there was a magazine in the ‘90s that had a test kitchen. their whole schtick was to find the “perfect” way to do things.

i remembered these numbers from their roast chicken article. they also said if you use lemon juice, add it right after the chicken comes off the heat, and it will pull it in as it cools.

well done!

thighs are done at 172F

breasts at 164F

Anyone have a quick rundown to grilling chicken thighs on a gas grill? High or med high heat?

Interwebs say 5-7 min each side and that just seems way too few! Marinating right now, planned on adding bbq sauce to some. #foodstr

In my time as an engineer, nothing ever went wrong from my making people wait for quality work. Speed is an illusion, because I saved everyone a lot of time on net because I didn't have to deal with nearly as many long term issues and snafus as my coworkers did.

Go fast, break things, and spend the rest of your life paying for it. Or just don't do that.

Few.

Or even take the time to prompt in order to respond to someone. If you don't have your own response, why go through the effort? 🤷‍♂️

New rule: if I observe bugginess in a nostr client, I report the bug and switch to a different client on that platform.

Everything is too buggy.

Going to give jumble.social a try. Primal.net tries and fails to upload videos, and frequently gives a "can't connect to your relays" message when I try to post.

id say:

1. read it again, and dont read into it.

2. you greatly underestimate what is happening in China right now. no this is not related.

3. what youve been told about “Americas democracy” being the reason for our prosperity is a lie. we were never the richest country until we were the only major industrial country left intact after ww2. that combined with the Christian root culture of the time is the primary reason we are where we are.

i think being the richest nation and being the most dominant empire are inextricably linked.

empire and freedom will always come to conflict.

i dont believe America can be the freest and the richest country at the same time. you will eventually have to choose.

thats the CCP mandated stuff. the Chinese people have to comply or they get destroyed.

and wed do well to be aware of it.

but the truth is, the Chinese people themselves are innovating and building faster than anyone else on the planet right now.

People get excited about “getting a refund” from the IRS.

max exemptions, and funneling that money into corn 🌽 instead 🤷.

pay your taxtortion payment at EOY.

no? you’d rather pay the Feds hold your money for nothing, to give you back a fraction later?

mmmk

i started using the Fediverse before it was called the Fediverse. back before Mastodon even existed, when there was just identica and diaspora.

i watched it go from a tiny place for fringe linux nerds, hackers, and artists, to a place for disgruintled corporate journalists and WokeScolds with 15 million daily users.

steady growth was minimal. The major growth happened from mass influxes. Usually from a negative facebook or twitter event, or some famous person talking about the fediverse.

Then 90% of those new people would drop off, and go back to the corporate BS, leaving behind a small increase. Those cycles happened over and over again until there were 10+ million daily users.

I see something very similar happening to nostr. It is very familiar and natural. But it seems like some people have a Silicon Valley VC funded growth from 2012 paradigm of what success it. Nostr is probably not going to happen like that. They dont have a realistic paradigm of how open source, community developed protocols grow over time.

So they keep getting disappointed because their paradigm is unrealistic, and the hype growth they keep telling themselves will happen is really probably not going to. Or to put it another way, 'go fast and break things' is a luxury mentality afforded by VC capital. Go slow and fix things is how real, lasting, open protocols that are worth something develop.

What will happen with people is pretty simple.

Some will leave quietly, some will leave loudly, making sure to dump their disappointment on everyone before they go. But some will just keep rolling, noting, memeing, and building, a peice at a time, until something really unique, robust, and reliable has formed.

stay humble, stack sats, post notes.