m0darn

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[–] m0darn 3 points 3 months ago

The other thought I had was NORAD but my quick googling points to 1958 for that, and 59 for the arrow.

another one issue that I considered was the King-Byng affair, but that was in the 20s

[–] m0darn 1 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Killing time are you being intentionally obtuse just to kill time?

[–] m0darn 1 points 3 months ago

Terrorism is politically/religiously motivated violence.

...By non-uniformed personnel, against non-state actors, for the purpose of using visceral public fear to achieve political goals.

Uniformed vs state is war

Non-uniformed vs state is insurrection

Uniformed vs non-state is war crime (unless against insurrection/ terrorism I suppose, in which case its just war/ counter terrorism).

[–] m0darn 1 points 3 months ago (3 children)

How is real estate wealth not consequential?Real estate wealth is real wealth, it's why it's literally in the name.

Personal income tax is not a wealth tax, and there are myriad ways to avoid it without evading it.

[–] m0darn 1 points 3 months ago

I'm happy to hear it.

[–] m0darn 6 points 3 months ago (6 children)

Aren't all corporations in the states being forced to eliminate these initiatives or face ridiculous law suits?

[–] m0darn 4 points 3 months ago
[–] m0darn 2 points 3 months ago

I think it's partly UV and partly being cleaned with paper towel. I think cotton is much softer on a micro level.

[–] m0darn 6 points 3 months ago

I am on an elementary school's parent advisory committee and we had one built for school notices and fundraisers etc.

It took for ever to get built though, and cost an arm and a leg.

[–] m0darn 2 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Ah my bias: I was only interested in grain mashes. My immediate reaction was, "why on earth would there be wood in your mash?" The answer is fruit stems. Methanol will be differentially in the foreshot but if you're not expecting much because you're not fermenting any wood, it's going to be low in the foreshots and very low in the hearts, but not much anywhere. BUT if you're fermenting something with woody stems, I can see that methanol removal is going to be worthy of consideration.

[–] m0darn 6 points 3 months ago

My understanding is that we obligated Japanese & Korean auto makers to open some plants in Canada/NAFTA/USMCA in order to gain access to our market. I don't see why the requirements should be any different for Chinese automakers.

I think the tariffs we applied to BYD were different because China bad and it was done to placate the USA. I don't think we should single out China to placate America (especially if it doesn't work).

[–] m0darn 2 points 3 months ago (3 children)

one purpose of distillation is separating them

The purpose of distillation in this context is ethanol concentration. Methanol separation is possible but not really the goal.

Thats why you have to remove the foreshot

I don't think the foreshots have a particularly higher concentration of methanol, other nasty stuff sure, but I think methanol is in pretty similar concentration to the ethanol.

An incompetent distiller can still cost you your eyesight or even life.

My understanding is that it's people cutting the ethanol with industrial intoxicants that gets people injured/ killed. Ie people recklessly adulturing the alcohol.

The only problem I've heard of that's from distilling itself and not intentional contamination is people doing freeze distillation of ciders (skin on).

That said, most of my reading has been with respect to pot stills and grain beers, maybe fermenting fruits create more methanol than grains, I still think intentional contamination with who knows what is higher on the risk list than accidentally high methanol concentrations. But if you know of specific cases I'd be happy to read them.

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