I have messed up steaks by salting them too much. But if you pat them dry the day before, sprinkle generously with kosher salt, and them leave in the fridge on a wire rack for up to 24h, it removes some of the surface moisture and helps you get a nice crust.

Packing in salt would definitely ruin them 😩

The best way to get an avocado to ripen immediately is to plan to eat it in 3 days.

Upon receiving that psychic message, they will commit every bit of energy into ripening ASAP so they can be overripe in 3 days.

Wait what? No, it’s from Undone (The Sweater Song)!

Or am I coming down with the 'heimers?

Edit: It’s actually Say It Ain’t So. Alzheimers confirmed.

It was pretty common when I was in high school in the 90s. But for some reason the kids I knew insisted it was fuck-a-nay.

Semi-related, I’ve always liked the Weezer lyric “Somebody’s Heinie is crowding my icebox”.

It’s a great vague double-entendre, IMO.

What does it mean to truly have free will?

Your brain is billions of electrically-reactive cells and interconnections, and your consciousness is electrical impulses shimmering around those cells in a more or less stable way.

A belief in free will implies the belief that you essentially have control over the physical mechanism that makes up you. A brain may not be a fully deterministic machine in the sense that a certain input condition may not always result in the same output, but it seems like a stretch to say that “you” both directly result from and directly control that mechanism.

I’ll have to give that a try, especially if it means one less thing I rely on Amazon for.

Zojirushi is the GOAT as far as I’m concerned. No other brand I’ve used has kept my coffee hot for as long as they do.

My only gripe is that they like to over-engineer the cap/pouring mechanism in their travel mugs, which makes them tough to clean.

It’s been awhile since I’ve had to replace one, but if I recall you want to get the plain stainless interior for coffee / tea, as it picks up less staining and odors than the coated interior.

Slightly off topic, but there is a product called Astonish, which is amazing for cleaning travel mugs and other things that collect coffee oil buildup. Its hard to find in the US at least, but can be found on Amazon.

Not to detract from the glory of that pizza, but that’s more like 0.3 square meters.

11 square meters is literally the size of a bedroom lol

I think what they were looking for (after a cursory search of the post title) was literally gas prices, not electricity prices lol