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I used to work at a pizza place around the time that gluten free stuff was starting to get big. We added a gluten free pizza to our menu. The crusts came pre made, frozen, wrapped in plastic, with their own disposable aluminum tray.

However, we were a pizza place. The whole pizza station constantly has a light dusting of high-gluten flour on every surface, because that's what happens when you're tossing pizza dough around. We used the same cheese, sauce, and other toppings for them as the regular pizzas and I'm certain those had at least traces of that high gluten pizza flour in them because, again, flour was everywhere.

Honestly, no one with celiac or any other form of gluten sensitivity should probably ever step foot in a pizzeria, I'm sure the very air in that place probably had detectable levels of gluten.

My sister is the hermit crab expert in my family, I mostly only have second-hand knowledge through her

But for starters it is really damn hard to breed hermit crabs in captivity, so basically every one you've ever seen in the pet trade is probably wild-caught.

They also have really specific habitat needs, high humidity, warm temperatures, access to fresh and salt water, deep substrate that they can dig and burrow in, vertical areas they can climb on, I think you should ideally have like 10 gallons of space per crab, and basically no hermit crab kit out there actually meets these needs.

And while a lot of people think of them as sort of throwaway pets that will only live a few months, with proper care they can actually live years, even decades.

From googling a couple keywords, looks a lot like something I'm seeing a product from MET helmets that they're calling a "Dual Gel Front Pad" that seems similar if not exactly the same.

Only half-jokingly, my suggestion te my wife is to have me cremated, then mix my ashes in with some concrete to make a life-sized statue of me.

Stick me on the front lawn and dress me up for holidays, put a pointy hat on me and make a giant lawn gnome, stick a bowl on my head to use as a bird bath, or dump me at a cemetery and let me be my own headstone, doesn't really matter to me, I'll be dead, I won't care, but I figure she might as well be able to get a chuckle out of it, and maybe ruffle the feathers of some HOA Karen while she's at it.

She actually really likes the idea. She wants to have my statue posed like Buddy Christ from Dogma.

And maybe go ahead and do the same with the ashes of any dogs I've had and stick them right next to me. Better than having them take up space on the mantle forever, and they're more deserving of a monument than I'll ever be.

My family has some experience with this

My mom's cousin was a wonderful person, her husband, however, was an enormous piece of shit in just about every way you could imagine.

She got sick and died, he never had a funeral for her.

Then he up and died maybe a year or so later.

My mom was still listed as the executrix of their wills, so it fell on her to decide what to do with him.

And she decided on nothing. Let the coroner haul his body away and never claimed it.

After a while they cremate the remains, they hold onto them for a while to see if any other next of kin wants to claim them, then after a while they bury or scatter them somewhere if no one does.

I'm sure the exact specifics of how that all works varies a bit from place to place, but in general that's gonna be an option. They can't exactly force you to pay for a funeral you don't want, and the local government has some plan on dealing with bodies no one wants to pony up for a funeral for (otherwise there'd be a lot of corpses of homeless people and such piling up in a freezer somewhere)

The town I grew up in has a longish name, most people in the area shorten it to just the first syllable with a y at the end, similar to how Philadelphia gets shortened to Philly

But there's a slight difference between how the people who are from town pronounce it and how everyone else does and you can pretty reliably pick out the townies based on that.

Yeah, but if, like OP, the intent of donating your body is to ensure that one exploitative industry (the funeral industry) doesn't profit from your death, you probably also want to make sure that other industries (like the military industrial complex) that you also don't like aren't going to be able to benefit either.

Yes, it gets sent out to every phone in the target area, it also gets broadcast on radio and TV channels.

Sure, the person of interest will get the amber alert, but realistically, they probably know that someone is going to be looking for the kid sooner rather than later.

And while 400km (about 250 miles for other Americans like myself) is certainly a big area, that might be only like 3 or 4 hours of driving if they take major highways. I know people who regularly drive double that in a day and think nothing of it and they're not even trying to flee from a kidnapping.

And of course, there's probably going to be some time delay between when a kid goes missing to when the alert gets pushed out. The parents/guardian may not notice right away that the kid was missing- maybe the kid was playing out in the yard while they were inside cooking dinner when it happened, they may spend some time looking around the house/neighborhood and calling everyone they know before calling the police (I work in 911 dispatch, the amount of calls I get from some friend or relative in another state because the person having an emergency called them instead of calling us never ceases to amaze me,) and then it may take some time for the police to get out there and collect the necessary information and go through whatever process the area has for issuing the alert

So it very well may be a few hours since the abduction occured before the alert is issued.

And of course, like you said, they do try to determine an appropriate geographic area to issue the alerts in, if the abductor is known to live 400km away, or has made specific threats to take the kid to a certain location, or there's other reasons to think that may be where they're headed, it seems pretty reasonable to me to alert that area and much of the area in between the two locations.

