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    Home Improvement

    I've had mine for almost six months and I can no longer imagine having anything else.
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    Gravy's Cooking Thread

    In most cases I don't use my food processor day-to-day, but I use it every week at least. I make cashew butter from scratch every week. If I am having a bigger dinner I end up using it for prep (like 6+ people to feed, it ends up being a time saver). Mine has two work bowls though, which helps...
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    Marriage and the Power of Divorce

    Not sure why you directed that at me. That was the CDC's conclusion on their own data. Women who have less sexual partners are less likely to get divorced, as compared to the average rate of divorce. Pretty straight forward. There are numerous indicators like this of how likely a divorce is...
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    Marriage and the Power of Divorce

    I'll have to dig it up, but the CDC discovered something odd with their divorce numbers while they were tracking STDs (which also involved tracking sexual history). Women who had only had one partner were very unlikely to get divorced. For each additional partner your odds jumped by like 10%...
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    Rerolled Hearthstone Tournament #4 Sign Ups!

    You just do screenshare via a Skype call (and I mute myself so you can't hear the cast). I have obs all set up to stream it. I even made a twitch account just for this, RerolledHS. So all you need is Skype, I can do everything else.
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    Hearthstone

    I have three golden legendaries after opening... ~500 packs? So, yeah, not good odds.
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    Marriage and the Power of Divorce

    sci.anthropology: Aug-96: Re: how many bastards are there, anyway? Linking to a weird site because it quotes an actual book which has cited studies in it. Awkward, but best I can do on short notice. Also: "[7] Betzig L, 'Where are the bastard's daddies?', Behavioural and Brain Sciences...
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    Hearthstone

    Rerolled Hearthstone Tournament #4 Sign Ups! Sign ups for RR HS Tournament #4
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    Rerolled Hearthstone Tournament #4 Sign Ups!

    Rerolled Hearthstone Tournament #4 | BinaryBeast EDIT: The GRAND FINALS of the 4th Rerolled Hearthstone Tournament will be tomorrow August 17th at 12:30 PST! Tune in live! EDIT: Brackets are up, let the games begin. Remember to report your matches. When you sign up be sure to include...
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    Marriage and the Power of Divorce

    I agree we are capable of overcoming our instincts and reprogramming our behavior. I've seen people do it. But, in each case, those people were aware of specifically which human instinct they were dealing with and how it was making them unhappy with their philosophy of life. There was a distinct...
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    Hearthstone

    Yeah, I want to try a control Warlock based around ideas like that when all the cards are out. Also really excited to play a minion based Priest. Temple Enforcer is one of my favorite cards and I can see it being used now.
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    Marriage and the Power of Divorce

    In theory and in practice. One in ten children born is not born to the supposed Father. Approximately half of all LTRs involve one partner cheating. I'm not talking about relationships ending, I'm talking about cheating in general. And, yes, relationships often become void of sex, see my earlier...
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    Marriage and the Power of Divorce

    No... women like to encourage competition between sperm. Most of them will want to immediately go home and sleep with their partner if they just cheated. That is what our hormones will tell us to do. Men, on the flip side, will try to keep a woman around as long as possible after sleeping with...
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    Rerolled Hearthstone Tournament #4 - Poll

    Maybe I'll give it a pity vote. This is why I run the polls though. Happy with the results.
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    Marriage and the Power of Divorce

    Coolidge effect - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Men, as a rule, don't actually drop off in terms of sex drive (until you get old enough that testosterone levels start dropping, which doesn't even happen to all men). Monogamy kills the male sex drive. Ever hear a guy in his, oh, say, 40s...
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    The Galactic Cap Condom: Do you trust it?

    It doesn't block the flow, it shreds the tail as they pass by. So they can no longer swim up to fertilize the egg. You still ejaculate all your sperm. And there is simply no way a doctor is going to "accidentally" block a vessel when doing something that is an outpatient procedure. Anymore then...
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    Hearthstone

    Rerolled Hearthstone Tournament #4 - Poll For the people that missed it, running a poll for the next RR HS tourny format. Also sign ups will follow shortly. Also Amaz's "Leasher" deck that he uses whenever Zoo is really popular is ridiculous vs Zoo. Good time to play Priest if you like it.
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    Rerolled Hearthstone Tournament #4

    Rerolled Hearthstone Tournament #4 - Poll Poll for format. Sign ups soon as it is over.
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    Computer Issues

    You have to hold down the fn key to change them. I checked. Really easy in the case of F2, because it turns the WiFi on/off and has a light in the key to tell you if the Wifi is on or off. @Noodleface: User manual says F2. I also tried all the other standard buttons.No dice.
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    Rerolled Hearthstone Tournament #4 - Poll

