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We have a V8 "Animal" and it's very good at cleaning up after our extremely hairy Great Pyrenees. Every once in a while it gets a little clogged up and you have to fish out a clump of hair, but it opens easily and usually only takes a second, and I think we probably have just about most extreme hair-vacuuming conditions you could have with this massive shedding furball.
posted to Ask MetaFilter by dis_integration at 7:30 AM on December 9, 2022

Hooks ages cheddar for up to 20 year s. I have tried the 15 year and it is incredible. I wish I had a time machine because i’m far too impatient to do something like that myself. This is just to say that some cheeses can be aged for very very long
posted to Ask MetaFilter by dis_integration at 5:43 AM on December 6, 2022

in the first case, “yourself” is the object of the verb. it’s the thing you are being asked to imagine. in the second case it’s part of a propositional phrase and is incomplete. you could say something like “please imagine to yourself winning the lottery”. it just means that the imagining should take place within yourself. it’s kind of weird because to whom else would you imagine something?
posted to Ask MetaFilter by dis_integration at 6:32 AM on November 10, 2022

if hard is what he’s after, he should try Super Meat Boy
posted to Ask MetaFilter by dis_integration at 5:13 PM on November 7, 2022

Traditional Bouillabaisse (boiled-down) is made with a saffron broth. They also have a chicken version if fish soup is not your thing.

I love this recipe: for persian rice.
posted to Ask MetaFilter by dis_integration at 12:58 PM on November 3, 2022

It's difficult to know. Almost certainly the latest they will be available will be the release of the iPhone 15 next fall. But they could disapppear from the store before then, if Apple has stopped manufacturing them entirely and they run out of stock. They will probably still be there for the holiday season. (By the way, it's my favorite phone I've ever owned and I too am super annoyed they are no longer making "minis", although battery life could be better). They will likely start… [more]
posted to Ask MetaFilter by dis_integration at 8:35 AM on November 3, 2022

sudafed is not a prescription drug but there are laws that require recording the purchase in a database, requiring id, and limiting the amount that one person can buy over the counter per month. having a large amount (like more than 3 or 4 boxes) is not illegal in most states but will arouse suspicion. one standard box? not a problem at all. i would cross the border with a single box without hesitation
posted to Ask MetaFilter by dis_integration at 6:46 PM on October 31, 2022 marked best answer

they appear to be a defunct home goods company. heres an archive of their now gone website.. Later archive snapshots show they were bought by Anchor. The place to go for more by them is replacements.com. i’ve also had good luck finding vintage ceramics on etsy, of all places.
posted to Ask MetaFilter by dis_integration at 6:02 AM on October 30, 2022

are never Bombay

FWIW I have heard Bombay from a few different immigrant friends and coworkers, so much so that I felt like I was being a white weirdo liberal by saying Mumbai. My friend told me that the Mumbai change is connected to right wing, Hindu nationalist movements in Indian politics, and saying Bombay is a way of distinguishing yourself from that. So it seems like a fraught issue so I would ask first and then use the name they use for the city they're from.
posted to Ask MetaFilter by dis_integration at 7:09 AM on October 25, 2022

I am pretty indifferent to the Gaudí stuff, it's a lot of waiting in line, but other people seem to love it. For me, Barcelona is first and foremost one of if not the greatest culinary city in Europe today. The food there is just incredible. Just off the top of my head I'd say don't neglect:

Bar del Pla
La Cova Fumada
Quimet i Quimet (maybe old hat by now but still incredible)
Disfrutar (you probably can't get a table without a few… [more]
posted to Ask MetaFilter by dis_integration at 11:38 AM on October 24, 2022

No, late 30s, central florida gulf coast.
posted to Ask MetaFilter by dis_integration at 7:44 AM on October 19, 2022

i think your assessment on the morality of abortion is way off. But we can make the argument from a purely practical standpoint:

if abortions are not legal, they happen anyway, even if there is access to birth control. for a lot of reasons: money, living in conditions (with men or parents etc. who would find out about regular use of birth control), just being ashamed, or hell just being absent minded. Even if someone takes birth control, they can become pregnant. the… [more]
posted to Ask MetaFilter by dis_integration at 8:08 PM on October 16, 2022

I was skeptical of direct to consumer furniture brands (since you can't try things out in person), but the Floyd bed frame (https://floydhome.com/products/the-bed-frame) is really much nicer than I expected.

