**Official** Physicists are freaks and very weird dudes LC Thread

Still didn’t think that 6% was available by draft.

My sister went to college in Boston and doesn’t remember it being specifically an East Coast thing. I know I’ve seen it in Colorado, Oregon and Washington. First time I saw it I thought it was just a marketing thing by Land O Lakes, we have both kinds in the house right now in Washington.

https://twitter.com/anapplebright/status/1348002846147555329

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https://www.thekitchn.com/whats-the-difference-between-east-coast-butter-and-west-coast-butter-229183

Ohh, I thought you were talking the difference between these 2 styles:

That looks like two sticks worth of butter and I’ve never seen that. I spent way too long in Ohio and while not a butter fiend did use it and don’t remember seeing it there. Weird.

What is wrong with you people?

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a lot

american recipes are basically impossible for non-usaians to follow, doing everything by weight makes 10000x more sense so of course we aren’t going to fucking do that

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Appears not. Try again next century!

Even if I managed to get the quanities right I’d mess up with the temperature :slight_smile:

Are you saying metric butter sticks aren’t labeled with gram markings on them? Figuring out what 15g of butter is without a scale would be a pain in the ass. For most recipes volume works just as well as weights.

It’s only 10 days into 2021, and I’m already dealing with a great personal tragedy. Today I buried my 2nd pair of bargain bin wireless earbuds in a year, making my total investment in wireless earbuds (with no net functional wireless earbuds) $40, the cost of a 2nd tier brand of wireless earbuds. What is my play now?

  • Buy another pair of $15-20 cheapo wireless earbuds
  • Buy a medium pair of wireless earbuds ($40-70)
  • Buy some ridiculously overpriced pair of wireless earbuds
  • Cut off both ears

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I have had a $25 set of Anker wireless headphones for like 5 years now and they still work great. Try another cheap one

Edit: these are the ones I have, actually $30 though this is probably a more recent version
https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0756T7R5T/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_apa_i_tV4-FbZMQHK1J?_encoding=UTF8&psc=1

I should note that I’m not a snob for amazing sound quality, just need something that stays in my ears during workouts and lasts long enough for a day or two worth of commutes before I have to recharge, and these provide that

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I’ve been very pleased with my air pods so far and I a) have terrible luck with ear buds and b) usually hate everything Apple does from a usability POV. Well their software anyway. Hardware is usually fine. But I figured they’d have some horrible iTunes-y way to deal with them. Instead they just work. Yay.

Recent developments in sliced bread.
https://twitter.com/FLITTER/status/1348329830966767619?s=19

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The AirPods Pro are expensive but are the best bluetooth headset I’ve used. Before them I used up a couple of pair of Beats PowerBeats, the dorky ear clip ones connected by a cable. They were the first bluetooth headsets I used that didn’t drop signal when I put my phone in my pants pocket on hikes. Apparently I’m weirdly dense to bluetooth signals…

What is this the best thing since?

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MBS seems like an idiot

https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/saudi-arabia-the-line-neom-megacity

You’re just dismissing the idea because you’ve thought about it for a second or two and quickly realized it’s very stupid and impractical for at least a half dozen different reasons.

Here’s one of my favorite planned city attempts:

How it started:

How it’s going:

It was decided not to let any slum pockets pop up across the city. But it failed. as, according to the 2001 census, a fifth[12][13] to a third[14] of the population of municipalised Navi Mumbai lives in slums [15] and gaothans (urban villages),[11] with thousands of buildings violating planning norms.[16]

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Never order your city on Wish, even if it looks like a great deal

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