I started using James Hoffman's tip of rinsing off a spoon, shaking the water off, and then stirring your beans before grinding them.
Then I started taking a single bean and quick passing it under the faucet before tossing it in with the rest and shaking it around.
Now I just have a small spray bottle I repurposed. All methods are equally simple and get the job done to keep grinds from sticking to my Encore's hopper.
Like others have said, it's more subtle then slightest touch of humidity rather than actually getting anything wet.
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ShortThis cutie of a hootie is Decatur, an animal ambassador at the Vermont Institute of Natural Sciences.
Every day I post cute owls like this guy at !superbowl@lemmy.world for you to enjoy. You can come for just the pics, or I've also started posting some in depth writing about owls, packed with tons of info and detailed photos so you can learn how owls get their stealth, night vision, extreme flexibility, super hearing, and many other amazing powers you may not have known about.
I've also been posting places in every US state where you can go to see owls in person, and for everyone else, I sprinkle in owls from around the world, aaaaand I even started a while back posting things in metric measurements also so you know what the heck I'm talking about!
If I haven't won you over yet, here's some baby pics of Decatur!
It's really simple and the results are well worth it. I'm glad you enjoyed it!
I dug through my archives and found my pics of the one I made.
You should try it! I forget where I saw the idea originally, but my ex was very into Halloween, so we made it.
I normally don't like meatloaf, but the different shape and the crunchy cheese gave it a texture I enjoyed better, so IMO it's even better in hand form then it is as normal meatloaf!
I mostly agree with you about the looking bad and not tasting good, but I have made the "Meat Hand" before and that was just as good as normal food if you like meatloaf. Just make your recipe of choice but form into a hand shape, top it with a little cheese before baking, and cook on a sheet pan, then transfer into mashed taters. Looks great/horrifying, hard to mess up, and tastes like regular food. Plus ketchup makes "blood.". Options fingernails are just onion slivers and the wrist is the onion core/center part.
Pic below isn't mine, but mine came out looking just as good.
I'll share my experience regarding to a few choices quotes from the article.
Working as a senior quality and performance officer in a local council in the UK involved ‘pretending things are great to senior managers, and generally “feeding the beast” with meaningless numbers that give the illusion of control,’
My most recent job involved a bunch of auditing, mainly inventory. When you are tasked with finding errors and flaws, but are treated negatively when you present your findings, how does that make you value your work?
Management was relatively good at this job, but in my former one, I was treated poorly for sitting how we were operating wasnt working either as accurately or efficiently at it could. We were doing more work to deliver an inferior product. How to I feel I'm doing my best there?
Employed by a digital consultancy for a pharmaceutical company’s marketing department, he called his work ‘pure, unadulterated bullshit’, which ‘serves no purpose’.
I've been in various roles supporting pharma research for near 20 years now with a few companies in the data side of things. I mainly email results to people who only talk to me when there's a problem. That's somewhat fine, because I'm an introvert, but it doesn't build a bond between me and the people I'm supporting, and if we only speak when you're annoyed at me for sending you bad news when I'm just the messenger, or even more so if I find something more qualified people missed, it makes me feel like crap.
In my previous role, I would compile test results for lab inspections and get calls 6 or 12 months or more after sending the results from angry lab managers demanding I speak to their auditor about why they failed it to explain things they didn't understand. Way to prove my work want even important enough to flip through when you got it.
Empirical data suggested that, in fact, relatively few people appear to consider their jobs as useless – leading to pushback against the real-life applicability of Graeber’s concept.
None of my jobs, from the one I have, well, had, my job lost the bid to renew our contract, to the ones I had as a kid were useless. People generally don't pay for things they don't need. But some people definitely made me feel useless about the work I did for them. When I was a teen in food service, people needed to eat, both quickly and safely, and I wanted them to have a nice night out. But most people won't make you feel good for having that job. Now I turn stuff in to people I never see it great from it get to learn what happens from things I find, if the company makes changes based on my data, or if it just gets deleted. I'll never know.
