Yeah, as far as I know, the real origin of the term is for shooting targets (or people), so you are literally double tapping the trigger. That way, if the first round doesn’t hit (or doesn’t kill), the second will.

The uncertainty piece is key, though. If they fired a missile and werent sure if it hit by the time they launched the second, they could accurately call that a double-tap. That’s what hegseth seems to be trying to push, especially with his reference to “fog of war”.

The moment you know the first shot destroyed the target, it ceases to be a double-tap.

I just don’t like how they are trying to absolve themselves through language they know will be misinterpreted, and then the media just parrots it with no issue.

P.s., to be clear, whether it is a double tap doesn’t change much to me because the first missile was already a war crime.

Even articles condemning this attack refer to it as a “double-tap” strike, which is really misleading because that insinuates quick succession. An attack followed by a separate attack an hour later is not a double-tap

Yeah, agreed that reducing concussion is definitely a good thing. Especially strict rules around return to play after concussion cause that’s when you can really do damage.

My problem is that scientists can say: “CTE is a problem in the NFL.” And then the NFL can say “we are addressing it by offering goofy helmet coverings, reducing punt return collision speed, and using better protocols for post concussion”. Then no one is pointing out that none of those changes address CTE at all, and the NFL knows that. In reality, reducing CTE would involve changing the sport in ways that the fans would not like.

I’ll spam this fact wherever I see comments on CTE.

CTE is not correlated with the number of concussions. It’s correlated with years of exposure to repetitive minor hits. It’s a very important distinction because the NFL (and every other professional sport with blows to the head) is trying to push the narrative that concussion is the boogeyman, so that if they can reduce concussion (and they can), they can declare their hands clean from CTE. The only way to reduce CTE is drastic changes to the game.

Ah, I read it as 5 beyond that, but that makes sense

A further five states could join the rush in the next few months

It would be nice if they listed those states.

As it pickles, the contents will likely get a little softer, and the weight might drop down into the larger portion of the jar. If that happens, you’ll be able to rotate it out of the way, and get all your stuff out of the jar. Then you can actually stick your hand in and grab the weight and try to pull it out perpendicular to the opening. Odds are that the weight (and the jar opening) are not perfectly circular, so you can try rotating both to pull it out.

Borosilicate glass (which this probably is?) has low thermal expansion, so heat probably won’t help.

Yeah, I’m probably what you’d call a patient gamer. Usually not playing anything more recent than 5 years old, and often way older.

I’m sure I have seen it before, but I can’t think of a single game that lets you pause during a cutscene. It really sucks for turn-based games where you need to watch whats happening when it’s not your turn in order to respond correctly.

I remember a game I used to play years ago that had no ability to pause, so what i would do is alt+tab to the task manager and suspend the process, and then resume it later. Obviously that’s way more clunky than just hitting a pause button.

American cities largely lack whats called the “missing middle” of housing. Lots of single family homes, lots of big apartment buildings, but not a lot of 3-6 unit apartments. This amplifies the housing shortage, encourages urban sprawl, and forces car dependency.

This is caused by a few factors, but the requirement for all apartments to have 2 staircases is a big one. The requirement was originally made back in the day when house fires were a big issue. Now, house fires are mainly an issue in single family homes and cars. Apartment fires aren’t really an issue at all, and they make the news if they happen.

Modern codes for wiring, smoke detectors, and sprinkler systems render an extra staircase unnecessary, and by forcing people who could live in an apartment in the city to instead commute from a single family homes in the suburbs, the codes actually increase deaths by fire.

Looks to me like an aphid of some sort, though hard to tell.

If they are aphids, my normal strategy is to blast them off with a spray bottle of water that has a strong stream.

Obviously, that doesn’t really kill them, and you’ll miss some, but if you can be thorough and do it every day, you can really squash their populations. I actually think compressed air might be better than water (less messy), but i don’t have something that would work well for it.

Make sure to get into buds where you have new growth coming in, because they really love fresh growth, and it’s also a good hiding spot.

You can manually squash them, but then you give a lot of fuel for mold to feed off.

Like the other person said, they are really flexible. Really, my dream would be to have something like that that’s on a hinge, or is otherwise deployable while riding so you could have it out while on roads, but put it out of the way while on bike paths.

I’ve cooked a lot of steaks and fish by pouring the correct temperature of water into a cooler and dropping vacuum sealed bags in. Basically a poor man’s sous vide bath.

That only really works up to a certain temperature, though, so you probably couldnt do boiling hot.

Slow cooking? How long does that take? I’ve used a pressure cooker to make applesauce really fast, but then obviously you’d have to evaporate off a lot of moisture to get butter.

I’ve seen someone with a pool noodle sticking off the side of their bike at the minimum passing distance for cars. I think it’s a great passive option.

I think even better is one of the fiberglass reflective marker rods.

If you wanted to be extra good, you could run a flashing light out to the end of it, and if you wanted to be extra bad, you could place something like broken spark plug ceramic at the end that would scratch up a car, but be harmless to humans.

I have one that’s bamboo, and it’s not that great, but i also have one that is probably maple, and it’s great. You don’t need it to be actually “sharp”, but i suppose there’s no reason I couldn’t sharpen it periodically.

I think one of the biggest things that they don’t really teach you is that most jobs end up having only a small percentage of your time spent doing the unique element of that job.

It’s import because a lot of people get scared away from careers that they think involve a lot of math, which they think they don’t like. In reality, even in math heavy professions, math is only a small part of what they do, and the parts they do are so routine that they aren’t hard.

Did you start from dried chickpeas? That’s the key

When people talk about rinsing off starch, that’s for white rice which has been milled, resulting in basically rice endosperm dust on the grains. It’s also not about eating excess starch, it’s about having extra starch in the liquid, which then ends up making the rice sticky.

Personally, most of the time, I don’t care about all my grains being nice and separate, and when I do, I use a modified pasta method. I boil a pot of water, and throw rice in, and when the rice is al-dente, I strain it off, and put it back in the pot. I then stick the pot with the lid on into the oven while I finish cooking whatever else I’m making. During that time, the rice absorbs any remaining water, and the texture is perfect. If you had particularly dusty brown rice, you could just rinse the rice a bit first.

When I do rinse rice, I just put it in my pot with an excess of water, and I stir in around with my fingers. I then pour the water off into a watering jug to reuse the water for my plants. I might do that a couple times. Some rice almost never seems clear if you stir hard (especially if you’ve soaked), cause then I think you basically erode new starch into the water. I don’t really like rinsing in a strainer, cause I’ve never found it to work well.

My only complaint about my immersion blender is that the part at the bottom is 100% metal, which sounds good, but it makes me paranoid to use it in my enameled pots for fear of scratching up the enamel. I wish I had one with nylon or silicone overmolding.

In terms of really simple “gadgets”, my favorites are wooden spoons that are flattened and almost sharpened like a chisel. They are great for scraping the bottom of pots/pans to get up fond.

In terms of more complicated stuff, I really like my Anova oven. It’s basically an overbuilt convection toaster oven that has a thermometer for wet-bulb temperature and a water tank to create steam. You can control temperature to the degree, and humidity in 10% increments. It also has a built-in probe thermometer. What this basically means is that you can set the oven to a strict temperature to hold with steam and convection, and you can cook a roast to an exact temperature for an exact amount of time (which they call sous vide, even though there’s no vacuum sealing involved). You can then set it to automatically ramp to a high temperature for browning.

It’s really nice for baking bread.

They made a new version at double the price with even more advanced features, but they’ve given it the nebulous “AI” treatment, so it might be enshittified.