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  • My pasta isn't cooked?

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  • Assuming you're getting regular dried pasta, there is no cooking happening to it at the factory, it's all happening in your pot. It's extruded or rolled out and cut and then just dried still raw. There may be some products out there that are precooked in some way, but that's not your standard dry pasta noodle.

    There's two aspects to cooking dried pasta that usually happens roughly simultaneously when you boil it- rehydrating the noodles and cooking them. Rehydrating is mostly a matter of time- making sure they spend enough time in enough liquid for the pasta to soak it up, although higher temperatures do speed that up a bit. And cooking is mostly a matter of temperature- making sure it gets up to a temperature where the necessary chemical changes happen. There's some recipes where that gets mixed up a bit, I've seen a couple that call for soaking the pasta before cooking, or there's things like spaghetti all'assassina where it's cooked before rehydrating.

    So what's going on here?

    I suppose it's possible that there was some kind of manufacturing issue, like the pasta wasn't mixed or dried right so it's not cooking or rehydrating properly. There's really not much to most pasta dough, some nicer brands literally just list flour of some kind as an ingredient and nothing else, most grocery store brands probably have some of the other usual food additives you'd find in enriched flour, but really there's not too much to mess up there, and if they messed up the mixing bad enough, odds are in probably wouldn't have extruded or rolled out right either.

    And I have a hard time imagining them screwing up the drying process bad enough in a way that could result in this that wouldn't have just resulted in the pasta cracking apart before you got it.

    So I think it's more likely that something went screwy with the cooking.

    I know you said you didn't, but honestly the safe money is probably on that you just didn't cook it long enough. Maybe it's a different brand than you usually get, or you mistakenly used the cooking instructions from a different shape of pasta, or there was a misprint on the box.

    Maybe you're at a higher elevation where water boils at a lower temperature so the cooking and rehydration didn't go quite right.

    Maybe you over or under salted the cooking water, or added something else which affected it

    Or maybe there's some other water quality issue where your water that didn't allow it to rehydrate as well as it should have.

    Maybe it's something else I'm not thinking of, but I can say with confidence that it wasn't an issue with the cooking process at the factory because pasta does not get cooked and the factory.

  • Budget, adjustable monitor for programming?

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  • Yeah, there's plenty of VESA mounts that will allow you to rotate the monitor, move it up/down, side-to-side, and tilt it forwards and backwards as needed

    As for ones that will automatically change the orientation that things are being displayed when you turn the monitor from portrait to landscape, if that's what you're looking for, that's a tougher nut to crack, I'm sure they're out there but they're not common, or (last I checked) cheap. But changing the orientation is as simple as Ctrl+Alt+arrow key (I think some newer Intel display drivers have changed that, but I haven't looked too far into that)

  • Budget, adjustable monitor for programming?

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  • Honestly, your required specs are basically any monitor on the market at this point, you can rotate the display orientation of any monitor with settings baked into any OS you're likely to be using

    You probably won't even need to spend $100 for a 60hz 1080p monitor

    If you can't find one with an adjustable stand that's to your liking, just look for one that can use a VESA mount and get another stand for it, probably less than $50

    You can probably get 3 monitors and stands for your budget and still have enough left over to grab lunch.

    Unless you have some gaming, graphic design, etc. needs you haven't disclosed, I don't think it's worth getting too hung up on this, even cheap monitors tend to last a pretty long time

  • So...tired...

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  • It probably depends on the music festival you're going to but there was one I used to go to every year

    It was 3 or 4 days of day-drinking, eating like crap, staying up late, being outside in the sun on probably one of the hottest weeks of the year while probably not drinking enough water, and sleeping in tents on the ground.

    And depending on how the festival is laid out, walking around the grounds from one stage to another, to different vendors and food stands, to your campsite and back, etc. can add up pretty quickly. The one I went to was pretty small and compact, but I still probably managed around 5-10 miles a day walking around, and you may be hauling around camp chairs, blankets, and coolers with you for a lot of that. And I'm not saying that that's a lot of walking, personally I can do that pretty easily, but it's more than a lot of people normally do.

  • FBI Extracts Suspect’s Deleted Signal Messages Saved in iPhone Notification Database

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  • Once in a while I get a notification that, for one reason or another, doesn't actually bring me to the content it was supposed to link to and instead brings me to the main page of an app, and sometimes it's difficult or impossible to find where the link was supposed to go

    But going in through the notification history, the second try usually takes me where it was supposed to go

  • Where can i find a good video tutorial on shaving my junk?

