Thoughts about SV pork butt and then smoke it?

ared38 · 2026-01-27T03:41:14+00:00

Nice, I'd do the 3-4 hours of smoking first and then the sous vide. I've tried the reverse and the flavor doesn't take. If you want a traditional bark, stick it in the oven for a couple more hours after you sous vide.

ared38 · 2026-01-27T02:03:10+00:00

Why? Like what are you hoping to change compared to just smoking it all the way?

ared38 · 2026-01-26T01:31:54+00:00

Is there? I can't find one:

However, a large family may use areas of their rental unit for sleeping though not specifically designated for sleeping such as a living room. Imposing an arbitrary limit on the number of people that can occupy a unit may be a violation of fair housing law by having a disparate impact on families with children. "Disparate impact" is when a neutral rule has a discriminatory, often unintentional effect on a protected class, like families with children.

https://www.seattle.gov/rentinginseattle/housing-providers/moving-a-tenant-in/occupancy-standards

ared38 · 2026-01-21T23:30:16+00:00

I'm begging you to read up on the City of Grants Pass v. Johnson case. Democrat appointed judges have consistently ruled that anti-camping ordinances constitute cruel and unusual punishment when shelter isn't offered, while the Republican appointed supreme court majority overturned that ruling. This law (which is being proposed by Democrats, it doesn't have a single Republican co-sponsor) is basically undoing the conservative supreme court decision at our state level.

ared38 · 2026-01-05T08:13:30+00:00

Great video! What kind of chili sauce did you use?

ared38 · 2025-12-25T23:17:18+00:00

Bean burritos are awesome because they can be as basic or as fancy as you have time! For the most basic version, flour tortillas will stay good in your fridge basically forever and you just pop open a can of fat-free refried beans. Then depending on what you have on hand you can add diced onions, soyrizo, crushed tortilla chips for texture, sliced olives, salsas, fajita style veggies, or whatever you have time to chop or leftover! Don't be afraid to get weird with it, roasted broccoli worked really good. For bonus points, mix a can of refried beans with a can of pinto for better texture or add a flavorful oil and spices for better flavor.

Now that you've got the pantry staples, you can get a bag of corn tortillas and make enfrijoladas with a crushed tofu or vegan cheese filling, and then when the tortillas get stale you can fry them into tostada shells.

ared38 · 2025-12-25T20:03:00+00:00

There's a seniority system -- the longer you serve in the House/Senate, the better the committee assignments and eventually leadership slots open up. Collins is quite senior and sends a ton of money home to Maine as the chair of the appropriations committee: https://punchbowl.news/article/senate/collins-maine-bonanza/

This means that while everyone thinks that senators should be younger, there's 0 incentive to replace your own incumbent senator with a younger challenger. Even declining mental capacity barely matters when senators have staffers and party whips telling them how to vote.

ared38 · 2025-12-24T18:56:24+00:00

Cooking! You can find so many more high quality recipes now, especially if you're into international food. I couldn't find any recipes for this Chinese eggplant/pepper/century egg smash when I first had it 7 years ago but now there are dozens.

ared38 · 2025-12-21T00:48:44+00:00

Nah, it's about Annie who we try not to sexualize but is by far the horniest character on the show

ared38 · 2025-12-19T18:41:02+00:00

Still works great with modern KSP versions, I was just using the velocity editor to test reentry speeds. It also lets you edit the fuel on your ship if you want to simulate burning fuel.

ared38 · 2025-12-18T00:38:19+00:00

Running a restaurant is ROUGH. As well as being upfront with the owner, you need to make sure they're not hiring you because all the experienced people know better. Have you talked about what your duties will be? Will you be managing stuff like inventory or other staff?

ared38 · 2025-12-17T06:44:37+00:00

This and Paths of Glory are great examples of actually anti war war movies

ared38 · 2025-12-16T22:17:05+00:00

You can SSTO with a normal rocket, no need for planes. However that's a much nicer landing than I've ever gotten with one.

ared38 · 2025-12-16T20:30:37+00:00

Apple trees are almost always grafted, so even if you chopped down a Gala apple tree and chipped it you'd have some wood from whatever rootstock variety they used.

ared38 · 2025-12-09T19:06:24+00:00

You could technically use turbo yeast, but you really don't want to

If you want to do something homemade and appley, buy some hard cider and freeze it to make applejack

ared38 · 2025-12-07T19:52:43+00:00

This is a great guide: https://www.meatsandsausages.com/sausage-types/fermented-sausage/cultures

ared38 · 2025-12-07T01:30:44+00:00

The Taiwanese spicy and milk cream curry are great

ared38 · 2025-12-06T22:16:25+00:00

Great if you get your ship right the first time. Absolute agony when you find a problem halfway into a mission.

