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GottaLaff, 16 days ago to Canada

#CountdownToCanada ends today! TODAY.

(Click on that hashtag to see all the dopey gifs, including one with Hammy!)

You've been with me every step of the way and for that I thank you.❤️

👉🏼Here are the links to the why, how, and omg it's happening blogs: https://mastodon.social/@GottaLaff/112413459979525215👈🏼

For the next few days we'll be on the road to #Canada 🇨🇦, our new home. Bear with me for not replying w/ more than a "like" & for not live-posting the #TrumpTrial.

I'll post alerts & pop in.

IT'S HAPPENING!!

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jeppe, 1 month ago to random Danish

"Kronik
Vi var ved protesten på Columbia Universitet og kan ikke genkende pressens udlægning
Vi har befundet os i og omkring forsamlingen af telte, som politiet blev sat ind for at fjerne. Det var en fredelig protest, der skabte samhørighed og læring, og hvis krav blev mødt med vold"

https://www.information.dk/debat/2024/05/ved-protesten-paa-columbia-universitet-kan-genkende-pressens-udlaegning?kupon=eyJpYXQiOjE3MTUxNTEzMzIsInN1YiI6IjE5NTEwOjgyMTA1MCJ9.nTyTC6z6B2-Z27F2UXiY8Q

apodoxus, 1 month ago to random

Pro tip: If the world changes, update your theory if necessary. 😆 Fucking humans.

markwyner, 3 months ago to KindActions

Hi. Today is my birthday.

I’ve been here a while now but I’m still figuring things out. I’m not great at lifing but I keep trying. Growing every day. And I’ll never figure it all out, but that’s okay; it’s a journey not a destination.

I’m grateful for the amazing things life has gifted to me. Of which there is an abdunace. I forget because of the suffering. But taking a moment to pause and remember the good stuff helps a lot.

Have a good day, y’all.

#Birthday #Gratitude #Suffering

Jaden3, 3 months ago to random

I be tryna talk to God but I feel better on da pills 🤣 gon tell Momma I be skipping da church house next week 🤷🏿.
Pray fo me my ass gon be buried 🤣

Jaden3, 3 months ago to random

Ion get how mfs speak so highly on loyalty but don stand onnat shit they self 🤷🏿

Jaden3, 4 months ago to random

This convo....
I said to my grampa ' it black history month next month gramps'
' fk is dat?'
' celebrating our history '
' jaden these people will always see you as a nigga, fk that shit '
😏
Yall got remember my gramps was bought up in mississippi!!!
So I said gramps tell me da shit y'all grew up in an I post that .
So that wan imma gon do . Tell his stories in this month 🗣🗣 my gramps swear like a mf tho I warn yall 🤣 in his words 😤
#blackhistorymonth

Teri_Kanefield, 4 months ago (edited 4 months ago) to random

I have my weekend blog post ready. I always put it here first. The first few people will get that error. Just wait a minute and try again.

I plan to demonstrate that any democratic government—by its very nature and under its own terms—will have a dangerous anti-democratic opposition because eliminating the opposition cannot be done using democratic means.

The opposition can be blunted and, with constant work. . .

1/

https://terikanefield.com/the-anti-democratic-opposition/

Leisureguy, 4 months ago to food

Burmese tofu revisited — and easier.

A video that shows an easy way to make Burmese tofu from lentils and chickpeas.

https://leisureguy.ca/2024/01/19/chickpea-pancake/

@vegancooking @wfpb
#food #recipe #WFPB #vegan #vegetarian #omnivore #health #tofu #BurmeseTofu #lentils

peterbutler, 5 months ago to vegan

So … my ex-wife (who used to be vegan with me but got redpilled in 2020) is now teaching our 12 year old how to cook meat

That’s a bummer

I don’t have any family or friends now who are vegan, which is also a bummer

If you got one, I could use a good pep talk right now, vegan folks :sadness:

It is the right thing to do, isn’t it? I’m not the one who’s wrong?

#Vegan #Depression

francis, 5 months ago to vegan

One day I was on a public space, and then when one person heard that I follow a #vegan diet, he started to talk how plants are carcinogenic, that one should never eat plants.

He said also that plant-based diets deprive you from certain substances that will in the long term (which he said could be months to decades) damage your brain.

The guy also said that cholesterol is good for you. He said he is a researcher on cancer cells.

It freaked me out a bit. I sensed it was bullshit. (cont.)

GottaLaff, 5 months ago to Denmark

#Denmark's Queen Margrethe II, who has reigned for 52 years, announces surprise abdication live on TV in new year address

https://bbc.in/48w4R3f

lednabwm, 5 months ago to random

Does anyone doubt this?

kas, 5 months ago to plant_milk

:boost_requested:

TL;DR: Does E418 (gellan gum) inhibit lactic acid fermentation of organic soy milk?

/cc @fermentation | @vegan ]

For a couple of a years I have been making my own vegan yoghurt by emptying the contents of two probiotic capsules into a litre of organic soy milk, mixing thouroughly, and then letting the milk sit in a yoghurt maker (or a pressure cooker set on the yoghurt program) for 14 hours. The effective working time is less than 5 minutes, and the result is a wonderfully tangy and creamy plantbased yoghurt. It's one of the easiest things you can make in your kitchen — or so I thought until yesterday:

For my own convenience I used a different brand of soy milk, because I thought that organic soy milk was organic soy milk. However, when the incubation periode was over yesterday, the soy milk was still runny — it didn't seem to have coagulated at all. No problem, I gave it 6 hours more (for a total of 20 hours): still runny, and not the slightest sour. WTF?