Mattresses are impossible to decide on without trial and error. I got one from sleeponlatex.com and decided I wanted a firmer one, and they came and took the other one away. It was pretty easy although I had two mattresses in my apartment for a few days while I… [more]
posted to Ask MetaFilter by dis_integration at 2:05 PM on October 11, 2022

A couple movies I really enjoyed recently that maybe fit your criteria?

"Everything Everywhere All At Once", although perhaps there is something like earnestness in it.

"Kimi", which is maybe only on HboMax?
posted to Ask MetaFilter by dis_integration at 9:53 AM on October 6, 2022

there are a lot of entry level software development positions like this that you can get with only a bit of programming knowledge. When I started I had no credentials, nor degree in anything tech related. My first job in the industry I got by bluffing that I knew what I was doing, and while it paid "poorly" for the time and industry (40k about 7.5 years ago), it was the first step to a series of increasingly much better jobs. So, if you can spend a few months self-teaching yourself how… [more]
posted to Ask MetaFilter by dis_integration at 2:33 PM on October 3, 2022

Do you have netflix? Have you watched "I Think You Should Leave"? Nothing in years has had me belly laughing as much as that show.
posted to Ask MetaFilter by dis_integration at 10:36 AM on September 26, 2022

the lack of oil may have incentivized research into battery technology earlier and they might have effective batteries for driving machines like that. imagine an electric car battery with thousands of miles of range, solar charged. probably plant based oils for lubrication.

ethanol production currently is dwarfed by oil and gas production, but the lack of oil might make things different. maybe bacteria would be genetically engineered to produce ethanol from biomass at… [more]
posted to Ask MetaFilter by dis_integration at 5:15 PM on September 24, 2022

also, nuclear power for small vehicles is certainly possible although it seems incredibly dangerous to me (doesn't this make every car a potential dirty bomb?)
posted to Ask MetaFilter by dis_integration at 5:28 PM on September 24, 2022

zoloft basically made me sleep all the time, it was worse than being depressed. i dropped it as soon as i could although the claim is that the side effects will improve with time. it had me falling asleep sitting at my desk, just exhausted all the time, 1/10 would not recommend
posted to Ask MetaFilter by dis_integration at 5:56 AM on September 22, 2022

Ditto again for the Bryant Terry books, although the one challenge with Vegetable Kingdom was finding some of the ingredients (it often feels like cookbook authors don't realize we don't all live in the california central valley with access to eveyr kind of produce and ingredient imaginable)

The Dirt Candy cookbook is also great, although some of the recipes are very complex (Dirt Candy is definitely in the haute cuisine category)
posted to Ask MetaFilter by dis_integration at 7:22 AM on September 21, 2022

we said it as a kid, my father and mother were both 3rd generation descendants of germans from upstate new york and philadelphia. i still say it, gesundheit!
posted to Ask MetaFilter by dis_integration at 4:28 PM on September 18, 2022

There is an apparent causal link between dropping out of highschool early and going on to commit crimes. Raising the dropout age would likely have an impact.

You can hypothesize from that result that, in general, adopting a model which treats having children as a benefit to society and tries to keep families together and children in the educational system (instead of the current system of destroying family bonds by punishing people for being poor and sending their… [more]
posted to Ask MetaFilter by dis_integration at 7:01 AM on September 16, 2022 marked best answer

Two things you can do to make your laptop faster are: (1) upgrade the RAM. and (2) upgrade to an SSD if it's not already one.

First I'd upgrade the RAM and see if that solves it. Find out how much you have by following these instructions: https://www.windowscentral.com/how-check-your-computer-full-specifications-windows-10

Then go here to find the kind of ram you can get for this laptop: https://www.crucial.… [more]
posted to Ask MetaFilter by dis_integration at 8:49 AM on September 15, 2022

The inventor was a Wehrmach doctor, which is enough for me to call him a Nazi. I don't think we have any easily available information about his sentiments about the races, but given the time and place, we can venture a guess that he at least played along. It's a guarantee that the words "Heil Hitler" came out of his mouth more than a few times. I remember the Nazi origins being something important to the white supremacist types that wore Martens in my high school in the 90s. But they… [more]
posted to Ask MetaFilter by dis_integration at 7:11 AM on September 15, 2022

Kewpie Mayo. Once you try it you'll wonder how you lived your life without it. MSG required!
posted to Ask MetaFilter by dis_integration at 12:35 PM on September 14, 2022

send your friend a note telling them how much it mattered to you when they supported you way back when and how much you want to help. you can’t right now because of the damn plague but you are here for them otherwise, for anything. the real work of mourning starts after the wake anyway, and there’s lots of time yet to have her back
posted to Ask MetaFilter by dis_integration at 5:54 AM on September 13, 2022

nature’s miracle is also the only thing i’ve found that really works. it does have a scent but that will fade over time. so yeah if you can move the rug to a basement or garage and let the enzymatic magic of nature’s miracle do its work that’s probably the best you’ll get. it was only thing that eliminated the skunk smell from my rugs and clothes after my dog was skunked and also has done great work for my puppy’s house training accidents
posted to Ask MetaFilter by dis_integration at 8:59 AM on September 7, 2022

you should definitely use separate autogenerated passwords and then use a tool like 1password or lastpass (I prefer 1pass) to manage passwords. As well as 2 factor auth!

