That’s kinda the difference - local specialties mostly can’t be beaten on their own turf. Also, in America you’ve got to actually seek out the good stuff and go local, the InBev stuff is meticulously targeted at swine with no taste.

Really didn’t think so, but you’ve shaken my faith slightly so I thought I’d better ask. Thanks again.

Thanks for letting me know, it was my first time using apple juice extract. Probably won’t do that again. I’ve never had this issue with liquid malt extract though, do you suppose that’s not treated?

I do hope not - for this batch I couldn’t get a lock on locally pressed juice so I went with a cider extract kit from homebrew supply.

The idea was something cheap and cheerful, and it relied on a lot of polish wildflower honey from Aldi that other mead makers had mentioned favourably.

I’m pretty sure it was just brewing too hot and I made some fusels. Hadn’t happened to me before but this was during the summer in an untested spot not far from the oven… 😑 This just occurred to me, I am a goon.

I need glass, too. These plastic buckets are convenient but I’m wary.

I just got done with a cyser that didn’t come out quite like I wanted. Every bottle a headache, probably bad process on my part.

What I really want to do is make a huge, black, rich big beer, something like a dark Belgian penta.

…But not until I’ve got my process perfect. In the meantime I might do something warming for the coming spring showers. Maybe a porter?

Someone should disseminate the simple sab manual

… You’re on what list?

I’m not into Tesla stock. I’m not just here to whine about a single stock not doing what I want, it’s that I think price action in general is too irrational. I’ve got an axe to grind here and it goes beyond which stocks to pick.

Huge ETFs and algorithmic trading makes too many tickers move all the same way. This harms price discovery. And don’t get me started on off-exchange trading; This month, off-exchange volume exceeded that of lit markets.

Interesting piece of the puzzle I wasn’t aware of: while Ukraine was technically a significant nuclear power, the Ukrainian government never had full control over them, nor the ability to launch them. From Wikipedia:

While all these weapons were located on Ukrainian territory, Russia controlled the launch sequence and maintained operational control of the nuclear warheads and its weapons system.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ukraine_and_weapons_of_mass_destruction

In the nineties, Ukraine would have come out looking quite hawkish to somehow wrest control of the weapons and then keep them for their own security. It would have prevented invasion perhaps, but it didn’t seem reasonable at the time.

I do think they have a uniquely legitimate right to hold nuclear weapons in self defense. Without them it’s war until the bitter end - of them or Putin’s regime.

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Seriously. If everything I said leaked to billions of people, I’d be a comedic phenomenon, a trendsetter, and a terrorist.

Do you get why this is starting to feel very circular? If not, please don’t trouble yourself to respond. Sincerely.

Right. So anyway, the market does often appear oversensitive to buzz and under-responsive to fundamentals. What’s your take on market reforms? Are there any changes you’d like to see, regulatory or otherwise?

That’s just another way of saying buyer sentiment is the only thing that matters, in which case we’re back to square one.

My point is, if this is how markets react to worsening sales and an actually insane CEO how can you trust a rational bet to pay off?

True enough. A bet on any tech stocks right now is probably safe on that basis - but I expect they really do plan to crash the stock market at some point… It would make sense if you wanted to consolidate ownership cheaply.

Value investing is basically dead, isn’t it? Am I crazy? How can you objectively evaluate a company’s value, notice it is undervalued, and then trade accordingly when price action does not even slightly track the company’s value?

Big mood.

Do people still say big mood?

We’re so fucking back

A part of me loved the idea of decentralized finance (punk as fuck if it hurts centralized finance) and was rooting for NFTs if they were going to be used to restore ownership rights for digital property but… That’s not what happened. It’s all grift.