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mizmoose @beehaw.org
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Balance of oil between greasy and poorly cookrd
  • It's not just the fat, it's also the heat. Know what you're cooking and how. Some things will burn no matter what if the heat is too high, and some will get greasy if the heat isn't high enough.

    You can also get soggy/greasy food if there's too much food in the pan, or if it's a very wet food like mushrooms or a protein that wasn't pat dry first. Liquid is your enemy; it will generate steam which will make everything go wrong.

    If you're using a small amount of oil and the food burns, your heat is likely too high. Very high heat is usually used for quick cooks like a stir fry, or to finish off a sauce. Try lowering your heat.

    It'd help to know more about what you're cooking and what your results have been. Then we can nitpick at you. :-)

  • sharp hip and knee pain on same side.
  • It might be different where you live, but my experience is that pain clinics are unlikely to take a walk-in patient. Because of the risk of painkiller abuse [insert an eyeroll here], almost all pain clinics require a referral from another doctor with a diagnosis for whatever is causing the pain.

    FYI: urgent cares should take Obamacare insurance. If you're worried about cost you can call and ask if they take your insurance and how much their co-pay is, if any.

  • Electronic Frontier Foundation shouted out Lemmy, Kbin, and Mastodon in their Reddit coverage today: What Reddit Got Wrong
  • Yep. This is Huffman having a tantrum because he found out someone is making enough money to live on with their coding, and his company isn't getting a slice.

    RES is used by some significant percentage of Redditors and they take donations to fund their work. I'm willing to bet they're next on the chopping block of his tantrum.

  • sharp hip and knee pain on same side.
  • Get your butt to an urgent care. They can best do a basic evaluation to see if it's something serious, especially because it's getting worse. You don't want to wait until you're unable to move. The worst thing that happens is they say it's a strain and give you some muscle relaxants to tide you over for a while. (Actually, the real worst thing that happens is that they dismiss you because women's pain is more likely to be dismissed. Ugh.)

    Good luck and take care.

  • What's the weirdest food you've eaten?
  • If given half a chance, I'd probably still put potato chips on anything I could.

    Heck, to use the non-American definition of the word "chips," I spent most of my life in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, a city known for many things but gastronomically for putting french fries (the other kind of "chips") on sandwiches and salads!

  • What's the weirdest food you've eaten?
  • When I was a kid, maybe 11 or 12? I was at the birthday party of some kid. Mind you, this was the 1970s. The parents dumped us all in the "playroom" (a big basement room, finished and with furniture) with some toys and games and a table full of food and they had their own little party upstairs. Meanwhile, we had a table full of candy and chips and cupcakes and bread and sandwich stuff and whatever to drink.

    For whatever kid reason, we started making the Weirdest Sandwiches We Could Think Of. Mine, I will never forget. One slice of bread slathered with peanut butter, upon which went M&Ms, chocolate Twizzlers, potato chips, and Fritos, folded in half like a taco.

    How did it taste? Well, I made a second one. But I was 11 or 12 and had the food palate of a caveman.

  • Megathread for Reddit Blackouts and News - Day 2
  • NSFW posts weren't the primary reason why /r/all got limits. /r/all was littered with hate and bigotry and general garbage. If /r/all had been left alone, Reddit would have continued on the path to becoming Voat.

    Not modifying, to some degree, what subreddits appear on /r/all would have made trying to remove the bigotry off the site that much harder. (It will never completely go away; the site is too huge at this point.) While they should have used the idea of quarantines long before they started out with flat-out removal of these subs, these weren't just "[racist slur] are dumb" type of stuff. These were subs that outright called for the violence and death of people who weren't them. These were places for racists and bigots who had no qualm about doxxing people with hopes that bad things would happen to them.

    You can argue "Well, then, ban the people who do that kind of thing!" Sometimes when the pool gets full of scum, you have to recognize the point where spot cleaning isn't the cure and you have to drain the pool to stop the scum from gathering.

  • A few quick notes
  • Sorry I am a busybody. For what it's worth: Pair. I am an ex-sysadmin and I know a mess of people who worked for Pair and say good things about them. Their physical and customer service is excellent. I've had/have multiple accounts with them, some for 501c3 orgs, and never had any major problems with them. (Nothing is perfect.)

  • Data Shows Most Switch Owners Are Women, Gamers React Poorly
  • I've been playing games on computers since 1977, at that time non-video games. Although I did play Pong on tabletop box (a TV screen embedded in a table, with knobs on the table top) in a hotel, sometime before that, probably around 1975 or so.

  • Megathread for Reddit Blackouts and News - Week 1
  • There's already been noise on the ModCood subreddit about "What if this fails? What next?"

    I don't think protests like this alone are going to cut it. If they haven't figured this out already, they need to realize that this doesn't cut their ad revenue enough to make a difference. A coordinated campaign against Reddit advertisers would be a big blow. The disability issues alone should make advertisers pause.

    OTOH, I do like Lemmy.