At one point I looked into making jerky. It’s reasonable for people to do their own.

The big question is whether to use curing salts. They’re necessary if you want to be shelf stable. If you don’t use them, you need to refrigerate your jerky and it has limited shelf life, like any other food. However in that scenario, you have the advantage of fresher ingredients with a quality of your selection that may make up for it.

You don’t get that from store bought uncured meat

I’ve gotten pizza with “uncured” bacon, ham, or sausage before. I’m not sure if the meat has no flavor or if it was the pizza tha had no flavor.

However I expect the pizza itself was worse for me than those specific ingredients

This sounds so much better than my bread machine where I have to add ingredients, press buttons, and wait four hours, but can never get a baguette

And this slowness for government action is part of what feeds the tilt toward authoritarianism, the desire to just get things done.

It’s frustrating when the slowness is something you want but we really need to recognize it as a good thing to have checks and balances, a good thing that government can’t usually act on the whims of an orange faced geriatric narcissist or whatever his puppeteers last told him

Marijuana is a schedule 1 drug with a high potential for addiction and no known medical use. Legally it’s one of the worst drugs.

Once that bs is in place travesties like this become easier to implement

Yeah, not drinking would be pure insanity, i could never. Imagine spending time with friends sober.

I just got off the phone with my kid at college and he was complaining that part of a group of his friends never hang out sober. It still happens.

He doesn’t drink so that’s a part of his social life he still needs to figure out, but he’s been taking exploration hikes instead: 18 miles today!

I’ve always wanted one of these but really only to remind me of my grandparents house from when I was a kid

As a parent, we made sure to have an analog clock in every room while my kids were growing up, and we made them prove they could read it. Still don’t work. Digital clocks are everywhere else and in many ways more convenient.

Analog clocks are an obsolete decice whose time has passed. I also tried to keep it alive into the next generation but it’s not happening. It’s time to give it up.

Let that be one of our hallmarks as we age: the last generation with analog clocks. I use an analog face on my digital watch, have analog decorative clocks and I’ll accept that my kids believe that old fashioned (they do accept the analog clock face on my old car I gave them though, or maybe don’t know how to change it)

It’s just as likely he’ll get bored or run out of money and never finish

No girlfriend. She barely noticed him. The ultimate incel

Maybe they need those booty shorts on the other thread instead of conservative trunks

https://lemmy.world/post/37785592

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Let me play devils advocate……

One of my cars has the hvac controls on the screen and it’s usually fine, because it is actually smart. I only need to set the temperature and it remembers that.

For example now that it’s getting cold, I almost never need to touch those controls

• I can preheat through an app (no subscription needed)
• when I start my car, the thermostat is set to 69 (heh heh) where I last left it
• the car goes through a progression: heating steering wheel and seat first, then automatically off when the cabin temperature comes up
• the glaring problem is defroster. Aside from initial heat up I don’t know a good way to switch to that while driving. I don’t know if it’s supposed to be automatic and fails or if there is a shortcut somewhere

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I’d put that number a bit higher because they’re not a deterrent if any aggressor can conceive of taking them all out before you can react. But we’re already much higher than any reasonable logic like that

At like 20, someone can keep track of where they all are and plan a preemptive attack with confidence of destroying them all before you can react. Too small a number could make nuclear war _more _ likely.

The “nuclear triad” was a good concept to prevent any possibility of such an attack succeeding, so some number that can support multiple delivery mechanisms while Making a disarming attack very unlikely

The increase in non-strategic nuclear weapons (regional or battlefield) is an especially scary capability that we intentionally backed away from. Just no.

The concept of needing a massive buildup to counter emerging nuclear powers is just laughable. Do they even look at what they’re writing?

I have to admit that having some number of hypersonic missiles with nuclear warheads may be a good idea

But the missed their opportunity with hypersonic missiles. As those become available worldwide, they increase the chances of an unblockable preemptive attack occurring with no chance for reaction. We don’t need more nuclear weapons (and fewer would be preferable) but they need to be survivable enough to be a valid deterrent

Cool, thanks for the detail!

Presumably it has a more direct affect on civilians, who are otherwise able to skip most of the consequences of the war. Russians going without heat over the winter will give a little taste of what they’ve inflicted on Ukraine and hopefully put some pressure on Putin. But it also affects manufacturing, both of war materials and civilian needs.