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  • Lately, honey fermented garlic. It was a giant leap forward for my stir fry and sauce game. Starting to branch out into more honey-based ferments.

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    Process optimization games?
  • I need to try to get back into ONI. It should be something I would really enjoy. But I got hung up on some details.

    Actually, I know it's a defect in my mindset in approaching that game. I shouldn't expect certain things like conservation of mass and energy... I also took a while to realize that solubility and diffusion just don't exist in the game. I don't want to care so much about this but I struggle.

    I loved Tekkit/FTB back in the day! Lots of good times setting up factories and controlling swarms of turtles.

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    Stack Overflow's CEO doesn't understand Stack Overflow
  • Valuation is usually based on potential revenue, not actual revenue

    How similar this is to how capitalists look at natural "resources". "This website[wetland] sure is great. Lots of people[animals] are loving it. And it's a vital part of the development[water] cycle... But it's just not making me any money!"

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    The plant protein that could push meat off your plate
  • This is fascinating. Perhaps the plant protein as meat substitute is getting too much focus? Maybe that's just the part that is seen as potentially the most profitable. I wonder if that's shortsighted compared to using the whole plant as a potential food source.

    I was familiar with duckweed's use in aquaculture systems, but not with the fact that duckweed is actively consumed and quite edible: Nutritional value of duckweeds (Lemnaceae) as human food

    The application of selective pressure to work on making domesticated forms is cool. The rapid generational cycle of just a couple days has got to make that nicer to work with. We have better abilities today than in past centuries to leverage artificial aquaculture. Though again, I think I that we should not overlook consuming the whole plant, it's definitely interesting considering how it could be fractionated into different components. If processed to extract specific protein content, I could imagine that the rest of the slurry byproduct could still have uses in human nutrition, fish feed, fertilizers, and more. Growing duckweed also captures carbon from the air.

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