I didn't know what premature babies were my first time in the maternity ward. "Eww why those babies so ugly‽‽‽" I said out loud (no filter lol) to the embarrassment of all my companions.
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Lol sourdough starter, OK I'm sold. The high shelf where I sprout seeds is also where I've been letting my dough rise cause the house is too cold
How do you find the seedling heat mat? Does it work well?
I've been germinating my seeds with a tupperware in a bit of soil on a high shelf, but it only really works when I have the heater on in the house. Now nothing is sprouting cause the heat is off.
Its cause they're all pocket computers that just happen to be a phone too.
Even this phone only mobile phone from punkt still has that form factor so it can fit in your pocket.
Just freeze it in a bag, and defrost when you're ready for fried rice. You can also use long or medium grain rice, or cook your rice al dente, and you don't have to wait for it to be a day old for fried rice.
I'm pretty similar in the console to PC shift. Pretty much had all consoles and handhelds through Xbox 360/Switch/PS3.
I still miss the Wii controls (I hate moving my neck for anything VR) but I don't think with Switch 2 motion controls/mouse will get me back on Nintendo. Twilight Princess and Metroid Prime Trilogy were awesome on Wii. Only reason I bought a Switch was for Zelda but I didn't care for it and eventually gave my switch away, never finished BoTW. I don't think Metroid Prime 4 is enough for me to justify buying a whole console. So I'm planning to get a steamdeck instead of the switch 2.
If we ever see a world where nintendo games are on steam and you don't need a nintendo account to play them, I would totally buy up all my favorite games and play them on PC.
Otherwise I really don't care for the business model of re-buying the games I already own, just re-released on the latest console. Don't care for paying for online access. And the few games they have really aren't compelling enough for me to justify buying a console when I have hundreds of unplayed games in my steam library. (my humble bundle subscription snowballed my library lol)
please do. I stole the term myself from the japanlife subreddit.
The most dangerous part of living in Tokyo isn't the typhoons, earthquakes, or tsunamis these days, its the mothers on electric assist e-bikes 'mama-chari' mid-afternoon on their way back with the whole family.
Toddler in the front, middle schooler on the back, she has pedal assist and is booking it on the sidewalk while looking at her smartphone because its legally permissible to ride with the pedestrians when you feel unsafe on the streets. The bike lanes here aren't separated from traffic. And the bike lanes here are de-facto 15-minute loading parking spaces for the massive trucks, drop off points for taxis, and uber eats scooter parking spots. So you either have to merge into traffic due to all the parked vehicles, or ride on the sidewalk.
If you ever come to Toyko, walk on the left and look over your right shoulder so you don't get run over by a whole family on a modern day chariot.
Yup, everybody looking down at their pocket computers and fucking up their posture.
Tokyo is full of meanderthals walking and biking while looking down at their phones. Standing still while waiting for the lights to change is tame.
There's even a word for it here: aruki-sumaho
Notable sightings so far in 2025:
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A pack of middle school boys all playing a mobile game while walking with their faces in their phones and blocking the sidewalk. Three abreast in marching band formation, maybe 15 of them.
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Salaryman holding a laptop and on a conference call while rushing towards a train station.
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A few face-in-tablet while walking, that always gets a smirk out of me.
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Lady in heels, approaching the upward stairs while watching a video on her phone in landscape mode, arm fully extended and airpods in. Misses a step and eats it, goes full scorpion. I was impressed she managed to hold onto her phone and keep all her teeth, she just missed chomping on a concrete step by a few cm.
Its extremely common here. Enough that I usually have to stop walking on the sidewalk and just wait for them to notice me to look up and move out of the way, you can't always side step them because they're frequently not walking straight and they'll wander across the path anyway, hence the term meanderthals.
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Second this. Get an aeropress, a burr grinder that can go down to espresso fine grind (or find a local roaster that will roast and grind your beans to your liking), a thermometer, and a scale.
Skip the machines that can break down and are expensive to replace or hard to clean.
Edit: If you decide to go with the aeropress, I'd recommend getting one of these flow control caps. A lot of recipes for the 'inverted method' of brewing deal with balancing the aeropress upside down and messing around with hot coffee sludge. Just get one of these instead of doing anything inverted and risking burning yourself or spilling hot coffee sludge everywhere.
https://aeropress.com/products/aeropress-flow-control-filter-cap
I've tried every way to make coffee at home and aeropress is my favorite (over moka pot, french press, pour over, Mr Coffee, espresso, nespresso, keurig, turkish, etc)
Best I found with a quick search. Its free and one founder is from the UK.
Also if you need to hide your mailing address, they have a 'private shipping' option.
https://www.thingstogetme.com/about-us