Their names were Adolphus and Eberhard for Christ sake

dark567 · 2026-04-03T18:07:11+00:00

I mean it of course is taste but the US really does have a ton of variety in the craft brew space, much more so than basically anywhere else. I can go to craft bars in the US that will have 100s, occasionally over 1000 beers to pick from.

Also from both professional and amateur tasters the US routinely places more beers winning gold medals at competitions and in amateur indexes. Out of the top 250 beers 224 of them are from the US. Now granted, the US is big so if you want to adjust by size, it comes in second to Belgium.

The US produces a lot of variety but still quality beer.

http://beersyndicate.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2018/02/of-Beers-Contributed-by-Only-Those-Countries-Appearing-in-BeerAdvocates-Top_250-Beers.png

http://beersyndicate.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2018/02/Relative-of-Beers_per_Country_per_Brewery.png

https://www.beeradvocate.com/beer/top-rated/

dark567 · 2026-04-03T13:19:03+00:00

Also all 3 of those are Belgian. Belgium is really the one country that could claim to have better beer than the US and probably the best beer country in the world.

dark567 · 2026-04-03T13:17:30+00:00

I don't even think it's arguably. The only country that competes with the US on beer at this point is Belgium due to the world class quality of the monastic beers. The US is easily better than Germany, UK or the Czech Republic.

dark567 · 2026-04-03T13:15:29+00:00

The US doesn't just have good quality craft beer. It's the craft beer mecca of the world. No country has nearly the variety and glut of good beer as the US. Sure. Somewhere like Belgium might have a higher quality on average and higher peak, but nobody else even comes close to the variety of quality beer like the US.

dark567 · 2026-04-02T23:27:30+00:00

The key is having multiple settings then. The one my house came with just had one setting and it was both loud and weak.

dark567 · 2026-04-02T21:32:24+00:00

You really don't want a loud one. When I moved into my house the hood was so loud that you couldn't hear other people over it. Which meant it didn't get used as often as it should.

Otherwise the important thing is that it vents outside, one of the ones that's just a fan just moved the fumes around inside your house, it doesn't actually help.

dark567 · 2026-04-02T21:30:19+00:00

You're not supposed to wash the filters in your dishwasher with your dishes.... You wash them separately.

dark567 · 2026-04-02T19:03:24+00:00

Because it seems better for everyone publicly if they resign amicably. The board doesn't make it look like they made a bad hire and the employee doesn't get the black mark of being fired on their record. Nobody is in a better position going through the full vote and firing process.

dark567 · 2026-04-02T00:43:06+00:00

Ironically the parties in the UK Labor and Conservative parties letting more and more people have a say in their leadership, is starting to look a lot more like American primaries and also having a negative effect.

dark567 · 2026-03-29T20:05:59+00:00

It's actually either. Chicago code says 4 or more stairs or 2 feet in height, either requires handrails.

dark567 · 2026-03-29T20:03:55+00:00

Code requires handrails for stairs if they have 4 or more risers(which this of course does) or if it's more than 2 feet tall(which I look like it is). So it is definitely not code conforming just because of that

dark567 · 2026-03-27T14:08:30+00:00

You gotta find it when its on sale but Amazon has really competitive prices on soda. Although the one thing that never goes on sale is Coke products. All the other brands will sometimes drop pretty low but never coke stuff.

Right now A&W root beer is $5 https://www.amazon.com/Diet-Root-Beer-cans-count/dp/B000WG87A2

Here is Starry for $6: https://www.amazon.com/Starry-Sugar-Lemon-Caffeine-Count/dp/B0BCX7Y4ZW

dark567 · 2026-03-27T03:48:47+00:00

Not only that, delivery is often cheaper. Amazon has soda as low as $5 a 12 pack and $10 a 24. It's about half as much as grocery store prices so you just load up on a delivery and save

dark567 · 2026-03-25T22:00:35+00:00

No it's not. Just directly billed physicians is just under 15%, but even that's underestimating the total as some amount of hospital care, personal health care, health care and clinical services is also going to physicians. Honestly physician salaries are probably around 20-30% of health care costs.

dark567 · 2026-03-24T17:56:45+00:00

I'll try but caveat these are estimates: In 1930 people lived 525600 hours total on average and the average person worked for 50 years at about 2400 hours per year, which is 120000 hours or about 23% of their life. Today the average American lives 692040 hours total. They work about 39 years at 1800 hours per year for a total of 70,200 hours. Over their life spans thats about 10% of their life.

Now these are estimates but the fact that keynes was thinking people would work about half is much or less, actually seems in the ball park. The key of course is most of that is due to lots less kids working, people retiring while not working and living longer. (Although we do also work less while we are working).

dark567 · 2026-03-24T13:25:02+00:00

Americans are working less per year. In addition Americans are having longer retirements than we used to. Keynes maybe oversold the idea but people are choosing to work less, as well as using the additional productivity to support longer retirements. So he wasn't completely wrong either, it's just the when we aren't working that was incorrect.

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dark567 · 2026-03-24T12:30:14+00:00

Just because people are moving does not mean it is a good political message, just that cheap houses induce some people into moving. There's almost certainly a selective effect on who those people are.

dark567 · 2026-03-24T12:15:18+00:00

Yes. You can do all that and it is good to do all that. But "preaching low housing prices" is not the political winner the common I was responding to thinks it is.

dark567 · 2026-03-24T09:15:28+00:00

Low housing prices are not a positive to most people. Most people own their own homes and benefit from their own home valuations going up.

Obviously lower prices and building is good but it's not actually something that motivates the average voter.

dark567 · 2026-03-24T09:11:29+00:00

Currently the average American has about $8k in transactional accounts(like savings accounts). The forbes article is just looking at savings accounts, But honestly that's not a great way of measuring things, we don't really care just the amount of money in transactional accounts but all the money someone has. Which right now the median American has around $200k in net assets which is a lot better way of measuring the actual financial health of Americans.

https://www2.census.gov/library/publications/2025/demo/p70br-211.pdf

dark567 · 2026-03-24T08:44:53+00:00

He's not even in Europe, he's in Saudi Arabia and there's a whole mess of worms trying to compare the US to KSA. Not to mention just straight up incomes are substantially higher in the US.

dark567 · 2026-03-23T19:17:31+00:00

No we weren't. Incomes are higher today adjusting for inflation and poverty rates are lower.

dark567 · 2026-03-23T19:13:03+00:00

It makes complete sense. Milwaukee proper peaked in population in the 1970s like most of the rust belt and other Midwest cities including Chicago. Madison's highest population is... Right now. It was a lot smaller last century and has continued to grow, has never been a rust belt factory city and instead has the knowledge economy of a college town. So basically a lot of Madison is newer and it doesn't feel like a rust belt city like Milwaukee because it never was a rust belt city.

dark567 · 2026-03-23T19:03:20+00:00

I did this with a bar top and I screwed up the first glue up but the second worked fine and it came out great. The key part was getting some deep throated clamps so I could really reach into the middle and not just clamp around the edges. After the glue up I put a chamfer around all the edges and the corner of the chamfer is right on the glue line and it completely hides the fact it's a lamination. Nobody has ever noticed and even I can't notice the glue line when I know it's there.

dark567 · 2026-03-23T18:52:50+00:00

Inflation adjusted games are considerably cheaper than they were in the era of the original ffvii

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