Betelguese won't supernova 

 I'm okay with that.

I don't get this effect very often, threads seem to populate very quickly for me.  So I don't have any strong opinion about what happens when they don't. 

 I could have told you to go get bent, you don't need a relay for that.  Just feel free to ask, any time. 

 Tinfoil hats don't work unless you wrap that tinfoil all the way around your body. Otherwise radio frequencies can come in from the bottom.  So best stock up on lots of rolls of tin foil. 

 Try gold foil. The balls will appreciate it. 

 I'll give you the gist. The exact recipe doesn't likely matter. Follow any good sourdough bread recipe or YouTube video for the most part. If you don't make sourdough bread normally it will take a lot of trial and error to get good at it.

I think what makes the difference giving me this amazing flavor is that I'm using 40% fresh ground wheat flour, and I mean fresh (within an hour, the flour was turned into dough).  I sifted out as much bitter bran as I could, and then ground the flour a second time in a hand-crank grinder to make it as fine as I could.  The remaining 60% was standard name-brand supermarket bread flour (Edmonds here in NZ).  I've used home ground flour before but I made the mistake of using it days afterwards.  Flour should either be aged (at least 2 weeks to stabilize, and this gives very good extensibility and gluten forming properties, better than fresh flour, and preferred by bakers) or very fresh (and this gives the best taste at a sacrifice of some extensibility and gluten forming).

Anyhow, also low innoculation (6% starter) which might not matter but that I what I did, it takes longer to bulk ferment. And a retard in the refrigerator during proofing to slow the fermentation.

The loaves weren't perfect, I didn't get as much oven spring as I wanted, but at this point I don't care about that. 

 Thanks, yes I know. I've stopped. I put it away. 

 Oh, one other thing. I tempered the wheat first. 4% water, shaken around in a container to let the wheat get a bit wet and soak it in and no water remaining on the sides of the container.  Shook it now and then, 12 hours later I milled it.  The point was to soften the bran so the bran wouldn't "shatter" but would separate from the endosperm in large pieces, easier to filter out.  When I sieved it, the bran had very little endosperm stuck to it, so I'd say it was a success.  But it did jam my Komo mill so I had to grind it coursely and then the second time in my older hand-cranked County Living mill. 

 Most fish don't have strong flavor when fresh, you are correct, but can develop stronger flavors if they aren't fresh.

I think sardines (and other oily fish) taste fishy. But in a wonderful sardine fishy way.

Salmon tastes wonderful, always, just like salmon. Not the same kind of fishiness at all. I can't remember ever having salmon that didn't taste good. I would eat it every day if it didn't cost a mint. 

 I just had delivered 24 jars of Riga Gold (Latvian) Baltic sardines, and some Russian (yum!) mustard (not Ukrainian, yuck!)  ;-) 

 Hi Renee. Hard question.

I'd avoid shares right now. Market is topped and the Sage of Omaha (Warren Buffett) doesn't like anything at these prices so he's holding cash waiting for the market to crash.

Bitcoin is up. Gold is up.  Not bad normally but maybe not the best time to get in.

Even though currencies are all falling in the long term, it might be a good idea to hold cash for the short term.  If you can, I'd hold my cash in Chinese Yuan (Renminbi).

But prediction is hard, especially when it is about the future. 

 ... short, when she sits on the ground her feet dangle 

 big and bow legged, when she sits around the house, she sits AROUND the house 

 ...fat, she got arrested at the airport for 20 kilos of crack 

 Yes 

 I live on a farm and catch rainwater.  So (pesticides, solvents, pharmaceuticals, chlorine, flouride) aren't much concern to me.  I'm more concerned with (grit, leaf litter debris, algae, bacteria).  To that end I have two filters.  The outer filter is 20nm pleated.  The inner filter is 1nm dense mesh.

When I had my water tank cleaned and they refilled with chlorinated water, I swapped the inner filter for a 1nm carbon filter.  But it's been swapped back now.

If I were to do it again, I don't think I would change it. 

