1+ week, 5+ day ago   (94+ words) My favourite cookbooks are diasporic: everyday recipes that make use of whatever ingredients they can find, sometimes adapted for second- or third-gen child palates (whoops, that's me!), and not terribly concerned about authenticity nor consciously making "fusion" cuisine. Do you…...

2+ week, 6+ hour ago   (226+ words) Good friend got laid off after 3 years as part of a well-known, global specialty product company's post-sales "white glove" purchaser feedback program. The department looks to be going the way of the dodo due to AI.Basically, she received contact…...

2+ week, 1+ day ago   (148+ words) Sometimes I have acquaintances, or meet people I'd like to know better, who are really broke--like, unable to cover some of their basic expenses. I am not broke; I can pay my bills for my frugally-budgeted life and I…...

2+ week, 1+ day ago   (261+ words) Probably a decade+ ago, before people with a large subscriber base could really make a career from it, there was someone who published lots of recipes I think on some sort of food blog, with a detailed price per ingredient…...

2+ week, 2+ day ago   (500+ words) Frontend staff engineer, about 20 years in. Since 2023 I've been at three "AI native" startups, and every one has had some mix of toxicity, chaos, and leadership that doesn't really know how to run projects. I'm burning out at the current…...

2+ week, 2+ day ago   (254+ words) Biochemistry question! OK, so composting rules are getting stricter in my area, and I'm trying to keep up. I finally got some commercially compostable PLA plates (technically lids, but they're the right size and work!) for my cats' food. When…...

2+ week, 3+ day ago   (583+ words) I bought an inexpensive ($9.00) phone case from a seller on ebay. The description said it fit my phone. It doesn't. The seller allows returns, so I put in a request for a refund even though it's only $9.00. So far, my…...

2+ week, 4+ day ago   (292+ words) Is there any way to confirm that my credit card is not currently obligated to a future hotel booking?I am going on a trip to Region. The planning has been a little loose thus far. My plan was to…...

2+ week, 6+ day ago   (125+ words) .I have a reddit problem that no one on reddit has been able to solve so I decided to come to the real source of all wisdom: Ask Metafilter. I've been on Reddit for many years. Suddenly, when I log…...

2+ week, 6+ day ago   (62+ words) Google has become trash, but is there a search engine that doesn't show me ai slop results. I don't just want to lose the ai moron summary, I don't want to be shown links to ai slop sites. Is there…...