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4h ago

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That $20 camp stove repair kit saved my whole trip

My sister bought one and ended up using the scissors to open a bag of chips instead.

11h ago

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Old timer told me to use a fish stick as a grounding rod. I laughed.

Read an old building code book from the 70s once. Had a whole section on using copper plumbing as a ground path. Said it was standard practice before plastic pipes took over. Makes sense though. Copper is copper. Doesn't matter if it's a pipe or a rod. Ground is ground. The wet rag trick just adds surface contact. Old timers weren't stupid. They just worked with what they had.

14h ago

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My buddy swore I was wasting time on CSS frameworks, turned out he was right

Oh man, the Bootstrap trap is real (I fell for it too). Once you strip it all back and just write your own CSS, you actually understand how things like grids and spacing work instead of blindly adding container-fluid to everything.

1d ago

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Used to knead by hand for 20 minutes, now I do stretch and folds instead

Does your sandwich dough usually sit around 70% hydration or higher? Those wetter doughs just collapse under a good kneading, but the folds give them enough structure to hold air without turning into a brick.

4d ago

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Had a week where my AI art generator just kept spitting out garbage

Got woken up at 4am yesterday by my cat yowling in the hallway for no reason. Thought something was seriously wrong but nope, she just wanted me to watch her eat breakfast. Three hours of sleep and I had to go to work looking like a zombie.