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  1. fucked up 2 batches of dough. it couldnt develop any gluten -- failed the windowpane stretch test.

    turns out, my flour was literally 2 years past expiration. apparently the protein loses its qualities and gluten cant form. we barely bake in this house and always assumed flour is long shelf stable.

    i was miffed because in all these youtube finfluencer videos, they can do no-knead preferment recipes where merely whisking together the preferment (poolish or biga) to flour mixture and letting it rest magically turns gives it balloon elasticity. will try again with batch #3.

     

  2. 8 hours ago, Superhero said:

    In Taiwan, they actually have professional cryers at funerals.

    I suppose families thought the louder you cry, the more you loved the deceased person. For my grandmother's funeral, my aunts ponied up for a professional funeral cryer who wailed into a microphone for an hour - sobs, moans, "grandma, why did you have to die, etc.".

    It was annoying as fuck.

    >hiring a bunch of hos claiming to be my sidepiece to piss my wife off for the last time.

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  3. There's barely 1 or 2 companies making aftermarket stereo headunits retrostyled for a specific brand, typically Porsche.

    I always wondered, why doesnt one of these companies make a base head with interchangeable faceplace thats designed to look like BMW, Audis, Lexus, Honda, etc. Functionality remains identical. You can just change the colors and button shapes and fonts to match the broad aesthetics from those cars companies. Wouldnt that be a decent hit?

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  4. I dont understand how that, instead of being a one-off occurence, it is now basically a permanent situation that Apple products are sold cheaper through 3rd party retail channels (best buy, amazon, costco, amazon, etc) than through the apple store itself. 
     

    Also theres 4 different current lines of iPads and if you go through those stores theyre still selling new stock that are 2 or 3 generations old, so effectively there are like 8-12 different ipads. 

  5. 54 minutes ago, BurdineBandit said:

    Yep, especially since he had him in a crucifix in like 3 different rounds. How he didn't rain down elbows and strikes on him is beyond me. He throw a hundred little short baby punches to the corner of DDP's head, but he never seemed to try and put him away with actual aggression. Normally I'd have been bored of it, but I was actually entertained watching a defending champion just get absolutely manhandled and able to do nothing to stop it. 25 seconds each round and he was a ragdoll. 

     

    It is a bit funny to hear DDP claim hell be back to get his belt back. But even if he improves significantly, what does that mean? He stuffs 3 takedowns and lasts an average of 50 seconds on his feet before spending the rest of the fight on his back next time? That would be a huge improvement. 

    Its a game of marginal positions. DDP was bridging and shrimping/bucking pretty well. Thats probably why Khamzat didnt want to posture up for bigger strikes and risk an escape. Dricus’ strength kept Khamzat from advancing further. 

    It also likely explains Dricus’ gameplan: dont bite on level-change feints to preserve his own striking threat, out of the belief that he can escape from the ground and wear khamzat out. Problem was that came in the 5th instead of the 2nd or 3rd. 

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  6. 9 hours ago, Frieda’s Boss said:

    Impressive performance by Khamzat but dude, you gotta figure out a way to finish that fight. Kudos to DDP for continuing despite being dominated. A lot of dudes would have looked for a way out after the way the first couple rounds went. 

    Dricus’ bull strength, cardio, and determination kept him from being submitted. 

    You could see him start to turn the corner in the 5th but by then it was too late.  That level of chain-grappling dominance we last saw in Khabib. 

  7. On 7/28/2025 at 11:05 PM, kevwun said:

    I know he's rich, but does he have that much money?  I also can't say I know how much money it takes to buy and run an F1 team.

    His career earnings is roughly the same as the value of a mid pack team. That's excluding money from the wife. He probably would go in as minority owner and operator backed by wealthier partners.

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    There are so many dimensions that define a good driver that can't be inferred from looking at race results alone. There's racecraft, tire management, driving in rain, etc, at which Hamilton has proved to be one of the all-time greats. A lot of results, even comparative team results, is skewed from luck and bad car-driver pairing. 

    You can argue maybe that adaptation to different equipment is a requirement for talent, but there's countless examples in this and other sports that it can't just be the individual athlete alone.

  8. On 8/15/2025 at 4:44 PM, DFW Horn said:

    Ask Earl

    He's managed to hold on to his cushy UT job for decades. It shouldn't be difficult.

    After you charter Southwest planes for semi-private flights to drop five-figure meals at Cheesecake Factory, $200k/yr jobs from the uni just dont hit the same. 

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  9. On 8/15/2025 at 4:19 PM, TreatyOak said:

    VY somehow lost $27 million of guaranteed money. And some of you still just blame Jeff Fisher for his failures.   

    After the Titans stint, he still got signed to 4 different teams while under the age of 30. 

    No conspiracy about Jeff Fisher tainting VYs reputation can excuse his inability to hold a roster position if dudes like DeShaun Watson and Joe Mixon are starters in the NFL.  

    If you can ball, someone will pay you to. 

    And didn’t he fub up a basically courtesy job at UT on 3 separate occasions?

    People gotta reconcile with the fact that you can adore him for being a Texas GOAT and the reality that he is a fucking headcase. 
     

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  10. 9 hours ago, Derka said:

    i referenced the mental health pot shots because they have persisted throughout this thread, including just a couple of days ago. those screenshots are just from like a 10 post stretch of one page of this thread, and i don’t believe i claimed that those specific posts featured any mental health pot shots. what im saying is that those personal:mental health insults have taken place and continue to take place, never because i insulted someone else, always because some poster just doesn’t like me or my take on quinn ewers. i report like one post per year and so far this year it was someone in this thread who went after my mental health a few days ago. i let a lot slide off my back, but that shit gets tiresome. it’s out of bounds, especially when i’m never taking it there with anyone else.

    if its any consolation, i think the people youre arguing against also have mental health problems. 

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  11. 23 hours ago, ajax said:

    Rampage did this to Arona back in the Pride days.

     

     

    Hard to reconcile watching this sport hoping for a vicious knockout, and wincing at slow mo replay of some dude instantly losing a few years of lifespan

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  12. 22 hours ago, Im_smarter_then_you said:

    One of the crappy things about living in California is that no matter where you vacation the weather is shit

    Counterpoint: places with exposure to 4 distinct seasons is nice. gives sense of tempo and cyclicality to life. you feel the leaves change. you sense spring coming. you look forward to “grilling season”. you swap sandals for ski boots. etc. 

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