ai6yr

ai6yr, 6 hours ago

"Raw milk enthusiasts are doubling down on the claimed benefits and safety of their favorite elixir, and say the government warnings are nothing more than “fearmongering.”" 🙄 #h5n1 #hpai #birdflu #milk

ai6yr, 6 hours ago

👀 "Mark McAfee, founder of Fresno’s Raw Farm and the Raw Milk Institute, said his phone has been ringing off the hook with “customers asking for H5N1 milk because they want immunity from it.”" #h5n1 #hpai #birdflu #milk

Legit_Spaghetti, 4 hours ago

@ai6yr If you squint REALLY hard, you can sort of trace the lineage of this particular dumb idea.

The word "vaccination" originally traces back to milkmaids who'd catch cow pox, which is a mild disease in humans (relatively speaking), and develop immunity to smallpox, which is a deadly disease. "Variolae Vaccinae" is Latin for "cow pustules," hence "vaccination."

However, cases where humans have contracted H5N1 have thus far been anything but mild, so I think these folks are playing with fire.

harkank, 5 hours ago

@ai6yr
Oh boy, these people want to drink non- pasteurized milk produced by large cattle farms already struggling to keep their produce up to the rather lenient US health standards. European perspective of course. = ;)

LALegault, 2 hours ago

@ai6yr @VeeRat

The Venn Diagram between anti-vaxxers and raw milk enthusiasts ⭕️

Viss, 4 hours ago

@ai6yr so disney uses btle for those weirdo tracker wristbands they use for .. something. i forget, im not in the disney cult myself, but apparently theres a pass you can get that gets you ... something? and the underlying tech is that "its just a a btle beacon with a wristband they charge an exorbitant amount for"

ai6yr, 3 hours ago

Hmm, one of my solar controllers has Bluetooth enabled by default. Password was 000000. 😱 #Bluetooth #scanning

m501, 4 hours ago

@Viss @ai6yr yeah, disney bluetooth MagicBand (tm)

LabSpokane, 2 hours ago

@ai6yr This is known as, “Leisure Suit Larry Mode” where the device will try to amorously pair with any device walking by.

mjf_pro, 4 hours ago

@ai6yr Very good BBQ, Tex-Mex, pan-Asian, Indian, French, continental Italian, and more. We’re not quite the same level of “foodiness” as Chicago or Philly, but we ain’t bad either. Just NY/Philly working-class Italian-style deli and bagels — and Chinese — have tended to be weak or nonexistent here.

ai6yr, 8 hours ago

Hmm, recipes all seem to essentially be:

sterilize everything
pasteurize apple juice, if necessary
add sugar/honey/sweetener depending on preference/amount of alcohol desired
ferment (primary only, or primary/secondary) at some temperature that is not hot
bottle
pasteurize to prevent a gory death by shattering bottle

#homebrew #cider #recipe

scrummy, 8 hours ago

@ai6yr I realize it’s not the right season, but here’s what I did:

Sanitize equipment. (Not sterilized. A weak bleach solution works, but there are commercial products as well)

Buy cold pasteurized cider (a fall thing normally)

Put in fermentation vessel, add yeast and wait a week or so for fermentation to complete.

scrummy, 7 hours ago

@ai6yr

I know I’m going on and on, but one thing about sweetening the cider is that unless you know that all the yeast are gone, adding sugar will restart fermentation. If you want sweet, you may need to add potassium metabisulfite to prevent refermentation.

scrummy, 8 hours ago

@ai6yr

At this point you have a dry cider you can keg or bottle in sanitized vessels. If desired, you can transfer off the yeast and flavor by adding hops or herbs or other things. I did lavender once and it was amazing!

ai6yr, 7 hours ago

1/2 gallon of soon to be cider joins a lot of mead in the fridge! #cider #homebrew

mjausson, 6 hours ago

@ai6yr @Catawu I knew a guy in San Jose who in the 90s suddenly faced water bills of several hundred dollars.

Raccoons had learned to turn on his outdoor tap to drink and "wash" their food. Unfortunately they hadn't learned to turn the tap off when they were done with it. 🦝💦💸