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Cake day: July 1st, 2023

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  • I’m currently doing an online Master’s with Northeastern. Honestly not surprised this happened, the quality of classes is WILD.

    Taking 2 classes per term, and each term so far 1 class has been very well designed but also insanely easy, while the other has been so poorly implemented that the course learning materials don’t actually help you do the coursework.

    Probably most astonishing so far though is a course I’m taking now just served me with the literally exact same assignment that I did for a course I just finished. Now, granted that both classes are from the elective course choices, so not everyone will take both, but come on… and they grill me about plagiarism with every submission I make…







  • See, people say that ad companies can use all this information they gather to better serve targeted advertising, but that’s just not my anecdotal experience.

    I get served ads all the time in languages I don’t speak, for VERY specific job related audiences that I’m not even close to related to, state politics that I’ve never lived in, services that I’m already actively subscribed to, just the worst targeting ever.

    If I have to get advertised to, I’d so much rather get an ad that could actually be at all relevant to my life, or even some generic ad over the total misses.

    Like, if you’re going through the trouble to do all this shady shit to get my data at least be good at it using it…





  • You’re already jumping to conclusions, specifically that he was definitely in the cell with his wife when she died and that she was killed.

    There’s still some doubts that can be cast, especially given the few details we have.

    He didn’t have control over who could enter or leave the cell, it’s possible someone else did the murdering.

    Heck with the evidence we have access to, it’s possible she never entered the cell alive.

    It could have been accidental as the result of something consensual.

    It could be coincidental that something consensual happened and after which see died of an unrelated cause.

    It could have been suicide, where she wanted to be with him at the time.



  • Ok, this is a dangerous idea. Make your own.

    You get an ice cream maker/mixer that turns a frozen bowl.

    In a separate bowl mix 1 quart of light cream, 1 can of condensed milk, 1/2 cup of sugar as the base (add vanilla for vanilla flavor, melt some real chocolate with enough cream that it’s liquid for chocolate, etc, play with it, nothing solid yet)

    Pour half into your mixer, let it go for 28mins, add any solids you want (if you’re planning to add a lot, you could pour less base in). 2 more min, scope it out into some containers. Repeat for the rest of the base, you can do different flavors/mix ins if you want).

    My bowls are good for 2 batches before they don’t freeze enough. If you need more, you can get and freeze more bowls, or just make batches up to like every other day or so, as the bowls need to freeze.





  • Right, if you keep the water at the temp you want what you’re cooking in it, as heat transfers from the water to the food, you just heat the water a little more. Eventually, the food is entirely exactly the temp of the water, with no possibility of getting hotter, so the food can’t get overcooked even if it sits longer than necessary. Usually, you’ll quickly finish something after it’s done, like less than 1 min from sous vide to plate. It’s good when you have time to do the prep work but don’t have time just before the meal to do all the cooking, especially if you wanted to serve a lot of guests. Also, if someone likes food cooked to a certain doneness but is bad at judging it.