Yeah, I mean, the dude owned it fair and square. Destroying it hurts no one but himself.

Which is ironic given that the previous commenter was extolling how scientific and precise baking is, and how you never have to deal with vague measurements.

Baking - especially bread - is in fact incredibly fussy. It's hugely dependent on factors like humidity and temperature, and just what mood the yeast is in that day.

But if you are struggling with bread recipes that include vague measurements for salt, generally 5g of salt for every 250g of flour should be alright.

Also avoid bread recipes that measure flour by volume (cups). Look for ones that measure by weight instead. Much more reliable.

The answer to "a pinch of salt" is that you "season to taste". Literally, taste it, then add more if it needs more. Your pinch and my pinch will be different, because you and I will like different amounts of salt.

And it's actually nearly impossible to find "a pinch of salt" in a recipe these days. Most recipes will give you exact measures for herbs and spices.

Honestly OP, about ten years ago I sucked at cooking too. Then one day I just got excited about being a better cook, and that was enough to make me keep on trying until I did. Since then I've managed to help two other people who knew literally nothing about cooking get to the point where they can absolutely wow people with some of their dishes.

It all comes down to this; learn one meal. That's it. Just one thing that you can do well. Mac and cheese. Spaghetti bollognaise. Fried chicken. A grilled pork chop with green beans. Garlic bread. Just pick that one thing, and get good at it. Then you pick another thing. And another. And before you know it, you'll not only have a catalogue of dishes that you can confidently cook, but also dish will have taught you techniques that you'll find yourself reusing when you learn the next, and so the learning process itself becomes faster and easier. Eventually, you'll look at a recipe and just immediately think "Oh, right, I know how to do all that. Easy."

But how do you get there? I find that recipes are a terrible way to learn to cook. Video content is much more helpful, because a video can break down technique for you. Binging With Babish is so popular because he's exceptional at this; every video he tries to introduce at least one new technique to his audience. Ethan Chleblowski is also really good at getting into the how and why of cooking, as well as just the what. If you're vegan or vegetarian Derek Sarno makes excellent content. For baking Ann Reardon's How To Cook That is wonderful. Joshua Weissman is really fun. Kenji Lopez Alt is an absolute master of breaking down the science of cooking (and also just doling out fun and easy late night recipes). And despite the name and humorous tone, You Suck At Cooking really does offer good cooking ideas.

Watch a whole lot of this content. Just bounce through videos until you land on a recipe that makes you go "Yeah, I want to try that." Then, after you've had a few cracks at it, start looking up that meal on n YouTube and finding other videos about the same thing. Compare and try out different techniques. Look for where people agree and disagree an try everything until you find something that really works for you. If, try as you might, you just can't seem to make a dish work, move on to a different one (but only after really giving it a few goes). Sometimes you have to come back to something later, once you have more of your basic technique down.

Eventually, you will get good at one thing. And then another thing. And another. And as you do that, your confidence will grow exponentially. Soon enough, you'll feel at home in the kitchen.

Also baking is heavily dependent on factors beyond many peoples control, such as the humidity and temperature in your home, or the quality of your oven. Cookies are fine, everyone should take a crack at them, but anything with yeast is a fussy little bitch that will fuck you over just for fun.

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You literally just explained my own point back to me.

They're also a regular on Dropout's shows, like Game Changer, Make Some Noise and Dimension 20.

Sucker Punch is the studio behind the games. Nothing to do with the Zack Snyder movie.

When people are using the the term "The Purge" they mean like in the movie series. Very different concept.

Unfortunately the press and the peanut gallery have it very wrong on this one.

He's not calling for the purge.

He's calling for krystalnacht.

So you're saying you failed to plan adequate staffing capacity for the company's needs?

As someone who's been playing it a while, yeah, accurate.

If you can deal with some jank, it's an unqualified recommend. Amazing, brilliant, incredibly original game. But there is a lot of jank.

Microsoft are bullet proof. Their share price will take a big hit, and an exec or two will take a golden parachute, but they'll bounce back very quickly. The bigger problem is that along the way they'll balance the capex with multiple rounds of cutbacks and layoffs in other departments, and that's before they're finally forced to layoff everyone actually connected to this AI nonsense (who isn't a senior manager or c-suite; they'll all be fine).

1. It was covered by glass, unclutch your fucking pearls already.

2. Van Gogh is my favorite painter, and I would still rather have a habitable planet for future generations than have Sunflowers. If you're more mad about this than you are about what big oil and gas companies are doing, sit down and have a good hard think about where your priorities are. I do not give a shit if you "agree with their message but not their tactics" or if you "think it makes the cause look bad" or whatever other bullshit you want to spew to cover your ass right now. Ultimately, if this caused you to feel a greater sense of righteous anger than the wholesale destruction of our environment for profit does, you are part of the problem. I'd rather side with the people who are trying to make a difference, even if I don't like how they do it, than side with the people plundering our world for personal gain.

This, exactly.

Cops love up push lines like "Getting off on a technicality" when mistrials happen. They can get fucked. It's not a "technicality", it's the police violating rules that exist to ensure that people are judged fairly and they convictions are only found in cases of genuine guilt. Those rules fucking matter, because they're one of the very few things that prevent the police from abusing their power.

Hannah Guiterrez isn't "getting off with a slap on the wrist." She was convicted of manslaughter. That's a really serious charge. If that conviction is overturned, it will be because the justice department did an absolutely piss poor job of following some really basic rules. Any outrage over that should be directed at the people who fucked up a perfectly good conviction by thinking they could just trample over people's basic rights without consequence.

I mean, the sad part is that Britain policing started out with some really good ideas. It's actually worth reading Robert Peel's principles of policing by consent sometime. They are an incredible blueprint for how to create a police force that serves the people.

Welcome to British policing.

"We have determined that this was indeed a hate crime, and therefore we'll be doing nothing. But if it happens two more times we'll congratulate them on the hat trick and offer to enroll them in the police academy."

Oh, absolutely. Altman is going to plunder this sinking ship for everything it's worth, and then bail into a CTO position somewhere else. All the C suite at OpenAI will win big no matter what, everyone else there will get fucked.

Least shocking news ever. This has clearly been in the works for a while. Not that it'll matter at this point, given that the notion of OpenAI making any profit is kind of a pipe dream right now.

This is mostly just a play to get investors to sink more money into covering their absolutely insane cash burn for another year.