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Gift of Trees of Draught of Barrel

@IntractableLion

4 years

Make deep time your bitch

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Gift of Trees of Draught of Barrel

@IntractableLion

8 months

As a very small niche alcohol producer I am here to tell you that there are, in fact, very strict packaging & labeling regulations for anything alcoholic. Like at a certain point the dumb actually is your fault & no one can help you

Harvest Season Hannah 🍂🍎🍁🍏🍂

@HannahPosted

8 months

My most buzzkill opinion is that we should have very strict packaging and labling regulations for anything alcoholic or with cannabis in it. Caffeine should be better labeled too

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@IntractableLion

8 months

I WILL ARGUE ABOUT EVERY FUCKING ONE OF THESE AS A CIDERMAKER I NEED YOU TO UNDERSTAND THAT APPLES EXIST ON A TRIPLE OR QUADRUPLE AXIS PLOT NOT A GODDAMN TART/SWEET LINE

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Apples on a scale from most tart to most sweet

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@IntractableLion

2 months

"So this zoomer posted on Facebook"

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@IntractableLion

8 months

There are no GMO grapes approved for sale, this effect is typically accomplished by spraying Gibberelic Acid (a plant hormone) on the young cluster to drive up grape size. Sometimes they'll also use Forchlorfenuron, a synthetic hormone. So this is a 'Roid grape not a GMO grape

mattparlmer 🪐 🌷

@mattparlmer

8 months

The virgin organic grape vs the chad genetically engineered grape

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@IntractableLion

8 months

The problem in the OP is that despite EXTREMELY CLEAR & OBVIOUS LABELING, the person approaches consumer branding as a functional illiterate. They're not *reading* the label they're *seeing* logos & filling in the blanks

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@IntractableLion

8 months

I consider these to be shamefully eliding but still more accurate starting points than that utter trash

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@IntractableLion

8 months

Every single label we make takes a minimum of multiple weeks of back & forth review before approval, with the government typically forcing us to *remove* information about production techniques and ingredients, making the label less useful and often borderline misleading

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@IntractableLion

8 months

This is why OP can look at a label with JACK DANIEL'S in seventy point font and Tennessee Whiskey in fifty point and 7.0%ABV in 65 point and still not *read* because simply *seeing* CocaCola turned their brain off

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@IntractableLion

2 months

Virtually every major vertical farming co has collapsed or restructured over the last 2 years as even the dumbest VCs have realized the insurmountable economic & thermodynamic realities of the concept.

Tomas Pueyo

@tomaspueyo

2 months

🌱Vertical Farming is about to change dramatically our relationship to food, agriculture, land, and rural areas, as it replaces traditional farming: It's superior in dozens of very important ways and just has one obstacle: economics, but they're improving every day Thread 🧵

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@IntractableLion

8 months

The insidious thing about this kind of illiteracy is that it creeps in at the edges via cognitive laziness. Our brains love to pattern match to save effort!

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@IntractableLion

4 months

The replies to this all suck, you don't challenge the frame of the Glengarry guy with your own frame, you neg him within *his own frame* "Sounds like I oughta get out of here & learn from the guy who sold it to you"

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@IntractableLion

2 months

Can someone who uses shipping containers on their farm/ homestead explain to me WHY NO ONE EVER PAINTS THEM TO MATCH AND LOOK LESS COMPLETELY THRASHED?!?!

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@IntractableLion

9 months

The innovations you see are dependent on innovations you can't imagine. MicroLED involves high speed/high accuracy robotic pick & place of individual components down to the 5 micron level.

Adrian Dittmann

@AdrianDittmann

9 months

Samsung debuts the world's first transparent MicroLED screen at CES 2024

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@IntractableLion

8 months

OKAY BY POPULAR REQUEST LET'S GET INTO THIS! The first issue with the chart is that it puts Tart and Sweet at opposite ends of a spectrum, when in fact they're two separate axes.

