The need for citizen militias was specifically to support regular forces but also oppose them if necessary. The idea was that citizens should always be more powerful than the government. Some people think that modern weaponry means that people could never overpower the military, but we see it all the time.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Federalist_No._46

Ooh, that is a good solve

Pretty much every time there have been head to head competitions between birds and wires, the birds have won.

That sounds similar to lupin beans.

In America, we have pokeweed, which everyone knows is toxic, but people eat it after boiling 3 times (I don’t think we have another word for that).

A lot of foraging books talk about boiling and/or soaking to make things edible, but usually it’s to remove bitterness/astringency like with acorns. For something neurotoxic, I don’t think I’d trust it, though.

Looking at the wiki page for gyromitra, it looks like it’s sold for consumption in Finland. Were you taught it was safe to eat?

False morel, despite the name, is not really something you’d confuse for a morel. If the only description I gave you of a morel was 1 sentence long, maybe you’d grab a false morel by accident, but if you’ve ever seen a picture, or any longer description than that, you wouldn’t confuse them.

These people know which mushroom they are foraging.

One thing that I didn’t see mentioned yet is the effect of the filter papers. Different brands of paper have different resistance to flow. Even if you go with hario brand, they have different factories that make work differently (though I dont remember which is faster). Basically just pay attention to what you buy, and if it’s working for you, stick with it. I like bleached papers cause they have no taste, but I still rinse them before putting coffee in just to get the filter to stick to the funnel properly.

I don’t know if you got a plastic or ceramic version of the v60, but if it’s ceramic, you’ll definitely want to preheat it, otherwise your brew temperature will be cooler.

Lol, I did the exact same thing. I intentionally destroyed everyone with a housing shortage to make it no fun.

My guess is that they are wealthy enough/actually receive good insurance coverage, that without the gofundme, they would still be able to afford it just fine. I think they created the gofundme just because they knew it would make some money.

Oh yeah, don’t get me wrong, modern boardgames are way better. I’m just used to people doing stuff like adding money to the free space, and not auctioning properties.

Nowhere in the post do they make any indication that their insurance (or independent wealth) isn’t covering the healthcare. This is a person who’s job is to make money off of people in poor health, why wouldn’t he try to profit off of his own family?

Most people add a whole bunch of “house rules” that actually make the game worse, and take longer. It’s not so bad if you actually follow the rules, though it is supposed to be unfair.

Pineapples were cultivated in Europe before Hawaii.

In the US, the concentration of tomato paste and tomato puree is legally defined. 8%<puree<24%<paste. “Sauce” is not defined the same way, and commonly has other stuff added to it like salt, oregano, basil, or other herbs.

My guess is the recipe has to be paste, otherwise that’s barely anything.

Lol, yeah, I was trying to find a source for the average home age, and an article in English cited this as the official government statistics, which i thought would be more responsible to cite, even if I couldn’t understand it. I did auto-translate it to double check, though.

Japanese houses in particular are basically a consumable. They are designed for a very short lifetime compared to pretty much any other developed country.

The average wooden house there lasts 21 years.

It beats vacuum sealing cause you can put like 20 servings of food in one big bag, but they remain separate servings that you can thaw one at a time. I often just use a zip lock, but I just reuse the same one over and over again.

I use them for freezing stock, and it’s nice to know that each cube is 125 ml.

If you had a territory where you could sort mostly the wealthy people into one “country” and mostly the poor people into another “country”, you could make one really happy and one really sad country.

Putting up shelves, you have to decide if you want them to be level, parallel to the floor, or parallel to the ceiling, and those are all different.

If you are a business generating rubbish, it is your moral responsibility to account for that rubbish. The business selling stuff doesn’t have their employees filling their pockets with the bulk food packaging rubbish at the end of the day to dispose of at home; they have their own bins. They just don’t want to be responsible for all the rubbish they generate cause it costs them more money than trying to put that responsibility on someone else.