you will call her!

breathing gives me gas ¯\(ツ)/¯

it’s an awesome power, if you’re a morning person

it’s the alcohol. lots of (single) ipa have significantly higher hop bills than double and triple. the original gravity and yeast sets the ABV. many doubles are smoother in mouthfeel than singles, although run the risk of having a boozy aroma.

and bitterness is related to hop content, but specifically alpha-acid hop additions, so it can be controlled independently of the aroma hops.

secondary fermentation is common in many styles, other than ipa, and doesn’t typically have a huge influence on alcohol content, but rather allows flavors to mature, or become more pronounced. more yeast falls out of solution, for a clearer beer, and it can naturally carbonate.

some yeast strains will cause extra fermentation as time goes on, including when it’s bottled or aged in a cask, but that is not the case for most commercially available ipa.

and if you really want a smooth, drinkable, high alcohol beer, try finding a Baltic porter!

there’s a scene in “Silo” where a character needs to repair a massive steam-powered turbine that is off-balance, scraping at the housing, and heading towards collapse. all fine and we’ll, it’s sci-fi, so whatever, they can make magic quick fixes to move the plot along.

what really bugged me, for some reason, is how characters started touching the internal components immediately after it powers down - I have to wait for significantly smaller motors to cool off before handling them, especially if they’re rotating poorly with a bad bearing, and burning from friction.

Boston GPS directions would be a good time

“make a hahd right turn to stay on Comm Ave, but don’t be stupid enough to get on the carriage way, peckah-head. why? because fuck you, that’s why”

hammer and anvil? two tools that are useful together to make shapeless and formless materials better, stronger, and more valuable?

I wish the US had two parties like that; shit might actually start getting better for the metal class.

the grift that keeps on grifting…

a small number of wealthy Americans riled up a large number of poor Americans, using single-issue voter tactics that prey on irrational fears, and gained control of more wealth and decision-making power than they know what to do with.

I can’t fathom what the point is, other than some doomsday scheme, where they plot to outlive us poors with hoarded resources, and the remaining bootlicker class as slaves.

fo’ rizzle

Peggy Hill!

appropriate how 88 lines up on the dial…

animale!

and if they won’t/can’t, then there’s an easy answer as to whether it’s worth working there at all

from the people who brought us illusory double walls of the Great Hollow and Ash Lake, go figure

the future of AI is making fake testimonials as advertisements