at the same time the art of the backhanded compliment is one of the oldest and most vicious ways to throw shade, so...

Pyrex makes plain old cylindrical jars as glassware, easier to use in the kitchen than a flask or a beaker.  flat-bottom evaporating dishes are a handy cup shape too.  If you can find a large evaporation tray cheap (most will not be) that could sub for a cassarole dish I suppose.  Of course buy any glassware at your…

As far as spending too much, that’s really where you need expert help because it’s also possible to get some alibaba or Harbor Freight trash that won’t actually work. I do some metalworking, and in the hobby there’s a common joke about “anvil-shaped objects”, they may have the shape of an anvil but they’re not heavy…

This is very true, this is why you need some help! There are a lot of lists of “good/better/best” or “acceptable budget/reasonable upgrade/best/prosumer” for virtually any hobby you can think of that will lay out where a good cheap starting point that isn’t alibaba garbage that will just frustrate you then break is.

dongles were a huge pain and made legitimate use a chore (and were prone to getting lost, and because they stuck out of the back of the PC often prone to getting broken by being hit) and they still didn’t stop piracy 100%.

I don’t think it’s “whataboutism” whataboutism is when you raise something totally unrelated. It was coined to describe the soviet tactic of bringing up US race relations whenever the gulags were criticized, as if the two were the same thing.

There’s some other organic gorp in a lot of energy drinks which is where they get their bad rep.  I’ve heard there are some concerns that they could have a negative effect on tooth enamel, but it’s not like coffee is kind to your teeth either.

Being fair to apple cider vinegar, it was super common to add to drinks of all kinds in the 18 and 19th century. Switchel (made of cider vinegar, molasses, ginger powder and water) was the original sports drink, enjoyed by anyone engaging in hot, hard work from farm hands harvesting hay to people raising barns to…

THIS, thank you, Because I live in the midwest.  I presume that you’re not going to be able to keep many chickens outdoors without heating when it sometimes hits -4* in the winter, but summers over 100* with high humidity are not altogether rare.  Does that mean I need to go with warm-weather chickens and keep them…

That depends on the nature of the scam. If it’s a romance scam, you’re not about to cheat someone you think you’re in a relationship with (or just ruin your chances of having sex). If it’s an employment scam they might threaten and bluster but probably won’t do much to you, though they might use your identity…

my condolances— driving in Chicago, for out-of-towners, is right up there with wallpapering and kayaking as far as things you should only do if you are extremely confident in your relationship and want to test it thoroughly.

I would bet that is accurate if you include people on antidepressants that suppress sexual desire and reaction, hormone disorders and the like. In fact I’d wager that’s the largest share.

I don’t know how the state statute is constructed but there’s often also a standard, besides implied malice, that allows for conduct that was so egregiously dangerous a reasonable person should conclude death is highly likely to result (the “depraved heart indifference” standard).  The law course textbook example of…

Earthbound gets a lot of play, I’ve noticed a few youtubers that have nothing to do with games that use the battle music or town music. One I follow uses “battle against a mobile opponent” as generic background music and another uses “battle against a weird opponent” as intro music.

I can understand why people might want to see the meme in action, or a reference to it. But if you’re not going to do a fresh translation (and who would spend that kind of money on a good quality localization for a barely-remembered game that wasn’t overly popular even in its native language?) then you have to pick…

yup, as they say “without a base, without a trace”

it’s a little of A a little of B— as a veterinary drug canthanides are somewhat effective, because a donkey really only has one way to itch itself. Of course it still can cause heart failure, terrible tissue damage and other problems. But to a farmer of that era a donkey that won’t do its duty is only good for meat…

the tri-state in Chicago is bad, but there’s a special level of hell that is Lower Wacker Dr. The problem is that it’s all too easy to find yourself on Lower Wacker, in the dark, in bumper-to-bumper traffic, and hard to get off of it. Google seems to have an unnatural affinity for Lower Wacker because, on paper, it’s…

my favorite primer for southern drivers who may not be familiar with ice, because it was written in the most perfectly southern way possible, is a news station down in Alabama who reminded folks “drive like you’re taking your mother-in-law to church and she’s got a pot of her famous baked beans in her lap and her…

It’s possible, the issue with impersonation is that it generally requires some kind of financial gain or fraud to be actionable. Damage to someone’s reputation is a possible angle, but may be tough. No doubt the deepfaker would argue that there are sufficient anatomical differences that it’s clear it is not her.