@dansup I use the original slow cooker, a cast iron Dutch oven, but the theory is the same. You get so much more flavor development with long, slow cooking. Surprisingly, McGee’s classic On Food and Cooking: the Science and Lore of the Kitchen, has very little on slow cooking, although the section on browning reactions is helpful. I always brown (meat, onions, etc.) at a higher temperature to get those yummy flavors from the Maillard reaction, and then turn the temperature down for long slow cooking to develop the umami flavor.
@jerry I’ve never figured out why flat earthers always put the arctic at the center of their disk and Antarctica around the rim. Everyone knows that it should be the other way around. Antarctica is a small continent, not a giant ring. And the Arctic Ocean is therefore a ring around the whole world.
@jimcarroll Also, I’ve dug too many trenches by hand to ever want to do it again, and I’ve gotten lazy in my old age. My ultimate lazy solution would be to just use zip ties to attach the cable to the chain link fence, then put a POE wireless access point at the final corner post.
@jimcarroll Why not buy a roll of direct-bury cat-6 and skip the conduit? Then rent an E-Z Trench cable installer from Home Depot to cut through the sod and soil and install the cable directly without digging.
@anildash Have the nostr folks actually used Mastodon??
“users are subject to the despotism of a single person, which is often worse than that of a big company like Twitter, and they can't migrate out.”
No, users are able to choose a server with a support team and set of rules that they agree with, and can easily migrate out to a different server.
“Since servers tend to be run by amateurs, they are often abandoned. This effectively bans everybody that signed up via that server.”
Tend, often, and effectively are such lovely weasel words. Let’s rewrite that sentence without them.
Since [some] servers [are] run by [people not driven by profit motives], they are [rarely] abandoned. [And when they are,] this [does not prevent] everybody that signed up via that server [from easily moving to a new server].
@evan Is every one of your polls going to ask questions with ambiguous wording? Do you mean move to temporarily or migrate to permanently? Do you mean, how difficult would it be emotionally, legally, financially, or logistically?
The answer would be different for each of those questions. Legally, it would be very difficult for me to find another country that would accept me as a migrant. Logistically, it would be a headache but doable. Emotionally, it would require some long involved conversations and negotiations with family. Financially, it would depend on whether the new country provides pension benefits for new immigrants.
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