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Crumbl Cookies Actual Chocolate Chip Recipe from a former employee who is no longer bound by their NDA:

to make approximately 35 cookies (or 140 minis!):

ingredients:

2 pounds of SALTED butter

1 pound of white sugar

1.5 pounds of brown sugar

8 whole eggs

4 pounds of flour

*half an ingredient pack* Crumbl has an ingredient packet that goes into their cookies to make sure that no one but corporate officially knows their recipes. however based on what is missing from a standard chocolate chip cookie recipe and what happens to the cookies if you forget the packet I have come up with this solution

5 tablespoons baking soda

5 tablespoons baking powder

2.75 pounds milk chocolate chips *** Crumbl originally used Ghirardelli but switched to their own brand in the summer of 2021.

Instructions:

preheat your oven to 290 degrees F or 143 C

soften your butters in your microwave, this step is crucial. you want them NOT at all melted, but soft enough to mold with your hands easily

put your butters and sugars into a large bowl, it’s easiest if this is a stand mixer, but if not an electric hand mixer is fine. you *may* attempt this by hand but i would recommend you don’t.

if you have levels choose your most medium level and beat your butter and sugar for 10 minutes. seriously. and it’s probably not done. scrape the sides, if there is any resistance it’s not done. the texture you’re going for is like passing your spatula through a cloud. you should feel no resistance, the mixture will be light, fluffy and if you feel it between your fingers it will be silky with *slight* sugary texture. imagine applying it to your face, it’s a daily cleanser not a weekly exfoliant.

when you’re pretty sure you got it to the right texture go for 1 more minute just to be safe.

now that’s over with turn your mixer down to 1, and add half of your eggs. let them mostly incorporate. all yolks should be broken and you should only see slight streaks of yellow. then add your second half of the eggs and look for the same consistency.

scrape the bottom of the bowl to make sure no yolks are hiding down there!

now add your flour all once! yup! mix it on low *just* until you see a dough start to form. There should still be plenty of unincorporated flour!!!

then add your chocolate chips.

mix until you have a smooth and consistent mixture.

crumbl cookies weighs each chocolate chip cookie at 5.5 ounces.

my best approximation is that you’ll be making about 35 cookies so go for that if you don’t have a scale.

the shape of the crumbl cookie can be achieved by making a large ball of dough then tearing off the top to leave a ripped top. those cracks and spikes are part of the signature. so you can skip this step if you just want a good cookie recipe.

*if you want to make the minis like Crumbl does for catering the weight is 1.3 ounces and the bake time is 10 minutes*

place on a parchment lined baking sheet leaving 2 inches between each cookie and the edges of the baking sheet. You can fit 9 on a standard cookie sheet.

bake your cookies for 16 minutes!

*important* i know the temptation to eat the cookies directly out of the oven is great. BUT. the cookies actually are not done baking fresh out of the oven! they bake outside of the oven in their own heat for 5 minutes while they cool! so wait at least 5 minutes or 10 if you have self control!

enjoy!!!

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This is a brief guide to arm oneself for the purpose of defense. This is the most affordable, practical way to enable one to become as proficient a shooter as possible. Check the notes for potential updates.

This information is largely the result of years of discussion among a group I manage, among my own personal research, and among experience in teaching and developing shooting skills. Our group easily has a century of combined experience coming from numerous backgrounds including national competition, professional instruction, and fields where knowing how to win a gunfight is a vocational skill. We have very meticulous reasons for every single decision made in this process, refined by a lot of trial and error, built on as much empirical data as we can gather. This is a long list. This is the second time I wrote this today. I'll be updating it for clarity and content. If anyone has any questions, feel free to ask. So, do the following.

Join the Glock Shooting Sport Foundation. For $30, you will be mailed, annually, a coupon good for one purchase of a Glock handgun from Glock's Blue Label discount program.

Go on to Glock's website and use their Blue Label finder to locate a dealer. Look up reviews on the shops you're looking into and contact a few. Shop around a little.