 As for fluoride, for a long time I wondered if it might calcify arteries like it calcifies teeth.  I'm not concerned about that anymore based on a lot of things:

1. They have found the molecular mechanisms that transport apoB under the endothelial layer (and back). The atheroma formation mechanism is now known, and fluoride and sugar-damage simply aren't part of it,
2. Calcifying an existing atheroma is a good thing. Soft ones may rupture and cause an event, whereas hardened ones are much safer. Over time the vessel widens and/or new capillaries are formed that bypass the narrowing.

But I'd still use a carbon filter because of the other stuff, and for taste as @Nate mentions nostr:nevent1qqspx4vau0zmggqzuzfxa0jr6rdy7w8swk72eh5lq8526gudxfny7hgprdmhxue69uhkwmr9v9ek7mnpw3hhytnyv4mz7un9d3shjqghwaehxw309akxztnjv4kxz7tpvfkx2tn0wfnj7qg4waehxw309ahx7um5wghx77r5wghxgetk9u783p29 

 🫂 

 Clearly bridges are bad. We don't want *them* crossing over at *us*. We need to bomb the damn Kirch bridge! The time for speech is over, this is the era of drones and missiles and bombs. 

 What about your DM relays? 

 Ah. Maybe I'm not actually that far behind then. 

 But you now have these complex user defined feeds.  So now I'm behind on that too. 

 I hope you get the better one 

 Rule #1:  Always respect other people, no matter how much you disagree with them.
          Hate only puts you on the low ground, weakening your thinking, lessening
          how others see you.

Rule #2:  When somebody dies, do not say anything bad about them on that day. Wait
          a few days for people to mourn and adjust to the news in their own way.

Rule #3:  When you praise someone, do it aspirationally. Praise them for being what
          you want them to be (greater than they are). They will like that you see
          them this way, but also they will work hard to hide the fact that they
          aren't actually that good... by actually getting that good. It works like
          magic. It's my only truly effective management skill.
		Probably doesn't work on a nation-level though.

I'm sick of the outrage, the hatred (including my own) and the despair it leads to.
I think aiming to be a better person is the path out of that.

I will not address negative comments in this thread for a day or two, or maybe ever. 

 So they say 

 Wow.  This image illustrates my fundamental problem with the concept of entropy.  I have to save this. 

 That's what makes the trick so great. If only more people knew. 

 bingo 

 I agree with you. Characterizing that your phone is still usable by you (and could be used by attackers through you by forcing you to follow their instructions with your phone) as an 'attack' is nutty, and people attacking GrapheneOS on this point are out to lunch.

I'm also glad to hear that duress passwords and dual unlock (fingerprint + pin) are coming. 

 yep 

 🫂 

 Maybe they are [shy](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ArmDp-zijuc) 

 It's k-pop!

The markdown was in jest.  I could jest yet again with "Maybe I should have put a tag: ["content-type", "markdown"]  😏" 

 I dunno, nats have been pretty effective at keeping me away from the pigs. 

 *sip* 
pause
"Mmmmmmm" 

 The main trading partner of every BRICS country is China (save China themselves). I think it won't happen, this UNIT. But I also think them choosing BTC is a foolish hope. BTC couldn't handle it, not even close, despite some fundamentals you and I both like (that China doesn't care about or actively dislikes). Trades will be mostly in yuan with some amount of hedging. 

 OK I'm reading a bit more, I guess it's more like a modern replacement for SWIFT, the tokens not being an independent currency. Is that about right?

Crashing upwards, perhaps, but I think bitcoin will hold it's own. It has worldwide niche appeal as Internet money for the people that all attempted replacements have failed to replace. 

 I'm going to make a second comment, this time about the USD. While I may have moral issues with fiat currencies, and with the direction the US is going both militarily and economically and in some way socially too... I try to be dispassionate about assessing the situation. And I'm not so sure the USD is going to collapse at all.

All my life Libertarians have predicted the imminent demise of the US dollar. Every world event makes it seem closer and closer.  But Imminent has already meant 50 years and I think it could probably take another 20 years before people will generally agree that it is even starting to collapse.

