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Americans do a lot of foolish things, but refrigerating their eggs is not one of them.
There is a good reason: eggs are washed before they’re sold in the US, which removes the egg’s cuticle (a natural protective coating). This process reduces the risk of bacterial contamination, and, when combined with refrigeration, extends the shelf life of the egg. That matters in a country with a distributed population as geographically vast as the U.S., where food often travels longer distances before reaching the consumer. Refrigerating eggs is a solution to a logistical challenge not present in Europe.
I like to point this out because a European unaware of this difference might visit America, refuse to refrigerate their eggs (believing their own cultural practices to be superior and more “natural”) and end up with salmonella. It’s ironic because getting sick in another country due to ignorance of local customs, while assuming your own culture is better, is a very American thing to do. I guess the apple didn’t fall far from the tree.
Rooskie91@discuss.onlineto Ask Lemmy@lemmy.world•If you had a time machine that could set the internet back to what it was like in a certain era, when would that be?2·5 days agoI was just thinking of YTMND today, and I’d like to go back to that internet.
Rooskie91@discuss.onlineto And Finally...@feddit.uk•Is custard the secret to a long life?61·5 days agoIt’s fucking health care stop with this silly bullshit.
Rooskie91@discuss.onlineto politics @lemmy.world•Military leaders aghast as Meta founder Zuckerberg crashes classified Oval Office meeting on fighter jets: report46·5 days agoDoes money and greed just cause brain damage or something?
Rooskie91@discuss.onlineto People Twitter@sh.itjust.works•The entire Latino population in the U.S. is 65 million people1·6 days agoWell, it may not be leapords, but the alligators eating your face party has a more American twang to it anyways.
Jean-Paul Sartre said it best I think.
“Never believe that anti-Semites [fascists] are completely unaware of the absurdity of their replies. They know that their remarks are frivolous, open to challenge. But they are amusing themselves, for it is their adversary who is obliged to use words responsibly, since he believes in words. The anti-Semites have the right to play. They even like to play with discourse for, by giving ridiculous reasons, they discredit the seriousness of their interlocutors. They delight in acting in bad faith, since they seek not to persuade by sound argument but to intimidate and disconcert. If you press them too closely, they will abruptly fall silent, loftily indicating by some phrase that the time for argument is past.”
Rooskie91@discuss.onlineto No Stupid Questions@lemmy.world•So if we're just good with careening into fascism 2.0 what does the future look like?16·6 days agoIf your curious what the right is pushing for go ahead and check out The Turner Diaries.
If you actually finish the book, wait for your rage to subside then arm yourself.
Rooskie91@discuss.onlineto News@lemmy.world•Suspected Idaho shooter showed 'Nazi tendencies' in school, ex-classmates say701·7 days agoTime to stop treating these very obviously right wing affiliated school shooters as long wolfs. They’re not lone. They’re part of a cell style right wing terrorist organization.
I don’t think it follows that the people asking you to reduce your AC usage are also the same people able to control AI power consumption.
We have got a stop treating our institutions as monoliths so we can effectively interact with the individual pieces that construct them. If you go into a place of power ready to heap all your gripes with the system on the single person who’s only job is to allow you to interface with that system, you’re not going to make headway.
Rooskie91@discuss.onlineto Ask Lemmy@lemmy.world•Are you learning another language? How far along are you?3·8 days agoPython also prefers C
Rooskie91@discuss.onlineto Ask Lemmy@lemmy.world•What's the most unexpectedly useful item you've ever bought under $20?2·8 days agoDoes this also work for jalapenos?
Most domestic flights should be replaced by highspeed rail anyways.
They abandoned humanity the second they decided to exploit their fellow man for profit. Fuck them and fuck anyone ignorant enough to believe that they ever had anything but ill will towards the rest of the world.
Get an only fans page and cash in on people’s weird fetishes.
More like Palantirs shadow war on everyone.
Rooskie91@discuss.onlineto politics @lemmy.world•An "unimaginable sum:" Trump's Big Beautiful Bill would appropriate $200 billion to ICE25·8 days agoMy prediction: This is how America finally gets highspeed trains, but they’ll only be used to deport people faster.
The guy who started doing this (downloading academic articles and making them freely available en mass) was actually driven to suicide by a court case, so be careful with that.
While he was alive tho, Aaron Schwartz was one cool dude.
Rooskie91@discuss.onlineto World News@lemmy.world•UK police probe Bob Vylan's festival chants against Israeli military, as US revokes band's visasEnglish28·8 days agoHell yeah, if you’re not ready to loose something you’re not protesting right.
Wow it’s almost like plugging your ear and going “LALALA I CAN’T HEAR YOU CLIMATE CHANGE BECAUSE YOURE NOT REAL LALALALA” isn’t going to fucking stop climate change.