I used to be that guy. Then I realized asking eachother questions is just part of the human experience. I know we can both google it, but maybe you just wanted to talk to me instead of a computer. Maybe ill ask you something I already know or could easily google so you can feel smart and helpful answering my question. Life is nicer when you have positive interactions with people instead of searching for every minute way you could belittle them

They call me heat miser Whatever I touch Starts to melt in my clutch!

You count up in incremental numbers until you reach 5280 and then finally increment from 0 to 1 miles. That’s base 5280. Just because we didnt invent more symbols to easily represent that does not mean its not a different numeric base.

Did you read the words I wrote? It looks like youre responding to a “imperial units are better than metric” strawman which you may notice I didnt say or even allude to

This comment brought to you by a complete and fundamental misunderstanding of what it means to use a different base numeral

Imagine being so close minded and bad at math that you can only think in base 10 and feel the constant need to degrade people who are good at math in different bases

It’s hard while traveling, but eating even remotely healthy will make your experience a lot better. One of those fruit and veggie trays you can get from grocery stores plus like a loaf of bread and a thing of hummus can make a great dinner on the road for a family, I try to do something like that at least twice a week when im traveling. Panda express is a surprisingly decent place to get fairly plain rice chicken and broccoli, which is great for both nervous stomachs and people trying to maintain any kind of fitness on the road. Last I’d say careful not to give yourself kidney stones with energy drinks if youre doing a lot of long haul drives between stops

Vibes. I look at it and try to guess and submit a number within 5 or 10 seconds. It may not be as accurate but I feel like I get more benefit training my ability to estimate at a glance than I do training my ability to do math and spatial reasoning assisted by math. Im already really good at math and math assisted spatial reasoning

https://www.mdpi.com/2076-3417/11/9/4278

TLDR: modeling traffic as a gas leads to fairly accurate predictions. If that doesnt mean anything to you, here’s a decent visualization of how gasses move around in a system. In this analogy, each of the gas particles models a car on the road. https://youtu.be/Hr5Baj3lXFA

both sides of the original meme are wrong, cmv

If this thing is emitting light that appears blue to you, you’re about to have a monumentally bad time

This is certainly possible. I’ve never seen any kind of medical professional about this issue, I just started getting really sick all the time and experimented with my diet until I singled out dairy as the thing that was making me sick. At this point I’ve got it well enough under control and I’ve changed my eating habits to the point that I dont think anything would change for me if I learned I had an allergy as opposed to an intolerance

Thanks :) food blogging would be a pretty wild jump for me career wise, but I have no idea what the future holds and I am at somewhat of a crossroads in my life right now. If I ever did start a food blog though, I’d definitely model it after this dude https://www.seriouseats.com/j-kenji-lopez-alt-5118720 He is guilty of the “3 pages of text before the recipe starts” you find across food blogs, but his preamble is usually a mixture of food science and experiments/variations he tried while making the recipe.

As far as fried rice goes, here are the things I wish somebody had told me when I first started making it.

1. Rice selection makes a big difference. If you dont know where to start, I’d suggest going with jasmine rice. Also, in case you are like me and grew up with minute rice, you have to wash most kinds of rice before cooking it.

2. Start with day old rice from the fridge. If you dont have day old rice, make a fresh batch, spread it out on a baking sheet, and set it in the freezer uncovered for 30 minutes. Your rice needs to be cooked normally before you can fry it, but the drier it is before you start frying the better it will turn out

3. Dry toast your rice over high heat. This is the hardest part to get right, it takes a fair amount of technique and practice. The goal is to get it lightly browned and fragrant (rice gets a delicious nutty aroma when toasted). Ideally you want a wok and some kind of fuel burner to get it really hot, but I have a cast iron skillet and a stove top so that’s the method ill describe. Preheat the skillet so that its nice and hot before the rice ever touches it. I use medium-high heat (6 out of 10 on my range), but I also preheat my cast iron in the oven so im likely working with a bit more heat than you’d expect from 6 on a range. Once your skillet is hot, spread the rice in the dry skillet in an even layer. From here its tough because the rice needs pan contact to toast but you can’t let it burn. In practice that looks like spreading out the rice, leaving it alone for 45-90s, then stirring it all up and letting it sit for another 45-90s. Keep repeating that cycle until its lightly browned and smells delicious. The cooking also speeds up over time, so the first cycle you can leave it closer to 90s but by the end even 45s might be too long to let it go before stirring. This is the hardest, but also the most important part; dont get discouraged if you dont get it right the first few times. I think I was 40 or 50 batches of fried rice in before I was completely happy with my rice toasting technique

4. This is actually all you need to know. Try your rice, maybe with a dash of salt or a splash of soy if you want. Once you’ve got the technique right, this fried rice base should taste good all by itself. From there, making any variety of fried rice is as simple as “make fried rice base, add in other stuff and stir fry for just long enough to heat everything through”

Hell yeah brother, im glad for you. I’ve yet to find a non-dairy cheese that I personally enjoy. The cashew nut based ones are the only ones that imitate cheese texture very well imo, but I strongly dislike the taste of cashew so those are a non-starter for me

I dont like the way hard cheeses melt as much. I love varieties like parm or asiago as an accent sprinkled over the main cheese, but imo nothing compares to a 4:1 mozz/gruyere mixture for pizza.

Sadly lactase doesnt seem to do anything for me. I’ve been lactose intolerant for a few years now and tried a lot of the things people do to mitigate it; ultimately the only thing that worked for me was significantly changing my diet. Silver lining, I make really good fried rice now

I still make them with the same recipe I perfected before I became lactose intolerant, haha. I tried replacing dairy or using lower lactose substitutes at first, but that ended up being more effort for a pizza that I personally didnt enjoy as much. Ultimately I’d rather significantly reduce my pizza intake than compromise on my ingredient preferences. I’d probably feel differently if I were actually allergic, but as is my only consequence is pain and I can handle that

Fo sho. Im not entirely cut off from pizza, I still probably make 5 or 6 of them a year. It just comes with significantly uncomfortable digestive consequences now, so pizza has gone from “beloved staple” to “rare treat” for me. What i really miss is cheap pizza like the $1.50 slices from costco. It’s just never worth it for me anymore now that it comes with guaranteed digestive discomfort the next day

Tfw you feel this way about pizza but wake up one day in your late 20s and are suddenly lactose intolerant x.x

“I don’t remember if thats classified or not”

“Holy shit im arguing with toddlers why am I like this? There’s no way this is worth my time”

“Am i actually accomplishing anything by pissing in this persons cornflakes about a topic that doesnt really matter just because im right?”

Common reasons I self censor. Half the time im amused by and enjoy engaging with the faceless void of people and chatbots that make up the anonymous internet, half the time im just overwhelmingly exhausted with it