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[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago

Eat your greens, kids!

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago

Always hate when that happens

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 months ago

I'd eat all and any of them and not notice anything wrong with them. Except the green one maybe

[–] [email protected] 14 points 2 months ago

Fun uranium facts: during WWII, one method that the Manhattan Project used to refine uranium (i.e. separate U235 from natural uranium which is mostly non-fissile U238) relied on magnetism. A charged particle moving through a magnetic field experiences a force perpendicular to the direction of motion, which makes it follow a slightly curved path instead of a straight line. This force is the same for both U235 and U238 but since U235 weighs slightly less, its path is slightly more curved. By charging particles of natural uranium and shooting them through a powerful magnetic field, separate collectors can be set up to gather the U235 particles.

Creating the magnetic field required powerful electromagnets. Normally these would have used copper wire but copper was a valuable strategic metal needed for much of the other military hardware the US was producing, so the Manhattan Project "checked out" the United States' reserves of silver to build the magnets. For good measure, the electricity for the magnets came mostly from the hydroelectric dams built as part of the Tennessee Valley Authority projects of the 1930s (this is mainly why the Manhattan Project's uranium processing facilities were located in Oak Ridge). These dams were originally meant to power the production of aluminum, but the US had plenty of other sources for that.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 months ago

Where's the example with too much yellow cake?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago

Yeah but you get a healthy green glow with uranium bumped up

[–] [email protected] 23 points 2 months ago (1 children)

This is missing a "just right" image for reference, and so everyone can criticize the author's cookie preferences.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 2 months ago

There's no such thing as too much butter.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 2 months ago

Cookie is cookie.

[–] [email protected] 47 points 2 months ago (4 children)

I don't understand.
The words "too", "much" and "butter" don't make any sense in that order.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago

I was thinking the same thing, I always drop the flour by a bit to get that effect. The only way to make chocolate chip cookies imo

[–] [email protected] 9 points 2 months ago

Ngl the butter ones look like the best cookie I've ever eaten.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 2 months ago

Try this simple cookie recipe

[–] [email protected] 20 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Its all to taste, I always do a ton of butter when I make cookies to make them extra gooey

[–] [email protected] 13 points 2 months ago (1 children)

we're best friends now btw

[–] [email protected] 19 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (4 children)

Here have some homemade Oreos I made

[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)

So uh, when you boarding with me? Rent is 50 homemade Oreos per month, 55 and I'll include my German shepherd and kitty Kat snuggles.

Edit: my pup is hiding bc she dislikes thunder

[–] [email protected] 10 points 2 months ago (2 children)

That's a good kitty, that deserves a bonus picture, have some spaghetti cake!

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago

Stop eating my spaghetti cake.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago
[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 months ago

i would cherish every nibble.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago
[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 months ago

Ooo, that looks fun

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Omw to add too much butter and sugar and a little cornstarch to recreate the levain style cookie

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago (1 children)

In the middle there?

They all look pretty great!

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago

Yep. Cool chart

[–] [email protected] 83 points 2 months ago (2 children)
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[–] [email protected] 17 points 2 months ago (3 children)

They all look fine and tasty though? Except the egg one.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago

Hear me out, the egg one but balanced with more brown sugar than white. It’s very similar to the Tate’s brand chocolate chip cookies.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 months ago

I'll take the egg one, gonna leave the uranium one to you though

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 months ago

Was about to say the butter and egg one look great but that might just be cause I really like eggs and have had ones that looked like the too much egg and it was delicious.

[–] [email protected] 39 points 2 months ago (4 children)

On the plus side, the uranium-235 cookies will probably stay warm a lot longer than the others.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Uranium doesn't usually glow in the dark? If you can see a blue glow, you need to get the heck out of there, or submerge it in a lot of water.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago

Water? We've got plenty of that. And it's heavy, so that should mean it's extra safe.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 months ago

And it will sustain you for the rest of your life.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)

but uranium has 20 billion calories per gram

[–] [email protected] 14 points 2 months ago

Hmm... better just have one, then.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 months ago

+/- 3,000 years