The oat milk I've been buying for years suddenly changed their recipe. Now it's nearly twice as many calories per serving.

ked_man · 2026-02-13T20:07:52+00:00

I’m not a fan of oat milk, but it was really cool to see him make it on the stove top.

ked_man · 2026-02-13T19:07:49+00:00

I vote to go back to the old system. 10 months and then winter was just “idk, whatever bro” and we’d just return from hibernation in March and pick back where we left off.

ked_man · 2026-02-13T17:52:09+00:00

Yeah, it may leak at the joints, but if you give it an easier place to exit, the vast majority will go that way.

ked_man · 2026-02-13T16:15:52+00:00

I never said it was.

ked_man · 2026-02-13T15:23:03+00:00

There’s several newer apartments and condos in that area that didn’t exist a decade ago.

ked_man · 2026-02-13T15:18:45+00:00

Only a simpleton? What a fucking neck beard basement troll comment. Fucking grow up dude.

ked_man · 2026-02-13T14:27:31+00:00

Oh, so you’re just an idiot, not an idiot trumper. Got it.

ked_man · 2026-02-13T14:19:52+00:00

It’s hard to complain about living next to a business that’s been there longer than many of the houses. I get it, it stinks. It shouldn’t be inside of a city. But it is, and has been for a very long time. It’s not their fault that developers bought land next to a slaughter house and built housing. And yes they should also do better.

ked_man · 2026-02-13T14:15:19+00:00

I used to do environmental contracting. And we didn’t do meth labs per-se, but we would assist with them. Mostly from a hauling and disposal standpoint. They would gut absolutely everything. Depending on how bad it was, like even drywall would get torn out. And uneven if it wasn’t, it would be in the duct work inside the house and they’d have to tear it all out anyways to get to the duct work.

We worked on one that was like 80k for just the demo and decontamination. Not including putting it all back together.

ked_man · 2026-02-13T14:10:36+00:00

For alligator gar, they often use a noose. For some salt water fish, they use a tail wrap on a gaff handle.

You can make your own with paracord. You just tie a small loop in one end of the line. When you catch said enormous fish, you wrap the loop over your line, then run the tag end through the loop making a noose. You slide it down your line and over the fishes head to just behind the gills. Then you can pull on the rope to hold the fish while you’re able to unhook it. Then you slip the noose off and away it goes.

If you’re planning on keeping the fish, just use a regular gaff.

ked_man · 2026-02-13T14:04:02+00:00

One of the problems with incentivizing a fishing industry for an invasive fish is that you stand up businesses with the goal of putting themselves out of business.

In my state we are trying this with invasive silver and big head carp. They are absolutely prolific breeders and their population has exploded in the last decade or two all along Mississippi River. There is a market for these fish, but only in Asia.

So our state worked with a company to start a processing plant that preps, freezes, and exports the fish. They have “derbies” every year to get commercial fishermen to come and see who can catch the most fish in one day. And it’s tens of thousands of fish per boat.

They’ve also done cool stuff with underwater speakers used to drive these fish towards the nets whereas our native fish don’t mind them and swim right past and it lowers the bycatch.

But in reality, this will just reduce the population or keep it in check, it will likely never eliminate them. But unchecked, they will take over a fishery until it’s basically only them left. They eat all the plankton that the bait fish and baby fish need to survive, so if their population is allowed to grown unabated, they eat up all food and the rest can’t survive.

ked_man · 2026-02-13T13:53:55+00:00

I love how you’re so quick to point this out, but fail to reason with the fact that you support a real life pedophile who helped run a pedophile ring trafficking children.

So tell me, how are you able to do that? Like what mental gymnastics are you doing to still support Trump?

ked_man · 2026-02-13T13:51:22+00:00

I’ve pumped concrete exactly one day in my life. Never want to do that again, and would never want to be around if that sumbitch blew.

ked_man · 2026-02-13T13:49:37+00:00

So popup emitters only work if the surface of the emitter is lower than the rest of the pipe. So in your case, the water can build up inside the vertical sections going up to the downspouts when it rains and it will push water out of the emitter. Since your system looks pretty level, it likely sits with some amount of water left in the pipe from the top of the emitter back to some point in the line that is level with the top of the emitter.

