gradenko_2000 posted:

I'm gonna go out on a limb here and say that there was a recent Technology Connections video about electric kettles that explains why someone might have felt this article was... appropriate

namely, most Americans mistakenly believe that electric kettles are worse than using a stovetop burner for boiling water, sometimes with a corollary misunderstanding that voltage coming through American-designed sockets is "low" relative to other places/countries, such that they think electric kettles are weak

or that Americans don't own an electric kettle at all, because they don't really boil water all that often

gradenko_2000 posted:

I'm gonna go out on a limb here and say that there was a recent Technology Connections video about electric kettles that explains why someone might have felt this article was... appropriate

namely, most Americans mistakenly believe that electric kettles are worse than using a stovetop burner for boiling water, sometimes with a corollary misunderstanding that voltage coming through American-designed sockets is "low" relative to other places/countries, such that they think electric kettles are weak

or that Americans don't own an electric kettle at all, because they don't really boil water all that often

Nosfereefer posted:

we get it, you smoke weed, yeah real cool guys

thotsky posted:

Temprature-control electric kettles are a really dumb expense; there is a significant and variable temperature drop when the water is poured into whatever vessel you are going to brew in, even when preheating it. You would have to dial it in with a specific vessel and a specific amount of water, but even then you will likely be bringing the water to a boil for all but the most delicate of teas.

AnimeIsTrash posted:

AnimeIsTrash posted:

thotsky posted:

Temprature-control electric kettles are a really dumb expense; there is a significant and variable temperature drop when the water is poured into whatever vessel you are going to brew in, even when preheating it. You would have to dial it in with a specific vessel and a specific amount of water, but even then you will likely be bringing the water to a boil for all but the most delicate of teas.

Stringent posted:

narc

christmas boots posted:

it's a counter-narc at worst

Stringent posted:

a narc is a narc is a narc

christmas boots posted:

It's also not really a narc if you're doing it to a cop which is the function dad is performing in that story.

Stringent posted:

if you just think of your father as a cop then i guess that's so

Stringent posted:

if you just think of your father as a cop then i guess that's so

a.p. dent posted:

lmao are you serious, because we had the same exact thing https://www.bbc.com/news/blogs-echochambers-27704837

quote:

Put out the bunting, crack open the beers, stand there in the kitchen smiling from ear to ear, because he’s home – our student son is home and the family is together again. And after supper, after the washing up is done, the others – his younger siblings – drift off to watch television, and he says: “Would you like to see my tattoo?”

I say, “You’re joking.”

He says, “No, I’m not.”

But still I wait. Any minute he’s going to laugh and say, “You should see your faces” because this has been a running joke for years, this idea of getting a tattoo – the hard man act, iron muscles, shaved head, Jason Statham, Ross Kemp. He’s a clever boy. Maybe during his school years he thought a tattoo would balance the geeky glory of academic achievement.

His father says, “Where?”

“On my arm,” he says, and touches his bicep through his shirt.

His lovely shoulder.

In the silence, he says, “I didn’t think you’d be this upset.”

...

“It’s just a tattoo,” he says, when the silence goes on so long that we have nearly fallen over the edge of it into a pit of black nothingness. “It’s not as if I came home and said I’d got someone pregnant.”

It seems to me, unhinged by shock, that this might have been the better option.

His father asks, “Does it hurt?”

“Yes,” I say, cutting across this male bonding. “It does. Very much.”

Strom Cuzewon posted:

“Yes,” I say, cutting across this male bonding.

quote:

All those years of looking after your body – taking you to the dentist and making you drink milk and worrying about green leafy vegetables and sunscreen and cancer from mobile phones. And then you let some stranger inject ink under your skin. To me, it seems like self-mutilation. If you’d lost your arm in a car accident, I would have understood. I would have done everything to make you feel better. But this – this is desecration. And I hate it.”

thotsky posted:

Temprature-control electric kettles are a really dumb expense; there is a significant and variable temperature drop when the water is poured into whatever vessel you are going to brew in, even when preheating it. You would have to dial it in with a specific vessel and a specific amount of water, but even then you will likely be bringing the water to a boil for all but the most delicate of teas.

thotsky posted:

