Not to mention “barley in middle school”

I don’t know about you, but I think that’s pretty good for a cereal crop.

It’s actually not (just) the acidity. Pineapples and several other tropical fruits have an enzyme called papain that breaks down peptide bonds in a rather unique way, to the point that the texture of the meat can become quite off-putting if the enzyme is not used properly

Edit: acidic or not, it’s definitely best not to put any sensitive parts of your anatomy in pineapple juice

I believe that’s a cantaloupe.

As someone who lives in this same town, black bears are more like overweight raccoons.

Fun fact, our “city hall” is at the tiny community airport, which also had a restaurant with the best chicken wings in town (salt and vinegar wings FTW). The restaurant was still going when this happened in 2019, so my guess is the bear smelled the food and went looking for the kitchen, only to get sidetracked by the city council meeting.

po-tay-to, po-tah-to

“No Skyrim until you finish your homework and finish your chores” is a fantastic motivator for my 10yo. When I can model that I can’t play Rocket League with him until after I finish the dishes, it drives the point home that IRL responsibilities need to come before video games.

Depends. The cheap houses, yeah, there’s as fair bit of noise, but you can’t hear everything. From downstairs, you can hear when someone walks across the room above you, but not when they’re walking in other upstairs rooms. And from rooms on the same level, you can hear if someone is talking loudly in the room next door, but not enough to make out what they’re saying unless they’re yelling.

Well-built houses or buildings made for occupancy by multiple families usually have better sound insulation between the rooms/floors/units, so it’s not always an issue.

Edit: the plus side to that is I know all the noises my house makes at night, so as a light sleeper, I know when something is wrong in the middle of the night, and I only need one decent sound system for the whole house, which is great for listening to records while doing housework.

You know what? Now that you mention it, I think reading that story in the Dulaires book of Greek myths was my first conscious exposure to the word “sieve.”

Not that that’s too interesting to anyone besides me, but you just unburied a long-forgotten pleasant memory, so thanks!

It’s got what plants crave!

DAMN fine!

It’s more like a mutual friend. There’s a connection to both reactants (aka “binding affinity”), but not as strong as the bond that is formed between the two substrates (if the reaction is forming a covalent bond between the two substrates, anyway)

Edit: I’m actually saving this meme to show my coworkers that teach biochem, because it’s a pretty decent analogy. You can even extend it to other reaction classes, like a phosphorylase being like a friend who connects your buddy who is selling a guitar with your other buddy who wants to buy a guitar, or a isomerase being that friend who gives you a make-over so that another friend can set you up on a date.

You said it, man! Nobody fucks with the Jesus!

Now, this is the episode the world needs

I mean, shit, Evan Williams makes a damn fine Old Fashioned at a whopping $20 per handle.

This feels like what Fear and Loathing would have been like if they were more into (slash had knowledge of) dissociatives.

Edit: I guess ether is close, but it’s still nothing like a good k-hole or DXM trip.

Relevant username?

Well, when “hunting and fishing gear” includes boats, ATV’s, deer blinds, guns, etc., then yeah, you kinda do.

Plus, a large chunk of the space is taken up with “decor” which is mostly taxidermy, aquariums, and reproductions of all sorts of big game trophies.

W-w-what?

Fair enough.

You’re absolutely right, if it was actually plating. However, given the contract was for copper ingots, I’d guess the poor quality copper was copper cast into an ingot shape around something worthless rather than what we would consider plating. It could also have been much more about impurities and ores left over from an incomplete smelting/refining process such that trying to hammer or cast the copper resulted in lots of worthless slag.