What's The Best Local Food Chain, Can You Die On A Plane And How Do You Defeat A Car-Sized Cockroach?
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Take a road trip on Reddit with What's one local chain in your area that unfortunately the rest of America is missing out on? Time to add Eegee's, Cookout, Portillo's to your list.
But the best local chain? Definitely Burgerville. Doesn't this sound great?
I lived in Portland for a little over 7 years. I miss Burgerville more than I miss most of my friends there. The black bean burger and the chicken sandwich are amazing. And they occasionally do zucchini fries with a garlic aioli that I would almost kill for right now.
And now, a chance to settle something: Wawa is better than Sheetz. There is no debate.
What happens when someone dies on a plane? Technically, you can't:
Nobody dies on a plane.
This may sound implausible, but it's
true . There is no one authorized to declare a person dead aboard most civil aircraft.
Thankfully, the lawyers clarified, we can no longer flout the laws of death:
UPDATE ALERT: Recent changes have called for airlines to allow licensed physicians to declare a passenger dead should the aero-medical facility recommend halting further resuscitation efforts.
Ask Metafilter continues to be the best place for thoughtful interpersonal threads, such as: I'm your new manager. What do you want me to do & ask in my first month? There are many great tributes to the power of a one-on-one lunch; and for once, some earnest advice:
First, take everyone out for lunch the first week you're there.
Secondly, meet with folks individually to discuss their ideas, thoughts and ask them what THEY think.Thirdly, have a meeting with the group to discuss issues in general. You'll have learned some things from your one-on-ones and you may hear some commonality.
If you've ever read Frank Abagnale's book, Catch Me if You Can, one way he was able to fake his way through being an Emergency Room doctor was to ask the nurses and support staff, "what do YOU think we should do?" Not that you plan on faking your way through this job, but letting folks tell you their thoughts leverages some great experience AND it lets them feel like they have agency and a voice in their job, which makes them happy.
What small websites do more people need to be aware of? hit the front page of Reddit and crashed bunch of small websites.1 The thread contains some real gems, including a recommendation for a site where you could unintentionally create your own ambient dystopia.
Now I've got birds tweeting in my ear, a TV left on static, people talking everywhere. The window is open, it's fucking raining and the god damn crickets won't shut up. How the hell am I meant to sleep like this?
What is the weirdest thing you have seen at someone's house that they thought was completely normal? holds some interesting stories about household peccadillos. But tucked about a third of the way in is an epic thread on bathtub carp strategy. There's no way of verifying how common this is — but how do you shower with a carp?2 Now we know:
A large catfish in the only bathtub of my Vietnamese friends house.
He told me they fatten them and purify them for a few days before eating it by feeding it a special diet.
Oh, and they showered with it.
Bathtub carp is a common thing in Slavic countries before Christmas. Since they are bottom-feeders, people feed them not-shit to make them "cleaner". Maybe there is a Vietnamese equivalent.
Click through for the whole discussion. It's worth it, I promise.
In What are the little decorating tricks, tips, techniques, and secrets that take a space from looking fine and functioning decently to being all-around awesome? you'll learn about the power of odd numbers, where to put photos, the size of rugs. But the best advice is actually in the question, where the asker provides examples of tips:
Hang curtains much higher and wider than the window itself, way higher and wider than I'm used to, to make the room feel super tall and cohesive;
Center hanging light fixtures over the action and not just over the room, and at a height that lets them do their tasks properly – so lower than I think over things like dining tables
Keep colors, styles, and collections brutally edited with one or two big contrasts
But mix textures in textiles and hard goods for warmth and come-into-me-ness
Too-small (or seemingly right-size) accent stuff can look skimpy and feel cluttered; even in a small space it can be better to have fewer bigger things
Quickly test art and furniture placement with painter's tape; consider the jobs they are supposed to do to get it right before committing. Art over a sofa anchors things better when it's larger and lower than I think; people need more room than I think around coffee tables and to pull out chairs
The scales will fall from your eyes with What are some secrets about widely used products? Most dried cereal fruit is flavored apples; the cleaning product samples are stronger than the cleaning products; Trader Joe's generic Cheerios are… Cheerios. And then this stab in the back:
Double Stuf Oreos actually only have 1.86 times the filling.
Quora is full of productivity threads, and they are usually worthless. The advice mostly comes down to "buy this app" or "be a super wealthy, independent male with no kids and a job at Facebook." But, What are the best day to day time saving hacks? has a few usable pointers.
The 2-minute rule: if you can do something (like replying to an email, or a house chore) in 2 minutes, do it now. Planning it for later, remembering it, doing it in the future will take 5 minutes or more.
The 5-minute rule: the biggest cure against procrastination is to set your goal not to finish a scary big hairy task, but to just work 5 minutes on it. You'll find out that most times it continues well beyond the 5 minutes, as you enter a flow state.
Always wear your headphones. You don't have to listen to music, but it will discourage people to approach you.
Now you too can be the person wearing headphones as you enter flow state.
Quora encroaches on AskReddit territory with If cockroaches somehow mutated into car-sized monsters, will modern military be able to defeat them? Will our weapons work against them? If no, how do we defeat them?
I'm not sure if this person totally nailed or totally missed the spirit of the question, but it's worth reading the whole thing.
The problem is that arthropods have rudimentary circulatory and respiratory systems that are quite inefficient. Once they get past a certain size, there's only so much oxygen that they can distribute to their bodily tissues to keep them running.
And finally, What color is this dress? A few people had some thoughts on this. Nothing conclusive, though.
