Barrels are rotted by microorganisms, which cannot survive in alcohol, especially on in the concentrations of any alcohol you would want to age. Take whiskey for instance. Whiskey can be as much as 60% or 70% alcohol while it's aging, which is plenty to kill any microbe.

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> And a lot of them are young . I hate to say it as an excuse but they almost, kinda, don't know any better besides "let's fuckin' kill the enemy" and they don't even know why.

If you haven't seen it, I highly recommend the film "The Card Counter."

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best thing I have read so far today

Next time I am up at 2 am I will check this out, I saved it.

It really doesn't behave like any other solid. Your muscles, your skin, all your body parts are not fully solid, they have stretch and squish. Bones and teeth are the exception, because skeletal cells utilize minerals to build a stiff, rigid, structure.

Licorice used to be a fairly common flavor but mint has taken over. If you're lucky you might find unflavored

Well, you see, in the Soviet Union, everything was owned collectively. Once everyone started taking their piece of the Soviet Onion, layer by layer it came apart and its collapse was inevitable

On the contrary, many plants have evolved to tolerate low nitrogen availability. Some industrialized countries are facing a "nitrogen crisis" where many of the native plant species are getting out-competed by plants that make better use of the glut of available nitrogen introduced by fertilizer and exhaust pollution. (e.g. https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2021/dec/15/netherlands-announces-25bn-plan-to-radically-reduce-livestock-numbers)

The way he was treated it isnt very encouraging.

>so no luck, you just lost a big audience and others may not want to have banana in their mouth for a few minutes every day

Hehehehe 😏

It'd be pretty complicated and be bad for emissions. It's just easier to pump in fake engine noise to whisper sweet nothings into your ears about how massive your cock is through the speakers. Or you can buy aftermarket cams and exhaust for your car.

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Nothing much. He expanded on what previous whistlesblowers talked about in early 2000s.

It’s more about the NSA. Can look into Projects Minaret and Shamrock. 1945-73 was a time of surveillance of US citizens.

A Review of Intelligence Oversight Failure: NSA Programs that Affected Americans

Plus this documentary about William Binney and his crew at NSA. They were the people who helped to create some of the systems Snowden talked about.

Good American. On you tube but May need a VPN

https://youtu.be/666wsDcoNrU

Otherwise look up projects Trailblazer, Thinthread and Solar winds.

Also look up Senator Church committee from 1975.

https://constitutioncenter.org/blog/looking-back-at-the-church-committee

Then CIA/media relationship. This is the start of the rabbit hole journey:)

So you’ll find Things he explained have been going on before he was even born. All that’s changed is the technology.

Honestly would be nice.

Mint won the flavor wars, over years and years.

Some of the first flavored chewing gum was... pine-flavored. Cloves, licorice, cinnamon, and more got tried. I used to love cinnamon flavored toothpaste as a kid. Somehow, peppermint, regular mint, spearmint, and wintergreen sold best.

In Taiwan, I saw a lot of odd flavors like green tea, but mint was still most popular. And kids' brands come in bubblegum and citrus, etc, so there are some other flavors put there.

To stop yourself from being monitored? Unless you're planning to drop out of society and live in the woods, no.

We are safe here.

He exposed the NSA, not the CIA. In any case, the people here saying that nothing whatsoever was done are making a huge disservice for everyone. By claiming this they are disincentivizing future whistleblowers.

Snowden's leaks led to the USA Freedom Act tightening some laws around using surveillance on American citizens.

The federal court also declared NSA's practices as illegal and possibly unconstitutional.

Snowden's leaks inspired the EU to make their surveillance laws tighter. Similar large scale surveillance is extremely unlikely to occur in any large European country, excluding Russia.

NSA was also required to delete a lot of the data they had gathered. Also, some of the data they gathered after that was made illegal to gather by them and they had to delete that later too.

Many of course hoped even more to come from Snowden's leaks, but honestly, the end result was a net positive. More whistleblowers like him need to come forward and we should encourage that by recognizing the good that came from Snowden's leaks.

Its meant more of a turn of phrase than literally. I'm sure he didn't actually run to Russia, but in transit or not, he chose to run from the US authorities and accept political asylum in Russia. I'm sure most would do the same seeing what happened to Assange. Also, I've just read some of his recent tweets and he has somewhat suggested some opposition to the war in a more-obvious-than-id-expect kind of way. Seems like he's in a bad and growingly frustrating position.

What war?

=)

Burns your mouth? Aww petal.

A lot of the "naturalness" of normal motion is due to the pendulum-like motion of our body parts in a gravity field. Experience has taught you to expect that. Absent that, the motion looks unnatural.

Thanks, will give this a listen!