Yet another refugee who washed up on the shore after the great Reddit disaster of 2023
The turntable is there because the microwaves bouncing around inside the unit don’t do so completely evenly; there will be spots that don’t get heated as much. Moving the food around inside the unit makes it so one of those cold spots isn’t consistently in one place in the food.
So with that as a context, if a cold spot is at or near the center of the turntable, it’s not going to get moved around in the food when it rotates. So better to put the food away from the center.
The problem with that is that if you’re someone who comments in a lot of threads, you have to keep switching between the accounts to see if someone responded to you. I made a second account when .World was dealing with all the attacks, but I find I rarely use it for that reason.
Several people have mentioned budgetary restrictions, which is a huge part, but there are practical considerations, regardless of budget. Even with a big budget, it’s only recently that they’ve been able to make convincing non-humanoid aliens that interact with other actors (mostly through CGI). Earlier, there were good examples of movie monsters or aliens that were done with stop motion or puppets, but not in a way that they shared the screen with the human actors in a meaningful way. Can you imagine if, say, the Vulcans on the original Trek series were wildly non-human - how silly it would have looked? The technology just wasn’t there to pull it off.
Also, most aliens, even in books, are some variation of earth life. They’re reptile-people, big spiders, intelligent bugs, or whatever. I think that’s mostly because it’s pretty hard to envision something truly novel/new. So lots of books, movies, and shows come up with some rationale for why everything in the galaxy looks like some kind of earth life to excuse that.
I’d say that’s more of the excuse/rationale for it. The underlying reason is hot much not expensive it would have been to do otherwise.
My wife and I love cheese and often have it for a snack, especially if we’re drinking, so I usually keep a few different types to serve with crackers. Our son brought his GF over one time and everyone wanted a snack, so I brought out a cheese platter, and they both loved it, especially the GF, so now they always ask for cheese when they come over.
Today, Christmas, they came over with a couple who are their best friends. We had a couple others too, so I bought close to $100 worth of different cheeses. We had Wensleydale with blueberries, stilton with lemon and honey, aged white cheddar soaked in red wine, havarti, guda with hatch chili, warmed camembert, and regular aged cheddar. It was pretty fun seeing everyone trying them all and talking about which the liked the best.
Very true. The harder cheeses have very little lactose, and the softer cheese have more. When they make cheese, the curds separate from the whey. The whey is liquid, and has most of the lactose.
Okay, I haven’t told this story for a long time, and it’s Christmas, so here we go:
When I was dating my first wife, I went to her parents for Thanksgiving dinner. Among the dishes on the table was blackberry jello with grapes in it. Seemed like a 50s kind of dish, but whatever. I took some of everything, and planned to clean my plate. My future MIL was telling a story when I put the first bite of the jello in my mouth, and my brain screamed that something was horribly wrong. I thought there must have been something rancid in the jello or the grapes - the grapes didn’t even have the right texture. I was about to spit it out - it was revolting - when I realized it was a taste I’d had before, not something rancid. All this was really just a moment, but it seemed like forever before it clicked: it wasn’t grapes, it was green olives. She made blackberry jello was green olives in it.
I thought for a moment that it was a prank, though that family wasn’t the pranking type, because no one else had taken any except the mom, but she had a mound of it and was eating it. I finally said, “It was surprising to bite into a grape and find out that it’s an olive,” and everyone tittered. Future MIL said that no one else likes it, but she does, so she makes it for herself.
It should have been a warning.
Here’s an odd one my wife and I were just talking about. Some years ago, we were redoing our kitchen and the contractor told us to go buy the kitchen faucet we wanted. We went off, looked at several, and picked the one we thought looked the best with what we were doing.
When the contractor went to install it, he opened the box and a battery pack fell out. I couldn’t for the life of me figure out why a faucet would need batteries. It turned out that you can turn it on and off by touching it anywhere (handle, faucet itself, whatever), you just leave the physical handle open and set where you want it, then you can touch on and off. I thought it was the dumbest thing ever and we’d never use it.
Flash Forward to now and it’s one of the most used conveniences we’ve ever bought. All those times your hands are covered in raw meat or other cooking mess? Just touch the faucet with your elbow. Rinsing a bunch of veggies one at a time? Tap on, tap off. It works flawlessly, unlike those touchless ones at the airport: no delay and works every time. We will never have a kitchen sink without it - my wife wants them for the bathroom.
I like the idea of tits without the commitment of owning, I’ll go there.