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  • Yeah, personally I can probably just about dry shave against the grain with a piece of broken glass and splash on some acetone as aftershave and be none the worse for it, not too much in this world irritates my skin.

    I figured it was worth mentioning it because I know it's a concern for some people, but I've never had an issue with it personally with shaving or waxing.

  • How common is it for people in your social circle of relative/friends to own their homes? (What country btw?)

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  • Philly-area millennial.

    Among friends and family around my age, I have probably around a dozen or so people or couples who own their homes, one of whom inherited it, and one who bought it from family for cheap

    And many more than that who rent, live with their parents (who often but not always own their home) and a couple whose housing situations aren't quite what you'd call secure but aren't quite homeless either.

    As for myself, I'm kind of caught in paperwork limbo living in a house that's owned by my mother in law, that she's agreed to sell to us and we've been given carte Blanche to do whatever we want with it, are responsible for repairs and maintenance, but actually getting shit together for a mortgage is being way more of a pain in the ass than it should for reasons I don't really want to go into.

    In my parent's social circles, the vast majority own homes or have in some way secured some kind of long-term housing for themselves, like one who basically gets their apartment rent free by being some kind of property manager.

  • Where can i find a good video tutorial on shaving my junk?

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  • The pain really isn't that bad

    And at least for me, the worst parts of it are more on my sort of FUPA area, not so much on my dick and balls themselves, so for the service I get, it's only like 3 patches around the edges that actually hurt. Might suck more if you're planning to get more than that done, but I can't really comment on that myself.

    And again. It's only for an instant with each rip and then it's over, by the time you've flinched it's already stopped hurting.

  • Where can i find a good video tutorial on shaving my junk?

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  • Get waxed, I've been doing it for a couple years now, worth it.

    Hurts a bit when they pull it off, but not nearly as bad as you imagine, and it only hurts for an instant, not like it's a pain that's gonna linger around with you.

    Smoother and longer-lasting than you could ever hope to manage with a razor, and no risk of cutting yourself

    Depending on your skin, maybe you could have some issues with ingrown hairs, but I'm pretty sure if you're prone to that you're probably gonna have those issues shaving too.

    My only complaint is the price, the place I've been going charges about $75 (+tip) for their "basic" service, which is just shaft and sack. I'm personally a really hairy dude and I feel like it would look weird for me to go beyond that and have bald patches on my crotch and ass crack, and I'm certainly not gonna spend the time and money for a full body waxing.

    The full, most premium package to get all of you junk and butt waxed with all the extra goes up to something like $150 (+tip), and there's a few options in-between so that you have a sense of the price range.

    Which I do think is a pretty fair price for the service, but it's also certainly not cheap. Personally I kind of justify it because I've known people who spend that much or more or haircuts about as often as I get it done, and i shave my head myself with a safety razor, so my haircut expenses are basically 0, so just kind of trading one grooming expense for another.

    I usually go about a month and a half between waxings, first week or two there's no noticeable hair regrowth, and by the 6th week I usually have about the required ¼ inch or so for waxing. Takes about a half hour for what I get done.

    In some places it can be hard to find places that do it for dudes, and not all employees are trained or willing to do male waxing, so don't ruin it for the rest of us, wash your ass and junk and don't be a creep.

  • A "Polish lunch"

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  • Not gonna dispute your definition, because you have far more Polish cred than I do (assuming you're actually Polish and not just someone whose great-great-grandparents or whatever came from Poland like myself)

    But I feel like you're really underselling bigos.

    Pretty sure there's at least as many recipes for it as there are Polish families, and sauerkraut and sausage are probably the only two things that most of them have in common, so I guess it makes sense to boil the definition down to that, but most versions I've had almost seem like they put half the grocery store into the pot.

  • What do you keep in your pockets and which pocket do you keep them in?

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  • Normally 5-7 between my shirt and pants.

    2 front and back pockets on my pants

    The little watch pocket on jeans and such

    One or two shirt pockets

    Occasionally I wear cargo pants or shorts which adds 2+ more pockets

    And if I'm wearing a jacket, that adds a few more. My most commonly worn jacket has 2 hip, 2 chest, and 2 inside pockets

    And if I'm fishing, even I don't know how many pockets are on my vest, pretty sure that adds a dozen or so

  • What do you keep in your pockets and which pocket do you keep them in?

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  • Wallet goes in my back left. Used to be my right but the way I sit that started to give me some sciatica issues no problem since I switched pockets. I also switched to a thinner wallet which probably helps as well but that came well after switching sides

    Back right usually gets a bandana

    Things move around between my front pockets a bit.

