Some recipes depend on the dough being mixed just until the ingredients are combined, and not any longer. Other commenters are saying that overmixing cookies can warm the butter too much. With some recipes, like muffins, mixing creates gluten chains that lead to chewey-ness and toughness. So in order to avoid that you stop mixing asap.

Baking is a chemical reaction and the quantities, order, and methods really do have a huge impact on the result!

Jim Croce. He died relatively early in his career and was already an amazing songwriter. What could he have written with more time?

Don’t worry, plenty of Trekkies don’t know/care about what’s popular either. That’s why we’re still making memes about a sixty year old series 🥲

What does the vet say?? There are no other antibiotics or painkillers available?

Jesus just go hold and comfort your damn dog. Go sleep on the floor with him. You should hope that if you are ever in a situation where you’re in too much pain to sleep, literally screaming, and desperate for comfort from the one person your life depends on, that they don’t treat you like such a burden.

Your dog is only a part of your life, but you are your dog’s WHOLE life. You’re enduring a lack of sleep, but your dog is suffering and does not understand why the person he loves so much won’t help him feel better.

Instead you’re locking him in a cage and trying to drown out his cries. Be better.

I tried to watch Lower Decks that way (on Prime) but it detected the VPN and didn’t let me. 😭

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What makes you assume the person you replied to is a “hypocrite” (i.e. eats factory chicken)?

I watched it on Netflix just the other day. I’m not in the US though, so YMMV.

I see more and more men wearing fanny-pack-like crossbody bags where I am (Holland). Hopefully it will start catching on in your area!

Or being traumatized from being autistic and getting side eyes, snickers, giggles, eye rolls, scoffs, and bullying whenever you committed some social faux pas.

More like what didn’t he do. He had a long list of underhanded and ruthless activities and stole most of his “inventions”.

Definitely not true in all of Europe. We pay in the Netherlands. In fact, I decided to go to school here since I never got to in the US, and found out I can’t even take out a student loan because I’m over 35.

Don’t even get me started on the STAP budget!

I’ve only needed local anesthesia so far, but they also do general anesthesia there.

I fully believe the dental profession attracts a lot of sadists and freaks. Truly, I have had some horiffic experiences.

I think the previous generations were conditioned to accept it, because the technology and techniques were much more uncomfortable. My parents are impressed as long as the dentist isn’t intentionally injuring them, lol.

The best thing I did was switch to a practice for people with dental phobia, and they literally don’t do anything special except be very gentle, and make sure you’re well anesthesized, and communicate everything, and check in with you frequently, and give plenty of breaks. Like every dentist should do.

People should feel free to be picky about what kind of dentist they see! You can actually have comfortable dental procedures these days!

DS9 is my favorite by far. But what I really like about trek is the variety of shows/mediums there are. We’ve got long arcs and one-off’s, comedies and dramas, diplomacy, action, fighting… And if you get tired of watching there are even books!