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Can't you get a backup hand pump installed on the well? It's a lifesaver when power goes out.
Global Supply Chain Crisis 2021: Megathread - A cozy thread for watching the supply chain fall apart just in time for the holidays
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Not sure if it is feasible or not, but it is something to look into. Ideally, we just get a backup generator. The neighborhood has a lot of older people in it and water is pretty damn heavy.
I am almost finished rendering the fat from 40lbs of chicken thighs. My local big box store had them on sale for .99 a lb, however they were date discounted 50%, so .49 a lb. I obviously backed up the truck on that. Removed the skin and excess fat. Didn't bother deboning, It is tedious and somewhat wasteful. Meat tastes better bone in if it is there anyway. So far, I have gotten about a full quart and nearly a pint of schmaltz from them, so very nice. The leftover skin you can stick in an airfryer and make something like pork rinds from them. I am surprised how long they stay crispy as a snack and you can season them how you like. Most of the meat was vacuum sealed, but first tray I made into chicken cacciatore.
I am almost finished rendering the fat from 40lbs of chicken thighs. My local big box store had them on sale for .99 a lb, however they were date discounted 50%, so .49 a lb. I obviously backed up the truck on that. Removed the skin and excess fat. Didn't bother deboning, It is tedious and somewhat wasteful. Meat tastes better bone in if it is there anyway. So far, I have gotten about a full quart and nearly a pint of schmaltz from them, so very nice. The leftover skin you can stick in an airfryer and make something like pork rinds from them. I am surprised how long they stay crispy as a snack and you can season them how you like. Most of the meat was vacuum sealed, but first tray I made into chicken cacciatore.
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K-Hole
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Rule of 3's.
3 minutes without air - a human dies, on average.
3 days without water - a human dies, on average.
3 weeks without food - a human dies on average.
There's a really good thread on arrse that talks about the coming water wars. They're already happening. We've seen it in Ukraine if you kept up to speed on what is happening there. It's actually a major part of it in some parts.
But whilst this new epoch that humanity is coming in to is to do with resource shortages (namely oil, gas, coal), it won't be far behind that fresh water will be next. Even if the shit hits the fan and you have only 10 percent of people left on Planet Earth because of nucular war, then those people especially will be scrambling for fresh water.
We aren't talking water to take a bath or shower (bloody luxury) - we are talking enough water to keep homeostasis in the human animal so it does not die of thirst and a very painful death as the kidneys pack up. It's also handy for cooking things in like pasta/rice/etc.
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In other news:
The drive to conserve energy is coming for Tokyo residents' living rooms, bathrooms and kitchens.
With governments globally grappling with surging electricity prices as the war in Ukraine strains fossil fuel supply chains, authorities are examining almost every possibility to reduce power demand. In Tokyo, officials are urging residents to watch an hour less TV a day, switch off the keep-warm mode on rice cookers, and refrain from using heater functions on toilet seats until winter.
Lemme jus' run that by you one more time fam in case you missed it:
and refrain from using heater functions on toilet seats
I don't know about you, but I've never even seen a fucking heated toilet seat, let alone used one.
Toto toilet seats at the Toto Museum, in Fukuoka.
Photographer: Tomohiro Ohsumi/Bloomberg
The fucking nips even have their crappers in a museum! Because of course they do...
Japan’s efforts to ensure electricity supply also include more conventional methods. Residents and businesses are being encouraging to install more rooftop solar
Of course they are. Same old song. Because rolling out rooftop solar at thousands of bucks a pop is really going to make a difference, especially when you turn your heated crapper off!
This might all have something to do with the mess we all find ourselves in (speaking in non-scatological terms here).
But don't worry, it's not the heated crappers of the nips that are to blame, it's that nasty war in Ukie land!
as the war in Ukraine strains fossil fuel supply chains
Yeah, it's totes deffo all about that fam.
But if those disturbed Japanese who live in Tokyo turn off their TV for an extra (less) hour a day, well, we shall all make it through.
Just remember to disconnect your crapper from the mains as well!
JFC!
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Pasta doesn't really need to boil. You just throw it in water and eventually it will absorb enough water to be edible. Maybe 4-8 hours, depending on the temp of the water. I am not saying it will be gourmet, but edible.
