florduh
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If I was the President, my first Infrastructure Week would involve giving every major city in the country an Orb.
Random thoughts
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Ramahs
Fucking Combustion (mostly) Since February 2017
Yeah. "Just be yourself" is not the best advice for everyone.
Some of us have to learn to wear masks to be social.
It is what it is.
Canna Chameleon
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There are only three apples worth eating IMHO.
Red Delicious in pie mixed with Granny Smith. Granny is also great with peanut butter or as a caramel apple.
Honeycrisp is king and the only apple worth eating by itself.
These are my random thoughts and you may not agree….but I’m right.
Octavia
No thoughts, head empty
I’ve had basically every apple on this list and the only ones I haven’t found worth eating raw were the mealy ones (typically red/golden delicious and galas, but when they’re fresh they’re amazing), and the granny smiths. But my mom’s a masochist and only eats granny smiths raw, mostly because they have the lowest sugar content.
However Pink Lady is my my favorite, followed closely by Envy since they aren’t cloyingly sweet like honeycrisp can be but are still very sweet and tart. Also they tend to be more consistent with my local apple distributors than other cultivars.
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Octavia
No thoughts, head empty
Ooh those look good! I’ve had a few of the cox crosses that were a little sweet for my taste but otherwise great. Looks like this list is probably the most popular/common US cultivars rather than an exhaustive international list
Canna Chameleon
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How do you like them apples?
Bologna
(zombie) Woof.
I dunno... local Macs can be pretty goddamn good and tough to beat... when not over-ripe or mealy they are often an almost perfect balance of tart and sweet with a somewhat juicy snap/pop like a good apple should have... I mean, I like Pink Lady and Honey Crisp, much to my wife's chagrin, as she's a purists when it comes to purchasing apples and only gets old school, never too sweet, varieties...
Apples RULE. Perhaps the best fruit of all...!
Apples RULE. Perhaps the best fruit of all...!
Cosmic Crisps, brand-new a few years back in Washington State, are very tasty on the sweet/tart side. Crisp.
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Canna Chameleon
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According to the finder on the website they are available all around me yet I’ve never noticed them. I will look for them now.Cosmic Crisps, brand-new a few years back in Washington State, are very tasty on the sweet/tart side. Crisp.
Canna Chameleon
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“In a traditional German toilet, the hole into which shit disappears after we flush is right at the front, so that shit is first laid out for us to sniff and inspect for traces of illness. In the typical French toilet, on the contrary, the hole is at the back, i.e. shit is supposed to disappear as quickly as possible. Finally, the American (Anglo-Saxon) toilet presents a synthesis, a mediation between these opposites: the toilet basin is full of water, so that the shit floats in it, visible, but not to be inspected. [...] It is clear that none of these versions can be accounted for in purely utilitarian terms: each involves a certain ideological perception of how the subject should relate to excrement. Hegel was among the first to see in the geographical triad of Germany, France and England an expression of three different existential attitudes: reflective thoroughness (German), revolutionary hastiness (French), utilitarian pragmatism (English). In political terms, this triad can be read as German conservatism, French revolutionary radicalism and English liberalism. [...] The point about toilets is that they enable us not only to discern this triad in the most intimate domain, but also to identify its underlying mechanism in the three different attitudes towards excremental excess: an ambiguous contemplative fascination; a wish to get rid of it as fast as possible; a pragmatic decision to treat it as ordinary and dispose of it in an appropriate way. It is easy for an academic at a round table to claim that we live in a post-ideological universe, but the moment he visits the lavatory after the heated discussion, he is again knee-deep in ideology.”
― Slavoj Žižek, The Plague of Fantasies
― Slavoj Žižek, The Plague of Fantasies
vapviking
Old & In the Way
I think Zizek missed one of the categories of poop disposal, there is an update.
From a Smithsonian Magazine article about this years' Nobel Prizes:
"The public health prize honored the invention of the Stanford toilet by urologist Seung-min Park, which studies human waste for signs of illness using a range of technologies—from cameras to motion sensors to medical sensors."
Vitolo
Vaporist
I haven't eaten a "Cox" either!
Agreed.
I noticed it missing from this "tart to sweet apple scale", but I love the Cosmic Crisp!
What a delightful round of the RANDOM THOUGHTS game!...
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), too.... you can thank me later...
Canna Chameleon
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Bologna
(zombie) Woof.
What "gave away" my (somewhat obviousCliwnHehehe. He said Sharons melons. heh heh heh
) sophomoric innuendo, was it the "handheld, per se" bit...?
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Vitolo
Vaporist
Yes.. I love me some Asian Pears.
I'd like to add Yellow Dragon Fruit!
There are a few types of Dragon Fruit that I have eaten.
I like the yellow best.
There are:
- Israeli Yellow Dragon Fruit (sometimes called Golden).
- Aussie Gold (somtimes paler)
- White Dragon Fruit (has a red outer shell... most common Dragon Fruit))
- Red Dragon Fruit (on the outside it looks like the White Dragon Fruit... this has the most sugar)
- Blue Dragon Fruit (Rare... shell can be red, Blue, or purple)
- Yellow Dragon Fruit ... The one I called my favorite(the flavor is a sweet, and non citric... almost floral picture above).
- ALICE. Dragon Fruit.
- AMERICAN BEAUTY. Dragon Fruit.
- BLOODY MARY. Dragon Fruit.
- COSMIC CHARLIE. Dragon Fruit.
- COSTA RICAN SUNSET. Dragon Fruit.
- DARK STAR. Dragon Fruit.
- DAVID BOWIE. Dragon Fruit.
- DELIGHT. Dragon Fruit.
It can be peeled and eaten (but it's juicy), melon balled, cubed, sliced or scooped with a spoon.
Give it a shot friends. Very high in antioxidants.
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Ramahs
Fucking Combustion (mostly) Since February 2017
Yes.. I love me some Asian Pears.
I'd like to add Yellow Dragon Fruit!
There are a few types of Dragon Fruit that I have eaten.
I like the yellow best.
There are:
Other specific specialty ones:
- Israeli Yellow Dragon Fruit (sometimes called Golden).
- Aussie Gold (somtimes paler)
- White Dragon Fruit (has a red outer shell... most common Dragon Fruit))
- Red Dragon Fruit (on the outside it looks like the White Dragon Fruit... this has the most sugar)
- Blue Dragon Fruit (Rare... shell can be red, Blue, or purple)
- Yellow Dragon Fruit ... The one I called my favorite(the flavor is a sweet, and non citric... almost floral picture above).
- ALICE. Dragon Fruit.
- AMERICAN BEAUTY. Dragon Fruit.
- BLOODY MARY. Dragon Fruit.
- COSMIC CHARLIE. Dragon Fruit.
- COSTA RICAN SUNSET. Dragon Fruit.
- DARK STAR. Dragon Fruit.
- DAVID BOWIE. Dragon Fruit.
- DELIGHT. Dragon Fruit.
My Favorite starts at 1:51
It can be peeled and eaten (but it's juicy), melon balled, cubed, sliced or scooped with a spoon.
Give it a shot friends. Very high in antioxidants.
Honestly, I don't think that I've ever gotten around to trying dragonfruit.