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@IntractableLion

8 months

@scoutbuggy It's OK to be functionally illiterate but it's not my fault

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@IntractableLion

8 months

@weskay_ Wow yeah it's just half a can somehow they sold half a can with no back to it a can with no other label space just half a can

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@IntractableLion

8 months

Every week or so I get a tasting room visitor who doesn't know what "ABV" means, btw, and at a certain point there's just a limit to how much curriculum I can put on a label and you should probably think about your world more

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@IntractableLion

8 months

The existence of foods that are both high sugar & high acidity can be confirmed by a cursory glance at the average grocery candy aisle

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@IntractableLion

8 months

It's true for fruit too! Leaving citrus aside & returning to apples, Dolgo & Wickson are some of my favorite examples of searingly high acid paired with candy-like sweetness

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@IntractableLion

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TFW 2yo finds a crayon stub ~somewhere~& draws all over the 130yo table you inerited & restored for your wedding table but you remind yourself that someone almost certainly jointed chickens on it at one point and it's all good & then the crayon rubs right off the Tung oil coating

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@IntractableLion

3 months

There is the *consumer* supply chain that gets 25 different brands of dish soap to the grocery store, the mild disruption most people saw that was still mostly stable. Then there's the *production* supply chain, which was an entirely different matter

Zach Weinersmith

@ZachWeiner

3 months

Why do so many books refer to covid as producing a "supply chain collapse." Supply chains rapidly adjusted, with (usually brief) shortages along the way, and in some areas (e.g. container shipping) there was massive inflation. But "collapse" ? Like, Wendy's stayed open.

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@IntractableLion

8 months

The second issue is that at least 2/3 of the apples in that chart have EXACTLY THE SAME AVERAGE SUGAR LEVELS!

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@IntractableLion

7 months

It's kind of funny/not funny to see buildings we looked at 2+ years ago for potential cidery locations STILL on the market, STILL overpriced. Can't talk about small town revitalization without talking about the boomers holding out for one last big splashy payday

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@IntractableLion

9 months

Brains are wild, 4.5yo just told me that "axolotl" reminded him of "quetzalcoatlus", like he's just casually IDing & associating Nahuatl phonemes?

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@IntractableLion

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-staple crops (corn wheat soy rice potatoes will *never* come from vertical systems en masse -land in cities will *always* be orders of magnitude more expensive than cropland -energy created by human engineering will *always* cost more than The Literal Sun

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@IntractableLion

8 months

SPEAKING OF LABELING PERCEPTION we're currently torn on this one, help us decide lol

posterity ciderworks

@posteritycider

8 months

Help us choose! Which one: 🤍white background 🖤black background

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@IntractableLion

8 months

We measure sugar as Specific Gravity, the density of the juice relative to water. Water is SG1.000, adding sugar gets you a bigger number.

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@IntractableLion

9 months

We forget our fundamentally embodied nature at our peril

Science Banana

@literalbanana

9 months

This is really good and I have thought about this a lot

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@IntractableLion

7 months

3 Little Pigs is one of those stories that feels like fairytale nonsense these days but if you ever keep a pig on *pasture* you'll find that they do indeed build themselves little elevated nest/houses of sticks & straw & rocks

Matt Bateman

@mbateman

7 months

Arc of this children’s book: 1. Wolves build brick house; pig destroys it with sledgehammer 2. Wolves build concrete house; pig destroys it with jackhammer 3. Wolves build steel bunker; pig destroys it with TNT 4. Wolves build house of flowers; pig smells roses, reforms So…

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@IntractableLion

2 months

"So it turns out we're in a discord together & didn't know it because I used to hook up with her cousin's roommate & mostly lurk there these days" at least *try* for verisimilitude when storytelling bro

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@IntractableLion

8 months

one more fun fact, I've heard two different explanations of this: A) each X corresponds to a distillation run, with more indicating finer quality B) each X marks an additional ~20%abv (often *also* corresponding with more runs)

Lox Pie

@Loxpie1234

8 months

@IntractableLion Interesting points, but I'll counter with this: This is the only acceptable labeling for alcohol.

