are baking dishes oven-safe?
Hi, friends! This week I asked my neighbor if baking dishes are typically oven-safe. Then I laughed at myself for a few minutes cause that's a real silly question.
Some Links
- App: Stashcook -> This is my favorite software for storing recipes. You give it a URL and it bookmarks the ingredients and directions into a common formatting. And helps create grocery lists!
- Video: D20 Grinding -> This guy carves dice out of gemstones by using a really neat device for accurately grinding away faces at precise angles.
- Videos: Practical Construction -> A 5-part series that follows the San Antonio River Authority as they build a new Wastewater Lift Station. This channel is the best.
- Video: How speedrunners beat Tony Hawk’s Underground in 32 minutes -> I'm fascinated by video game speedrun explanations and I used to play this game a ton.
- Video: Bad Throws But They Get Increasingly More Embarrassing -> Tragically hilarious disc golf content.
- Gift Idea: The Driving Crooner Car Decal and Bumper Sticker Bundle -> I gotta figure out how to make money off of this. It's simply too good.
The Amazing Rudy
Clearly I watch a lot of YouTube. But the best non-YouTube content I watched this week was Bob's Burger's Season 14 Episode 2. It's emotional. The show is so good at storytelling and I love how sweet the Belcher family can be.
This NYT Article about Ozempic & Fatness & Culture
This opinion was really thought-provoking: Ozempic Can’t Fix What Our Culture Has Broken
Here's some bits I liked:
There’s something seductive about a weekly shot that fixes the body while skipping right past the messiness of improving the way people have to live. Both diabetes and obesity are conditions that are as much about social policy as they are about what people eat. Studies show that the crops the U.S. government subsidizes are linked to the high-sugar, high-calorie diets that put Americans at risk for abdominal fat, weight gain and high cholesterol. Sprawling communities, car-centered lives and desk jobs make it hard for many Americans to move as much as medical guidance thinks that we should. Under these conditions, telling people to change their lifestyle to lose weight or prevent diabetes is cruel.
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I switched doctors when I realized one of us was rooting for me to be sicker so I could afford to be skinnier. In her defense, that is exactly the equation that GLP-1 drugs present to the millions of Americans who need health insurance to afford them.
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Whether fatness is a problem for the millions of people whom these drugs are poised to leave behind depends on perspective. It’s perfectly normal to live a happy, full life in a body that is above the medically recommended healthy size. Plenty of people do it and have done it. But being overweight becomes a social problem when it’s a population level statistic with a status hierarchy attached.
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