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You can't just unplug as you'll lose the bidet and warm water parts not just the heated seat. Luckily they all can be turned on and off independently.
Source: my new toilet has the hidden spots for one of those seats to run power and water, but for now I'm skipping the $1200 upgrade.
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The government would have to pry my heated toilet seat from my perfectly warmed asscheeks when I'm dead.
Except it's hot and humid as shit so I turned that shit off ages ago.
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As for the water shortage, its literally bullshit. a pound of almonds takes 400 gallons of water to make, avacados is 80 gallons. if California just decided to ban almonds, they'd have literally a trillion gallons of water now at their disposal, which would cover roughly 85% of Californians water usage. add in avocados and every Californian could have their own personal water park, with how much of a water surplus they'd have
And mind you thats just banning two foods that most people are either allergic to or never use in general. like most things in life, our government is forcing a crisis because they just don't want to piss off a scared cow whether it be businesses or blacks, high finance or hebes.
And mind you thats just banning two foods that most people are either allergic to or never use in general. like most things in life, our government is forcing a crisis because they just don't want to piss off a scared cow whether it be businesses or blacks, high finance or hebes.
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Banning them is pointless and counterproductive because they'll just move onto other water thirsty cash crops. The root cause is the absolutely garbage water management policies California has. They struggle to move water from where its abundant to where its used, and their hatred of high density energy solutions like nuclear have made desalination and other water supply increasing measures infeasible.
Moving that water is very much easier said than done, but they've got money to keep crackheads high and clean shit off the streets, so they've got little excuse for how little they've done. They seem content to blame water issues on Climate Change and then not do anything to fix them.
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A planet which is covered to 60% with water and we have water shortages. Yes I know salt water but there is tech avaliable to make it useable. We could set up wind turbines on the shore to generate enough power to turn salt water into sweet water. Might also be agood way to combat rising tides. Start drinking Kiwis!
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I read that the almond (and presumably the avocado) industry has a lot of wealthy and influential Californian fingers in it.
If true, they'd never kill it. Not when it's so connected. Climate change serves as a nice, untouchable boogeyman they can't "solve".
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One overbudget desalination plant in California cost 1 billion dollars and makes 50 million gallons of water a day. If instead of spending $40 billion on our favorite country to stash corruption money in, we spent 40 billion on building 40 of these desalination plants, we'd be producing something like half of what California takes from the Colorado River (about 1/8 of what all states and Mexico combined take). Or we could build 20 of those and power them with a nuclear reactor or two or even build a fuckton of solar panels since a desalination plant doesn't need to be run at maximum capacity at night as you can just store the water in a reservoir.
Shit like that is why I don't give two fucking shits about climate change or retarded environmental measures when we already have both the money and technology to solve every single problem, we just lack the political will because our leaders are evil. I mean impoverishing your own people just to fight a proxy war halfway around the world? That's some pure villainy right there.
Kikkoman
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different ingredient mix,
Beyond that anyone notice how odd chickenwings look now? they look bigger but once you bite into them its mostly empty. does anyone know what i'm talking about?
Bonesjones
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Water added, they just pump them full of water to increase the size then you cook it all out and it's tiny.
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I have. Normally you don't have to worry about buying out of date goods, but I've repeatedly been burned in the last month, and now I'm meticulous about checking the dates on everything, and for anything with an under six month shelf life, I regularly have to check 2-3 items to find ones that didn't expire weeks ago, or will expire in days. Its mostly been cheeses and sauces, but I've noticed the produce section both looks and smells worse consistently.
These aren't shitty grocers I'm at either, these are downtown upscale type places, they're not undermanned or broke.
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I've also seen it with pantry items like canned veggies and soups. Cans of tomato soup shouldn't have a "best by" date 3 months after you buy it.
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This is going to be an actual depression instead of a recession isn't it?
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Oh hell yea, a protracted one too. With so much oil being imported instead of domestically produced, all price controls can achieve is hard limiting import volumes, while also completely discouraging domestic drilling even more - Aside from all the inherent costs of drilling, now you can't even sell the oil at a profit when you're done. So they won't bother.
This move won't just ensure an energy crisis, it will ensure it is sustained until they stop trying to use socialist economic controls on it.
Hippopatumus
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I can't wait to buy heating oil on the black market so my family doesn't freeze to death in the winter.