And what if your first flight gets delayed by several hours for any number of reasons?

Thank you! I'll be sure to let my old classmates know I settled an argument that they've probably long-since forgotten about if I ever run into them again.

Totally unrelated, but is "Spaniard" actually a common/accepted term for Spanish people?

It's not a term I encounter often in everyday life, though to be fair I don't exactly have a lot of people visiting my neck of the woods from Spain either.

Something about the term feels kind of derogatory to me, or at least old-fashioned, but that might be because the only time I tend to hear it is when I'm watching something like a pirate movie and they're talking about looting a Spanish ship or something along those lines.

Or maybe because some other more common English words that end in -ard are insults (like drunkard, bastard, and retard,) so my brain kind of lumps it in with them.

I remember having this conversation back when I was in high school while we had some Spanish exchange students, but never bothered to look into it further (and never had the opportunity to ask one of the Spanish kids since I took French) so I guess I'm just looking to settle a debate I had with some kids 20 years ago.

*role model

My wife watches some cooking YouTube channel where they have some normal people competing with or against some professional chefs

The normals have picked up the habit of chopping up a "thinking onion" while they're trying to figure out what to do for a challenge, because almost every meal can use an onion somewhere, and it gives them something productive to do instead of standing there freaking out

School also really killed my love of reading

I always had a book, sometimes several books, that I was reading on my own, and I read well above my grade level. But my high school went on a really big reading kick while I was there. Basically every class had books assigned to read at one point or another, I think even some of the math classes did. One homeroom period a week was dedicated to SSR (sustained silent reading) where you had to be reading something, you weren't allowed to do homework, be on the computer, etc.

So they did a really great job of turning reading from something I genuinely really enjoyed to something that was a dreaded chore.

I still read occasionally, but nothing like I used to. Some of that's being an adult with a busy schedule

But I definitely see plenty of space in my schedule where I could read and just don't. It's harder to get myself into the headspace where I want to read anymore.

I almost got myself back on track a few years ago, unfortunately it was just as COVID hit and I had just started reading The Road, which I was really enjoying, but with all of the shortages from supply lines being disrupted it was hitting a little too close to home.

I'm almost back on track now, but I doubt I'll ever get back to where I was before high school murdered my love of reading.

Where did you source the replacement antennas from?

I've dabbled in a little bit of ham radio stuff, and in that realm making sure your antenna is properly tuned to the equipment you're using it with is kind of a big deal, I'd imagine it also plays some part with WiFi, it's all radio waves after all. It could maybe be that the antennas you got aren't't quite right for the adapter.

Once upon a time, I had a 3 or 4 rod holder, normally intended to be mounted on boats, but the mounting holes were conveniently the same distance apart as license plate screws. Since my state doesn't require a front plate, I mounted it there, and held the rods in place with a bungee cord.

If you have a trailer hitch, you can also get a rod holder for those for not too much money (or a flag pole holder may also work,) although I'm not sure how much clearance around your spare tire you'd have to use one of those in a jeep. If you don't mind putting in a bit of work and spending a bit more money, you could also install a front hitch receiver and mount it there.

I currently drive a 4runner, and eventually my plan is to get a "conduit carrier" to mount on my roof rack to carry my rods in. Depending on which year/model, you might be able to mount one to your jeep's roll bars.

By 18, somewhere along the line you've hopefully had some kind of science/biology class where they talked about dominant and recessive genes, Punnett squares, and all of that

But in case you didn't, or it's slipped your mind (honestly, given your age there's a good chance they may have covered this while you were learning from home during the pandemic, so kind of understandable if you don't remember) here's a quick refresher

You get one copy of each gene from both parents. Sometimes you get the same version of them from each parent, sometimes you get a different version.

Let's imagine there's a single gene that determines if you're going to be tall. There's a tall version of that gene, that we'll call "T" and a short version that we'll call "t"

We'll say that "T" is the dominant version, and "t" is recessive.

What that means is that if you carry the "T" gene, it will always be expressed. You'll be tall as long as you have at least one copy of it.

Remember, you get one copy of this gene from each parent. They each also have 2 copies of this gene.

Your dad is tall, so he must be carrying at least one copy of the T gene. He might have one, or he might have two.

Your mom is short, so she doesn't have the T gene, she has 2 copies of the t gene.

So if your dad has 2 copies, all of his children will be tall, because they're all going to get a T from him.

But if he only has 1, he could have short children if he passes along his t gene instead, and since your mom doesn't have a T to pass on, she can only pass on the t gene

We can illustrate this in something called a Punnett Square, which looks something like this (apologies for the lazy ASCII layout)

_ | T | T
t | Tt | Tt
t | Tt | Tt

or

_ | T | t
t | Tt | tt
t | Tt | tt

The top rows represent your father's genes, with 1 or 2 copies of the T gene, and the column on the left represents your mothers with only the t gene

And the rest of the squares represent the possible combination of genes you can have.