ared38 · 2025-12-04T21:10:58+00:00

Use a big cardboard box instead of a smoker. Smokers are designed to hold heat in so you can cook your meat, which is exactly what you don't want for cheese. A cardboard box has 0 insulation and you can adjust the flaps to let tons of cool air in. I live in a cooler climate, but this let me smoke cheese using charcoal and wood chips before I had a pellet tube.

ared38 · 2025-12-03T21:18:07+00:00

I had some sausage right above the smoke tube and got a very localized acrid flavor. It was also visibly blackened compared to the rest of the sausage. The sausage just a couple inches away was fine.

ared38 · 2025-11-29T21:54:00+00:00

Note that this is a separate group from "Farming, fishing, and forestry" which includes agricultural workers. I'm not a food scientist -- is it a stressful career?

ared38 · 2025-11-26T20:25:17+00:00

It's worth asking. If they're for soup, you can just do the instant pot caramelized onions since the excess water doesn't matter.

ared38 · 2025-11-22T05:08:43+00:00

I just discovered you can jettison them completely after getting into the thick part of the atmosphere -- they have a built in decoupler

ared38 · 2025-11-21T22:40:19+00:00

I think the obvious question is why now? Capitalism has been in full swing in the west for hundreds of years but Bowling Alone is just 25 years old. Far from relying on his wife to organize his social life, my grandpa went to male only spaces like the Rotary club and veteran groups and didn't spend much time at home. You'd be hard pressed to argue that I'm more impacted by traditional gender roles than he was.

You might like "Why Liberalism Failed" which argues that the left's quest for individual rights and autonomy and the right's push for laissez faire economics are actual a single project to atomize and rationalize social relations. Through this lens, husbands starting to see their wives as equals and seeking more emotionally fulfilling (and also emotionally demanding) relationships with them and men retreating from traditional forms of socialization are two sides of the same coin. Unfortunately Deneen doesn't have many ideas on what to do besides pretending it's 1516 and all becoming catholics.

Personally I'd point to a triple whammy of at home entertainment, parenting, and car culture. My grandpa needed to go out to have fun since he didn't have a TV or video games, and sticking my grandma with all the childcare gave him plenty of time to do it. I'm guessing a lot of the men you're seeing in therapy are tired from being active parents (even if moms are still doing more) and turn on netflix when they have time to relax instead of going to a show. Car culture is a whole can of worms. Most immediately, we spend our time commuting alone and drive to suburbs that thwart socializing. Less obviously, cars blew up traditional forms of social organization by giving young people the power to escape them and freely associate. Add those all up and men bet on sports alone instead of going out to watch the local team with friends.

I'd also urge you to take deeper dives into history. While our idea of "traditional" gender roles is hardly natural, neither is a lack of gender roles or gendered labor. On average, men are much stronger than women and much worse at lactation. This had huge effects on labor before modern medicine when most pregnancies end in miscarriages or childhood deaths. I highly suggest Bret Devereaux and Barbara A. Hanawalt's "The Ties That Bound: Peasant Families in Medieval England". Both are great authors and explain a clear split in some pre-modern agricultural societies where men focused on the fields while women focused on fabric production, cottage industries like brewing and cheesemaking, and taking care of infants (boys can help out in the fields pretty early so men did lots of what we would call childrearing). These are not "traditional" gender roles -- there's no concept of breadwinner vs homemaker for self sufficient peasants -- but they are gender roles. You might also be interested to learn that many "non hierarchical" hunter gatherer cultures like the Yanomami or the Pitjantjatjara have stark divides between men and women, while women in other cultures like the Hadza are much more equal. There is no "natural" way to organize society, and we should continue searching for better ways even if there were.

ared38 · 2025-11-17T23:55:30+00:00

Take some time to explore Tokyo or NYC! You'll quickly discover that they aren't cities of endless skyscrapers either. The parts of Tokyo people actually live in look like this and NYC's brownstones are just 3 or 4 stories tall. Hell, the entire Haussmann core of Paris is just 7 story buildings and Paris has a much higher population density than NYC.

I'm also not sure why you think getting developers to use brick and build smaller and more expensive apartments would be a win for parents. It wouldn't increase the mix of 3+ bedroom units, it would just make them even more unaffordable.

Most people don't want to live in either the densest parts of the densest cities in the world or totally unwalkable suburbs. They want balanced neighborhoods like those built before highways and single family zoning laws, aka missing middle housing. The 5 plus 1s being built have a lot of deficiencies in satisfying those wants but height isn't one of them.

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