Just a few hours ago while celebrating Easter, I had a discussion about oatmeal with my girlfriend's husband's dad about all the ways oatmeal can be enjoyed. My favorite way to make it is let the oatmeal sit overnight in vanilla soy milk, then mix in peanut butter, coffee, and cocoa powder or chocolate protein powder, and microwave. It's so good. I eat that at work maybe two or 3 times a week.
I do roughly the same thing -Just oats with nuts and berries, no coffee or powder- but I haven't landed on what kind of oats to use yet for soaked oats. There are a ton of different kinds out there.
Quick oats are typically just rolled/cut to be smaller, so that they have a higher total surface area and so soak up liquid more easily. The downside is that this also makes them easier/faster to digest, so they have a higher glycaemic index (i.e. deliver a higher blood sugar spike) and give a shorter period of satiety.
Rolled oats are the uncut variety, which don't cook quickly for convenient porridge, but are great to soak as overnight oats. You can also get some which are basically in the middle - cut a bit so good for reasonably quick porridge (~5-7 minutes) but a bit more filling.
Interesting. Unless we have different standards for what constitutes a cooked oat, maybe we're talking about slightly different things? The full-size rolled oats (sometimes called 'robust') here in Germany are nowhere close to soft (and are still distinctly floating in the milk) after simmering for 20+ minutes. The alternative is also described as rolled oats (sometimes called 'tender') but are visually smaller; that's what cooks in 5-6 minutes.
This must be different, the "old fashioned rolled oats" sold in America would be more than done after 20 minutes of simmering.
Going by Bob's Red Mill, which is an excellent brand, we've got:
* Old Fashioned rolled oats, 10 minutes: https://www.bobsredmill.com/product/regular-rolled-oats [the store brand I always see, on the other hand, is 5 minutes]
* Steel cut oats, 15-20 minutes (this is a lie, it takes longer than 20 minutes for them to get sufficiently soft in my experience, for any steel cut oat brand): https://www.bobsredmill.com/product/steel-cut-oats
They also have a second species of oats that are significantly higher in protein, and they take 15+ minutes to cook in "rolled oat" form, which from personal experience is accurate: https://www.bobsredmill.com/product/protein-oats
Alton Brown did a great episode of good eats about oats.
Basically, the faster they cook the fewer vitamins and minerals and good things there are in it for you
If they had went for it during the uprising maybe the regime could have fallen? We'll never know.
But no, they waited 1-2 months or something until the regime could reload and people had gotten tired and went home to grieve for their dead friends and family. Then they started yolo bombing. Again.
The theme of the book is "power corrupts." Wynn-Williams is not an exception. Sometimes she acknowledges it, sometimes she glosses over it, but the way the job compromised her own morality is one of the most fascinating parts of the book.
I am not sure I would have done better in her place. When it's your livelihood (or your friends,) it's so much easier to just fall in line. If she'd gotten along personally with the other execs, the book wouldn't even exist.
I'll probably get downvoted for this but whatever. I was in 9th grade and the 2003 invasion of Iraq was just getting underway. We had a substitute teacher in my chemistry class and he was telling stories about being a pilot during the first war. This other kid in the class kept asking questions and pretending like he was really interested in this guy's stories. This dude is bragging like he was a big shot pilot and whatever. And then my classmate asked the teacher how many people he murdered and how many of them were kids our age. This dude got pissed and started arguing and justifying the shit, but then just shut up about it for the rest of the time he was subbing. It was great. It's always good to remember that war crimes don't happen if the people choose not to carry them out. The people in charge are responsible too, but the ordinary military members who follow those orders are disgusting.
So anyway, I hope this pilot is having a bad time. He made a poor series of decisions and now is dealing with the consequences.
It's one of the 4-ACOs in all these candies. They been selling online and in headshops for a while now. I don't think it's 4-ACO-DMT but I forgot what the other one is called.
Edit: I should have read the article before commenting, but the title isn't accurate.
I was just thinking about the wild times during the 00s where you could easily order research chemicals online, wish I would’ve taken advantage of that to try some of the 2C- series :(
I looked it up. 4-HO-MET is what I was thinking of. One of those companies has ads on Facebook where they call it metocin. Only company I've seen actually say what RC they're selling in candy.
2C-E was pretty nuts. I tried it twice. Would have used it more if it didn't make me so nauseous. Those were the most intense open eye visuals I ever seen. Posters turned into cartoons. The bathroom tile turned to chocolate milk as I puked in the toilet. Tracers and breathing walls all around me. But mentally I felt nearly sober.
I took 4-aco-dmt a couple times. It was like mushrooms but way more intense. I think the intensity was just because I was using a cheap scale and probably dosed with 10mg more than I had intended.
Lots of people have had this idea since the early days of Bitcoin mining. Some have even done it. I recommend looking up how people have set up mining rigs in their homes.
I’d imagine it’s a bit easier with Bitcoin, as the mining rig would belong to the home owner.
It comes vastly more complex when a company is looking to rent a portion of a person’s basement. They’d probably want to have levels of physical security, then access for any required service. Power usage would need to be tracked and accounted for—-who pays it? I’d imagine there would also need to be a common interface for collecting and making use of the heat, if it isn’t just a generic space heater.
I’ve also wondered if some kind of Folding@home project would work for distributing training or load of an open-source model that isn’t owned by a megacorp.
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