I think this is something that gets lost in translation sometimes between different English dialects
When you say "jelly"are you referring to a fruit preserve similar to jam that gets it's gelatinous qualities from pectin
Or are you referring to a gelatin-based dessert like Jello?
When most Americans talk about peanut butter & jelly, we're talking about the former.
We'll it would be harder to pick some Democrats from this neighborhood and a bunch of Republicans from that neighborhood if the district size is only one neighborhood
Also it would allow for more specific representation. Using myself as an example, my district is basically my county plus a couple small parts of some neighboring counties. One end of the county is pretty rural, the other half butts up against a major city and pretty much just bleeds right into it. We have some ridiculously wealthy old money areas, and we have some that look like they were plucked from a movie about gang violence. There's a few towns here that I've legitimately never even had to drive through. It's kind of insane that all of these different areas are being represented by the same person, we have very different and sometimes conflicting concerns. And if I needed to go to my representatives office for any reason, I'd have to drive about an hour to get there because of course she's set up shop at the far end of the county from me.
Personally, I think the ideal way to draw districts is to kind of have voters do it when they vote. Give them a map, have them select the areas where they live, work, shop, drive through regularly, or have other connections to until they've selected an area with a big enough population to be a district. Then feed those maps into a computer and have it average them all together to generate the new district map.
Here's one out of left field- Bucky O'Hare
The franchise has been dormant for about 30 years, and even back then there wasn't that much established lore for a modern reboot to tiptoe around- a comic book that frankly not too many people read, a couple pretty good video games, and a Saturday morning cartoon made to sell toys, and there was little to no continuity between those different properties, you pretty much have free reign to go in and do whatever the hell you want with it.
And there's was some pretty good stuff in there to work with that's maybe even more relevant today than it was when it came out- plotlines about inept bureaucracy, imperialist/capitalist toads controlled by an AI, pollution, climate disruption, slavery, etc.
And the property was kind of hamstrung by its budget and stuff. I definitely enjoyed it as a kid, and when i went back to rewatch it a few years ago as an adult I thought it held up well enough but the animation and voice acting was definitely pretty janky at times, but even still it managed to have some bigger overarching story arcs. It also had a couple strong female characters without getting preachy about it, though there's certainly some room for improvement in how they were written.
And if nothing else, today we can probably count on the furry community to watch a show about a green rabbit space ship captain, a cat space witch, a 4 armed pirate duck, a muscly baboon, and their nerdy human audience surrogate.
I've casually perused some Gameboy mods over the years, but never actually done any
And I have no idea what these shops are offering
But to give you an idea of what I've seen out there in general
There's of course shells and buttons, and replacement parts to replace worn/damaged components (and I would imagine that in some cases those new components might be better than the original)
There's options for better screens, and backlit screens on models that didn't originally come with them
USB charging (and charging in general for models that originally used disposable batteries, and higher capacity batteries for those that already had rechargeable)
Video output to hook it up to a TV or whatever
Amplifier circuits and such to improve audio quality
And I'm sure there's others, but that's what I remember seeing off the top of my head.
50000 yen is around $315 right now. I feel like I've seen some places selling pre-modded Gameboys at roughly about that price point, so depending on what they're offering that's potentially a pretty solid deal.
But a lot of mods seem like they're pretty much just a matter of opening the case up and popping the new components into place, and the parts aren't terribly expensive, so you could probably shave some money off by DIYing it at home if you're more interested in having the Gameboy than the experience of going to a workshop to do it. Some mods do require a bit of soldering, it didn't look like it was particularly complicated soldering, but I know that a lot of people just aren't interested in attempting that themselves, don't know what your personal comfort level with that is.
No first-hand experience, and arguably not really a cult, but I have a friend who's a recovering alcoholic, and according to him a few of the local AA groups around us have a few members who are in the weird fringes of the rationalist community, maybe sort of tangentially connected to the "zizians"
For those not familiar with the zizians, behind the bastards had a pretty decent series on them
There's also a decent amount of weird overlap between self help type groups like AA (not that AA isn't without plenty of valid criticism) and abusive cult-like organizations. I think the elan.school (Joe vs Elan School) webcomic touched on that, and I also recommend that as an interesting look into the troubled teen industry (trigger warnings for child abuse and such on that)
I think the name Donald has been out of style since before Trump was born.
