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askbaking_train

Has anyone here used the milk and vinegar combo as a substitute for buttermilk? I want to make some buttermilk biscuits but buttermilk is really difficult to come by where I am. I looked around online a bit and found that if you combine milk with some vinegar it creates a buttermilk substitute. Has anyone tried this? If so, how were the results? Any better substitute suggestions? Thanks!

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I use lemon juice but the vinegar works just as well. Only limit is it might not rise as much but it still tastes just as good

I use lime juice. It’s so much better, love the way it tastes

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askengineers_train

I wish to study engineering at university, which type of engineering uses maths the most often in a day to day job? I enjoy maths and wish to become an engineer. Which discipline of engineering will use the most maths in your job, as I wish to have a job where I am doing calculations often/mostly everyday

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Agree. If you want to use maths on a day to day basis then honestly engineering might not be for you. Enjoying and understand maths helps to provide a strong backbone for courses in physics and engineering, but actual calculations done by hand in the field are pretty rare. Most maths are done by computer these days.

This is a subjective question. Engineering is the application of science and mathematics to solve problems. You will find mathematics in any given branch of engineering. I would recommend exploring some of the broad fields within engineering (mechanical, electrical, chemical, biomedical, etc) and find what interests you.

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askengineers_train

Are "Stroads" as bad as this youtube explainer is claiming? Non-engineer here, and I just watched this youtube video called Stroads are Ugly, Expensive, and Dangerous (and they're everywhere). Link = https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ORzNZUeUHAM The TLDR (as best as I can explain) of the video is: Northern America is full of things called "Stroads" which are a combination of streets and roads, but are bad at being both. The U.S. and Canada should instead model their roads on the Netherlands model where their cities are full of Fast roads, slow streets, and safe bike lanes, and ultimately this is faster and safer than the American Stroad model. My questions are... 1. Is this video exaggerating how bad American Stroads are and how good Netherland roads and streets are? Or is their assessment pretty much correct? 2. Would a netherlands style road system even be possible in the US? I've lived in Utah my whole life and to get anywhere you basically have to own a car. And not necessarily because utah cities and towns cater the most to cars (although they do), but because the distances between cities and towns are large enough that getting to work on a bike or by foot isn't terribly feasible (in my opinion). Meanwhile in the Netherlands and Europe it seems like everything is much closer together, making non-car ownership and travel feasible there, but not here. 3. If U.S. Cities did decide to switch to the netherlands model and turn all or most of their 'Stroads' into streets/roads/bike-roads how would or should they go about it from an engineering perspective? Is it kind of too late at this point because it would take too much money and time to completely redo our gigantic American road system? I'm not an engineer so I'm really just curious what the experts have to say about this whole issue.

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Dutch cities are a delight to travel around on foot or by bike. They tend to be smaller than US cities and have a compact centre with everything you need within easy walking distance, or failing that, by bus. It means you can take one journey from the suburbs, walk around for a bit, and then take a journey back. They also generally have large pedestrianised areas. My experience with US cities is that the distances really are meant for driving, and you need to take multiple journeys (with the exception of malls). It would be perfectly possible to design US cities to be like Dutch ones, but I think it’s pretty reasonable to ask whether you’d really want to. Imo you have larger societal problems to address like homelessness, mental health treatment and crime before you begin to look at urban densification. Part of why Dutch cities are so nice is because they’re relatively calm and safe places to be. Imo densification would just concentrate these problems and turn your cities into complete hellholes.

The US culture is car centric. Most distances, except in the inner cities, are too large for walking. In suburban shopping centers, there are often few safe ways to walk to them. The US could do a lot better in providing bike and pedestrian access to these places.

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asksciencefiction_train

[South Park] If Kyle, Stan, Kenny and the others hate Cartman, then why do they hang out with him?

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At first they dealt with him because they used to actually get along decently, but Cartman became progressively more insane and dangerous. The Scott tennerman incident made. Them realize it's safer to keep him as a friend rather than an enemy .

They don't. They literally all don't like each other as friends anymore. The last episode published saw them go through an amicable divorce where they divided custody of Kenny.

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asksciencefiction_train

[MCU] Is Loki a Witch or Sorcerer? (Doctor Strange MoM & prior MCU spoilers) *Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness* suggest there's a different between witchcraft and sorcery in the MCU. Loki learned many of his magical techniques from Frigga, who was "raised by witches" and is called a witch by Malekith. Loki says he's "not a witch" in *Thor: Ragnarok*, however. Sylvie, in the *Loki* TV show derisively refers to him as a "magician". In the parlance of the MCU, is Loki suppose to be a witch or a sorcerer or something else entirely?

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Loki operates on an entirely different playing field than most earth characters, even magic users. To classify him by Earth standards would be inadequate. Same with Frigga; the witches she was raised by are on a different level than Earth witches like Agatha and most likely even Wanda. Closest thing for the beloved God of Mischief in Earth terms would probably be sorcerer, since witchcraft on Earth operates mostly on runes and incantations, which he doesn’t need. Though the moniker “trickster” really is the most accurate descriptor.

I would classify it as "witch magic" but that he is not a witch himself, he is Asgardian and Frost Giant. Neither is Frigga actually a witch, just a wielder of their magic. It would be a silly as classifying Odin, Konshu, or Bast, as witch or sorcerer, gods are not mortals, and their magic is not mortal magic.

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askbaking_train

What else can I bake with ripe bananas? I’m getting tired of baking a traditional banana bread and muffins because I end up never finishing them. I’d love to hear what else y’all make with ripe bananas. Need inspiration!

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gi9hh19

This banana custard cake was really yummy! And you can always just slice your loaves of banana bread ahead of time and freeze them; they freeze/defrost really well so long as you freeze them on the day that they were made.

Slice them in half, sugar, and brulée them!

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askengineers_train

What are some fun engineering toys you know? Just discovered the drinking bird and oloids. Truly fascinated by them. They work based on basic engineering principles but they are really mesmerizing if you don't know how they work.

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f47b6j0

I grew up playing with **Capsela** I loved it!! "A construction toy brand consisting primarily of gears and motors in spherical plastic capsules that can be connected to form various static or dynamic toys suitable for land or water. The capsules typically have six hollow octagonal connectors protruding, where an octagonal sleeve piece bridges between two capsules. The hollow connection pegs on a capsule can have electrical or rotary adapters inside, reaching into the next capsule. There are electric motor capsules, gear capsules, switch capsules, pontoon capsules, and others; there are also battery holders, wheels, propellers, impellers, lights, wires, and miscellaneous supporting pieces."

Chaotic pendulum

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askacademia_train

Pros vs. Cons of "Dissertation by Publication" Hello everyone. I am posting this here as well as r/GradSchool...apparently cross-posting is being wonky right now. I have been given the opportunity to do a series of publications instead of a large monograph. I see the benefits of more publications and, honestly, I can't think of any downsides. Are there any hidden cons to not doing a large monograph? This seems like an easy decision to make - which makes me suspicious.

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My dissertation was a lengthy literature review and pretty much stapling several of my journal papers together in a logical sequence to tell a coherent story.

My program had the same options and my advisor luckily agreed that 3 pubs with a similar theme bookended by an intro and lit review with a conclusion at the end was the way to go. One pro he mentioned was that if you can get all your pubs accepted before your defense, you can rely on that as a defense if anyone questioned it. "Well, this was accepted in a peer-reviewed journal so the (methods, findings, etc.) are accepted by experts." I didn't have that but it would have been a nice ace in the hole. In STEM there aren't really any cons to this choice. It's a new world out there and this is is the much better option for grad students compared to the monograph.

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askanthropology_train

Has Anyone Here Gotten a Masters in Anthropology With a Bachelors in Something Completely Different? So, I have a degree in flute performance. Not at all related to anthropology, I know. I did take anthropology, and specifically Archaeology electives through my degree. At the end of this year I’ll have enough credits for a minor in Archaeology, though I can’t declare it because I’ve already graduated from my music degree. I was thinking about going back for an anthropology degree at the undergraduate level in order to continue with a masters in Archaeology, as I did a musicology study on ancient instruments in my fourth year. I found the research incredibly interesting. I had a second thought however, and sent some emails out to a few universities regarding a masters in Archaeology, and they said that as long as I had a decent background in anthropology, they’d consider an application from me. I was wondering if anyone else had started with a degree that was pretty far from anthropology, and went into anthropology at the masters level? If so, how did you prepare for the jump between the two differing degrees? Edit: Words

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I had a TA who majored in, I want to say English Literature? But she ended up getting involved in lots of side projects, attended and later led some digs, and built up her CV that way so that even without requisite coursework from undergrad she was still able to get in to a top-level Master's program.

My brother did his undergrad in electrical engineering, a masters in cultural anthropology and is now back to being an electrical engineer.

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explainlikeimfive_train

Explain like I'm five years old: Why are manual transmissions preferred over automatic or other transmission types in a sports car?

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It used to be that manual transmissions could shift faster at the optimal torque level/engine rotations per minute to maintain a fast acceleration where-as older automatic systems were slower to shift and the torque levels were sometimes set to increase gas milage instead of acceleration. However; once computerized double clutch transmissions came into existence (Porsche PDK) it changed the game. These newer transmissions were faster than most humans and could be adjusted based on driving performance when needed (Sport mode) and then put back to gas milage optimal settings after (Regular mode). Now, with some electric vehicles the transmission is mostly obsolete because electric motors have a near-instant full torque response.

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oktisl

askbaking_train

What is with everyone reducing sugar in recipes by HUGE amounts? Is this a regional difference in preference? This is a serious question, I am not trying to shame anyone here. I live in the US, and apparently our desserts here are notorious for being very sweet, or even overly sweet. To me, it's "normal sweet", most of the time, but it seems that for most people from the UK or AU (where else?) are disgusted by this level of sweetness. So I am wondering why this is the case. Are desserts in these other countries not normally this sweet? When I think of dessert, it's something that *should* be very sweet, but also eaten in small amounts, and enjoyed in moderation. Certainly not something you eat every day. So I also wonder if desserts are typically eaten more often in these other countries? Is it an everyday thing? Do you eat larger portions? I'm really curious to hear from people that have experience with both US-based desserts, and UK-based desserts. I don't know anyone here in the US who has ever reduced sugar in recipes by huge amounts, or complained about something being overly sweet. I do realize this is also just personal preference for some people as well, but it mostly seems to be a regional thing to me, that is what I am really asking about it here.

