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blackbrook@mander.xyzto Ask Lemmy@lemmy.world•How many mL of sparkling mineral water should I add to wine to make it adequately sparkling like champagne/bubbly?1·7 days agoWhy would you ask this rather than adding it to wine yourself to see what amount you found satisfying?
blackbrook@mander.xyzto Ask Lemmy@lemmy.world•My combat boots lasted 4-years. Is that reasonable given hard use?4·9 days agoI believe there is a trade off between grippiness and hardness. So depending what kind of surfaces you need to walk on, buying boots with soles that resist wear more may have a downside.
blackbrook@mander.xyzto Ask Lemmy@lemmy.world•My combat boots lasted 4-years. Is that reasonable given hard use?1·9 days agoCobblers will replace heels too. I realize this doesn’t matter if the trip isn’t worth it, but for future reference.
Creatine is very helpful for reducing the effects of sleep deprivation. I’m not sure what dose would be ideal, but I would expect it to be pretty large, like 20 grams.
blackbrook@mander.xyzto Ask Lemmy@lemmy.world•what is your country's view on speaking the native language with a foreign accent?4·14 days agoI’m guessing ICE likes it, it probably makes their job easier.
blackbrook@mander.xyzto Ask Lemmy@lemmy.world•US question: Would you approve of your state seceding from the Union, declaring independence from the United States? I think California, Oregon, and Washington would, and probably Colorado too.71·16 days agoNo, but I’d consider it for a large group of states. The US dividing into 2 countries is better than some other outcomes I can imagine.
Hear hear! Shaming Americans for their preference for unhealthy food is pretty racist.
blackbrook@mander.xyzto Ask Lemmy@lemmy.world•What grocery items are always worth the extra $1-$5?1·19 days agoCame here to say Dijon mustard. A jar of mustard lasts me 6 months, so a couple extra bucks for the good stuff doesn’t amount to much.
blackbrook@mander.xyzto Ask Lemmy@lemmy.world•What grocery items are always worth the extra $1-$5?1·19 days agoThere’s nothing wrong with new england maple syrup, but yes, real maple syrup not “pancake syrup” with maple flavoring.
I’m going to use this as an opportunity to reminisce about an insane laptop of the past: I once had a thinkpad W700ds. I chose this because work was paying for it, and I wanted a powerful machine and a 17 screen. This was a no compromises “mobile workstation.” I knew it wasn’t going to be light or slim, but my attitude was, what, am I afraid of getting a little extra exercise carrying it around?
But I really wasn’t imagining quite what I got. It weighed almost 11 pounds (maybe more, because I think I added an extra drive). And it was big. Extra thick. I had to search really hard to find a backpack that would actually fit it, and what I ended up having to get was actually targeted at DJ’s. It was a beast.
And the icing on the cake was the extra slide out screen. I knew this was gimmicky, and didn’t actually want it, but the model without it was out of stock. It slid out of the cover on the side, so as to be next to the main monitor, but it was kind of crappy. The resolution wasn’t as good and it was dimmer, so it just didn’t look right. It was kind of embarrassing and contributed to the cover having to be just that much thicker.
Even the power brick was huge.
Yeah, one of those I didn’t really think things through moments. It was a great conversation starter though, if you didn’t mind admitting to being a dork.
blackbrook@mander.xyzto Asklemmy@lemmy.ml•Everyone talks about the 4th dimension, BUT why is 3D geometry so hard for the average person compared to 2D ?9·22 days agoWe percieve the 3 dimensions we exist in, through a 2d mapping, i.e. our retinas. So I think we are limited in how much of 3d we can really grasp at a time.
blackbrook@mander.xyzto Ask Lemmy@lemmy.world•Is it okay for gay people to call ourselves homophobic slurs?11·23 days agoThe Homophobic Slurs would be a great band name.
blackbrook@mander.xyzto Ask Lemmy@lemmy.world•What is an example of the JC Penny's effect ?5·23 days ago“1/12 lb more beef then a quartet pounder” would have been a great marketing slogan!
blackbrook@mander.xyzto Ask Lemmy@lemmy.world•Anyone else kind of disgusted at the waste created by going out to eat?1·25 days agoWell King Arthur, the flour company, is employee owned.
We’re stuck between a rock and a hard place with a bad system but there are choices we can make about how fully it controls us.
blackbrook@mander.xyzto Ask Lemmy@lemmy.world•People of Lemmy, what does your egg carton look like? No fair changing the setup for the picture.2·25 days agoI think the combination of strong foreshortening, the unexpected extreme size differences of the eggs, and maybe the half carton many of us are less used to, makes this the eggbox version of one of those ‘mystery houses’ where things are warped in sone strange way that it fools you into thinking things roll uphill and such.
Since the imperfections of your room may make what looks level not perfectly level, I say don’t use a spirit level. You want it to look right.
blackbrook@mander.xyzto Ask Lemmy@lemmy.world•People of Lemmy, what does your egg carton look like? No fair changing the setup for the picture.4·26 days agopencil would probably work
Vignetted? If I’m correctly inferring what you mean by that, you might also try ‘tunnel vision’ as search term.