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  1. 6 hours ago, Scheiss Meister said:

    I found the carcass of a dog on my property this afternoon.  It looks like someone had him chained up, but the chain came unhooked and the dog wandered away, dragging the chain.  The chain got tangled in some brush toward the back of my place, in an area where I rarely go, and the dog died there.  Poor thing.  I wish that I had found it when it first got tangled.  It's apparent that it struggled for a while.  The sheriff's department is going to see if anyone in the area has reported a missing dog, but it's unlikely that the owner will be found.  The carcass has been there a while and been picked over.  There was no tag, and if it was chipped the scavengers have almost certainly eaten the chip.

    I'm both very sad and incredibly pissed.

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  2. 1 hour ago, SuingToGetAMessageBoard? said:

    I have never heard  anyone who has ever expressed that they think Jimmy Fallon is funny or entertaining or anything positive.  This goes all the way back to his SNL days.  Yet he gets bigger every year.  He has his own theme park ride at Universal.  It’s baffling. 

    dude is cashing off his name biggly.  i was gifted some baby/kiddie books with his authorship on them... as dumb as baby books are, these are the absolute dumbest.

    https://www.barnesandnoble.com/b/contributor/jimmy-fallon/_/N-31j5

     

  3. batch #3 with new flour worked.

    this is the poolish preferment: 1:1 flour to water, a dash of yeast and little squirt of honey to give them an extra boost. they went wild and already formed this webbing.

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    after mixing with final mixture, light kneading, and rest, the gluten allowed it to stretch into a smooth ball and the elasticity supported the rise to 2x the dough size.

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    contrast it to this individual ball from batch #2 where the surface is rough because of lack of elasticity, and the yeast build up broke it into small pockets

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    one stretch test

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    final result: pie with some shallots, mozz, and nduja.

    now i dont have to buy the premade dough anymore.

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  4. While waiting for my focaccia dough to rise, I searched youtube to satisfy my curiosity about how commercial yeast is produced.
    This led to videos about microscopic yeast activity, and a science channel of other microscopic phenomena...
     
    ...and one thing after another, I discovered something I wish now I no longer know: the existence of fecal transplants.
     

     

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  5. BYU has a starting QB named Bear who will be throwing to his WR brother named Tiger.  

    Both were committed/enrolled to Stanford and later transferred to BYU together.

    Disappointingly, their older brother, also NCAAFB athlete... is named just boring old Hank.

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  6. lmao... so i had $400 of apple giftcards i redeemed from amex points. turns out, once you close the amex account, you cant access redemption codes on their website. i printed out the codes once, but lost the paper.

    so in desperation i searched 'giftcards' in my googledrive to see if i saved a PDF copy.  and in that process, i discovered i had a $500 hotels.com GC from 6 years ago (genuinely dont remember where it came from), and turns out its still active and valid.

    and for the apple card, amex was happy to issue a new physical ones sent to the mail.  a $400 loss just turned into a net $500 gain.

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  7. 47 minutes ago, Iceman said:

    On our internal email, any spam is "quarantined," but you cannot BLOCK senders of quarantined emails.

    You must release it into your regular email and then block them.  That seems dumb as hell to me.

    nobody who designs this stuff has a fucking clue about user experience and flow. no quick button or shortcut to tag an email as spam or phish. 

    right-click email --> scroll down to report --> select junk or phish --> pop-up confirms email has tag --> asks if i want to block sender --> get new email in inbox confirming and thanking me its been sent for quarantining.

    if you tag it as 'junk', it still gets sent to phish and the confirming email references 'phish'.  also, both emails are moved  to a 'junk' folder with an unread notification.

    what should happen is a 1-click action where the offending email disappears permanently off the face of the earth.

     

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  8. On 8/19/2025 at 5:42 PM, Sam Lin said:

    Even more aggravating: a few newsletters the unsubscribe link is a bad link and won't load! And one newsletter it loads and says "you have been unsubscribed" but the newsletters keep coming.

    i understand if its rando external spam, with a clear incentive to keep you spammed.

    but this happened to me... with internal corporate mail!!!! 

    asked the email authors: "how do i get off this list" --> "you have to ask IT to remove you" 

    put in IT ticket for removal --> 1 week later: more spam from the same group.

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  9. 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.

     

  10. 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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  11. 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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