Phil Landmeier @shuttersparks@social.cleverlibre.org

@opendna @emilymbender Yup. That's how it should be. It's the same in engineering. Your design doesn't have to actually fall down and kill people for you to lose your PE accreditation.

@olavf Oh, and thanks for the link. I'll get to investigating on Sunday. I'm heading to bed ahead of two back-to-back 12-hour shifts of cooking on Friday and Saturday.

@olavf Hmm, fascinating. You mention three spices I am not familiar with. I'll be doing some reading.

I make my own hummus, which is very popular with my foodie friends, and have done some reading about it. Since humans have been making it for 7,000(?) years it's of interest to me. The oldest recipe for it dates from around 800CE and calls for a "spice" that I can't remember. But it turns out this spice is not a single spice but a spice mixture, and each spice maker/vendor had his own recipe for making it. We have an idea what was in it but we'll never know exactly. :-(

@luckytran Yes, and not looking like a "weak liberal".

The Covid masking fiasco brought out all the worst tough guy responses, at least here in West Virginia. Why? Because they were scared shitless.

@smellsofbikes Well, there sure is. Good luck with that.

@olavf What I find surprising is how many of the different smaller spice jars have a mouth too small to accept a measuring teaspoon (5 ml). Who thought that was a good idea? So I find myself buying larger jars just for the larger mouth.

Some items like chili powder, cumin, and oregano I use in enough quantity to get the large jars that will fit a tablespoon measure (15 ml).

@BlackAzizAnansi Yup. So now he's fighting a state criminal case and an unrelated federal criminal case.

Drought Affects the Whole Country
https://shuttersparks.net/drought-affects-whole-country/

#drought #water #ClimateChange #GlobalWarming

@emilymbender Seems like this lawyer has the bad practice of proceeding from false assumptions. This flaw can get you into huge trouble in fields where there is rock-hard accountability like engineering.

The world just became a better place: https://apnews.com/article/pat-robertson-dead-christian-broadcasting-700-club-91299d0953c014ca6860fe545cac793e

#USPol #politics #GOP #fascism

@Caiotekit I could use the help. I also have about 20 pounds of leftover rigatoni bolognese, fingerling potatoes, French green beans...

[burp]

@karlauerbach Hahaha.

@mountainwitch North Central WV here and I feel the same way. It's a strange place/emotion to feel. Too bad we don't have a name for it in English.

I'm originally from coastal Southern California so I constantly complain about the weather here. It's either too hot and humid or too cold. The past several years, the snow has gone away. It gets cold and winter lasts extra long but no snow to speak of.

This year has been very weird so far. Months ago we had a flash heatwave into the 80s which brought out the unpleasant insects. Then back to winter which killed them.

For the past month we've had Southern California weather. I use to joke that we'd get only a few days a year of So. Cal. type weather. This year, it's been almost every day. Temps in the 70s with low humidity, lows in the 40s and 50s. Wonderful. Fabulous. And no mosquitos. I can walk outside any time including sundown and early evening, not a single mosquito bite.

I should be thrilled, right? I'm not because this is wrong. Yes, I'm taking advantage of sitting on the porch at 7 PM and not being eaten alive by bugs. But it's creeping me out. This is not normal for here. Something is going on.

Some long-term climate models show a swath from the Carolinas to Wisconsin, including West Virginia, becoming drier and drier, ultimately becoming desert. But that's 100 years from now. This is now.

I'm also not seeing bees, wasps, or flies. The only insect that seems normal is wood bees.

Birds seem okay, but fewer. I have several feeders and "my" birds are going through 10 to 20 pounds a week of feed. This is low. All the species are here, just not in normal numbers. I should see lots of cardinals, but I only only see one or two. The chimney swifts seem okay, but maybe 25 percent of the usual number of them. I have no idea what they're eating since I perceive no flying insects to eat.

I dunno. It's creepin' me out.

73 de KW2P