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When I buy supermarket eggs, I refrigerate them because they are washed (in the US). When I get unwashed eggs (from a farm or a friend), I still refrigerate them and just wash them prior to use. I don't have to refrigerate them since they have the cuticle intact, but refrigerating them still makes them stay fresher longer, so if I have the space for them, why would I not?

That said, the eggs already come in a carton, so I'm not going to transfer them into a separate container in my fridge for no reason.

Eggs survive in the wild at ambient temp because when they are laid, a coating basically seals off the egg. Unfortunately, chickens have one hole, and they are messy animals, so there's often some poop, too. In many countries, this coating is left intact, and technically, you should wash eggs before using them so nothing from the shell ends up inside when you crack it. As Americans, we have bigger houses and bigger fridges, and we love convenience, so we wash our eggs prior to packaging. This means they have to be refrigerated.

Either approach works, but the important thing is not to leave washed eggs unrefrigerated.

I wouldn't consider these huge issues, but there's 3 areas where I think the miir design suffers relative to the chemex. The pourover part looks like just a single wall. Obviously the chemex is, too, but according to a quick look on wikipedia, stainless has ~10x the thermal conductivity of borosilicate glass, so your brew chamber is going to cool more quickly. No clue if it would be enough to make a difference in brew temp, though.

The stainless carafe part sounds good, too, but stainless travel mugs almost always get lots of coffee residue buildup, and it's a bit of a process to get them properly clean to the point where you don't smell it. I always end up washing with baking soda and/or citric acid a few times. Glass stays cleaner, and it's also easier to see how clean it is.

Lastly, it might just be me, but every once in a while, my scale times out if I'm doing other stuff while making coffee, or I'll make coffee without a scale. It's really nice to be able to see visually how much coffee there is in the carafe.

This is the lab behind the poop knife. They are absolutely experts in this kind of thing.

I need to read the whole paper, but I suspect the weight/wind resistance ratio of the javelin is better, and that the motion of launching an atlatl dart is affected by the downward angle. The railing on the scissor lift likely has an effect, too.

For anyone who's confused as to how this sorcery could work, it's due to the chemistry/physics of the battery. As batteries discharge, there is more crystal growth of the electrolyte. Crystals can store mechanical energy like a spring, while the electrolyte in solution absorbs energy. It's like dropping a water balloon vs dropping a solid rubber ball.

I think body hair holds onto a considerable amount of water, so people without much body hair don't carry as much water with them when they step out.

They want to merge with Albertsons, who owns the other half of grocery stores: Acme, Safeway, jewel osco, and a bunch more.

Community canneries still exist, but they used to be way more popular. In rural communities where people grow a lot of their own food, people can their own food, but pressure canners take a lot of time for a single batch to come up to pressure, cook, and cool.

Community canneries have much bigger pressure canners where you could feasibly can everything in one batch. It's also really enables people sharing surpluses, trading, etc.

Many hobbies are better shared, too. If you have 20 people sharing a super high quality "item", they will have a better experience than if each of those people had to buy their own crappy versions.

Basically, a whole lot of things can be "libraried".

Yeah, no one wants to buy a log splitter and store it for 360 days a year, but those few days you can use it, it's really useful.

Usps has "informed delivery ", where they send you pictures of all of your mail before you get it, so you do know if you are getting something important.

Yeah, reviewing is about making sure the methods are sound and the conclusions are supported by the data. Whether or not the data are correct is largely something that the reviewer cannot determine.

If a machine spits out a reading of 5.3, but the paper says 6.2, the reviewer can't catch that. If numbers are too perfect, you might be suspicious of it, but it's really not your job to go all forensic accountant on the data.

My local library system has tools, kitchen implements, a recording studio, musical instruments, stem kits for kids, video games, and art.

They need a better inventory system, though, cause all the non-book items are inventoried alongside the books. If you want to rent a shovel, you will see every book with "shovel" in the name before you see any actual shovels.

At least at my library, there's basically just a separate form you have to sign to say that if you chop your hand off with a saw, you won't hold them liable, and I think there are more strict limits on how long you can rent things, and what the penalties are for being late.

That is super cool! I should see if I can do that at mine

In English, there's also "clockwise-lockwise". It makes more sense than talking about left and right.

I'm trying to wrap my head around the logic, and I just can't get it to connect. Are they trying to say that although the ECOA gives them the responsibility, it doesn't give them the power? Like paying someone to mow your lawn, and then saying they aren't allowed on your property?

Or are they saying that the ECOA gives the FTC the power to challenge companies that discriminate by not giving credit to minorities, but not the power to challenge companies that discriminate by giving bad credit terms to minorities?

Bunch of city people want to destroy rural people’s lifestyles.

CAFOs are not "rural people's lifestyle". They are a relatively modern invention to create the largest amount of meat while employing the fewest people possible. Trying to defend them as "rural people's lifestyle" is very disingenuous. If you want to defend them, there are reasonable arguments to make, like the price of food, the land use, water use, etc, compared to meat produced other ways.

Even if somehow having a corporation own 100,000 chickens that they raise down the road from you was an important part of your lifestyle, I cannot stand the constant argument that somehow, rural folks' way of life is more important to preserve than urban folks'. As we make the climate worse, and pump out more pollution, and have more kids, and create more technology, everyone's life is going to change. Rural folks have significantly more kids than urban folks and they produce more burden on the environment, yet somehow, it's on people who live it cities who are supposed to bear the costs because we can't possibly do anything that affects people who live rurally?

I, and most people, want small, family run operations to succeed. There's no reason we have to protect Big Ag to keep small operations. Big Ag is the biggest threat to the little guys.

I had similar happen once. Look at the connection between the drain and the tub itself. For me, the plumbers putty that was in there was old and had gotten gross and cracked. It was fine when I showered, but when I put enough water in to fill the tub, it broke through with a leak. The water pooled up on a bit of subfloor, and dripped from there onto the drywall below. Even after the tub was empty, there was still some dripping till I dried everything out.

What I had to do was just remove the drain, and reapply new putty. It's possible you have putty, or a gasket, or caulk in there that has failed. It's probably a pretty easy fix for you to replace it.

Lol, and Danes are definitely the most outgoing of the Nordics. I've found Danes to be pretty similar in terms of outgoing-ness to people from New England in the US; unlikely to start conversation with complete strangers, but certainly kind once you have that initial connection.

I'm not a medical doctor, nor am I in your exact situation, but I do know a little bit about sleep. There's a broad category of things known as sleep hygiene that are basically supposed to be the "best practices" around sleep. Evidence is good for some things, and inconclusive for others, but in lieu of going to an actual sleep specialist, these sorts of things shouldn't hurt to try.

Stuff like only being in bed to sleep (no watching TV from bed, etc.), avoiding alcohol and caffeine, and giving consideration to your circadian rythym (low blue light prior to sleep, coupled with increased blue light upon waking, it's apparently the contrast that matters more than the actual amounts).

There's also plenty of people who have undiagnosed issues affecting sleep. Obviously you said, for you, it's depression, but that doesn't mean there couldn't be something else at play that could be addressed. If you have the means, something like a smartwatch or an oura ring (which is hsa/fsa eligible if you are in the US) could help tell you if you are moving around a lot in your sleep, or could have something like apnea. Again, not the same as going to an expert, but that's not an option for everyone.