Does it make the bread taste like shit?

I would argue that toasting your bread to the point where there’s significant acrylamide on it is making bread taste like shit to begin with.

Just don’t burn your bread and you’ll be fine.

Not to mention, the acrylamide is formed from the amino acids naturally present in the grains, which is what this whole article is about.

listen to really old music

Hey! Fuck you for pointing out this song didn’t come out within the last decade!

Don’t count on it. Instant Pot managed to sell so many units they’re in what seems like almost every kitchen. And then that was that, because everyone already had one, so their sales volume plummeted and they went bankrupt. I still use mine all the time, but the original company went away.

Back in the day you called a repairman.

That guy’s time is worth probably $30/hour, so if you want to use up his 8 hour day you’d better be willing to pay $240, plus parts, plus the gas money of driving his truck to your home, plus the cost of keeping those parts on hand and the truck available.

Or if it’s something he knows is only a half day job, then he can book something else so that he only really needs to charge you $120.

Now that a lot of these appliances are like $500, it’s pretty hard to justify the cost of professional repair.

50 years ago, when the price of an appliance was something like 50 hours of a repairman’s hourly wage, it made a lot of sense for most issues to be fixed by a professional. Now that these appliances are worth like 15-20 worker hours, it’s much harder to justify.

It’s also a point of friction in the Sopranos episode “Rat Pack,” at the funeral of Carmine Sr., with an Opus Dei rosary used by Johnny Sack to convey to Carmine Jr. (while they were maneuvering for succession) that he didn’t know his dad as well as he thought he did. Opus Dei’s background as a secretive organization is part of the tone of that interaction.

The cardinality of this infinite board is the same as a board with infinite number of rows, though, so same same.

Yup, gardeners are encouraged to cut off the tops of basil so that it doesn’t flower (and then it doesn’t turn woody).

Yeah, I know a lady who caught a parasite on her uterus from unprotected sex. It grew inside her for nine months, had all sorts of weird effects on her, and then she eventually pushed it out.

And don’t believe the old wives tale that the Van Allen Belt will prevent transmission.

Lemme tell you about Gambia’s relationship with Senegal