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I'm American and usually reduce the sugar in desserts by anywhere from 1/4 to 1/2 if I think I can get away with it without harming the texture or end product. Most people never even notice when I do this and still think it tastes good. However, when people are used to consuming soda and other sugary drinks, a lot of sugar isn't as overwhelming to them as it would be to someone who drinks water and eats healthy.

Hi fellow American! The real problem here is the amount of sugars that Americans consume on a daily basis. Our desserts are significantly sweeter because our taste buds have been manipulated to high heaven by processed food companies. We consume so much sugar every day that we don’t really have a clue what “too sweet” really means, because our sense of it is so far out of whack. I personally think our food is way, way too sweet overall, not just desserts.

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askphilosophy_train

Should a person who has a PhD in Political Science or Economics have an equal vote to someone who has barely graduated high-school? I see a lot of positives in democracy, but a thing I don't understand is that how can everyone have an equal say in deciding the future of the country. I have recently started reading books on topics like Economics, History, Politics, Geopolitics, etc and realised that how much I don't know, how much ignorant I am and how fallible and prone to emotions my thinking is. The way I view the world has radically changed and I have no strong opinions on anything related to politics. Furthermore, I also think that I'm not eligible to vote despite being of age since I don't have enough knowledge to make the right decision. So my question is, how can my vote be equal to someone who has devoted tons of years studying government itself, its policies, its history, its flaws, etc?

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You might be interested in Sections 6.1 and 6.2 of this article.

One consideration, though not one for which relevant scholarly literature comes to mind: Here in Mississippi, there is a specific list of felonies that disenfranchise a voter for life. Mississippi elects its county sheriffs and district attorneys. 90% of Mississippi’s white voters trend Republican, and 95% of Mississippi’s Black voters trend Democratic. This incentivizes white county sheriffs and district attorneys whose reelection prospects may be threatened by demographic change to charge Black voters in their counties with disenfranchising felonies, and to avoid charging white voters with same. So if we implemented epistocracy, how would we ensure that access to higher education would not be similarly restricted and/or incentivized to the political benefits of incumbents? Would our Ph.D.-holders choose our elected officials, or would our elected officials choose our Ph.D.-holders? And how long would it be before the Ph.D. became a political formality with no academic merit?

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askphilosophy_train

How would Kierkegaard and Nietzsche respond to each other?

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cs5etua

This might help.

These are the two philosophers I would most like to know this about. Would have been an endlessly intriguing exchange, with ramifications for all time.

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askscience_train

How do flu/cold viruses survive lockdown? I live in New Zealand where the coronavirus is nearly eliminated because of the lockdown. However we are being advised to get flu shots. How is it that the lockdown eliminated covid but not all the other cold/flu viruses (which have a lower R naught value)? Where are the viruses being introduced from if no one is entering the country without going into two week quarantine?

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fsllwhz

Just got my flu shots a couple of weeks ago. Talking to the doctor about whats been happening over isolation. She said it should be peak flu season at the moment, in Australia, and they are almost seeing no cases. So it does seem to be slowing infection. As an aside there has been a push in Australia, in the last couple of weeks to get on top of a head lice problem before the kids go back to school. A once in a generation opportunity.

The key word is "nearly." COVID wasn't eliminated and neither was the flu. There is still transmission of the virus and there will still be cases even during the lockdown. In the strictest lockdown where everybody is quarantined alone and no interactions occur (even with the healthcare system), then diseases that have incubations periods on the order of the lockdown time scale will be eliminated. Anybody who had it either resolves it or dies from it (and there can't be a carrier state). But you can already tell how lockdowns are different from this ideal scenario. People aren't quarantined alone. The virus can bounce among household members in that time frame. People still interact because essential services are open and sick people don't wait to either resolve it or die - they go to healthcare settings to be treated. Health care workers can get it in this way and can also transmit it to other people. All these imperfections will cause the number of cases to smolder. It's also important to understand what R0 means. It's a reproduction number. It tells you how many new infections are expected, on average, to stem from each case. It doesn't tell you whether COVID has been eliminated and it's can fluctuate. Even if you reduce R0 below 1, your total # cases ticker will still go up (measured as the total # of confirmed COVID cases) even as the # of active cases falls.

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askengineers_train

New nuclear power is too expensive, but why can't it overcome this with innovation and a 10x scale in plant output? It seems outside of China that adding new nuclear power plants is just too expensive for a number of reasons. There are innovative new Gen III and IV reactor designs, plus Traveling Wave Reactors, Pebble Bed Reactors, etc. As I envision it, every major world city or region with a population of over five million people should have one nuclear power facility scaled to meet 200% of its electricity needs. It seems within the land footprint of existing power plants, nuclear could scale to provide much more energy since volumetrically it's so compact. For instance, if I had a nuclear submarine with a reactor room that takes up 1/10th of a football field, if I scaled it up to cover the entire field and then made it ten layers deep, I've now vastly increased my power output without dramatically increasing the amount of land I'm using. With new reactor designs and restrictions lifted on reprocessing fuel, the amount of potential radioactive waste and contamination is much reduced. You've got fixed costs for security, land and fighting the "not in my back yard" crowd, so why not go big and produce as much power as you can from a single site? What are the limiting factors? Access to cold water for the cooling towers? I wish we could just take a bunch of lessons learned from nuclear power in the last century and just start over with the whole thing using computer-aided design and a fresh perspective. Nuclear power serving as the base load for the grid plus wind/solar/hydro, conservation, emerging attractive alternatives to meat, electrification of transportation and expanding urbanization seems to fix A LOT of the problems facing the world with climate change. We need to overcome our fear and make more rational choices.

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> why can't it overcome this with innovation and a 10x scale... If you can up the investment 10x in renewables you could achieve the same amount of power with none of the drawbacks.

The mass production small, sea can sized meltdown resistant reactors sounds like a better idea. Correct me if I’m wrong here. You get a lot less thermal mass in there, so I would imagine that throttling dozens of small sea can sized reactors is easier than throttling one giant monster. This should play nicer with intermittent generation, no? -I’m a millwright, not an engineer. But the pressure welder who trained me built a few nuclear plants so I have had very detailed discussions. They are bloody nightmares. All custom. All magical little special fucking snowflakes and it takes months to make a single tiny change in the build and move one pipe or one valve that some half wit designer put through a doorway. Then trades gets rebooked elsewhere and the project is a never ending backlog of delays for decades and billions as the cycle continues. What you really need IS the model T of reactors. Simple, scalable and affordable. Need more power? Add more reactors. The welded shut sea can idea sounds clever as hell. Drop in a can, connect it to the steam manifolds. All pumps and control hardware is of course accessible from the outside. Run it until it runs out of fuel then ship it back to the highly automated factory by a slow moving train to be cut open by robots and refuelled. The layout of the plant itself should work more like how you manufacture explosives. Independent chambers with massive walls and energy absorbing sections, one per reactor. Any failure is isolated so chain reactions are extremely unlikely. Multiple redundant cooling water access is a MUST, and each system must be of a different design than the other. The whole point of the mass production can is that they are all the same. You start with low production numbers, refine the design. Update parts as they learn the issues. Eventually you get a rock solid design and mass production starts. The steam plants themselves only get a few designs based on scale but they always shoot for the standard design at all cost. Any technician from any plant can work on them because they are all similar. Parts are usually interchangeable with the exception of updating to modern versions as they go obsolete. Refine the design, update parts as you go. If you want to build a new facility you choose one of the 4-5 generation sizes and go from there and that is your only choice. You need x land size and shape, you get one of several design sizes. No exceptions. You can always install less reactors and run below capacity but you are stuck using the next size up steam plant if you need more power. Once you hit this design, you can even mass produce hunks of facilities like pre-fab buildings. Erect already built structures. Bolt together, pour concrete in the cavities. They already have the rebar. The only changes might be for an extreme earthquake risk zone, but chances are everyone should get that overbuilt, energy absorbing design just in case.

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askhr_train

During interviews, is it wise to let your future employer know you will be requiring paternity leave in the next 4-5 months? I am a male, 34 yo, expecting our 1st baby this december. Not sure if this should be mentioned to my interviewer. If I don't mention, is it fraud? if I do mention, would it reduce my chance at getting a job?

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I'll share my two cents. I would not bring up during interview. Wait until you have an offer. Lots of people negotiate an unpaid vacation when they start a new job. I was getting married a few months after I started a new job. Once I received the offer, I spoke to my soon-to-be boss and explained that I was getting married and would need 2-3 days off for the wedding and then my honeymoon was scheduled for a month later and would need about 2 weeks out. It was not a problem. I knew it would largely be unpaid, as I didn't have much vacation accrued at that point. It doesn't hurt to explain the situation and ask. If they say yes, get it in writing. If they say no, then that will help determine if you want to take the position. I think you should also ask if the new employer offers any kind of company leave. My company for instance offers a "personal leave" for people who don't qualify for FMLA. It is perfect for this kind of situation. Lastly, you said this is manufacturing. Is this an industry that shuts down at all over the holidays? If they do, then that might help a bit also. Just a thought.

Where do you live? Is this state paternity leave or other non-company leave or is it through the company. No it’s not fraud and no it’s not wise, just as if you were pregnant. If they know you’re going on paternity leave, it will be very difficult for you to get a job. That said, it’s a tricky situation because they’ll feel slighted either way, so it depends how much you need the job.

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asksciencefiction_train

[DnD] I'm first in my wizarding school and this dork who could barely cast a cantrip took a summer job with a bunch of adventure types and came back and is now the most powerful wizard in the city what gives?

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Looks like he had some dormant talents that came to fruition under the extreme circumstances of adventuring. Remember that even a lvl 1 char is supposed to be a hero (early in their career), meaning they are, even if just slightly, better than most people running around, especially in their fields of expertise. Young Grognak the Barbarian might be as dumb as a door nail, but he's most certainly already stronger than most people doing hard labor every day of their lives. It's unlikely your class mate got to be the best in the city after just a few months though, unless he got in another world where times run differently or the powers that be were very generous in evaluating his deeds.

Theory only gets you so far. Getting out in the field will get you experience with practical use of magic, which goes a long way-- not to mention the opportunity to increase your repertoire through discovering scrolls, disused spellbooks, and magic items. Most scholarly wizards are exactly that: Scholars. Ask anyone who can cast a fifth-level spell and they'll tell you a couple years slumming it with an adventuring party is the best way to refine your technique-- if you survive.

