Yup, And I didn't mention my sausage, made with top quality pork loin, instead of "floor sweepings" and whatever else was left over at the slaughterhouse.

Or my pulled pork, which is smoked and cooked similarly to brisket. Wife has some magic sauce she puts on it as well.

And there are the Brisket tacos... 8^P All these do make for a day of work to do, but it makes for many weeks of good food afterwards.

No argument there, it all depends on what value a person places on taste and quality. When I stated doing my own canning, it recaptured the taste of my childhood. We were poor, but turns out we were "foodies" long before it became popular.

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For sanitation, we have to have everything super clean, because we don't use pressure canning. I usually use one, but like peppers to have a little bit of crispness left I do two things different from the recipe. I put sprigs of thyme in the jar - 3 of them. A lot of people use oregano, but thyme has important antibiotic properties.

I also use around 2 good sized cloves of garlic in each. For antibiotic reasons as well as flavor

Slice the peppers into rings, then salt them down a bit and press the water out with weight overnight. Pack the jars to maybe at least an inch from the top. with the time and garlic. Get them stuffed in there - Oil is expensive. Have the boiled lids ready - be sure to wipe the rims off.

Place them in the water bath with the hot water. I pre-heat my cans on the stove first. When the water returns to the boil, 6 to 10 minutes. It isn't a long time, which is why the thyme and garlic are critical.

People should do a can or two at a time, then finish them off in a reasonable amount to time.

These things are heaven on hoagies, and wife and I drizzle a bit of the oil on Nachos as well. Or I have them on crackers.

Their scat can look a lot different too. I was in Alaska on a hike some years ago, and there was a lot of salmonberries ripe. Turned the bear crap a nice shade of purple. The woman guiding us said we could help by eating as many along the path as we could, since the bears wouldn't be as likely go to where the berries were already eaten.

True dat. Meat doesn't own the patty shape I eat falafel burgers. They don't even pretend to be meat, but are pretty yummy as long as not overspiced.

Hmm, a falafel burger with relish! Sounds good.

Anyhow, I tried facto-ovarian vegetarianism once, I did it by the book, but my physiology did not like it at all. So I do eat meat again, and although it took a while to feel better, I'm apparently one of those people that can't handle not eating meat.

Before meat substitutes, a lot of vegans/vegetarians would put a fsckton of spices in their food. maybe mistaking craving for meat as the need to make their food way overly spiced.

All said, I do enjoy an occasional veggie burger if it isn't one of those overspiced abominations.

But I also put real bacon on it. I make a lot of home made bacon - just what a veggie burger needs.

Humans are omnivores, only kooks would think otherwise. We are predators, and not prey. Evolving as omnivores, our physiology expects the nutriments it is designed for.

This is quite true. I try not to judge people based on what they say testes good or not. They obviously know what they like or don't.

The cilantro thing is one of those genetic things. To me, it tastes like Ivory soap. A little in something, and I find it inedible.

Absolutely. My sister in law likes Potatoes, Corn, Hamburgers and chicken. That's it. Brother in law likes some variety, so we invite him over often to have lunch.

There are some other physiological differences as well. I tried a vegetarian diet back in the 1980's. Supposed to be healthier. It wrecked me.I felt bloated all the time. Bowel movements got all messed up. Felt like crap. I tried to persevere for like six months because after all the vegans and vegetarians claim it is so much healthier. Finally I quit and went back to a human proper diet. I felt better quickly, but still took months before my system returned to regularity.

Turns out that despite the claims, not everyone can be a vegetarian, and definitely not a vegan.

Mark Vonnegut (son of writer Kurt Vonnegut) had actual psychotic breaks from a vegan diet. He wore an interesting book called "The Eden Express" with some interesting stuff in it.

SO and I can food at home. I'm not certain about it being cheaper, if it is. We just carry on the legacy of my parents, who canned food because they had to.

Cheaper, or more expensive isn't my metric - it just tastes so much better than store bought.

The one thing I know is more expensive is the oil pack Hungarian wax peppers are seriously more expensive. But not many do them other than myself and a lot of the Italians in my town. I'd be curious to hear if anyone else does this.

This is not a problem of too many cows - it is a problem of too many people. It is going to take a long time to turn humans from omnivores into eating a prey diet.