Order a Generation 5 Glock 19 on the Blue Label program by contacting a dealer of choice. These should be $400-500. Mine was $450. Handle one in the store to see how it feels, even rent one first from a rental range if you can. The G19 is the gold standard of a handgun that is both small and light enough to be concealed, but not so small as to sacrifice any shootability versus a full-sized handgun. The Glock is also the easiest and cheapest to supply with parts, accessories, work, etc. Basically anything you could possibly want to do with a Glock can and has been done. You will save a huge amount of money in the long-term by choosing to get a Glock over a budget gun. Unless you are a truly ridiculously sized person, like myself, you don't really need something bigger or smaller.

Buy a TLR-1 HL. A light is non-negotiable on a defensive weapon. You need to see what you're shooting at. The TLR-1HL is the best ratio of performance to cost out there for handgun lights. Buy a box of CR123A batteries.

Buy a box of 124 grain 9mm HSTs or Gold Dots. I would suggest purchasing a couple boxes, in order to shoot some and get a feel for the shooting characteristics of the load and to see how it performs out of your gun. Just get 124gr FMJ for your training ammo. Look up ammo brand reviews on reddit and youtube. Use Ammoseek to find deals on ammunition.

Get a few spare magazines. Your handgun should come with three 15 round magazines. Some states will be limited to 10 round magazines. These are your most reliable magazines, and thus will be what you use for defensive purposes. For training uses, however, I would recommend Magpul's Pmag 21 Glock magazines. Their other magazines are wonderful, it's just the 21 round magazines occupy a somewhat unique position in the aftermarket. Another brand I have experienced no issues with thusfar has been KCI with their current Generation 2 pattern magazines. Label your magazines with numbers, by the way. Just a good way to track malfunctions.

Get a light-bearing concealment holster. Look at Vedder, Henry Holsters, and PHLSTER. You will need one specifically for the weapon light you purchase. PHLSTER also makes the incredible Enigma system which is truly a miraculous tool. I have friends much smaller than me who are able to carry full-sized guns with more ease and comfort than I can thanks to the enigma. Safariland makes fantastic holsters, but these are for professional, range, and competition use, and less important for the barebones nature of this list.

Get a red dot mounted on your pistol. This is the only piece of equipment you can buy that will make an immediate, drastic change in your shooting capability, because it fundamentally simplifies accurate shooting. This is well illustrated by empirical data gathered in the Sage Dynamics Pistol Red Dot Sight Whitepaper, if you need a reference. I will elaborate upon this in the next section.

The purpose of a red dot is to simplify the shooting process. It is a reflection of an LED projected to what is often called an "infinite" parallax. This brings your aiming to a single, fixed focal point rather than the three, constantly-shifting focal points you experience with iron sights. All you do with a red dot is keep both your eyes open, and superimpose the red dot on the thing you want to hit. That's all. It also gives the added benefit of helping you diagnose grip inconsistencies that would impart inaccuracies on your shooting, which is easily the most difficult part of handgun shooting to master. Yet, mounting a red dot is not a standardized process. We need to speak on three options you have to attain this goal.

Option One, is by far the easiest. Spend about $80 extra on the MOS model of the Glock 19, then mount a Holosun SCS to the weapon. This is a purpose-built optic specifically for this handgun. The optic uses automatic brightness adjustment and a power cell that will automatically charge itself via solar panels. It has enough battery capacity to run continuously for years on a single charge, as all Holosun optics do. While it doesn't quite have some more advanced features, this is the ultimate set it and forget it solution.

Option Two would be to mount optics of choice to the MOS system via the mounting plates it was designed for. This is the least ideal, as Glock's factory mounting plates suck and have serious durability problems. Aftermarket solutions are quite popular, however vary in quality considerably. CHPWS is probably the most popular company making these, and they are easily the lowest quality. On the other hand, Forward Controls Design makes quite fantastic mounting plates for various mounting patterns.

Option Three would be to get the standard model of the gun, select your optic, and then send your slide to a machine shop to mill the mounting pattern into the slide of the gun itself. This takes a while, as it is custom work. However, you do end up with the mechanically superior mounting platform, which benefits from extreme durability.

