pet urine, whiskey, perfume, you can use white vinegar to get rid of most smells on most materials: carpets, furniture, clothes, without damaging the material.

vinegar is amazing at breaking down odors and then evaporating and not leaving a trace.

I'm feeling 4

bold move with the title, but they really pull it off this book.

this is a great final installment.

the entire book is good, but here's a couple moments that stuck out.

I can't sing this book's praises enough, it really is a solid ending with room to continue or conclude a limited run if they want to.

doesn't even look like they bothered to erase the original title or crop the picture correctly,, but who doesn't like Nic Cage enough to overlook a lazy morph?

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The peel is thicker and attached firmly to the root, so cutting off the root end first will save a lot of time and effort peeling garlic.

you can avoid stripping the peel into tiny sticky pieces or digging grooves into the clove while you gouge or scrape off the peel from the top or side.

this is another lifehack I would have appreciated learning years earlier.

lots of great writing here.

this is probably my favorite description of an andalite in the series:

"he was a blue-furred centaur with a pair of extra eyes on movable stalks and a tail like a chef’s knife tied to the end of a bullwhip."

If your shower is spraying in different directions or looks kind of gross, that's almost always mineral buildup.

pour a few cups of white vinegar in a plastic bag, dunk the shower head in there, leave it alone for a few hours, and it'll come out clean.

you can shake it every hour to make sure the vinegar gets everywhere and the broken down minerals get out of the way, but it's not really necessary.

I soak overnight sometimes, but that's usually not necessary.

White vinegar leaves no residue, no smell, won't damage your rubber or plastic seals, is cheap and safe to use.

vinegar is crazy useful, I'm sure it'll make a reappearance in this community soon.

for clarification - this is the everyday, supermarket 5 to 6% acetic acid white vinegar, all the normal cheap stuff at the supermarket is that balance. Not agricultural vinegar, which has a much higher acidic level(up to 50%) and will damage anything you put it on.

"Acceptable" mass casualties.

All of the emotional and moral discussions in this book are extremely well expressed and kick you in the gut.

tldr: yes it works; brita filters don't filter out alcohol and do filter out particulates.

set one filter aside in the fridge for your booze of choice, put it in the pitcher when it's time, filter your booze a few times, put the booze filter back in the fridge and use your high quality liquor for whatever you want.

this came about while I was in China because their 白酒, rice liquor, was the worst spirit I had ever tasted.

I have tasted a $5,000 bottle and a $5 bottle of 白酒 and the difference is negligible, both hovering around "wastewater" level.

I remember hearing about this lifehack and so I gave it a try with the Chinese rice liquor and after filtering it one time I could drink it like any medium shelf liquor, whereas before the filtering it literally smelled like rubbing alcohol and I'd want to immediately vomit taking a shot.

so I started testing other alcohols and doing blind taste tests with friends, and literally every single time, and I did a couple dozen blind taste tests, people voted the filtered liquor tasted better.

i started filtering vodkas and gins a lot for my own drinks or parties.

it works with any alcohol since brita filters don't filter out alcohol.

My filters lasted for months, I kept them bagged in the fridge until I filtered a new bottle, poured the vodka through the filter half a dozen times and then put the vodka filter back in the fridge.

It's a simple, easy way to get high quality vodka or gin for mixers and a great way to get any shitty alcohol tasting much better.

Heat up a pot of water(i use a brining pot) to a simmer, pour it down any drain and that clog is gone.

You don't need to boil anything and the exact temperature does not matter.

fill a big pot with tap water, heat it up to a near simmer, dump it directly down the drain.

That'll give the clog a good punch and the weight of the next gallon or two you heated up will get rid of the rest of it.

I used sink plungers in toilets pretty much my whole life until i scrolled across a similar diagram one day and discovered the truth.

War.

What happened in the vegan community?

I hadn't heard about any of this until seeing that ToS post.

when tax time comes around, you fill out an IRS form called the FEIE, the Foreign Earned Income Exclusion.

Check the "physical presence test" box, fill out your total income for that year, then write down the dates that you were not in the United States and where you were.

10 minutes, one extra form, no income taxes.