As someone who both bakes and cooks regularly, I don’t see a categorical difference between them. You can just as easily screw up a cooking recipe as you can a baking recipe, and you can just as easily innovate and adjust a baking recipe as you can a cooking recipe. Each recipe has a certain number of points at which…

Baking only requires precision if you’re not the one creating the recipe. There are many different desirable outcomes in baking that use the same ingredients in different proportions. Adding or removing an egg from a brownie recipe can make a big difference in the outcome, and people like it both ways—there’s not one…

So basically, organizations are supporting this with both legitimate and illegitimate intentions. That doesn’t quite matter as much to me as whether or not there’s empirical evidence that supports regulating these compounds based on established guidelines. The FDA doesn’t just take people’s word on things like this;…

Just because a beer is dry-hopped doesn’t mean it won’t be bitter. Dry-hopping adds non-bitter characteristics on top of beer, but that base beer might’ve already been made bitter as hell, depending on the hops added during the earlier boiling process. The flavors aren’t mutually exclusive.

So based on that explanation, a single beer can be both dry-hopped and wet-hopped, right? If the hops are the fresh, “wet” hops and you add them after boiling, it’s both. Correct me if I’m wrong.

An ice cream sandwich is so a sandwich, and a choco taco is a taco. I’m not following your argument. Probably because you didn’t actually make one.

I was with you until you said New York pizzas are sandwiches. How fucking dare you? A pizza is a pie, period. You don’t slice off a part of a pie, fold it, and call it a sandwich. Source: I live in New York and I make pizzas.

That’s cool. It also, obviously, makes a great mixer for cocktails.

Is severance common in this industry? I would never expect to get severance in a situation like this. It's not like I'm working under a contract or anything, and I'm not an executive. I'm wondering why severance was even a consideration.

Where are all the people (MBAs, I presume) from the last article who said stuff like “Um... that’s not how business works”?

It seems like their idea of a “real discussion” would go something like...

Mine is BrettKavanaugh2, unfortunately. 

Sorry to disappoint, but it won’t be that much better in 30 years than it is today. The improvements that are made year-over-year these days are extremely minor touches like the smoothness of shadows, reflections, etc. We’re never going to get the type of improvements we saw when the bits doubled for every generation…

I go to the beach maybe once a year and totally agree with you. It looks like some kind of wave pool. Waves are not that regular and don’t crash like that. Out of context, this would sound like a petty criticism, but I wouldn’t have said anything if there weren’t an article on www.kotaku.com praising these shitty…

Nagin is an Indian term. Why did you say SEA then?

If they make the Switch anywhere near as portable as the 3DS, sure. I’ve tried taking my Switch with me on my commute, and it is just not feasible. It’s a good thing to bring with you from place to place, but it is not really a great handheld system. The 3DS is a tank when it’s closed. The Switch would get broken so…

I’m just talking about semantics. Why can’t we say “India” instead of “SEA”? There are so many parts of SEA in which “nagin” is irrelevant.

“I selected people who can maintain their livelihood even if the company goes bankrupt,” he said.

Can we just say “India” and “Korea,” or do we need to generalize everything into Southeast Asia and East Asia? I’ve seen more disputes in the past week over what qualifies as east or south or southeast than I care to see for the rest of my life. It’s a Korean woman with an Indian name. Everybody knows what Korea and…

If Dumbledore’s sexuality was important to understanding him as a character, why wasn’t that explicit in the books?