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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Ingredience⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Yeah… I kinda think that’s an experience every omnivore should have. Raise something with your own hands, then kill and eat it. If you can’t do that, at least you now know your hypocrisy.

  I’m a hypocrite, too.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Ingredience⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  The bulls, yeah, that’s a planned pick-up to a meat farm or to the slaughterhouse, easy to distance yourself from mentally AFAIK. Not the heifers you’ve named and intended to keep.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Ingredience⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Some of my relatives have a dairy farm. One time they had to put down a young cow and had it cut for beef/veal for themselves, since it was so sudden and unplanned. They told the cow’s name, what had happened to it, what its temperament had been like. That was enough to make the eating experience weird and a bit offputting.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Planning to propose in a few months, what should I look for in a good value engagement ring?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  If it doesn’t give her the ick and she likes the classic styles, used jewelry is the way to go. It’s already had the “walk out of store” depreciation and I think engravings on most rings are pretty easy to replace.

  As a more personal recommendation, when I ahem “outgrew” my own engagement ring and was too lazy/cheap to resize, I got a “temporary” replacement 10? years ago from here. It was supposed to be moissanite in titanium, did an XRF analysis and the band material was some sort of nickel-less maybe steel IIRC. No idea if the moissanite is genuine, but it’s held up way better than any CZ has, and the band has kept better than silver so props to that.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What is on your "things to 3d print" list?⁩ ⁨⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Replacement mouthpiece for a vintage flute that had a plastic one.

  Flute pad hole punch aimer thingy so I can make cheap China pads into open-hole ones for not-so-great flutes without having to buy a bunch of open-hole ones (version 1 was already made and proved the idea, now it’s just to iterate).

  E facilitator prototypes before I CNC them (still learning CNC and I don’t like it).

  Flute airstream aimer clip-on thingy for older people who have lost their embochure due to dental operations and such. (after I get the hang of the replacement mouthpiece; this is probably the most difficult one, due to precise mouthpiece shape needed)

  Model for manually engraving the right size & shape replacement piece out of bone, for a badly cracked teapot.

  Spherebot.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Virtual Girlfriend⁩ ⁨⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Condoms aren’t 99% effective as contraception even if you use them correctly, which a lot if people don’t.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What's with the 'Thanks' people?⁩ ⁨⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  In my language “thanks” and “please” can use the same word, sometimes it spills over into my use of English. Hopefully the tone of voice carries the sincerity of the hopeful-but-not-demanding request anyway, but that’s not available in online communication. Then again, online I usually have time to get my "thank you"s and " please"s in order.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Does matcha tea need to be combined with milk or can I use water?⁩ ⁨⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Is there a tea like matcha that would be good to cold brew?

  Sencha or any other green tea can be cold brewed.

  I’d add to this that if you want cold brew green tea that tastes anything like matcha, stick to Japanese greens. Just general “green tea” is IME usually more Chinese in style and a different (though also delicious) beast altogether. Sencha is the quintessential Japanese green tea and most easily available, and IMHO makes a very nice cold brew in summer.

  Actually cold brewing might also be a good experiment for any possibly remaining mid-grade matcha you may have, since the method tends to reduce astringency and bitterness; just use it like a normal tea (larger amount) and don’t stir towards the end, let the tea powder “gunk” settle at the bottom. I have not tried this.