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- Comment on Why don't we just gather up all the ocean's trash and all the nonrecyclables, put them in a rocket, and launch it into the sun? 3 weeks ago:
The problem with launching nuclear waste with a rocket is that you’re shooting an enormous dirty bomb and hoping it will make it out of the atmosphere. One single incident and we’ve got an environmental disaster of unprecedented scale.
- Comment on How come people who are against abortion are in favor of the death penalty? Kind of seems like a contradicition/ 4 weeks ago:
One aspect of punishment is retribution for the victims when there is nothing else and another is to keep people that are harmful away in order to keep other people safe.
Here in Sweden we have a current massive problem with organized crime that are now systematically abusing our criminal justice system that is built on humanitarian ideals for rehab and protecting suspects and criminals rights to the absurd. So yes, in those cases I think punishment will do. Cynically abusing protection measures of society deserves punishment. It may not change those individuals for the life they have chosen for themselves but it will keep them out of making even more damage to society and violent crime against individuals and I honestly see no problem in harsh consequences for their own decisions.
- Comment on 1 month ago:
I’ve been doing multiple ciders from concentrate over this year. My favourites have been ginger, lemon or lime, cinnamon and trying out dry hopping. Careful with the last, it adds lots of flavour.
- Comment on Golden retriever are the Volvo of dogs 5 months ago:
I say all good boys live forever in our hearts. I know all my previous dogs do. <3
- Submitted 5 months ago to showerthoughts@lemmy.world | 13 comments
- Comment on Refractometers 6 months ago:
Thanks! I’ll look into it!
- Comment on Refractometers 6 months ago:
Oh, that makes sense. I guess it be further research time. Thanks.
- Submitted 6 months ago to homebrewing@sopuli.xyz | 5 comments
- Comment on Using Ubuntu may give off a hipster vibes to the average PC user, but within the Linux community its has the opposite effect. 6 months ago:
Use whatever works for you. Don’t take selection advice from people that make their operating system of choice a crusade and identity.
- Comment on If somebody spends the whole day watching fox or religious propaganda, gets worked up and all he can think of is owning a liberal or converting an unbeliever, is this person a victim or just gullible? 6 months ago:
I think the “people are free to believe what they want to believe” is a mistake. This is the very statement that relativitises opinions and belief systems with facts and creates the illusion that they are all equal.
Look at the “facts don’t care about feelings” crowd that believe wholeheartedly that statements pandering to their feelings are facts and disregard any actual facts as fake news. I don’t think it’s because they decided one day to pick and choose what is a fact and what is not, but they actually can’t tell that there is a difference in opinions, beliefs and facts in the first place.
People need to accept that sometimes the truth is painful, that it contradicts what you want it to be, and worst of all - that you may have been wrong.
- Submitted 6 months ago to showerthoughts@lemmy.world | 3 comments
- Comment on It would be terrifying if it were to actually start raining men. 6 months ago:
I think there is a Junji Ito novel with people raining from the skies. It is, as expected, quite unpleasant.
- Comment on The first step of gentrification is that the people that protest gentrification have moved in 6 months ago:
Dude. Chill.
- Comment on The first step of gentrification is that the people that protest gentrification have moved in 7 months ago:
Indeed, I agree with you fully. My observation was that the people complaining about the gentrification overlap heavily with the early waves of gentrifiers.
- Comment on The first step of gentrification is that the people that protest gentrification have moved in 7 months ago:
My intent was a quite light hearted observation that I’ve made over the years when a hip crowd takes a liking to a previously neglected area and very rapidly claim to be hashtag-first and whine about gentrification with stickers and chatter in the cafes of which none of its kind has been there before.
- Submitted 7 months ago to showerthoughts@lemmy.world | 8 comments
- Comment on We should count in base four 7 months ago:
Are we trying to outmath the Danes or what is going on?
- Comment on Chinese schools testing 10,000 locally made RISC-V-ish PCs 7 months ago:
That’s ok. So do I.
- Comment on Chinese schools testing 10,000 locally made RISC-V-ish PCs 7 months ago:
Performing sufficiently for cheap production cost, they’d be a low RISC high reward investment.
- Comment on Homeowner baffled after washing machine uses 3.6GB of internet data a day 7 months ago:
I have a supposedly smart washing machine that came with the apartment. Setting it up in my locked down appliances network, it didn’t work with home-assistance, required cloud access and wanted me to open up ports in the firewall. Nope. No network connection for you. You are a regular dumb old washing machine.
- Comment on Is wine active enough to cultivate and use as a yeast? 7 months ago:
It probably varies, but in principle yeah. Bread yeast main purpose is CO2 production and in winemaking gases are considered a side effect. Hence the refinement into different strains. Still, even 8% homemade wine is better than none.
There are also people doing all kinds of wild ferments with both wine and ciders from whatever yeasts happen to be in the air and battle it out and become dominant. Sort of you never know what you’ll end up with. I don’t know much about it but it seems like fun.
- Comment on Is wine active enough to cultivate and use as a yeast? 7 months ago:
I think that wine yeasts are basically refined strains of the common bread yeast, saccharomyces cerevisiae. Actually a lot of traditional recipes for alcoholic beverages call for bread yeast, like beetroot sherry for example, because that’s what regular people had access to in the olden days.
- Submitted 8 months ago to homebrewing@sopuli.xyz | 7 comments
- Comment on Forgot fruit wine with citrus zest in it for over a month 9 months ago:
Thanks!
- Comment on Update - Crossposted to !leatercraft@lemmy.ca - [SomeoneElseMade] Leather Milk Carton 9 months ago:
Nice. But, please let’s not devolve this community into another anything goes random stuff dump. There are enough of those already.
- Comment on Forgot fruit wine with citrus zest in it for over a month 9 months ago:
That’s true. Distillation is illegal here in Sweden, and honestly it’s too much of an effort for me personally anyway. So I’m thinking if I could build upon this into an interesting bitter brew of some sort, I could always mix it with vodka before bottling like when you make a liqueur.
I’d much appreciate any experience or recipes for herbs and methods if you’d like to share.
- Comment on Forgot fruit wine with citrus zest in it for over a month 9 months ago:
Thanks. That’s a bit discouraging that it will not dissipate.
But it just hit me now - maybe I could embrace the bitterness somehow instead. Like, figure out how to make a proper bitter, something related to a Fernet-Branca but wine.
- Comment on Forgot fruit wine with citrus zest in it for over a month 9 months ago:
It’s a small batch, so maybe I’ll just save a couple of bottles and let them sit in some dark corner until I forget all about them and when I find them in some distant future it will be a surprise either way 🙃
- Comment on Forgot fruit wine with citrus zest in it for over a month 9 months ago:
I’ve been reading up on this. It seems when it comes excessive bitterness in food, there are a few strategies.
A couple of them are an obvious no go, like using fats or dairy. Then are plenty of advice to spice up to hide the bitterness, dunno if that is really appropriate either unless hot spicy chili wine becomes a thing.
A viable route might be that the bitter flavor can be reduced due to how human tastebuds perceive or prioritize by either making it more sweet or sour.
Finally, bitterness can come from alkaline pH, which I guess is why making it more sour might work, but both my chemistry (and biology) fu are shamefully weak. Interestingly one recommendation is to add baking soda to the overly bitter dish, but reading up on baking soda, it has a bitter taste itself due to being alkaline, so it sounds weird.
My plan now is to make a couple of testers with non fermentable sweetener and lemon juice, let them rest for a while and see if any of them seem worth it to try rescue the rest of the batch.
Any thoughts or comments?
- Submitted 10 months ago to homebrewing@sopuli.xyz | 11 comments