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askbaking_train

An atypical question for this subreddit :) Fellow bakers: do you bake your own cakes for your birthday? Since I started making cakes I always make my own! I am curious how everyone else is: do you make your own cake?

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I do ! My last birthday I made myself a pistachio cake

even though i usually bake the birthday cakes (or cookies or pie or whatever) for my family, it seems too depressing to make my own. i just want someone to care about me enough to put in some of the effort I do for them, but all that means is I usually end up with no cake, not even a little store bought one. which is infinitely more depressing. I don't celebrate my birthday anymore, though, so it shouldn't be a problem in coming years.

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asksciencefiction_train

[James Bond] Apart from it being an iconic name and action in the film, why would a well trained spy like bond always give out his real name, essentially blowing any cover he has? I mean, he could get away with it the first and second time but really! By now, if there is a criminal/Evil mastermind grapevine in the James Bond universe, they could already have spread around his name and photo so he can't even go undercover anymore. I doubt real spies or any of the 00 agents do it.

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Most of the time Bond is going on a mission he's not undercover as a different person; he's undercover in a different job. When he has to, he's "officially" posing as a representative of Universal Exports Ltd., which gives him plenty of access to big business or high society and excuses for worldwide travel. MI-6 can just conjure up whatever references or documentation they need for him. In other situations he can pose as someone else, but it's generally just long enough to get in, do the job, and get out.

Oddly enough, this is realistic. Spies *do* give out their real names. In the modern online world, a fake name can be easily detected. You leave an online trail everywhere you go, and a name with no presence can be easily found. Faking a presence that fools more then a superficial search is hard- maybe you could fool a suspicious secretary, but if they're looking out for spies you'll soon be found out. Your real name has that trail. What you do is not admit you're a spy, that's secret. But giving your name means that when people google it, they find a real person, not a void. Ironically, it's less suspicious.

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askbaking_train

Could anyone recommend something easy to bake? Just something easy to bake as I'm still a beginner and still haven't yet mastered muffins without them looking like cupcakes.

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Pillsbury shit in a can

Muffins by Baker Bettie. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6Ee2iqMizGE Her channel is great since her recipes are easy to follow and she explains a lot of the why behind how the recipes are structured.

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askacademia_train

Is it necessary to have an academic twitter account? Today I saw some crazy nuts trolling under a tweet of a simple PhD recruitment ad. I know in general twitter is a very toxic environment but I didn't expect ppl can troll under sth unrelated with them at all. I know a lot of profs have twitter accounts with their full name and affiliation, and most of their tweets are new papers published/conference announcement, and they retweet paper they are interested in or tweets by ppl they know, and it looks like a causal way of networking. I wonder how necessary this is. I have an account using fake name just for collecting info and I never tweet. Personally I extremely hate seeing trolls so I quit a lot of social medias already. I want to do networking for opportunities of collaboration and jobs, and I am wondering whether twitter plays a major part in networking nowadays in academia.

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Personally, I've avoided having a Twitter account. I'm not fan of the platform anyway (I dont find that reading short messages is informative). Most importantly, I like to keep my professional and personal lives distinct. There's been a trend in the last few years where indeed academics blend their personal and professional lives through Twitter, notably by making stances related to political matters. If this makes them happy, then fine. However, there is a social expectation that is created in my field (interdisciplinary social sciences) where you must try to engage with public matters through Twitter. It is viewed as the role of a researcher to do knowledge translation in the public sphere. I'm not comfortable with that, especially with the underlying cancel culture, because I have some personal opinions that could clash with dominant discourses in my field and in the public area. I'm quite preoccupied by the self-censorship that results from this cancel culture. I prefer to do knowledge translation through other conventional means (KT projects, open letters in newspapers). Therefore, I prefer not to have a Twitter account even if I've been told that it could be useful for networking. I find other ways to network and it's working great.

I don't have a twitter account but I also refuse to academize my social media accounts. I'm doing science all day, when I go online I might enjoy a few nerdy things but I mostly want non-academic content.

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asksciencefiction_train

[Marvel/MCU] Jennifer Walters appears to have a very loving family, unlike Bruce. Why didn't Jen's family (i.e. Bruce's aunt and uncle) ever adopt him, or get him away from his abusive father? Hulk is Hulk, largely because of Bruce's abusive family life. Jennifer, on the other hand, is relatively well-adjusted. And any decent person, especially with family, would want to get a kid away from abuse. So why didn't Jen's parents, Bruce's aunt and uncle, try and remove Bruce from an abusive household? Whether it be via adoption or otherwise.

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It's *very* difficult to forcibly take children away from their biological parents. Even abusive parents are considered preferable to adoption. Bruce's father is also shown to be very possessive of his son, and wouldn't have surrendered custody willingly. The things that constitute abuse have also changed over time. Even straight up hitting your kids wouldn't have been legally objectionable back when Bruce was a kid.

Hi. I grew up like Bruce. No one in my extended family knew. I didn't tell anyone for fear that my siblings would end up in foster care. My mother gaslit herself into believing it 'wasn't that bad. Abusers are very good at hiding in plain sight.

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askbaking_train

Cookie suggestions for a Cookie Box? Hi everyone! As per title, i’m crowdsourcing for cookies ideas to put together a cookie box (most sites I’ve found feature Christmas theme collection). For general gifting, my recipients would be mainly families with kids. I have a basic idea that a “nice” cookie box should have cookies in variety of shapes, looks, tastes. Here are the criteria I’ve penned down as a guide: •something Fruity/ jammy • play with colour (maybe macarons?) • Something with CRUNCH • something cute (I came across this irresistible Miffy Japanese butter cookies) • chocolate chip cookies - must have! I am also mindful that some cookies don’t last/ travel well vs others. I’m an amateur-ish baker but would love to take on new recipes. Thanks you for you time! :) :)

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h9w87z1

I watched this video awhile back and really liked the cookie ideas and found them very attractive. It's got "Christmas cookies" in the title, but they're more artsy and less traditional. If you haven't seen it yet I think it would have at least a few good ideas you could jump off from. https://youtu.be/XkKbbN2fG54

I do cookie bags for my crew every year. I do one chocolate, one spice, one fruit and a shortbread. It's a nice variety for a wide range of tastes. I avoid nuts due to the potential for allergies. I also do my best to keep them divided to keep the flavors from melding too much, and give them out as soon as possible after packing them up. I will note that many, many cookie doughs can be made ahead and frozen so you can prep them ahead of time and then bake when you're ready to start giving them out. I start a month in advance every year. I do suggest biscotti, it travels well and lasts a long time. Thumbprint cookies, also a good option. The only "cute" cookies I can think of are all fairly delicate or decorated, and probably wouldn't be the best candidates for traveling.

l8nj8i

askengineers_train

What CAD softwares do you use and why?

gldkpvx

gldhumu

The good news is, once you learn one, and then really learn the design process and skills and strategy, then you can switch tools pretty easy. A ratchet socket, a box wrench, and a crescent wrench are all different. But they do similar things. Once you learn how to put one on, and righty tighty, you can use all of them (maybe some learning curve, but not bad.) CAD is a tool, designing is a skill. (I've used UGII, ProE, solid works, inventor, and fusion 360.... but really whatever the customer wants.)

My company uses OnShape. It's browser-based, which makes it compatible with most laptops. It's not as fully featured as Solidworks, but it gets the job done. imo it is much more intuitive, especially for multipart modelling and building assemblies.

sq8q3z

askengineers_train

If cost wasn't a consideration, what would he the best metal to make a car from?

hwlibew

hwjw3bb

Wood car with moss for the carpet brrrrrr

Titanium

970sc8

changemyview_train

CMV: Waffles are strictly better then pancakes. Waffles are to pancakes what a building is to a pile of wood. There is structure and planning. One of the biggest problems with pancakes is that you always seem to need more syrup. They are effectively sponges. With a waffle you can easily see and decide the amount of toppings without haveing to worry about it running off the sides or soaking in. Some might say that pancakes are easier to make. While that is true, it is no excuse. A house is hard to make without a hammer. Buy a waffle maker and then it it literally becomes just as easy to make waffles.

e44lo5v

e44lrt2

Does it matter? French Toast is even better than both. QED

The production is a key issue here. While people can buy waffle makers the fact remains that skillets are far more accessible for people. This is important to remember when you consider that people are often making pancakes for multiple people. Using multiple waffle makers (which range in price) would also required people to use up additional kitchen space and purchase multiple makers. A skillet can be placed on a stovetop which generally features four burners, allowing for the production of four pancakes simultaneously. This allows for the production of waffles while keeping kitchen counter space clear for other purposes. Additionally, inexperienced waffle maker operatives may mistakenly add too much batter into a maker, resulting in lengthier cleaning when done with production. So pancakes are more cost efficient, less cumbersome to create, allow for faster rates of production and require less cleanup.

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askhistorians_train

Give a gift of History with the AskHistorians 2021 Holiday Book Recommendation Thread! Happy holidays to one of the most fantastic communities on the net! It’s been a heck of a year for everyone, but perhaps we can brighten it up a bit. I figured we should run this thread a bit early, considering all the problems with shipping and stuff selling out happening right now. Tis coming up to the season for gift giving, and its a safe bet that folks here both like giving and receiving all kinds of history books. As such we offer this thread for all your holiday book recommendation needs! If you are looking for a particular book, please ask below in a comment and tell us the time period or events you're curious about! If you're going to recommend a book, please don't just drop a link to a book in this thread--that will be removed. In recommending, you should post at least a paragraph explaining why this book is important, or a good fit, and so on. Let us know what you like about this book so much! Additionally, please make sure it follows [our rules]( https://www.reddit.com/r/AskHistorians/wiki/rules#wiki_answers), specifically: it should comprehensive, accurate and in line with the historiography and the historical method. Don't forget to check out the existing [AskHistorians book list]( https://www.reddit.com/r/AskHistorians/wiki/books), a fantastic list of books compiled by flairs and experts from the sub. Or you can browse [last years thread]( https://www.reddit.com/r/AskHistorians/comments/kcece4/askhistorians_2020_holiday_book_recommendation/) while we wait for new suggestions to come rolling in! Have yourselves a great holiday season readers, and let us know about all your favorite, must recommend books! Stay safe out there!

