

Looks cute. Protect the water voles too!
c/Superbowl
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Looks cute. Protect the water voles too!
I agree! More live minks for me is a good thing!
Do they earn a deployment ribbon for being on active doodie?
That’s what I’m talking about!
It’s a few comments more positive in here already. 😜
My thought process:
Post wholesome content. You need to be providing what you want to see, first and foremost. Provocative content is easy engagement, but wholesome stuff is both a little harder to find and to get people to interact with.
Support other people doing what you like. See a post you like with no or low comments? Leave a comment to show that person other people want more. Likes are nice and all, but I personally post things I’m interested in and want to discuss. If I get likes, but nobody is talking with me, I get bored and feel like posting less.
Clarify when you post or comment. If you’re sharing an opinion, make that clear. If you’re interested in a subject but understand you aren’t an expert, make sure you’re not coming off as one. If you’re bringing facts, support them with quotes and citations and be sure to credit others where it’s due.
Respect constructive discussions. If people are rude, feel free to ignore them. No one wants to see 2 stubborn randos arguing in a thread though. If people give counterpoints or ask questions of your opinion, return the politeness given or steer it back to positive interior you feel it isn’t.
Discipline is required if I can’t stick to my principles that I’ve outlined. If I think what I’m going to post is going to rule people up or if I think I’m saying too much about something I’m not very informed on, am I better off hitting cancel than post?
Chesapeake is a purple city that has often voted for Democrats, including in four of the past five presidential elections. But no Democrat or independent had filed to run for sheriff in advance of a mid-June deadline, to the immense frustration of local immigrant rights advocates who’d hoped to have an alternative to rally around. “It blows my mind that there’s no opposition,” Maida Dooley, an organizer in the region, told Bolts in early June, calling local party leadership complacent. “Maybe they don’t care,” she said.
I always wonder why I see seats with no candidate in them. I believe in many states there aren’t really any prerequisites to being Sherrif, so you could put anyone up for the job. It sounds like this area is open to Dem candidates, so to drop the ball on something important like sheriff right now comes across as very fatalistic on an important issue.
“He was the candidate that was in line with our values,” local party chair David Washington told Bolts.
Which ones?
When it came time for the committee to vote on whether to endorse Rosado, members were asked to hold up a voting card—green for support, red for opposed.
“I saw a sea of green, and myself as the only red,” said D.J. McGuire, a committee member and an advocate for immigrants’ rights. Just two days prior, McGuire had spoken to Chesapeake’s city council to urge it to cut off any local cooperation with ICE.
McGuire, who used to be a Republican but quit the party after Trump emerged as its leader last decade, says he was one of only a few people to press Rosado at the July 10 meeting.
What is up with this place? The Dems are endorsing the Republicans while the recent Republican is trying to stop them. What a bizarro story…
It doesn’t seem the MAGAs have publicly been a fan of his, so I wouldn’t be totally sure on that.
State Sen. Devlin Robinson, R-Allegheny, referred to Ken Pagurek, a first responder from Pennsylvania Task Force 1, as a “dick,” using the slur during a committee meeting on Tuesday.
A video shows Robinson, who serves as the chair of the Labor and Industry Committee, leaning towards Sen. Doug Mastriano, making the disgraceful comment, presumably and wrongfully assuming that the microphone was off. The delegation noted that Mastriano seemed amused by the observation.
August 4, 2023
Oh, very cool! I’ve only done random wines, and I did distilling once. Pomegranate and date sounds really good!
I think you should try it! Most of what I’ve done has been more for for r/prisonhooch than r/winemaking and it’s all been ok to pretty darn good.
Get a hydrometer and some brewery wash and 2 jugs that fit an airlock and stopper. I’ve done almost all my fermenting in used juice jugs.
I never found it harder than making bread. There’s no kneading, but I usually make a bigger mess transferring liquids, so it is messier. It’s fun though, and very little hands on time. Make small batches and there’s very little financial risk. Once you get the hang of it, then invest in some carboys and whatever other fancy things you desire.
If your worried about growing something unintended, do a few with purchased yeast so you can learn how the normal year reaction and the byproduct looks and smells at various stages so when you “go wild” you know what’s normal. It does sometimes burp some foul gas depending on the strain of yeast. I forget what gas it is, but it’s normal, some yeasts just have stinker gas. 😁
Interesting to know about the white port process as we’ve drank a bottle of that recently for the first time.
Your knowledge is beyond mine on the subject. I mostly made various country wines, usually just a half gallon or gallon at a time to experiment with yeasts and to practice balancing.