‘I was recently able to charge around twelve thousand pounds to write a two-page report for a pharmaceutical client to present during a global strategy meeting,’ he said. ‘The report wasn’t used in the end because they didn’t manage to get to that agenda point.’
Looking at jobs now, I feel the bar is very high in minimum qualifications and mandatory skills for roles that I feel I would have been able to successfully do years ago in my career that I don't even begin to "qualify" to do now.
Jobs way harder than the just few I have are offering less than I made 10 years ago at places that treated me poorly back then.
I've been hired where they demanded I know skills X, Y, and Z, but the only thing they ever asked me to do was some intermediate X, some noob Y, and no Z ever came up because the boss doesn't understand half of it anyway and showing them how actually using Z can save time and money, but switching stuff over to that would take too much time or whatever.
I've always loved my jobs in the sense of what the duties were, or else I wouldn't do it, but seldom have I felt value in my job in the sense of doing that for the people I was doing it for.
Thumbnail photo by Alex Merritt
I provide most of the content for !superbowl@lemmy.world, which is sadly defederated, but I wanted to share this with Beehaw as well. It's usually all positive things I post, but as it seems Canada is willing to let animals go extinct without lifting a finger, I wanted to spread the word.
> Canadian cabinet ministers have rejected a plea by the country’s environment minister to save an endangered owl, casting doubt on the species’ survival in the coming years.
I try to keep things positive here, but I felt this was important to share. Since January, British Columbia had been required to take emergency action to protect the last wild spotted owl and it's habitat, but they have not only ignored that, they have continued destroying the forest in which it lives.
> “How is the fact there is only one wild-born spotted owl left in Canada not the definition of an emergency?” said Wilderness Committee Protected Areas Campaigner Joe Foy. “Minister Guilbeault found in January there was an imminent threat to the owl’s recovery due to the B.C. government’s logging authorizations, and yet B.C. has continued unabated logging of the owl’s home throughout the spring and summer. How does the federal cabinet just say ‘no problem’ to that?”
Quote from Wilderness Committee announcement
Previous efforts to reintroduce the owl have failed, with most of the new owls dying. Spotted Owls are a less aggressive species and can be driven out or killed by Great Horned Owls or Barred Owls. Like most owls, they require old growth trees (about 200 years old) to provide nesting areas, as they cannot make their own nesting cavities. They are also non-migratory, so they don't have anywhere to go and are butt very adaptable to different environments like some other species.
There are still Spotted Owls asking the US West Coast, but they are in similar trouble with owl populations falling dramatically. In addition to the Spotted Owls being killed by habitat loss and other owls, programs have been established to kill the Barred Owls that have been taking over the habits, so 2 species are suffering as a result.
Here is a final article about Ethics and Environment explaining the role old growth forests play in the owl life cycle and the need to preserve all species of life.
> What kind of society would trade the magnificence of these virgin forests and the splendor of the life that inhabits them -- owl, elk, bald eagles, and mountain goats -- for paper cups and two-by-fours? To allow such a tradeoff is equivalent to destroying a great work of art that has taken centuries to create, and that will be a source of rich experience for generations of hikers, backpackers, bird-watchers, and millions of others seeking a natural world away from our teeming concrete cities.
All three articles are worth a read. Please make sure you keep these things in mind when you have a chance to vote for change and to hold these people accountable.
Just watched it and did a review in my other comment on this post. It's not my type of movie, none of the Saws really are, but I thought it was alright and felt like a good addition to the Saw-iverse .
Reporting back, just finished watching the movie.
I'll start by saying I like horror movies in general, but not really the torture stuff like Saw or The Collection and things like that, hence why I've seen Saw 1, 2, and maybe 5 and that's it.
I do enjoy the basic premise where he only goes after people that have it coming as far as movie victims go, and that he gives them a bit of a chance to survive, especially if they would just stop being assholes for a minute.
