I was somehow unaware of this person before
Right?! I mentioned Sudachi to an old college friend with whom I’ve had a decades-long mutual cooking and food chemistry journey. MFer was all, “Oh yeah, been following him for years. He’s awesome.” I’m starting to question my friendship with this guy… :D
How DARE you come all up in my post and… OOOOH! Pretty okonomiyaki! We’re cool. :D Thanks for the lead!
How exotic are the ingredients?
I think it all comes down to… well, everything. My sailboat has been off the coast of a small city (~6000 people) on the Washington Olympic Peninsula for a few years now. I can go ashore any time, I have a cargo bike and a motor vehicle. Plus I can just pick up and sail to, say, Seattle. I can usually find what I need here in town. I don’t use Amazon, and I try to avoid delivery services when possible. In my experience, the hardest ingredients to find locally are almost always shelf-stable. So I will have a friend in Portland OR or Seattle WA pick up a bunch of things for me at one of the huge Asian groceries, package that up, and mail it to me. If it’s perishable, like fresh noodles, I’ll arrange all a long day of restocking, then go all over the place to get things I need.
On Omura’s website, he usually discusses reasonable substitutions and omissions in pretty good detail. This is an example of my comment about how the site and book are complementary. He even has a whole page on his site dedicated to alternatives and “don’t try to swap [Y] for [X].” https://sudachirecipes.com/japanese-ingredient-substitutes/
How have I missed this?! The algorithms have let me down, so thank you kind internet stranger!
I’ll also add Telltale Heart’s “The Expanse” game. It’s more a multipath interactive movie. Warning though: it’s… not fun in the standard sense. The game centers on Drummer, which is awesome. So many gut-wrenching emotional hits in that game, I keep having to put it down and think about it.
I feel like the show stays true to the spirit of The Expanse. There are changes in the show for scene flow, lack of omniscience (viewer vs reader), and because some actors slayed or became unavailable. When the show strays from the books, IMO it makes sense and somehow even manages to convey the book story even better. Ty Franck and Wes Chatham’s podcast “Ty and That Guy” is a fun and funny review of the series (and lots of other topics), with lots of insights on… everything. Franck goes into lots of detail on the writing process, translating books to screen, and what is involved in being a writer. Chatham covers topics around the craft of acting and plays the knuckle-dragging, mouth-breathing role hilariously.
If you watch only one episode of “T&TG,” make it the one with the about how they got the opening shot of Burton in Baltimore. The guests are the cinematographer and the A-camera operator. I long wondered how they got that continuous shot.
I binge read almost all James S.A. Corey’s books, and I feel they really nail the connection to the human condition, which is really what good fiction is all about. Class warfare, complex moral issues, and a crackling good plot. The only Expanse book I haven’t binged yet is the “Leviathan Falls” because I don’t want this to end.
Bluefin tuna belly, especially fatty cut of an already great fish.
Would you like some toro with your toro? Because I would!
This looks looks a dish that I would make. “That bluefin belly is super tasty, but you know what would make this better? MOAR.”
If I’m reading you correctly, this is what Decentralized ID (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Decentralized_identifier) aims to resolve, not just for social accounts. I wrote the initial DID implementation for my previous employer, but FIs, especially credit unions (our primary customers) were still a ways off from implementing it.
My familiarity with ATProto (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AT_Protocol) is extremely shallow, but as I understand it, ATProto can use DID. Hopefully someone else will come along and provide more info or correct my error.
I can’t say for sure one way or another. But the rudiments of PT are all pretty similar for a given joint. There are finite variations on how human joints move and the muscles that actuate those joints.
Sure, but if you’re suffering from radiculopathy (pinched spinal nerve root), the sleep deprivation and increased stress make those interventions more difficult. The article failed to mention inexpensive and free physical therapy interventions.
If you are suffering from lumbar or cervical radiculopathy (or a slew of other joint pains), check out McKenzie Method therapy. It’s free/freely available, designed to be within reach of anyone, and can be done just about anywhere. Bob and Brad are prolific in providing exercises to get you back into fighting form. Robin McKenzie’s book “Treat Your Own Back” is also excellent.
Edit to add: a lot of radiculopathies manifest as referred pain, e.g. a pinched nerve in C4-C5 might feel like tightness or pain in the trapezius, under the scapula, in the elbow, or at the extremes, pain and tingling in first and second digits. Sciatica is the the most “famous” of radiculopathies.
Anecdote: I had a C4-C5 radiculopathy, and it was pushing me into disability territory. The orthopedist wanted to do all kinds of stupid, expensive, invasive shit. I stumbled on McKenzie’s back book and was back at work in two days. I also suffered from piriformis pain for over a decade. It was an L4-S3 radiculopathy. A few minutes of basic McKenzie stretches, and it goes away.
He said he wants to get rid of undocumented criminals
Now you’re moving the goalposts. And it’s NOT in the fucking video.
“Yes, we want to get rid of undocumented criminals in this country, that’s fine, let’s do that.” https://youtu.be/_rBm3PBFQnU?t=1426 Pay attention to his tone when he says the quote and keep watching after the quote.
There is a defined and well-trod path for deporting undocumented criminals (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zkgNnbTrsgw). Being an undocumented immigrant in the US is a civil offense (which presents its own problems), not a criminal offense. Therefore, undocumented immigrants != undocumented criminals, even though undocumented criminals are still often processed through the civil system which undermines due process and the procedural safeguards of criminal proceedings.
