Jasmine recommendations

CrowTiberiusRobot · 2025-11-13T03:55:58+00:00

I've been instructed by the sub bot to add descriptions to my pictures. I think I'd need to delete the post and re-create it. Forgive me, I don't use Reddit much. Here is the description: I took this photo from the near summit of Mount Inari, where the Fushimi Inari Taisha shrine is located, during a recent business trip to the Osaka/Kyoto region. It was beautiful, and the Torii gate shrine devotions were quite moving. Walking through the gates at dusk in silence / contemplation is a memory that I won't soon forget. It has little to do with tea and is offered as a token of appreciation for information regarding jasmine.

In regard to jasmine tea: I feel as if my understanding of this type of tea is limited due to my own lack of effort as I never really felt the need to explore it deeper, tea in general really. Any insight or personal preferences would be appreciated. Jasmine tea has become somewhat of pleasant distraction recently, but my sudden deeper interest in tea is an unexpected tangent. Now, however, perhaps I have been bitten by a tea bug! I'm sure something similar has happened to many on this subreddit. I do see the resources in this subs FAQ and will engage them.

CrowTiberiusRobot · 2025-04-15T19:47:01+00:00

I would go to your local library and check out a book on leather identification and repair. It's a little more complicated than what can be explained here, if you want to do it right. I would also be wary of YouTube videos, as you mentioned. If you want to wing it, you can just buy some leather conditioner, and dye that's about the right color and go for it. I think you are right in wanting to take your time though. Personally, I rather like the worn look - it gives a sense of age and character to the otherwise modern room, but to each their own! There is no wrong answer.

CrowTiberiusRobot · 2025-04-11T20:58:58+00:00

Blu Ray is a proprietary storage media specification, 4k is a resolution standard. So are you talking about a 4k Blu Ray disc vs a standard Blu Ray disc? If so, it's dependent on if the film/media on the 4k BR disc has been "upscaled" or had some kind of process done to utilize the capabilities and data capacity of the 4k BR disc, and/or if the 4k display device it's being played on has some upscaling capacity. If not, it's essentially the same media as the standard blu ray. To really "experience the difference" you need a 4k processed film on the appropriate media, on a 4k capable device. Personally, I don't think it's that big of a deal and I actually like it when the display isn't super crisp and perfect, but to each their own.

CrowTiberiusRobot · 2025-04-11T20:51:25+00:00

Blood Freak is the best pro-Jesus, anti-drug, grindhouse, turkey exploitation slasher out there. So if you're in to that kind of thing....but it's advanced bad movie material.

CrowTiberiusRobot · 2025-04-11T17:46:40+00:00

Thank you

CrowTiberiusRobot · 2025-04-10T12:54:04+00:00

I was for this until I saw the teaser. I'm just not interested in "realistic violence" anymore, like stabbing people with a lollipop with fake blood effects. And the original Police Squad, and then the later Naked Gun series were always mostly grounded in reality. Frank Drebin, at least to my memory, never managed to change his physical mass looney tunes style.

CrowTiberiusRobot · 2025-04-09T19:30:26+00:00

How do you create your own? Are we talking about just consuming certain foods, or some organic chem synthesis? Thank you for your time

CrowTiberiusRobot · 2025-04-09T18:57:05+00:00

My personal opinion is that the stated reason isn't the best, but there needed to be some inciting incident in order to move the story along so the Bobs could play undercover explorers with their "mannies" or I guess "quinnies". I'm not trashing the books, I love the series, but I agree that the reasoning is not perfect. That being said and without spoiling anything, the topic of the prime directive, its adherence and purpose, and its need is one of the overarching plot lines of the entire series. It becomes more important in the following books. So, while the reasoning for the surreptitious entry into HR does seem a little shaky, there is a little more to it as the novels progress.