Imagine spending your whole life being compared to Donald Duck.
Hoo boy are you confidently incorrect.
This isn't exactly a secret, the other commenter linked part of the regulations about this, and you can just look up actual products that are out there, their ingredients and how they're labeled, as well as plenty of people out there who have made their own American cheese-like products from cheese and emulsifiers.
And it sounds like you need a new cheese monger, if you got that info from them they're lying out their ass to sell you some American cheese they couldn't get rid of otherwise.
Assuming you're not trolling
American Cheese is basically cheese (usually cheddar, though there's a couple other cheeses it can be made from) that's had an emulsifier (usually sodium citrate) added to it, which is an emulsifier that keeps it from separating when melted (if you've ever melted regular cheese you may have noticed that it gets kind of oily/greasy because the fat in the cheese separates out) which makes for a really nice creamy/gooey texture.
It's solid (though usually fairly soft) and comes in a block or pre-sliced.
There's sort of a few different "levels" of American cheese, with different labeling requirements depending on how much other stuff has been added to it.
At the top end you have stuff that can be labeled as "pasteurized process American cheese" which is basically what I described above. Cheese + emulsifier, and sometimes a little added fat, salt, acid, and color. It's basically cheddar that melts nicer. There's of course a range of quality here, some start with a better quality cheese than others, and/or add more or less emulsifiers/salt/fat/acid/color, but overall these are actually pretty good. If the label actually says "American cheese" on it, this is almost certainly what you're getting.
A step down you have "pasteurized process American cheese food" which again have emulsifiers and such, and are at least 51% cheese, the rest is made up of other dairy products.
Then you have things that don't even meet that definition and contain other additives, there's not really an officially regulated term for these things, and just about anything goes for them, they might be labeled as a cheese "product," "snack," "dip," "sauce," "spread" or any number of other things. These are your cheez wiz, Kraft singles, Velveeta, etc. And this is where a lot of people get the idea that American cheese is crap, some of them don't even taste much like cheese, their texture can be weirdly waxy/plastic-y, they have all kinds of weird additives and non-dairy ingredients, I once bought some bottom of the barrel cheese product singles that didn't even want to melt on my burger.
For those second two categories, you're probably not going to find the words "American cheese" anywhere on the package. You might find "American" in big friendly letters, but you'll have to look elsewhere on the package to find that it's a "cheese food/product/etc"
For the first two, you'll often find them being sliced off of a giant block at the deli counter, though some of them may be pre-packaged in the dairy aisle, for the last category you're almost never going to find them at the deli and it's all gonna be in the dairy aisle or even on an unrefrigerated shelf somewhere.
And if you're adventurous in the kitchen, you can do some pretty cool things with American cheese, those emulsifiers in them can make some magic happen with cheese sauces and such that you really couldn't do otherwise. As an example, I don't really like most seafood, but my wife loves sushi, so I sometimes make some weird non-fish sushi so we can both be satisfied. One time I made a "Philly cheese steak" roll with beef and caramelized onions, and I whipped up a sort of "Japanese cheez wiz" to go with it by making some dashi and melting American cheese into it (I think I also added some miso) and it was fucking delicious, and you wouldn't be able to do that with regular cheese without adding extra emulsifiers, the cheese and the broth just wouldn't mix right.
Congress already basically has the power to overturn court rulings. They make laws.
Courts only rule on whether things are or are not in line with those laws.
This is of course simplified and a bit absurd for humorous effect, but in broad strokes this is how things work.
Let's say there's a law on the books that says people are not allowed to wear hats. Someone gets arrested for wearing a bandana on their head. They go to court challenging that arrest arguing that bandanas are not hats.
The court hears the arguments from both sides, the guy who was arrested arguing that the law doesn't apply to bandanas, and the lawyers for the police arguing that the law applies more broadly to other forms of headwear.
The court listens to those arguments, and considers previous similar cases to look for precedent, (like maybe there was a guy who was arrested for having a baseball cap tied to his belt and whether that counted as "wearing" a hat, or someone was arrested for wearing a KFC bucket on his head and whether that met the legal definition of a hat, or someone who was arrested for wrapping a hat around their feet and whether that counted or only if you wore it on your head) Maybe they even consider whether wearing a hat should be considered a form of free speech and whether that law is legal.
