Maybe they’re testing to see if and how we prove we’re in a simulation as part of figuring out if they are themselves in one

Maybe they’re re-creating the circumstances of their own world to test theories that they can apply in the real world, and since they can ponder whether or not they’re in a simulation then we have to be able to as well or we’d act too differently

Maybe it’s a total accident. They’re actually studying something over in Andromeda and we’re just a funny accident created as a byproduct of the rules of the simulation

Oh god neither do I, fuck that place. I just did a search for the account in the pic

While I understand this reading, even the briefest of glances at that guy’s twitter leaves absolutely no doubt about how much he is bought into the pro-Trump anti-“woke” mindset

Honestly I generally assume that everyone that isn’t a slightly portly northern English man carrying a pint does not play darts seriously

Thank you! I have some coeliac relatives and I regularly make bread for them. Shipton Mill seems to do a lot of supplies for gluten-free baking (most importantly psyllium husk, which is without a doubt the secret master key to a good texture in gluten-free bread) so I’ll add some of this yeast to my order when I next need to stock up

I think it has technically been repealed since 2008, but it’s here: https://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/PDF/?uri=CELEX%3AC2001%2F125%2F03&from=EN

Normally you can find them on eAmbrosia

But this is the law that registered it, and you can see that it is “implicitly repealed”. I’m definitely not up for reading a bunch of laws to find out exactly why right now

More interestingly, here’s the description it has for making sahti:

Sahti is brewed by gradually adding water to the mixture of malt and cereals, starting at a temperature of around 40 C, which is increased to around 100 C by the time the last water is added. This is known as “mashing”, and in some places this phase also includes boiling the mash. The heating times vary from short to a thorough boiling. Next, the wort is separated by straining in a trough or vat, and hops may be added. Traditionally, juniper twigs and rye straw are used for straining the wort, which is then fermented into sahti using baker’s or harvested yeast. Top fermentation is used. The main fermentation takes around three days at room temperature or cooler, after which the sahti is kept cool for at least one week. The alcohol comes exclusively from the sugar in the malts and other cereals.

“Baker’s or harvested yeast” is presumably the relevant part here, as that seems to me to exclude cultivated brewing yeast. So on that basis I’ve done it wrong (and I plan to do some fining too, so doubly wrong), but since my stomach doesn’t know any better I think I’ll be safe from legal challenges

To be fair, this is usually a spam mitigation thing. Most places that do it have an automod that just deletes anything posted by an account less than x days / weeks old, rather than a human going through and doing it manually. It’s usually in the rules of the sub

A variant is requiring a certain amount of karma for the same reason

I’ve done a little reading, but without having any contact with locals it’s always a little difficult to know what matters. I mostly just really like the flavour of juniper in the beer!

Hefeweizen yeast is what I’ve used here. I was tempted to go with the bread yeast, as I’ve seen it suggested a few times, but I figured it was maybe meant to be more like a sourdough bread yeast and I don’t have any starter kicking about. Here in the UK there’s not much in the way of Latin American shops. Our big immigrant communities are Eastern European and South Asian, and their shops are well worth visiting for other ingredients even if they’re not where I’d get beer stuff. Have you made bread with that yeast? I’m curious to know if it tastes any different from the dried bread yeast available in supermarkets

Interesting note about it being drunk early. I’d guess if it’s not done fermenting then that might make it a little sweeter? I was surprised by the amount of grain used in the recipe, maybe that being so high is to ensure there’s unfermented sugars left

One day I’m going to build a proper setup to do the traditional mash/lauter.

You’ll be better equipped than me, then! I’ve got a couple of big pots, a couple of big glass jars, a siphon tube, and a tea filter. I will admit that it hurts my fingers a bit holding the siphon when the mash is too hot, so I have to stop every so often.

Oh that sounds absolutely delightful. I might have to experiment with something like that once I get a bit more familiar with making this style. Cheers!

If I drink coffee while I brew beer, they cancel out to be healthy overall, right?

Based on this recipe, which I chose largely because the author has a very Finnish-sounding name. I’ve had to adapt a couple of bits - particularly the yeast, because I don’t have anywhere I can keep it that is warm enough to sustain the high temperature kveik yeasts - but I feel like I’m keeping it within the right spirit.

