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Cooked.wiki has been able to do this for several years. If you open a recipe link and it's just pages of text, type "cooked.wiki/" before the URL, and you'll get an ingredient list and a recipe. https://smittenkitchen.com/2008/12/potato-pancakes-latkes/ vs...

The university in my town has a free event every year. It used to be literally free, you just had to stand in line and get your free ticket, but many years ago, the university decided to turn the ticketing over to TicketMaster. It wasn't terrible at first, but over the years, that "Free" ticket...

That’s literally what I said. I’m not sure what you think you’re disagreeing with.

They would be short-term capital gains, unless you’re placing your bets more than a year in advance, which is taxed as ordinary income.

One of my clients is a financial firm, and they have a TV in the lobby that plays CNBC all day. I was in the office one day, shortly after the war began, and, no joke, the segment that was on was about, “The Trump Administration didn’t realize that attacking Iran would increase gas prices”. They...

My mom got a BEV last year, and she is convinced that if it ever reaches 50% charge, that it will spontaneously strand her in the middle of the road. There's a drive that she makes regularly that uses about 40% of the battery, and she refuses to make that drive unless the battery is charged to...

If you have a spare moment, I highly recommend reading about the Tellico Dam mentioned in the article, because it's pretty bonkers. I was curious why this dam was so important that Congress first overrode SCOTUS then overrode their own "God Squad" to get it built, and it actually goes deeper...

My family recently got back from our annual ski trip to the Rockies. This is a live view from one of the cameras from where we were. This place is usually open until the end of April, and snow into May isn't unheard of. We've been going for 15 years now, and this year was by far the worst we've...

“Legally, a whiskey can only be sold as bourbon if its mash is composed of at least 51 percent corn, with any other cereal grain (usually rye and barley) making up the remainder.” For the curious, for the 3 bourbons in the header image: Buffalo Trace - 89.5% corn, 7% rye, and 3.5% barley Makers...

My most recent phone support call went like this: Robot - “What can I help you with today?” Me - “Human being.” Robot - “If you say ‘human being’ again, I will end this call.” Me - “Human being.” click

"Uneven" isn't how I would describe S3 of SNW, I found the quality of the season perfectly cromulent. The word I would use is "tragic". I found every single episode to be a real downer with a depressing conclusion. The Arena episode was especially infuriating. I don't want my entertainment to be...

This is some weird revisionist history. From 2018: "Nvidia announced its third quarter financial results, but a worrying glut of graphics cards in the channel, which Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang chalked up to a 'Crypto hangover', impacted overall earnings and guidance. The news sent the company's...

I live in horse breeding country, and I always thought horse ejaculator (the horses don’t have sex, they collect and sell the sperm) would be a weird and unpleasant job to have, but wild monkey urine collector sounds far worse.

American Exceptionalism

Where I live in the US southeast, DC fast charging is almost 5x more expensive than charging at home, and when you compare it to the price of gas, using a DC charger is equivalent to getting 20 MPG. Just about any modern ICEV comes out cheaper than using a DC charger. This is going to vary...

I can second this. I asked a friend that owns a pharmacy about getting vaccinated off-label, and he said he’d give it to me at his cost, but that he doesn’t know what that is yet, because it isn’t even available for him to order. I’m also in the Southeast.

That's why I explicitly called out coal. The coal industry is tiny - as WaPo famously pointed out in 2017, Arby's has more employees than the entire coal industry. In 2024, Exxon alone had revenue of roughly $350B, whereas the entire coal industry combined only had revenue of $40B. I live in...

Not sure why you think that's sarcasm. My power company wanted to decommission some aging coal plants that were getting too expensive to maintain, and replace them with solar, and the state energy commission straight up told them no, they have to keep burning coal. If only there was a solar...

This is actually where I'm at. I control the network for 3 different properties in 3 different cities - two of them have a choice between a local fiber ISP or Windstream (Kinetic) and the third has a choice between a local fiber ISP or AT&T. In all 3 cities it's roughly $80/mo for the national...

12 years after Man of Steel, I'm still mad at Zac Snyder for getting Superman so completely wrong, and after watching Superman last night, I'm pretty sure James Gunn shared that anger. I had some issues with the structure of the movie, articulated quite well in this review, but the fact that...