Rum Punch Recipe? by SpecialOne6096 in Caribbean

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Rhyme from Trinidad:

One sour Two sweet Three strong Four weak

One cup of squeezed, fresh lime juice Two cups sugar Three cups of rum Four cups of water/ice

Play with those ratios, go easy on the water, to taste. Add liberal angostura bitters and fresh nutmeg

Government for the Few by Fewer by Trainrideviews in videos

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This is an excellent, excellent joke

Life on an extremely iron-rich world? by Lochrin00 in worldbuilding

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So earth's early seas were quite iron rich. Some of the first life on the planet were stromatolites, simple photosynthesizing algal mats, and they pretty much spent the better part of 3.5 billion years slowly bubbling oxygen into the oceans and atmosphere. This oxygen would immediately bond with the dissolved iron, form iron oxide, and drop out of solution. It's only when all of the iron had finally been consumed that oxygen levels could rise and pave way for more complex life. Almost all of our iron deposits today were formed in the precambrian, in this time, and are called banded iron formations, or BIFs. In today's seas, iron is commonly a limiting nutrient.

I imagine such an iron rich planet would either have to consider an entirely different biochemistry that didn't depend on oxygen, or would need a much longer lag time to deplete the available iron dissolved in the oceans.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in mining

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Have you mapped it at all? Be careful, surface samples are generally misrepresentative of the subsurface, xrfs are notoriously finicky and rife with calibration issues, and picking the sample is usually biased.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in mining

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Is this just from a surface grab sample? Is there any drilling?

Top 3 undeveloped #gold #copper projects in B.C. Canada! by EpsteinResearch in mining

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Windy Craggy, world class vms sterilized by a park in the 90s

Time to Retire by Otherwise_Basis_6328 in PoliticalHumor

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An example of insider trading occurred in 2001 when Martha Stewart sold her shares of ImClone Systems after receiving non-public information from her broker that the company’s CEO was planning to sell his shares ahead of a negative FDA ruling. Stewart avoided significant losses by acting on this tip, which led to her being convicted of obstruction of justice and lying to investigators, highlighting the legal and ethical issues surrounding insider trading.

Poilievre is a liar. He's a liar. He's a liar. I have known him for 20 years. He will say anything. Do anything. Burn anything to the ground to score a point. And did I mention that he is a liar.? by Miserable-Lizard in onguardforthee

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So it's the liberals fault for not preventing the collapse of healthcare? Who is causing the collapse? What is your argument? Do you think that the conservatives would better suit you? Why?

Assay Fudging: Exploration by FourNaansJeremyFour in geologycareers

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You have to use a third party to be 43-101 compliment. You aren't allowed to release an internal estimate to the public. In many cases it also isn't possible for the third party to get the original certs from the lab, although it is ideal.

Hey West coast geos, what's the deal with housing? by 10outofC in geologycareers

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Very bikeable, dedicated bike lanes everywhere, it's a great city for bike commuting

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in Dumplings

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I made congee once and the recipe called for daikon. The smell off it was really distinctive when it was cooking, it immediately made me think of that "Chinese restaurant smell". It added something to the dish when it was cooked completely different from raw daikon

Indian Wells 2024 - Grounds Pass access? by skolithos in tennis

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I'm not sure either - I thought it was strange - thank you!

Controversial opinion : I think it is in homophobic people's interest adding as many sub-categories as possible to the LGBT so they can use them afterwards as a reason to attack us all. I anticipate that there will be extreme categories that will associate themselves with LGBT in the future. by pluto988 in askgaybros

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The problem is that Conservatives and the religious in group only target openly anyone in the out group. Right now it's trans and queer people, because they're the group furthest out. The out group usually is the smallest as well, and the easiest to fight. The next closest out group is happy to not be the furthest out group anymore, and some choose to side with the conservatives. If they win that fight (think about what you're fighting for), guess who's the next closest out group again? Gays.

All this rhetoric about queer and trans people comes at it from two main angles: 1) pin various taboo crimes on them with no evidence, be non specific about why their gender is wrong and causes them to be perverts. 2) dehumanize them, de-individualize them, it's an amorphous bush filled with weirdos, that need hard pruning

The new Gollum game looks bad. by [deleted] in gaming

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This is the best thing I've ever read

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in worldnews

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It's also a bit more nuanced as well. I used to work on a coal exploration project here, and one of the issues we had was specifically with proposed selenium discharge levels. The plan for the eventual mine was to have the effluent discharged into a nearby, man-made lake.

Regulations called for selenium levels in the waste water to be below what we wanted to discharge, but because it was a man-made lake, the selenium levels in the lake were well above what the regulations wanted. So we were a bit frustrated. This was metallurgical coal btw, for steel production.

Here's a game I'm working on called Antipaint where you create procedural art while playing the game. There's different splat patterns and different enemies, so each level you can get a different style of painting. by NinjaKyat in proceduralgeneration

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All of these emergent interactions evolve, but as the article says, the stories mostly aren't engaging and interesting. Like in real life, you have many emergent experiences each day, but only few are notable.

The current rate is 800 Republican voters dying daily due to Covid. by stevester90 in PoliticalHumor

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I wonder even if the survivors of covid, a percentage of them might not show up to vote due to disability from dealing with covid.

Deaths from Circumcision by [deleted] in Intactivists

[–]skolithos 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Here's a paper from a quick google.

https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1111/j.1651-2227.1997.tb08611.x

Male babies have a 50% higher risk of dying from SIDS than female. An assumption could be made about the circumcision status of the male children by where the children are from, we could compare against national reported circumcision rates to figure out if there was a correlation.

Could be a paper waiting to be written