Corporate America is operating on the Car Dealership model: there are enough rubes to fleece it’s not worth the effort to get quality customers/employees.

I wish these strikes would normalize talking about your salary in the US.

It’s such a huge source of power employers have over workers heads. People always say “research what equivalent roles get when negotiating” but the data that’s out there is crap. Companies work hard to obfuscate what they pay people.

Yeah -_- if any of the alternatives had been as low VOC as Odie’s I probably would have used them instead… But in this case, since it was indoor with kids I didn’t really want something fumey.

Gotcha, good to know! Id worry about the epoxy adhering, but good to know it works.

Agree. The number of people I know who “don’t” cook blows my mind. 75% of my repertoire takes less than 30 minutes of involvement to cook. It’s cheaper, healthier, and a great zen thing that’s totally different from my day job.

For those trying to get started, do a meal kit that involves cooking, and start there. Not having to buy ingredients or plan things out makes it less intimidating.

How do you combo it with epoxy? I’m curious.

Tilley FTW.

I live in the desert, they are common even if unfashionable lol.

This.

I live in NM, so there are wild Neomexicanus hops (the Amalia and Multihead are that variety) but they are all up in the mountains. In the city, there are not really any male plants around.

Only issue is local nurseries sell ornamental hops that might be male… But thankfully my neighbors hopyard is all female varieties for home brewing.

Hot and dry lol. They have to be irrigated.

I wish Apple was transparent enough to have a real comparison of their privacy.

Personal guess, Apple is generating just as much personal data, just using it less offensively than Google. That’s not good but it’s betterish, I guess.

Main things I’m stuck using Google for at the moment are Gmail and Maps. Gmail, because my address I’ve had over there since Gmail was invite only. Maps, because they are one of the only decent sources for restraunt reviews these days (why did Zomato have to kill UrbanSpoon :( )

That’s part 2 of this project. We will see, the hand rails are not in great shape. May replace, or paint them. The banisters have more visual impact anyway, and are a significantly nicer wood.

No idea. Hand rial is the next project. Either going to sand down finish to match, replace with something new, or paint. Undecided.

We’ve been dealing with the smell of citristrip this weekend lol, we can deal with the poly smells. Our house uses evap cooling which provides a ton of options for ducting air away from where the people are.

Wish that was an option, but whatever dingaling installed this stuff put all kinds of caulk on the bottom edge and then nailed it in…

Somebody committed a series crime against wood with this lol. Just trying to come up with something reasonable.

Why would you go with a stain+poly vs a finishing oil of some sort?

Toyota 2UZ-FE. Powerful, torquey, and near indestructible. Also, Toyota had the ah-hah moment to take an engine designed for pickups and heavy duty applications and cram it into the 4Runner.

I don’t mind Pho, but I won’t seek it out.

My favorite pho uses Udon rice noodles, lemongrass spicy broth, and beef brisket… But that’s so far from traditional Pho I’m not really sure it counts anymore lol.

Oh awesome! I actually have a couple of recipes that would fit there I can cross post as well. Need to actually write them down rather than just continue to throw random stuff together to make it work.

I haven’t tried freezing them before. No idea how it would do. Sauces with dairy can be a bit of a crap shoot on whether or not they freeze. I think it would work as ping as you reheated in the oven, and no the microwave.

When I say “pulping” I basically mean crushing the fruity bits into a pulp. Mangoes have a large skinny pit in the middle? I usually cut off each side from the pit, then crush the fruit against the skin. This squeezes the juice out and crushes the fruit into a pulpy mash. I then do the same to the fruit surrounding the pit.

Your basically crushing the fruit by hand.

Alternatively, I’ve made this recipie with mango nectar or juice for the sauce. It’s easier, but not quite as good.

Is this a shit post, or the wrong link?

What hops you should grow is more determined by your growing conditions than what you want to drink.

I live in NM, so I have two varieties of NeoMexicanus, plus a new drought tolerant variety called Vista.

I generally shoot for varieties that are hard to get new, so that’s a good fit for me.

However, if your in Sweden I don’t even know if you can grow hops outdoors. Your climate is about as opposite mine as we could get and still both be growing hops!