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  • OrganichuOrganichu poops peesRegistered User, Moderator mod
    oh penzey's is a super liberal spice company. all of their blends have an anti-republican screed on the label, it's great.

  • syndalissyndalis Getting Classy On the WallRegistered User, Loves Apple Products regular
    Jacobkosh wrote: »
    my favorite coffee additive is Bailey's

    At the Delta Sky Club in LA, I asked for an irish coffee. They gave me a glass with 1 part baileys, 1 part irish whisky, and pointed me over to the coffee area to make it as strong as I wanted.

    It was free.

    Since this was my return flight from Australia and I didn't need to be useful, I may have overindulged a tiny bit.

    But putting more whisky in the Irish Cream was a game changer.

    SW-4158-3990-6116
    Let's play Mario Kart or something...
  • JebusUDJebusUD Adventure! Candy IslandRegistered User regular
    Organichu wrote: »
    it is pretty upsetting to me to watch media made in the 2020s where a main character can just beat up her husband for a couple minutes on screen and no one is upset about it and there's even a light joke. dang.

    What are you watching?

    and I wonder about my neighbors even though I don't have them
    but they're listening to every word I say
  • Evil MultifariousEvil Multifarious Registered User regular
    The thing about having a house with more rooms is that it is great, yes, but also you will 100% get more stuff to fill those rooms and end up at your standard clutter equilibrium

  • OrganichuOrganichu poops peesRegistered User, Moderator mod
    JebusUD wrote: »
    Organichu wrote: »
    it is pretty upsetting to me to watch media made in the 2020s where a main character can just beat up her husband for a couple minutes on screen and no one is upset about it and there's even a light joke. dang.

    What are you watching?

    the diplomat

  • OrganichuOrganichu poops peesRegistered User, Moderator mod
    The thing about having a house with more rooms is that it is great, yes, but also you will 100% get more stuff to fill those rooms and end up at your standard clutter equilibrium

    your failures are your own

  • honoverehonovere Registered User regular
    Tumin wrote: »
    What about a 3BR apartment

    Here three and four bedroom (sidenote as not a native english speaker: Do you count the living room as a bedroom? What about combined kitchens/dining rooms?) are the most sought out and at least in the city barely available renting commodity. It's disheartening.

  • Rhesus PositiveRhesus Positive GNU Terry Pratchett Registered User regular
    After reading the manual for my oven, I've now found out that the setting I've been using is one that is designed so that you don't have to preheat the oven

    I've now confirmed this with various foods

    So I've probably wasted 25% of the energy that I've been using to oven cook things over the last 7 months

    [Muffled sounds of gorilla violence]
  • TuminTumin Registered User regular
    It would be very funny to persuade you that Americans have been considering kitchens a bedroom for 300 years but ah no, living rooms and kitchens dont count. Bedrooms have requirements in most US building codes about ventilation and fire exit etc

  • OrganichuOrganichu poops peesRegistered User, Moderator mod
    honovere wrote: »
    Tumin wrote: »
    What about a 3BR apartment

    Here three and four bedroom (sidenote as not a native english speaker: Do you count the living room as a bedroom? What about combined kitchens/dining rooms?) are the most sought out and at least in the city barely available renting commodity. It's disheartening.

    in american real estate, bedroom means room where people do sleep or can sleep. usually 'extra' rooms will be counted as bedrooms, or a listing might say 'extra bedroom good candidate for office' or 'office that could be converted to bedroom'. living rooms, dining rooms, kitchens, bathrooms- anything where you wouldn't be likely to put a bed- don't count as bedrooms.

  • JebusUDJebusUD Adventure! Candy IslandRegistered User regular
    Organichu wrote: »
    JebusUD wrote: »
    Organichu wrote: »
    it is pretty upsetting to me to watch media made in the 2020s where a main character can just beat up her husband for a couple minutes on screen and no one is upset about it and there's even a light joke. dang.

    What are you watching?

    the diplomat

    I don't know what this is, sounds bad.

    and I wonder about my neighbors even though I don't have them
    but they're listening to every word I say
  • WeaverWeaver Who are you? What do you want?Registered User regular
    edited January 5
    Orca wrote: »
    japan wrote: »
    The interesting thing about the idea of "cheap cuts" of meat is that it doesn't really exist anymore

    In the UK at least, butchery happens way further up the production chain than the retail outlet, and anything that isn't one of the popular cuts that can be nicely packaged and sold in volume is exported to markets where its more popular or sold into processed food production supply chains

    This goes for bones, too, typically

    I do wonder how different the US is in this regard, since it's not immediately adjacent to a wide variety of export markets with wildly different consumer preferences in the way most Euro countries are

    No such thing as cheap cuts out here. Even chuck is expensive. Flank more so.

