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  1. Yeah, those aren't real projections. I watched it yesterday and they kept pushing that peak further and further out over the course of the day. I think that demand is based on turning everyone back on.
  2. I'm sure others will be along to add more detail, but this is just completely wrong as far as the current situation is concerned. https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2021-02-16/frozen-wind-farms-were-just-a-small-piece-of-texas-s-power-woes
  3. Clay Jenkins says help is coming. Hopefully they'll explain why they didn't have these peaker plants ready to go ahead of time.
  4. Recommended practice is to freeze bottles of water outside and use them to pack your fridge and freezer. Then you don't have to worry about stuff like sun hitting your food and warning it or anything like that. Sent from my Pixel 5 using Tapatalk
  5. Here's the latest from Oncor. I think people know most of this, but it's the first time I've seen anyone try to explain what's going on. https://thewire.oncor.com/pages/article.html#oncor__emergency_operations_feb_15_afternoon_update
  6. Alaskan Baltic Porter - Compared to the one above, this Baltic Porter is thin and medicinal. Do not recommend. It's disappointing because I like most stuff from Alaskan. Sent from my Pixel 5 using Tapatalk
  7. Old Mad Joy Baltic Porter from Great Raft Brewing. Roasty and scotchy. Sent from my Pixel 5 using Tapatalk
  8. Blushing Monk Sent from my Pixel 5 using Tapatalk
  9. A Ruffalo if you can find one. A Wahlberg will do in a pinch. Sent from my Pixel 5 using Tapatalk
  10. Not so sure we're quite out of the woods yet. Things could stay bad or get worse for a while. Wear a mark, everyone. https://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2021/01/13/956504515/u-k-variant-could-drive-a-new-surge-in-the-u-s-experts-warn Sent from my Pixel 5 using Tapatalk
  11. There's some chatter that Amazon may kick Parler off their servers. Sent from my Pixel 5 using Tapatalk
  12. I mean, she's not a Senator at the moment, right? Her term expired on Jan 3rd. Sent from my Pixel 5 using Tapatalk
  13. https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2021/01/05/us/elections/forecast-georgia-senate-runoff.html Sent from my Pixel 5 using Tapatalk
  14. My algae explosion from November seems to be getting under control now. Thanks to @El Diablo and @PRONG HORN for the advice. I have the light dialed back to a few hours a day. None of the nasty black algae has come back and the green stuff is very slowly disappearing. Last week I started to measure nitrates (just 5 ppm) for the first time in a month, so I took that as a sign the algae has slowed enough to not eat up everything in the tank. I'll probably give the snails and oto cats a little longer to work on the algae before I start trying to remove much of it. I picked up some anacharis to float and start shading/competing with the algae. You can see it floating at the top left. My wife doesn't like it floating there so I started looking at options. Now, I'm pretty sure it was mislabeled at the store because it looks like hornwort. Are there varieties of anacharis that look like this? Here's a close up below. Anyway, not sure what to do with it, so just experimenting.
  15. Growing up, my grandparents and great-grandparents would always have fruitcake from Assumption Abbey in Missouri, made by Trappist monks. Been a while since I've had one. Since we're suck at home this year I ordered one from Assumption and one from Collin Street to compare. Sent from my Pixel 5 using Tapatalk
  16. What should I do with leftover gravy? I probably cooked down 2 gallons of homemade stock to get my quart of gravy, and now I have a pint of it leftover in the freezer. Turkey is gone, mashed potatoes are gone, dressing is gone...but the gravy endures. I thought about thinning it out into queso, making some kind of broccoli/rice bake, saving it for pot pie...but not sure yet. Any other solid ideas for gravy?
  17. Making roux (at least dark roux) from scratch is silly. I saw a Cajun blog lamenting the lost art of making roux. Please, there is no art to roux. It's not like brisket where every piece of meat is different and you have to sense when it's done. If there's one food product in the world that you could 100% automate with a machine, it has to be roux. I say this as someone who loves gumbo, who loves spending a Sunday cooking for the family and who would gladly spend an afternoon nursing a pot of beans. But roux? There's no magic there and I'll get it off the shelf for gumbo every time. Gravy, on the other hand, is a different story...