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@IntractableLion

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Everyone too excited to dunk on this to consider that the inventors *knew* about root cellars and the point is the prefab part, WHICH IS NO TRIVIAL THING IN A BUILDING ENVIRONMENT TOTALLY CRIPPLED BY CODE ENFORCEMENT

Gigachad Brick - KOROKS TOOK MY TREN

@FuckKoroks

1 year

these tech bros re-invent ancient technology once in a while and think they did something

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@IntractableLion

8 months

Let's recap, when I evaluate fruit I generally look at Sugar:Specific Gravity low/high Acidity:low/high Acidity:sharp/tart Tannin:low/high Tannin:hard/soft Aroma:low/high Aroma:Type Perceived Sweetness low/high A simple 8 dimensional manifold for fruit evaluation

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@IntractableLion

8 months

They're picked early to go into cold storage, where they can sometimes sit for 8+ months BUT THAT'S A DIFFERENT SET OF SINS THAN I'M ADDRESSING HERE

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@IntractableLion

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Now we get into Commercial Growing Methods. Those trees are going to be excessively irrigated over the course of the season in order to maximize crop size & weight. That's gonna keep the sugar levels down. Most commercially grown grocery store apples will fall SG1.040-1.060

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@IntractableLion

8 months

If you enjoy strong opinions about apples you might enjoy my cider, which has been paired at various one, two, and three Michelin-starred restaurants

Posterity Ciderworks

WILD. RURAL. RARE. Producing estate & small batch fine cider in Calaveras County, CA. No added sulfites, no artificial flavors or colors. Ever.

posterityciderworks.com

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@IntractableLion

8 months

On top of that, many of these varieties *do not* get picked at full ripeness. Those "high sugar" varieties can take a big hit off their maximum potential this way, consequently I've seen Granny Smith measure the same as Red Delicious or Macoun or Honeycrisp

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@IntractableLion

2 months

All that being said, urban farms & community gardens are wonderful things. Not because they'll produce any meaningful calories for their city (they can't) but because they help reconnect disembodied city dwellers with the natural systems that support them

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@IntractableLion

8 months

For simplicity's sake, let's break it into two bins, Tart acidity and Sharp acidity. For Tart, imagine the juicy acid of a Granny Smith, the way it kind of focuses at the corners of your jaw. For Sharp, think the bright, tip of your tongue electric hit of a lemon

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@IntractableLion

8 months

Sharp acidity will mask sweetness where Tart acidity will work alongside it. That's right, the type of acid will change how sweet you *think* something is. This brings us to Perceived Sweetness, a measure entirely separate from Specific Gravity

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@IntractableLion

8 months

The use of both hormones is known to have a negative impact on flavor, and both are classed as pesticides with tight regulations surrounding safe use. I'd honestly rather have GMO food than food which requires filling our environment with synthetic hormones

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@IntractableLion

2 months

Vertical farming will remain relegated to short season, low calorie, high margin crops like greens, mushrooms, and weed. It will *never* meaningfully change the food system, which is why all the smart money FUCKING BAILED

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@IntractableLion

8 months

Perceived Sweetness is a hard one, because it also brings in Aroma and Tannin but also because uhhh There's more than one kind of sugar, too. Fruits aren't going to pump out any of the artifical stuff but there can be variation of the ratios between varities

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@IntractableLion

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"Graffiti is one of the most consistent archeological & cultural artifacts" I whisper to myself as my children slowly demolish my home around me

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@IntractableLion

5 months

Honestly the folks getting angry imagining a $300k check from a $100M account would probably be even madder if you told them his parents cashed out their whole retirement & took out a 2nd mortgage because they loved and believed in him so much

Cate Hall

@catehall

5 months

I think it's interesting how "is Jeff Bezos self-made?" isn't actually a question about Jeff Bezos but an invitation to compare values. There's a difference between getting a seed loan and inheriting dynastic wealth, but lots of people would rather pretend there's not.

