Yeah, I remember reading one of the early Wallander books, with an opening sequence set in a “rape field.” The series is so dark, I had to continue reading to make sure.
Hiya, just quickly wondering how people store their coffee? Mine is in a tin box I got second hand, cos I thought it looked nice. Any rules regarding storing grounded coffee? I don’t store much at the time, it’s just if I grind a little too much and what not. I’m assuming the general thumb rule for this is to store it in a...
What is something you can’t live without, technology wise that saves you time?
I have to say it’s my virtual assistant I’ve made. It saves me a lot of time with making reminders and such alarms for meetings or interviews, music etc.
Having just returned from a long carry-on trip, I concur.
I spent half April washing my socks and underwear in the shower. Even without washing my outer layers, it got really irksome. Thankfully, we had an apartment (with a washer) for the second half. That first load of laundry was magical.
English natively, enough Spanish to make friends, enough French to stay out of trouble, and enough Italian to get into trouble. I also have some transactional German (groceries, tickets, coffee, etc). I’m American.
It would take me a few months of daily practice to prepare and get comfortable with anything but Spanish. I haven’t studied the other languages formally, only independently, for travel.
Spouse and I have a discussion on what to do after you pour a sauce out of a glass bottle. I do nothing but my wife takes her finger and wipes the excess from the bottle before she puts the lid back on. I think touching the food is disgusting and she thinks leaving it there to gum up the lid is disgusting. What do people do?
I just spent almost two weeks on vacation in an apartment with an induction stove. I’ve had gas my whole life. I was impressed. It heated the pans faster and more evenly, the temperature was more tuneable and it was easy to clean.
While standard resistive stoves do get those rings, the inductive one almost certainly wouldn’t, because the glass only gets heated by the pan, rather than the other way around.
The only difficulty was the Samsung UX. It was a bit of a chore to get the pan centered on the coil, and there was insufficient feedback when you got it right or wrong and if it wasn’t in the right place it just wouldn’t work. I got used to it, but I’d have liked some better markings, and an LED ring that would show when it was on. It also didn’t automatically heat the pan quickly on startup. You had to set it to 9, then back off, otherwise it would heat the pan on a duty cycle.
If I were to upgrade my kitchen, I’d absolutely go with induction. However, even beyond my usual research, I’d make damn sure I got the best option on this. I love cooking too much to screw it up.
Mine is covered in actual art and memorabilia. My dentist has a very full life. It’s one of the many reasons I like him. He’s got everything from a signed Jasper Johns print, to Dead posters, to intricate world cup displays, with his tickets, etc.
I’ve probably bought at least one of them for him lol. Still, it’s nice to have an interesting office to visit.
I was going to edit my other response but I’ll just make a new one so OP sees it.
Calum Raasay , out of Scotland, makes some outstanding historo-scientific videos. He travels around quite a bit too.
Another that I haven’t seen mentioned is Our Own Devices , he actually used to write for Simon Whistler. Most of his videos are shot in-studio, like Technology Connections and Joe Scott, but he also ventures out into the field for special projects. It’s a similar mix to what you’d see on Forgotten Weapons.
Honestly? Sometimes my brain just runs with stuff like this. Having travelled enough, it gets really fascinating, what’s expensive where and why. A universal value metric would be about as useful to me as the Kelvin scale is. It’s nice to have it as a thought tool, but it’s not particularly useful day-to-day.
Saw this skinwalker yesterday and can't really get over it (lemmy.ca)
Top senators believe the US secretly recovered UFOs (thehill.com)
Canola Fields (lemmy.world)
Reddit tests automatic, whole-site translation into French using LLM-based AI (techcrunch.com)
In its first-ever earnings call as a public company, Reddit talked about user growth in non-U.S. countries using LLMs for automatic translations.
How do you store your grounded coffee? (slrpnk.net)
Hiya, just quickly wondering how people store their coffee? Mine is in a tin box I got second hand, cos I thought it looked nice. Any rules regarding storing grounded coffee? I don’t store much at the time, it’s just if I grind a little too much and what not. I’m assuming the general thumb rule for this is to store it in a...
Which languages do you speak?
New Texas Law Makes It Legal To Sue Any Woman Whose Weight Fluctuates To Find Out What’s Going On There (www.theonion.com)
Ornate German hunting crossbow, 16th century AD
Do you clean the opening on your glass bottles?
Spouse and I have a discussion on what to do after you pour a sauce out of a glass bottle. I do nothing but my wife takes her finger and wipes the excess from the bottle before she puts the lid back on. I think touching the food is disgusting and she thinks leaving it there to gum up the lid is disgusting. What do people do?
Gas stoves increase nitrogen dioxide exposure above WHO standards – study (www.theguardian.com)
Science Advances report also finds people of color and low-income residents in US disproportionately affected...
A Better Way to Waterproof Fabric (youtu.be)
When the TV itself was a piece of furniture (lemmy.world)
My dentists office has a lot of artwork featuring the word "smile" and none with the word "chew."
Is this discoloration a problem? (lemmy.world)
Renovating the bathroom and found these dark patches in the joists and roof lumber surrounding the old vent pipe. The PVC part is new....
What are your go-to YouTube channels to fulfill your Tom Scott itch now days?
Sorry, there's no room for you. (lemmy.world)
India overtakes China to become world’s largest electric 3-wheeler market (www.pv-magazine.com)
We keep measuring everything's value with something that continuously loses value over time
It’s becoming really annoying.
A Konami code variant in Castlevania has been discovered after a quarter of a century (www.pcgamer.com)