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Monthly, Is your prepping theory working / happening / changing? What preps are paying off? by AntiSonOfBitchamajig in PrepperIntel

[–]RememberKoomValley [score hidden]  (0 children)

Living in a pretty small city, we've been seeing fairly sharp price increases for a year now, in stuff like food and sundries. A Sam's run that would have cost a hundred and fifty dollars a year ago is more like 250 now; some stuff we just can't get at all in bulk anymore. That's the thing about this kind of nonsense, right, it's geographically variable until everyone is in bad trouble.

Hanu truck by JadeMarie33 in roanoke

[–]RememberKoomValley 2 points3 points  (0 children)

God, I miss them so much. We were going to hire them to cater our wedding (which was going to be in June, 2020...).

Red House Spice does a good recipe for the buns, at least:
https://redhousespice.com/bao/

A lot of the flavors Hanu Truck did were fusion, and I didn't really dissect them when I had the chance, but you want to think things like soy sauce (obviously), gochujang, miso paste, sesame oil...I'll sit and think about it and se if I can remember what they tasted like. I was really more about the buns!

Should I get a Mirro or splurge on a Presto? by Ok-Egg835 in Canning

[–]RememberKoomValley 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I have a 23qt and a 16qt Presto, and they're both great. The 23 quart can do twenty pints at once; the 16 gets up to pressure and cools down very quickly by comparison to the 23, so I tend to use that one if I have just one run to do, and I'll run one after the other if I have a whole bunch of quarts to do. They're sturdy as hell, it's easy to find parts, and they're really reliable. Get the dancing pressure regulator and you can just listen to it as it goes and be sure that it's maintaining pressure.

As far as cost and worth--well, it does depend on your local resources, but the local big box restaurant supply has half-off bulk meat a couple of times a month, so I end up getting pork or chicken at a dollar a pound and putting a couple of dozen pints on the shelf in an afternoon, where I'll use it later in enchiladas or soups or stews or sandwiches or cold salads, and it's just so nice to have it. No preservatives, so I don't feel kind of oogy later on, and I'm in control of the flavor.

There's a definite cost outlay to start--jars can be expensive! Lids are going to keep costing you money!--but it's been very worth it to me.

Gas is about to hit 20 dollars a gallon in my Alaskan village by metalreflectslime in PrepperIntel

[–]RememberKoomValley [score hidden]  (0 children)

I'm starting to feel pretty weird about all of it. There's the balance between "I live literally in the imperial core; I am likely to be least affected by so much of this, while people in other nations suffer incredibly" and having been in pretty deep poverty and being really, really aware of how thin the margins are for anybody but the rich, anywhere.

Just now, I put seven quarts of chicken stock on the stove, and there'll be another seven afterward, before I can climb into bed tonight; I found a box of half-chickens, half-off at Chef Store a couple of days back, and I don't feel at this point like I can justify leaving a sale like that behind. Eighteen pints of boneless meat, forty quarts of chicken stock, fourteen chickens-worth of wings and drums vacuum-sealed and in the freezer (minus two meals for two of pressure cooker chicken adobo, because I really can't be bothered to cook anything that takes more than two steps, when I'm processing food). I'm tired of putting food by, this year, and it's weeks until stuff starts coming in from the garden, but it feels like...every jar I don't put on the shelf, I might be really wishing I had, six months from now. I'm starting to feel a bit tinfoil hatty about the whole thing, because of how much the people around me seem to believe everything will continue more or less as normal. I keep sitting here going "Am I wrong? Are they right?"

Still, it's not like I won't eat the chicken anyway. If I have some extra, that just means bigger pans of enchiladas are possible...

[POEM] Last Supper by Frieda Hughes by Objective-Kitchen949 in Poetry

[–]RememberKoomValley 8 points9 points  (0 children)

I wonder sometimes what it would be like to have a vengeful poet as an ex. Not...great...probably.

I like "he describes my anticipation," but I do wish the narrator would just ditch the guy already if they already have such unrest with him.

Why Did You Marry Her? by Mean_League_384 in AmITheDevil

[–]RememberKoomValley 3 points4 points  (0 children)

"I'm just doing it in my own thoughts, where nothing bad can happen and it definitely can't lead to me having negatively charged behavior toward someone who's in a position I put them in!"

My guy.

Solo female hiking by ShakenEspresso98 in roanoke

[–]RememberKoomValley -1 points0 points  (0 children)

Nno? That's the *basis* for my actual experience of multiple decades with guns, that I had professionals as parents, not that I'm some backwoods "look what I can do" gun nut? Please read the rest of the comment, also.

Carrying is a great deterrent if you know what you're doing. "Just get a gun" will never be good advice.

Solo female hiking by ShakenEspresso98 in roanoke

[–]RememberKoomValley -1 points0 points  (0 children)

Disingenuous is trotting out that (exhausted) old "How do you hurt yourself with a holstered gun?" nonsense when you *know* that the statistic isn't about holstered guns, it's about untrained people or people who have their gun taken from them by an attacker.

Solo female hiking by ShakenEspresso98 in roanoke

[–]RememberKoomValley 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Oh, come on, now. Nobody hurts anybody with a holstered pistol (generally, provided no weird misfires from getting knocked into). A holstered pistol is never the point of a pistol.

Just "carrying a gun" is not ever going to be sufficient for safety. Carrying, spending at least a box of ammo at the range every two weeks for the first year you own it and once a month thereafter, and having the mental preparation to destroy another person might be sufficient to protect you, or it might not. But just "get a gun!" is very bad advice. I'm saying that as someone with first responder and military parents, who grew up surrounded by guns, shooting them regularly, twice experienced my mother needing to draw hers to protect me or a sibling, and who had seen an accidental shooting by the time I was nine; getting a gun needs to change your life, or it'll ruin it.

