textik

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[–] textik 3 points 3 days ago (1 children)

This is how I am with dill lately, after I discovered my local grocery store sells it for cheap in huge bunches, and not the usual little plastic clamshells. I actively seeking out recipes that use dill, and then blow the specified quantity out of the water. Turns out more dill just makes it better.

[–] textik 2 points 5 days ago

seriouseats.com used to be a lot better, but the fluff before the recipe is generally focused on why the recipe uses the ingredients and quantities it uses, what else was tried, and what the results were. Especially for the older articles written by J. Kenji Lopez-Alt, it ends up being almost more useful than the final recipe they land on. I know you were asking for a no-frills recipe site, but this approach is great for two reasons: 1) you can scroll to the bottom for a no-frills recipe, and 2) if that didn't work, or if you want to tweak it, the full article has a ton of helpful information, and not, like, a biography of the author's grandma.

His chocolate chip cookie article is a all-timer for food science.

[–] textik 1 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

Yo ho, yo ho, a pilot's life for me.

[–] textik 3 points 2 months ago
[–] textik 2 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

On a race car, some (not an absurd amount) of negative camber is needed because as the car leans into a corner, the outside tire gains camber. The car will have its best cornering performance when the outside tire is perfectly perpendicular to the road during a hard corner, because then the entire tire, not just the inside or outside edge, is gripping the road.

Here's a good example of what this looks like in practice: this car has about 4° of negative camber on the front wheels in order to achieve 0° in a hard corner.

[–] textik 14 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (6 children)

Hook my beloved. I understand objectively why it is not a good movie, but having watched it 852 times throughout my childhood, I could not find fault with it on a recent rewatch.

edit: I watched that movie so early and so often, that I can recite whole scenes not by word, but by phonemes and cadence, because my language skills weren't fully developed at the time.

[–] textik 71 points 7 months ago (4 children)

If you follow avherald.com for any length of time, you'll learn that 1) the vast majority of aviation incidents are completely benign, and 2) the vast majority of injuries aboard airliners are caused by passengers not wearing their seatbelts. The seatbelts aren't there for the once-a-decade crash; they're there for the once-a-month strong turbulence event, which the airplane itself will barely even notice.

[–] textik 5 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Gotcha. Yeah, Astra worked okay for me, but Feather is sharper by a mile. Might try that before getting a whole new razor.

[–] textik 3 points 8 months ago (3 children)

I'm a big fan of slant razors for my tree-trunk whiskers. The heads of these razors have a slight twist along the run, so the blade meets your skin at an angle, and helps to slice the hair a bit, rather than just chopping straight on. My slant razor actually feels quite a lot less aggressive than my old adjustable at max setting, but cuts closer.

Also, what brand blade are you using?

[–] textik 12 points 9 months ago (1 children)

I don't think it was a hoax, but campaign 101 is to be absolutely confident in your candidacy until the nanosecond you drop out. If you telegraph weakness to the voting public, and then end up staying in the race, that will be a millstone around your neck. Even if he was wavering in the weeks leading up to his dropout, there would be zero upside to communicating that publicly.

[–] textik 14 points 10 months ago
[–] textik 32 points 10 months ago (3 children)

I always used to wonder how the Weimar Republic fumbled the ball so hard. Now I know.

Also, in Christian eschatology, isn't it a big deal that the Antichrist suffers a near fatal head injury before his ultimate victory?

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