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  • It's a rabbit hole, let me tell you! Just learning about different approaches to salt concentration is kind of nuts. Then all the different container styles - ceramic crocks, different styles of mason jar crocks. The use of tannins to keep some vegetables crisp.

  • Same here, I've been making vinaigrettes for everything. Not just vegetable and pasta salads, but meats and roasted vegetables as well. I'm also falling into fermentation fast and hard. I just started with a variety of fermented cucumbers, and am already planning to ferment beets, turnips, peppers, tomatoes, and cabbage this season. I've also been wanting to make some vinegars, I think I'll start with choke cherry and raspberry this year.

    I think I'll also make some fermented sauces. I'm thinking a fermented tomato ketchup, and a couple sriracha style pepper sauces, with different types of pepper.

    Next spring, I'm already planning both fermented asparagus and strawberries.

  • Well, it's not something you just institute overnight. Just like with communism, if you try that you'd end up with a pretty big mess, because people will manipulate the framework for their own personal gains. Instead it's something you work towards slowly, through education and efforts to balance the system until it's not really needed anymore.

    The keys always have to be:

    1. People legitimately caring about their neighbors, and supporting each other through good times and bad
    2. People working towards progress for the sake of progress and their community, not for personal gain

    Our actions weave into the fabric of society, and future generations are formed from that same fabric. It takes time to shift how our nature manifests into actual behavior.

  • And honestly, 'conservative' shouldn't be a bad word either. But it's been morphed into this fascist hate machine, and it's hard to see what you've become when you're on the inside.

    It's not like Democrats are screaming to tear down the Walmarts and Dollar Generals, and bring back local businesses and repairable products. Neither side is all that great, it's just that one is teetering on genocidal. I'm not saying don't vote democrat, because you absolutely have to if you want to head off what's coming. But we need to start looking at this problem more holistically, if we don't just want to perpetuate it in future generations.

  • There are so many traveling kids out there. The types who sell wrapped stones and hemp bags at street festivals, drifting in and out of communal living situations, camps, etc.

    I flirted with all that when I was younger, still think about just taking off in my car sometimes. Ok, a lot of the time. It's pretty tempting for a lot of us to just say fuck it, and drop out of society and into a counter culture, or a nice intentional community.

  • Man, Google really had a great run for a bit there. The Nexus S, Nexus 4, and Nexus 5 were all great phones in my eyes. Both Nexus 7's were nice tablets, but taking care of the performance issues in the 2nd gen made it great. I know a lot of people also loved the Nexus 6, though way too big for my tastes, and the Galaxy Nexus would have been much better if not for the Texas Instruments CPU hamstringing it. Then they went on to develop the Moto X 2013 and 2014, though I feel they were starting to slip with the 2014.

  • I had a gen 1, I bought my mom a gen 2. Mine is long since unusable, maybe if I rolled back to an earlier release it would have been better. My mom is just starting to think about replacing hers, though her usage is light. So is mine, for that matter, I actually replaced mine with e-ink Kindles.

  • Honestly, there would probably be far more backlash against them than benefit. But it would be hilarious.

    I wonder if they got some help with early app development, or something. I've always avoided Cisco, so I don't know if they offered any mobile management or monitoring tools early on.

  • Actually iOS, not iPhone. I think if it were iPhone itself, an actually marketed product from either Apple or Cisco, it would have ended a bit differently. But in both cases, it was just iOS, the operating system of the marketed products.

    In both cases, iOS was a selling point of the product, but not the product itself.

  • That's an Assassin's Creed game, yeah? I don't know, I tried an AS game at one point, and just couldn't get into it. I was excited for The Division for awhile, then it released. I wanted to like Far Cry, but didn't like the mechanics. I really don't see anything in their recent catalog that I give two shits about.