  18. Ok, I'll play here. When you come post at 4 in the morning, respond to yourself a dozen times and call everyone crazy fuckers, you shouldn't be surprised when there's not a ton of immediate support for your point of view. That bring said, here's an explanation of the video with input from the GA secretary of state's office. Pretty much debunks everything claimed about the video. https://leadstories.com/hoax-alert/2020/12/fact-check-video-from-ga-does-not-show-suitcases-filled-with-ballots-pulled-from-under-a-table-after-poll-workers-dismissed.html Sent from my Pixel 5 using Tapatalk
  19. fuggled

    Gumbo

    Smoked turkey and andouille. I've used the Prudhomme recipe in the past that involves rubbing down chicken with blackening spice and browning it all, pulling it out and then adding it back to cook through. Man, it's way easier when the meat is already cooked ahead of time. Sent from my Pixel 5 using Tapatalk
  20. No remote on this model and the only controls are on, off and night mode. Not sure I'll be able to dim it so may just need to cut back the hours.
  21. Nice to see a few planted tank people commenting, because I could use some feedback/suggestions on an algae problem I'm fighting. Apologies for the lengthy post. I've been keeping a 20 gallon tank with my 4th grader for a couple years with neon tetras, cory catfish, some snails and marimo moss balls in it. This summer we got interested in live plants and added an anubias nana and vallisneria in early September. The val was spreading slowly and the anubias leaves started turning light green with dark veins, so in the beginning of October I started lightly adding Flourish and added a decent light. Throughout all of this the nitrates were increasing steadily, 10->20->30->40 ppm in subsequent weeks with 25% water change. So I started more frequent changes to keep the nitrates steady. At the end of October we were going out of town for 2 weeks. To make sure the nitrates wouldn't get out of control, I did a series of changes the week before to get them around 10 ppm before we left. I also setup an automatic feeder and reduced the food (we were probably feeding too much anyway) and had the light on a timer 10 hours per day. When we left, we had a bit of brown algae that I was waiting for the snails to attack, but nothing else really. When we got back home Nov 8th the tank was pretty well covered in algae. Brown algae on the plants, a carpet of green algae on the glass and black beard algae on the filter, driftwood and fake plants. It looked pretty gross when we walked in. I tested the nitrates and then were still right around 10 ppm after two weeks. After thinking on it, I can only think of a couple things that changed while we were gone. 1) I wasn't adding Flourish those 2 week and 2) I had reduced the food. Would it make sense that this created a "nutrient deficient" environment that allowed the algae the pop up? Would algae have stayed dormant when the tank had lots of nitrates, only to attack once the nitrates were lower? That doesn't completely make sense to me, but it's my best guess at this point. So, here's my plan of attack so far: I removed and bleached all the rocks, driftwood, artificial plants, filter (just the intake tube) and the anubias to get rid of the black beard algae The things I couldn't remove, I spot treated with hydrogen peroxide while the filter wasn't running I scraped most of the green algae off the glass (I read later that it may be better to let it mature for 3-4 weeks and then manually wipe it out so it doesn't release new algae spores in the water) I restarted my regular weekly water changes and light Flourish dosing I added a few otocinclus catfish to attack the algae (they've already gone to town on the brown algae) I'm going to monitor for a couple weeks; If things aren't trending in the right direction I'll try cutting the light back to 8 hours a day I also thought about adding some kind of floating plant to block some light, but don't want to introduce too many variables Anything else I should be trying to get this under control and balanced out? Any other theories on what might have caused things to go haywire so quickly?
  22. Anyone have thoughts on the new Pixels? Phones are subsidized through work so I can get the 4a for the free, 4a 5G for $80 or the 5 for $150.
  23. Trump was waiting a long time to say "Russia hoax"
  24. Did Trump just say "good" in response to 525K kids not knowing where there parents are?
  25. https://www.fox4news.com/news/dallas-isd-teacher-passes-away-after-testing-positive-for-covid-19 "The teacher was on staff at Nancy Cochran Elementary School in Oak Cliff. The district did not release the teacher's name. Superintendent Dr. Michael Hinojosa sent a letter to parents notifying them of the teacher's death and extending condolences to the family and school community."
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