemorrhaging.

Apparently I keep an insane amount of canned and jarred stuff in my pantry compared to everyone else... Everything from tomato products to calabrian chiles to cornichons to tahini to tomatillos to basque pippara to anchovies to capers to salsa to strange Chinese fermented pastes... My pantry looks like some strange…

I sort of do this. I cut apples up into a medium dice (1/2"), throw in a bit of cinnamon and sous vide at 185F for 40min. or so. The cubes stay cubes and don’t turn to mush. Really tasty in the morning on top of vanilla yogurt and some granola for crunch.

I’ve started sous viding my pie filling to address both the soupy issue and the crust gap—turns out (as Kenji has figured out) if you cook the apples first at about 185F, you set the pectins, which means they don’t turn into applesauce and don’t release a lot of moisture. Which cuts down on steam too. Plus, you get to…

Your service provider is at least subject to CPNI rules, so your provider isn’t selling your location data unless you’ve explicitly allowed them too—I’d be more worried about the 3rd party apps. Apple has been pretty reasonable on customer protections, so I probably trust them more than some random Joe’s app, which is…

Turns out neither my wife nor I give a damn about whether the other knows where we are 24/7 or not. Frankly, I don’t think either one of us really cares about where the other is 99.99% of the time, but FmF is really useful the other 0.01% of the time. She doesn’t have to bug me about whether I’ve left the office yet.…

I’ve got several of these from back in the day when they were labeled 10.8V (all the 12Vs really seem to be 10.8V, so they switched to labeling them 12V like everyone else). I love the things for light duty jobs. I’ve got a 1/2" corded hammer drill and the 18V Makita LiON drill and driver, and find myself reaching for…

I’ve got several of these from back in the day when they were labeled 10.8V (all the 12Vs really seem to be 10.8V,…

Funny, but the one author I know owns a second hand bookstore.

I know Butter Chicken may not be real historic Indian cuisine, but hell, it tastes great. And if you want to get yours to taste right, you’ll also need kasuri methi—I think they are fenugreek leaves, but you won’t get the right taste substituting the spice. Also, I seem to find Amchur (mango powder) called for in a…

“Battery acid: Grapefruit juice” — I remember old school grapefruit juice, not the new era “ruby” stuff that is as sweet as OJ. Really was battery acid. But you can’t find it anymore... Or at least I can’t. I had a couple drinks I used to make with it, but it has all been erased in favor of sickly sweet crap.

The LH article appears to be wrong, which is where my confusion comes from. Digging around more, the consensus seems to be that the plan eliminates local and state taxes from itemized deductions, but does not eliminate itemized deductions.

Wrote this, but then figured out LH article seems wrong. In addition to what I quoted before, the post plainly says “[s]ome taxpayers actually save more when they itemize their many deductions—the new plan gets rid of that option so that they’ll have to take the standard deduction instead.” And, “the plan specified…

Preservation of accumulated wealth is key tenet of the ensuring the rich get richer. Rich white guys hate estate taxes.

The way I read it was that they are eliminating itemized deductions in favor of the standard deduction, but preserving the mortgage deduction, not eliminating state and local taxes as deductions (“the plan would get rid of itemized deductions, including state and local tax deductions”). So if I’m reading right you…

No... That’s why you *listen* to them extensively before buying.

Erecting a distinction between studio monitors and other speakers seems silly. When the term “studio monitor” meant something, you were probably getting a lot less bang for your buck in that domain, since pro audio gear was typically built a lot sturdier to withstand abuse that speakers don’t get in a living room.…

I love malted milkshakes. Chocolate is good, but coffee malted milkshakes are tops in my book... I actually bought myself one of those Waring retro drink mixers with the metal pint glass lookin’ things just to make malteds. Sadly, I do this only about once every six months, thanks to my guilty conscience and swelling…

$20/yr.