Why does the smell of marijuana smell very similar to the smell of a spray from a skunk?

glimmerhall · 2 days

Hey, lets see if I can come close to the correct answer.

Cannabis contains alpha-Linolenic acid. alpha-Linolenic acid, when exposed to ultraviolet light (think, the sun), breaks down into methyl and butyl thiols, which, surprise, surprise, also exist in the mixture of chemicals produced by the skunk's anal scent gland.

mustang6560 · 3 days

I've been taking lessons the last few weeks, it's a group lesson and 2 pros switch off for the lessons (I'm not looking to refine a half-way decent game, I'm looking to get to the half-way decent game.)

One of the pros is huge on the whole ritual thing. He really pushes developing a ritual with the swing so it clears your head while you're getting ready to swing. I dunno, to me that seems like a waste of 30-60 seconds every time you take a shot. I'm hitting around 100 for a full round of golf, so that would take me an extra 50-100 minutes for the round.

damontoo · 3 days

I realize that Legos are pretty universally known, but I appreciate it when a writer adds things like that to the story so I don't have to go do research to make the article make sense to me if I don't know what they're talking about.

Paranoia515 · 3 days

can't really help you on fat cap removal.

For slicing, you need to cut against the grain. It's going to be really difficult to see the grain after it's been cooked and before you start slicing it, so one trick is to make a shallow cut before you cook the meat, either with or against the grain, to mark the direction of the grain. You should still be able to see the direction of your cut after it's done cooking.

Ample4th · 3 days

Can't tell you if that's normal or not, but after my lesson on Saturday (we were focusing on irons) that's the muscle that was sore for me. I'm right handed.

It's better today though.

TheRealFender · 6 days

I clean my kegs and lines very well. It's considerable harder to clean one keg than 1 bottle, but I'd much rather clean and keg 3 kegs worth of beer than 150 bottles. In the long run it's a lot easier and efficient.

A7X_HU4L · 10 days

looks like it allows you to mic your bass, plug the buttkicker into your amp, and then you can feel your bass, so you don't actually have to hear it, thereby protecting your hearing.

Random_CAPS_guy · 11 days

and for me, if it's hot, it's grilling, regardless of gas or charcoal. bbq is low and slow.

MrGrike · 11 days

I think part of the deal is that the Joker doesn't want everything to be so simple. Though he'd love to break the Batman, he likes playing games with the Batman and doesn't really want them to end. He almost doesn't even mind losing because it's part of the game, and he wants them both to live to play another day.

I think that's the point igormarais was trying to make. The Joker ends up walking a fine line with Batman so that he doesn't actually kill him. The Joker doesn't want to lose batman as his ultimate nemesis.

Ecuatoriano · 12 days

Egh. This reminds me of a point in my life where I really did put my life in danger over nothing.

I was the only local employee for a company when they merged with another company. I serviced a number of pieces of banking technology, but the only piece of technology that matters for this story is ATMs.

Shortly after the merge, I became redundant. I received a call one day, sometime mid-afternoon. I was told that would be my last day (but was actually given a decent severance package.)

I really wasn't expecting it (although, I should have, in hindsight.) and was a bit in shock, emotionally.

I had a storage locker for a bunch of my equipment, as I had no real office, and was asked to help get the stuff out of the storage locker before the end of the day. I was still being paid for the day, and tend to "do the right thing" a lot, so I obliged.

One of the things in my storage locker was an ATM, which, if you've never tried to move one, are quite heavy. The bottom half is basically a safe made of fairly thick steel.

One of the guys from the other company was helping me clear out the storage locker. We had a truck with a lift gate, and we had loaded the ATM onto the lift gate. It was poorly positioned, and about 2/3 of the way up, the ATM started to tip. I was an idiot. I saw it starting to tip, and rushed forward and pushed it up straight. It was entirely instinct, I never even thought about what I was doing, while I was doing it.

It did straighten, the guy stopped the lift, and everything was OK. We repositioned the ATM before bringing it the rest of the way up to the bed of the truck.

If luck had gone against me though, I would have been crushed under that ATM, and wouldn't be here to tell the story. What I did was extremely stupid. The ATM wasn't worth my life. Even if I hadn't just lost my job, the ATM wouldn't have been worth my life.

Seriously, be careful in the workplace.

zoink · 14 days

You've sort of got the idea, but not a full grasp on the subject.

Lets say you want a really popular channel, like ESPN, MTV, Nickelodeon. You wouldn't have to pay much for those in an a la carte model, because a lot of people are also buying them, so they don't need to charge very much to cover their costs.

On the other hand, lets say you want a fairly unpopular channel, like the 24/7 knitting channel. Now, you may love knitting, but not many people are going to also want it. With fewer people picking up the bill to pay for 24/7 knitting, everyone has to pay more.