    Even bones are like $2.00 a pound.

    Ridiculous.

    Restaurants buying up formerly cheaper subprimals to market at inflated premium prices meant they were also paying above cost so grocery butcher shops, even upscale ones like the one I worked at, were priced out of those cuts.

    Weaver on
  • honoverehonovere Registered User regular
    So a 2 bedroom appartment can have like 4 fully funtional rooms?

    Another difference when talking about dwellings between here and the US also seems to be that the US based talk is way more about the number of rooms than about the size of the house/flat.

  • JebusUDJebusUD Adventure! Candy IslandRegistered User regular
    Organichu wrote: »
    honovere wrote: »
    Tumin wrote: »
    What about a 3BR apartment

    Here three and four bedroom (sidenote as not a native english speaker: Do you count the living room as a bedroom? What about combined kitchens/dining rooms?) are the most sought out and at least in the city barely available renting commodity. It's disheartening.

    in american real estate, bedroom means room where people do sleep or can sleep. usually 'extra' rooms will be counted as bedrooms, or a listing might say 'extra bedroom good candidate for office' or 'office that could be converted to bedroom'. living rooms, dining rooms, kitchens, bathrooms- anything where you wouldn't be likely to put a bed- don't count as bedrooms.

    It's usually more formal than that. It has to legally count as a bedroom in the municipality in question to be listed as one. Which typically means a closet and an egress window (one of a certain minimum size, big enough for you to escape and sometimes even big enough for a firefighter in full gear to enter through, open to the exterior). Sometimes there are other requirements, it's set at the city level.

    and I wonder about my neighbors even though I don't have them
    but they're listening to every word I say
  • KamiroKamiro Registered User regular
    After reading the manual for my oven, I've now found out that the setting I've been using is one that is designed so that you don't have to preheat the oven

    I've now confirmed this with various foods

    So I've probably wasted 25% of the energy that I've been using to oven cook things over the last 7 months

    How can you get away with not preheating the oven?

  • OrganichuOrganichu poops peesRegistered User, Moderator mod
    JebusUD wrote: »
    Organichu wrote: »
    honovere wrote: »
    Tumin wrote: »
    What about a 3BR apartment

    Here three and four bedroom (sidenote as not a native english speaker: Do you count the living room as a bedroom? What about combined kitchens/dining rooms?) are the most sought out and at least in the city barely available renting commodity. It's disheartening.

    in american real estate, bedroom means room where people do sleep or can sleep. usually 'extra' rooms will be counted as bedrooms, or a listing might say 'extra bedroom good candidate for office' or 'office that could be converted to bedroom'. living rooms, dining rooms, kitchens, bathrooms- anything where you wouldn't be likely to put a bed- don't count as bedrooms.

    It's usually more formal than that. It has to legally count as a bedroom in the municipality in question to be listed as one. Which typically means a closet and an egress window (one of a certain minimum size, big enough for you to escape and sometimes even big enough for a firefighter in full gear to enter through, open to the exterior). Sometimes there are other requirements, it's set at the city level.

    i'm just talking in terms of how americans talk about it. i shouldn't say how real estate works in america. i mean how everyday americans talk about real estate.

  • OrganichuOrganichu poops peesRegistered User, Moderator mod
    JebusUD wrote: »
    Organichu wrote: »
    JebusUD wrote: »
    Organichu wrote: »
    it is pretty upsetting to me to watch media made in the 2020s where a main character can just beat up her husband for a couple minutes on screen and no one is upset about it and there's even a light joke. dang.

    What are you watching?

    the diplomat

    I don't know what this is, sounds bad.

    it's a political drama/comedy. so far the writing is pretty punchy and sharp. it just seems stuck in the 20th century with a lot of other media where it's just clean american fun for a man to be hit by his partner.

