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  • I’ve tried with both kinds of vinegar, and both are good with different dishes.

    Personally, I liked the apple cider vinegar version on salads, and the white vinegar base paired well with heavier foods like tacos or fried potatoes.

    Maybe start with 2 smaller batches, one of each, and combine them later if the mix is what works best for you?

    I find pickled red onions are good on their own - like, the onion itself makes a good condiment. However, if you roast some yellow onions & garlic in a light vegetable oil until they start to caramelize, and throw a spoonful of it in the jar with the peppers, it will infuse the vinegar with a nice flavor.







  • The article has shades of that old, trite Republican line of “Government sucks, and to prove it I’ll get elected and suck at governing.” Its proposed remedy is nonsense as a result, nevertheless it does spell out a real problem that exists.

    “If America truly wants to win the lunar competition, it needs to start thinking like economists rather than politicians.”

    This is what killed Boeing.
    This is what killed Intel.

    Both were highly successful when they had engineers for CEOs. Their fortunes cratered when accountants took over.



  • Weakness to Magic stacks exponentially with itself when it comes from 2 different spells.

    For example, lets say you have 2 spells with Weakness to Magic 100% for 6 seconds: Spell 1, and Spell 2.

    Spell 1: target becomes 100% weak to magic
    Spell 2: target becomes 2 * 100% = 200% weak to magic
    recast Spell 1: target becomes 2 * 200% = 400% weak to magic
    recast Spell 2: target becomes 2 * 400% = 800% weak to magic

    And so on. After a few stacks of that debuff, and you can 1-hit-kill any foe with a spell that deals damage.

    Weakness to Magic also works on the player character and it will amplify the effect of buffs. Stacking it before casting your buff spells lets you walk around with millions of health, stamina, and mana for short periods of time.





















  • I imagine that such a spherical wormhole could theoretically be detected by watching for light reflecting off objects despite a lack of nearby stars. For example, if we trace the path of light passing through a wormhole and reflecting off a planet back to its origin, it would look like that light is coming from empty space. Like the beam of light coming out of a recessed lighting fixture in your ceiling, it would be directional and you’d only be able to see the lightbulb if you’re standing directly under it, otherwise you can only infer the existence of the lightbulb and recessed hole in the ceiling by observing the light reflecting off the floor.

    I do wonder what happens to space-time at the points between wormhole terminations. In the folded paper analogy, someone had to apply enough energy to manipulate the position of every atom in the paper as they were bending it over on itself, and at the end there would be a dramatically different shape to the paper between those two points.