With the current model, the popular channels basically subsidize the unpopular channels. With a la carte, if you only want a handful of the popular channels, you would pay less, if you want a bunch of unpopular channels, you pay more.

zoink · 14 days

Ah, see, therein lies the rub. I wouldn't pay $2/show. Even $1/show rankles me a bit when it comes to a digital delivery. I'd rather pay something like $10/month for unlimited access to multiple shows.

connorturnbull · 14 days

I was out of work a few years ago, and a friend was working for some company.

In some fashion or another, he told his boss that I worked with computers, and I get a call one day asking if I'd like to do an interview with this guy for some IT work.

We meet at a coffee shop (it had a conference room for some reason, and that's where we were meeting), and my friend is there, along with his boss, and one or two other people. Hand shakes all around.

It's less of an interview, and more of a sales pitch to sell me some website thing where I would own the website, take the orders, but wouldn't even have to fulfill them myself.

At one point he hands me a brochure, says they get great deals on brand name merchandise, but they can't actually advertise who they're affiliated with, but the brochure has all of these logos from big name companies like Sony, Apple, Nike, a bunch of other companies like that. Oddly though, the brochure doesn't have the name of this guy's company on it, and is super sparse on information, basically it had bullet points that boiled down to, 1.) Buy rights to setup website (which we'll provide) 2.) ??? 3.) Profit

After the initial introductions were made, no one but my friend's boss said a single word (not including me, I bullshitted with this guy quite a bit) this guy ran the whole thing.

After the dude's spiel, he asks me if this is something I'm interested in, I start asking some questions and he stood up, grabbed all his brochures and shit (including taking the brochure I was holding in my hand), said he didn't think I was serious about wanting to take the next steps in this, told his entourage they needed to go because they had a seminar that evening for the people who were serious about wanting to make money, told me to call my friend if I changed my mind (keeping in mind I never actually said no to anything, I just started asking questions) and he would give me directions to wherever this supposed seminar was.

My friend ended up calling me the next day to apologize, saying he had no idea his boss was going to try to sell me something, he thought he seriously was looking to hire someone for an IT position.

It was pretty weird.

tehbritta · 16 days

we called 'em popeye eggs

nazgaten · 18 days

Man, this kinda sounds like a propaganda piece. Think of how this sounds, "Our enemy grinds up dead babies and sells the powder as medicine."

Not saying it is propaganda, but it sure seems like it to me.

loupgarou21 · 18 days

My worry was for naught, the shoulder actually finished before the brisket, although, only by about 30 minutes or so, so we're in the ballpark.

0x4E696767657273 · 18 days

This same friend also won't eat certain other animals because they're either too smart, or too ugly, or too weird.

For her, it basically comes down to, if it's not an adult cow, pig or chicken, she's unlikely to want to try eating it.

Some fish are also OK for her as well, but mostly only if it's sushi.

heart_and_seoul · 18 days

Congrats man!

I'm a pretty poor golfer myself, and struggle to hit below 110, but I've actually got a halfway decent short game, which has afforded me the benefit of a handful birdies since I started playing, about 5 years ago.

I've gotten them from basically just being really lucky off the tee.

Again, congrats!

0x4E696767657273 · 18 days

I've eaten rabbit before, but never killed one to eat.

Do you have to worry about parasites with them or anything like that?

0x4E696767657273 · 18 days

I felt kind of bad the first time I tried rabbit. Not because I felt bad about eating the rabbit, but because I was with a group of friends at a restaurant, and one of them keeps rabbits as pets, and has issues with eating anything 'cute'. She was clearly uncomfortable with me eating the rabbit in front of her.

On the other hand, it was delicious.

loupgarou21 · 19 days

Thank you sir (or madam)!

On a side note, I got up at a little after 6 (was aiming for 6, but overslept) and the weather was terrible. I started smoking anyway, and now the day is looking to become quite beautiful, and I will have brisket, pulled pork and smoked sausages to make it all the better.

My brisket is just over 150 now, so I'll take that as my cue to wrap it in foil

loupgarou21 · 19 days

Just the flat, it was 5ish lbs. but I cut it in half for two reasons, 1, my smoker is a vertical smoker and it didn't actually fit on the shelf, and 2, I'm thinking I might make corned beef out of the second half.

The part that's cooking is roughly 8"x8"x2.5"

yakimushi · 20 days

I've taken mine apart a number of times, and I still have trouble remembering when to point it up, when to point it down. Physically, disassembly, reassembly isn't too difficult, it's the remembering which way to point it at different points so the hammer and whatnot is in the right position.

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