    I usually carry a pocket knife and if it has a clip that gets clipped to the front right, no exceptions. If it doesn't have a clip it could be in either front pocket, or possibly a belt pouch.

    I usually have a pen on me and if my shirt doesn't have a pocket that goes there as well.

    I've been sporting a curly handlebar moustache for probably 15 years now, and if I'm wearing jeans or something else with a similar little watch/coin pocket, my tin of moustache wax goes there. Otherwise that tin goes into whichever pocket I find it's rattling the least against whatever else is in that pocket.

    Phone switches back and forth between my left and right front pocket, based mostly on which hand I was last using it with. If I was just aimlessly scrolling on my phone or texting someone I probably had it in my right hand so it goes in the front right. It occasionally also ends up in a jacket or shirt pocket.

    If I was using it while I was doing something else, like maybe looking at a recipe while I was cooking it was probably in my left hand so it goes in that pocket.

    If I have cargo pockets it sometimes ends up in one of those. One of my pairs of hiking pants has a pocket that fits it really nicely.

    Keys generally get clipped to a belt loop on my right side, the case for my earbuds gets clipped on my left. Other times they end up in a jacket pocket or usually my front right pocket.

    I usually carry a small notepad with me, like with the pen it preferably goes in a shirt pocket, otherwise it usually ends up in my right front, or if I have cargo pockets one of those.

  • Trump Just Lost a War for America — No One's Done That Since Nixon

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  • Nah, even the bushes were better at this than him

  • C-can some cross-disciplinary humor be permitted in this comm? 🥺

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  • I had a math professor from Nigeria

    The dude spoke like 6 different languages, but when he first came to America, he barely spoke a word of English (which is how he ended up in math, numbers work the same in any language, and probably why he was really good at teaching math)

    But the dude had seen some shit in his day, and we'd occasionally get some absolutely insane lore drops about armed militias and such rolling through his village, I'm pretty sure he spent some time as a child soldier, he'd occasionally get a little nervous if he heard a helicopter fly overhead, etc.

    I'm glad he taught math, because like I said, he was really good at it, but man, I would have just signed up for a class to hear him talk about his life.

  • [QUESTION] What is your easiest method to cook eggs?

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  • I really don't think it gets much easier than just cracking eggs into a pan personally, if you're finding your having a lot of trouble with cooked-on egg gunk, that sounds to me like a technique/skill issue, pan to hot or not letting it preheat enough and/or not enough oil/butter/grease.

    Get those variables right and you shouldn't really have much cleaning to do, I can pretty much just rinse and wipe off my pans after frying an egg, no real scrubbing or scraping or anything needed no matter if I'm using stainless, nonstick, cast iron, etc.

    If hard/soft boiled eggs are appealing to you, I have a little dash egg steamer doohickey that works really well, although personally I think peeling eggs is more fiddly than cleaning a pan

    There's a few doodads out there for poaching eggs in the microwave, but personally I've never had much luck with them, they always seem to come out overdone or explode which makes for more cleanup than a pan.

    There's a few ways to do eggs in the oven, my wife meal preps egg whites with various mix-ins in some oven safe glass containers and just heats them back up in the microwave throughout the week.

  • Hey Lemmy, what's your favorite poem?

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  • This Is Just To SayBy William Carlos Williams

    I have eatenthe plumsthat were inthe icebox

    and whichyou were probablysavingfor breakfast

    Forgive methey were deliciousso sweetand so cold

    Besides that, I have a book of poetry that I'm not going to share, but I will share the story of why I own it.

    I work in 911 dispatch. We have a frequent caller, she actually doesn't live in our area, but her mother and father do. This is what I've pieced together about them.

    Her father is in a nursing home. She calls frequently for police or EMS to go out for him alleging all kinds of abuse and mistreatment. This isn't a particularly nice nursing home, but cops have been there multiple times and haven't found any issues with her father.

    She's very uncooperative with us when she calls, refuses to answer basically any questions, and when we or the police try to call her back to tell her the outcome or to get more information she basically never answers the phone.

    A few times she has actually shown up at the nursing home, caused a scene, and had to be escorted off the premises. One time her father was hospitalized for something (not sure what, but I didn't see any calls for us that would have matched up with him, so it probably wasn't something too serious if they took the time to arrange non emergency transport) and she showed up at the hospital, was escorted out, and spent the next day or two pretty much camped out at some nearby fast food places)

    Her mother has dementia, and is a frequent caller herself, she calls to complain about her caretakers and sometimes even gets into fights with them.