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hmg2bpg

*Blood Royal: Dynastic Politics in Medieval Europe* by Robert Bartlett - Technically I haven't finished yet, but I really like what I'm seeing! A must-read for people who are really interested in royal history (your mother who loves books about the Tudors?), it breaks down the history of European monarchies - royal weddings, succession crises, new dynasties, etc. (A similar book focusing specifically on queens is *Queenship in Medieval Europe* by Theresa Earenfight, which I have recommended on multiple occasions.) *Gentleman Jack: a Biography of Anne Lister: Regency Landowner, Seducer & Secret Diarist* by Angela Steidele - Is there someone on your list who is really into the HBO show? This is a great biography of Anne Lister that, uh, might make them see her a bit differently. A very good exploration of the historical record around her. *The Golden Thread: How Fabric Changed History* by Kassia St. Clair - I bought this for my dad last Christmas, basically on the logic of "last time I gave you a book it was on more political/social history, now you're going to read about my stuff and see why it's so great." And he loved it! Each chapter deals with a separate "story", ranging from the hand-spinning and -weaving of Viking sails to the creation of early space suits by Playtex seamstresses. This is pop history at its best. *Pretty Gentlemen: Macaroni Men and the Eighteenth-Century Fashion World* by Peter McNeil - This book is beautiful and very interesting, though it probably needs just the right recipient as a Christmas present. Most people know of the macaronis, if they do at all, through the lyric in "Yankee Doodle". McNeil shows how much there was behind the men identified as macaronis, the Macaroni Club, the crisis in masculinity, etc. etc.

I've got a couple for contemporary Russian history: Putin's People by Catherine Belton covers the conditions in the late USSR, the collapse and how Putin navigated the changing circumstances to ascend to power. Putin's Kleptocracy by Karen Dawisha is another good one on the subject. Vory by Mark Galeotti covers organised crime in Russia from the pre-revolutionary period through to the krysha warfare in the 1990s, and touches on the wide ranging changes occurring in Russia across the period If anyone can recommend any other good books on 90s Russia, I'm on the lookout!

egra22

askculinary_train

Slow-roasting sweet potatoes while I reverse sear meat. I'm going to be preparing a rib roast using the reverse sear method - low and slow in an oven set to 250 F for several hours. I found a recipe for slow-roasted sweet potatoes that I'd like to make at the same time (https://www.saveur.com/slow-roasted-sweet-potatoes-with-garlic-labneh-recipe/). The sweet potato recipe calls for a 275 F oven, but I'll have it set to 250 for the meat. This slightly lower temp shouldn't mess up how the sweet potatoes come out, right? They'll just take a bit longer to cook?

fca80om

fc9p59r

Not only will they be fine, but you can also do your roast directly on the oven rack and catch the juices in the pan that's roasting your sweet potatoes.

There’s actually reason to believe that they’ll turn out even better this way. If I recall correctly, some of the starches in sweet potatoes convert to simpler sugars in lower heat ranges, which should make them taste sweeter than if you Baked them at higher heat for a shorter time period.

x3g174

askculinary_train

Is there any benefit to sauteing rice in olive oil and/or butter before boiling it? Or is that just a waste of time?

impaxp1

imp5ysx

It just depends on the dish. For risotto, it’s essential and you don’t rinse the rice, the starch on the rice keeps it together and you keep a nose on it for the nutty change in smell before adding broth. For Persian rice you rinse and add butter to steam after parboiling. For sushi rice you don’t add any oil ingredients at all and rinse thoroughly, the rice will stick by itself and the vinegar and sugar helps. For pilaf, a sauté with butter/oil keeps it from sticking together.

It doesn't stick together once it's done

s7ixud

legaladvice_train

My mom is threatening to have my boyfriend arrested for statutory rape. Please help me I’m begging My boyfriend and I will have been together for 3 years this year. We started dating when we were 14 and 15. We’re about to graduate and we’re going to attend the same college. He’s a great person and he’s so freaking smart. He has a solid 4.0 GPA and he wants to be a scientist. My mom can be great. We all usually get along but my mom was diagnosed with Bipolar disorder and she goes from being happy to evil overnight. She swears she loves him like a son and she knows he’ll be turning 18 next month( February 18) but I won’t turn 17 until May 24 and she’s been using that to her advantage recently. I don’t live with my mom bc she decided to move an hour away to be closer to her secret boyfriend so I live with my aunt. So now that I’ve given you the backstory, I’ll bring you to today. My grandpa let me use his car after I got my license bc he can’t drive. Today, he told my mom he needed to be at his doctor which is two hours from where I live but only one hour from where she lives. She was blowing up my phone today saying I needed to come get him bc his appointments are my responsibility not hers and that i needed to get him tonight and have him stay at my aunts house . I never said I wasn’t going to get him, I just wasn’t going to get him to stay the night because there is no where for him to sleep. She completely spazzed and called my aunt, she told my aunt that if I didn’t do everything she wants until I turn 18, she’ll make sure I have a terrible life. She threatened to take me out of sports and band so that I couldn’t get a college scholarship and she threatened to get my boyfriend arrested for statutory rape. We have so much ahead of us. We want a life together. We’re about to graduate. We didn’t even have sex until I turned 16 which is the legal age of consent in South Carolina (where I live). I just want to know, can he actually be arrested for statutory rape and what can I do to make sure she doesn’t legally hurt him?

htafi4l

htakmct

Consider the evidence here - it's one person making claims of wrongdoing. Think about her reliability and credibility from the perspective of police, DA, jury, etc. The main danger here is she reports something and gets the authorities involved long enough that they question you/bf and you somehow accidentally incriminate yourselves. If it gets to the point of the police questioning anyone just make sure you/he exercise your right to remain silent and right to an attorney - do not answer questions and do not speak except to insist upon your right to an attorney. Have that plan in mind "just in case" - the way this turns into something it shouldn't is if you/he get talkative with the authorities and say something that can be construed as incriminating. This applies even if it's "just a friendly chat to clear something up/help with an investigation" - not saying the police are bad people, but the common phrase is "anything you say can/will be used AGAINST you in a court of law" - things you say to the police can be used against you even if you don't know how at the time.

As your question has been answered I wanted to add another thing I wouldn’t have thought about at your age. With a mother like yours, get your legal documents away from her. She can make your life a lot harder when she’s in possession of your passport, social security and birth certificate. So if you have a way to get those in your hands do it and keep them safe with a friend or family that doesn’t support your mom. Once you are 18, get a bank account (at a different bank) that has only you registered as owner. Freeze your credit so she can’t take out any loans on your name. That’s pretty much it to take most tools away from her that she could use to make you miserable. Edit: Edited and added some more info

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explainlikeimfive_train

Explain like I'm five years old: Why does it feel colder inside in the winter even though the thermostat says the temperature is the same?

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geyiuph

SO MANY PEOPLE HAVE MISSED A KEY PART OF THE ANSWER. Even the current top answer has missed the answer. It's not all attributed to humidity. Far from it. Humidity can be controlled but you will still feel colder. The other key ingredient is radiation. In cold weather, the walls and windows of the room will be colder, and so you will experience more radiative heat loss, even though the air is at the same temperature.

Explain like I'm five years old Answer: The thermostat only tells you the temperature where the thermostat is measuring it. It very likely IS colder in the winter even when the thermostat says the same number. Most thermostats are on inner walls, and the cold is coming from the outer walls and windows. So, the thermostat thinks it's warmer than it really is.

lvvinm

askengineers_train

Is Six sigma worth it? even if you have no other formal education? I work in the medical field and I have very little formal education. I'm self study for all my professional certificates. I have the opportunity to be trained as a black belt in six sigma sponsored by work for a larger project. Obviously this will take some time. I have some general understanding of statistics (say most basic stat information but I can't calculate a curve without a table). I'm not above learning new things or even refreshing old things. However, I'm concerned that other than internally, this certificate will do nothing for me once I leave here. How valuable is a six sigma certificate with no other credentials (i.e diploma) to back it up?

gpe4tyz

gpe9s1l

If your company is process oriented, and have a culture/system of having a team of business excellence to help start/lead projects, then it is valuable. Otherwise it is a good to have title on your resume to start conversation big projects you lead and what's the impact to the company. Most company tho, while they claim they know what they are lean and focus on improvement, have no idea how to implement it or what have they done wrong

> six sigma sponsored by work If it's sponsored by work I say go. When you strip six sigma from all the fancy buzzwords in it, it's just a lot of common sense. It's best applied in a production/manufacturing setting or in a workplace with a lot of repetitive work that requires some sort of standardization/SOP. Where I work there's a lot of BS in pushing six sigma all over. It makes sense for our manufacturing arm but little to none for me and those that are mainly doing office-bound analytical jobs. 99.9% of the time when I do a "process improvement" project (or any other project for that matter), I just reverse engineer the whole thing to fit in within the six sigma template and sell it off. No one is none the wiser. No one really works through it step-by-step. In your case again since it's going to be sponsored go for it and get that "paper qualification". Now when you want to move it's important to highlight that you do have the certification ***and*** a couple of six sigma "projects" to boot. You'll be highly sought after for process improvement roles.

cprxg7

changemyview_train

CMV: Being Edgy And "Non-PC" Is Not A Good Thing I see an unfortunate trend amongst many people. People nowadays seem to think that having opinions which are edgy and go for shock value are a inately a good thing. This trend seems to be most apparent among the young. ​ I think the increasing trend of brash and "non-pc" opinions is partly due to a desperate yearning to be seen as cool or not seem like a "square". They think by saying and doing things which can be perceived as being "offensive" they become apart of a cool, rebelious minority who go against established norms on how to conduct oneself. In my opinion , this couldnt be anymore wrong , because nowadays being edgy and controversial puts you in the majority group. ​ What's even worse is quite often this desire to be edgy and push the boundaries crosses over in to clear bigotry. When you make it a virtue to be offensive and not "Politically Correct" you are bound to say and do blantantly racist/bigoted things and anybody who calls you out for it is a boring , boot licker. ​ Being able to hold your tongue and temper down your utterences is the sign of a mature person. Someone who goes around always "telling it like it is" is simply an immature idiot or a closet bigot.

ewrj1uu

ewror54

I think people get offended entirely too easy. I'm not going to walk around and feel like I have to censor myself depending on whom I am currently around. That's fucking stupid. Look, anything can be funny (George Carlin said rape can be funny. Dont believe me? Picture mikey mouse raping porky pig!) And I tend to stand by that. Should you be appropriate in public and I at your job? Sure. Someone is paying you to be professional. I'm not going to stand in times square and yell: " Hey cunts! I fist kittens!" Actually, that might get me locked up. But no one is paying me on my own time, and if I say something that gives you emotional PTSD, then it's time to grow up. Adult life is not all wine and Rose's and expecting someone to cater to your needs and wants is unrealistic. You're going to hear, see, and even fucking smell things in life that you're not going to agree with. But its YOUR choice to be offended. I know you are speaking more about the people that do it to get a rise. And that's fine too. Its juvenile, but if that is what they are like, you shouldn't let them get under your skin. But really, if you dont like me, fuck you. And fuck your feelings.