This movie felt like what I remember if the early saw movies. I think watching the TS version may have helped a little, reducing the video quality to make it feel even more vintage, but it was fine for my viewing given my overall interest level.
I could recognize the main cast of characters, but even if I didn't, it fills you in on all you need to know, so it can definitely stand on its own.
The traps did all seem pretty original ish. Since there's nothing new plot wise here, it's still you have X minutes to free yourself painfully or you die. As far as are these things you could make yourself from Home Depot parts, maybe one or 2 of them, but they're still a bit out there, but better than I remember some stuff being in other movies.
Overall, I think if you enjoy this type of movie you should give it a shot. If you don't like them at all, it's not going to win you over. It still made be feel queasy and uncomfortable in a not pleasant way. I feel the traps are still pretty unfair and sadistic and are more revengey than teachy, but that's just me. But if you like the originals and fell off the series somewhere, you can watch this no problem.
Maybe I'll check this out. I've only seen 3 of them, but the back to basics formula makes it sound like it might be ok.
Being able to max my HSA contributions was one of my signs that I finally "made it" in my career. The advantages of HSAs are great for those that don't need to use them. Same with the required high deductible health plan itself.
Now my job is going away next month, and guess what does me no good then? No health plan, and I can't contribute that money to the HSA, not that I'll be getting any money. When I'll need protection most, it's not there. If the solution is to help everyone, universal healthcare is the only way to do it.
Once he started doing collabs with Josh Weissman, I think that took it from a bit into something serious. After that, I started seeing a bunch of YouTube cooking channels start using it.
I prefer using things with high glutamate content instead of straight MSG, but I do keep a jar on hand for when food is lacking that something.
You aren't alone! I got really confused for a second when I saw the community name.
I had a long reply written out, but then it got erased. 😓
I can't think of anything else it reminds me of, since we haven't really gotten to the actual plot yet. It's say watch episode 9, and see if you like that. It gives a sense of the silliness and seriousness we've seen so far without killing any previous set up jokes or finishing a fight, but it does have jokes and fights. If you like that episode, start from the beginning and give it a bit to get up to speed.
If you watched Gintama, I know you have the patience to give a show time to figure out what direction it's going to go.
This is the kind of service government should provide. Would you go to a restaurant where they make you calculate your own bill, and if you calculate sales tax wrong, you get penalized? It's up to the service provider to say how much you owe.
Helck had been fun for me. Went in blind, and at first thought it was too goofy and random, but the world grew on me once we started to learn about the actual antagonists. Huge fan of Piwi.
Zom 100 I also went into blind. It has really connected with me as in going through a bunch of negative life changes right now, so it's helping me keep focus on doing things that make me happy. Plus the show is really good!.
Devil is a Part Timer I'm not fully caught up on, but the latest part has been much better than the previous one.
I plan to check out Murder Farce and Link Click at some point too.
I agree. I usually make 1 or 0.5 gallon wines, so if I ever had to toss anything, no biggie. If I was making big, complicated batches or something with expensive ingredients, I'm sure I'd worry more about it. But I think by that point if you were into that kind stuff, you'd have enough supplies to not have to worry about it anyway. Hydrometer is about as fancy as I get!
To show how much I don't deserve the machine, I spent the first half of the video thinking you had to hand pump the thing with the giant lever! Nobody that can afford that thing is doing that kind of manual labor! 😂
Was glad last weekend to see a few of us get talking last weekend in the One Piece thread. Lemmy is way too dead when it comes to anime and manga talk. So let's see what we need to be talking about.
What have you been watching, what is it, and why do you think it's worth watching?
Return of takahē – large, flightless bird – to alpine slopes of the South Island marks a conservation victory in New Zealand
> In New Zealand, the return of wild takahē populations marks a cautiously celebrated conservation victory, and the return of one of the world’s rarest creatures. The birds had been formally declared extinct in 1898, their already-reduced population devastated by the arrival of European settlers’ animal companions: stoats, cats, ferrets and rats. After their rediscovery in 1948, their numbers are now at about 500, growing at about 8% a year.