Giant hogweed is pretty gnarly. If your skin comes in contact with its sap, exposure to sunlight will give you severe burns and scarring. The photosensitivity can last for days even after the sap itself has been washed away.

You can also long-press on their username in any comment thread to bring up a menu with “Edit Tag”. Saves a few taps.

The chances of an American making a successful refugee claim in Canada are vanishingly small. Things would have to get a lot worse in the US for this to be a realistic outcome.

However, Americans can apply for permanent residency in Canada, just like anyone else. There is a points system. You’re more likely to be accepted if you’re young, you have an advanced degree, you speak both French and English, etc.

If it’s happening every 15 minutes, it’s probably a systemd timer trying to kick off a unit on a schedule. Check for .timer files in your system and user systemd configuration and see if there are any configured to run every 15 minutes.

Whatever process is trying to start is probably exceeding the open files ulimit. ulimits can be set system-wide, per user, and per cgroup.

The ulimit may be too low, there may be some process leaking file handles (opening files periodically but never closing them), or the unit might be configured to run under the wrong user or cgroup.

If a reboot gets rid of the problem temporarily, it’s most likely a file handle leak. Remember that objects like network sockets also count as files for the purposes of the open files ulimit.

A tool like lsof can help you track down processes with a lot of open file handles.

You cannot substitute sugar for salt. Foods with high enough sugar levels are shelf stable because they are high in sugar and low in moisture. This suppresses microbial activity completely.

Honey cured meat usually uses the honey for flavour only and will still have salt in it. For ham in particular, there will also be sodium nitrite (this is what gives ham its distinctive colour).

In pickle brine, salt is important for suppressing the growth of unfriendly microbes. Friendly microbes like lacto bacteria are very tolerant of saline environments, where unfriendly microbes are not.

There are different kinds of pickles.

Fridge pickles are the most forgiving because the low temperature limits microbial activity.

Vinegar pickles are packed in acidic brine. The acid (usually vinegar) kills c. botulinum. The salt flavours the pickles but also hampers the growth of unfriendly microbes. These are also usually sterilized in a water bath for shelf stability.

Fermented pickles have very specific salt requirements to ensure you get the right kind of microbial growth. The fermentation process also requires sugar for the microbes to metabolise into acid and prevent the growth of c. botulinum.

Obligatory warnings in case this was not a hypothetical question:

Use tested recipes from reliable sources. Use recipe books from the Mason jar manufacturers, USDA recipes, books from well known chefs, etc.

If it smells like death, throw it out. If in doubt, throw it out.

Do not screw around with this - it is very easy to make yourself violently ill and if you make a bad enough mistake, you could die.

Mostly as a political prop but also for people like Vought to point to as evidence that their shared “burn down the government” philosophy is good for the economy.

Trump needs to prop up Milei until he’s no longer useful.

Who the fuck eats vinegar pickles?

The 12th Amendment explicitly forbids this:

no person constitutionally ineligible to the office of President shall be eligible to that of Vice-President of the United States

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Cernovich is a right wing grifter who pivoted from red pill / pickup artist / manosphere / GamerGate to trying to ride Trump’s coattails during his first term. He’s the same vintage as Milo Yianappolis and whatever that Return of Kings douche’s name was.

Yes. They were sent to the countryside to get away from the blitz.

Hey now, as a youth, Miller had to move to a slightly less nice house. That could radicalise anybody.

Authoritarian regimes select for loyalty over competence. Nazi Germany was a complete shit show and all the leaders were dangerously incompetent (with the possible exception of Goebbels).

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It ends with a chop and the protagonist cashes out and walks away. Not exciting from a poker perspective but the protagonist develops as a person between the last bet and the reveal.

My wife decided the climax of her book would be a poker game and I was like “If you do this, DO NOT use the royal flush takes all trope. It is a tired cliché.”

She did something a little different and I’m very pleased with how she subverted that trope.

Own people. Simple as.

My MIL’s dog sometimes farts, then growls at her own ass.