Okay you have misunderstood or confused a lot of things in your post, so I'll try to help you clear some things up. I'll start with the term "politically correct", it is incredibly vague. Here's the definition on Collins dictionary (other sites have similar definitions): >If you say that someone is politically correct, you mean that they are extremely careful not to offend or upset any group of people in society who have a disadvantage, or who have been treated differently because of their sex, race, or disability. (link) By just looking at the definition, you can tell how divisive the term is in it's definition. * What exactly counts as offensive? Does me saying an upsetting statistic in front of you count as offensive? * Is being "extremely careful" to not offend even a good thing for a society? * What exactly counts as "disadvantaged"? How is that measured? This is a debate in of itself * Also why does political correctness only apply to groups? Let's suppose somebody who isn't a part of a historically discriminated group, has been discriminated against for their sex or race for example, why are they excluded? It would make sense if this sort of treatment applied to individuals who are affected rather generalizing groups and how everybody within them is treated. As you can see, there's a lot understandable confusion regarding this term because it leaves so much room for subjective interpretation. To you, politically correct means being nice. To some, it means being overly sensitive and harmful to public discourse. To others, the term is patronizing because it pretends that the treatments of entire demographics are the same, when they are obviously not. Not everybody has the same definition. The backlash against this term and this mentality stems from a very large, very principled opposition. Pretending that the anti political correctness crowd is made entirely from bigots and teenagers is just disingenuous. Since we're on the topic of political correctness, I should also mention that being politically correct is NOT a sign of maturity. By the same token, being non politically correct is NOT a sign of immaturity. That is the worst way to look at it. By implying this, you're giving yourself the moral high ground, and along with it, a toxic "I'm better than you" mentality. You have to understand that people aren't against political correctness for attention, to look cool, or to be edgy, they are against because it because it is a bad concept in theory and in practice, and it has negative consequences on our society. I also want to bring up is the fact that bigotry is not the same as being non politically correct. Being against political correctness isn't being offensive, let alone being offensive just for the sake of being offensive. It's against extreme sensitivity, it is against babying demographics, it is against special treatment, it is against vagueness. With that being said, the anti political correctness crowd is also against racism and bigotry. Trying to imply bigotry and anti political correctness are equatable is just wrong. Are some people against political correctness also bigots? Sure, but they're a tiny minority and are not representation for the political correctness opposition. The last thing I want to mention is that the people who believe in "saying it like it is" are not bigots. I'm not exactly sure how you made the connections, but I think people who tell it like it is are simple straightforward people. I personally tend to prefer hearing like it is. For example, if I was obese and I went to go see a doctor, I'd much rather he tell me my situation like it is. I'd much rather have my doctor tell me that that it is my fault for being fat because of all junk food I've been eating and that if I don't stop I'll get diseases that will leave me in a wheelchair. What I don't want is having my doctor tell me that is me being plus sized is not my fault, but I should really consider stop eating or I might end up being differently abled. In most situations, including this one, not telling it like it is just a way of dancing around honesty. Edit: I rephrased the last paragraph since I felt like it said something different from what I wanted it to. Also, thank you kind strangers for the awards!

mj1ydq

explainlikeimfive_train

Explain like I'm five years old: What are "natural flavors" in food products? I see them in absolutely everything but what the hell are they? Why aren't these flavors listed as individual ingredients? What prevents a spice from being labeled a "natural flavor"?

gt89uk9

gt8mz7z

I work at an ice cream company. For vanilla ice cream, they add “natural vanilla flavor” which contains dyes, alcohol, preservatives etc. it’s the same for pretty much all flavors.

Lets say I want to make almond flavored cookies. I can grind up a bunch of almonds for that, but to get the flavor I'm looking for, my cookie will be pretty much just crushed almonds. What I want is just the chemical responsible for the almond flavor. Then I can add a tiny drop of it and have my cookies taste as strong as I want. I want an extract! But almond extract is principally just one chemical - benzaldehyde - and benzaldehyde isn't unique to almonds. Lots of plants make it in varying amounts. So why extract it from expensive almonds when you could extract it from apricot pits, which are essentially free? I can use benzaldehyde and a few more chemicals and make a cherry flavor (ever notice almond extract kinda smells like fake cherry flavor?) Theres a ton of overlap in nature. The chemical responsible for the smell of a not-quite-ripe melon is the same as the smell of freshly cut grass (cis-3-hexanol, best described as "green smell"). Vanillin goes into everything, and acetaldehyde is in practically every fruit. A flavor house will source a few thousand of these chemicals, along with various exracts, oils, fractions, and oleoresins, and a flavorist will mix them together to make it taste like whatever. They're listed as natural flavor because 1. The mix is a trade secret. 2. Complex flavors have like 60 ingredients and ingredient decs would be a mile long 3. The substances used have been individually vetted as safe by either the FDA or the FEMA GRAS panel. So what do flavors look like? A natural vanilla flavor with other natural flavors would be something like: A little vanilla extract Vanillin St. John's bread extract Propenyl guaethol Fenugreek extract Maltol You can keep adding to make it more convincing.

jc7vv5

askacademia_train

PhD students, how much of your time is spent on administrative tasks? It's mentally exhausting. I keep track of my time, and I can see that over the past year and a half, 26% of my time was spent between meetings, preparing for meetings, filling out university and committee forms, and reading and writing emails. Is this normal? This is not including the time I spend preparing for classes and teaching either, so there are some weeks where I feel like I haven't actually worked on anything. That's not to say that meetings are not productive - they're often necessary. I've just realized how long it takes to prepare for them, and of course that's something I need to work on. I'm just curious if people have more or less administrative stuff to do and whether it also feels like an added mental drain or whether it feels like something that is more integrated with your research as a whole.

g8zr6y0

g8zsdt7

Filling out forms should not take up that much time in a yearly perspective. Email is an important communication, asking for advice, responding to queries . If you’re spending alot of time composing emails then i would worry. Admin tasks are part of life, completing online trainings , updating profiles, organizing info. My research group had weekly meetings plus presentations every couple of weeks so at some point i stopped prepping for the subgroup meetings with the proper format unless i had plots and data. Many times it was just a discussion, however going back it was helpful to see what experiments were done which week and easy to search. As an organizational nut, i spent alot of time on planning out my week making schedules and calendars each week for which lab if be working in, admin tasks, home adult tasks, TA duties , other job duties Ill end with my long windy response to your question with not really, and it only increases with industry in my experience. Now, Its a 3 step process to download and run software to use for work lol

Maybe this is just me, but I would not consider preparing for meetings and email correspondence with advisors to be administrative. Preparing for meetings allows you to think about all your updates and distill them, communicate them clearly and solicit feedback. Advisors, committee members and even collaborators are busy people, if you do not invest sufficient time in communicating well with them, you fail to use them properly. This is very valuable skill, learned over time. The rest of the stuff you describe (barring teaching) generally does not occupy much of my time, maybe \~5% at most? It's true that when we teach, it can feel unproductive, but I encourage you to consider a different perspective: when I do research I'm often stuck and real progress comes sporadically, so teaching can actually make me feel productive: I've actually helped someone learn!

k1k785

askdocs_train

What are the physical health risks of staying indoors every day and not exercising? (What many people are doing during lockdown) I’ve been wondering what effects staying indoors and not exercising can have on health (specifically on the heart)? I’m 20, Male, don’t smoke/ drink and used to exercise regulary but since around 1 year i’ve been staying indoors and haven’t been exercising. Can this lead to heart disease, and if so, what type and why? Can it lead to anything else?

gdprnzs

gdprnvd

Not a doctor. Vitamin D deficiency, even in young people.

Not a doctor. But I’m wondering if you would become more sensitive to microbes and allergens from the outside world.

i7w1zf

askphysics_train

Why are physicists so interested that gravity is weaker than other forces? I see a lot of stuff on YouTube etc saying that it's a mystery why gravity is so weak. But isn't gravity curvature in spacetime? Why is it at all surprising or interesting that it's different in strength to electromagnetism?

g14mh9i

g14jier

I always thought the interest came from the fact that the four fundamental forces of nature (electromagnetic, strong nuclear, weak nuclear and gravity) were at one time in the distant past, unified into one single mega-force. When this force split into the forces we know today, gravity was left with such a meagre share that physicists wonder why. On a macro scale, a relatively small electromagnet can overcome the gravitational force of the entire Earth!

The coupling constants of the electromagnetism, the weak force and the strong force strengths are all on a similar scale ~1. In fact the weak and EM strengths are related to each other by the masses of the W and Z bosons- a GUT could probably do something similar with the strong force. The same could even be the case for a potential TOE in which case we would expect to see something driving the difference in scale. Some people even speculate that these constants may arise out of some other mechanism and could be mathematical in nature in which case it would again be expected to be around order 1, like other constants like pi or e.

81qnzb

askphilosophy_train

Is it ethical to eat lab grown human meat?

dv4opmr

dv4o03y

If it's grown in a lab rather than on a human, I'm sure there'd be some question whether it counts as human meat or rather meat that shares various similar properties as human meat. That said, I can't see any ethical framework that would prohibit eating it under the condition of being lab grown in either case.

I think so, you aren’t hurting any sentient beings. There maybe health problems related to humans eating human meat or it may gross people out but I don’t see why it would unethical to eat any lab grown meat.

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askanthropology_train

Going to Ethiopia for an archaeological dig and having a hard time finding firm info on the modern culture Hey all! I’m an anthropology major with a concentration in archaeology and I’m very excited to be taking part in my first dig this winter in Ethiopia. I’ve been trying to get some info on the culture there, but I’ve only been able to find a limited amount- it’s almost like this stuff is so seldom searched for it just doesn’t exist. So I’m curious if anyone has any knowledge on the day to day culture in Ethiopia in modern times (I HAVE found plenty of outright current event news etc, but not information on basics like how people currently live dress and eat in different regions). We’ll be in the country for about 6 weeks, and will split time between Addis Ababa and our outcrop, which I believe is near but not in the highlands. Also, just for reference- I am an American person so yes I know I will stick out. It’s just important to me to be as respectful and knowledgeable as possible before I get on the plane.

e7tscln

e7udxru

That’s a pretty broad subject you’re looking into which makes it hard to find exactly what you’re looking for in one place. For my money the best way to learn about a region ahead of a visit is to read modern non-fiction and fiction, research photographers who have shot projects their recently, listen to the music, etc. The State Dept. also has general overviews of countries which is useful when taken with a grain of salt. That’s my approach.