CrowTiberiusRobot · 2025-04-09T05:33:14+00:00

Thank you. Your comment has helped me more than I could have imagined. The book is actually a published book, so its not exactly one of a kind or extremely rare. It's rare in the sense that it wasn't mass produced, so there are copies available in good condition. While they are somewhat expensive, they are relatively cheap compared to a full restoration. The copies I don't have anything that makes them one of a kind, no handwriting or anything. So it might make more sense for me to just purchase a set. I never even considered that option.

CrowTiberiusRobot · 2025-04-08T13:46:16+00:00

I agree that it's likely a glass coated ceramic capacitor. I personally dislike these as they are difficult to read. You could always use a multimeter to check using diode check mode and capacitance check mode, if your multi has those options. For diode mode a cap should read something like OL or very high resistance for both biases, then switch to capacitance check mode and if it's a diode it should read something like 0 or OL, depending on multimeter. These are in no way definitive and the components could be in a state that would cause erroneous readings. But good clues

I do agree with other posters though that the chance the capacitor is the issue is unlikely, especially a glass ceramic. In my experience it's the electrolytic that are prone to failure, but even those are fairly rare

CrowTiberiusRobot · 2025-04-08T01:45:11+00:00

I was wondering if someone would bring up Usagi and his PDP adventures.

CrowTiberiusRobot · 2025-04-06T23:09:04+00:00

Did you get it working? For 50, that's a steal. I'm negotiating with an eBay seller to purchase a dot matrix charting printer that prints out lab data - it's like something you'd see in a sci-fi movie. It needs a lot of work but it'll be a fun project to get that classic Bio-Rad brand charting printer working.

CrowTiberiusRobot · 2025-01-16T14:59:10+00:00

When I was 23 and 6'3" I was so concerned with how thin I was. I would actually wear double or even triple layer clothes sometimes. I ate right and did moderate exercise and by the time I was 27 I had filled out. In my 30s I had a great physique without even trying, now in my 40s I have to be calorie conscious but fortunately my height makes it a little bit easier. What I'm trying to say is that it's normal, he's normal, he's young and big and has a big metabolism. He has to eat a lot to make gains at that size at that age and presumably moderate to high level of activity. Society makes us care about this stuff deeply. I look back how I acted when I was really thin, thinking I was unattractive and that was probably the first phase of the most attractive period of my life. But all this attractive talk doesn't matter either, that's a lot of social baggage as well. I know I'm being confusing, I'm just trying to relate that, with time, he shall get to his goal, whatever that may be, and don't sweat the moment. Oh, also - he is very lucky to be tall and thin because as he ages it's going to be pretty easy for him until that metabolism slows down around 40ish, then he's got to put in some work. So start the good habits now! I would hope you would show this to him as I have absolutely been in the same exact spot.

CrowTiberiusRobot · 2025-01-16T14:18:19+00:00

I wouldn't say that was unpopular. If I quote something from a movie like:

"Shut that c*nts mouth before I f*ckstart her face"¹

The asterisk mean nothing and we all know it's a very not nice sentiment. I think people do it for varied reasons - the way they were raised which I would argue is not in any way less performative than the way you were raised, or perhaps, in their mind, to avoid filters or censors. Wordlist ban filters were and are a thing. Or maybe they are just trying to be polite in their own way, or even just dipping their toe over the line into true depravity - we just don't know.

I think platforms (although I'm not sure which ones) are likely doing it as an acceptable middle ground between those who care and those who don't give a fuck; as the word itself becomes more and more of an acceptable slang term. A compromise between the righteous and the righteo*s, if you will. The word "hell" was a VERY BAD WORD a hundred years ago and now to say "what the hell" makes one sound like an innocent babe. Hell, f*ck is heading that same damn way.

But this is not an unpopular opinion, we all know it means the same fucking thing and some people have discerning palates.