US government debt carried via treasuries (27 billion) is owned mostly to other US parties, in fact 21% of debt (6.9 trillion) is owned to other agencies of the US government itself! So it is an intra-governmental accounting. 17% (5.5 trillion) is held by the Fed, which could also be considered intra-governmental in a way. After state and local government, next is to Americans: mutual funds, banks, private pension funds, insurers, and private holders (10.6 trillion as a group).  As for foreign holders, the largest is Japan at 1.1 trillion, and China is then at 834 billion.  That's about 3%.  Even if China doesn't buy US treasuries anymore, I don't think it matters much.  And if China dumps theirs it makes no difference who holds them from the US point of view... somebody buys them for China to sell them.  When the US needs to sell more, they can always sell them to the Fed (sneaky tricksters).

Of course inflation is the result, so expect it.

But how long can that happen? A long long time.  As of 2022 Japan was at 260% GDP, Greece was 2nd at 177% GDP, the US is "only" at about 120% of GDP.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_government_debt

So yes, the world will move away from the USD, the USD will lose value over time, but I guess "collapse" isn't the term I would use because relative to a lot of other countries it will probably hold up just fine.

I expect fiat currencies to all fall together, slowly, forever, without any sudden collapses, barring those exceptional events that come from time to time.

Add to that the 10 year trend of USDCNY has been upwards, which doesn't make any sense if the USD is collapsing.

Anyhow I don't really know what I'm talking about, but all the information I've presented leads me to doubt. 

 If the debt got to a level where it could not conceviably be paid down from taxes, that could cause the dollar to fall. Yet US taxes are remarkably low compared to other OECD countries. The tax take could even double from where it is now without completely squashing the US economy, although that would be severe. Also, the Fed can put interest rates artificially low if they felt they had to do this - there would be less buyers though. It's a scary balance sheet no doubt, and the long-term result doesn't look good to me. 

 I would love to stumble upon a visual economy simulator that shows this theory.

The Reserve Bank of New Zealand has (had?) a machine called the MONIAC, a mechanical water based machine that simulated the economy.

It's easy to overlook things and misunderstand when you don't have a self-consistent complete theory, and there are a lot of levers and buckets 'n stuff. 

 Yes, yes. Come visit, spend your $$$, and then please go home. 

 Yes, yes, but it was useful. I don't like traffic. If I can trick peeps into believing NZ sucks we can keep the population down to a comfortable level.

I know more people are leaving than coming, and that is probably bad for the local economy in some ways, not really in ways that affect me much.

OMG they are burning down the farms! What a hellhole! 

 Me three 

 Now I'm hungry for lobster 

 Send a giftwrap copy to yourself.  You can't read the one that goes to the recipient. 

 And use a different random key for the copy to yourself, else they can be coorelated.

You don't need to remember any of these keys. 

 I thought nostr keys were always 02.  At least that is the code I copied from other people. 

 You are taking my comment too seriously 

 Ok well if I'm going to be serious, then yes the amount of space junk currently isn't too much yet.  ABM systems that shoot down satellites might change that picture though if WW3 eventuates.  And of course I'm not going to tell Elon Musk what to do, and AFAIK he wants humanity to become a multi-planet species.  It would be awesome if it actually happens.

I'm a bit skeptical that we can do it.  Just the dust problem alone is pretty tricky, getting into the door seals and stuff.  Maybe in lava tubes there is a chance. 

 Hey! It's Alastair Thompson! It's good to see you have found us. Followed. 

 I use chorus for myself and am happy with it, it is very solid and stable for me.

However it is new and I'm not aware of many people using it, so there is some risk in using something new.

But relays are easy. What could go wrong? 🤣

I think it should work for you and if it doesn't I want to know why so I can make it work for you. 

 TIL that if you mill your own flour at home, then you must use it right away.  After a day or two it becomes 'unworkable' and then you need to age it (oxidize it) for 2-4 weeks to make it workable again.  Professional flour mills chemically age or "bleach" the flours to save time, but "unbleached flour" is essentially just flour that was allowed to age/oxidize naturally without chemicals as a means of stabilization.  Aged flours have better extensibility and better gluten properties, as well as being a more consistent product.

The reason I was having problems is probably because I was using home milled flour that was 3-4 days old 🤦.  I had no idea.