evasive_chimpanzee

Generally, when you want to heat the beer is after fermentation has peaked. Higher temps means faster fermentation (obviously to a point), and fermentation generates heat (positive feedback loop), which is why you need to cool beer through the initial stages of fermentation). After peak though, the temperature drops and causes a positive feedback loop downwards. This means that your beer really crawls to the finish line. Your beer might be 90% done after 3 days, but then take a couple weeks for that last 10%.

Another benefit is if you are bottling the beer, you need to know how much sugar to add. Calculators ask for the beer temperature post fermentation to determine residual CO2. With a dropping temperature, it's hard to say what that point is, and if fermentation is just stalled, not complete, you could have residual fermentation sugar. Bumping the temperature up at the end solves both problems.

I also second adding a fan. No need for anything crazy, just something little to move the air. I used a old computer case fan wired to a random DC charger from the "miscellaneous chargers" bin at the thrift store: just make sure the voltage works with the fan.

Moisture can be an issue when you are keeping a fridge above the designed set temperature, but below ambient. I just keep a long sock filled with silica beads in mine. To recharge, I can just pop it in a low oven. They sell devices to do this (evadry is the brand name), but you might get literally 20x less silica for the convenience of a case and built in heating element.

"Tastes like it's from your local Thai restaurant" is different than "tastes like it's from Thailand"

https://www.vice.com/en/article/the-surprising-reason-that-there-are-so-many-thai-restaurants-in-america/

The TL;DR is that the Thai government has sponsored many Thai restaurants around the world as a form of diplomacy. Menus and recipes have largely been standardized by the Thai government, but adapted to local tastes.

Personally, if I want takeout style Thai curry, I use maesri brand curry paste cans. They are cheap and don't take up much space, and they have instructions on them like "add curry paste and 100 ml coconut milk to wok and cook till fragrant. Add 400 g protein ...". It's easy to keep a selection on hand of the different flavors. Yeah, it won't be the same as doing it 100% from scratch, but a lot of Thai restaurant food like pad Thai is notorious for requiring a lot of ingredients.

The last paragraph is a good catch. Someone from outside the US is not going to catch the difference between "a Wisconsin state senator" and "a senator from Wisconsin".

If you have plants growing in dirt, you can just use it as mulch. The light color means that it reflects light similar to using straw as mulch, so you'll have less heating of the soil/less evaporation.

Agreed. Jobs don't go to the applicant with the highest GPA (or the most "skilled"), they go to whoever had an internship at their dad's friend's company (or friend's dad's company, etc.) each summer and got grades that were "good enough". If you can get something like that, even if it's not exactly in your area of interest, you don't need to be too concerned about grades.

On the other hand, if you don't have those connections, you need to be smart.

There are people who are able to get decent enough grades and get jobs on charisma alone, but they are a nightmare to work with cause you'll always be picking up their slack (even if they are perfectly nice people that you enjoy being around).

I tend to disagree with people on the "numbers game" thing. The barriers to submitting a million resumes to a million jobs have never been lower, so people in charge of hiring are inundated with applications from people who's skillsets and stated interests make it clear that they have not even read the job posting. It makes it so that people who are fitting for the job are like a needle in a haystack. It also doesn't help that the people reviewing applications are not often the people who you'd be working with, and they don't necessarily know all the right things to be looking for; they just have a list of magic words that they are filtering for. You might have a synonym of the right word on your resume, and they'd never notice it.

These days, knowing someone is especially the key in my experience. It doesn't even have to be someone you know well enough that they'd give you an actual "recommendation". You are probably better off sending your resume to 10 people who already have the job you want than submitting 100 actual applications.

It's not the best resume in the giant stack who gets interviewed, it's someone's niece's college roommate's former coworker's step-cousin.

I feel like it's only a matter of time before those get banned, so i kinda want to get one, even though I dont really need one.

It's such an easy thing to predict happening, too. If you did it perfectly, it would, at best, maintain an unstable equilibrium and just keep the same output quality.

https://arbortrarypod.com/podcast/icecreambeantree

You didn't specify that it had to be food, lol. I had it roasted and brewed like any other coffee. Compared to a run-of-the-mill coffee, it came across a bit like a combination of a Belgian sour beer and a woody tea. It's definitely not something you'd replace your normal morning cup of coffee with, but it was still interesting and good.

So I don’t resent paying taxes but I do resent how much when roughly 1/5th of that goes to defense contractors

Don't forget to also resent how much money sneakily goes to defense contractors (or other megacorps) by way of every other government office. It depends on the agency, but the majority of the federal workforce is not US government employees, it's contractors, so taxpayer funds go to an army of middlemen before trickling down to the people doing the work. Taxpayers end up overpaying for labor, and the laborers make less money and with less job security than if that tax money just went directly to the worker.

healthcare, bicycle lanes, cheap and very good trains/metro/ferries/buses everywhere

Danish healthcare is cheaper than US healthcare, and bicycles/public transit are also cheaper than the car centric US transportation infrastructure. If the US adopted socialized healthcare and sane transit, we'd pay less taxes not more.