Fellow American here, and I travel around the world for work including 4 trips to Ethiopia. Ethiopia is one of my favorite countries but you’re right, it’s so tough to find info on modern culture. Based only on my experience doing business in Addis, here’s what I can tell you: 1. Ethiopians are incredibly proud of their history and culture, and will all recommend you go to one of the 2 main touristy “cultural” restaurants in Addis. I do mean all - hotel, cabbies, coffee shop baristas, everyone. And you might be skeptical but go! I’ve been to Yod Abyssinia 3 times and the food is amazing, the atmosphere is fantastic, and surprisingly, there always seem to be more than 50% locals there. It’s a very rare tourist spot that is also local and well worth going. 2. Everyone will also tell you that Ethiopia was the only country in Africa not to be colonized, and that they invented/discovered coffee. It’s one of my favorite things about meeting anyone; they inevitably bring it up. 3. Someone told me before I had my first project that you don’t find colleagues in Ethiopia, you find friends, and that’s true. I keep in touch with my last local consultant there and when I put past clients in touch with others coming to Addis, the interest in catching up was incredibly genuine. Lean into it! I realize that this may not completely answer your question, but I hope it helps a little bit. And while it’s not specifically about modern Ethiopian culture, here are a couple other amazing places: 1. Mama’s Kitchen for jazz. Intimate but hip, and check the listings because they’ll often have local singers. 2. Bear with me: the best Chinese food I’ve ever had was from the place on the 3rd floor in the mall next door to the Radisson Blu. I’m not kidding. The chef is a former valet who befriended a Chinese restaurant chef, learned from him, and now runs this restaurant that I went back to after 2years and it was just as good. Maybe not modern Ethiopian culture but I can’t not recommend it. Anyway. Enjoy, it’s an amazing place, and I really hope you share your findings because I for one would love to hear about it!

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askculinary_train

How did American cheese get to be so popular in South Korean street food? I've been watching a lot of those South Korean street food videos on Youtube (ETTV, Yummyboy) and I've noticed that American cheese is *very* common in a lot of them. I know the obvious answer is that Americans probably introduced processed cheese to Korea during the war and it stuck around after that, but... America has had military presence in dozens of countries since the advent of processed cheese but it hasn't seemed to catch on anywhere else. I know for example American cheese is generally hard to find in Western Europe, and most people there tend to not particularly like it. However in South Korea, it seems to be a staple ingredient among street vendors and fast casual type restaurants. So why do South Koreans seem to have such an affinity for American cheese?

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g59ssys

Actual cheese tends to be pretty stinky to the Korean palate and probably clashes with the spices more than American cheese. Adding lots of cheese is more popular with spicy dishes where the fat of the cheese tones down the spice bite a notch, so it doesn't really make sense to have cheese taste clash with the spice. Case in point -- shredded mozzarella (pizza cheese) is also popular on top of food because it is neutral tasting.

This article suggests the start of the trend can be linked to the financial crisis. Not being an expert, it seems to be a pretty decent explanation.

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askbaking_train

What's the best way to utilize having leftover cookies each week at a small business? Hey everyone! We have just recently started a business selling cookies at the local farmer's market. As we have been trying to gauge the numbers each week with a very fluctuating crowd, we find ourselves having a decent amount of cookies left each time. So, the question is what is the best way to utilize these extras? Currently we have using them as a bit of "marketing" in a way by just handing them out with our business name on the packaging. The other option has been donating them to the rescue mission, and getting a donation write off on it (and to give delicious af cookies to people who will enjoy them). Does anyone have any good suggestions on how to make money with these leftovers? We are a home based vendor so it has to be under certain food laws (basically not having to be refrigerated is the simplest understanding of it). Right now the idea is to make different pie crusts with the leftover cookies and butter. Then selling either the crusts or maybe some cookie/brownies baked on top. Any other ideas? Thanks so much in advance for anyone who has made it this far. Sorry for the long post!

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Use them for crust for cheesecake and cream pies? Add another item to your sale the following week. In retrospect, this sounds like a semi-terrible idea, manpower wise 🤣

I’ve seen bakers post leftover goods from events that evening or the day after on their social media/fb! Can even package up a few different types up in cute wrapping/box. Or can you vacuum seal and freeze to sell the next week?

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askanthropology_train

In cultures where names come directly from that culture's own language, do members of those culture actively recognize the meaning when they encounter the name? In contrast to cultures that use Christian names, wherein I doubt many people regularly consider the ancient etymologies as more than a curiosity.

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Well, English names aren't even that different in this sense either, it's just that in North America most people don't speak the language of their own paternal ancestry. I would say even recognizing "Christian names" would count as people being able to often instantly recognize the "etymology." It's not as if other cultures don't have names that aren't equally "ancient" or gained from cultural diffusion either, and there's no reason why people would automatically consider any more or less the etymologies as curiousities. In regards to understanding any information those names could also be carrying, it depends on a lot of things, and being a culture with "Christian" names is not really a top reason. Take a hypothetical person named Arthur Christopher Worcester. Most people know that Arthur was a mythical king, religiously minded people would be able to tell you more about who saint Christopher was and how he gained that name and what it means, but not everyone cares about that sort of traditional religion and history, and Worcester is a town, maybe this persons ancestors had some connection to it? Not all that different than a name from Asia that may have connections to some ancient or mythical king that people have varying degrees of knowledge and interest in, or has an element to do without minor point with religion, which again, not everyone necessarily knows or cares about, but there would absolutely also be people who could tell you about it, and a surname that seems to connect a person to a physical location or occupation. The connection between a person and a location based on their surname really depends on a case-by-case basis and on the history of surnames in that nation. Most countries that have surnames haven't always had them be a thing, especially for the entirety of the population. Commoners didn't start gaining surnames in Europe in most places until well after the Middle Ages. Some places in the world gained surnames for the entire population much earlier, like Korea (and this can be reflected on the fact that diversity in surnames is much lower there, as time has allowed more surnames to die out), and some places gained them much later. So the likelhood of a person's surname reflecting something remotely relevant to their life goes way down the longer that surnames, for everyone, has been a thing in that culture. Even then, it's absolutely not a guarantee and at best a guess most of the time. Even if a persons last name is smith or tailor, does not at all necessarily mean that person has had any ancestors who were smiths or tailors, or if they did that that has anything to do with their last name either. This is something true in probably every culture that uses surnames. Although I would also like to add a small note, names and class are often closely linked in many cultures. In India, many people have a "caste" name, and in Hungary, you can tell if someone has aristocratic ancestry by how they spell their last name. It still doesn't necessarily mean the literal meaning of the word has any relevance, but that all the other connotations of it does (or at least historically had relevance). This is true of British names, but, as I said, as most people in North America don't speak the language of their paternal ancestors, and the fact that all these different customs come together in ways that inevitably make some feel especially socially irrelevant.

When you meet a girl named Angel, do you immediately think of an angel? Or when you meet a Victor, do you think about conquest? (Even though I'm aware both Angel and Victor are Latin derived words, the words also have common English meanings.) Your brains are very adept at segmenting words into their contextual usage.

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askbaking_train

Muffin hard outside not cooked inside Hi! So I'm very new to baking so I don't exactly know what I'm doing beyond following the recipe. I'm following it and it says to bake about 45-50 minutes but by 35 min the outside looks and feels ready. However doing the toothpick test shows it's not fully done. So I did add another 15 minutes but by then the outside was very hard and it still wasn't fully cooked inside. As I mentioned totally new to this but I was thinking of adding more flour to the recipe as the batter was a bit watery? Or is there something else I can try? Thanks!

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ihcvarj

Middle rack at 350° would be the first thing I’d recommend trying before changing the temperature. 45-50 minutes is more like the time needed to bake a loaf, is this specifically a muffin recipe?

Do you have an oven thermometer to ensure your 350F oven is actually 350? Are you in an area with higher elevation?

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asksciencefiction_train

[Predator/Looney Tunes] If Bugs told the Predator, it was duck season and Daffy told him it was rabbit season, who would he kill?

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It would continue with the back and forth until Bugs outwits Daffy: and Daffy shouts “Duck season. Fire!” However Daffy is immortal (as per original Space Jam), and the punchline is that it is another season. The other season probably being ‘Football’ (American Football) as a timeless insert-here addition. Cue ‘that’s all folks’ whereby Daffy and Bugs wander off to the next sketch or downtime. The Predator, or any combatant, cannot truly kill the Looney Tunes; and will end up having to conform to Looney Tunes ‘logic’. - Their existence and threat being played for laughs and entertainment, with any true threat being neutralised.

Not sure if you realize, but the Predator doesn't adhere to any particular "season" for hunting, let alone what any duck or rabbit says. The Predator only hunts worthy adversaries, and neither would pose any sort of challenge nor offer any "sport" to its hunt.

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changemyview_train

CMV: Cancel Culture is wrong because it only goes one way and certain peoples are completely immune to cancel culture. Over the weekend it took 1 NYT columnist to remove Pepe le pew from polite society. This Cartoon Skunk has not been culturally important in what 10-15 years? Yet he was canceled all the same. The reason why conservatives hate cancel culture isnt because they necessarily disagree with whom is being canceled( i thought pepe was a goner years ago) but because only select individuals decide who is allowed to stay and who is allowed to go. lets take Future for example, one of the most popular rappers alive right now and certainly of 2015-2019. one of his most popular songs is called "mask off" the lyrics in the chorus are "Percocet, Molly Percocet". my problem with cancel culture is if we agree that Pepe is contributing to rape culture surely future is contributing to the opioid epidemic no? but the gatekeepers do not ever hold rappers to the same degree that they do this cartoon skunk and if you ever try to bring it up they dismiss you. If you want me to take cancel culture seriously you have to hold it across all cultures and entertainment not just stuff nerdy white people like (cartoons, Magic the gathering, republicans lol)

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Cancel Culture as a phenomenon has been around for hundreds of years. Whether it was nobleman, the church, kings/queens, colonial administrators, corporate entities... those who control power structures have been shutting down those that challenge said power structures for ages. All that has happened in recent years is that this process has become democratised through the ease of communication and sharing/storing information that comes with the internet. While your arguments are fair, cancel culture can be far better countered with arguments from the liberal tradition. Where I am cautious of conservative arguments is that the same *'cohort' of individuals being cancelled today, were the ones cancelling others a few decades ago... e.g. for being a communist or a homosexual. Also, as soon as someone on the left 'steps out of line', many conservatives demand that they also be cancelled. *obviously not the exact the same people

cavetown, a transgender artist, got cancelled. girl in red, a lesbian artist got cancelled. just because you don’t see it does not mean it’s not happening.

