And just as they were sitting down to eat by candlelight the power came on, and my Grandmother decided they'd cooked this whole thing without electricity and damned if she was going to that timing ruin that ambiance, and went and flipped the power back off at the breaker.

There's a family story I've been told from a few years before I was born that one year the power went out on Thanksgiving and they managed to pull off an entire Thanksgiving dinner on the barbeque, wood stove, etc...

*Actually leavened with a combo of starter and commercial yeast as my current starter's a bit young and I wanted a safety net for holiday cooking, putting this out there because the internet sourdough police are real and I don't want a stolen-valor situation

I can’t believe they’re calling out my pointless masonry habit like this

Hah was just coming down here to say Peromyscus sp, beaten by minutes

For since getting in to the books I avoided the movie thinking I'd be mad at it for not living up to the source material, finally watched it this year and was totally wrong, I'm *actually* mad it didn't start a series it's so good

(Worth noting, as previously established elsewhere in the very thread and in numerous other sources, it's well documented he was captured in 1903 and was of a size consistent with a several-year-old croc at the time so the first reply's skepticism is almost certainly unmerited)

Did some searching for more info and found the best reddit reply ever

(Ironically has led overall to almost certainly increasing my personal exposure to that risk, since the main effect has been reducing car trips and walking/biking for almost all short local trips to limit my personal contribution to this absurdity)

Like if a continuous queue of people walked up to me and each pointed a loaded gun at me with their finger on the trigger for a second or two before walking off, I wouldn't take that much solace in "well if everyone is careful and follows the rules it's reasonably unlikely I'll get shot"

Last summer while walking on the unseparated sidewalk alongside a posted-35/actual-45 arterial had this flash moment of how fucking bizarre it is we all just consider this paradigm normal and acceptably safe that I haven't really fully been able to shake since

Not to mention "_____ is secretly a Christmas movie" season

The smugness of throwing out an absurd hot take and following up with "this is not debatable"

The most obnoxious part to me of the tweet being referenced is its use of the "asserting a subjective opinion as objective fact" mode of internet hyperbole, which I truly wish would die a painful death

Also on the baking side I've found King Arthur has become a pretty great trustworthy resource (at least if you take any "specialty thing we just happen sell" ingredient/tool recommendation with a grain of salt, fortunately they're usually good with offering substitutions)

Or even just look at several different recipes for the same dish, see where they generally agree or disagree, and go with one close to the consensus/avoid ones that are way out in the weeds

Nah, "pants guy" risks confusion with the guy who draws the shaky line drawings of weird little bald men being cozy and relatable

So many un-self-aware "see, this is the future of customer service!" posts from minor internet celebs getting special squeaky-wheel treatment because the company knew they'd look bad in front of too many people if they didn't