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  • Unemployment numbers are counted based on how many people are collecting unemployment.

    Unemployment insurance claims aren’t used to measure the unemployment rate in the US. But I wouldn’t be surprised if Trump thinks they are… Nor would I be surprised if he tries (or is trying) to change the measure so that it is based on unemployment claims.

    To be clear I’m not saying the US’s unemployment numbers are good—they are distorted to make the unemployment number look smaller than it is. One issue is that People must be actively looking for work to be considered “unemployed”, otherwise they aren’t part of the “labor force” and don’t count at all. It doesn’t matter if they are capable of work, want to work, and spent a year straight looking for work; if they aren’t actively looking now, they don’t count. Additionally, if a person is doing any work at all—even a few hours a week at minimum wage, or doing a bit of unpaid work for a family business—they are considered an employed member of the labor force. It doesn’t matter if they are broke, homeless, and desperately looking for a job; they count as an employed member of the labor force.



  • //  I cooked a steak tonight 
    //           and was feeling    alien
    // 
    //  How weird this gross piece
    //           of cold raw flesh
    //             on a cold plate is
    //
    //  and I was thinking 
    //                I am just an animal 
    //  with the luxury of packaged flesh
    //              and is it human flesh? 
    //  Like 
    //                    I wouldn't know
    
    //  We just believe it's a cow  but
    //
    //                         we don't
    //
    //               have fucking proof
    //
    //                      of anything
    //
    //  
    //  The knife went through the same
    // 
    //          as if it was my own leg
    // 
    //  -Mom
    







  • (Late to the party, I know…) I’ve done a fair amount of sous vide cooking (although it’s been a while since I’ve done beef). I’ve done tri tip and tenderloin a fair number of times but keep my cook times short - probably 2hrs or less most of the time. I’ve made fewer “roast beef” type roasts, but also don’t cook them much longer than needed to bring the roast to bath temp.

    I haven’t experimented much with longer times for lean meat and when I have I think it’s always been pork. But, from my limited experience and my recollection from what I’ve read, you’re usually better off keeping the cook time shorter unless you’re primary goal is to tenderize the meat more. Extending the cook time cause the meat to release more moisture, even at low relatively low temps — it’s a lot slower than conventional cooking, but still noticeable. I think if you tried a much shorter cook at the same bath temp, you’d find the roast would seem less well done.

    If you haven’t, I recommend reading through some of Kenji’s Food Lab articles where he uses sous vide on Serious Eats. He does a lot of testing, shows the results (including failures), and talks a lot about why the results happen.

    What temp was the bath? Also, what kind of machine/setup are you using?