"Very sad!" - okay, Donald.
"troll". how?
is this like how you used "gatekeeping" incorrectly earlier?
If you want to believe that agreeing with what I said is some kind of argument, go for it.
there are lots of topics that people choose to take offense at for any number of reasons, I try to sympathize when possible.
Saying that waves being on the ocean is not exactly "WTF" is apparently on that list.
TIL.
"What a dumb thing to say" - ieatpillowtags
goes on to exactly agree with the "dumb" conclusion that not many people know about waves because they live in cities and don't spend much time on the water.
slick.
also, "gatekeeping" in what world?
that's completely inapplicable here.
i know all about rogue waves, thanks.
people are unfamiliar with waves. I wouldn't have guessed that, but I guess more and more people live in cities these days.
this is good knowledge to have in my back pocket.
sounds great, except I don't know what celery salt is.
what is that?
oh, literally celery seeds ground up with salt.
I don't think I've ever cooked with it before. I'm going to have to give that a try, that's definitely a good combination.
idk, waves? waves aren't unexpected on the ocean.
that's a good swell, but it didn't really WTF break my brain, did this break other brains?
here, this is more wtf: a serial urinator violating the candle section at dollar tree.
boat hits a swell in front/side, stutters, fast moving swell is momentarily moving faster than the boat in the right direction.
that wave was probably hitting the side of the boat right as it was dipping down, so it climbed up the side of the boat and on to the deck
egg soboro right now: crack an egg in a pan, constant stirring, 8 minutes or so at the lowest heat, super fluffy, flavored textured egg curds.
doesn't even look like they bothered to erase the original title or crop the picture correctly,, but who doesn't like Nic Cage enough to overlook a lazy morph?
I feel like if they took it super seriously and made weekly 1 minute videos, they'd amass a pretty solid following.
okay so a great YouTube channel is a gatherer very seriously stalking and pouncing on plants that they gather, like Calvin hunting the box of cereal.
urban foraging
got it, thanks.
have you tried it with fresh and older garlic?
I feel like the higher water content in the fresh garlic might make it easier to shake peel.
since I just bought a bag of garlic, I'll have to try this out next time and buy some fresher stuff.
better title is "perry attacks dave".
The altercation didn't look mutual.
very different laws in the US.
in the states, tree ownership ends at the property line.
once part of a tree or plant is on your property or in public property, it no longer legally belongs to the tree it is growing from.
If your neighbor's tree branches grow into your yard, the branches are your property and you can harvest from or cut down those branches up to your property line.
Americans are generally pretty cool about urban foraging, in any case.
I've had neighbors invite me on to their property to pick fruit directly from their bushes or trees just because they had so much.
are private trees or close-packed houses not very common in Germany?
property lines are often a big problem in the states where so many have their house and property so close to each other.
this is great, My favorite foraging back in the day was a giant pear tree hung way over onto the sidewalk, I grabbed dozens of pears for months.
oh except I lived across from an abandoned orchard and seasonally got free apples while living in Portland. so that was pretty good.
My frugality this week was upcycling a pair of abandoned broken flip flops with paracord to make new huarachas, running sandals.
I also caught several ghost crabs on the beach a few days ago, enough to make dinner.
If that fruit is in a public area, then that fruit is public property, legally and socially.
haha, I've never seen that, thanks for sharing, it's awesome.
The peel is thicker and attached firmly to the root, so cutting off the root end first will save a lot of time and effort peeling garlic.
you can avoid stripping the peel into tiny sticky pieces or digging grooves into the clove while you gouge or scrape off the peel from the top or side.
this is another lifehack I would have appreciated learning years earlier.
lots of great writing here.
this is probably my favorite description of an andalite in the series:
"he was a blue-furred centaur with a pair of extra eyes on movable stalks and a tail like a chef’s knife tied to the end of a bullwhip."
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Finding arbron again is strange. weird that he is still a nothlit, weird that he has become the leader of his adopted species.
"come on cassie, show me where to go next." is such a great show don't tell apology by Jake.
It's so great that Jake trusts Cassie again and everybody else can see that she was right to let Tom take the morphing cube.
finally! it's been awful seeing her get treated like a traitor for so long.
and Jake basically asks Cassie to marry him, which is great.
I very much like the moment Tom realizes Jake is alive and the visser sarcastically congratulates Tom on his astute observation.
i also really like how the visser is completely aware and resigned to his fate. I wish he was a little more realistic and not so goofy as an evil son of a bitch most of the series.
If your shower is spraying in different directions or looks kind of gross, that's almost always mineral buildup.
pour a few cups of white vinegar in a plastic bag, dunk the shower head in there, leave it alone for a few hours, and it'll come out clean.
you can shake it every hour to make sure the vinegar gets everywhere and the broken down minerals get out of the way, but it's not really necessary.
I soak overnight sometimes, but that's usually not necessary.
White vinegar leaves no residue, no smell, won't damage your rubber or plastic seals, is cheap and safe to use.
vinegar is crazy useful, I'm sure it'll make a reappearance in this community soon.
for clarification - this is the everyday, supermarket 5 to 6% acetic acid white vinegar, all the normal cheap stuff at the supermarket is that balance. Not agricultural vinegar, which has a much higher acidic level(up to 50%) and will damage anything you put it on.
"Acceptable" mass casualties.
All of the emotional and moral discussions in this book are extremely well expressed and kick you in the gut.
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I was surprised that Ax was still wavering so strongly this late in the series, but it makes perfect context for his absolute shock at Cassie's betrayal.
