Fondots

That's a map of the magnetic "dip" pole not the geomagnetic pole. They are slightly different things.

I'm a bit out of my depth, so I'm not gonna try to explain the distinction because I don't really understand it very well myself, it's just a fun fact I picked up somewhere.

But AFAIK, the geomagnetic pole is still supposed to be somewhere around Canada/Greenland

Also, not for nothing, but those are two different map projections so with how things get distorted around the poles in the OPs map,it's a little hard to directly compare them. Remember that with cylindrical projections the whole top edge of the map basically represents a single point (the geographic north Pole) so things are often a lot closer together than they may look on the map. Just from eyeballing the two maps as an amateur who uses maps more than the average person but doesn't exactly study them, I wasn't 100% confident that the dip pole wasn't in one of those higher spots of the puffin's range (it's not, I confirmed on a couple other maps, but it's closer than you might think just from casually looking at these two maps.)

My go-to easy party thing is buffalo chicken dip, I basically never measure anything so if you're not comfortable eyeballing stuff there's a million recipes out there to get you in the right ballpark.

The way I do it is requires maybe about 5 minutes total of actual work

Cook some chicken. I just throw some chicken breasts in the pressure cooker. Crock pot should work fine if you have the time, or bake them in the oven, poach them on the stove, hell just buy pre cooked chicken if you want, a lot of grocery stores near me even sell pre-shredded chicken which would be ideal. Whatever's most convenient for you. Pressure cooker or crock pot lets this be a one-pot kind of deal, and you can serve in it to keep it warm.

I just throw the chicken in there, little bit of salt & pepper, maybe some cayenne if I know people can handle the spice, some garlic and onion powder if I actually like the people I'm going to party with and it's not just a work function I'm half-assing things for.

Shred the chicken. I just go to town with a hand mixer. Use whatever method you like.

There's usually maybe a cup or so of liquid that cooked out of the chicken in the pressure cooker, I just leave it. If you're using other methods you may need to add or drain off some liquid - water, chicken stock, whatever. I think some added liquid is good and help it stay "dippy" even if you can't keep it warm for serving.

Add some cream cheese, Frank's red hot (or your preferred buffalo wing sauce,) and crumbled Bleu cheese

I like to shred some carrots and celery into it with a grater. Totally optional, but I think it kind of helps get the full experience of a basket of wings with a cup of blue cheese dressing and a couple celery sticks.

Mix it all together, easiest to do if it's still warm of course so the cream cheese can melt.

A lot of recipes call for shredded cheese, I don't think that adds to the flavor profile here, and just kind of makes the dip stiffer and less dip-able.

Serve with your preferred dipping chips, pita/naan, etc.

I've also used basically the same exact recipe as a filling for things like pierogi or rangoons. In those cases I do usually drain off the liquid from the chicken so that it's a bit thicker.

I believe the geomagnetic pole falls somewhere in that region

Vaŭ

In Esperanto

Savage Daughter by Sarah Hester Ross comes to mind

Couple weeks back, but this is still one of the things I'm most proud to have ever done in my life

My friend works security at a bar. He texts me a pic of a guy sitting at the bar wearing a shirt with some SS lightning bolts, and said the girl he was with was wearing them too.

They're not otherwise causing a problem, so the manager won't let my friend kick these guys out, but he really wanted to.

I'm at work, probably 5 miles away, and I can't leave to go start a ruckus. But I like this bar and I'll be damned if I let Nazis get a foothold there.

So I think through my options. I remember that the bar has a jukebox with an app you can queue songs up on. I open up that app and see that I, for some reason, have a ton of credits on there.

And even better, you don't actually even need to be at the bar to play songs there.

So I begin queuing up every anti-nazi, anti-fascist, anti-racist song I could find.

According to my friend, after a couple songs he got visibly frustrated and steps outside to have a cigarette as All You Fascists Bound to Lose comes on (sadly the jukebox did not have much Woody Guthrie, so I had to settle for the Billy Bragg and Wilco version)

He comes back inside and is created with Youth Against Fascism by Sonic Youth.

I keep it up. I find a version of Bella Ciao to play, Racist Friend by The Specials, This Is America, etc.

This bar has their jukebox set to a family friendly mode, since they also operate as a restaurant during the day. This limited my options somewhat, but I managed to put together a pretty solid dozen or so songs.

He starts looking around the bar, trying to figure out who is playing all this music obviously targeted at him. Of course I'm not even in the same town, so he finds nothing. My friend is keeping busy checking IDs and such at the door and occasionally texting me an update.

At some point in the middle of this someone queued up a single kid rock song, and I strongly suspect it was them.

It only took about an hour and they decided to close out their tab. He walks out to Michael Jackson's They Don't Care about Us.

But that's not the end of this. I'm on a warpath now. I fire up a throwaway Google account and leave a 1 star review of the bar complaining about the Nazi. This causes a bit of stir with the management, and my friend is successfully able to argue for more authority to throw Nazis out.