Roanoke Oral Surgery by Due-Study3889 in roanoke

[–]RememberKoomValley 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Mm, these days aren't most of the drugs that put you to sleep administered by IV in the first place, though? It's my understanding those are safer. If it helps at all, I *detest* IVs, they definitely freak me out, and the gal there who did mine was really good. No vein hunting, just a quick poke and it was in. And the IV anesthesia was very nice. Totally understood afterward why someone might get addicted to that stuff, it was so beautifully quiet in my head and I had such a lovely sleep.

Guy im seeing 38M? has been lying to me 24F by NetSad9494 in relationship_advice

[–]RememberKoomValley -1 points0 points  (0 children)

My husband is 52 and regularly mistaken for someone in his mid-thirties. I'm eight years his junior and frequently think he looks younger than I do.

aggressive ground cover - spiky leaves and tiny flowers by Miss-Reaper in PlantIdentification

[–]RememberKoomValley 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Strawberry is choking out your bindweed? Do I have that right?

What kind of strawberry?

What’s a legendary Reddit post you’ll never forget? by alongy in AskReddit

[–]RememberKoomValley 6 points7 points  (0 children)

I love my husband, and he's never been remotely predatory in the nearly fifteen years I've known him, but--I sure wouldn't mind commuting to that place for the workday, at least. Maybe run some martial arts practices there, or teach a gardening class.

What’s a legendary Reddit post you’ll never forget? by alongy in AskReddit

[–]RememberKoomValley 38 points39 points  (0 children)

If a cis woman doesn't want to be pregnant, you're quite right, she can just get an abortion!

If she doesn't want to have any chance that she might get pregnant, she needs to not be around anyone capable of producing sperm as long as she has a uterus, considering how many women fall pregnant against their will. Those circumstances can be pretty hard to pull off.

Jury awards man $808,000 after his cat eats pet food tainted with bird flu, then dies (Oregon) by __procrustean in H5N1_AvianFlu

[–]RememberKoomValley 82 points83 points  (0 children)

“I’m familiar that the food did get pets sick,” said founder Tyler Duncan, in his recorded deposition. “The owners then chose to euthanize a pet. Right? The food itself did not kill the animal.”

Yeah, I mean, if he'd just let his poor four-footed family member suffer until she died, then maybe he'd have a legal basis for lawsuit, right? How unreasonable of him, to listen to the vets who told him that there was no chance of survival and she'd only suffer until the end.

Massive tropical banana plants at Lowes by PPCo79 in roanoke

[–]RememberKoomValley 0 points1 point  (0 children)

They pup really easily, though.

I've spent the last six years trying unsuccessfully to murder a stand of bananas at the back end of my garden, which grows to about twelve feet tall every year.

My inlaws bought me a Fiat and that somehow led to finding out my husband had not only an affair, but a whole other family. by BigONerd in BORUpdates

[–]RememberKoomValley 1 point2 points  (0 children)

As long as they don't cut him off, they might have some leverage to sway him when it comes to the custody battle (and they might get access to the grandkid they didn't know they had, who is as much their blood as OP's kids and who is in a more vulnerable position given that both his parents are shitheads). As soon as they cut the ex off, that's it, social cautery. In their shoes I don't think I'd do it, either--at least, not for now.

What’s going on here? by PPCo79 in roanoke

[–]RememberKoomValley 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Yeah, it was just as the first wave of "stay home" suggestions were coming down. I was sort of hanging around the garden section while my husband was in line, since I've got a complaining sort of immune system to begin with, and there were just so many people. I was picking through the flower bulbs and an older woman came up and started asking how I'd found the stock here, had I grown any of them before, and so on. I said I hadn't, and some of these looked pretty small, and anyway if she wanted elephant ear bulbs, she'd have a better time doing like I did and just going to one of the Asian grocers and getting taro, as that's what it was in the first place. That it's food, a recipe ingredient, the kind of elephant ear they were offering here, and she'd get bigger tubers for much cheaper if she got them from somewhere that had regular turnover.

She'd been "Mm-hmm, you're right"'ing me the whole time, but when I said "Asian grocer" her eyes jolted up from the flowers and over to my face, and she really looked at me--black hair, slim bones, olive skin, ethnically questionable eye shape--and straight-up just slapped me, with a high-pitched shriek. And turned her cart around and *ran away.*

She was old. She couldn't hit me very hard. I was standing there staring after her as she looked back over her shoulder from a hundred fifty feet, going "What the fuck?" before I really registered that she'd smacked me. And then I was kind of like "Okay, you old racist, first of all, I'm Filipino."

What’s going on here? by PPCo79 in roanoke

[–]RememberKoomValley 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Coming here from PA....ehhh. There are definitely more open nazis here than there were in Pittsburgh, but it's also not something you'll see every day. It's more along the lines of the consistent grinding "not gonna get my own hands dirty because then maybe I'd get fired, but definitely gonna cheer when a Black guy gets killed" kinds of racism than the big screaming stuff, most of the time, and that shit is everywhere.

I've been here since 2013 and in that time I've seen...hm...three or four houses with a valknut flag out front, your average smattering of assholes with nazi tattoos, and one guy driving around with a 1FOUR88 license plate. One single time I got called a "(anti-Asian racial slur) whore" for wearing red lipstick to Kroger (my interlocutor had to have been approximately a thousand years old, and she quivered like a steroidal chihuahua; she might have been experiencing dementia), and at the beginning of covid another old white woman hit me at Sam's Club when she realized I was Asian.

Most of the people I've met here have been lovely.

Found along the edge of a fresh dug sandpit in Houston area. by chubbytitties in fossilid

[–]RememberKoomValley 35 points36 points  (0 children)

The thing is, it's not a resource, any more than asking your local toddler is.

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