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Chesapeake is a purple city that has often voted for Democrats, including in four of the past five presidential elections. But no Democrat or independent had filed to run for sheriff in advance of a mid-June deadline, to the immense frustration of local immigrant rights advocates who’d hoped to have an alternative to rally around. “It blows my mind that there’s no opposition,” Maida Dooley, an organizer in the region, told Bolts in early June, calling local party leadership complacent. “Maybe they don’t care,” she said.

I always wonder why I see seats with no candidate in them. I believe in many states there aren’t really any prerequisites to being Sherrif, so you could put anyone up for the job. It sounds like this area is open to Dem candidates, so to drop the ball on something important like sheriff right now comes across as very fatalistic on an important issue.

“He was the candidate that was in line with our values,” local party chair David Washington told Bolts.

Which ones?

When it came time for the committee to vote on whether to endorse Rosado, members were asked to hold up a voting card—green for support, red for opposed.

“I saw a sea of green, and myself as the only red,” said D.J. McGuire, a committee member and an advocate for immigrants’ rights. Just two days prior, McGuire had spoken to Chesapeake’s city council to urge it to cut off any local cooperation with ICE.

McGuire, who used to be a Republican but quit the party after Trump emerged as its leader last decade, says he was one of only a few people to press Rosado at the July 10 meeting.

What is up with this place? The Dems are endorsing the Republicans while the recent Republican is trying to stop them. What a bizarro story…

It doesn’t seem the MAGAs have publicly been a fan of his, so I wouldn’t be totally sure on that.

State Sen. Devlin Robinson, R-Allegheny, referred to Ken Pagurek, a first responder from Pennsylvania Task Force 1, as a “dick,” using the slur during a committee meeting on Tuesday.

A video shows Robinson, who serves as the chair of the Labor and Industry Committee, leaning towards Sen. Doug Mastriano, making the disgraceful comment, presumably and wrongfully assuming that the microphone was off. The delegation noted that Mastriano seemed amused by the observation.

Philadelphia House Delegation calls out Sen. Devlin Robinson for disrespecting Pennsylvania firefighter

August 4, 2023

Oh, very cool! I’ve only done random wines, and I did distilling once. Pomegranate and date sounds really good!

I think you should try it! Most of what I’ve done has been more for for r/prisonhooch than r/winemaking and it’s all been ok to pretty darn good.

Get a hydrometer and some brewery wash and 2 jugs that fit an airlock and stopper. I’ve done almost all my fermenting in used juice jugs.

I never found it harder than making bread. There’s no kneading, but I usually make a bigger mess transferring liquids, so it is messier. It’s fun though, and very little hands on time. Make small batches and there’s very little financial risk. Once you get the hang of it, then invest in some carboys and whatever other fancy things you desire.

If your worried about growing something unintended, do a few with purchased yeast so you can learn how the normal year reaction and the byproduct looks and smells at various stages so when you “go wild” you know what’s normal. It does sometimes burp some foul gas depending on the strain of yeast. I forget what gas it is, but it’s normal, some yeasts just have stinker gas. 😁

Interesting to know about the white port process as we’ve drank a bottle of that recently for the first time.

Your knowledge is beyond mine on the subject. I mostly made various country wines, usually just a half gallon or gallon at a time to experiment with yeasts and to practice balancing.

That’s why I think it’s probably unfair to think ancient brewers made crap. I mean, like any business, I’m sure some did, but if they were taking food to make it, it had to be worth it for most of history, and it doesn’t take a lot of high tech stuff to make a palatable drink.

Low ABV drinks have kept people safe and happy for a long time, and I feel a majority of those people at least tried to be artisans like any other tradesman. Consistency and storage was probably the biggest difference, especially before the hydrometer, but with basic cleanliness and a few brews under your belt, I think someone in the day could have made something decent with nothing else.

That sounds like the same principle to me. They need it to taste fresh and orangey and just like last year’s Tropicana even if it was the best or worst year ever for growing oranges or customers are gonna be upset. Can’t buy from one farm this year and need to buy from one in a totally different place where the oranges might be another variety or just have a different flavor from different soil? Give it a nudge back toward that brand flavor profile. That consistency is what people like about name brands especially.

I’ve had some wild beers, but I don’t know if I’ve had wild wine. Sourdough is a good comparison, because those are the same wild yeasts you’d get for brewing that you’d get if you made your own starter.

Back sweetening doesn’t have to be to make it super sweet. Sometimes wine will ferment very dry and is beyond as dry as what you wanted. Other than adding straight sugar, more unfermented juice can also be added to enhance the flavor to either just make it sweeter or to add some of the non-fermented flavor back in that is lost. You can also have wine that produced a higher ABV than was desired, and adding water or juice can dilute it down.

Blending and balancing wine is really the hard part of making wine, especially if you’re after a consistent product. Different pieces of fruit have different sugar levels and different yeast does more or less than you intend it to do, so the good wine makers can nudge that end product into what they actually wanted without ruining it.

I don’t know if I’d say “bad” but certainly different.

Today we have catalogs of different strains of yeast one can order to ferment beverages. Prior to that, people would just be leaving the liquid open to the air to pick up wild yeasts. Whether that led to something good or bad was a bit up to chance.

Same with the resulting ABV. Different yeasts will thrive to different alcohol levels. My first experiment making wine was with bread yeast I had on hand. It worked, and the wine was a hit with all who sampled it, but it was lower in alcohol and higher in residual sugar because that yeast has been cultivated for bread, not alcohol. The same starting juice with a modern dry red wine yeast results in just that.

Also some wines like sherry are made by doing things like heat cycling and introducing oxygen that are “bad” for typical wines.

