[-] 1rre@discuss.tchncs.de 1 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

You're wondering if a place that grew on monopoly and extortion, with some of the most impoverished, deprived and violent neigborhoods in the country, along with some of the most exclusive and expensive collections of gated mansions, could have serious fundamental issues?
I'd think it's safe to assume that's it's this one...

A quick google search when I was initially fact-checking took me to this reddit post; I'm highly skeptical of both the LAPD and reddit so went for 15 minutes to be "safe" but make of it what you will...

[-] 1rre@discuss.tchncs.de 1 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

So there's obviously a split between objective fact and opinion and conjecture, but:

  • Outbreaks of powdery mildew in the early 20th century meant it became somewhat infeasible to grow most aromatic and flavoursome hops, leading to research and breeding programmes to produce disease resistant hops with other desired characteristics
  • Most of the mildew-resistant hops were wild and from the US and Canada
  • Hop breeding and research started in the UK but ended in the 2000s
  • Oregon State University has been breeding hops for almost 100 years
  • The USDA also has their hop research center in Oregon
  • The US is responsible for 40% of hop production, of which over 98% is in Oregon, Washington and Idaho
  • Cascade hops, from the USDA research center in Oregon, started the craft beer movement due to the combination of high flavour and disease tolerance
  • German hop research started in 1926, but only had any real success after the 1980s

So essentially, the US has just got very lucky when it comes to hop production with good soils and disease resistance, while German beermaking was set back leading other styles to become and remain popular, such as very lightly hopped wheat beers, sour beers where the acidity comes from the fermentation instead of hops, and more recently Belgian style beers that are stronger abv so the stronger alcohol taste substitutes for some of the strength of the hops

There probably are also studies, but they tend to look into mechanisms/variations whereas this is more of a series of coinciding factors which don't really need much research to make sense

[-] 1rre@discuss.tchncs.de 1 points 5 months ago

That's why I said average at best - average beer is going to taste way better than bad beer and also perfectly acceptable, I don't mean it in a negative way, just that in the standard 3-7% golden beer fermented with only yeast category, Cascadian & New Zealand hops provide the best and widest array of tastes regardless of what you're after, as that's where the soil is best and where the breeding is generally done

[-] 1rre@discuss.tchncs.de 1 points 6 months ago

nah its not whoever's putting the bags in, it's either management deciding it's too inefficient to deal with two streams, or the people using the bins weren't capable of separating so just threw it wherever and so it all ended up mixed anyway

[-] 1rre@discuss.tchncs.de 1 points 8 months ago

Sure, but people have memory and if you block people who aren't even going to contribute to the running costs of the site via the channels they provide, never mind profit, then from the site owners perspective it's pretty great if you recognise it as a site you don't want to visit as you likely won't come back

[-] 1rre@discuss.tchncs.de 1 points 1 year ago

And birds and dinos are crocs (unlike most other reptiles)

[-] 1rre@discuss.tchncs.de 1 points 1 year ago

Sure taking gold out of a hole to put it in a different hole is a waste of resources but there's kind of a driving force towards that because if the currency is actually useful then people aren't going to use it as currency and if it's easy to produce they're going to counterfeit it

Same with cryptocurrencies, they're hard to produce and functionless, so a huge waste of resources, and frankly same with (high frequency) trading of stocks, as you don't own them when the dividends are paid yet you put huge resources into them because other people want them because of their inherent value

[-] 1rre@discuss.tchncs.de 1 points 1 year ago

That's not an addiction then?

Moderation is literally the opposite of addiction so what you say is fine. What I'm talking about is drinking sweetened drinks with every meal and/or eating sweetened snacks inbetween every meal and/or having every meal be over sweet... Even eating dessert daily after your main meal of the day is fine as the biggest issue is eating sweetened food when you intend to eat after, so as snacks or during the main parts of the meal

[-] 1rre@discuss.tchncs.de 1 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

I mean it depends on where... In London the taxis, although expensive and often not the politest to other road users, are nearly universally great service for the customer (and mathematically it very rarely makes sense to run up the meter due to how demand and the fare system works) and also pay the drivers a decent wage as they generally don't have a middleman to pay other than the government for their licence

That said, in the US (specifically New York) my experience was that ubers are generally nicer than taxis, but it's definitely not universal

[-] 1rre@discuss.tchncs.de 1 points 2 years ago

Depends on the ad and how much you use the premium...

I've watched so much they would've absolutely made more money showing me ads (based on my best guess for how much margin they should make on ads, which I think I can estimate pretty well, vs premium as I know less about costs etc. there) but I guess it's not the case for everyone

[-] 1rre@discuss.tchncs.de 1 points 2 years ago

I appreciate it's a big state but unless you're within a couple of miles from the coast in Northern California it is unreasonably hot for a significant portion of the year

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