Everyone can see now that Rachel has a problem with enjoying violence and can't stop herself from indulging anymore.
the opening scene with Ax letting someone go free and Rachel rescinding that action was brutal.
tldr: yes it works; brita filters don't filter out alcohol and do filter out particulates.
set one filter aside in the fridge for your booze of choice, put it in the pitcher when it's time, filter your booze a few times, put the booze filter back in the fridge and use your high quality liquor for whatever you want.
this came about while I was in China because their 白酒, rice liquor, was the worst spirit I had ever tasted.
I have tasted a $5,000 bottle and a $5 bottle of 白酒 and the difference is negligible, both hovering around "wastewater" level.
I remember hearing about this lifehack and so I gave it a try with the Chinese rice liquor and after filtering it one time I could drink it like any medium shelf liquor, whereas before the filtering it literally smelled like rubbing alcohol and I'd want to immediately vomit taking a shot.
so I started testing other alcohols and doing blind taste tests with friends, and literally every single time, and I did a couple dozen blind taste tests, people voted the filtered liquor tasted better.
i started filtering vodkas and gins a lot for my own drinks or parties.
it works with any alcohol since brita filters don't filter out alcohol.
My filters lasted for months, I kept them bagged in the fridge until I filtered a new bottle, poured the vodka through the filter half a dozen times and then put the vodka filter back in the fridge.
It's a simple, easy way to get high quality vodka or gin for mixers and a great way to get any shitty alcohol tasting much better.
Heat up a pot of water(i use a brining pot) to a simmer, pour it down any drain and that clog is gone.
You don't need to boil anything and the exact temperature does not matter.
fill a big pot with tap water, heat it up to a near simmer, dump it directly down the drain.
That'll give the clog a good punch and the weight of the next gallon or two you heated up will get rid of the rest of it.
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Rachel's sisters meet ax and That's how they react to him.
everything ax does makes me crack up, but this struck me as particularly funny.
It's a great spot of comic relief in an otherwise very bleak run.
I used sink plungers in toilets pretty much my whole life until i scrolled across a similar diagram one day and discovered the truth.
War.
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A human in morph dies right away so you know what you're getting into, then things are pretty much exploding and bring destroyed for the whole book while they protect a governor, which seems like a bit much until you reach the end of the book and the governor announces the yeerk invasion to the world.
which is a really great ending.
funny note, Marco talks about how did are ax great long-distance flight morph, and finished them to the reliability of a 747.
Maybe that was correct twenty years ago, when Boeing still did maintenance on their planes with sturdy materials.
What happened in the vegan community?
I hadn't heard about any of this until seeing that ToS post.
Like traveling? No income taxes(up to 120k) if you live outside of the US more than 330 days a year.
You may qualify for the foreign earned income, foreign housing exclusions and the foreign housing deduction if you meet certain requirements. Learn more.
when tax time comes around, you fill out an IRS form called the FEIE, the Foreign Earned Income Exclusion.
Check the "physical presence test" box, fill out your total income for that year, then write down the dates that you were not in the United States and where you were.
10 minutes, one extra form, no income taxes.
This is one of my most consistently used life hacks.
key rings are extremely durable, perfectly shaped to pull on, better than regular zipper tabs most of the time, keyrings are the perfect replacement.
Anytime I see a good key ring, I pop it into my tools pocket for the next failed zipper tab.
I buy all of my bags second hand because if they are missing a zipper tab, they're deemed useless and sold for a couple of dollars even if they're otherwise brand new.
If I need a bag of a specific type, I go around the thrift stores, find the exact bag/suitcase I want that's new but missing a couple zipper tabs, and after I buy it and take it home, throw a couple key rings on and have exactly the bag I want.
I've actually made more than a few connections with people because their suitcases broke and I had an "aha" fix ready to go for them.
Maybe the least relevant title to content?
or maybe the title is lost in context since every character is the most unlike they have every been in the series and this book is all about coming to terms and impressing upon the naive that the only choices left to make in war are terrible choices.
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everyone dies or you find a few more soldiers willing to sacrifice themselves.
It's pretty difficult watching the game pedantically and repeatedly explain to their parents that the life they thought they had is gone and people are dying and getting hurt. and you can't choose the moral high road unless you're willing to sacrifice others.
and the Animorphs have to hold the line on this reasoning because they're the only ones who really understand where the line is.
This is the controversial (as I remember it) decision to recruit disabled kids to be soldiers, because they're sure that the yeerks don't want any physically disabled bodies.
The ending really shocked me, I figured Cassie was going to kill Tom so that Jake didn't have to, and they could recover the morphing cube, I completely forgot that she bit Jake to slow him down and allow Tom to get away with the morphine cube because of her HUNCH that letting him have the morphing cube with the right thing to do.
that is a brassy hunch.
I've been looking for a simple solution to keep my wallet, phone, and Bluetooth headset dry and secure while I'm swimming, but every waterproof bag was either very tiny, very difficult to open and push things into because of the tacky plastic coating, or expensive and only useful for one purpose.
After scoping out the options at sports stores, I realized I already had a very strong, lightweight polyester day bag so I went bought a large round screw-top container with a rubber gasket and I was done.
easy to put everything in and take everything out, very good seal.
Took it into some crashing waves for an hour with my phone, wallet, and t-shirt inside(and some tissue papers so that I could periodically check if any water was getting in) and the thing works like a charm.
Bonus buoyancy means I can use the container as a small pillow while floating
The water was pretty busy today, but I'll definitely have to try floating again, the neck pillow was very comfortable during the short test runs i was allowed.