zeekaran

@zeekaran@sopuli.xyz
1 Post – 213 Comments
Joined 1 years ago

Reeks.

Just look at this beautiful creature.

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Get a proper single piece silicone spatula for your non stick and throw this one away. Get a single piece metal spatula for your stainless steel pan.

Alternatively, throw out your non stick pans and skip step one above.

Edit: Disregard what I said about metal spatulas. Get a two piece, wood handled, metal fish spatula. It is my new favorite item in the kitchen.

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A productive team member was heard giving their daily stand-up report during their team's daily stand-up...

To another company. Oops! Don't forget to mute your mic if you're working two jobs at the same time!

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The Apple part of the Apple Watch really irks me.

The more walkable the location of the house, the less space you need because that space is outside your house.

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Pooping.

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You should work on your diet.

Every time I see a movie from the 90s and older, and they show a parking lot, I get sad. Everyone used to drive reasonably sized sedans. Family vehicles were wagons. Fuck SUVs and trucks.

The amount of hostility in here is nuts.

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Haha look at this guy! He doesn't know how to use the three Pringles!

Without touching the link, I'm just gonna say that click bait headline made me gag.

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The people on lemmy are college kid level extremist on literally everything and it would be funnier if it weren't so exhausting.

Or it's just not funny and adds nothing to the conversation. Extremely low effort garbage deserves down votes.

I like making things. I'm mainly into making costume props and decorations. Basically I'm into making interesting things exactly once, learning a bunch of lessons on what to not do, but never do it again. I'm not a skilled wood worker or metal worker. But! I bound a book myself, coffee stained it, and made the cover out of sewn together leather scraps. It's a Necronomicon. I made a lightsaber almost entirely out of junk from ReStore (mostly plumbing parts). I made an EL wire tree with a dried tree branch about 6ft tall, a spool of decent gauge metal wire, and 50 10ft EL strands. Sanded and painted toy guns. Made a James Webb looking wall decoration out of black foam board, gold hexagons, and an NFC tag. Semi related, I modified an IKEA table to be a vaulted board game table where the tops mount on the wall via French cleat and it has cup holders to keep drinks out and away from spilling on the inside of the table. I have 3D printed some minor costume bits. Made a bunch of wizards wands out of paint, hot glue, and chopsticks. Made a float lamp (tie a bunch of annoying knots around a sphere). Currently trying to modify toy Poke Balls to have a functioning LED button but I really hate soldering.

I'm a programmer by trade so I also tinker with Home Assistant far too much. I have a jellyfish lamp with an RGB bulb that tells me the weather when I wake up. Just made an LCARS (Star Trek UI) dashboard for decoration.

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Cocktails. I'm purely an amateur home bartender (I work in software development) but I'm better at making cocktails than most paid bartenders in the city, including a number of the ones working at craft cocktail bars I've been to across the country. I make my own syrups, creams, infusions, carved ice, and dehydrated fruit. I've recently started using an iSi whipper to make foam toppers; beer foam for old fashioneds, tropical foam for Mai Tais. My avocado orgeat is awesome. Fat washing with coconut oil is easy and makes Campari and cachaça amazing. I've hosted many parties in the 15-28 person range, as well numerous smaller cocktail nights, so I have experience creating thematic menus and then prepping and serving the drinks all night.

I have a ton of knowledge about spirits in general, both breadth and depth. Most bartenders and even mixologists don't even know what baijiu is (let alone tried each aroma), know the difference between soju and shōchū, or why soju is rarely made with rice. My rum knowledge is where I've specialized and I can recommend multiple bottles of each type (Smuggler's Cove categories or Minimalist Tiki's) in varying price ranges, what cocktails they are best for, and the subtle differences between each bottle within its own category.

I'm a perfectly average programmer though.

A fair amount is just racism.

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Honestly why are humans even there to make these decisions? It's a train

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Literally my entire wall is either:

  • extreme tech industry junk
  • asks
  • cats

I would love some diversity but everything I've subscribed to is either the above, or dead.

Likely you aren't seeing astroturfing on a massive scale by corporate fiddling and complicit mods. It's not curated to bait you.

The only realistic possible upside is it brings out more voters who vote left and overwhelm even the worst gerrymandering in the state which leads to a blue wave. That's it.

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Because the nerdy engineers hosting these are not great at naming things.

If you've played it before that's doable. Someone who has never played it will have a bad time. It's seriously outdated.

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I just assume these are all from twelve year olds.

Should not be via a standard wall jack. As far as I know.

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Is she still willing to acknowledge worries from people about phones and microwaves? Or is she supporting science this year?

A Henry. It uses dust bags but it's been months and I'm still on the same one. It's a canister vacuum, not an upright vacuum. Too many times someone sucks up a bunch of drywall dust or cat litter and then you turn on the upright vacuum and it spews dust in a massive cloud. Canister vacuums don't do that.

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Literal shit posting.

$700/mo is $23/night. Capsule hotels in Tokyo are about $30/night.

I bookmark so much these days. Other times I collect links with better descriptions in Joplin.

Private trackers.

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Actual old style forums for cars are great for this.

Never noticed the silhouette in the window.

There's a reason restaurants cannot use wooden cutting boards.

Paying above asking will cost a lot less than an extra 4% over 30 years.

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I still have mine! In a drawer. Somewhere.

Home screen widgets are basically the same thing. The issue with these is NFC doesn't work unless the phone is unlocked, or you rooted it to allow NFC all the time.

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This is not a good way to deal with anything.

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Despite the quality of the guests, there wasn't one.