Decades of people disparaging vocabulary and meaningful metaphors, and in their place push “clear and concise” writing has led to this. Mr. Olang has every right to be frustrated - and he is joined by almost every English major across the globe. You’ll have to take my em-dash from my cold dead hands.
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em dashes (and colons/semicolons) are part of proper writing. unfortunately, people have lost their way on how to actually use them correctly. I spend a lot of time removing superfluous colons from content i receive (some from actual communications staff who should know better).
but we’re big em dash people where i work. now if only i could get them to go back to the oxford comma.
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Very interesting article. I knew a couple of Kenyans casually back in the early 1980s, and at first, I couldn’t put my finger on what to call their vernacular, as it was different from both white Americans and black.
This being well before ChatGPT, we settled on “the Queen’s English.” Since then, I have known people from a lot of places with English as a second language, as well as some who are neurodivergent. I like to think I can spot chatbots, but this is why you have to give the benefit of the doubt. I never considered the em dash as a tell, though, as I tend to go parenthetical a lot myself, (usually with brackets).
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This is a great interactive discussion of the fundamentals of how cameras and lenses work.
Great presentation and info for anyone who’s curious.
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Hi! Glad to see you posting. 
Hey is it your birthday? Happy Birthday!!
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That’s beautiful!
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Interesting, though I come to different conclusions
I seriously wonder at the “take them out every 2 minutes to take measurements” since in a ~12 minute cooking time that’s a lot of cooling!
I like my cookies moist, so I think I’ll stick with the lower temps 
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remember, this is a testing environment. (a) they’re probably really quick (calipers and a quick temp scan on a gun) and (b) that was likely during specific tests, so the final test was probably 12 minutes undisturbed to validate the results.
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I’m pretty sure that calipers would not be appropriate on tollhouse cookies anymore than they would be on cotton balls.
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perfect tool to test “rise” as they bake. you don’t put them inside the calipers, you do the slide down to the cookie to measure
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Need custom measurement tools. Biscochometer.
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I was seriously thinking that LIDAR calibrated to ping off of rising dough would be the science thing for this.
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Who has this much trouble making cookies? I’m a rank amateur and almost every cookie recipe I’ve followed has come out just fine.
I did get the fancy Anova steam oven though, and am in fact right now munching on one of the chocolate chip cookies I made the other day.
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I did follow some instructions for making a big giant cookie and it turned out perfectly. I was confused because it had a high temp also. It was just using refrigerated cookie dough like tollhouse, formed into a ball with divets, placed onon two layered cookie sheets. chilled and then baked. The instructions supposedly had come from a bakery (that’s how they make their giant cookies, I guess.)
So I’m willing to give new methods a try, when it’s convenient. But right now I’m trying to minimize my sugar intake for a while, so I’m trying not to make any cookies or baked goods often lol
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Yeah, I don’t know why I thought it was a good idea to make two dozen cookies. The regret set in pretty quickly.
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I tend to make my dough and cook 3-4 cookies every night. If the batch is big enough I’ll freeze it and thaw chunks as needed.
Fresh cookies every night. It’s perfect.
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I listen to @evansd2 He is a cookie shaman.
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this is exactly what i do. frozen little dough balls make life easier and keep us from inhaling a massive pile of cookies.
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