  • Rhesus PositiveRhesus Positive GNU Terry Pratchett Registered User regular
    Hmm

    I might be able to fit through my second bedroom window, but I wouldn't count on it - it's quite high up

    Luckily my actual bedroom has a full-length window so I could just hop over the Juliet balcony onto a hypothetical cherry picker

    [Muffled sounds of gorilla violence]
  • Donkey KongDonkey Kong Putting Nintendo out of business with AI nips Registered User regular
    honovere wrote: »
    So a 2 bedroom appartment can have like 4 fully funtional rooms?

    Another difference when talking about dwellings between here and the US also seems to be that the US based talk is way more about the number of rooms than about the size of the house/flat.

    I don't know if thats true. I think if theres less than 500 sq ft per bedroom, then the number of bedrooms gets top billing, while if theres more, the area gets top billing from the agent or in the listing.

    Both are important and are regularly used for sorting or searching when looking for housing.

    Thousands of hot, local singles are waiting to play at bubbulon.com.
  • KamiroKamiro Registered User regular
    Organichu wrote: »
    honovere wrote: »
    Tumin wrote: »
    What about a 3BR apartment

    Here three and four bedroom (sidenote as not a native english speaker: Do you count the living room as a bedroom? What about combined kitchens/dining rooms?) are the most sought out and at least in the city barely available renting commodity. It's disheartening.

    in american real estate, bedroom means room where people do sleep or can sleep. usually 'extra' rooms will be counted as bedrooms, or a listing might say 'extra bedroom good candidate for office' or 'office that could be converted to bedroom'. living rooms, dining rooms, kitchens, bathrooms- anything where you wouldn't be likely to put a bed- don't count as bedrooms.

    I believe a bedroom has to have at least a door and a window to the outside. Not sure if there is a minimum size.

    So generally something like a living room or dining room can’t count as a bedroom because they don’t have doors that can close it off

  • TuminTumin Registered User regular
    I wanna jump through a full window on the 2nd story as the building explodes yeah

  • amateurhouramateurhour One day I'll be professionalhour The woods somewhere in TennesseeRegistered User regular
    I've always wanted to take one of those breakaway emergency ladders and sneak out the second story window.

    are YOU on the beer list?
  • JebusUDJebusUD Adventure! Candy IslandRegistered User regular
    Hmm

    I might be able to fit through my second bedroom window, but I wouldn't count on it - it's quite high up

    Luckily my actual bedroom has a full-length window so I could just hop over the Juliet balcony onto a hypothetical cherry picker

    There is no requirement that this exterior window open up at a height that you won't just splatter at the bottom of. Presumably because firefighters have ladders.

    and I wonder about my neighbors even though I don't have them
    but they're listening to every word I say
  • OrganichuOrganichu poops peesRegistered User, Moderator mod
    if i were looking at buying a house- where resale value mattered- i would care about the formal definition constituting important artifacts (like number of bedrooms, or habitable square feet). if i'm just renting or evaluating whether i want to live in a place, i don't think i especially care about it meeting the legal code (though of course i might value a closet or natural light).

  • TuminTumin Registered User regular
    Natural light??????

    Youre losing goblin leaderboard position with every word

  • Donkey KongDonkey Kong Putting Nintendo out of business with AI nips Registered User regular
    edited January 5
    My apartment was listed as having three bedrooms but they were counting my office, a 6x7 ft space with 5 windows that's adjacent to the living room, adjacent to the main entrance, and has no doors across a double wide entry. It would be the most ludicrous bedroom even if it does technically have enough space for a bed and there is a closet

    Donkey Kong on
    Thousands of hot, local singles are waiting to play at bubbulon.com.
  • OrganichuOrganichu poops peesRegistered User, Moderator mod
    My apartment was listed as having three bedrooms but they were counting my office, a 6x7 ft space with 5 windows that's adjacent to the living room, adjacent to the main entrance, and has no doors across a double wide entry. It would be the most ludicrous bedroom it it does technically have enough space for a bed and there is a closet

    tricked, hoodwinked, and quite possibly bamboozled

  • Donkey KongDonkey Kong Putting Nintendo out of business with AI nips Registered User regular
    i mean I saw the place before I bought it

    Thousands of hot, local singles are waiting to play at bubbulon.com.
  • TuminTumin Registered User regular
    The prior owner totally rented our extremely noncompliant basement as a bedroom on airbnb. Put this grandma in jail imo

  • JebusUDJebusUD Adventure! Candy IslandRegistered User regular
    Organichu wrote: »
    if i were looking at buying a house- where resale value mattered- i would care about the formal definition constituting important artifacts (like number of bedrooms, or habitable square feet). if i'm just renting or evaluating whether i want to live in a place, i don't think i especially care about it meeting the legal code (though of course i might value a closet or natural light).