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askacademia_train

TA dealing with a condescending student Hi all, Have any of you had to deal with a condescending student? How did you deal with it (or did you?)? I (30F) have a student (19M) this semester who emails me frequently with questions that have always seemed to insinuate that I didn't know what I was talking about. But I assumed I was being oversensitive or paranoid, so I have always answered him promptly and cheerfully. However, today, the student got in a long back and forth with me (over email) about a basic statistical analysis in which he is FULLY incorrect, but has continued doubling down no matter what I say (or how many resources I send him). Finally he wrote back something along the lines of "fine I still think it means xyz but I guess I just won't include how we got our results." To be clear, he literally added a new statistical test that is not part of the assignment, and makes no sense with the data. The last email especially was honestly very rude, and I'm not sure how to proceed. I'm leaning towards just leaving it alone, since he apparently cares so much about having the last word, but I'm worried about grading his final paper if he continues to double down on this. Has anyone else encountered something like this, and what did you do?

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hl1wyt4

I (F28) have only had that that kind of thing happen once like 5 years ago and it was super shitty. If I had that happen today with a student I think I would tell them they can ask the professor if they like. It might be that he doesn’t want to hear it, might be that he just doesn’t want to hear it from you. either way he will lose credit if he’s wrong

I've always believed that back and forth through email does come across rude. Its always to "clear the air" in person. I've found that people are less rude while talking in-person.

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changemyview_train

CMV: When operating a vehicle on public roads, everyone should always use their turn signal when changing lanes or approaching intersections. American context specific, I have not spent extensive time driving outside the US. Using a turn signal allows a vehicle to ‘communicate’ with every other vehicle nearby. When other motorists understand the intentions of the vehicles around them, it allows everyone to make informed decisions. The more information that is added to the process of navigating intersections and lane changes on the road, the better off we all are. Predictable drivers, and drivers with their intentions being communicated, are safer drivers. If you’re asking, ‘well duh, turn signals are good to use’, then you probably aren’t my target audience. Because we all know there is a considerable population out there on the road that simply cannot be bothered to a simple, brief, imperceptibly inexpensive wrist movement and flick their blinker on while they operate a half ton of steel and aluminum at 30-70 mph. So, please, for those of you out there who don’t think it is worth your time or energy to participate in the high stakes game of mutual trust that is traffic, enlighten me why not using your blinker is a good idea.

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ikrecll

As an aggressive driver, instances where I don’t think a turn signal is to the advantage. Stop and go traffic where people are creating advantages for themselves to switch in and out when certain lanes are moving, a blinker signals to the cars directly in front and the back of you that your going to make a move that they may steal and block you. Or to the cars in the lane your switching to may close the gap on you. Another instance is for motorcycles, say in at a stop sign or red light where I can turn in red, a car is coming and has his blinker on to turn right into the street I am exiting. If they never use a blinker I will never pull out in front of them, if they have their blinker on accidentally I may pull out assuming they are turning and get hit. Overall I agree with your sentiment and people who don’t use them are not courteous or lazy, however certain instances I get not to use it

How can this be an unpopular opinion? It's the law.\* \* In NY state. EDIT: someone pointed out I'm commenting like it's a different sub.

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asksciencefiction_train

[MCU/Infinity War] Are Heimdall and Loki Stupid? At the beggining of IW, We see that Thanos and his gigantic army decimated the Asgardians. But wait a second... Loki could have just opened a portal to another part of the universe and saved everyone at any moment using the space stone. I can see why he would prefer to keep the tesseract without Thor knowing, but everyone on that ship was in mortal danger, including himself. And then, there's Heimdall. He could have just opened the Byfrost and saved everyone, but he also choses not to do this. There were 2 guys on that ship who could have saved everyone at any moment. Why didn't Heimdall/Loki open a portal to earth when they realized How big of a threat They were aout to face? Why were they on that ship in the first place, If they could have just teleported to earth using the byfrost/space stone?

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The Bifrost was destroyed Heimdall was only able to send hulk away via magic and it was very draining

Bifrost is something built into Asgard, and not something they can take with them on a spaceship. So Heimdall has no access to that. Loki using the Space Stone at that moment would have immediately revealed it to Thanos. What makes you think he is faster than Thanos, who would have immediately grabbed the Stone and then kill half the people anyway.

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askculinary_train

I have 12 lbs of pears and 13 very large cucumbers that I have no idea what to do with. So my wife made a couple mistakes on our recent grocery order, she thought she was buying individual pears when she was buying 3lb bags, and she also ordered 6 cucumbers from two different stores (and we had one left too). So I've got a huge pile of pears and cucumbers. I love both of these things, and I'd love to figure out a way to actually eat them before they go bad. If I don't come up with a sexier idea, I'll probably dehydrate most of the pears, because I love dried fruit. But the cucumbers are a real trick. They don't freeze well, you can't really cook them, and they don't last all that long in the fridge! So what the heck can I do with them? I've tried cucumber gaspacho, and I'm not crazy about it, strangely. I could totally make pickles, but I'm wondering if there's another idea out there.

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gb5u238

Growing up, I used to stir fried cucumber at my Chinese friends' houses. Their parents would cook it with ginger/garlic/chilli/vinegar and we would eat it with rice. I imagine this would pair well with soy sauce or some thinned out gochujang as well. Cucumbers cooked this way were never soggy and held their texture and shape (the exact opposite of zucchini). Gosh, I miss eating at their houses ​ I

I’d take them to the local food bank or shelter, but I live near a drop off station so it’s always my first thought.

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askphilosophy_train

/r/askphilosophy Open Discussion Thread | July 12, 2021 Welcome to this week's Open Discussion Thread. This thread is a place for posts/comments which are related to philosophy but wouldn't necessarily meet our posting rules. For example, these threads are great places for: * Personal opinion questions, e.g. "who is your favourite philosopher?" * "Test My Theory" discussions and argument/paper editing * Discussion not necessarily related to any particular question, e.g. about what you're currently reading * Questions about the profession This thread is **not** a completely open discussion! Any posts not relating to philosophy will be removed. Please keep comments related to philosophy, and expect low-effort comments to be removed. All of our normal commenting rules are still in place for these threads. Previous Open Discussion Threads can be found here or at the Wiki archive here.

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Who are some philosophers, from any tradition, who have analysed paintings? These are the examples I've come up with so far: * Lacan on *The Ambassadors* * Foucault on *Las Meninas* * Foucault on *The Treachery of Images* * Heidegger on Van Gogh's *A Pair of Shoes* * Merleau-Ponty on Paul Klee * Walter Benjamin on Paul Klee's *Angelus Novus*

I was told to post this here. I've recently been reading works by the Frankfurt School, Mark Fisher, Jameson and other modern/post-modern philosophers that mention or directly discuss Lacan and Freud. I'm planning on reading Anti-Oedipus in the near future as well. To my questions: What Freudian texts are essential for me to read in order to understand both Lacan and the above-mentioned philosophers? I have read people suggest: Freud Reader Totem and Taboo Civilization and Its Discontents Beyond the Pleasure Principle The Interpretation of Dreams The Ego and the Id Are these good? What else would you suggest and what translations are best? I've read that the Standard Editions of Freud tend to combine drives and instincts as one term (I think instincts) and is problematic. EDIT: To clarify, I read that the Standard Edition of "Beyond the Pleasure Principle" is where drive and instinct are conflated. Is it in other texts, too? I've seen recommendations for Introductory Lectures on Psycho-Analysis, New Introductory Lectures on Psycho-Analysis, and Five Lectures on Psycho-Analysis. 2. When it comes to Lacan, what are should I read? I don't know how in-depth I want to go with his actual psycho-analysis. I have the Verso book My Teaching and have read people suggest: The Subject of Semiotics by Kaja Silverman The Lacanian Subject by Bruce Fink A Clinical Introduction to Lacanian Psychoanalysis by Bruce Fink Seminar of Jacques Lacan: The Four Fundamental Concepts of Psychoanalysis Bk. 11 by Lacan What are your thoughts, are these good? Do these make sense? Any additions or subtractions?

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legaladvice_train

I was strangled at work today by a co-worker and then I was fired I work(ed) as an W9 independent paint contractor for a company in Louisiana with fewer than 10 employees. Today a co-worker harassed me verbally, as he has been doing for days on end. I tried to remedy the situation as he continuously insulted and verbally degraded me for hours. I came back from lunch, he continued berating me and i made a joking and harmless insult in retort. He became enraged, walked over to me, grabbed my neck and yelled at me while push me against a wall. He squeezed my wind pipe in my throat and pushed his fingers between the vertebrae saying if i insulted him again he would “drop me”. A coworker (manager) witnessed it and told me to leave. I took a photo of the marks on my neck, left the job site and went to an urgent care. I also filed a police report. I later spoke with the owner of the company who told me that I was in the wrong, and i am now fired. Then had me sign a 1099 which i assume is for tax purposes(?) I am very shaken by this incident and I know only that i have been wronged, but i dont know what to do or what my options are. Any insight would be so appreciated.

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itqkiho

>Then had me sign a 1099 which i assume is for tax purposes(?) Since I didn't see anyone else say it yet, DO NOT sign anything your employer gives you without having an attorney look at it first. You don't work for them anymore, they cannot make you sign anything, and you don't want to accidentally sign something agreeing to waive all of their liability for this incident. For that matter, even if you did work for them they cannot make you sign anything against your will. The worst they can do is fire you for not signing, and you have already been fired.

If he restricted your breathing in any way, that is strangulation, and is a felony assault. His actions were criminal and you are doing the right thing by reporting it to the police. I'm sorry they laughed about it. Typically, you should be able to use that police report and sign your intent to participate (as a victim). You should ask your attorney about your legal rights and options as a victim of a violent assault.