That’s why I think it’s probably unfair to think ancient brewers made crap. I mean, like any business, I’m sure some did, but if they were taking food to make it, it had to be worth it for most of history, and it doesn’t take a lot of high tech stuff to make a palatable drink.
Low ABV drinks have kept people safe and happy for a long time, and I feel a majority of those people at least tried to be artisans like any other tradesman. Consistency and storage was probably the biggest difference, especially before the hydrometer, but with basic cleanliness and a few brews under your belt, I think someone in the day could have made something decent with nothing else.
That sounds like the same principle to me. They need it to taste fresh and orangey and just like last year’s Tropicana even if it was the best or worst year ever for growing oranges or customers are gonna be upset. Can’t buy from one farm this year and need to buy from one in a totally different place where the oranges might be another variety or just have a different flavor from different soil? Give it a nudge back toward that brand flavor profile. That consistency is what people like about name brands especially.
I’ve had some wild beers, but I don’t know if I’ve had wild wine. Sourdough is a good comparison, because those are the same wild yeasts you’d get for brewing that you’d get if you made your own starter.
Back sweetening doesn’t have to be to make it super sweet. Sometimes wine will ferment very dry and is beyond as dry as what you wanted. Other than adding straight sugar, more unfermented juice can also be added to enhance the flavor to either just make it sweeter or to add some of the non-fermented flavor back in that is lost. You can also have wine that produced a higher ABV than was desired, and adding water or juice can dilute it down.
Blending and balancing wine is really the hard part of making wine, especially if you’re after a consistent product. Different pieces of fruit have different sugar levels and different yeast does more or less than you intend it to do, so the good wine makers can nudge that end product into what they actually wanted without ruining it.
I don’t know if I’d say “bad” but certainly different.
Today we have catalogs of different strains of yeast one can order to ferment beverages. Prior to that, people would just be leaving the liquid open to the air to pick up wild yeasts. Whether that led to something good or bad was a bit up to chance.
Same with the resulting ABV. Different yeasts will thrive to different alcohol levels. My first experiment making wine was with bread yeast I had on hand. It worked, and the wine was a hit with all who sampled it, but it was lower in alcohol and higher in residual sugar because that yeast has been cultivated for bread, not alcohol. The same starting juice with a modern dry red wine yeast results in just that.
Also some wines like sherry are made by doing things like heat cycling and introducing oxygen that are “bad” for typical wines.
During different periods, sweet wine was in fashion, so we can’t really use that as a basis of quality, it’s just the choice of the winemaker.
Wine was also made out of a wider variety of ingredients than with most commercial stuff today, so there are probably awesome herbal infused drinks lost to time or things that are still just regional items that most of us have never heard of.
As a big part of culture, our beverages will continue to evolve, and while some may prefer more of what we consider classic wines now may not hold true in the future. What we have today is just built in centuries of experimentation, which for me, is the fun and rewarding part of brewing.
They unfortunately do.
You’ve never seen animals flattened way onto the shoulder, well outside the lines or in the middle of the lane where the car should have gone right over it?
Putting a dimmer switch in the bathroom has probably been the best cheap quality of life upgrade ever.
I have it set so when pushed all the way down is just enough voltage to turn the LED bulbs on, not fully off, so there’s no guesswork where to set it when stumbling in during the night or first thing in the AM.
Have it dimmed real low while showering and getting ready for bed to get my eyes used to the dark, flip it all the way down as I leave, and then as I wake up in the AM I can bump it up a little to gradually wake me up. Life changing!
I need to get back into it. After doing it for a couple months, my flexibility and range of motion was really increased.
Some positions are hard and it can be discouraging at first, which is what made my SO quit doing it with me, but if you stick with it you can really start to notice progress.
I used the Down Dog app which is really customizable and it goes on sale for Black Friday for $20/yr instead of the normal $100/yr or $13/mo. It comes as a whole suite of apps but I haven’t used the others besides the meditation one much. I want to try the Pilates one too if I can get off my butt.
I snagged one of those at a gas station heading home from Tennessee and it was really good!
That sounds good!
Years from now at the VFW:
“I was there at Chili Night back in ‘25. Not a square of Uncle Sam’s one ply to be found. I was down to my last roll myself. Then Johnny from the 7th Battalion comes through the latrine doors, packs of Charmin’ under both arms that he’s taken off an ICE detainee. After my recon to make sure all the platoon was carrying a pair of grenades in their BDUs instead of a foxhole, we handed it out and the men were ready to unleash the fury only US military mess halls can provide. Hoorah!”