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The Māori monarchy dates back to the 19th Century, when different Māori tribes decided to create a unifying figure similar to that of a European monarch in order to try to prevent the widespread loss of land to New Zealand’s British colonisers and to preserve Māori culture. The role is largely ceremonial.
Where are people getting the beavers to do the unauthorised beaver releases?
Do they use rehabilitated ones? Or are the ones who were both in captivity (big fenced areas) being “accidentally” let out of the fence?
Do beaver-keepers secretly meet up in the night and exchange unregistered beaver babies to prevent inbred populations?
She had to let it rest for another 20 hours after getting off the plane anyway. Even if it was really necessary, she could have made the dough at the airport (past security) and kept it fully sealed whilst on the plane.
Oh no sorry, that 35 years was if you’re planting 10 trees for every 1 you cut down (have a look at the calculator!)
The ecosystem of a mature tree is vastly different to that of a sapling.
Bristol Trees have a very cool calculator that illustrates the impact of replacing mature trees with saplings on CO2 - it takes about 35 years to get back to the same amount of CO2 loss. CO2 isn’t the only thing that matters to the environment either, but you’d hope councils were aware of that too
I can imagine they had so much fun with this one
they did a chocolate lemon decades ago, but it was with dark chocolate, wasn’t popular & got discontinued. I think they should try again but with white chocolate
Nausicaa is my favourite film :)! the soundtrack is so bizarre in the best way
(the last film I watched was Kiki’s delivery service, also recommend that to everyone! it’s a lot more relaxing and kid-friendly than Nausicaa though)
It’s only really fine if someone calls me an appearance-based compliment if they’re my partner or a woman that I’m close to.
96% of people aged 55 and over regularly using BBC services
69% of Britons aged under 16 said they consumed any BBC content in an average week
Since under 16 year olds don’t typically pay for TV licenses, I wish they’d given us a percentage for between 16 and 55 !
Book purchased! As well as the other one mentioned by Destide earlier. Excited to learn lots, thanks for the recommendations
We’ve got a gas grill, but didn’t know you had to clean the tubes. I always look in all the crevices to check for spiders anyway tho, so hopefully no future accidental fires
Also: I didn’t know what a big green egg was until earlier today but they look fantastic! Hope your eggy barbecue dreams are coming true with having one :)
I definitely agree about veggies/vegans getting stereotyped as too-healthy :) Although I do find that, even if a recipe has technically same level of unhealthiness, the vegan equivalent of a meal never makes me feel quite as unhealthy as a meaty one.
I think veggie/vegan creativity makes for much better meals than just your standard unseasoned beef and bread combo. If I’m going to use meat, I might as well use it wisely, but if I can get the deliciousness of meat, without using meat, then that’s even better! So SauceStache is a perfect recommendation, thanks! I’m going to watch a lot of his videos (especially the one on DIY Beyond meat).
I’ve tried bbq-soy-sauce-feta-watermelon once before - I think I was the only person who genuinely enjoyed it. I might end up being my own guinea pig if I end up being too adventurous again :)
Thanks for this, really helpful stuff :)
That book looks great! I love how-to-cook books instead of just recipe books (i.e. Salt Fat Acid Heat or Sohla’s Start Here) and that looks like a great BBQ version.
wrt food safety, I should be alright! One of the reasons I haven’t BBQ’ed much in the past is that I’m very safety focussed.
Another reason is that I don’t eat much meat unless I’m planning on making it really delicious! Meat thermometers will definitely help (with both deliciousness and safety).
The Number 1 reason I don’t BBQ more often is that my garden is down a ladder at the moment! Once we’ve got stairs, (and meat thermometers!) there’ll be nothing stopping me :)
Did you have any advice for cooking for veggies? (a lot of my friends are vegan and they deserve good food too!)
If you mean climate change, then yeah, obviously humans do influence the climate. In terms of individual scale events (weather, big storms) there’s not any existing technology that exists that can cause a single targeted big storm event.
There is no technology on earth that can make storms of this scale. Cloud seeding doesn’t add any water to the cloud. At most, it causes a very slight increase in rain. If you accidentally cloud seed “too much” you nucleate lots of ice crystals within the cloud, making many tiny ice crystals (which don’t precipitate at all).
They didn’t seed this cloud - but it wouldn’t have done anything if they had.
it’s a feminist movement, in backlash to misogyny and pro-natalism in South Korea (it’s becoming more widespread, though). The 4Bs are the “four no’s”:
It gets a lot of pushback and is called selfish etc. but women are very angry & upset that the government only sees them for their reproductive use, and it’s reasonable to not want to date someone who doesn’t view you as human.
Surprised to see none of the comments mentioning the 4B movement
It’s a concern already for low-lying atoll islands like those in the Maldives and Tuvalu. Half of Tuvalu’s capital city is expected to be flooded by 2050, but they’ve been seeing the effects for years unfortunately.
It really depends where you are though - my town is at around 100 m elevation and about 80 km inland. When I was a kid, my mum used to have nightmares about tidal waves coming over the horizon because she was so scared of sea level rise.
I saw the bakeries one first - fooled me into thinking this was sincere haha
As long as they’re not inside my house, (and if they were, I would take them outside) I’d say it’s fine. They deserve somewhere nice to live (as long as it isn’t. inside my house)