Strongly recommend getting a tomato plant, even if it’s just in a pot inside, also some mason jars for when you inevitably have a bunch of tomatoes and not enough uses for them.

Modern commercial tomatoes suck and your pickiness is entirely justified and reasonable. There is no point to putting a shitty tomato on a burger if the texture is off putting to you.

Most tomatoes at restaurants are legitimately awful, like watery and tasteless. Same for most at grocery stores. They’re not worth putting on, especially if someone dislikes the texture.

Modern commercial varieties have largely been selected for durability, shelf life, and appealing looks, at the expense of flavor and texture. The focus has been on maximizing how well they work in a modern supply chain, not how good they are for the end consumer. Some work has been done to develop varieties that work in a supply chain while also still tasting good, but these are heavily patented and controlled, generally sold as a premium product and not something that most restaurants will spend the extra money on.

A good verity can only do so much though, as although tomatoes are notionally Climacteric (Continue to ripen after being removed from the plant), ripening them off of the plant will create a different result. The sugar content will increase and the color will change to red, but, tartness and more complex compounds that contribute to flavor will not. This is largely due to these compounds not being the result of the ripening process but rather the result of the plant’s immune responses. The tomato will not get these if it is removed from the plant for ripening.

Even if ripened on the plant, the tomato will still be lacking if the plant is being grown in a heavily controlled and sterile environment, such as in a industrial hydroponic greenhouse or in an industrial farm field. Much of the flavor of the tomato is a result of the plant responding to stresses from being attacked by pests and diseases. What we perceive as “yummy tomato flavor” in a home grown heirloom tomato is actually defensive compounds produced by the plant.

This could be addressed by intentionally introducing some stresses as part of the growing process, but no major company is currently doing this. Many are still ripening them off the vine or using bad varieties.

TLDR: commercial tomatoes suck because of how they are produced and you should grow some in a garden or buy some from a local farmer if you want them to be worth your time.

Probably shouldn’t be bringing a phone at all.

BUT if you are, best to keep it powered off and in something that thoroughly blocks RF, like a purpose built bag or wrapped completely in aluminum foil. Also, turn off finger print and face scan unlocking, you can be directed by law enforcement to preform physical actions such as looking at the screen or putting your finger on the reader, but they can not legally demand you to put in a passcode. Memorize any numbers you need to know before hand, if you get detained and need to make a call, they will not let you use your phone for it, they may allow you to get numbers out of it, but only by giving them the passcode and them retrieving the information from the phone for you, meaning that they now have full access to the contents of the device. Most importantly though SHUT THE FUCK UP

Even better, bring a prepaid phone, ideally one purchased with cash that you haven’t been using anywhere you normally spend time.

Much of this is overkill and yet also only will do so much, but it is fairly easy small steps to take that can save you and people around you a lot of heartache.

It’s one of those things where republicans run attack ads and viciously criticize him, but, for none of the reasons he’s not a great governor.

Much like Gavin Newsome or Kathy Hochul.

I think there is a general loneliness epidemic, but it’s particularly acute with men who were never pressured or given the opportunity to develop the skills necessary to build and maintain a community around them.

Like the systems and environments that used to facilitate this no longer exist, and it is left to individuals to do it them selves, something impossible without those skills. Those institutions and systems that used to facilitate community building have been pivoted to profit or dismantled if they couldn’t generate profit or if they were actively undermining the profitability of something else.

If he does, what is post Post Malone? Meta Malone? Neo Malone? Trans Malone?

9mm? Clearly you mean .35 or .38 .

Called Trader Joe’s in the US.

Aldi sud is just Aldi in the US.

Lidl is just Lidl in the US.

might be he likes the floor because it’s cool and doesn’t want pillows and blankets because they’re warm and he’s trying to cool down.

Traditionally carrots were used as the main sweetener in carrot cake. Something developed during lean times when honey, fruits and sugar weren’t available. So assuming this person was looking for a “low sugar cake” recipe, they may have found a carrot cake recipe that only used carrots for sweetening.

… and then they removed the carrots to reduce the sugar content further. So yah it’s going to be an awful cake if there is zero sweetness in it. Like, just make a savory baked good at that point.

Like it’s definitely a different thing, but it’s the same general concept, gonna have a wildly different flavor but fill the same kind of culinary niche.

Replacing carrot with kale in a freaking carrot cake is like replacing basil with potatoes.

I mean, carrots do have a lot of sugar as vegetables go, but it’s like 5% sugar by weight. If you’re cutting out stuff with that low of a ratio, you’re probably taking a low sugar diet a bit far.

Also a very ham handed attempt to manipulate culture.

Or perhaps people who have had their culture manipulated running face first in to something outside their sphere and getting angry that it doesn’t comport with their manipulated understanding.

It depends on the type of CD. Normal CDs rely on the shape and reflectivity of the aluminum layer, and if this oxadizes they degrade, the oxidation process is drastically slowed by good storage, and they can last much longer if stored in an inert gas.

CD-Rs are dye based with the dye being burnt away for recording. Depending on the type of dye, the dye can break down fairly quickly irrelevant of storage conditions, the cheap dyes degrade inevitably with in 10 years.

CD-RWs (what I’m using) operate on an alloy that is melted to switch it between an amorphous and poly crystalline state to effect reflectivity, and that is fairly stable long term as it is not a chemical change and the alloy is resistant to oxidation, these can be expected to last 20 years under poor storage (exposed to UV and humidity which can damage the plastic) and up to 200 years if stored properly.

Frankly, I doubt my personal music collection needs to last more than 70 years.

Ain’t it weird how they keep taking out an important feature right before promoting a new service or product that makes it easier to live without it.

“Why would you need headphone jack when Bluetooth auto connecting earphones”

“Why would you need swappable/expandable storage when media streaming and cloud storage?”

Because my parents had a CD burner and a tower of blank CD-RWs they let me take from their place. Also, doesn’t need an internet connection for me to accesses them when I’m not at home.

A few months ago I started moving most of my audio media over to CDs. I don’t trust streaming services to maintain extensive libraries and/or continue to exist.

We’re already seeing video streaming services remove content from their platforms despite having the rights to it.

I doubt that Spotify or Apple Music won’t do the same in the near future.

Voice controls are worse and more frustrating still.

I think most of the old laptops I’ve collected are sata.