So in this hypothetical, if your dad is a "Tt" and your mom is a "tt" you have a 50/50 shot of being tall.

This is a very simplified version of it. In reality, there's not just one gene that determines height, there's actually about 10,000 genetic factors that have some impact on your height.

And for shits and giggles, let's imagine that both of your parents were tall so the punnet squares look like this

_ | T | T
T | TT | TT
T | TT | TT

Or

_ | T | t
T | TT | Tt
t | Tt | tt

In the first example, both your parents are tall, and all of their children will be tall. In the second example both parents are tall, but there's a 1 in 4 chance that their child will inherit the t gene from each of them and be short.

And not all genes are purely dominant/recessive, some are incompletely dominant, so Tt might sort of split the difference in height between a TT and a tt person. Some genes kind of play off of other genes, so maybe in order for the "T" gene to make you tall you may also need to be carrying a "U" gene, for example.

And on top of that, there's environmental factors, nutrition, illness, injuries, etc. can have an impact on how tall you can be. People today are, on average, taller than people in the past because overall we're better able to meet our nutritional needs and treat health issues than they were back then.

And, while it's unlikely that you'll grow another foot to catch up with your dad's height, at 18 you may still have a little bit of growing to do, some men continue to grow a little into their early 20s.

So there's a lot that goes into this.

Gideons actually encourages people to take those bibles, giving away Bibles is kind of their whole schtick.

Sure, if enough people do it, maybe eventually the idiots donating to it will run out of money, but more likely they'd just think that what they're doing is working really well and use brag about it to get even more people to donate to them.

It really depends a bit on where you are

I live in a suburban area with a ton of deer. Around here they're pretty damn used to people, cars, etc. not that they won't get spooked if you start walking towards them, but if you're being chill they'll hang around pretty damn close to you.

One time I was hunting, walking around through the woods near me with my bow, turned a corner around some tall brush and there were 3 does standing maybe about 15ft from me. I didn't have a doe tag so I just stood there and watched. They saw me, sized me up for a minute, then went back to doing deer stuff right in front of me. It was getting late and I was about ready to pack it in so I even talked to them a little, joking that they should go get their boyfriends for me, they didn't give a fuck.

I work nights, damn near every night on my lunch break, there's a handful of deer hanging around outside our lunch room, I eat outside when it's nice, the deer don't mind me being out there, chatting with my coworkers. Few weeks back I was out there while there were some fireworks going off nearby, the deer didn't mind that one bit either (though the dogs in the nearby neighborhood were not a fan, the deer were more concerned, though still not too bothered, about the barking than the explosions going off overhead)

My commute is along some fairly major roads. There's almost no traffic when I'm commuting, but there's always going to be at least a car or two driving by every few minutes. Those roads are practically lined with deer.

If I don't see at least a dozen deer on any given day while just going about my business it's kind of weird.

But when I go camping and hiking in more rural/wooded areas, the deer are a lot more skittish, and I rarely see them even though I know the woods have to be teeming with them, there's no shortage of droppings, rubs, shed antlers, etc. but the deer aren't hanging around if they catch a whiff of you.

Roughly how big is it? I feel like my sense of scale might be a bit off.

But some thoughts based on how big I think it is.

The bars look too far apart to be useful as a grill, also a little awkwardly low to the ground for that, not that campers are overall opposed to squatting or sitting on the ground if it comes to it, you could maybe put pots, pans, griddles, etc on it above a fire, but I don't see any evidence of the concrete being discolored from that.

The bars also look too close together for it to be a bike rack, and the little bars going across it seem like they'd be kind of inconvenient for that purpose.

You could maybe put a cooler in it, it wouldn't be particularly useful for protecting it from bears with the open sides, but could maybe keep a raccoon or something from getting the lid open, or if you bring a cable lock it might be effective at keeping bipedal scavengers from walking off with your cooler or stealing your beer.

Also seems a bit low to be a hitching post for horses or whatever.

As far as being a firewood rack, it seems a bit small for that, but I guess if you're not as big of a pyro as me and all the former boy scouts I know are then maybe its sufficient for that purpose.

The answer that makes the most sense to me is that it's for skis, or maybe trekking poles or something like that. Lets you store them upright so they don't get stepped on or buried in snow, leaves, etc. you said that the sites are closed in the winter, which puts a dent in that theory, but was that always the case? The concrete is a bit busted-up, so they've probably been there a while, maybe years ago they allowed winter camping and a lot of skiers used the sites. Also would explain why some sites have them and others don't, if they don't allow winter camping anymore, it doesn't make sense to replace the ski racks when they're damaged or to install them in newer sites.