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Also zeppo@lemmy.world. Not a lot of Zeppos out here.

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I bought a can of hummus made in Jordan one time. It also smelled like tuna - one of the most god-awful things I’ve ever experienced.

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I feel like tamales should be part of this. Even pupusas

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The paper/corn/banana leaf is just for forming. The masa surrounding the filling is the equivalent of the bread on these other items. And sure, they’re cooked by steaming. The end result is much like a hot pocket.

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Corn tortillas. It’s a lot easier to just buy some.

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I agree a lot of commercial corn tortillas are not good. I particularly don’t like the fake-soft ones that have dough conditioners and preservatives for no reason. But with as much cooking as I do, I can’t bring myself to make tortillas when I make masa - I always end up doing pupusas, arepas or tamales. My main use of corn tortillas is enchiladas casserole style so homemade ones are kind of pointless since they 75% disintegrate.

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I’ve tried to err on the side of caution on that myself, because it’s pretty embarrassing to act like someone is trying to hit on you when they’re not, on either side. I’ve had people act like they think I’m flirting with them when I’m not also which is awkward.

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Similar to kirchwasser, I’d guess? I love fruit brandies. At various times I’ve drank raspberry, pear, cherry and more common ones like grappa.

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Yeah, I used to get this one. I guess it’s called Himbeergeist?

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Himbeergeist

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Vikre in Duluth MN makes an aquavit. I think it’s pretty good.

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someone on an alcoholic sub on reddit told me they tried it. They swear it does get you fucked up in addition to just poisoning you.

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It’s led to me forming shitty memories I have a hard time forgetting. A vicious circle.

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From what I read here, raspberries don’t have enough sugar to be distilled by themselves. I didn’t realize it but apparently the himbeergeist is an infusion.

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I checked the website, and apparently they make two!

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Even better is when they destroy a bunch of virgin land to make a course when courses are already overbuilt in the area, then close it.

I lived in a city that had a mayor who was elected to a few terms and was going on 10-11 years in office. An out-of-state developer wanted to turn 400 acres of old growth forest by Lake Superior into a golf course, spending about 25 million. For some reason he made this basically the only thing he tried to get to happen in his last 2 years in office. This was also at a time when a lot of courses were struggling or closing because they had built too many in the early 2000s.

Many people were opposed to it but the usual sort of people thought it was great because ‘wow someone is spending money’. One fairly dim guy I knew who worked in construction said “YEAH. Do you know how many jobs that will make??”. The problem is they were going to hire a bunch of people to build it, which would take about 6 months, and then the permanent positions at the course were going to be like 6 people. Finally, they didn’t do it, the mayor left office, and basically nobody ever talked about it again.

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Capitalist economics is more complicated than that, though, since there are artificial boom-and-bust cycles. People do deserve employment.

The people really pushing the project were the developers, a few people who stood to make an outiszed portion of the money, and the apparently corrupt mayor who I’m sure was planning on lining his own pocket somehow.

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Ha, yeah, I guess my intro made it sound like it went through and then was closed. I was so happy when it finally didn’t happen and the obviously corrupt politician was gone.

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Sure, I agree with that. The idea that once people are making money a certain way it has to continue forever is harmful.

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It’s true, the way our capitalist system is set up it’s mainly the workers and less wealthy people in general who get screwed by progress and obsolescence. Wealthy people are very worried about it too of course, since something like phasing out coal could mean bankruptcy for them and they’d have to, oh no, get a job or something. Or you know, there goes the family dynasty… That’s harder to feel sorry for though, and it’s a lot easier for them to transition to something else, with some foresight.

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What missing is voters who care about or would pay attention to all of that, and honest news sources.

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I truly hate those ‘unusual fruit or vegetable or body part’ ads. It’s as bad as browsing fuckin /b.

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Damn, they have you on the list for good ones!

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Deals on Usenet?

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Lemmy does already have that available on the backend… it’s a UI decision to not display it.

I don’t feel like it ever worked exactly how reddit envisioned. 100 helpful comments in small communities might end up with less karma than one well-placed joke in a major community.

I don’t feel like it’s super helpful as far as anti-spam, personally. Looking over someone’s most recent posts tells me enough, and communities that have karma limits are just annoying. People looking to spam can easily get around that (start a community, 10 accounts, vote each other up, or just make a few reposts of popular content) while it discourages legitimate new users.

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I like that on kbin karma is not a highly visible number on profiles… on desktop at least, you have to look at the little stat bar and scroll over to see the number.

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They show as & on the mobile web interface for various instances. I would say it’s something improperly done with what are called HTML entities. HTML entities are a way of encoding various elements that have meaning in HTML so they can be displayed, without being interpreted as HTML by the browser, which could not only break a layout but have security implications. So the titles are sanitized to prevent injection attacks but somehow are not stored/output in a way that they display properly.

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