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askculinary_train

Good Chili Oil that isn't Lao Gan Ma? I love chili oil. But unpopular opinion- I'm not the biggest fan of Lao Gan Ma. I've been eating it because I haven't found another chili oil that I like in super markets. Sometimes I make my own but these days I would just rather buy a good oil from the store. There's something about the aftertaste/pungency of LGM that I don't love- not sure if it's fermented bean or some other ingredient I can't place. But I love the chili oil used in Shanghainese restaurants- is there a chili oil out there similar to the ones you get at Shanghainese/Cantonese restaurants?

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izlie5i

You should see if the restaurants sell it, a lot of my local ones sell their own chilli oil

Momofuku is outstanding. I can eat it out of the jar with a spoon, it's that good. Might want to try one of the Japanese brands, like S&B or Momoya. I like them a lot.

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legaladvice_train

I just got fired from my job due to racist coworkers and I don't know what to do. To give a bit of context to the title of this post, let me begin with this. I live in La Mesa, California, and I've been working at this hospital as a nurse manager for about 10-11 years now. Last year, around October or November, a few of my coworkers started throwing racist comments at me, and when I told the higher ups about the situation, they said that they'll see what they can do about it. About a week later, I got fired from my job, and I don't know what to do. All of my family members are in the Philippines right now, and I don't even have the money to go there. What should I do? Should I file a lawsuit or something?

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ek6yno2

OP I think we need some more details here. Were you given an exit interview?

What were the racist comments? Maybe that can give some insight into the events.

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askengineers_train

Does it surprise you that your employer still makes money or how they held on ? I worked for a few companies and competitive isn't a word I would describe any of the founders of workers. What should take a couple of days or week ended up taking months to accomplish. I have no clue how they maintain market dominance. Our competitors have ahitty products as well. I think the buyers are stuck and can't afford to rip out older stuff without major headaches so they just deal with the legacy issues. Even if I created my own company and a better product I doubt anyone would budge from their older systems. Engineering as a career for me has not been very fulfilling and I am now too dumb and complacent to move on to something else just like a legacy system.

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h8cf4tw

I mean, ha e you tried implementing new systems? The company I work for is trying implement SAP, it's the largest thing they ever done, and they have purchased companies for BILLIONS of dollars, meshed the company with the corporate in a highly regulated industry, and SAP integration is still the hardest thing they've done.

Here's the reason for all that inertia: The risk of doing nothing is usually lower than the risk of change For example: Let's say my machines are currently held together with Acme size 10 machine screws, part number 1498723, 18/8 stainless steel. They cost $1 each. And I replace 5 of them on each machine every month during the course of maintenance. They're totally overpriced, but we've never had any issues with them. Now a rep from Screwco USA comes to town and sets up a meeting with me. He wants to sell me Screwco size 10 machine screws, and the price will be 10 for $1. He gives me a free sample package of 20 screws to test out. They look identical to the Acme screws and are 1/10th the cost. I get excited because I could reduce the screw budget by 90%! But then I start thinking about what could go wrong... \*What if these inexpensive screws are made badly and they fail more frequently? Maybe I'll have to perform maintenance on my machine more frequently, which will totally wipe out the cost savings of the cheaper screws \*Well I could send them out to be analyzed to make sure the metal composition is the same as the Acme screws...but that will cost a lot of money, and what if these free screws are just the Acme screws in a different box, and once I get set up with Screwco USA they start sending me different screws? I definitely don't want to have to send screws out to a lab to have them tested on a regular basis \*What if one of the inexpensive screws catastrophically fails while my machines are running, and a part flies off, or does something to cause damage to the rest of the machine or injures or kills one of the humans in the factory? \*What if Screwco USA screws have more screw-to-screw variability in their dimensions than Acme screws? They could end up stripped (and be a pain in the neck to extract), they could damage the threads in a more expensive part of the machine, or they could once again fail to hold the parts of the machine together and cause damage \*What if Screwco USA is selling screws that are manufactured with child labor? What's going to happen to my company's brand value if it comes to light that we didn't properly vet our suppliers, and we are buying screws from an evil empire that exploits children? Now let's look at this in terms of risk vs. reward: Risks: death, dismemberment, termination, increased (unscheduled) machine downtime, angry mechanics, loss of customers and brand value Rewards: cost savings (that don't go into my pocket), perhaps a certificate of appreciation in a handsome plastic frame, adding a line item to my list of accomplishments for the year That's not to say that we should be ridiculously resistant to change, it's just that I can understand why there is resistance to change

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askbaking_train

Seeking banana cake well-suited for ice cream cake. I'm putting together an ice cream cake with banana cake layers for this weekend. Banana cakes tend to be very moisture-laden and I am concerned about the cake becoming rock hard when frozen. I've only made an ice cream cake once and don't eat it often, so I don't really even know if I should be using something light and fluffy or more on the dense and heavy side. My instinct tells me I should look for something with a relatively low moisture content, high sugar content, and at least partially oil-based. Any insights or suggestions?

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fo6z421

cordon Rose banana cake this is my favorite banana cake recipe. I've never frozen it but I've had it refrigerated and it's firm but not hard. At room temp it is soft and fluffy. It makes one 9 inch round layer, so I usually double it. Good luck!

Have you considered using banana bread instead?

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askculinary_train

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f8sr05x

Just popped in to say thanks for keeping the family cooking tradition going.

I roast garlic for mashed potatoes every year, and it’s the most time consuming part for me. Is there any reason for me not to roast the garlic a day or two in advance and let it sit before I make the potatoes on Thursday?

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askbaking_train

I want to bake but everyone in my family is eating healthily. What can I do with the food I make? I want to bake lots of dessert-type food but I don't want to tempt anyone in my family with all the food I make. What would you do in this situation?

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h8gl483

This is a great time to learn about "Diabetic friendly Deserts". They are harder to master than most realize. They fit perfectly with healthy eating habits. There are so many recipes. My favorite is Angel Food cake with sugar free/fat free jello pudding and sugar free whipped cream; topped with fruit. I cut the cake horizontally in 1/3. Use the pudding & whipped cream as "frosting" and serve it with the fruit. There's unlimited flavor combinations. It's low calorie and delicious.

You could experiment with “converting” recipes to be healthier if you’re set on having your family eat what you bake. Switch whole wheat flour for the regular stuff, add in ground flax for fiber, experiment with recipes that involve fruit. You can bake and still be healthy!

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askbaking_train

What is with everyone reducing sugar in recipes by HUGE amounts? Is this a regional difference in preference? This is a serious question, I am not trying to shame anyone here. I live in the US, and apparently our desserts here are notorious for being very sweet, or even overly sweet. To me, it's "normal sweet", most of the time, but it seems that for most people from the UK or AU (where else?) are disgusted by this level of sweetness. So I am wondering why this is the case. Are desserts in these other countries not normally this sweet? When I think of dessert, it's something that *should* be very sweet, but also eaten in small amounts, and enjoyed in moderation. Certainly not something you eat every day. So I also wonder if desserts are typically eaten more often in these other countries? Is it an everyday thing? Do you eat larger portions? I'm really curious to hear from people that have experience with both US-based desserts, and UK-based desserts. I don't know anyone here in the US who has ever reduced sugar in recipes by huge amounts, or complained about something being overly sweet. I do realize this is also just personal preference for some people as well, but it mostly seems to be a regional thing to me, that is what I am really asking about it here.

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The real question is why do Americans increase the sugar in everything. The rest of the world has been baking a lot longer than us. My mom was military family raised in Germany, but an American citizen, who raised me in California. I feel like I’ve got a pretty balanced perspective, and American desserts are extremely lazy and simple. It’s usually just a sugarbomb

You might just be acclimated to/have a higher tolerance for very sweet things, especially if you’re American and grew up with sugary foods. Something can be rich and still feel like a “treat” without being overwhelmingly sweet. I don’t think this is just an American thing though. When I liked in India and went to get treats at the local dessert shops, the things there were CRAZY sweet. Like 95% sweetened condensed milk and/or soaked in sugar syrup. Those desserts were definitely made to be enjoyed as small single-servings/one-bite-and-you’re-done though, unlike most American desserts which as usually served in pretty large portions IMO (like, it’s a thing to get an absurdly large piece of cake, milkshake, donut, cookie, etc).

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askbaking_train

Is Nailed It realistic? In the show Nailed It, inexperienced cooks have to make fancy cakes in two hours. My question is: can even a professional make a cake that fast?

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hddky8g

No, you can’t frost hot cake! The show is a comedy.

I think it’s a bit of both. If you know what you’re doing, you can probably get it done in a few hours, but probably not 90 minutes or even two hours. They have convection ovens and a blast freezer (that they never use), so there are tools to use that can make it go faster. Without those tools, it’s definitely going to either be a mess or take forever. I absolutely love Nailed It, it’s one of my favorite shows, but getting it done correctly in the time is pretty dang difficult.

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askacademia_train

People with PhDs in economics - what did you end up doing? And would you recommend it?

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gre1sh9

Very interested in more details about the different career options for those with a B.S. vs. PhD. I was a psychology undergrad major and then went for the PhD in psych. I regret both because I was always good in math (calculus, stats) and also liked thinking conceptually. I just wasn't sure about career options in Econ because its not a track that a lot of people went into where I grew up.

Public service and policy work is also a good track.

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askculinary_train

Caramel apples are really just that? Raw fruit? Title. Not from a western country, never had a chance to try one until adulthood. In media they always look soft and fluffy inside, so I assumed the fruit itself was first baked/cooked and then dipped in caramel or candy coating, but when I first had one it was a fresh crunchy apple dipped in sticky caramel. Not only it tasted incredibly weird texture-wise but it was also a huge pain in the ass to eat. I thought then it was just a lazy knock off stall who didnt know the proper recipe but today I've had a though to look it up and apparently it is just that? A freaking Granny Smith dipped in toffee? Can people who live in the US tell me what is it really like?

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im3solq

Toffee apples! Basically just sugar melted to a toffee, with red or green food colouring. Skewer an apple and dip it in the toffee and let it set. A big treat when I was young, but nowadays hard find. I think it was a trick to get kids to eat apples.

English here: red apples, thin, hard glass like toffee on the apple. No butter, nor salt in the toffee. Very much like the recent trend to cover fruit in a clear, crisp sugar coating. (It's the same sugar mix just cooked longer) It's delicious!