    Poll closes on Friday. Sign ups start on Friday. Tournament will start on Wednesday the 30th at noon PST. We're going to try the four classes, opponent can ban one format. I think that'll be pretty interesting in terms of building decks. I think I have obs all squared away for streaming, so I...
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    Hearthstone

    So I ended up doing Captain Greenskin+Earthen Ring+Truesilver for 5 healing per turn and the rapidly escalating damage from an infinite Truesilver. Once I got the right mulligan it was pretty easy. All done with normal, class challenges, and heroic.
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    Gravy's Cooking Thread

    No, bag it. And it isn't just a poached egg at all. Poaching is something you do at much higher temps. The fact that you're basically right at the temp at which egg proteins coagulate makes them set very slowly. What a lot of pro chefs do is actually just get it to the setting point and then put...
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    Computer Issues

    Yep, it works, and furious mashing did nothing. Really odd. Turns out ASUS provides a utility app you can run in Windows for what I had to do though. Still annoying.
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    Gravy's Cooking Thread

    For the ziploc bag thing, the best way to get the air out completely is actually partially submerge it in the water and close it. The pressure from the water forces the air out. Obviously if the water is already boiling it isn't as good. That is sous vide, technically. Also sous vide eggs are...
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    Gravy's Cooking Thread

    Most people who grew up with the real stuff prefer to think of it as fake. There was a case with an old woman who was using her new Pyrex pan under the broiler, took it out... and it shattered as she was holding it. It shredded her feet, cut her into her ankles, severed tendons.... she was...
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    Gravy's Cooking Thread

    Yeah, dry rub, add a little liquid, wrap tightly in foil. You're basically braising them (little bit of liquid, low heat, long cook time). As with so many things, here is a Good Eats recipe to get you started. Who Loves Ya Baby-Back? Recipe : Alton Brown : Food Network
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    Gravy's Cooking Thread

    The fake stuff either says "Not intended for stovetop or broiler" or says "Microwave and oven only." It is embossed on the bottom. The real stuff says "Pyrex" and basically nothing else. Or you can order it from an importer (that is what those Amazon things are and why shipping isn't free). I...
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    Computer Issues

    For some bizarre reason I can't get to the BIOS on the wife's new laptop (ASUS Taichi). User manual says it is F2. So I press F2 at POST and it still boots right into Windows. Booting up takes like 2 seconds because of the SSD.... am I just missing the tiny window or something?
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    Gravy's Cooking Thread

    Real Pyrex can easily have water boiled in it on the stovetop. It is made out of borosilicate, which specifically expands/contracts very little with temperature changes of any kind. You can broil in it even. But the EPA limited boron emissions in the late 80s/early 90s which is a byproduct of...
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    Rerolled Hearthstone Tournament #4

    First wing. I'm actually hoping Naxx draws more people to the tournament.
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    Rerolled Hearthstone Tournament #4

    OK, so I'll keep taking ideas till Naxx comes out. Put up a poll the day Naxx comes out and start the tournament a week after that.
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    Hearthstone

    A lot of people on US at like rank 20 will win a game, lose a game, win a game, lose a game, etc., to get to 500 wins faster. If you don't rank up you keep playing scrubs.
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    Rerolled Hearthstone Tournament #4

    I like that idea a lot slippery, I'd forgotten they did that.
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    Rerolled Hearthstone Tournament #4

    I personally am leaning toward groups if we get ~17 people again. That'd mean everyone gets to play at least 3 matches (groups of 4-5). Which seems pretty reasonable to me. But I wanted to see if anyone had better ideas. Or more interesting ideas. Like one thing I've heard a lot of professionals...
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    Gravy's Cooking Thread

    Speaking of burgers: Cheese Burger Society Needs to be added to the first post.
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    Hearthstone

    Rerolled Hearthstone Tournament #4 Discussing the format for the next RR HS tournament. Chime in if you want to participate, please!
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    Rerolled Hearthstone Tournament #4

    Rerolled Hearthstone Tournament #4 - Poll For the poll!
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    Kids & Food

    Hell, adults are like that. #1 thing people say when I serve unfamiliar foods at dinner parties "Where did that come from? I'm not eating that." "Oh, that? That came from XYZ, it is a traditional dish in country A when you prepare it like B. Try it." Then they eat it and, of course, they love...
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    Ravvenn is the Megan Fox of Hooking

    Too much... Has sex with hookers. White Knights said hookers. Gets them off the drugs, back with their families, etc. All while still fucking them. Is married. Gets STDs from hookers. Gives wife STDs. Wife forgives him. Goes back to new hookers. Claimed to set new world orgasm record (5? pops...
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    Marriage and the Power of Divorce

    Sounds like she just got out of a relationship and wanted that closeness back, but didn't want sex.