With baking you’re generally adding most of your ingredients in one go, so it would be useful. Agreed about other kinds of cooking, where you’re more in motion when adding things.

I don’t know if it’s a carrier update or what, but my phone recently started displaying caller ID information for numbers not in my address book. Threw me off at first, because I was conditioned to think that a name meant it was a known number. It’s been helpful, though, to differentiate service calls from…

I knew an octogenarian who used a Segway to putter around the urban neighborhood where she lived. All the businesses knew her and would let her park it inside while she shopped/ate/drank. She had a helmet and a safety vest and it was fucking awesome.

I mean, she is the world’s highest-grossing actress at over $14 billion in receipts. That tends to imply “box-office draw.”

In a way, it does. There have been many cases where a woman was paid less than her male costars, and the argument against them was usually that they didn’t deserve as much money anyway because they didn’t have the same box-office clout. Now you have a case of a woman who is distinctly a box-office draw being refused a…

“ALL THESE WORLDS ARE YOURS – EXCEPT EUROPA.”

I’ve got a stack of Pei Wei gift cards that my dad bought me (at Costco, in a “value pack”), but the last time I used one I got the worst food poisoning of my life and I have no intention of ever returning. Maybe I’ll look into that last option of selling them through a broker. Seems mean to give them away to friends…

If you buy out your leased car just to then sell it at a profit, won’t you then be left trying to acquire another car in an elevated pricing environment? This makes sense to me if it’s a surplus vehicle or if you are naturally at the end of your lease and will be keeping the car (making it cheaper than finding…

Are fake pockets common in men’s clothing? I assumed this article was for the ladies.

Counterpoint: Old glass jars (pickle, jam, whatever) with lids work better. They won’t melt if your used oil is still hot when you pour it in, and they have a wider mouth.

Have there been documented cases of people getting GBS from COVID itself?

I am so very grateful that my (Texas! public!) high school included Thoreau’s Civil Disobedience on our reading lists…

Kinja’s not any better. There’s no mechanism to report or block followers, and my attempts to get admins to clear out the garbage went nowhere. I’m fortunate that it’s just spam in my follows and not harassment, but it could easily be the latter and there would be no recourse.

I expect they all have financial advisors that proactively contacted them to say “free government money, just sign this form.” Most of the recipients (especially in the early stages) were those with established banking relationships.

I did some math, and the reason that two of the loan amounts in the article were so similar ($20,833 and $20,830) is that they represent the maximum that one could borrow for a sole proprietor or a single employee with a prior-year income/salary greater than $100,000 per year. I am skeptical that this much money was…

If the pool of funds were unlimited, sure. But there was a fixed amount of money available to businesses in need, so getting a PPP loan when one had the money available to cover the salary oneself reduced the amount of aid to businesses that had no other options but layoffs. This is why Shake Shack got yelled at, for…

I doubt she brought it up, I assume she was asked by reporters something along the lines of “What were you thinking?!” Short answer, she wasn’t thinking.

Except that she didn’t use crybaby reasoning. She explicitly stated that it wasn’t an excuse and that she takes responsibility for the outcome. Why are you taking Ashley’s arguments in this article as hers?

As I discovered firsthand last week, it is worthwhile to still wear a mask in public after vaccination because while I am very unlikely to contract the coronavirus and even less likely to give it to others, I CAN STILL GET A HEAD COLD.