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I don't really recall exactly how I came up with this, but I've been doing it for years with refried beans. It makes them have the texture of larded beans without making them trash. More recently, I've used the same method to make creamy sauces for gnocchi (which if bought carefully, can be real food too) and similar things. The trick is to use a lot, since they will reduce in volume by a lot, and cook them for a very long time, covered. Basically you want to steam them, not brown them. I start with medium-high heat, and as soon as they start to slightly color, turn it way down. I usually add a little bit of water. Cover and let them steam, stirring every 7-10 minutes or so (I don't really time it, just occasionally). You want basic (not sweet) yellow or white onions. Yellow is best. Don't try reds, it's easy to make them bitter by cooking them. It works with sweet yellows but the flavor seems off to me, too sweet. I cut them and then use a press-type dicer/cutter to make very small pieces, so they cook really well. You could do it with a knife and more time. From there, I may mash them into beans, or use a blender to make a really creamy sauce. It's flexible. The end result is actually light in onion flavor even when you use a lot. I use this, and highly recommend it for all veggie dicing needs: https://smile.amazon.com/gp/product/B0764HS4SL/ref=ppx_yo_dt_b_search_asin_title?ie=UTF8&psc=1
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If you'd stop quoting the idiot, most people wouldn't see it. My trial balloon was to read a post by a known fucktard and see if it contained a conversation. As soon as he wasn't worshiped for the god that he thinks he is, it went to shit. Here we are. For a minute, I truly thought we could have a conversation about a third party product without a massive idiot ego being involved.
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Probably possible, or be so threatening that you just start over. The amount needed to ruin a finish is microscopic. Adam Savage said two things are herpes in his shop, and banned; silicone and glitter. I used glitter for a project at the last house, and found it for years where I didn't want it.
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The hispanic paradox: Why do latinos live longer?
SwampNut replied to SwampNut's topic in Diet & health exchange
A more natural diet, less sugar, less salt. Right around 1940 is when more processed stuff was becoming mainstream, so we saw the results a few decades later. But it took a while for the processed food industry to fuck our diet completely, more like the 70s. False. Half the shit they got didn't have a name, or was put down as the wrong thing. More people died before they could "get" a disease. They say every single man alive will get prostate diseases if he lives long enough; so now we have "more" of it because we're surviving other things. Cancer rates were astronomically higher by 1990. Sugar consumption went up over double by 2000. The 50s also launched ultra-salty foods, which we'd get to see the results of decades later. Salt-free cookbooks were already appearing by the 1950s, and two decades later manufacturers dropped salt from baby food. By 1981 the FDA had launched sodium-education initiatives aiming to cut U.S. salt intake. Three years later, sodium was added to the list of ingredients required to be mentioned on nutrition labels. Despite such efforts to increase awareness, salt consumption in the U.S. has jumped 50% over the past four decades. One reason: salt often lurks where you don't expect it. A dollop of cottage cheese, for instance, can pack twice as much of the mineral as a palmful of salted peanuts. Plus, as much as 75% of Americans' sodium intake comes from processed foods like canned soup and baking mixes--which means you could easily blow past your daily allotment without ever picking up the saltshaker. -
Dark mode / Themes / Style sheets
SwampNut replied to Nova Scotia Mike's topic in Board Tech Issues & Help
I've been leaving ChatGPT open at all times, I need to remember to leverage it for things like this. Invision Community is a software platform that allows users to create online communities and forums. If you want to change the theme (visual appearance) of your Invision Community forum, you can do so by following these steps: Log in to your Invision Community forum as an administrator. Navigate to the "Customize" tab in the dashboard. In the "Customize" tab, you will see a list of options for customizing your forum's appearance. Click on the "Themes" option to access the theme settings. From the theme settings page, you can select a new theme for your forum. You can choose from a list of pre-designed themes or upload your own custom theme. Once you have selected a new theme, click the "Save" button to apply the changes. Keep in mind that changing the theme of your Invision Community forum may affect the appearance of other elements on your forum, such as the layout and colors of certain pages and features. It's a good idea to preview your changes before saving them to make sure everything looks the way you want it to. -
I have three to give away. Their meals are pretty good nutritionally; not ideal Whole Foods, but close. Convenient to prepare, and we rarely dislike them. Some are VERY good. https://www.purplecarrot.com/weekly-menu/meal-kits https://www.purplecarrot.com/weekly-menu/prepared-meals
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SwampNut replied to Nova Scotia Mike's topic in Board Tech Issues & Help
Beats me. I'll have to go search for instructions, long day so added to the list of tasks. -
Self-standing funnels that re-capture the fluids when you set them down
SwampNut replied to SwampNut's topic in The Garage
I need a funnel for car fluids maybe three times a year in a busy year, they would likely be disposable for me. Basic cheap PLA is under $20/kilo, it can hit $15. My slicer tells me that the large funnel uses 132g so $2.50-ish. I personally don't see a use for the large. The "thicc" version scaled to 50%, which is what seems most useful to me, uses 31g, so about 70 cents. That model at 75% uses 80g. Both models start at 250mm long and 135mm at their widest point. "Thicc" has double-thick walls so that when you scale it down, you don't end up with unprintably thin walls with a generic (cheap) printer. PLA should be great against most automotive fluids, definitely not acetone, and possibly not brake cleaner. -
Silicone is like herpes.
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You can use a soldering iron to melt the back of it and "weld" it together. Some soldering kits also include specific paddle bits to do this. And this is very effective if you just want to glue it. @superhawk996 used it on his Talon, maybe he can comment on how it has held up. https://www.loctiteproducts.com/en/products/fix/super-glue/loctite_plasticsbondingsystem.html
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Honestly I just can't advise you on this realistically. Obviously GIMP is going to run, is it going to be great? No idea. I don't use it, and I don't know anything more than "it's a photo editor." I haven't edited photos on a Windows machine in 20 years. These are cheap basic machines with very little storage, also.
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I don't really know an exact number, it's a Celeron, so probably more comparable to an i3 or i5. I have one running next to me and it feels fine for what you said you wanted to do, I'm sure I wouldn't want to be doing video editing on it or 3D gaming. I deployed a ton of them for a call center to do their work on and phone calls over a headset.
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I have two of these in sealed boxes, brand new. How about $100 plus actual shipping cost? https://www.bestbuy.com/site/asus-14-0-laptop-intel-celeron-n4020-4gb-memory-64gb-emmc-star-black-star-black/6469401.p?skuId=6469401
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Tomek smoked a motor due to excess sealant??? It's so hard to tell which of two bullshitters is bullshitting more. I can understand one of those, but yeah, the sealant. Where did you think it was gonna go? The other day someone you know who is usually pretty good mechanically showed up with a blob of grease on his swingarm due to using so much on the pedals. What you should use is a tiny dab of anti-sieze.