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Murder victim Kelly Wilkinson repeatedly visited police in fear. They said she was ‘cop shopping’

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This is such a weak argument. The police have a wide latitude in their discretion in the way they execute the law and almost no individual liability for any actions they take (e.g. murder, theft, rape, etc.), especially when they fear for their own lives or think someone may have broken an imaginary law that only exists inside their own head. But, when someone needs actual help and protection, suddenly their hands are tied by red tape? It's more than frustrating, it's straight up Orwellian doublespeak.

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Cookie experiments

Forget this guide because their control recipe is less than perfect. This recipe is perfect. Fight me. I didn't perfect it, America's Test Kitchen did. Kudos to them.

I call this recipe perfect, not only because it makes the exact kind of cookie I crave, but because it can go from stored ingredients to finished cookie in the time it takes to prepare (without the hassle of softening butter) and it will make your house smell heavenly the entire time.

Buy good (and fresh) ingredients, you can't make perfect cookies with rubbish ingredients.

Perfect Browned Butter Chocolate Chip Cookies

INGREDIENTS

  • 1-3/4 cups (210g) unbleached all-purpose flour
  • 1/2 (3g) teaspoon baking soda
  • 14 tablespoons (197g) unsalted butter
  • 1/2 cup (99g) granulated sugar
  • 3/4 cups (160g) packed dark brown sugar
  • 1 teaspoon (9g) table salt
  • 2 teaspoons (11.2g) vanilla extract
  • 1 large egg
  • 1 large egg yolk
  • 1-1/4 cups (296mL) semisweet chocolate chips
  • 3/4 cup (177mL) chopped pecans or chopped toasted walnuts (optional)

PREPARATION Adjust oven rack to middle position and heat oven to 375 degrees. Line 2 large (18- by 12-inch) baking sheets with parchment paper. Whisk flour and baking soda together in medium bowl; set aside.

Heat 10 tablespoons (140g) butter in 10-inch skillet over medium-high heat until melted, about 2 minutes. Continue cooking, swirling pan constantly until butter is dark golden brown and has nutty aroma, 1 to 3 minutes. Remove skillet from heat and, using heatproof spatula, transfer browned butter to large heatproof bowl.

Stir remaining 4 tablespoons butter into hot butter until completely melted. Add both sugars, salt, and vanilla to bowl with butter and whisk until fully incorporated. Add egg and yolk and whisk until mixture is smooth with no sugar lumps remaining, about 30 seconds. Let mixture stand 3 minutes, then whisk for 30 seconds. Repeat process of resting and whisking 2 more times until mixture is thick, smooth, and shiny. Using rubber spatula or wooden spoon, stir in flour mixture until just combined, about 1 minute. Stir in chocolate chips and nuts (if using), giving dough final stir to ensure no flour pockets remain.

Divide dough into 16 portions, each about 3 tablespoons (or use #24 cookie scoop). Arrange 2 inches apart on prepared baking sheets, 8 dough balls per sheet. (Smaller baking sheets can be used, but will require 3 batches.)

Bake cookies 1 tray at a time until cookies the edges have begun to set but centers are still soft, 10 to 14 minutes, rotating baking sheet halfway through baking.

Transfer baking sheet to wire rack; cool cookies completely before serving.

Give these cookies away. Seriously, they are too delicious. Your waistline and your neighbors will thank you. Just don't give any cookies to the ignorant fucks whining about units. They got the conversion all wrong anyway.

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Sometimes the smallest changes make the biggest improvement to your morning routine.

It's likely designed for safety (in a cheap way) so that the thing isn't left on and running for too long. It probably can't properly get rid of the heat it generates fast enough to run continuously. My (higher end, but still made of plastic) burr grinder insists on only running for about 30 seconds at a time because I can't afford an all metal behemoth like at the local coffee shop that can chew through several pounds of beans in one go. The machine needs time to cool between so that it doesn't wear out prematurely.

Also, for devices in homes that have the potential to chew up an entire head of hair or suck in a loose bit of clothing like a tie in an instant, it is good to have their operation tied to a dead man's switch.

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$750 a month, no questions asked, improved the lives of homeless people

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Having healthcare tied to your employer is both a way for companies to pay less while offering more benefits to entice new workers and also keep workers from fighting too hard for their own rights because now maintaining a job is directly related to health. If we had universal healthcare, companies would have to compete more directly on wage and that would cost them more. Providing healthcare, while negotiating for deals for said healthcare means they can say that they are providing more benefits than they actually pay for.

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someone tell them

Remember when courts declared Microsoft was a monopoly because they bundled their own browser, Internet Explorer, with the operating system? And they did it in a way that made it impossible to completely remove from the OS. Did they learn their lesson? I think they did, just not the lesson we wanted them to learn. Go ahead and try to uninstall Edge from Windows 10 or 11. Dive into the task manager sometime too and you'll see Edge sub-processes running under a surprising number of other apps. There is no Windows operating system any more, it's just Internet Explore refactored and rebranded as Edge all the way down. (Obvious hyperbole) At least Chromebooks were up front about it.

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Best way to share folders between user accounts?

Why are you making this so complicated?

Create a shared directory outside of home. Put both users into a group. Make sure that the directory and the files created inside it are owned and writeable by that shared group.

Read up on permissions and ACLs for more on doing this. (I'm being deliberately vague on specifics here because I always seem to fuck up the details here and need to go back to the manuals anyway.)

Home is for your stuff. It is possible to setup sharing of stuff from within home, but there are always going to be more problems with this route because it's designed to be private by default.

You can't hardlink directories. Hardlinking files wouldn't help anyway because each link would get identical permissions. I can't even hardlink at all between home directories on my system because each home directory is a separate filesystem.