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@IntractableLion

8 months

3rd Problem: there's more than one type of acid

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@IntractableLion

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An apple or pear that produces 0.5-1% of its sugar as sorbitol is going to taste 25% sweeter than one that doesn't EVEN AT THE SAME GRAVITY

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@IntractableLion

8 months

Ok now for Aroma. Apples can be either High aroma or Low, but within that aroma is an insanely huge property space so imagine one of these with vertices labeled things like Floral, Fruity, Leathery, Sharp, Tropical, Herbal, Earthy, Spice etc

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Occasional reminder that sustainability is a fake concept, Earth is not a closed system & receives 1200W/m^2 in energy subsidies and 80,000 tons/yr in material aid

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@IntractableLion

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-anything capable of driving transport costs high enough to change the economy of bringing food into cities from outside would necessarily collapse the high input supply chain of a city based vertical farm

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@IntractableLion

4 months

They guy's whole shtick is being an alpha sales monster hustling away & conning people. He doesn't care that *you* value saving money on a $12 watch! But you make him feel like one of his own marks & maybe you're getting somewhere

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@IntractableLion

8 months

Idk what number of gripe I'm on but I'll close with the fact that even accepting the chart's stupid tart/sweet framing it's still a TERRIBLE chart because only someone who's never eaten a McIntosh would put it at the 3rd most tart apple. Everything about this chart is trash

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@IntractableLion

8 months

Let's go back and talk about Tannin. Usually simplified as Bitterness, this can be seen as either high or low. Most grocery fruit will be on the Low Tannin end of things but (here I go again) Tannin can also be either Hard or Soft

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@IntractableLion

9 months

Safety razors are about 1"x2"x.006" so a 150x block occupies about 2 in³. Space between studs should be 16" that era, with maybe a 12" drop to first fire block, times 4" depth gets us 768 in³/2 in³ * 150count =57,600x razor blades before full. Per bathroom. Seems sensible.

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this says so much about the generations that raised the boomers. climate change denial makes a lot of sense now.

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@IntractableLion

2 months

And just like with cultured meat, most of the measures by which vertical farming "wins" rely on distortions like labeling "spring rain on prairieland" as "wasted freshwater"

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@IntractableLion

8 months

For Hard tannin, yeah, think bitterness. Think Assam tea, steeped for an hour in boiling water. Soft tannin is more complicated, it can hit your palate in various ways from a velvety smoothness to a subtle astringency, sometimes savory sometimes sweet

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@IntractableLion

5 months

Today I got to stand in front of this glass pattern by Frank Llyod Wright and was yet again struck by the intensity of seeing art in person vs pictures

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@IntractableLion

2 months

"It's a farm it doesn't need to look pretty" sure but it's also my house, it doesn't need to look ugly

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@IntractableLion

2 months

I will not stand for libels against the yoof when their honest & authentic stupidity is so plentiful

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@IntractableLion

8 months

Even there though, apples grown in California will put out more sugar than the same variety grown in New England simply by dint of the metabolic impact of hot summers on sugar production

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@IntractableLion

3 years

Errybody want a righteous God-daddy to solve all pain, ain't nobody wanna acknowledge that the richest human in history has a net worth under 1% of one government's annual budget

Respectful Memes

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@IntractableLion

8 months

The really fun part is that each of those metrics will have some degree of variation for the same variety depending upon the growing conditions for that specific tree. Generally commercial orchards get flattened down pretty aggressively by high input spreadsheet Ag practices

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@IntractableLion

3 months

I was on a 9 month wait list for a low pressure gas regulator. McMaster-Carr was sold out of like six sizes of machine screws. On-demand machined stainless sanitary fittings tripled in price and 50x'd in lead time

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@IntractableLion

8 months

They're not exclusionary, either, many of the apples I use for cider have both Hard & Soft Tannins in varying ratios.

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@IntractableLion

2 months

@orenfalkowitz @valueterminal False, the people who put us on the moon actually needed a rigorous understanding of physics & weren't just ZIRP grifting

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@IntractableLion

8 months

Those Aromas will have a huge impact on Perceived Sweetness and overall fruit perception -- remember that experiment of holding your nose & eating apples/potatoes/onions as a kid?

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@IntractableLion

2 months

I assume if you can afford $2+K on a container you can afford $300 for a paint sprayer and a couple hours

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@IntractableLion

11 months

I've mentioned this before, but our county Young Farmers & Ranchers group had to raise the age cap to 40 -- because none of their parents will vacate their roles at the Farm Bureau. They're probably going to have to raise "young" to 45 next

Simon Sarris

@simonsarris

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This is one of the most terminal business behaviors that I've seen in my life, and it happens even in families. Incredibly stifling. I think it may be part of why the fertility rate is so low.