    I wouldn't be the least bit surprised to learn that the father checked himself into the nursing home to get away from his wife and daughter.

    They both occasionally call for well-being checks on each other. The daughter usually because she took her mother's insane ramblings at face value, and the mother usually because she hasn't heard from the daughter in a while (or at least doesn't remember hearing from her) and because of some vague concerns that she can never really explain, things like "I'm worried because of everything happening in [city where daughter lives]" but she can't tell me what's supposedly happening there and when I looked up the local news there I couldn't find anything particularly noteworthy.

    I've given the mother the direct phone number to the dispatch center that covers her daughter's home multiple times (sometimes multiple times in the same night) so she can reach them directly, but she always calls 911 instead so I have to transfer her every time.

    During one such transfer, she was rambling about her daughter, and she mentions that her daughter is a writer.

    I of course had to search out what she had written.

    At first, all I could find was some mentions of her contributing to some magazines and such, but couldn't actually find any of her actual writing, but digging a little deeper I was able to find some stuff she did in college. A bunch of poetry, and it was all terrible and weird. I'd pull it up to share with my coworkers occasionally when she was blowing up our phones.

    Then one day I went to do that and saw that she had written a book. I got a copy for myself and as Christmas presents for a couple of my favorite coworkers. It's more of the same insane, rambling, nonsensical poetry.

  • If you saw a mushroom cloud, what would you say?

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  • ‘I just want to go home’: Despair settles over the Capitol as DHS deal hopes evaporate

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  • How much do you think the average American flies?

    Less than half of us get on a plane in any given year, so most of us aren't impacted one bit by long lines at airports because we just weren't going to go to the airport anyway.

    And if we do, most of us are only flying a couple of times a year. A couple extra hours at the airport a couple times a year isn't that big of a deal.

    Especially since odds are that you already planned to arrive early because there's always the potential for all kinds of hold-ups and delays at the airport anyway.

    It's something like 10-15% of the population who account for something like 2/3 of all airline passengers. They're the only ones this is really "hurting" (and even then I'd still say it's more of an inconvenience than causing any actual hurt)

    And conveniently, it's also about 15% of the population who are immigrants, and every last one of them should consider themselves to be in real danger of having their lives uprooted or even ended by ice. They are actually being hurt.

    So no, fuck that.

  • Newly purchased Vizio TVs now require Walmart accounts to use smart features

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  • I really only need 1 HDMI port on my TV- to connect my AV receiver to, everything else gets plugged into that receiver, it's got about 8 HDMI ports.

    Right now there's 3 consoles, a pc, and a Chromecast hooked up to it, so I have ports to spare, and I haven't had to use anything on my tv since I initially set it up and set the input to HDMI 1

    It's not necessarily feasible for everyone, it does take up a little more space in your entertainment center that not everyone has, but I also think it's 100% worth it to at least have a decent set of speakers hooked up to your TV if you can find the space and budget to do so.

  • What is a gender neutral honorific for non-binary folk?

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  • I work in 911 dispatch, understandably once in a while I get a caller who is just absolutely losing their mind over whatever is going on that they're calling about

    And sometimes pretty much the only thing I can do to grab my callers attention and bring them back around to listening to me is to just kind of repeat sir/ma'am until I get their attention they come back around to realizing I'm trying to talk to them.

    If I can get their name, I use that instead and it's more effective, but that's not always a given.

    Just sitting there in silence until they get their shit together on their own doesn't work, and more likely they're going to just hang up on me.

    And repeating whatever question I need answered really just kind of goes in one ear and out the other while they continue going off.

    Their name or sir/ma'am is punchier, it has a way of cutting through their panic and grabbing their attention saying "you are being addressed right now and the person addressing you needs your attention"

    And I really wish we had a good, gender-neutral equivalent of that. It needs to be polite and professional, and maybe a bit authoritative-sounding, so something like "dude" obviously won't cut it.

    And I need it both for trans/non-binary people, and people whose gender just isn't clear on the phone because they're in a panic, calling from a potato, and/or just have a somewhat ambiguous voice.

    Normally I just have to pick one and go with it, and they'll either correct me (in some cases, choosing the wrong one might actually be more effective at grabbing their attention because astonishingly (/s) people don't enjoy being misgendered and they jump at the opportunity to correct that) or they also just roll with it.

    But I'd really like to avoid that if I can, and I haven't really found a good option for it yet.