And then that ruling establishes further precedent, which will affect how/if that law is applied going forward. If the court has already decided that wearing a bandana doesn't count as a hat, then it doesn't make sense to arrest people for it in the future because the court will just throw the case out based on that precedent.
Now whatever the outcome, let's say Congress doesn't like what the courts decided. They can pass newer and more specific laws concerning the legality of bandanas and other headgear, maybe even going so far as to add a constitutional amendment to specifically protect or exempt hats or bandanas as free speech.
And then going forward, the courts would need to rule on cases based on that new law or amendment.
So if the court rules that bandanas are ok, then Congress goes and makes a new law specifically banning bandanas and goes through the trouble (for some reason) to amend the constitution to say that bandanas are not free speech, then future arrests based on that would be based on that. You couldn't retroactively arrest someone for wearing a bandana before it was made illegal, but you could sure arrest them if they do it again.
I was a delivery guy for a local pizzeria once upon a time (and that place still has their own drivers, and even their own delivery vehicles, which is practically unheard of)
And I'm not gonna lie, door dash and such was great for a while because it let me get food delivered from restaurants that otherwise didn't do delivery.
But I've stopped using them, for a few reasons including their shitty business practices
But the straw that broke the camels back in each case that made me delete was them fucking up my order.
And that happens, I'm not particularly mad at the store or the driver, I've been there
But the way that these delivery apps handle it is, to me, unacceptable.
When I contacted them, their response was to just issue me a refund.
And to me, what should have happened, is I should have immediately had a replacement sent, expedited as much as possible, at no extra cost.
That's what we always did when I was a delivery guy, and often with a gift certificate as an apology.
And sure, a refund on top of that would be nice, but really the root issue is that I don't have the food I ordered. If I order it again, I'm going to the back of the delivery queue, and if I happened to order it when I was low on money I may not even be able to reorder it that day because that refund often takes a couple days to clear.
I once heard Spam described as "everything but the oink"
And so when I describe scrapple, I usually start with that, and then describe scrapple as being "mostly oink"
My wife and I did a quick courthouse thing because I got a new job and she needed health insurance. The plan was to do an actual wedding of some kind a year or two later but COVID and a bunch of other stuff happened so it's been on the back burner. I think we're looking at a 10 year thing now, which is nice because it's given us a lot of time to think about guest lists and such.
We have a pretty decent amount of friends we want to invite, I think we're in the ballpark of around 30
Some of those are gonna have +1s, so that gets us up to around 50 or 60
Then we have parents, grandparents, aunts, uncles, cousins, etc. and some of them have +1s, depending on the size and relationship you have with your family, that can make things balloon really quickly.
And if you're able to budget for it, it can be advantageous to invite as many people as you can, money and other wedding gifts can add up pretty substantially. That's not a major factor in our guest list, but for a young couple, maybe looking to buy a house and have kids or whatever, that can be huge.
I'm not too sure about what the version of scrapple you received was, it sounds like some kind of bastardized hash, but scrapple is a common breakfast thing in the Mid-Atlantic/Delaware valley area.
The version I'm familiar with as a Philadelphian, admittedly doesn't sound a whole lot better on paper, but the actual eating experience sounds a lot more pleasant. It's basically pork scraps and organ meats simmered down until they're falling apart and mixed with cornmeal and buckwheat then formed into a mushy loaf, which is then sliced and fried.
You're not going to identify any particular piece of pork or anything else in it, it's a pretty uniform grey mush, and the only real texture comes from frying it to give the outside a nice crispiness. Nothing tough or chewy about it, you barely need to chew it, the texture is probably more like polenta (which it kind of is) than anything else you might be familiar with. It also usually doesn't contain any apple or potatoes.
It's not everyone's cup of tea, but if you find yourself near Philly don't let whatever you were served in the south turn you off from trying actual scrapple.
Parts of Ohio have goetta, which I think is supposed to be pretty similar to scrapple but with oatmeal instead of corn meal.
I've also heard of "livermush" and "liver pudding" being served in some parts of the south, which honestly sound like dead-ringers for scrapple to me, though I have some friends from the south who insist that they're different from and better than scrapple.