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@IntractableLion

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@TehBakery Ahhh another who understands cola pain

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@IntractableLion

8 months

remember this? Most of the apples I grow & forage run SG1.060-1.130. Different ballgame from that 1.040-1.060 grocery stuff 😂

Gift of Trees of Draught of Barrel

@IntractableLion

8 months

Now we get into Commercial Growing Methods. Those trees are going to be excessively irrigated over the course of the season in order to maximize crop size & weight. That's gonna keep the sugar levels down. Most commercially grown grocery store apples will fall SG1.040-1.060

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@IntractableLion

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HVAC parts went from "I've got that part in the van" to "I'll call you when it comes in, maybe 3 or 4 months"

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@IntractableLion

3 months

this whole thread is like a guy standing in the middle of a million acres of former-prairie corn monocrop saying "what ecosystem collapse? There's so much living here!"

Zach Weinersmith

@ZachWeiner

3 months

Lots of people saying there WAS a collapse because some businesses died or there was big inflation or lots of work had to be done to keep the system rolling. All I can say is would this have been your definition of "supply chain collapse" prior to 2020?

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@IntractableLion

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Chamomile is a silent epidemic wreaking havoc on the American family. A friend brought some of these over and I drank two around 8pm. My body completely shut down and I slept from 9pm until 10am. I slept through Sunday mass. How is this legal, with such innocent packaging?!

Justin Murphy

@jmrphy

8 months

Cannabis is a silent epidemic wreaking havoc on the American family. A friend brought some of these over and I drank two around 8pm. My body completely shut down and I slept from 9pm until 10am. I slept through Sunday Mass. How is this legal, with such innocent packaging?

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I thiiiink I got my sheep drunk today. They were being all crazy in the pasture, headbutting & chasing each other around so I went over & checked and they'd eaten all 400 pounds of pear pomace I gave them this morning. Abv potential on the perry pressed Monday was like 8.8%

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Guardian US

@GuardianUS

3 years

‘No point in anything else’: Gen Z members flock to climate careers

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4 years

Nice collection today

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@IntractableLion

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Boomers outing themselves. She literally said she has no complaints about the job -- she's upset that her 9-5 is actually a 7-7 because of a generation and a half of shitty boomer housing & transpo policy. I remember this feeling of helpless time-loss, it's awful

Not Jerome Powell

@alifarhat79

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This generation has had everything so easy for them, the moment they hit the real world is a total chaos for them. Imagine complaining about having a normal job and working 40 hours a week to say she has no life and can’t do anything else. Try three jobs and raising a family

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@IntractableLion

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Oh hey, overapplication of forchlorfenuron during a wet spell caused thousands of acres of Chinese watermelons to literally explode from overgrowth back in 2011, better be careful out there roid boys

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@IntractableLion

7 months

"Geographic fact recall is part of IQ" is a statement extremely indicative of 120IQ

Spencer Greenberg 🔍

@SpencrGreenberg

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A question indicative of (very approximately) 120 IQ

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@IntractableLion

10 months

I remember this as well and it takes on an especially weird tone when you consider that recycling anything but metal is 90% fake Why did recycling loom so large!?

Matt Bateman

@mbateman

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The main thing I remember about elementary school is that the grownups really wanted us to recycle, they were just so jazzed up about 9-year-olds recycling

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@IntractableLion

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@PatrickHeizer 4D? You are like little baby watch this

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@IntractableLion

8 months

Let's recap, when I evaluate fruit I generally look at Sugar:Specific Gravity low/high Acidity:low/high Acidity:sharp/tart Tannin:low/high Tannin:hard/soft Aroma:low/high Aroma:Type Perceived Sweetness low/high A simple 8 dimensional manifold for fruit evaluation

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I just checked and you'll also see this more commonly in green grapes because heavy applications of both compounds are also known to degrade color in red/black grape varieties

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@IntractableLion

3 months

Need new windows for your house? 4-6 weeks just became 24 weeks, hope that's not a problem

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@IntractableLion

2 years

Honestly "I own the joint, don't fuck with me" is pretty transparent & fair & I'm not sure why anyone is pretending it's not lol