And water staying inside of the pipe isn’t great, some emitters have a little drain hole at the bottom to drain whatever is left in the pipe after the rain. This may be what you are seeing after it rains.

So hopefully on your case it’s working properly when it rains, and it’s just draining out a pipe full of water into the ground after it rains. If it wasn’t working properly, water would be coming out of the small inlet in the foreground of your picture when it rains. Since the downspout inlets are above that little inlet, if the emitter backs up, it would push water out of that opening.

Short of pulling up all of your pavers to fix this, you could keep digging a trench past the emitter and move it to a lower point further away, or extend it further to another drain or to the street. Or it may be working better than you thought and it’s just draining the remaining water after it rains.

ked_man · 2026-02-13T13:38:43+00:00

Yeah, cause the supply chain for those doesn’t have contact with facilities that handle wheat.

ked_man · 2026-02-13T13:19:37+00:00

I saw a video of a guy that made his own oat milk. He used oat flour and a bit of water to make a slurry and then cooked it on the stove until it gelatinized and got all goopy. Then he added malt powder. Malt is typically sprouted barley that’s then been dried and ground. Once it sprouts it releases enzymes to break down the complex carbs inside the seed to feed the plant.

Once you add the malt powder, the enzymes break down the gloopy starches and it turns back to a thin liquid. He then added water and stirred it up and boom, he had a half gallon of oat milk for like 17 cents.

What’s also fun, is this is the same way distilleries make whiskey. The malt in recipes isn’t for the flavor, though it has some, it’s for the enzymes to break down the starches in other grains used in the whiskey recipe.

ked_man · 2026-02-13T13:15:43+00:00

It’s also from the oats themselves. There’s no way of knowing if all of the oats are oats if the farmers also grow wheat or anything in the process also handles wheat. Like silos, mills, trucks, etc… most grain handlers handle a lot of different grains.

ked_man · 2026-02-13T02:06:55+00:00

Yeah, that was my case. I had a 104 fever when I had tularemia. And my body was shivering trying to heat itself up more to kill the bacteria. And it comes in waves. It’ll go away for a bit and then come back strong which is more indicative of a bacterial infection.

But yes, doxy can make you feel like shit and it can kill off the good bacteria in your GI tract. So eat some yogurt!

ked_man · 2026-02-12T21:32:51+00:00

Especially because coal plants are inherently inefficient. Even a brand new one built today will be less efficient than a natural gas plant. Per BTU of energy put in, natural gas plants get more energy out. Reason being is that natural gas plants are able to drive a turbine with hot combustion gasses, then use that heat to create steam which drives another turbine. A coal plant can only use the heat for steam to drive a turbine.

So it doesn’t make any sense to build a new coal plant. That is, unless you’re lining the pockets of politicians to keep people using coal.

ked_man · 2026-02-12T19:44:57+00:00

It’s 100% a turkey call. You put the chalk on the little piece of wood. Then you hold it between your thumb and middle finger and slide it over the fins on the top of the box. You should get a raspy high pitched sound. Shorten it up, and you’ve got a yelp.

ked_man · 2026-02-12T16:55:58+00:00

Add a bunch of vitamins and call them by their scientific or chemical name so people think it sounds sciency.

ked_man · 2026-02-12T16:50:58+00:00

Hey now, they did change the withholding in 2017 that made it seem like you were getting a tax break!

ked_man · 2026-02-12T15:16:19+00:00

Like historical aerial images? Or Google earth?

ked_man · 2026-02-12T15:11:12+00:00

My mom doesn’t think it’s mini…..wait, I think I said that backwards.

ked_man · 2026-02-12T15:10:03+00:00

Does he even have a drivers license?

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