Price gouging is where, having no available substitute, a vendor dramatically increases prices. Think gasoline after a disaster, or water. I don’t think Hershey’s raising prices on pb cups counts as “price gouging” - you can always buy something else.

My in-laws live near a little north of there and it was -10 early this morning. Those monkeys are dead...

Luanne goes to LA to follow her Manger Baby dreams after Lucky dies following another unfortunate slip and fall on pee-pee.

Haggis is fine; blood sausage on the other hand... the taste is just bleh.

Yeah and this statement “If your system is saturated, if you don’t need any energy, but you’re drinking a lot of alcohol, because you don’t need energy all the alcohol will be converted into fat.” isn’t absolutely true either. Alcohol has to be processed by the liver before it can be used as energy (or stored) and the…

Aeropress was my jam for years before I got an espresso machine. Try varying the water temps +/- 10 degrees with different coffees - you’ll get different results. Same with steep time. I kept a log.

Maybe time travelers have determined that killing Hitler results in an even worse outcome

I like her recipes.

TBH I don’t store anything valuable/fenceable that’s easy to carry in our shed. Power tools are the prime target for this kind of stealing so they stay in the garage. You could always lock the door with a pad lock but that’s easy to bypass and the doors themselves are easily forced on most common storage sheds.

“took a lot of the critiques to heart in terms of what was spoken about after season one, first in terms of incorporating more of the French culture” and prioritizing “diversity and inclusion.” She also claimed it was “a gift to be given these comments and creative critiques, to be able to listen and grow and create…

Just an aside, but it’s interesting: The tomato, which is indelibly linked to Italian cuisine now, was originally imported there from what is now Mexico. It was transported back from European expeditions. It took a long while to gather acceptance as the tomato is part of the nightshade family - famous for its…

My guess is somebody’s arm slipped or jerked as they were applying pressure. A wide badge like that might be a little more tricky to apply than a narrow one. Or they were new and didn’t have the technique correct. Obviously, better tooling can help with this.

And very regionally at that. The Dublin bottler has a small territory comprising a few small Texas towns. In the 2000's they started selling it beyond where it was very popular due to the sugar instead of HFCS, but other bottlers/soda gangsters got in a tizzy about the encroachment on their territory and filed suit.…

Oof that 10k jump for Turbo. I wonder how negotiable that is.

Are you expecting something else? It’s the same with Volvo, Lexus, BMW and Mercedes. “Leatherette”, “MB-Tex”, “Nu-Luxe”, “SensaTec” are all vinyl.

RTG’s are still launched. Anything going out further into the solar system has to have them because there isn’t enough solar energy to power things. The recent Mars rovers have them. They are designed to survive a launch accident and/or re-entry by encapsulating the plutonium in a ceramic and a putting that in a very…

Zima was basically alcoholic Sprite. Many of the similar drinks like Smirnoff Ice, Mike’s Hard Lemonade etc. that followed were in that form - boozy (and very sugary) soda pop (technically malt liquor).

The insurers likely did have contractual requirements that may not have been fully met. The insurers will be doing most of the legal fighting and will probably try to deny claims on that basis. A judge will probably rule by casting some percentages around - insurers cover this %, organizers that %, and so on. It will…

I follow a few interesting abandoned-in-russia instagrams and it is amazing the amount of hardware just sitting around, rusting. Lots of military vehicles but also entire factories full of equipment. Saw a bread factory that shut down one day with loaves still on the conveyors 18 years later. Seems that legal ownership…

Chipmaking equipment is very specialized and supremely expensive. Only a few companies in the world even produce the tools and its an extremely expensive enterprise - fabs run 24/7 to have the scale to make it economical. The automakers wouldn’t have enough volume for this to make sense - their cost per chip would…