I too like a lot of pretend meat patties. I do have them with my homemade bacon on them! 8^)

They have one issue that I am concerned about - phytoestrogen overload. Soybeans, and Peas, two of the usual ingredients are loaded with them. Not good for men because it alters the hormone balance, may be related to low sperm count, and not good for women because their natural estrogen shuts down.

So my beloved veggie burgers are eaten in moderation.

It was 1500 dollars, so not the bottom of the barrel.

I even accept it as my fault, mainly because Microsoft must have had a very good reason for not supporting that processor. All that said - I prefer using computers where unknown things aren't my fault. So - what is your solution? How am I supposed to know what the standards are before they are out? Any thoughts?

> Exactly - and that is a really good thing.

Exactly. I remember a time when the many configurations on Windows was a bragging point, how Windows users had this amazing widespread number of choices. as opposed to Apple's meager offerings. Well - there was the so called "hackintosh". Bot that's pretty irrelevant, more a challenge than a practical solution

So what was once a flex is now almost lamenting that the Windows hardware ecosystem is random and uncontrollable. The OS is almost completely disconnected from the hardware.

There's some funky math going on though - When W11 first came out, it was 2 years old. Nice fast laptop but Windows says NO!

Perhaps I should have spent months researching data that well - wasn't there when I bought the computer. Hella thing being acceptable collateral damage.

Your laptop will run Linux just fine.

Yup, I installed Mint on it as dual boot, and it runs it well.

When I ran the software to test the system, it suggests otherwise. My issue isn't TPM, it appears to be processor related.

I don't actually disagree with you - the onus is on me, always has been, and always will be.

That being said, the onus to get me to part with my money is on the companies wanting to sell me stuff. So my decision is to run with the company where I don't make those mistakes.

And you know, The "All your problems are your fault and your fault only" that Microsoft - and by extension you - have, I can remember this treatment, and then I can remember that Apple gave me a sweet trade in of several hundred dollars for my old Intel Mac, once I had a mouse go bad, and they overnighted me one from California overnight, free - the only thing was they wanted the old mouse back to do a Q and A on it. They assigned a dedicated helper to help fix a headset problem because of my hearing issues. I made a comment on their support page and was called in a few minutes when I wasn't expecting it.

Meanwhile Microsoft has simply given up on any problems I've had for basic support, like my copy of W11 pro that won't authenticate, even though it is a legit copy bought directly from Microsoft, they have the sales record, I have the receipts. My fault as well I suppose. Yup, It is on me, but I do understand the difference between a company that helps, and one that tosses customers out with the bathwater, and tells them it is their fault. I know how that problem can be fixed, by not giving them my money.

There are a lot of advantages:

• Time to deployment. A drone can take off now. A piloted helicopter likely requires someone to drive to the helipad from home or whatever.
• Time in air. A drone never gets tired. It can stay up continuously until it runs out of fuel, stop for refueling, and take off again immediately. A pilot needs sleep, and there are only so many of them available.
• Number of simultaneous craft. Because you aren't dependent on having enough pilots, you don't have any limit on the number of craft other than their cost.
• Number of simultaneous craft in the operational area. Because the craft can pilot themselves using radar and dozens of cameras and whatever else, you can fly them closer together without worrying about the pilot's reflexes being fast enough to avoid a collision. And if you do have a collision, you don't kill anyone.
• Better accuracy because of ability to take greater risks. If no human would die, you can get closer to the fire to hit it more accurately if needed.
• Ability to do a continuous bucket brigade. Because you aren't limited by the number of pilots, even if you end up needing human pilots for the actual firefighting, you could still have fully autonomous helicopters doing all of the mundane flying back and forth to get water, and you could have them lined up a hundred feet apart for however many miles it is to the nearest reservoir, providing a literal continuous supply of water that would be completely unachievable with human pilots.
• Reduced weight potentially means slightly more water capacity, assuming you don't end up using up all of that saved weight with the extra automation hardware.
• Drones could potentially stay in the air 24x7 in small quantities to detect fires, and put them out before they become big.

There are probably other advantages.

Getting a little water there now is much better than a lot more water later.

The key is to extinguish the fire before it spreads.