I think you got your suffixes reversed there!

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

Ferrous gluconate is prescribed for anemia (ferrous sulfate is the most common in multivitamins). You could go to any number of stores close to you and find it in the supplements section.

https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC9818626/

And yeah, lye is used in many traditional food preservation and preparation techniques.

Chemistry aside, what I takeaway is that this is a wild process for a relatively tasteless product (compared to traditionally processed olives).

Layoff at least 3% of staff!

https://thehamandcheeseco.com/blogs/journal/olives

Also my favorite to use with the smart junior engineers who keep saying we should “just do ___.”

This has the same effect as the old saying “The beatings will continue until morale improves.”

The violence is the point. The argument is absurd.

It’s a game I play too. Sometimes you even get lucky with terrain and you can see the whole period of a wave and determine a speed to nullify it entirely. So satisfying.

Pretty sure this is the original unglamorous premise of Severance before it got hopped up by the what ifs from the producers.

Here’s an easier one:

Why aren’t cops enforcing window tint and license plate laws?

/s

These vehicles are clearly in violation in most states.

Agreed with both of you.

That’s the classic “milkshake” color and is definitely from coolant.

I imagine they meant “oath keepers”.

But promise keepers is/was an evangelical men’s “revival” series that occurred in stadiums across the US.

Won’t someone think of the shareholders?!

That skunk will be back around for cat food.

We had a juvenile come in through the patio door we had cracked for the cat. Dogs chased it under the stove. Took hours for it to let its guard down and leave following a trail of cat food.

It has been back several times over the last couple years. Only been back in the house 2x that I know of (the 20 year old cat demands the open door or she howls all night). We have a “skunk gate” on our patio now (it’s just plywood that runs between 2 rails on the steps).

As a multi owner (mine is an “old” 1200), I’d love to know what made you switch up and if the grass really is greener.

I see what you did there.

I’ll get some more coffee now.

Stitching leather.

Jacket, pants, belts, upholstery, bags, tack, etc. anywhere 2 pieces of leather get joined.

It is a mix, but the permanent residents are definitely not extremely wealthy.

This place is really a time share shithole where the loonies get to larp the prepper life.

Things they missed:

• there’s a couple dozen permanent residents at the most.
• it’s an active cattle ranch too. You might wake up to cattle on your roof.
• it’s fully off grid, you have to build your own septic and electric. They have an aquifer and you can pay to have water run to your bunker.
• your lease gets you a bunker. God only knows what condition it’s actually in and what former army munitions catastrophes have happened in it.
• the family that owns the surrounding property with the easement for access is internally feuding and hostile to residents (they’re also the cattle ranchers).
• trash is taken to a “burn bunker” where yes, they burn the trash in one of the bunkers.
• nothing is permitted or inspected. And no self-respecting crew wants these jobs in the middle of nowhere to build non-standard stuff. These are the drunks and the swindlers that have burned every bridge on their way out. Their work is shoddy and substandard when you can get them to show up. And your 3 month build out might be several years in the building. And you won’t get your money back once you pay up front. And a contractor might get you (and himself) killed on the way back from your night drinking hard enough to get kicked out of the bar.
• you can be evicted, and might not have any recourse to recoup the money you put into building it out.
• the “improvements” are laughable. They used former railroad fill on the streets. It is full of shit that will blow your tires out.
• no guarantee that an ambulance or firetruck will show up, and someone has to let them through the gate

Yes, I know a bunker owner. And yes, I have visited.