To exclude the possibility that I — in a fit of distraction — had taken some other capsules from the fridge than the probiotics, I repeated the procedure with a fresh carton of the same brand of soy milk, making sure that I used the probiotics this time. Same result: after 14 hours of “fermentation” the soy milk was still runny and not tangy at all (the taste was just like lukewarm soy milk and it didn't have even the slightest resemblance to yoghurt).

Both brands (we can call them Coop365 and Spir) of soy milk are of the sweetened type with added vanilla flavour. Coop365 (the one I usually use) is made from 8.5% soy beans and has 3.7 g protein per 100 g. Spir is made from 8% soy beans and has 3.2 g protein per 100 g. Both are organic, and both are sweetened with organic cane sugar. Coop365 has a slightly lower salt content than Spir — 1.2‰ vs 1.8‰ — but in such low concentrations it should not have any effects on lactic acid fermentation.

The only real difference between the two soy milks according to the fact box on the cartons is that while Spir contains E418, also known as gellan gum, Coop365 doesn't. Gellan gum is said to be “inert”, and according to the woodchuck book it is often used in “plant-based milks to keep plant protein suspended in the milk”:

🔗 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gellan_gum#Food_science

Both soy milks coagulate readily when adding a small amount of e.g. lemon juice. According to a page I read yesterday, the curdle point of soy milk is around pH 5.5.

The probiotic capsules that I use contains three different species of lactics: Lactobacillus acidophilus, Bifidobacterium lactis (syn.: B. animalis), and Lactobacillus rhamnosus (syn.: Lacticaseibacillus rhamnosus). All three of them are found/used in dairy products such as fermented milk.

Now my question is simply: Do any of you fedizens have experiential, or otherwise solid, knowledge that E418 is able to inhibit lactic acid fermentation of soy milk as described above? Or, when reading my description, does your experience tell you that “Hey, the Spir didn't ferment because of …!”?

Thanks in advance! 🙏

#BifidobacteriumAnimalis
#BifidobacteriumLactis
#E418
#fermentation
#fermentedMilk
#gellanGum
#LacticaseibacillusRhamnosus
#LactobacillusAcidophilus
#LactobacillusRhamnosus
#plantBased
#plantghurt
#soyMilk
#vegan
#yoghurt
#yogurt

apodoxus, 5 months ago to random

Why is there no emoji for the Grinch, eh? Bah fucking humbug to you all!

RustyBertrand, 6 months ago to random

"A human complication beyond the reach of morals. From it there sprang, alongside the treason and slaughter, decent people and good deeds..."

-Ian McEwan, Saturday

futurebird, 6 months ago to random

A tale of Ordovician squid civilization. They left very little evidence since they evolved to live in tidal straits rare, fresh water/salt water mixed environments they exploited then destroyed in 100,000 years.

There are also hints of a race of intelligent arthropods of the Carboniferous. They only last 50,000 years.

We might not even be the first smart ape.

A clear pattern emerges: the intelligence + radical environment shaping strategy has been tried and has failed many times.

TheConversationUS, 7 months ago to ai

The ancientJewish mysticism of Kabbalah, which finds deep meaning in sequences of letters and numbers, resonates in generative #AI like #ChatGPT, robots and DNA coding.

“Like the golem, robots, androids and even AI are powered with recombinations of elemental units. Instead of Hebrew letters, the units are ones and zeros. In both instances, the specific permutation makes all the difference.”

https://theconversation.com/from-ancient-jewish-texts-to-androids-to-ai-a-just-right-sequence-of-numbers-or-letters-turns-matter-into-meaning-207895
#Robotics #Mysticism @folklore

futurebird, 7 months ago to random

I remember when I was a kid doing stage crew I spent an embarrassing amount of time thinking & planning what music I’d play when it was my big chance to select a song on the paint splattered shop tape player. I’d preplay the songs while jogging all week whittling it down to a short list which I’d carefully cue up the night before. (The shop master didn’t tolerate fast forwarding.) I’d always have a few options ready— in case someone wanted to hear another from the same composer. (they never did)

apodoxus, 7 months ago to random

GODISNOWHERE

mkwadee, 7 months ago to CalvinAndHobbes

#CalvinAndHobbes by #BillWatterson for October 20, 2023 - GoComics

https://www.gocomics.com/calvinandhobbes/2023/10/20

GreatDismal, 7 months ago to random

Haven’t been here for a while, but hope to be here more frequently. A good friend has offered to help me with some aspects of the mechanics of the place that puzzled me earlier.

drahardja, 7 months ago to random

This is so cool! The engineers at MIT discovered that cement and carbon black (paracrystalline carbon) can be mixed to create a supercapacitor that still behaves like cement. That means you can build cement structures that store energy. They estimate that 45 m³ of this material is enough to store 10 kWh (about a day’s worth of energy for a home).

“New Breakthrough in Energy Storage – MIT Engineers Create Supercapacitor out of Ancient Materials”

https://scitechdaily.com/new-breakthrough-in-energy-storage-mit-engineers-create-supercapacitor-out-of-ancient-materials/