Our right wing is mostly about billionaires and corporate theft, with only the minor parties doing the racist schtick. So the racists tend to be Maga despite it not being all that relevant to our politics. Although Pauline Hanson’s one nation is getting bigger since the liberals have fallen out of favour and she’s good at racism.
I did the opposite on Reddit. r/art was cruel on one of my posts because they assumed something I had made was ai, but it was a 3D piece made to look like a water colour with procedural textures and shaders. I spent hours on those textures to get them looking pretty cool imo but the instant someone accused it of being ai everyone tore it to shreds and were dming me with hate until I got banned from the subreddit lol
So I made a new account and posted ai watercolours of bland crap and they ate that shit up. Thousands of upvotes for a sailboat even though the ropes from the sail turned into the hull. A house on a snowy hill got compliments on my stylistic choice to have the smoke from the chimney turn into the clouds, but a few critiques telling me the lighting from the window didn’t lie on the trees outside correctly. Which, yeah it was clearly ai but they couldn’t tell because it was “water colour”. The house also got over 1k upvotes.
I posted a few more all with positive reception before I got bored with them though lol
The whisky industry is like multi billions worldwide, it’s not a small industry. There’s definitely some lobbying going on here lol.
Bourbon has to be aged in “virgin oak” i.e. a brand new barrel to be classified as bourbon. Which is why it’s so dark in colour and part of why it’s so sweet. They sell the used barrels off after they’re done with them to get some money back on the now unusable (for them) barrel.
Most Scotch is aged in ex bourbon barrels or ex sherry/port barrels. Using ex bourbon barrels gives the Scotch a lighter, more golden colour, and a more delicate flavour. Notes like vanilla, honey, caramel or florals.
Ex sherry and port give Scotch a darker amber to a deep red colour with rich and sweet flavours like stewed fruits, spices like cinnamon or cloves and a stronger darker caramel.
Most Scotch brand product lines will be like “ex bourbon barrel aged with: no age listed, 12 year old, 15 year old, 21 year old etc”. and then their other line will be the same again but in sherry barrels. They may also have a “sherry finish” where it’s aged for 10 years in bourbon then 2 in sherry, since the barrels impart less flavour the more they are used they can squeeze more out of the sherry barrels.
Sherry barrels cost magnitudes more than bourbon barrels. I was told (like ten years ago so grain of salt on the figures) that bourbon barrels are around 50-100usd per barrel while sherry is close to £1000 per barrel. Hence why the tariffs would be screwing over the industry.
/Rant
Source: I was a whisky bar manager that hosted a ton of whisky events/tastings for a few years.
I defaulted on a loan and my credit score dropped down to 500. Still being chased by the debt collectors a year later and it’s gone back up to 700 by itself. I have no credit cards or anything. The whole thing is a joke.
Can I please be blocked from their ai services too? I don’t want it on my PC.
This entire video looks like it was made based on a Reddit thread from earlier this week lol.
https://www.reddit.com/r/perth/comments/1k9sy9f/i_live_in_eucla_ama/
I’ve noticed that the sheets that are “select a size” seem to be using this to list a lower per sheet cost.
So if you’re trying to compare prices in the supermarket it comes in at half the per unit pricing of normal sized paper towels while being the same size roll or smaller and costing the same or more.
It just feels like they’re trying to cheat the system a little rather than trying to create a new product or be more useful.
That’s the point though
Tonkotsu and similar styles take forever, but I’ve made this Dashi Ramen and in a couple hours it has turned out perfectly every time. Really tastyt too. (Donabe is just a clay pot. You can use a normal pot for this) https://happydonabelife.com/recipes/chicken-dashi-ramen/
So do the people that bought the tickets I bet.
Used to with with a guy that would not shut the fuck up about Trump. He was from New Zealand, living in Perth so he couldn’t vote here, couldn’t vote in America, and didn’t vote in New Zealand. He thought the liberals were the left wing party here, couldn’t tell you the PM’s name here or in New Zealand, but he could tell you what Trump had for breakfast and recite his 40 latest tweets while he listened to Joe Rogan.