12ft.io gets around it

https://12ft.io/https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2023/06/instant-pot-bankrupt-private-equity/674414/

The lede is buried at the end.

The problem is how the debts got there in the first place—in pursuit of growth for its own sake, of increased output with no clear needs that the new output would address.

That’s Ivan Miranda. https://www.youtube.com/@ivanmirandawastaken

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But the protests made it clear that letting moderators make their communities private at their discretion “could be used to harm Reddit at scale” and that work on this feature was “accelerated” because of the protests.

Because Reddit admins deserved that harm. We’ve handed them all this free data and resource and they decided it was theirs.

That’s only the alcohol stuff, lol. I also do sourdough, yogurt, other natural sodas, and lacto pickles.

The key is to only get the red guts and avoid anything slightly white

Did that

definitely dont boil the juice either or youll get a carrot flavor

I did heat pasteurize, but not boil. Just 160/180F (I can’t remember exactly).

it’ll taste almost like cucumber

Eh, I’m not getting cucumber. Maybe? It’s mostly just SOUR with some watermelon notes.

a bit of back sweetening makes the watermelon flavor come back with a vengeance.

this is what I’m thinking

Success - Blond smash. Once again proves that 5 weeks in the bottle is a magic number. 4 weeks? Eh. 5 weeks? AMAZING.

Failure - Watermelon wine. It’s just sour. Not in a good way, at all. Tastes kinda like the rind, though there was no rind in it. Maybe backsweetening?

Waiting - choc hazelnut porter. choc comes thru, hazelnut not at all. Needs more aging time. I feel like darker beers need more time. It’s almost 3 months, gonna test it.

Fermenting - ginger bugged root beer. Made root beer syrup to make root beer soda. Was ok, needs work. Remaining half into a 1 gal fermenter. It was due 2 weeks ago, but it’s fine. It’ll need back sweetening and bottle carb, but that’ll be another drumroll 5 weeks.

On deck - It’s time for a holiday beer. Something spiced. IDK what. It takes 2 months, so it’ll be ready early December if I start now. Hmm…

Nothing so meme lord. Pure watermelon. It’s so sour, and not in a good way. It tastes like underripe watermelon rind. It probably didn’t need acid added and it should be back sweetened.

I assumed it was just a branding change. Was it something more than that?

oh, that whole gallery is nice.

Yes, spawn. Amazing.

Had no idea this was coming out. Thought it was fake at first glance.

Nope. It’s real. https://m.imdb.com/title/tt14824600/

Thank you for crediting them.

I need friends like you. I would have eaten so much I felt ill. Then helped clean. (I love cleaning, I know I’m weird.)

In reverse, I’d never throw a party like that because my anxiety is exactly afraid it’ll turn out like you said.

What issues?

Nah, no offense taken, just clarification. You’re good.

You’re missing the point. I already do something like that. I’m very useful to those around me. I just wish people liked me whether I’m useful or not, and made it obvious. I feel like if I stopped being useful, then people would stop liking me.

Someone who occasionally makes me feel special. It’d be nice to feel special all the time, but I think that’s unrealistic. It’d be nice if I could feel special or important on a semi regular basis. Not just useful, like a wrench is useful, but treasured.

The older I get, the more I understand the “lone old man and his dog” stereotype. The dog thinks you’re great and everyone else just sees you like a machine that is disposable when they’re done with you.

Just getting to steel. Stupid work needing me to do stuff so my paycheck gets me food. Stupid meat bag.

Eternal Darkness: Sanity’s requiem. It’s an older game, GameCube era. I don’t like horror games and this one isn’t true horror. There are some good jump scares and body horror though. I had to stop after a certain scene because of the jump scares. The sanity system is really great.