Nazi punks can fuck off.

A fridge stocked full of Orbitz

I don't even remember if it was any good, and the handful of times I had it I'm pretty sure it was already discontinued, I remember getting it from a discount grocery store that sold a lot of stuff that was damaged or near its expiration date.

But it left a mark on my childhood.

I think a whole lot of "maker" type channels have all stayed pretty solid, off the top of my head

This Old Tony
Adam Savage
Xyla Foxlin
Clickspring
Blondihacks
Colin Furze
Inheritance Machining (though compared to some of the others he's relatively new)
Stuff Made Here
Jeremy Fielding

Branching out a bit

How to drink
Caitlin Doughty (ask a mortician)
LockpickingLawyer
NileRed (and NileBlue)
Tasting History
Townsends
Useful Charts
EDIT: Almost forgot Technology Connections

Some of them have changed their format a bit over the years, I don't think that's been a negative for any of them. Also due to how YouTube revenue works these days a lot of them have had to rely more heavily on sponsors, patron, merch etc. don't hate the player for that, hate the game.

They have 3 different peelers (4 if you count the left and right handed versions separately, 5 if you count the julienne peeler.

We have the swivel peeler which comes in left and right handed versions.

And on that note, think about how you peel. I tend to do long things like carrots and cucumbers in long strips away from myself, which is the opposite direction from what the right handed peeler can cut.

Round things like apples or potatoes though, I generally peel towards myself like a paring cut, which is what the right handed peeler is designed for.

If you're splurging on a peeler for yourself, you could do like we did and just get both to cover all bases. Otherwise it may be worth taking an extra moment to consider the person you're gifting it to's handedness and what they're likely to be peeling with it.

The stabby looking one should, I think, be ambidextrous. I haven't used that one, I suspect it's probably a cut above the cheap peeler you may have in your drawer now, but I can't actually vouch for it. It also doesn't look like the blade is replaceable on that one so I'd be less inclined to splurge on something that's ultimately going to be disposable once it gets dull unless you want to get really fiddly trying to sharpen it. That said I think it's probably going to be made of better steel than most regular peelers and will probably last a good long time before getting dull.

Or get the crosswise peeler which also has the replaceable blade. Can't quite vouch for that one myself either, but we do have the julienne peeler which seems to be essentially the same but with a (non-replaceable) julienne blade, and I've been quite happy with that as well (though I do feel that it could have been designed to use the replaceable blades) the crosswise basically seems to be the julienne peeler but with the replaceable swivel peeler blades, so I'm pretty confident that it's also a solid piece of kit, just not my preferred style of peeler.

Final note, the plain cylindrical steel handles may not be everyone's aesthetic or ideal ergonomics. I like it just fine or even prefer it, but that's just me.

My wife worked in a fancy kitchen store for a while, and has strong opinions on just about every kitchen tool or utensil you can imagine, and to her credit I agree with most of them.

A while back she ordered a Rösle vegetable peeler and due to a shipping error, instead of one single peeler we were sent, what I assume to be, one entire case's worth of peelers.

Having now used it for several months I strongly believe this is the best vegetable peeler I have ever used. Also the blade is replaceable, which is, I think, pretty damn cool.

So since we have a bunch of them, pretty much everyone we know is getting one for Christmas.

They're pricey if you've got a bunch of stockings to stuff, but not outrageously so if you only need to get one or two for people you know enjoy cooking. And they're the kind of thing a lot of people probably wouldn't spend the extra money on themselves. If it weren't for my wife I'd probably have whatever the cheapest peeler in the kitchen aisle at target is, and it never would have crossed my mind that there was room for improvement.

Otherwise, I've never personally been disappointed to find a flashlight or pocket knife in my stocking.

My wife and I are on-and-off casual magic the gathering players, so a pack or two of that often finds its way into our stocking, substitute whatever your trading card game of choice is there.

Or various other small card or dice type games. It's kind of nice having some little game you can carry around in your backpack or purse and bust out when you have some time to kill with friends.

Small Lego sets

Fidget toys

Snacks

Soaps, lotions, lip balm, etc.

Real tree

I don't really want to do a tree to begin with but if my wife's gonna make me do it I'm going to do it right.

Also I don't have to wrestle the damn thing up and down the rickety ladder to my attic, it's bad enough that I have to do that with the bins of ornaments.

And I get the catharsis of getting to burn the damn thing after the season is over.

Also it gives my house a slight piney scent.

I don’t know what to buy anymore.

I have a problem where because I'm so hard to advertise to between adblock and premium subscriptions, that I am usually very out of the loop on what movies and TV shows are coming out

The biggest ones usually make their way into the news or Lemmy somehow, but there's definitely a lot I'm clueless about until I see them pop up streaming somewhere a couple years later