I used to wrap my brisket in foil after 4 hours, but now I go unwrapped the whole cook

Appreciation post: I finally figured out how to cut my grocery bill in half

Back in 2020, my weekly food shop was hitting $150 easy for just two people. I felt stuck until I tried a strict 'meal plan from the flyer' rule. Now, every Sunday I grab the store ad and only plan meals around the 5-7 items on sale that week. Last week, chicken thighs were 99 cents a pound and broccoli was on a BOGO, so that's what we ate. It forced me to get creative and stopped all the random extra buys. My bill last trip was $74. Has anyone else had luck with a rigid sale-based system, or did it drive you nuts after a while?

Am I the only one who saw a whole public library computer section with a blocked search term list posted on the wall?

It was in the main branch in Springfield, and the list had over 50 terms you couldn't look up, mostly about health and politics. Has anyone else run into something like this in a place that's supposed to be for public info?

Went to the new bookstore in Riverdale and saw their 'debate corner' had a sign banning spoilers for the first 30 minutes.

That rule killed our discussion of 'Project Hail Mary' last night because nobody could mention the big twist about Rocky until it was almost time to leave.

TIL my great-grandma's sauerkraut recipe used a specific type of cabbage from her farm

Found her old notes in a box and she wrote that using 'January King' cabbage from her plot made the kraut less mushy. I always thought any green cabbage would work the same. Has anyone else had a specific ingredient make or break a ferment?

My journeyman told me to always torque lugs to spec, and a call-back proved him right

He drilled it into my head during my apprenticeship in Spokane, but I got lazy on a panel swap last year and just went by feel. Got a call six months later for a hot bus bar, and sure enough, a few lugs were way under-torqued. What's the most common connection you guys see that people forget to torque properly?

My friend told me to wait on buying a new GPU for AI work, and he was right

He said, 'Hold off for three months, the next gen is coming,' and I almost spent $1,200 on a 4090 last month. Now the new models are announced with way better specs for the same price. Has anyone else had a tech insider tip save them from a bad buy?

Can we talk about how a friend told me my beginner Python code was 'unreadable'?

I mean, they pointed out I was using single-letter variable names like 'x' and 'y' everywhere, so I switched to descriptive names like 'user_score' and 'item_count' after that, and it's way easier to fix my own mistakes now.

Hot take: My old 4-season tent from a big box store was a joke compared to the Hilleberg I borrowed for a trip out of Talkeetna.

The Hilleberg held up perfectly in a 3-day windstorm on the tundra while my old one would have shredded, so what's your go-to shelter for serious Alaska weather?

Just read that a 2x4 hasn't been 2 inches by 4 inches since the 1960s

I was looking up lumber standards for a project and found this on a building supply website. It said the actual size is 1.5 inches by 3.5 inches now because of drying and planing. I always thought it was just a little off, not a whole half inch smaller. How many people are out there measuring and cutting based on the old size without knowing?