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  • Trust me, I get the marketing and the need for “knockoff” liquor. All I’m saying is that as someone who learned to drink on Jack Daniels and Jim Beam, I think Evan Williams is better than the price and reputation would lead me to believe.

    Bear in mind, I never actually had Evan Williams until I was in my late 20’s and I had already started to develop a decent palate for Scotch and tequila (and craft beer and wine). When I finally actually tasted Evan Williams, I found I preferred it to any of the other cheap bourbons I’ve ever had (again, especially in a mixed drink). If I was looking for a sipping whiskey, personally I’d look for Scotch or Irish whiskey, because I don’t prefer sweeter whiskeys, but Evan Williams will always be a staple for me.






  • I see your point, but there are plenty of “stable geniuses” (aka idiots) who aren’t Russian and as I teach chemistry, I’m obliged to point out that there are (or at least were) plenty of Russians who are literally brilliant scientists.

    I mean, just off the top of my head, Mendelev literally invented the Periodic Table, and if you read the first third of an organic chem textbook, you can’t go 2 pages without seeing a Russian name.


  • Really? Makers Mark? I’m not much of a bourbon drinker as I prefer pretty much any other type of whiskey, but there are cheaper options that are better than Makers and there are pricey options that are way better than Makers (Basil Hayden comes to mind while still being ubiquitous and reasonably priced).

    Hell, Evan Williams is at least as good as Makers (better, IMO) and it’s 25$ per handle.

    Edit: when I said “I’m not much of a bourbon drinker,” I guess that was a lie, as my cocktail of choice is an old fashioned with bourbon. I just meant, if I’m drinking liquor on ice or neat, I prefer Scotch, rye, Irish whiskey, Canadian whiskey, then bourbon. And an old fashioned is pretty good with any whiskey other than Scotch, imo.


  • It’s less of an issue with true hardwood like maple. For all the talk of bamboo dulling knives, I think it’s actually fairly soft in term of porosity.

    But the place I always notice it is in pancakes, for whatever reason. My partner will make a big mess of pancakes for the kids on the weekends and stack then up on the cutting board, and if I grab one off the bottom of the stack, it very noticeably will taste of onions and herbs.







  • NielsBohron@lemmy.worldtoPolitical Memes@lemmy.worldwhat a hero
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    6 days ago

    I never thought he’d do it on purpose

    Me neither; not because he’s better than that, but because I didn’t think his ego would let him pretend to take the L. Jokes on me! It seems like his handlers and the billionaires he surrounds himself with are (just) smart enough to play his ego to their own advantage.


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    7 days ago

    As someone mentioned earlier, this reeks of a “pump and dump” scheme.

    1. Trigger an easily avoidable economic crisis
    2. Watch the stock market tank
    3. Wait for you and your oligarch friends to buy assets for a song
    4. Cancel the “crisis”
    5. Profit

    The fact that Trump pretended to be unaware of the effects of the threatened tariffs on the stock market is pretty indicative of him knowing exactly what the effects would be…


  • Oh, Goddamnit. I’m gonna upvote you, but I want you to know that I’m not happy about it.

    And just because I can’t resist being the “well, ackshully” guy, I think the little blinking line/box in a text editor is considered a cursor, so you’d have to remember punch cards to be a true precursor (or at the very least, the era before keyboards, but I’m sure someone can correct me there)



  • NielsBohron@lemmy.worldtoScience Memesocan't
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    Folks, if your boo:

    • Calls their personality quirks “functional groups”
    • Tests you by demanding you elucidate their mechanisms
    • Has unexplainable peak splitting between 0 and 10 ppm

    That’s not your boo; that’s an organic chemistry