Temprature-control electric kettles are a really dumb expense; there is a significant and variable temperature drop when the water is poured into whatever vessel you are going to brew in, even when preheating it. You would have to dial it in with a specific vessel and a specific amount of water, but even then you will likely be bringing the water to a boil for all but the most delicate of teas.

quote:

All those years of looking after your body – taking you to the dentist and making you drink milk and worrying about green leafy vegetables and sunscreen and cancer from mobile phones. And then you let some stranger inject ink under your skin. To me, it seems like self-mutilation. If you’d lost your arm in a car accident, I would have understood. I would have done everything to make you feel better. But this – this is desecration. And I hate it.”

thotsky posted:

Temprature-control electric kettles are a really dumb expense; there is a significant and variable temperature drop when the water is poured into whatever vessel you are going to brew in, even when preheating it. You would have to dial it in with a specific vessel and a specific amount of water, but even then you will likely be bringing the water to a boil for all but the most delicate of teas.

The nyt posted:

Democrats Are Having a Purity-Test Problem at Exactly the Wrong Time

There has been a burst of stories in recent weeks describing devastating internal conflicts within progressive organizations, the most conspicuous of which was Ryan Grim’s June 13 Intercept piece, “Elephant in the Zoom: Meltdowns Have Brought Progressive Advocacy Groups to a Standstill at a Critical Moment in World History.”

Grim’s assessment resonated across the internet and was quickly followed by Molly Redden’s June 17 HuffPost account, “Inside the A.C.L.U.’s Post-Trump Reckoning”; Jon Gabriel’s article in the Arizona Republic on June 18, “Who needs a right-wing plot when progressives are busy eating themselves alive?”; Zack Colman’s June 19 Politico column, “Justice or overreach? As crucial test looms, Big Greens are under fire”; and John Harris’s June 23 Politico essay, “The Left Goes to War with Itself.”

According to Grim (and those other reports), disputes over diversity, equity and inclusion — over doctrine, language and strategies — have paralyzed much of the left advocacy and nonprofit sector.

William Galston, a senior fellow at Brookings, has a sharp eye for what’s not working in Washington and has long been a critic of those he feels are pulling the Democratic Party too far to the left. Galston emailed me his take on the current situation...

cat botherer posted:

It's his son, so he's not obsessively possessive of his virginity like (I would imagine) he would be for his daughter. Still got to be loving weird about something though.

There are temp-controlled kettles that have baskets to steep tea in. They are good.

Shear Modulus posted:

english people are hosed up

Pistol_Pete posted:

I dunno what's worse: the article or the comments.

https://www.nytimes.com/2022/06/29/opinion/progressive-nonprofits-philanthropy.html

Spoiler: Galston's take sucks, as does the entire article.

christmas boots posted:

ew don't boil green or white tea you weirdo.

Even Oolong should be a little lower

AnimeIsTrash posted:

Strom Cuzewon posted:

Dammit that's the story I was thinking of. Thank you for sharing it though, because it's marvellous.

As penance, have an actual piece of deranged British-ness: His lovely shoulder.
https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2012/aug/11/devastated-by-my-sons-tattoo

There's hints of an actual sensible article here - about how making a permanent decision like this without even mentioning it to his parents signifies once and for all that he's an adult and has flown the nest. But then the brain worms kick in.

Vox Nihili posted:

"For three days, I can’t speak to my son. I can hardly bear to look at him. I decide this is rational."

lmao

Vox Nihili posted:

"For three days, I can’t speak to my son. I can hardly bear to look at him. I decide this is rational."

lmao

Pistol_Pete posted:

I dunno what's worse: the article or the comments.

https://www.nytimes.com/2022/06/29/opinion/progressive-nonprofits-philanthropy.html

Spoiler: Galston's take sucks, as does the entire article.

BrutalistMcDonalds posted:

lol one of them they're talking about is the ford foundation, a CIA cutout which funds regime change operations

BitcoinRockefeller posted:

Using bubble size to judge temp works good in most circumstances.

Vox Nihili posted:

Just saw a NYT moral panic headline about weed

"As Weed Becomes More Potent, Teens Are Getting Sick"

Thank you, NYT