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@IntractableLion

2 months

Amusingly I actually love the heavy industry aesthetic, it's just not the aesthetic of my quiet rural apple farm

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@IntractableLion

9 months

This is, of course, a demo model. I've worked on these and they might have blown literally thousands of man-hours to fab this one display -- but if they're demoing it, there's some real confidence about being able to hit the requirements for consumer- scale manufacture

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@IntractableLion

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I could respect these posts if they listed even a single non-transitory, non-consumer, PRODUCTIVE activity. "We're DINKs! We mastered the art of sculpture & cast our own bronzes on Saturdays! We're DINKs! We've restored 100 acres of native prairie!"

Paul Swanson 👑

@pswnsn

11 months

DINKs are just nihilists who lack the courage to fully carry out their convictions.

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6 months

One of the clearest Chesterton fences of my lifetime. Every public behavior norm we had around smoking & drinking went out the window for the weed crowd, people getting high with an abandon that they would *never* have brought to, say, daydrinking

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"LOL softhand douche doesn't understand manly utility aesthetic" my guys this is what my production floor looks like, there's just a time & a place

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9 days

I'm not even kidding, someone was doing heavy cutting directly on the tabletop at some point

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@IntractableLion

17 days

Homegrown popcorn is probably one of the easiest food production wins we've found. A 12x12 patch grew like 20lbs AND IT KEEPS INDEFINITELY WITH ZERO PRESERVATION EFFORT

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@IntractableLion

7 months

I'm almost seven years in, speak for yourself lol

Austen Allred

@Austen

7 months

Working on a farm for one week would cure this itch

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@IntractableLion

8 months

thanks for all the love, everyone! This right here is what it's all about. Food is life and food is memory and you deserve to be delighted by it. Don't let bad food rob you!

The Moth

@Jade_Geist

8 months

@IntractableLion Honestly I got a Fuji off the tree from an orchard in Delaware back in October and I'm pretty sure it ruined apples for me It'd been so long since I'd had a proper crisp yet juicy and sweet apple (if I ever did) that I had forgotten what apples are supposed to taste like

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@IntractableLion

6 months

I would simply put sulfur back in fuel and build nuclear plants for the next thirty years

Mike Hudema

@MikeHudema

7 months

Massive heatwaves are hitting across Europe. Temperatures not even seen in summer are being felt now with many areas up to 16 degrees above normal temperature. We're in a #climateemergency . We must #ActOnClimate . #climate #energy

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@IntractableLion

8 months

Glorious, stately, shady walnut-lined driveway -- coming in a mere 50 years!

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@IntractableLion

11 months

When we opened the cidery, Kris asked what my dream goal was. I said "getting a cider paired with a plate at a Michelin starred restaurant." As of today, ~18 months later, we are at one Michelin 3-star and five 1-star restaurants. We've been paired at least a dozen times.

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@IntractableLion

8 months

So here's the thing, I would LOVE to see better labeling requirements. I would lose my mind with glee if bulk wine producers had to list all the shortcuts & additives & LITERAL DYES they employ to bring you that $4 bottle.

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@IntractableLion

8 months

As a very small niche alcohol producer I am here to tell you that there are, in fact, very strict packaging & labeling regulations for anything alcoholic. Like at a certain point the dumb actually is your fault & no one can help you

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@IntractableLion

9 months

I mean the guy made like $60M playing superman, I bet his army is up to at least 1,200 points by now

William Eden

@WilliamAEden

9 months

My mind is still blown that literal Gigachad Henry Cavill turned out to secretly be the nerdiest of all possible nerds, not just playing video games several hours/day but *also* collecting Warhammer miniatures, the most low-status male-coded hobby in existence

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@IntractableLion

2 years

People are big mad about this & referencing mines & sweatshops & capitalist hellscapes like keeping kids at a desk for 40 hours/week with 3 hours/day of homework isn't abuse

Simon Sarris

@simonsarris

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@sama Children working at ~10-12 years old is good and healthy and almost all kids would be happier if they could. Disallowing child labor was a good idea at the time, today its basically child abuse, causing depression and precluding a lot of precocious greatness from forming.

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