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by war1025 6y ago
A well cooked pot roast is not that much different from the sous vide trend that's becoming so popular. You put the roast in a dutch oven coated in salt and pepper the same as you would with a steak and a bit of water, then you let it
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Notable members of that group are Jordan Peterson and his daughter Mikhaila. I personally find Jordan Peterson's content pretty interesting. His daughter on the other hand, she seems pretty scammy. Have a hard time taking that diet ser
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> its just a signaling thing That makes a lot of sense. Also what on earth makes a steak worth $200? I bought a 1/4 beef this fall for something like $700, and that includes all the nice steaks and roasts along with like 50 lbs of g
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I think a lot of eating organ meat involves washing it or soaking it to get the more unpalatable flavors off. Not something I've really been adventurous enough to try though.
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> It's juicy. Most of the juice in my experience comes from cooking the meat long enough to render the fat. I've had medium-rare steak before where the fat was all still solid. Didn't seem all that great to me even though
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> never got sick of eating rare ribeye steak > I think I would get sick of chicken or pot roast or well-done ground beef Honest question, why do people seem to love rare meat so much? I agree that tough meat doesn't taste good,
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> insurance is ridiculously expensive–especially for people with families who want to be self-employed or contractors. That cost doesn't go away for people who are regular employees, it just gets absorbed by the employer. That'
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> dental care in Australia is ripoff expensive I read somewhere that dental issues are universal enough that you don't get nearly the same cost averaging that you can get for other medical problems. When I looked into it, dental ins
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On the off chance you or someone else knows: How do I close old savings accounts in Capital One 360? I used to have my savings split between several buckets, and now I just keep it all in one savings account, but I have four savings accoun
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> Notifications for transactions stopped working. I get an email for every debit transaction on my account. I've had to update my inbox filters a couple time because they change the email they send it from, but it's been pretty
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> you could see a drastic effect as soon as the $600 started hitting people's checking accounts I think it's interesting how true it is that some people just can't stand the feeling of money burning a hole in their pockets
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> The transition to crypto currencies is happening faster than ever Except I have yet to see any convincing indicators that crypto currency is actually being used for day to day transactions. Everything I see suggests people are hoping i
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I wish it was more common to have conduit runs for cables rather than just having them strung randomly through walls and crawl spaces. That would make upgrading from one technology to the next much easier.
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> Unfortunately, I'm too suspicious of Amazon (and Google, for that matter) For Christmas, my mom decided to get us both a Google Home and a Facebook Portal (with Alexa built in). We already have an Echo Dot that lives on our fridge
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I haven't looked into this article, but over Christmas we went to visit my Grandma at her nursing home, which meant we were separated by a window and had to talk over the phone. The latency (which I never really notice when I'm no
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I don't particularly care about the topic, so no.
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> I don't understand why people insist on trying to convert laptops into desktops. I finally bought a desktop again over Thanksgiving after a decade of having a laptop that functioned as a desktop. It's been a great experience.
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This [1] seems to be a fairly representative article of the sort of thing I've seen. Not peer reviewed, but it hardly seems like fringe lunacy. [1] https://elemental.medium.com/how-one-covid-19-doctor-became-...
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I don't have any sources at hand, but the explanation I heard is that ventilators are generally used for people who have healthy lung tissue but are unable to breathe properly. Coronavirus weakens the lung tissue, but the ability to br
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> All your old people are dead or immune. Well, there are 8 siblings on my dad's side and six on my mom's, so not really. > That's not possible. Somebody with the virus had to to have visited in order for it to have spr
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> I guess without your dad and uncle, you have nobody old left that you care about. My 98 year old grandma was the first person in my family to catch the coronavirus. Since then I've an aunt and uncle both catch it. All three have r
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I was fully on board with lockdowns, etc. in the spring. We are long past the "novel and unknown" stage for Coronavirus. Our schools opened in the fall and have been able to stay open. Everything I've heard about "remote
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Funny, I didn't see anyone calling to shutter the economy when my dad was dying of cancer. Similarly, I didn't see any great outrage this summer when my uncle died of a heart attack. Death is tragic, but it's also a fact of l
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The media went out of their way to make people think that Coronavirus was basically the only cause of death this year. Combined with the bogus "positivity rate" that most lay people misinterpreted as the percentage of the populati
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So roughly one death for every thousand people in Iowa. That's sad, but the vast majority of people who died this past year died of something else.
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Near as I can tell things are pretty wide open here in Iowa. We even had the honor of getting an Atlantic scare article of "This is what happens when government does nothing" Turns out what happens when government does nothing is
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The trouble with water heaters is you want hot water year round. Heat pumps are pretty ineffective once you get down close to freezing. So having an exterior air source heat pump would only make sense for maybe half the year in a lot of loc
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> Maybe that's just the normal level of ability for FAANG staff? Based on personal experience, I think you certainly need to be "above average" to get hired by the big tech companies, but it's more like "top 20%
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Home heat pumps always have an exterior unit here. It's heat pump water heaters that don't [0]. [0] https://www.rheem.com/products/residential/water-heating/hyb...
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How does this work? Where I'm at (Iowa) your electric provider is determined by where you live. As far as I know, you have one company that provides electric to your home. You don't have the option of picking someone else. Based o

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