EdamAnchorman
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Best caramel corn you will ever have, and very easy to make:
- 1/2 cup unpopped popcorn
- 1 cup brown sugar
- 1/2 cup corn syrup
- 1/2 cup (1 stick) butter
- 1/2 tsp salt
- 1/2 tsp baking soda
- 1 tsp vanilla extract
- Pop popcorn and place in preheated 250 degrees F (120 C) oven while preparing caramel.
- Mix brown sugar, corn syrup, butter and salt in a heavy 2-quart saucepan. Stirring constantly, bring to a boil over medium heat.
- Boil 5 minutes without stirring. Remove from heat. Stir in baking soda and vanilla; mix well.
- Quickly pour syrup over warm popcorn, stirring to coat evenly.
- Bake for 45 minutes, stirring every 15 minutes. Remove from oven and spread on non-stick surface.
- Cool; break apart. Store in tightly covered container.
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All across the U.S., rural areas tend toward red and urban areas tend more toward blue. It's really interesting to think about why the "swing states" are swing states (Florida, Michigan, Nevada, North Carolina, Ohio, Pennsylvania) and why they have such a more or less equal mix of ideologies.
Taking my home state of Ohio, the northern and eastern parts of the state were traditionally very industrial and have a bunch of New England transplants (around the year 1800) and European immigrants from the early 1900s that tend to go toward blue, Columbus and Cincinnati go blue, but the parts near West Virginia and Kentucky are so hillbilly it's not even funny, and the western part of the state is almost pure farmland that's very sparsely populated.
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23 minutes ago, dr lopez said:
pizza hut is good to me.
dominos and papa johns is garbage. little caesars can be good if you get it RIGHT when its made.
but w/e i live in new york and in two months im moving back to new haven. i live in pizza heaven
Damn I miss Pepe's. Lived in Hamden for a year, best pizza-year of my life.
Papa John's is trash, only thing that's good is when you dip the crust in that fake garlic sauce they give you. One of the two times I've had awful food poisoning was from a Papa John's pizza.
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We always called it Pizza Slut.
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But then he couldn't show everyone how big his ego dick is.
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22 hours ago, Zeffolia said:
do you rotate your crops, and till the soil to expose larvae and eggs to the air for birds between squash rotations? squash should be planted far away from any previous diseased squash growth
We do till the soil but we don't really rotate the crops because our individual plot is only about 10 X 20 feet and there's not enough space. However, last year they gave us all new beds with new soil and everyone's squash plants died again, so it might be some local bugs. It's an organic garden, so we're not allowed to use any good pesticides. Thanks for the tips though, I'll look into that.
2 hours ago, Dinobeats said:Curious if you have any tips for planting carrots. I keep trying to grow them by seed every year but haven't had any luck.
Also I feel you on that snow squall - happening here too. But I live in Canada so I guess that's somewhat not surprising. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
Hmm, we have always had luck with our carrots from seed, just make sure the soil is loose. We never got really long fat carrots, maybe due to the soil, but we could get decent sized ones. The flavor of the ones we've grown has been interesting, quite a bit more "spicy" than regular carrots.
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The economy is in free fall. So why isn’t the stock market?
Everything is bad, and yet somehow the stock market is good.
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I agree that the whole system nowadays is geared toward short-term profit over long term gains, but that's not quite the whole story because no two pandemics are equal. Some hit the primarily disadvantaged like ebola, some are only transmitted through exchange of certain bodily fluids like AIDS, etc. Even if we had a robust pandemic plan, nobody could've predicted how this virus will act: how fast it will spread and who will be the most at risk. I think your statement that a pandemic is something that can be easily planned for is not correct, unless you're talking about stockpiling a ridiculous amount of medical equipment and maintaining huge hospitals and spending money for a vaccine to every possible virus out there which is all unreasonable. To correctly plan for any pandemic wouldn't just be expensive as you claim, it would be impossible.
My point is that even if we had several pandemic plans, at this point nobody knows exactly how many people will lose their jobs. Nobody knows how long the restaurant and hospitality sector will be in ruins, and even if people will feel comfortable going back to them in the same numbers when lockdown orders are lifted. Nobody knows how long the airline sector will be in the toilet. All of this uncertainty causes people to sell and try to buy back lower because they're chasing short-term gains, when they could've probably made more by just holding onto it and waiting for the market to go up again. Even if we had a COVID pandemic plan and enough hospitals and a vaccine, etc., there are still unknowns that you can never know that will cause uncertainty in the market, like how fast this thing will mutate or how effective will the vaccine be.
I agree that the market is somewhat uncoupled from the reality of the people who make up the workforce of the companies that make up the market. With all the recent jobless claims, the market should be shitting the bed right now. The Fed probably should've let that happen but they didn't, probably because of what you said above about who they really serve and whose interests they're really trying to protect. That being said, it still didn't stop me from buying a buttload of index funds after the first big crash in March.
