It’s possible to misalign any thread, the secret is to turn it left until it clicks into place and then turn it right to tighten it down. Works with every type of material and every thread spacing/size, I learned this from an old auto mechanic years ago and it hasn’t let me down.

Kebab, you can tell by the triangular point at the bottom. Basically shawarma’s Turkish cousin, but OP is probably from Berlin if I had to guess - they’re obsessed with kebab over there.

OH WOW I just noticed (on mobile) my phone autocorrected “bringing” to “BRIBING”…. ROFL I assure you I do not have enough game to think of literally bribing anyone to come home with me.

You can get “bed height” air mattresses, I had one for a couple of years after moving away from home in my early 20s. Ask me how many lovers stuck around after bribing them home to my air mattress….

That’s true but if you have any interest in developing a love life, that can be a hard sell for some potential matches.

I would do some shady things to get my hands on one of those old Sharp calculators. I loathe using the cheap-o Staples (or whoever) calculators with the membranes that offices always provide.

Lamy Safari or Pilot Metro. I’ve used both, prefer the grip of the Lamy but like the aesthetic of the Pilot more. r/fountainpens will serve you well.

I used to live on a “totally not a commune” and they had this espresso machine for like 20 years, used daily by 10-15 people pretty much the whole time and I bet it’s still trucking 6 years later. Total workhorse, I’ve been looking for a secondhand one since I left that place but no luck.

Yeah after buying a Staub 7qt for a steal I wish I could have got my hands on a Le Creuset for the same price. It actually really irks me to not be able to see the fond develop

I had to double check the sun for a sec. Looks a lot like something you might find on r/mechanicalkeyboards at first glance.

But for real even the newer till-tape calculators are BFIL, it’s such a niche product that they have no reason to lower the build quality if the people that need them will continue paying top dollar to get the tool that works.

They make bento boxes too?? Damn! I love my rice cooker, this might be worth checking out.

This is the best answer for liquids, I got a “set”with a coffee flask and a food flask for Christmas and they’ve been amazing!

Metal (stainless steel) Tiffins are hit or miss for me. The ones that are cheap and readily available are usually only single wall, no insulation so they don’t hold heat, and you can’t microwave them safely because they’re metal. Double-wall/insulated ones are way harder to come by and are waaaay more expensive. At least in North America.

I’ve got a Deuter Futura 22L that I daily drove for YEARS in the city, backcountry, road trips, you name it. It’s dirty, sure, but structurally it’s the same as the day I got it. I broke a couple of the buckles and Deuter sent replacements without batting an eye. I think my favourite part is that the fabric can withstand a light rain without the contents getting wet, but then for a downpour it has a built in rain cover that folds out of a flap on the bottom. The only reason it’s not my daily anymore is that I just felt like switching to a less rugged bag to save some weight on my bus commute - if I was still walking every day I would still be using the Deuter for the spinal support.

If you need something bigger, I can also recommend Osprey. I’ve had one of their 60+12 (the 12 is a detachable daypack) mountaineering packs for international backpacking since 2017 and it’s held up great. And I was a migrant fruit picker back then, and NOT gentle on my gear at all. I haven’t had to test the warranty yet, but Osprey are legit and you’ll see them mentioned in this sub often.

My in-laws (Filipino) have had that exact same one since they moved to Canada in the early 90s. It’s been through hell and back on so many family road trips and it’s still kicking.

After my partner broke my glass French press I got a similar stainless setup, but I got a 1L Stanley vacuum bottle and a 950mL Paderno (Canadian Tire high end house brand) insulated press. Just enough room in the bottle for cream, which rocks.

Smarty-pants like us will never be without hot coffee, I could kill somebody with either of these and still use them the next day.

Yeah even if the ozone machine gets surface level contaminants out, that says nothing about chemicals that penetrate into the fruit itself.

Cherries for example, are often sprayed with a hardening agent prior to being picked. This is to make it so the skin can stand up to the rigours of being picked, sorted, packed and shipped with minimal casualties. This chemical penetrates through the thin af skin of the fruit and can never be removed. As a picker they make you wear N95s (on good orchards, bad ones don’t mention it at all) because if you get someone pregnant after inhaling a bunch of this chemical in the trees, the children are at greater risk of birth defects. But as far as eating this chemical goes, if you eat too much in one sitting you get the runs like any low fibre fruit but otherwise it’s totally safe.

Edit: fixing bad autocorrect

Lower quality stainless steel certainly does leave a taste and that “cheap metal smell” back when I would actually bother taking swag bags from work events and use the provided cheap stainless bottle I had this issue.

When I got a couple of Kleen Kanteens and a HydroFlask (I like size options) all of that disappeared.

I just got a 1qt Stanley beverage vessel (hammertone blue) and I definitely notice it’s not as hefty as my grandpa’s old machine green one but it still works like a hot damn. Coffee is hot until the last drop at the end of my work day. I’ll report back on how it hold up in 10 years I guess!

How do you find the 1u 0 key on the numpad? I want to love 96% so much but I lean really hard on the left side of the 2u 0 so I’m not sure how I’d end up liking it. I’m Torn between a 75% and a numpad or a 96%. I’ve got a TKL right now but I kinda hate the dead space of the Insert/Home cluster that I never use.

At work? Numpad every day, all day. I do data entry, not having a numpad is a dealbreaker.

At home gimme that sweet sweet 75%. I could probably get away with 65% but I do like having the function keys.

Visually, this is like something out of my daydreams when I first saw GMK birch. It’s incredible. But bummer to hear about the Esc key, that’s a drag.

My boss asked me “are you a lefty?” When I was using a calculator with my left hand to process manual paperwork (I know it’s a sin in 2022 but here we are). I said “no, I’m just efficient, I can type without looking and still use the pen in my right hand. If I could, I’d have the numpad of my keyboard on the left too”

This answers my prayers. A fingerprint reader compatible with Windows Hello would just be to die for.

Got a job at a bowling alley? :P

I had the WoW one too. Those were the days! Lol