Gooofuckyourself
2mo ago
I'm wondering if you can peel from the flaps left under the jaw from cutting the tongue out. Or even punch forward from the neck.
Will do a full head shear on some and try it this year.
What do you do with e.g. brain and sinuses? In France they were sold all-in iirc, eyes and everything.
Hogs must be an absolute bastard. Do you skin or scald?
I asked him, apparently they very rarely got horse meat because it was off-ration and expensive. Their biggest meat treat was the occasional sheep head you could get by being friendly with the butcher. Again off-ration as wastage, skinned and boiled in the traditional English manner of course.
Whale was basically only available after the war. He remembers there being a special shop for off-ration meat.
Visiting relatives in the country was the first time he'd ever had enough butter to cover a slice of toast. He ended up with some skeletal issues from malnutrition, particularly bowleggedness that's really come back to bite him in his old age.
I should offer to cook sheep head for him sometime. I've only ever taken the tongue, but apparently the cheeks are quite good. God knows how you go about skinning it though: only ever seen that done in France. If it's anything like as tough as the back of the neck, it'd take a sharp knife and a lot of patience.
My dad's knowledge of it is limited to preferring horse over whale meat.
The key point is that it wasn't actually necessary, but the labor party thought that the war economy was a path to socialism, so they kept it going in peacetime. Rationing was just another tool, not an emergency measure.
Remember, they had total control over television and radio*, began nationalising every industry, and started other "economic rationalisations" that were going to bring them closer to the Soviet role model.
It's hard to find a history of it. One of those things everyone who writes the history books doesn't want to talk about, outside of some niche monographs I can't find scans of. People laugh at 1984 without realizing how close to reality Orwell's model already was.
/* banning all non-government broadcast media was an official labor party policy until the 80s. The conservatives finally managed to allow a single private channel managed by a semi-government agency in 1955.
The next conservative government in 1970 even managed to allow a non-government radio station, after labour had made themselves unpopular jamming the pirate radio stations people actually wanted to listen to, soviet-style.
(I still remember coming to America and being shocked they had fourteen tv channels rather than 4. When someone told me about cable and satellite I thought they were lying)
Gooofuckyourself
2mo ago
How about "it's all so tiresome."
these complexities, which see entire philanthropic structures created as obfuscation vehicles, illustrate just how the nonprofit regulatory structure can serve special interests.
I mean yeah, this is just more of the 2020 "X claimed without evidence, where the evidence was hidden just enough to have plausible deniability and the debunkers made no attempt to ask questions."
The whole nonprofit ecosystem is a scam that needs to be shut down and rebooted with different people in charge
Gooofuckyourself
2mo ago
And here I was trying to find a tactful way to ask that lol
Gooofuckyourself
2mo ago
Remarkable
Yeah, "this job isn't about the money, it's about passion" throws up as many red flags for me as "this job is about bringing your Whole Self to work to be part of The MegaCorpoCubeMart Family"
Scam alarm, demand twice as much money or walk if the CEO can't show his $1 executive pay package to prove he's only in it for the passion.
Gooofuckyourself
2mo ago
Good idea putting it down for the night. You probably will have enjoyed the extended denouement more over breakfast coffee than you would have last night.
Geez, this had a much happier ending in the Ponsuke manga version
Forget reading their moldbug, some of these guys need to learn the most basic lesson from Cartman: "don't talk out loud about it until you have most of them on the trains heading to the camps"
The Vesuvius scrolls kid had to go to the university of Nebraska, I'd say that counts as undervalued by the market. "the pipeline" at tech companies has been deliberately bent to exclude young men like him from getting into it at all. Just look at Google's recruiting stats in their DEI reports from 2012 to 2022
Gooofuckyourself
2mo ago
Any idea what caused the issues with their writing collabs? I read mote as a kid, and even in that it was obvious they had weird conflicts with each other's... OCs, I guess we'd call it now.
Gooofuckyourself
2mo ago
We're in the exact same situation. My '92 Ford really wants to die, but I haven't given it permission yet
We'll find out in a few years at least. The government funding behind the "unicorn riot" antifa group vanished: they went from 3+million in 2020 to a few hundred k in 2022 according to their tax filings.
By 2027 we'll know if there was another peak this year or not. I suspect the green brigade got all the money after the IRA, and they're more about using the money to build themselves a "passivhaus" than buying riot weapons.
Gooofuckyourself
2mo ago
That was the age I read it with my mom. Although I think we'd listened to the BBC audio drama first. That was brilliant.
My really vague understanding is that long incubation times give the immune system more time to catch the infection early, which doesn't matter as much when it's very new and nobody has antibodies. So eventually everything that had a long one evolves to be shorter on its second pass through the population.
In theory long incubation + 100% mortality rate seems like it would take out a good chunk of the population in the first wave, but in practice people would just Madagascar through it.
Gooofuckyourself
2mo ago
I am seriously debating buying a used Tesla, possibly after joining the retards drawing swastikas on them to lower the price.
Anyone have any experience with them? It's not my type of car, I just want something cheap and electric for local use that I can use excess noon solar on.
Gooofuckyourself
2mo ago
the net effect of stuff like "not funding abortions" is dramatically outweighed by the net increase in deaths caused by droughts, floods, famines, and famine-related-instability.
I don't understand. Is this a real argument? There's no mechanism even gestured at, it's just words.
Gooofuckyourself
2mo ago
Seems common with Mitsubishi products. Everyone says their mini splits are better because of the fancy tech, but most of it is that their heat exchangers are massively over-spec for their rating. Just vastly more copper than a Midea unit. (They can only do that because their compressors have such good turndown ratios, admittedly)
Gooofuckyourself
2mo ago
https://youtube.com/watch?v=bzUeYf5R4zo
It's pleasing to read the comments and see people aren't buying the apologies. 1500 downvotes so far.
Yeah, a lot of it is learning which traits are genetic vs government and how they combine (pollution when only some races on the planet are toxic tolerant, etc.)
Gooofuckyourself
2mo ago
So I played master of Orion 2 for the first time last night, because my brain was too fried to do anything productive.
It's pretty funny going "oh, so this is what endless space, starsector, Stellaris, and all those other games were copying. Like reading Larry Niven for the first time when you only knew the Pratchett parodies.
It turns out I was copying its leader system for a management game I'm working on without even knowing it.
It's honestly a better game than most of the modern ones. The graphics still look great, interface just needs a bit of work: dealing with the horrors of racial integration is even worse when there's no way to tell which race gets + and - what on different planet types without shipping them there and testing.
Gooofuckyourself
2mo ago
You mean like "removing and punishing the spread of Russian-like malinformation"? We're familiar with that strategy already thanks.
I wonder if anyone's tried doing court "sketches" with AI yet. There's a huge corpus for it.
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