Holosun should be the only optic brand you consider. They make optics of much higher quality than competitors for around half the price. They pioneered a lot of technology that is becoming standard in red dots. Their flagship optics like the SCS and the EPS are around $350, however they really are absolutely worth every penny. Cheaper optics by other manufacturers have a lot of durability issues, as illustrated in the Sage Dynamics Whitepaper. Still, Holosuns come in a few price brackets. Their 407c and 407k optics are typically around $225 and are absolutely fantastic. They lack some features of the more expensive ones, but still come out above any competitors in this price range. Their flagship optics are their slightly older 509t, and their newer EPS and SCS optics. The SCS is typically $350, the 509t is typically $430, and the EPS series ranges from $330 to $450.

The EPS and 509t are the most desirable of the bunch, as they use an enclosed LED emitter instead of an open-emitter design as the others do. The only reason to choose open-emitter over enclosed-emitter design is purely cost related. The largest practical consideration of this is an open-emitter optic runs the risk of having its emitter obstructed by rain or snow, or having its lens fog up or get wet, while an eclosed-emitter would not.

As stated above, every one of these decisions was made for very specific reasons that are quite time consuming to expand upon. Typically discussing the finer details of these concepts on a personal basis is the easiest, as it's complicated, and I will gladly provide help for any questions anyone has. There are a handful of minor deviations to be made on this, yet this truly is as close as you can get to a one-size-fits-all approach. I will also say, this is heavily based on the learning experiences of dozens of people. Everyone I know, myself included, who started with something other than a Glock, has ended up getting a Glock and said "Man I wish I started with a Glock." Similarly, everyone has said "I wish I got this sooner" upon getting a red dot set up on their handgun. My group is trying to elaborate on as much of these as we can in our own whitepaper material, which has been under development for a while. We are also in the process of designing training plans and ironing out all the finer details of a "one-size-fits-all" sort of shopping list to take as much confusion out of it as possible.

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say what you want about Rimworld's learning curve but what other game lets you adopt a rogue 3 year old child named Poopy and give her a gun

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Mood..

Source

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Some people say that cats don't make expressions but you can see the thoughts in this boy's head plain as day

[Read more comics at Herogirl!]

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I had an interesting night last night

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Can we talk about a garashir scene in Our Man Bashir I do not see talked about a lot?

Remember in episode 3x15 when the Cardassian researchers come to the station and one falls for O’brien because he’s pissy and irritable with her? She thinks he’s expressing romantic interest because that’s how Cardassians flirt and express their desire to pursue physical relationships.

WELL,

with that refresher on Cardassian romantic overtures, let’s rewatch this scene (captions included!)

Garak is already ridiculously attracted to Julian, but we’ve only ever seen them flirt the “human” way over books and lunch dates, and light teasing. But here is the first time (to my knowledge) Garak encounters Julian “flirting” with him in the Cardassian way. He’s so shocked, and, more importantly, turned on that he’s speechless for a moment— a true feat for Garak.

Technically Julian probably isn’t flirting here. He is seriously concerned about his friends and Garak is getting in the way, but I don’t think it matters to Garak. Regardless of Julian’s intentions, Garak has interpreted this encounter according to his own cultural customs and he is down to fuck bad.

I would personally argue that Julian knows what is happening here and is reciprocating even in his serious annoyance because of his “what makes you think I wasn’t trying” response. Given what we know about Julian, not only his kind disposition, but also the fact that he’s augmented and has perfect aim, this statement isn’t true. He certainly was not trying to kill Garak. If he were, Garak would be dead or seriously injured. And there’s no way Julian is unfamiliar with Cardassian mating customs to not know how Garak interprets the action. I’m sure Miles told him all about his experience with the Cardassian woman in one of their gossiping sessions.

This episode marks another turning point in the Garashir arc. Julian has already seen the worst in Garak (The Wire) and he is no longer the doe eyed, flustered doctor obsessed with the (was once alleged but is now confirmed though retired except on some occasions) Cardassian spy. After this episode we see far more instances of Julian being “irritated” and combative with Garak who, of course, revels in the attention his dear doctor gives him… and you know what? I think Julian likes it too.

Anyway, I said all that for absolutely nothing other than the fact that it’s been in my head for months and I had to get it out.

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How many other shows had characters like this? DS9 was so good

Many talents of Elim Garak

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I feel like you could take this exchange between Quark and Odo out of context and type it up in a word document and format it just right and it would fit right in with any gay yearning quote compilation post on this website