Good luck with brewing! It doesn’t take much to brew good beer but getting the consistency in the batches (if you want to brew same beer multiple times).

Looks a bit like the transporter from Dune

Every part of the plant except the “berry” (it isn’t berry) is toxic.

I want to try eating it but I heard that it isn’t that good.

I think that at this point they are more of a zombie company than anything else.

Nothing inovative or revolutionary and overpriced for normal people. Even professional teams don’t use their components. Only some posh people stuck with them just for the brand name and their business isn’t set up for it.

I would guess that it may already started to deflate a bit. The truth is that it will pop when the loans won’t be paid off so investors and banks starts to backtrack.

I am not worried about Nvidia but cloud providers. The datacenters built to support ai won’t have much use when the customers (OpenAI…) will fold.

I don’t care about what happens with OpenAI and other AI startups they probably don’t survive. Google, Microsoft, Meta… have enough money to lose so it will be bad for them but they will survive it. Hardware manufacturers see the writing on the wall and try to milk the bubble till it lasts so if they play it decently it won’t be big issue for them - they are probably the winners in this race whatever happens.

Most of the ones run here don’t have batteries. It is running on wires only - with battery trolley bus you need bit different wires so you can put the “antenna” up and down when needed. And since the network was built in 50s it didn’t made sense to buy the partial ones until few years ago.

But I get the appeal of the ebus it just sounds cheaper. One city I won’t name started to build trolley bus network again after they got rid of it in 70’s (because of metro construction and expansion of trams), but they just doing it bit idiotically by wanting to have like 30% of it on wires and rest run on batteries.

Why? Because the infrastructure is just more expensive upfront.

Will it work? Nobody knows, people that are building it lobby to get it up to at least 50/50 then it is maybe just feasible.

I think that roads and buses have place in the transportation but you just need more options not just that.

I am for electrification but I just can’t get behind electric buses.

My city made some study last year and the best way forward in terms of public transport is expansion of trolley bus network. With batteries and constant use it just doesn’t make much economic sense. If you can build the wiring it is much better in long run. You don’t have to have 100% coverage, 70+% is enough for partial battery powered trolley bus, then it starts to be economically feasible in the operating cost sense.

Also they will need to build some kind of metro system - probably as an extension of commuter trains.

Thanks, much better than trying to piece it together from video!

I wanted to make it again but didn’t got to it, I think I wanted to cut the sugar a bit it was too sweet for me. Also I wanted to try some different beers to see how it impacts the taste.

I tried making butter beer, which is real thing that was sometimes made, but it probably isn’t what you think.

It is more of hot wine style drink. I think someone made yt video that I used as instructions. Yes it is less alcoholic because you heat the beer (which is the base of the drink) and mix in sugar, butter and some other stuff I don’t remember.

I think that it was quite good and could be made in 20min, really good for the colder evenings. I would suggest some neutral tasting beer as a base, I used some store bought lager if I remember correctly - most of the taste is from the other stuff there.

What about some spreadsheet where everyone can add time/date and game that he wants to play.

Than everyone can see the options and vote/add themselves to the event he wants to go. Than you can send group emails with information and calendar event file.

I think that something like this can be put together with nextcloud and email bot.

Non lethal munitions/weapons are not so non lethal as people think.

Crowd control or demonstration control is another complex problem that can’t be solved by some magic bullet. It is more psychology game when the police tries to look threatening in place where people can easily overpower them.

I bought the cheapest screw in bar plugs I could find, I think it was worth the 2€ investment.

But ngl I really appreciate good janky solutions.

I meant this bit from Big Bang Theory: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h0oiZCdvyFQ

I would like non alcoholic Cuba libre … light.

Much better than what I managed to do when I was 15yo. I still use the A5 notebook with replaceable pages.

I know about people that do this. The final product tends to be bit smoother and according to them the fermentation is bit faster. Some distillers get rid of them right before it goes to the still but it really depends on the fruit.

I did only cherry distillation and it is not possible to pit all of them so I didn’t bother. Also I don’t drink that much of it so 4l lasted me 5years and I still have it, I just don’t do it that often.

TIL that somewhere the intentional mix of methanol into ethanol is sold as denatured alcohol.

I think it is quite idiotic to denature alcohol by making it toxic with nearly the same taste. Here it has loose limits on methanol but it’s still mostly ethanol with bunch of bad tasting compounds, otherwise the toxicity is same as normal alcohol.

Also it is true that you can’t get rid of the methanol completely, but the boiling points are ~15°C apart so it is easy to get to the safe limits. That’s another reason why methanol isn’t the best denaturing agent - the compound used here has boiling point ~1°C above the ethanol.

During prohibition in 30’s was that they were filling the bottles directly from still so first few bottles were nearly all methanol. And also government denatured only with methanol (that tastes the same) so it was more of intentional poisoning of people.

Yes, it is just lots of different kind of fruit thrown in 80% ethanol.

It is fun to do it on small scale, like one jar is enough, you will probably need to process it differently on that scale.

Here most people with that amount of trees just distill it to make “slivovice” but I heard that people try different things.

Depends on a kit, the malt sirup is shelf stable but hops and yeast is definitely bad. Just try something, follow the instructions for start and you will see if you like it.

I don’t know much about plums other than distillat so can’t suggest much on that.