I’m trying out fungal chitosan finings for the first time with this brew. I’m not normally bothered about cloudiness, but that’s partly because most of what I brew is exclusively for my own consumption. With Christmas time being what it is, there’s a good chance some of this will go to others, so I want it looking a little nicer too

OP actually is watching for the plot

Just be sure you give someone a heads up so that they can practice their archery enough to actually set you on fire

Anti-air systems are absolutely not built to handle ICBMs. The American Ground-Based Midcourse Defense, a dedicated anti-ICBM tool, is estimated to have a 50-50 success rate per counter-missile launched. They only have 44 of them. The Russian counterpart to it uses nukes to nuke the incoming nukes. Just shooting them down is not a solved problem.

Crimea, Donbass, Luhansk are part of Ukraine Transnistria is part of Moldova Akhazia and South Ossetia are part of Georgia All ex-Soviet states independent

I don’t think this map shows what you want it to show lmao

Did everything in Israel affect oil prices that much? Anecdotally I don’t remember fuel prices shifting significantly, and looking at data it doesn’t look like there was much of a response. Israel and its immediate surroundings aren’t the big oil producers of the region. Those are all on the other side of the Arabian peninsula. The skirmish with Iran is the closest the whole situation has come to actually touching the oil countries, I think.

His monarchy video is pretty poor. I didn’t downvote the link above, though. Just don’t hold much faith in the guy.

It’s so nice to cycle around cities that have good cycling infrastructure, particularly when it’s properly separated from car traffic. You get to see a lot very quickly, because you’re moving so much faster than walking but also not in a metal box having to watch the other metal boxes

I feel like FromSoft’s games have a nice solution to this in that generally speaking, the world has basically already ended and you’re fighting through the wreckage to try to pick it up again. Not a viable option for every story, though, of course

I would quite like to see a game in which the events play out both without a completely fixed schedule and without being within the player’s control. If we take Skyrim as an example, since everyone already knows how that one works, imagine if:

• Civil war battles happen whether you are there or not. You get some notice about them or can maybe even ride in at the last moment to turn the tide, but they’re happening with or without you.
• Your sidequests to win over jarls and find powerful artifacts stack the odds in your chosen side’s favour. Intercepting the messenger on that one mission allows you to avert an otherwise guaranteed loss for your side.
• Alduin is also doing stuff on his own schedule. If you leave him unchecked, one of your allied jarls might have their army decimated trying to hold off a dragon attack without you.
• If you leave Alduin unchallenged long enough, jarls start defecting to the Dragon Cult and directing dragons with armies as backup towards your side, knowing that you are fighting for them and are the biggest threat on the board.
• Leaving your civil war side unsupported means that Balgruuf won’t agree to help trap Odahving. You then have to track down info about the portal to Sovngarde in an ancient scroll and take the long and arduous journey up the mountainside yourself on foot, leaving your civil war side without you for days on end

You’d need to make sure that the player has control over when these events start, but it already does gate dragons behind that first quest to defend Whiterun. You want to just mess about in caves for the first twenty hours, sure, go ahead.

Obviously Skyrim was never going to do this because it isn’t trying to be that kind of game. It wanted to be a do anything go anywhere power fantasy, and that’s fine. But I would like more games to do this sort of thing. I think some of Paradox’s strategy games actually do quite a good job of creating this feeling, but the gameplay is completely different (and it only works until you get good enough to just break the mechanics in half for most of them)

For what it’s worth, the UK’s current PM is Keir Starmer. We had an election in the summer and fucking finally kicked out the last lot that had been, amongst their many other efforts to make everything worse, churning through leaders like 3rd century Rome. The new lot have their issues too and it is of course too early at the moment to see if they have actually restored some measure of stability, but there’s hope.

So if America had threatened Vietnam or Afghanistan wth nukes, everyone should have just let America do what it wants?

Nuclear states must not allow other nuclear states to conduct nuclear blackmail. If they do, everyone now needs nukes and nonproliferation is dead.