You should be able to buy whole chickens for around $1 per pound. It takes no time at all to cut it up. I usually use the breasts and thighs for one meal (family of 5 here), then throw the rest of the chicken in a pot with carrots, celery and onions for chicken soup for the next night and left overs for lunch. You…

She doesn't think that McDonald's is fabulous food, but if you're poor, eating out ANYWHERE is a luxury. If you can afford to eat at McDonald's, you're not really poor. Real poor people eat rice and beans and are grateful for the beans. If you don't understand this, you've never been poor.

Great article. I'm a little disappointed (not much, because overall the article is pretty great) that there was no mention of fiber or water. Both are essential to sustained weight loss and health.

The problem with both counting calories and macros is that it assumes that all calories and macros are the same...…

As an aside, Pirate Carnage is also measured in R values.

<Insert 'your mom' joke here>

The butter's job in biscuit flakiness is to prevent gluten formation. It provides an oil barrier to moisture and can do the job very well if cold. When making puff pastries, the butter HAS to be kept cold during the entire process. You don't want the butter to be cold when trying to cut it in because it's too hard,…

Looks pretty cool... but that octumbrella is some serious cult material there. If you see someone walking around with that, do NOT hang around. They're gonna summon an ancient god to devour the world or something.

Maybe I'm doing it wrong... I'm a fully bearded man thing and my wife doesn't have issues with irritation unless I shave.

Going from being a hobbyist to a professional, the biggest thing I had to learn was discipline. It wasn't good enough to just hammer out some working code, I have to make it GOOD code and back it up with unit tests (and integration tests when possible.)

I also had to learn to accept that all code I wrote more than 6…

There are a ridiculous amount of studies on veganism, and Fruitarianism (looked up the spelling... Still looks stupid) is just a subset of veganism. I don't know that I'd advocate swearing off everything but fruit (Harley Johnstone of 30 bananas a day fame/infamy calls himself a fruitarian but eats spinach and such),…

But not everyone knows that and
"Since juices don't include much fiber, the body ends up absorbing more fructose sugar, which—as we all know—isn't good for you:"

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"Since juices don't include much fiber, the body ends up absorbing more fructose sugar. Fructose sugar, as we all know, isn't good for you." Which…

Fruitatarians are no less healthy than any other vegan, which is much healthier than most people on a typical Western diet.

The distinction between processed sugar and fructose is not irrelevant. There are metabolic differences, but more importantly, people say "ACK! Fruit has fructose in it! Fructose is bad! I won't…

Can we please stop saying fructose is bad for you? The statement is demonstrably false. If it were bad for you, you'd see the effects in fruititarians like Harley Johnstone and Steve Jobs.... well... I mean, he's dead, but not because of fructose. PROCESSED sugar may be bad for you. Fructose in its natural state is…

Expectation is the mother of disappointment.... But how sad are our lives that we have to expect a crappy day to we're not disappointed.

And I'm all for appreciating the small things (unless they're children, then f 'em, amiright?) but how often is the weather so good that is balances out the morons on the road/at…

Maybe I'm just too risk averse... I've cracked one too many fertilized eggs into bowls with other ingredients in them. Now, I crack them one at a time into a separate bowl. It takes a little longer and there's a little more clean-up, but the only thing worse than having to crack 2 dozen eggs is having to crack 4…

Yeah, and lets subsidize food, water, housing, clothing, shoes, healthcare, toothpaste, shampoo, and toilet paper while we're at it, too, since 100% of the US needs it. I know the rich people will bitch about having to pay for it all, but they're a minority, so we can just run rough-shod over them all day long, right?

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We replaced our sliding glass door with pre-hung french doors... It was a nightmare project, but it looked great when it was done. The problem was the frame for the new doors was about an inch too wide for the opening the old door was in. There was also no overhang at the bottom for the sliding glass door, so there…

You don't want to use the glazed ones because of bad stuff in the glaze. Many of them have significant amounts of lead. Not something you want on your food.

Why go half way?? Why does it just trigger an alarm instead of turning on some pipe heaters?

It really all depends on two things for me: How much do I want to do the work I've been given, and how sure I am of how to do the work I'm given. If I have to go searching for the person who owns the data I'm trying to access or if I'm doing something I really don't like, I will spend a lot of time cyberslacking. If…