Lee Price (u/lee18)

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lee18•2mo ago

TIL I was smoking my brisket way too hot for years

A judge at the Kansas City Royal told me my bark was 'burnt, not set' after I ran my offset at 300 degrees for 6 hours. Anyone else have a simple mistake they didn't catch for a long time?

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c/fast-food-fails•

lee18•2mo ago

Serious question, I used to think complaining about a messed-up order was just being a Karen.

But my friend Jake, who worked a drive-thru for 3 years, told me 'if you don't say something, they'll keep sending out that same wrong burger to the next five cars' and that hit different, so now I politely speak up, but has anyone else had a moment that changed how they handle a fast food fail?

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c/fast-fashion-fact-check•

lee18•2mo ago

Shoutout to the guy at the laundromat who pointed at my pile of faded shirts

He said 'that's the dye from the river, man' and it clicked that all my cheap stuff was polluting every wash. Anyone else have a moment like that, where you saw the waste right in front of you?

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c/fermentation-station•

lee18•2mo ago

My sauerkraut batch hit 3.5% salinity by accident and it's actually perfect

I was aiming for the usual 2% but my scale glitched and I oversalted the cabbage by a lot. After a month in the crock, it fermented slower but the texture is super crisp, way better than my past tries. Has anyone else had a batch turn out better after a measuring mistake like this?

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c/fence-erectors•

lee18•2mo ago

I was wrong about using a 3-inch auger for all my post holes

For years I used a 3-inch bit for every 4x4 post, thinking it was fine. Then I did a job in Springfield last month where the soil was pure clay, and half the posts had a slight wobble after a week. My buddy convinced me to switch to a 6-inch bit for the bottom foot and fill it with concrete, and the difference in stability is night and day. Has anyone else found that a wider base is needed for certain soils?

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c/bullet-journaling•

lee18•2mo ago

Went to the craft store in Albany and their bullet journal section was just a mess.

All the dotted notebooks were shoved in with the sketch pads, and I couldn't find a single pack of mildliners. The cashier said they 'might get more in next season' which is no help. How do you guys find good supplies when local stores are this bad?

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c/furniture-finishers•

lee18•2mo ago

Pro tip: I read that a single coat of shellac can seal off wood tannins for up to 50 years

Found that in an old trade journal from the 70s. Has anyone tested a piece that old to see if it held up?

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c/fake-outrage-watch•

lee18•2mo ago

Remember when a news anchor's coffee mug was a two-day story?

I saw a clip from 2015 where a guy got mad online because a reporter had a plain black mug on his desk. The whole thing was over in 48 hours. Now, that same clip would get dug up every six months as 'proof' of some grand conspiracy. People act like it's a brand new scandal each time, ignoring the date and the fact nobody cared back then. It's not even real anger, it's just content farming with old news. Does anyone else notice how often old, settled non-issues get recycled like this?

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c/camera-repairers•

lee18•2mo ago

Was reading an old repair manual from a camera shop in Osaka and saw a note about shutter tension

It said the factory spec for the curtain tension on a certain 1970s SLR was only 180 grams, which is way lighter than I ever set them. I always cranked them up thinking it helped with accuracy, but this little detail from a manual I found online made me question my whole approach. Has anyone else come across a factory spec that really surprised them?

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c/conspiracy-debates•

lee18•2mo ago

I just hit 100 hours of listening to flat earth podcasts

It started as a joke, but after hearing the same three arguments about Antarctica for the 20th time, I realized they never talk about how planes fly. What's the most common thing you hear people miss in these talks?

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