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Some would say that the necessary advanced wave handshaking from absorber to emitter is retrocausal in nature. ie actions in the present being influenced by future microstates. This idea is central to the Transactional Interpretation (TI) of quantum mechanics. The jury is still considering the matter.

... and I thought it was just a recasting of the algebra of capitalist microeconomics.

The UK government is backing a plan to capture a good part of 12 million tpa CO2 produced by power generators and other industrial produces along the Yorkshire half of the M62 corridor. Disposal will be via the existing coastal gas pipeline infrastructure at Easington out to a subsea saline aquifer. BBC Link PS Primary target is one of my old workplaces

I concur. Leaving aside inundation through rising sea levels, the only way to make non-capital buildings safe from such wind forces would be a total rebuild from the ground up. Save on the demolition costs. Let the hurricane do it.

In my schooldays we were told to spell it 'cello with the apostrophe included. Not a word I write very often despite having a musical background. I guess the apostrophe has gone? I imagine it confused the hell out of the alphabetic sort routines.

Stands to reason. The JWs are obligate proselytisers with much persistence and few scruples over method. From family experience, I know they targetted the deaf community and other vulnerable groups in the UK. I would have thought that even they would realised that there are slim pickings to be had amongst the science community. Honing his debating skills possibly?

Lectures and occasional teaching at Harvard and Cornell; speeches on stuff like slavery to the UN; that's his usual sort of itinerary. Nothing any reasonable person could possibly take exception to.

Nigerian Nobel Laureate, Wole Soyinka was informed by the US embassy this week that his visa had been revoked. No reason was given. Report here

Personally, I try to be an adult: that is, I choose to take full ownership of my actions, inactions, and their consequences, foreseen or otherwise. If I succeed, I try at least sometimes to give credit to others. If I fail, I blame no one (natural or otherwise) but myself. I understand that their are different paths to take - my wife of 22 years for example, is quite religious, and it doesn't lead to conflict; the diversity of approach can be made into a common strength. However, on my chosen path, there is no place for a either a god or his babble. They simply become irrelevances.

And it's wrong. The bible has no intrinsic meaning of its own; only the meaning you choose to assign to it. Whatever that was you wrote (tldr).

Some time in the mid-sixties, my mother visited a woman in a neighbouring village, taking me along with her. For a while, I was left alone sitting in this exquisitely decorated sitting room too scared to move for fear of knocking over some precious ornament or other. So I just sat there listing to the ticking of an expensive looking carriage clock that had pride of place on the mantlepiece. I began counting the ticks. For some reason, that experience embedded itself so deeply in my memory that I can recall it at will. And I do, even now sixty years on whenever I need to time some activity. Shortly, I'll be making some rotis. They need 40 seconds each side in a dry pan on a medium high gas flame. I'll just put myself back in that room and count the ticking of that carriage clock. Am I really a six or seven year- old boy in some suburban bungalow in Copmanthorpe or wherever it was? No, of course not. It's just a figment of my imagination rekindled by circumstance and amplified by emotional association and habit. Is it 'right' or 'wrong'? Wrong question. It just works for me.

Lifted lock stock and barrel from Gilgamesh. It's someone else's mythology.

Metal screw caps don't work here as corrosion makes them jam fast. I've got a bunch of small (1 litre-ish) wide-necked jars with cork stoppers which I find very handy. But otherwise it's the Kilners. They're wonderful devices really. And burping them each morning during the ferment isn't much of a chore. Actually, it would be a doddle to fit a length of 5 mm flexible pipe on those cork stoppers. Loop it with a couple of cable ties for an airlock and Bob's your uncle. Bet I could make them fit the Kilners too. Why didn't this occur to me months ago? Of course, 4 mm OD silicone air hose would be perfect! Now all I need to do is find someone who services pneumatic equipment and cadge some of their stock. How much can a couple of metres of that cost? Bottle of Jack Daniels?

Or just let the float rise and fall as necessary, like a floating roof tank for storage of flammable liquids. Add a smaller diameter insert inside the base of the pipe, drop in a suitably sized ball bearing and hey presto, we have a pretty good non-return valve to let the CO2 out without letting any O2 in. Should work very well.

As with @Sensei 's fermentation airlock (as if I wasn't using them 50 years ago for brewing my own beer🙄), I'm not going to blow a month's pension trying to DHL alcohol related merchandise into the Islamic end of a country with a customs service that makes the orange one look like a novice street corner hustler. Look, I know it's difficult for people who've not lived in a place like this to understand, but many things you take for granted, and don't even consider not being available when you want them, just aren't available here. So bear with me. When I say something is a 'logistical challenge', I mean that it may as well be fabricated from unobtainium ⚒️ PS Did that sound a bit rantish? Actually, I'm just chilling out on the balcony with a ciggie or two and a little nightcap to see me off to the Land of Nod. In late October, wearing just shorts and sandals. Life's good. No issues at all with you just pipping me to the post at the last minute in yesterday's rep race. I'm way above that kind of pettiness. Honestly. Pleased for you actually. 😉

I've just discovered that those glass cups fit my small 1 litre Kilner jars as well, so I've evicted some lime pickle elsewhere and used one to ferment some okra I've been unsure of what to do with. Okra floats so for sure, the vegetable oil barrier is going to be less effective. So +1 for steering me towards a workable solution for that one.

Really? I was under the impression that 500,000 Scoville was lethal to Lactobacilli etc.

I've something rather like stemless brandy glasses that match the throat of one of my Kilner sizes leaving an annulus of 1 or 2 mm for gas to escape. They work quite well, at keeping the stuff submerged. I'm not knocking the principle, or any of the alternative solutions. Rather I'm asking if anyone can think of an issue with the oil seal method described that I might have missed. I'm curious as to why no one else seems to use it. It is cheap, and does appear quite effective.

So silly of me to place more trust in my own personal experience than online sources... Seriously, while you can stop fermentation by refrigeration after 7 days, you can also allow fermentation to continue for longer, developing more acidity and more complex flavour. By 'rapid fermenters' I mean those that degas almost explosively when I pop open the lid each morning. I don't get that with carrots or radishes (or Scotch bonnets, or jalapenos, or Ethiopian nightshade etc). I can't see onions helping as they have a high sugar content that would encourage yeast growth. Regarding the rest, don't you find that their strong taste overpowers the subtle flavours you're trying(?) to develop? I'm using a 6.5% brine for my Scotch bonnets/habaneros/ata rodo peppers. The yeast will still have a go at any floaters even at that strength. I've never had any hypertension issues (touchwood) and don't share the rampant online salt phobia. But there are limits.

When it starts issuing proclamations of 'death to all infidels' and stuff of similar murderous nature. As evidenced even in this thread, the word has become so diluted through misuse as to be almost worthless in serious discussion. To me, it usually flags a bad actor simply badmouthing some school of thought he happens not to agree with. Apologies if some find this viewpoint a tad extreme.

Back when I lived in Huddersfield, I used to grow many Alpines and species rhododendron simply because they didn't mind the odd sharp frost in late May. They survived the local conditions where faster growing but less cold adapted plants would wither. It isn't the actual altitude that matters afaik, but the ability to survive local conditions that potential competing species cannot.

Well that explains it then.

Doubt it. Crete's quite a long trek from Tibet.

First tell me why you chose a username that celebrates a man who sent many thousands of allied naval crew and civilian seamen to their graves in WWII. Well 'Silent Otto'?