The point that Sanders is making in the speech is that capital class is manipulating proles. The goal of the manipulation is to convince workers that immigrants are to blame for everything being so fuct. You’re zeroing in on something out of context, changing your statements, and completely neglecting the message of worker solidarity in that speech.
Regardless of how one feels about Sanders, strong borders, and punitive immigration enforcement, I think we can all get behind worker solidarity.
Nice job taking that far out of context. Sanders absolutely did not call undocumented workers “criminals.”
Look, what’s going on in the US is horrific. The lack of any due process under the Brown Shirts… errr, ICE is an abomination. But really? You’re going to resort to whatever this machination is? There are volumes of unequivocal, incontrovertible evidence you can use.
What is the benefit of tubeless bicycle tires anyways?
Tubeless tires can be run at lower pressures without risk of pinch flats, also called snakebites because of the distinctive double hole in the tube. The wider working range of tire pressures allows riders to dial their tire pressure to the riding conditions, whereas clinchers (standard bicycle tires + tube) have much narrower pressure ranges. Varying the tire pressure has all kinds of benefits, especially with multi-surface tires, allowing the cornering blocks to bite into the surface earlier in turns. On gnarly chipseal pavement, the lower pressure means less fatigue, which quickly adds up over some miles. Failing to notice, or being unable to avoid, a pothole won’t cause a pinch flat. You can still dent your rim, but that’s mostly a non-issue with the ubiquity of disc brakes on bikes. On a clincher, you’re guaranteed a pinch flat if you hit something hard enough to dent the rim.
Tubeless tires provide the feel and higher traction of tubular tires (also called glue-ons, sew-ups) with greater durability, easier maintenance, and easier repairability.
For regions with goatheads and blackberries, tubeless is pretty much the only way to go farther afield. Tire strips can help, but they deaden the feel, mess with tire dynamics, increase rotational weight, and very rarely protect sidewalls. They are also (usually) horrible to install and can chafe tubes unless installed very carefully.
In regions without regular street-cleaning, with less frequent tire replacement, and with higher use of tire chains, it’s very common to encounter tire belting and fragments of tire chains. Tubeless bicycle tires are a day-saver. In my own experience, I can now ride those roads where it was previously common to get multiple flats. Before I switched to tubeless, one ride in particular in rural Oregon resulted in 8 flats in 40 miles. And then I was out of patches and spare tubes; day is over, call for a ride. All the flats were caused by tiny pieces of tire belting. I now check my tires once a week to pick out the tire belting I picked up, but I get zero flats.
Oh, I forgot to mention, it did not clog the valve at all, and it’s also tire sensor safe.
Our direct experiences are very different. And bicycles don’t have TPS.
If FaF was actually superlative for bicycles on any metric, we would all have switched long ago. At the very least, some pioneering shadetree bike mechanic would be singing its praises far and wide. I resisted the tubeless tire trend until late 2025 despite having worked on other’s bikes with tubeless, in part because I didn’t feel like building up new wheels. “Meh, everything I have is just fine.” I kick myself for having hesitated. It’s just so much better on all counts.
Sealant for tubeless bicycle tires is an entirely different formulation, and FaF is categorically ill-suited for bicycle tires.
Alistair Reynolds’ Revelation Space series is excellent. My introduction/entry point was “Chasm City,” and that played out awesomely for getting into the first two novels in the formal trilogy. Reynolds was also partially inspired by the Culture series.
Idling engines chap my ass. But TINSTAAFL. Auto stop is terrible for engines; the majority of engine wear in passenger automobiles occurs at startup. Also, during auto stop, the catalytic converter cools down a bit, so emissions go up. More wear —> more emissions —> more waste.
Edit: For my rebuttal, I started digging into this. While the sources I found are still “auto technician says so,” it looks like engines with auto-stop are built for more start-stop cycles. I was operating on outdated information. Automobile engines were/are typically designed for 100k to 150k starts. In trying to find more information about auto-stop, the overall consensus seems that auto-stop engines are designed for >300k starts. Moreover, there seem to be some accounts indicating that exhaust temperature is part of the auto-stop monitoring, which would make sense and keep the emissions controls running properly.
So, thanks to @borkborkbork, @0ops, and @Janx for prompting me to get updated information.
But as a bike commuter, auto stop was pleasant in traffic, at least until everyone suddenly started up again and then stomped on the pedal.
The wholesale gutting of all attempts at environmental protection is an interesting choice for the “protect the children” party. But even as an avid car hater, I’m not sure this is a huge loss.
I deeply empathize and sympathize with the challenge. I also failed to choose “congenitally rich” at birth, and I hope to remedy this error on my next iteration.
But seriously, I grew up very poor and left my abusive home at 16. I was homeless twice. Once in my late teens and again in my mid-20s. Not “crashing on my friends’ couches” homeless, but rather “living in the woods and dumpster diving for food” homeless.
I bring this up as empathy by way of anecdote, and also as acknowledgement of my immense luck and privilege. I know that reaching a place of relative comfort is fucking hard in our modern environment. What’s an even bigger pisser is that cost of living is stupid, the systems required for modern life are expensive, and the attacks on our attention, focus, health, and well-being are legion.
So it comes down to: is your position yet painful enough for you to want to do something about it?
Hey, don’t judge. Spotting a Dumpstericus greenii in its native habitat was on my bucket list.
Yes to all, actually, except Forks. Not much ocean in Forks. :D We move around based on weather/Banana Belt, where friends are in town, and any other factors that strike our interest.