During different periods, sweet wine was in fashion, so we can’t really use that as a basis of quality, it’s just the choice of the winemaker.

Wine was also made out of a wider variety of ingredients than with most commercial stuff today, so there are probably awesome herbal infused drinks lost to time or things that are still just regional items that most of us have never heard of.

As a big part of culture, our beverages will continue to evolve, and while some may prefer more of what we consider classic wines now may not hold true in the future. What we have today is just built in centuries of experimentation, which for me, is the fun and rewarding part of brewing.

Putting a dimmer switch in the bathroom has probably been the best cheap quality of life upgrade ever.

I have it set so when pushed all the way down is just enough voltage to turn the LED bulbs on, not fully off, so there’s no guesswork where to set it when stumbling in during the night or first thing in the AM.

Have it dimmed real low while showering and getting ready for bed to get my eyes used to the dark, flip it all the way down as I leave, and then as I wake up in the AM I can bump it up a little to gradually wake me up. Life changing!

I snagged one of those at a gas station heading home from Tennessee and it was really good!

My biggest gripe with the rise in violent talk is that it comes off like those commenters trying to get other people riled up into do that violence for them.

If you feel the justice system has failed and there is no other recourse, than that is one thing. But I keep seeing all these comments saying “why aren’t you out there doing anything about it?” and my first thought is always “well I haven’t seen your face on the news…” As far as I’ve seen it’s still all right wing nutters doing all the violence. If you aren’t out there doing something dangerous, why are you here telling others to go do that thing while you sit at home?

You’d call someone a hypocrite if they were on here every day telling other commenters they should feed the homeless, but you found out they don’t volunteer or donate or whatever. But I got to scroll past a bunch of keyboard warriors on every political or news thread throwing tantrums about why “nobody is doing what must be done.” Justified or not, if people start going after others, it’s going to go badly for both sides. If you won’t put your money where your mouth is, why are we all forced to read it?

If you’re serious, spouting off about it on a public forum is pretty stupid. If you’re not serious, you’re making the rest of us look stupid to anyone checking out this platform. I feel that’s a pretty fair assessment without judging your opinions or anyone else’s. We’re all wrestling internally with where our limits of tolerance are these days, but we can talk with each other productively about it, or we can rant and rave like a bunch of violent cavemen, but I know which one of those environments I’d rather be in.

I’m sure we could come up with something new to disagree on if we really tried. 😉

Oops, thanks for the correction! 😊

I’m sure there are more. I looked up high school athletes too but didn’t include it because estimates ranged to like 3-4% which sounded reeeeally high.

And if we are counting people who suffer because they’re punishing trans people for existing, it likely is 10x the amount. I hope that everyone, trans or not, has 10 people that would be upset if the law was threatening them. I know it’s making me really upset and nervous for some of the people I know.

Anyone who says we need to push people toward depression or self harm so what’s her face can get her 8th place swim medal has some real issues…

“That’s now no longer about celebrating your rights. It’s about denying other people theirs,” Newsom said. “Marriage equality was about everyone’s right […] But your child may not have that same opportunity to get on the podium if a trans athlete is competing.”

Let’s look at this…

NCAA says out of 500,000 athletes, 10 (0.002%) are trans.

If an estimated 1% of the US population is trans, that’s 34,000,000 people.

Assuming that all 10 of those athletes win medals, Newsom would sacrifice the actual human rights of 34 million to see 10 people get a symbolic token? This is sounding like an excuse to be shitty.

In my HOA almost all of the board members own multiple units and they don’t even live in our neighborhood. I know one is a realtor, as she sold me my place, and another is just an investor.

They’re not always the most pleasant people, but they do an ok job the majority of the time. People seem to hate owning a house but still getting told no on things.

I don’t know if they actually vote multiple times, but I think we’ve had less than a half dozen rule changes in the almost 20 years I’ve been there.

They have a vested financial interest in making the neighborhood as attractive and successful as the rest of us. While their motivation is purely a financial interest, the petty and self-centered things I’ve seen my fellow residents try to demand is crazier than anything our board has actually done.

I think it’s just less talked about because it seems to be going on so far from most English speaking places.

I’m not super familiar on any details, but of course there is a wiki for Buddism and Violence and there is plenty of current day stuff going on.

People are always going to eventually act their worst when enough refuse to back down on their personal beliefs, no matter their religion, or lack thereof for that matter. It’s sad seeing all the discrimination in the comments.

I imagine so. Everyone is looking to “see results,” but for the majority that is just going to mean make them invisible, while for the actual homeless, the answer is much more complicated and less popular with a lot of other people.

It’s very disappointing, but I don’t know how you get good people in a job like that. With so much responsibility, up to having people’s lives in your hands, while having to usually reach some type of consensus with other people, half of whom act like it’s their job to make you fail, and having the majority of the population second guess you on every action you take or don’t take, I’d never want that job.

With power consolidated into so few people in a top down power structure, it may only leave bull headed know it alls and egomaniacs in those positions. Add in our current technocrats pushing AI and this is the slop I think we’re going to start seeing much more often.

I commented in another post today about San Francisco’s mayor canceling his personal plan to address homelessness because after starting it against the advice of the actual people working to address homelessness, he tried a quick fix to Steve money to make the problem go away, he found the exact same issues those volunteers told him he was going to have. I know if I were stuck in the job, I’d be wanting to solicit experts for everything like this, but at the same time, your term would probably be over before you got anywhere.

Perhaps we’re just reaching the limits of what our current power structures can handle? It feels like everywhere is in just about the same mess these days.

Sounds like Grok is writing policy now.