"It was my grandma's 95th birthday so I cooked for her. I asked her where she kept the salt and she said "I barely use salt, but if it's there, it's way in the back of the cabinet." It turns out the only container of salt she has is dated from 1965!!! It worked, and salt doesn't really expire!"The discussion thread at Reddit has a range of opinions on the use of salt in cooking.
Payday loans are marketed as a convenient, short-term solution when a borrower needs cash in a hurry. Storefront payday loan businesses began to spring up across the country in the 1980s and quickly became commonplace. In 2017, there were 14,348 payday loan storefronts in the United States. By comparison, this was about the same number of Starbucks locations and slightly more than the14,027 McDonald's locations in that same year. The 1990s brought expansion to the industry when the internet added the convenience of online payday lending...
Collectively, borrowers spend as much as $9 billion each year on payday loan fees. On average, the fee for a payday loan is $55 for a two-week loan, and the typical $375 loan will incur $520 in fees because of repeat borrowing...
Historically, payday lending has been regulated by individual state law; each state has its own specific regulations. It gets complicated trying to understand payday lending with so many differences. Seventeen states and the District of Columbia either prohibit payday lending entirely or have set interest rate caps that force lenders out of business because of unprofitability. The remaining 33 states permit payday lending. These states have either exempted payday loans from usury laws or chosen to not regulate the interest rates on the loans...Lots of details at the link.
"... it's not just a show-and-tell piece... My intent is to use it as my primary phone. It fits in a pocket; It's reasonably compact; calling the people I most often call is faster than with my old phone, and the battery lasts almost 24 hours."Details at Justine Haupt, via Dark Roasted Blend.
... So she decided to try something totally different. One day, she created “a mess”. For an assignment, she painted her model with black, aggressive scribbles, green cartoonish snakes, blurry orange lips and spiky, Twiggy-esque lashes. “I was under the impression my look was awful,” she says. But on Instagram, it took off.
Meikle didn’t realize it at the time, but she was joining a movement that has been slowly gaining momentum – the ugly makeup revolution, a term coined by the Berlin-based makeup artist and activist Eszter Magyar, who began working on the project in 2018. “Ugly makeup revolution is a community,” she says, as is her other hashtag, makeup brutalism...
The work of these artists is frequently derided – for being both too ugly and not ugly enough. “It’s not about ugliness,” Magyar says. “It’s about irregularity. Ugly is just a word, which makes you pay attention.”..
While strangeness can be very sexy, the purpose isn’t to be sexy (which, paradoxically, is why it’s can be so sexy, I think). The purpose is to please the wearer...
It’s a compliment – a word that makes people sit up and pay attention. Ugly exists for ugly’s sake. It’s an underrated aesthetic, one that more people should embrace.
