Do tomatoes even have enough sugar to ferment into a usable amount of alcohol without “spiking” the juice first?

50+ hours, when a loved one went into septic shock several years ago (they eventually got better). When they were stabilized and I was finally able to sleep, I just basically said “okay, now is fine” to the darkness creeping in from my peripheral vision every time I closed my eyes and let it finish doing so. I was asleep within a few seconds.

I looked through a few of the materials. Just like Florida’s slavery materials from a year ago, it uses dark patterns and weasel words to make it seem like it’s no big deal. There’s shit like, “The Christian Bible claims a man named Jesus was born in a manager because there was no room in the inn and when he grew up his followers viewed him as the messiah, and eventually the entire Roman Empire became Christian.”

There’s also a pointlessly long description (unless you know what the real point is) of how the Apostle Paul used the Roman road network, first to persecute Christians than after something (wink wink) happened, to spread Christianity.

It’s gross.

I still have a 4gb Eye-Fi that use just as an SD card to shuttle files out to my laser cutter. I assume the wi-Fi would be horrendously slow and insecure if it worked at all. Was pretty cool when we still had a standalone P&S digital camera though.

One minor cultural artifact of this general idea:

Pease porridge hot, Pease porridge cold, Pease porridge in the pot, nine days old.

Ol’ Phil may have a tiny vestigial conscience, and I do mean tiny, but it still may be disqualifying for this administration.

there are relatively few doctors in the billionaire class

And HOO BOY do some of them know it! 🤣

The broader point is well taken, though.

One, surgeons were already the dumb jocks of the medical community, relatively speaking. I know he’s got some legitimately brilliant feathers in his cap, but that brings us to…

Two, other than techbros, MD’s are maybe the worst offenders in the category of “I’m smart about some things, therefore I can easily intuit my way to mastery of all things, I have no blind spots, and my prejudices are simply common sense.”

Three, the man has been in a fame bubble for twenty plus years now.

Learning to Fly is some peak Gilmour PF.

The video is… well… it definitely exists.

It’s almost like the “better” airlines already know how much you can shit on the customer base and survive. Pretty much everybody I know who has ever taken a Spirit flight has told me they never want to do it again.

Mastodon has a certain level of federated connectivity with Lemmy, but it’s also a Twitter alternative, similar in that way to BlueSky. Lemmy (or mBin) is the Reddit alternative.

There was existing precedent for a tiny version of Windows that is barely enough to run a single program. The original Windows version of Microsoft Excel came with a runtime version of Windows 2.1, so that customers who didn’t have Windows could still use Excel.

Fun fact, the “DOS” version of AOL did the same thing but with GEOS. Pretty impressive that it all fit on one 1.44MB floppy.

Endless Sky is a lot of fun. I think I’m through all the reasonably complete plotlines, but there’s plenty of different ways to play and self-directed goals to go after.

Learned on Lemmy a couple of weeks ago that Neal Stephenson has a new book out, and I’m still a sucker for them. Polostan is (so far) historical fiction and very readable. The Stephenson-esque infodumps seem to mostly concern the game of Polo and interwar Communism, with healthy dashes of 1930s physics and ranching.

My first nearly proper computer was an Atari XE Game System. The keyboard is well known to be fairly crap, but it didn’t feel that way at the time.

Hush!

And if they’d done the math wrong, they’d have landed among the stars.

It’s a little pricy, but we absolutely love this Cuisinart Air Fryer/Toaster Over thing for anything that was properly cooked elsewhere, though I’ve used it for halfway decent roasted potato wedges straight from the knife. Basket Air Fryers hold so little as to be more frustrating than anything, and stacking deep defeats the purpose half the time. I have no idea if the grill setting works well, though.

Bake setting, 325, 2-3 minutes is all you need for most pizza reheatings.

The only thing I’ll say there is that with burgers you can sometimes get out over your skis and take a tumble. A lot of sit-down places think some giant watery meatball is a good burger. While photogenic, it is not necessarily good, and a short-order smashed patty or (smashed patties) generally taste a lot better and are easier to eat.

The best burgers are almost certainly not fast food burgers, but the worst burgers aren’t either.

I know it was all simple tricks and nonsense covering up a fairly generic dungeon crawler, and that most people preferred the direction the franchise went afterwards, but as a kid I fell in love with the original Shining in the Darkness. Those sprites were friggin’ HUGE!