I would suggest setting up a domain and using fastmail so you can have admin@yournonprofit.org. At $5/user + maybe $20 a year for a domain, this solution is pretty affordable.

I can't speak to how to name the accounts, but in big corps emails like accounting@ and finance@ are not at all unusual.
posted to Ask MetaFilter by dis_integration at 7:27 AM on September 1, 2022

following the rules of the road? white? edibles? I think your chances of getting caught are pretty minor. Chances of being pulled over are pretty low if you're following the rules of the road. Even if pulled over, the chance is low for you that they'll want to search, and even lower that they have a drug sniffing dog. To be 100% confident, what i would do is put the edibles in double wrapped ziplocks, put the ziplocks inside of a mostly full can of cheap coffee, and put that in a bag in the back.… [more]
posted to Ask MetaFilter by dis_integration at 7:13 AM on August 26, 2022

milwaukee is exactly 90 minutes from chicago and jam packed with things to see and do for a day trip
posted to Ask MetaFilter by dis_integration at 6:13 PM on August 24, 2022

definitely not COBOL or BASIC, leaning towards FORTRAN as well.
posted to Ask MetaFilter by dis_integration at 4:02 PM on August 19, 2022

You can check your credit score without the hard pull using creditkarma.com and experian.com (which creditkarma doesn't include). Experian will try and sell you stuff but you don't have to buy anything since the law requires free access to credit reports.

This will have no impact on your credit (as someone who worked back a 580 score to 800 I am keen to these things).

If your credit is north of 750 and you have a highish income you have a lot of… [more]
posted to Ask MetaFilter by dis_integration at 11:25 AM on August 17, 2022

i have an elbow injury and get elbow pain from a number of kinds of exercise but rowing is not one of them. instead it relieves my elbow (and back pain)
posted to Ask MetaFilter by dis_integration at 5:24 PM on August 15, 2022

Cross platform 3D basically means using OpenGL. I've seen this free book https://learnopengl.com/ recommended highly. Most examples/tutorials related to 3d programming are going to work best on windows, but the code examples for learnopengl claim to build on macOS (not sure how they work on the new apple silicon). These examples are in C++, which If you're doing audio plugins is also going to be the Standard Default, so should work well.
posted to Ask MetaFilter by dis_integration at 7:05 AM on July 26, 2022

ditto what most have said. if you choose your hardware carefully, linux is a great environment. Especially KDE Plasma which by my lights is far superior to Gnome these days, which is a mess of poor UX choices. KDE also has better support for hidpi screens, so if you want to use a 4k display i highly recommend it. If you stick to the kde ecosystem everything looks pretty but otherwise individual apps are hit or miss. i’m basically in a browser, a terminal, or an editor all day so it’s all the… [more]
posted to Ask MetaFilter by dis_integration at 6:14 AM on July 16, 2022

For quirky, might as well head over to troy and visit the Hart Cluett museum and see the Uncle Sam gallery (allegedly the inspiration for Uncle Sam comes from a guy who lived in Troy.
posted to Ask MetaFilter by dis_integration at 3:05 PM on July 8, 2022

If you like ice cream and alcohol, hit up At Random in Bay View / South Shore, sometimes voted one of the best bars in America.

If you have time, take a boat tour.

I've never been to the zoo, I guess I should go sometime.

Odd Duck is my favorite restaurant in the city. Really fantastic. Dan Dan is great. La Dama is also fantastico.

