My brother told me to just throw everything in the slow cooker for chili

He said to dump two cans of beans, a can of tomatoes, and a pound of ground beef in raw, then cook it on low for 8 hours. I tried it last Tuesday and came home to a weird, greasy mess with the beef in one big lump. It tasted off and took way longer to clean the pot. Has anyone else had a slow cooker fail like this, and what's your actual go-to method for a quick chili?

Stopped at the Tim's in Kenora on the way to Winnipeg and the parking lot was a total mess for trailers.

Shoutout to the ranger at Crater Lake who told me to ditch my heavy pack

He pointed at my 65-liter bag and said, 'You're carrying your fears, not your gear.' Has anyone else had a piece of advice completely change how you pack?

I just hit 1000 yards of concrete poured in a single job

We finished a big parking lot pour in Springfield last Friday, and the boss ran the numbers. It was a full 1000 yards, which is the most I've ever been part of from start to finish. We had three pumps going and a crew of twelve working two straight days. It felt huge to see that final number on the ticket. What's the biggest single pour you guys have ever worked on?

My coworker kept telling me to turn on two-factor for my work email...

I brushed it off for months, thinking our company firewall was enough. Then last week, a phishing email got through and someone tried to log in from a city I've never been to. The 2FA alert on my phone stopped it cold. Has anyone else had a close call that made a simple tip click for them?

Had to choose between a new shutter assembly or a full rebuild on a Nikon F3

A guy brought in his dad's old F3 from the 80s with a shutter that was sticking at 1/1000th. The choice was a $180 new-old-stock assembly from a supplier in Chicago, or taking apart the whole curtain mechanism for a deep clean and re-lube, which I'd never done on that model. I went with the rebuild, spent about four hours on it, and got it running smooth. Has anyone else found the F3 curtains to be more forgiving than they look once you get in there?

Rant: My Tuesday felt like a broken record that kept skipping back

Last Tuesday, I drove to the grocery store in the rain, bought a gallon of milk, and came home. I put the milk away, sat down, and then my phone buzzed with a bank alert for the grocery charge. Except the time stamp was for 45 minutes in the future. Later, I found the same exact receipt, with the same time, in my pocket twice. The whole day had this heavy, repeated feeling, like I was stuck. Has anyone had a day just feel copied and pasted like that?