I feel like whatever you were served was some southerner trying to recreate something they heard described one time but never actually tried themselves, or just slapping the name on something without knowing that there's another dish out there with the same name.
Got up bright and early and had my mom drive me to target for the game cube launch
I've done a lot of midnight movie releases, and a couple Harry Potter books releases
It was a bit of a spur of the moment thing, but I worked late at the time anyway, so when Skyrim came out I just swung by game stop after I got off work to get that at midnight
I think you're confusing e85 with 85 octane gas
E85 is 85% ethanol, 15% gas (and e15 is the other way around)
Octane rating is a measure of how much you can compress a fuel before it ignites by itself. Higher octane gas is more resistant to that. (And e85 actually has a pretty high octane rating, usually somewhere north of 100. Regular gas often contains up to 10% ethanol, in part because it boosts the octane rating)
To expand on that a bit, if you compress gas enough, at a certain point it just catches fire on its own. This is actually a big part of how diesel engines work. Diesel is actually pretty hard to ignite, in some cases you can even put out small fires by pouring diesel on it (don't try this at home) so they rely on getting high enough compression in order to work.
Gasoline is a lot more flammable though, you don't really need to compress it at all for it to burn. Sure, ideally you probably want a certain compression ratio because something something stoichiometry but gas is more forgiving in that regard. As long as your air-fuel mixture is about right, it's gonna burn when your spark plug goes off.
In fact, gas is maybe a little too forgiving, if your octane rating is too low and your engine compression is too high (mostly a problem with higher-performance engines) that gas can just kind of go off too early before the spark plug goes off, which causes "engine knock" which will cause damage.
But the other way around, high octane in a lower compression engine, basically does nothing spectacular. It still goes boom when the spark plug goes off and not until then.
Anecdotally, 40-ish years ago, one of my mom's relatives came to visit from Poland. There are a whole lot of wild stories about that visit and from when my mom visited Poland around that same time that highlighted a lot of differences between life in the US and from behind the iron curtain at the time.
While he was here, her relative was amazed to see cars pulling off to the side to let emergency vehicles pass, that was apparently something totally new to him.
The real shame is that the coffee table isn't really visible because it's pretty cool itself, it's a hatch from a ship (I believe a WWII Liberty ship)
Bit of family history with it too. My dad originally had it, but my mom hated it, so eventually it went to live with my grandfather. He died, and it ended up back in our basement. My sister and I both really liked it, and we had a bit of an agreement that whoever moved out first got the table, and I won.
EDIT: Also for anyone else who likes my setup, the entertainment center and shelves in the wall are IKEA Fjallbo, no pretty affordable. The shelf of the far right is just an IKEA Kallax.And I have the TV synced up to Phillips hue lights behind it and in the ceiling
I'm not totally sure where the bottles came from, we don't really drink chianti, and they've just kind of been hanging around on a shelf somewhere, but they ultimately ended up on this chandelier
I started reading it just before COVID hit. My reading habits are very sporadic, sometimes I'll devour a book in a day, other times I'll read a chapter or two once a week and it takes me months to finish a book. This happened to be one of the later cases
It was really good, but holy shit that was not the book to be reading when people were getting into fights over toilet paper.
So I did not finish it, I intend to eventually, but it had to go on the back burner.
Everything about it just kind of oozed bleak hopelessness. I've caught myself starting to say I enjoyed it, but "enjoyed" is really the wrong word, there is no joy to be found in that book, perhaps you appreciate it, maybe you feel it, maybe you just read it and acknowledge that it's a good book.
Corned Beef Wellington - Am I crazy?
Transitioning dog back into crate
Resin printing in the cold
Some of my usb ports not working in Mint
Turnip O'Lanterns (More in the Comment)
Sunflower (Sunny) being a very good girl camping over the weekend
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Building my first army
best ways to freeze lunch meats and cheeses?
Sunflower making herself comfortable at her grandparents' house
Maybe you need some visual aids
This is what most Americans mean when we say "jelly." It's a spreadable preserve similar to jam. And this is a gelatin/gelatine dessert, in America it's commonly called "jello" after the brand name, and I believe in what you call "jelly"I believe this is a common brand where you are
So which one were you thinking of when you wrote your comment.