Or you could just get a quick sharp and get on with life/cooking

Rada Quick sharp and a cheap hone

Yes we all know about people who obsessively talk about knife care and sharpening, but for the average person, just use this to get your knife sharp and get on with your life.

Sorry but the correct way to heat up pizza is in a covered frying pan.

8k is effectively dead

Coconut oil for skin moisturizer.

Fuck you, turns out its maximally comedogenic.

Found out later that sunflower oil is top tier.

No. Just ludicrously rich as her father started a nation-wide retail giant. She’s never worked a day in her life, upwards of $60M in personal assets. Utterly delusional as it relates to how the world works and how others live. Buying an entire X, having one bite and throwing the rest out is her default.

She buys a full $32 cut fruit platter, eats one chunk of pineapple, puts platter in fridge until it rots into slime and then has her maid discard it. She’ll buy a 12 pack of bagels, eat a quarter of ONE bagel and throw the other 11 straight into the trash.

Really.

Thrifting as well in the last year. I used to be able to walk into a thrift, drop $60, and with a little bit of work and repair and cleaning I could turn that into $300 resale

I haven’t had a profitable find at a thrift store in 6 months. I haven’t found anything at thrift that’s even worth looking at.

Last year when I was hitting the food bank so I could survive, an obscenely rich friend sent me a text message “I’m heading for a 2 week cruise this Christmas, where are you going?”

Let’s take this discussion offline.

Espresso & cumin

Circa 1997 I was making some innovative new games, employed by a dude who’d put millions of his own money into the company. He was completely nonplussed when I brought him 20 CDs in a sealed box to remove from the building and store off site. He thought I’d lost my damned mind and blew it off as ravings of a stressed dev. I pointed out real threats to our IP including the hardware failures and even so far as the building burning down. 2 years of custom art and code gone. “Unlikely. Relax.”

After I moved on… an ex co-worker who’s still a longtime friend, tells me a different division lost a huge amount of FMV over some whoops-I-destroyed-the-wrong-drive blunder. 20 days to render on an 8 or 10 machine farm. Poof - No backups. In 1997 even with top-of-the-line gear it took an insane investment to render quality 3D.

The friggin’ carelessness irks the shit out of me as I type ahah

It has neither the positive reputation you assume nor do Quebecois say “le stationnement”.

Yeah it’s a 45-minute unbreakable opening tutorial sequence that is totally unskippable and totally unnecessary.

Oh Lord I hated everything about that game, but I don’t want to go off LOL

It’s just an incredibly soulless game, towns are filled with cardboard cutout npcs, there’s generic guard, wandering peasant, blah blah blah

Fighting, even on Blood level, is trivial

“Searching” around with witcher senses is an absolutely pathetic mechanic

Ok cool never know about that. At $200 it would be an automatic yes for me!

Many years ago I learned to improve my electronics “hygiene” by being strict about how power is connected/transferred from household AC to my gadgets. One too many blown PSUs during thunderstorm season while on a deadline, I guess.

Don’t use power strips, use high-end surge protectors. Cheap ones can still get absolutely rocked and can’t be trusted. Always use high-end OEM charge blocks for phones and for laptop chargers, etc.

No good call to spend thousands on electronics then cheap out at the power-transfer part of the deal. Because that’s where most damage is done. Pay for the good stuff now and it will more than pay for itself in the long term. Fewer blown PSUs/inverters/transformers. Longer lasting batteries.

I feel like electricity is less like magic fairies floating down wires and more like ropes tugging and rams crashing. I always liked to think about it that way.

I use a calendar. I know this sounds ridiculous to mention it, but I am continually astonished at how few people use it to remember tasks and events.

A card game called “asshole” requires no skill and gets everybody laughing.

We’re not acting superior.

This game is beyond stupid, is basically witless, and completely unfunny.