Treacherous. Even a smallish branch can easily accumulate a couple pounds’ worth of fruit by late summer, just waiting for a good gust of wind to drop the whole payload. They’re bigger than a golf ball, dense, and oily/smelly, so as a kid they made awesome projectiles, but running around or mowing the yard after a…

I had no idea Clear was that expensive. I’ve rolled past their kiosks a few times and there was no attendant vs. pre-check always has at least one lane open. Also at MDW and LGA I’ve seen people scan into Clear, get escorted by an attendant past the boarding pass/ID check, and dumped into the line right at the…

If keeping Scholastic “in the family” was actually so important to all parties involved, you’d think they would’ve had this all ironed out and legally documented some time ago. He was 84 for pete’s sake - pandemic or not, his days of running the family business were numbered.

In an ice cream maker.

Cooking oil also starts to solidify at higher temperatures than mineral oil...which starts to become an issue in cold weather with frozen locks being an issue.

Canonization is political and comes from the church’s marketing/PR department, and plenty of saints were actually trash humans (see: Mother Teresa) or their good deeds were straight-up fabrications.

I wish Ocean and other artists would step up to the plate and get Coachella to ditch AEG/Goldenvoice, otherwise they’re just pumping money into the gun lobby, anti-voter initiatives, and republican campaigns. I’m sure they’ve also pivoted away from general anti-LGBT initiatives to specifically anti-trans bills, now…

Yeah, kinda wild how many people are walking the streets absolutely teetering on the brink of sudden death who just so happen to die during a police interaction. Talk about pre-existing conditions...

Around here (Chicago) you can just smush grass clippings into a mound and they’ll be steaming hot within a couple days. I fold in batches of pulled weeds or raked leaves and small twigs, after I’ve crunched or chopped them up but try to keep my pile 2/3 - 3/4 grass, since that seems to be the biggest driver of the dige…

If that’s the case, I really need to know more about how the anti-doping stuff and travel preparations actually work, considering Team USA got a whole year delay for these games, and yet people are still getting caught by surprises.

Without the link to the original paper, I don’t know, but did they really use bumblebees? Because commercial pollinators use honeybees. Both will pollinate, but bumblebees are asocial, and so don’t do the whole waggle dance to communicate with the rest of a hive, so won’t be able to pass on the intel to pollinate a…

There’s calculus and sorcery going on in the beverage world to be sure, but two key market factors drive alot of this: 1) a ton of people either do not like the taste of, or do not trust the safety/purity of, their tap water, and 2) Americans, for various reasons, are behind the rest of the planet on tea consumption…

My shower curtain liner, like my shower curtain, is machine washable fabric. Did I stumble onto a Lifehack, or am I doing it wrong?

Isn’t the officer signing a report as the victim a clear-cut case of filing a false police report, which is a crime unto itself in most jurisdictions?

This.

That’s because OP said “certified gluten-free and organic” - just organic won’t cut it. Sourcing and supply-chain handling of organic grains is head-and-shoulders above conventional. An organic inspection or audit will absolutely catch something like oats in a wheat bin/silo or vice versa. It’s not what’s in the…

I find kitchen shears make this pretty quick/easy work.  The more surface area, the quicker stuff starts breaking down.

All the prevailing wisdom seems to point to composting your kitchen scraps separately from your yard waste, if for no other reason than grass clippings and leaves get “cooking” a helluva lot faster than any of that other stuff.

Not getting the pile hot enough for long enough. Getting a core temp of 130-140 and turning every couple days should keep seeds from germinating...also any insect pests, parasites or pathogens would have a tough time surviving.

Any benefit to the “outdoor” venue is pretty much lost when you consider how they handle crowd control, ticketing, vendor queues, etc. it’s already a money grab to pack the park beyond reasonable capacity, so it shouldn’t have shocked anybody that they made a provision for unvaccinated people. We’ll also probably…