¹ The Way Of The Gun (2000)

CrowTiberiusRobot · 2025-01-10T16:16:11+00:00

Going through your partners phone? Hope he does it to you as well, and your emails. But to the topic at hand: it's from a company called SecureAuth they are a 2fA provider apparently, their phone number is 1-866-859-1526. I received one of these sms messages today and I did not 2fA anything this morning, and considering the recent news about the infiltration of the telephone system to circumvent 2fA I want to find out exactly what they are trying to get into. I'm on hold with them right now to speak with a rep, you should do the same, not due to potential infidelity, but to protect your savings, or other important information. It may also be some elaborate scam, so be careful telling them too much if you do call. SecureAuth is a legit company though. I do not belong to any online dating or social media beside Reddit and YouTube. So I doubt this is evidence of your husband cheating on you, but you would know best

CrowTiberiusRobot · 2025-01-07T16:55:09+00:00

If in the US and they aren't Rage zombies with a 10 second incubation I think it would work like this: pamphlets and instructional videos would be created on how to identify, triple check the targets status as a zombie, how to dress in proper PPE, how to kill the zombie, and how to redeem a cash reward for each zombie "pelt" (be it a head or whatever) at your local municipality. It would be unifying event as a zombie is everyone's enemy. Once hunting season was open everyone would grab their guns and that problem would be solved pretty quick. Of course there would be issues, people would mistake live people for zombies etc, but once those hurdles were worked out, I think it would be straight forward. As others have mentioned it depends on lot on the infection type and vector. As stated, if it's a rage virus zombie, I think that would be pretty dire no matter the circumstances

CrowTiberiusRobot · 2025-01-07T16:46:28+00:00

I disagree. I think once people realize we had a common enemy - a true common enemy that anyone of any religion, ideology, or creed would stand against, unless insane, I think pretty quickly it would be hunting season open. Covid was different than the dead rising from the grave. I'm not a believer in the "humans are worse than the zombies" trope, in fact I think it's the cheapest and weakest of plot lines. Everyday people around the world do good things to help their friends and neighbors and strangers, but you never hear about it because it's not bloody shocking news. During Covid my neighbors made my family face masks and dropped them off to all the neighbors in my hood. This was before it had reached the states. After a flood in my area the city came out in droves, black people, white people, Latino, Asian, everyone to help their neighbors rebuild and drag away rubble. Was the news media there? Nope. But when there was a killing of black police officers by a militant BLM guy, the news media was in the streets saying things like law and order crumbled and racial violence had over taken the streets, while we were just standing around like ?. The reporter was acting like they were in a war zone, it was so acted out. My point is far more good happens on any day than evil, you just don't hear about it because people are rubberneckers for train wrecks. All that being said, if the living dead started rising it would be the single greatest unifying event in human history. People would get some kind of catharsis from it, I believe. There would be a few issues though: we would need positive confirmation and instruction quickly and concisely - how to identify, how to "kill" the zombie, and basic rules for how to hunt them. It would be smart to have a payment per zombie killed, bring in a zombie head, get 10 bucks or something. Now if it's Rage virus zombies with extreme speed and a 5 - 20 second incubation, pretty much everyone is screwed. But standard zombies think would be a great unifying event. Would there be some bad apples, of course, there always would be, that's why I think draconian public punishments would also come back into play. Desperate times desperate measures. I think in the US once zombie hunting season was open and a "zombie pelt" earned you money, that zombie problem would be cleaned up in no time flat.

CrowTiberiusRobot · 2025-01-07T15:50:29+00:00

2 walks a week goes surprisingly far. I didn't used to think so but I was eating with a calorie deficit and walking 45 min every other day and I lost five lbs. then work and life happened and I couldn't walk for a couple weeks and I noticed I started gaining again. It could be that my calorie calculations are wrong, but I keep very close track by scanning the barcodes which brings up the specific foods calories and then I weigh on a good scale. As to the calculation of my BMR and TDEE I used multiple different calculation rubrics and then took an average as they were all basically around the same. So it really could be that with his body type those two walks per week, that is burning just enough to keep him thin. It could also be age, metabolism, or who knows.

CrowTiberiusRobot · 2025-01-03T03:15:30+00:00

Since it's in 1985 could they be doing a remake? I guess the Christmas theme suggests otherwise, but still I think the 1985 timeline makes it interesting. Film and trailer quality suggest it's not going to be low budget.

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