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8 hours ago, dingformung said:
Absolutely, the economic effects are already bigger than those of the financial crisis of 2008. Makes you question how good our economic systems enable us to react to crises. We have some of the strongest and most efficient economies yet they fail to provide a sufficient preparation for crises times, simply because you can't make profit with that.
It's not that you can't make profit, it's that the markets don't like uncertainty. If they know a problem is coming and can plan for it, markets don't tank as badly. Uncertainty is their kryptonite.
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I have a plot at my workplace, which is in a pretty rural area. There are about 25 plots fenced in to keep the damn deer out.
This is the fourth year that the Mrs and I have had the plot. We usually grow all kinds of tomatoes, some zucchini, cucumbers, carrots, beets, green beans, jalapenos, basil, cilantro, and some misc flowers. It's strange because everybody's squash plants produce like hell for about 3 weeks, then they all just wither and die quickly. Someone told me that it's due to some bug or disease (can't remember) that gets into the roots. Tried to grow watermelons one year but the squash bug killed them all when they were about the size of softballs.
My workplace is mostly closed right now, so nobody's supposed to be in the garden, but we planted some garlic and onions during the winter and have some tomato plants that we've been growing indoors that we'll transfer to the plot soon. Not sure what else we'll plant this year, but I'm not planting yet because as I'm typing this we just had a small snow squall.
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19 hours ago, Zephyr_Nova said:
Also... did our allotted space for attachments just get increased significantly since I whined about it in the SFWP thread? Because I wasn't able to upload a single photo a week ago.
No, that was me. Check it here:
I couldn't post any attachments because I was at the limit. A lot of my attachments are from years ago and don't appear anymore because the board has been refreshed since then.
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Makes sense, thanks.
Quick question, is there a way to enable deletion of attachments that are X years old and older? A lot of my attachments are from previous iterations of the board where the posts that contain them don't even exist anymore.
Thanks again for taking the time to look into this.
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I found a small cache of P95 masks in one of my labs at work. They are probably 10+ years old. I've been wearing them the few times I've gone out.
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From a local brewery, Peach Drips Creamsicle IPA. Hazy IPA with peach puree, lactose, and vanilla. Pretty good, kinda strange to taste the hops and vanilla but I think it works well.
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18 hours ago, Joyrex said:
Hmm. I can't either, so it makes me think there is a setting controlling this - I'll look into it.
Thanks.
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How do I manage and delete some of my attachments? I am starting to run into the limit. Looks like I have never done it since there are some on there from 2007.
I searched through the settings menus and the "My Attachments" page, but I don't see any way to delete old attachements.
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That's an abomination.
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The Mrs. has been feeding a sourdough starter for the past week so we have a lot of dough as a byproduct.
We decided to make two pizzas in the grill since our oven is out of commission waiting for a new igniter.
Garlic, olive oil, sauteed shiitake mushrooms, brie, and mozzarella, paired with a Lindemamn's Oude Geuze and an arugula salad.
Also made a mozzarella with calabrese salami and jalapenos.
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13 minutes ago, apriorion said:
Aren't Corona and Modelo produced by the same people?
They are basically the same beer, no? I wouldn't at all be surprised if it turned out they were. But I'm at least pretty sure they come from the same distributor.
Yes, you're right! Then it looks like AB InBev is looking toward Modelo to be Corona's successor in case the bottom (of the case of beer) falls out.
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8 minutes ago, dingformung said:
Corona was for sale at my supermarket the other day
I dunno about the rest of the world, but here in the U.S., I have seen more ads for Modelo beer in the past month than I have in my life up to this point. They must think that now is the time to hit Corona with all they've got and try to steal some of the market share in the shitty Mexican party beer market.
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Measuring poop is the key.
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2 hours ago, IDEM said:
Thanks, but that's nothing, just a fun little hobby to share with the wee one. MOCs like @randomsummer's Rube Goldberg Machine are so much cooler, and one day I hope I'll build something awesome like that, but atm I just don'r find the time to plan and build anything bigger than a little vignette here and there. Work is keeping me quite busy, and I just like building official sets to relax, have a movie or some TV show running in the background, just unwind. But space is becoming an issue ...
Thanks. The contraption I built as a kid was so much larger and cooler than the one I made now. I just don't have the space to go hogwild now. My favorite part is how there's no plan. I just decide to start somewhere and it just comes together naturally.
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One of my friends from work, his dad is starting a brewery in his retirement. He started off brewing lagers, which he tells me are more difficult to brew because they take longer than most beers to brew and it's also hard to mask any unintended off flavors.
I asked him why there are so many craft IPAs out there right now. He said that it's because they're quicker to brew and also the hoppy, bitter flavors often mask any off flavors that may have shown up during the brewing process.
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I saw an article on this, they said that it would catch those who are asymptomatic but in danger, but that there is a high risk of false positives because the oximeter is very sensitive to the correct placement on the finger and is usually fitted by medical professionals while at the hospital.