    Rentals very much have to meet the legal code or get shut down here. You'd have to be at the fringe of under the table rentals to rent an illegal closet bedroom.

    and I wonder about my neighbors even though I don't have them
    but they're listening to every word I say
  • Evil MultifariousEvil Multifarious Registered User regular
    Organichu wrote: »
    The thing about having a house with more rooms is that it is great, yes, but also you will 100% get more stuff to fill those rooms and end up at your standard clutter equilibrium

    your failures are your own

    I'm talking about my lessers

    Obviously my house is in a perpetual state of airy elegance, and objects arrive and depart at an equal and modest velocity

  • OrganichuOrganichu poops peesRegistered User, Moderator mod
    JebusUD wrote: »
    Organichu wrote: »
    if i were looking at buying a house- where resale value mattered- i would care about the formal definition constituting important artifacts (like number of bedrooms, or habitable square feet). if i'm just renting or evaluating whether i want to live in a place, i don't think i especially care about it meeting the legal code (though of course i might value a closet or natural light).

    Rentals very much have to meet the legal code or get shut down here. You'd have to be at the fringe of under the table rentals to rent an illegal closet bedroom.

    when i was fatter i rented out my underboob

  • JebusUDJebusUD Adventure! Candy IslandRegistered User regular
    Maybe in Denver everyone lives in a closet and the government doesn't care.

    and I wonder about my neighbors even though I don't have them
    but they're listening to every word I say
  • TuminTumin Registered User regular
    edited January 5
    JebusUD wrote: »
    Maybe in Denver everyone lives in a closet and the government doesn't care.

    Moat Western US cities are hotbeds of anarchy tbh

    Tumin on
  • SleepSleep Registered User regular
    edited January 5
    Generally weather or not something is a bedroom is also related to the bathroom situation. Yeah sure this walk in closet could be used as a tight bedroom with no window and insufficient lighting, but that’s more occupancy than the bathroom situation is built to handle.

    Sleep on
  • Evil MultifariousEvil Multifarious Registered User regular
    I have now accepted that getting coffee at the push of a button that is 80% as good as pourover coffee is, in most cases, a superior experience

    It grinds and brews quickly enough that I don't even really need the autostart scheduler. You could stagger out of bed and just hit "start" and get a cup or pot in 5 minutes while you do other things.

  • Rhesus PositiveRhesus Positive GNU Terry Pratchett Registered User regular
    JebusUD wrote: »
    Hmm

    I might be able to fit through my second bedroom window, but I wouldn't count on it - it's quite high up

    Luckily my actual bedroom has a full-length window so I could just hop over the Juliet balcony onto a hypothetical cherry picker

    There is no requirement that this exterior window open up at a height that you won't just splatter at the bottom of. Presumably because firefighters have ladders.

    High up on the wall, I mean

    wexmq1d6wa6i.jpg

    [Muffled sounds of gorilla violence]
  • OrganichuOrganichu poops peesRegistered User, Moderator mod
    i think the moment i start living with another human being i need to leave this apartment. i can't imagine ever again having other humans but only one toilet. my bladder couldn't survive the hellfire.

  • TuminTumin Registered User regular
    I have now accepted that getting coffee at the push of a button that is 80% as good as pourover coffee is, in most cases, a superior experience

    It grinds and brews quickly enough that I don't even really need the autostart scheduler. You could stagger out of bed and just hit "start" and get a cup or pot in 5 minutes while you do other things.

    Do you feel your moral fortitude withering daily

  • DoodmannDoodmann Registered User regular
    edited January 5
    Speaking of cooking, Delicious in Dungeon is now up on Netflix everyone should watch it except Atomika I know it's not for her.
    Its an anime about a dungeon exploring party. The story then details their travels through the dungeon, the environments, traps, and monsters they encounter, and the meals they create. The pros and cons of these meals, and the characters' reactions to them, provide a running gag.

    As a first episode goes I kind of hated the setup, way too much "let's talk about meta systems as if this is a video game" without making it clear one way or the other.

    It very easily could fall into some of the isakeai tropes that I have no interest in which is bummer because it seems pretty beloved.

    Doodmann on
    Whippy wrote: »
    nope nope nope nope abort abort talk about anime
    I like to ART
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