Cheradenine

steps in quicksand

All that DEI is probably why they are ranked 49th in education. Its good to see them getting rid of it, with a lot of hard work they could be 50th soon.

Oh, they can be engineered to come apart. The profit is better if you are one of the few people who actually take things apart, but you destroy it in the process.

I recently fixed this clock/Bluetooth speaker thing. All clips, except for two screws hidden behind the thick faceplate. The only way to know they were there was to feel that it wasn't coming apart. Pressing the faceplate to feel for indentations revealed nothing. There was not any good reason for the screws to be there, and you could just break it apart. That would have destroyed the ribbon connector though.

Just asshole design

Wait, gay people are allowed to use highways? Next you'll be saying gay trash is mixed with my trash in the truck. My pearls have been clutched so hard they're powder.

incoming

I hate to ask, but did you actually read the article? The word terroir is used twice, both times attributed to the same person.

Terroir is not what the article is about.

Grapes grown two miles outside of the Rutherford Bench that are clones of ones in the Bench appellation do not gave these notes. That notion of flavor specific to place is what terroir is.

That again isn’t inherent to terroir as Brazil and Paraguay are far too large to talk about distinctions that come from a specific place.

How is your second statement true? Its exactly the Côte discussion, if opposite sides of a valley matter then larger distances do as well. Terroir is about a specific place, it does not matter if the distance is 2 miles or a thousand, terroir is the difference.

If you want to argue that terroir is more important in some crops and less in others I would agree.

The Democrats are up in arms about this (because it's illegal as fuck) but there's quite a bit of right wing push back, even from everyone's favorite ~~cumsucker~~ ~~plastic surgery disaster~~ ~~Russian asset~~ pundit Laura Loomer

Loomer said she loved Trump and would “take a bullet for him. But I have to call a spade a spade. We cannot accept a $400m ‘gift’ from jihadists in suits.

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/may/13/trump-qatar-plane-maga-republicans

A lot of modern crap is snap together assembly . It is not made to be taken apart, you will break tabs if you do. Glue works, or tape if you don't mind it being ugly. Glue makes it harder the next time it needs to be repaired though.

I have made a couple tools to depress the ears on tabs, but my success rate is maybe 60%. You still need to know exactly where they are, and there may be a few screws in there too. It's still better than when the manufacturer uses epoxy, or worse, Ultrasonic Welding.

No, it was me. I use SimpleX first, with Signal as a backup.

I know terroir is a marketing point, that's without question. But, that's not the focus of the article.

Terroir originally applied to grapes, it now applies to many more things. I can tell you, IMHO, where the best cashews come from, or peanuts, oregano, avocados, sumac, buckwheat, or sage. The same things apply to other crops besides grapes. The Côte Chalonnaise vs Côte d'Or is real, as is the difference between Yerba Mate from Paraguay vs from Brazil.

The idea that American Oak expresses terroir rather than species specific traits is not logical.

Ok, I don't know enough about it. Is that stated in the article though? Because I can't find it. Even if it did say that (spoiler, it does not) I would not find that very surprising. I have been mushroom picking and I said 'there's a bunch here' and they said 'don't bother, they're shit'. The difference was one side of a 20 metre valley to the other. Soil, sun, drainage, and a lot more really matter.

I honestly have no idea what you are talking about.

Terroir applies to many things. A sheep cheese made in the same style on the island of Pag in Croatia, and one in Iberia are not the same. Likewise, a San Marzano tomato grown in Australia is not the same. AOC, DOC, PDO, and many classifications exist for reasons beyond protectionism. In any case that's not what the article is about.

Yes American oak and French oak have different tastes but it isn't as if I could put a glass of whiskey in from of an expert and have them guess where the wood came from whereas doing so is a common test for grapes in wine.

Nowhere do I see that contested in the article, in fact it says the opposite.

No one at Tucson’s Hamilton Distillers knows exactly what wood the cognac barrels holding whiskey are made of.

“Probably Spanish oak?” one employee ventures a guess.

The article, which obviously I found interesting, is about the journey of a barrel. I thought others might find it interesting as well. I had no idea they were as long lived, or put to so many uses.