The Kinn Guest house is where I would stay if I was staying in MKE. https://kinnguesthouse.com/bayview-mke/
posted to Ask MetaFilter by dis_integration at 4:52 PM on June 26, 2022

it might be worth pointing out to your friend that, except in the cases where hedgies are doing insider trading, or just have dumb luck, hedge funds do worse or just about the same as simple index funds like Vanguard. Hedge funds are the places where all the people who "know the secrets" about making money on the market get hired, and they still can't beat an index fund, so why would some guy selling courses be able to teach you to do better than them? If a hedge fund beats the market… [more]
posted to Ask MetaFilter by dis_integration at 9:09 AM on June 9, 2022

I don't remember an artist neighbor, but Murder in Suburbia was about a woman detective named Ash.
posted to Ask MetaFilter by dis_integration at 2:05 PM on June 6, 2022

Does soundlike your passport has worn to the point where *something* about it is off. No telling what! Unless you carry the passport daily for regular international travel outside of Canada and Mexico, I'd suggest getting a passport card to carry instead and leaving your passport safely at home. Cheaper to replace if it gets damaged, and easier to port around.
posted to Ask MetaFilter by dis_integration at 9:02 AM on June 6, 2022

The can I eat here is a question of probabilities. You will likely be fine 99 out of 100 times that you do this. One out of 100 times you will get terrible food poisoning and regret it. This 1 out of 100 happened to me (leaving guacamole out, not rice, but the same kind of thing) and it sucked so bad I will never take another chance. So my vote would be: no, there's bacteria in there!
posted to Ask MetaFilter by dis_integration at 9:31 AM on May 17, 2022

What you'd need is some kind of stereo attenuator: like this one. You'd place it in between the lines you run to the speakers. Of course, you'd have to hide it somehow to keep people from just turning up the volume on the attenuator.

You might also be able to find someone with electronics wizardry to modify the volume control on a stereo amplifier (esp. if analog) to give it a lower maximum?

Maybe other solutions exist... Just having smaller… [more]
posted to Ask MetaFilter by dis_integration at 11:36 AM on May 3, 2022

Oh, also, a lot of powered speakers have their own volume controls on the back. For example, these: https://www.krkmusic.com/Studio-Monitors/ROKIT-5-G4 which sound great. You can force a low maximum volume with the dial on the back there, so it won't matter what volume they set on their playback device.
posted to Ask MetaFilter by dis_integration at 11:39 AM on May 3, 2022 marked best answer

i would feel betrayed by this and want an explanation, but it’s not marriage ending. most likely she hasn’t really come to terms with it herself. it’s a life changing amount of money and she probably didn’t want life to change. it would drive me mad to know that all this time i could have afforded literally anything i ever wanted, but i also grew up pinching every penny and have had no parental financial support since i was about 17. if you lived most of your life with a running total of your… [more]
posted to Ask MetaFilter by dis_integration at 2:56 PM on April 17, 2022

just to emphasize, to me this is the flipside of the discussion i had with my wife before we got married : that i had defaulted on my student loans and gone into collections for medical debt so if we got married my credit would drag hers down for at least the next 7 years. and it was true, we didn’t qualify for a mortgage until my delinquencies were cleared from the credit report. keeping that a secret would have been a betrayal, just like hiding immense wealth would have been
posted to Ask MetaFilter by dis_integration at 3:04 PM on April 17, 2022

Exhaust fans to nowhere are a pretty classic shortcut for cheap renovators/house flippers, although any inspector should pick up on it right away. Maybe only some of the units have actual ducts and that's how they got away with it. It's not necessarily a code violation in every jurisdiction if the bathroom also has a window that can be opened to the outside.

For situations where you want a bathroom but it's impractical to run a duct, there are "ductless"… [more]
posted to Ask MetaFilter by dis_integration at 6:56 AM on April 14, 2022

I have no answer about the insurance impact. The only shot where I had to identify myself was the first one, after that for the next two I went to walkup clinics where you just showed your covid card, no forms filled out, so if that's still possible, that's probably the lowest risk for adding anything to your medical records that will negatively impact you.

Ethically I don't see any issue at this point. Vaccination clinics are shutting down for lack of demand. Basically… [more]
posted to Ask MetaFilter by dis_integration at 9:55 AM on April 9, 2022

I make this basic thing regularly (except with Szechuan pepper and chopped peanuts) and keep it in the fridge for 3 months at time. I can't imagine there is significant risk here
posted to Ask MetaFilter by dis_integration at 4:47 PM on April 8, 2022

The kit was natural indigo, soda ash, and sodium hydrosulfite
posted to Ask MetaFilter by dis_integration at 7:54 AM on March 26, 2022

My experience with British customs around that time is that they were very, very, very anxious to prevent people claiming to be passing through the country who were in fact planning to stay there and, steal their jobs or whatever, without proper visas.

I had a very difficult encounter with British border agents at the Gare du Nord in 2011 when trying to take the chunnel from Paris to London, they took me aside and asked lots of similar questions because they seemed to… [more]
posted to Ask MetaFilter by dis_integration at 2:57 PM on February 17, 2022