I blame PIX for that! Poor macaws, tamarins, jaguars and groupers! I barely see them any more! [/joke]*

Serious now. I think most people are aware monoculture is bad, but the text highlights yet another problem: every time the monoculture changes, the local fauna adapted to the previous culture gets wrecked. Specially given the situation, since those cacao farms relied on the local flora, but coffee farms don’t.

And I bet that coffee isn’t even for local consumption, but for exportation.

Cliqué sin leer y esperaba contenido en latín…

Pero che, la página se ve muy bien. Recursos localizados son importantes, así como páginas especializadas en ellos.

That’s how I’d sleep too, even with the computer turned on as I seed and leech, but then there’s a cat-shaped arsehole who insists sleeping over me.

I like measuring things. Probably a carryover habit of my first uni (Chemistry), but the end result tends to be more predictable, and it helps me to avoid dumb mistakes from lack of attention.

For some things there’s a bit more leeway to eyeball things; for example, if I’m adding water to dough I’ll probably eyeball it. (Specially as hydration tends to behave weirdly in rainy days, so it’s better to go by texture than by fixed amounts.) But I’m certainly not eyeballing the amount of salt that goes in the polenta, rice or meats.

Side note I hate that Reddit oversimplification where people seem to believe cooking allows eyeballing but baking doesn’t. It stinks mental laziness; I think in both cases there’s some room for eyeballing, and some for precision.

Down: 2,92 TB, Up: 3,85 TB, Ratio: 1,32

I try my best to not be a dead weight, but I download pretty obscure shit so even if I keep the torrent seeding for a whole month people don’t download it.

I’m not authority by all means. Just someone who’s cross-breeding peppers at home, and had to read about this stuff to know if my goal (four custom pepper varieties) is even viable with the varieties I have at hand.

The reason I used species names is because it’s cleaner — plenty species have multiple cultivars, cultivars often have local names, and some of those don’t even have an English name.

so I’ll take everything you said has fact

Please, don’t. It’s good to check info people mention in social media.

Info on diverging 17mya: https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/feel-the-burn-new-world-chilies-traced-back-nearly-17-million-years/

Biggest clade diversity being in the Andes: check this map, focus on Bolivia. The association between clade diversity x geographical origin is a common rule of thumb biologists (and linguists) follow.

Yup. If they could, the discourse would suddenly change from mockery to genuine praise. Corporations are filled with hypocrites, and as entities they act like hypocrites too.

Now you do! You’re also talking with the guy who invented fire. And internet shitposting!

I don’t know. My guesses are:

1. Ofcom’s system is automated and/or byzantine, so it sends those intimidatory notices regardless of being hopeless or not.
2. Ofcom doesn’t know 4chan won’t pay shit.
3. Ofcom knows 4chan won’t pay shit, but it’s doing this circus to show 4chan is not co-operating with UK law, so there are grounds to demand British ISPs to block it.
4. Some decision maker in Ofcom is worried about losing face if they back off.

If any of those is true, I have no idea.

For backstory check this BBC link (notice the date). In a nutshell:

• UK’s Office of Communications (Ofcom) demands 4chan to comply with UK’s Online Safety Act.
• 4chan refuses because it’s hosted in USA, it has no assets in UK, and acc. to its lawyer (Preston Byrne, the guy from the tweets) it broke no law in USA.
• Ofcom insists. And fines 4chan. And expects 4chan to pay the fine.
• Ofcom asks “where’s the payment?”. Byrne answers it with the picture of an oversized hamster, clearly mocking the entity.

Present time: Ofcom is trying again. Byrne sends it even more pictures of oversized hamsters.

It’s corpo, but it’s shitting on common corpo practices.

Same deal here in Brazil. Or at least my city; pizza styles vary regionally here, so sometimes those takeout pizze you eat in a State might be rather… meh in comparison with homemade ones.

People are fish.

No, that is not the case of picking a paraphyletic definition and treating it as a clade (“people are fish”).

I’m pointing out that whatever they find “in the wild” in Mexico and neighbouring countries is already the result of humans spreading this stuff everywhere, after years and more years of funny monke, so no matter what you call “original gangsta” that is not it. Anyone with basic reading comprehension (unlike you) can get it.

You’re inventing strict definitions that do not exist

Yeah, because I totally invented the definition of landrace. Suuure. I also invented the aeroplane. /s

😂

I also invented emojis, “lol” and “lmao” because they’re all great ways to force braindead morons and pass-aggro shitlets to out themselves as such.

you just said you’re “guessing” this

Yeah, and you clearly did not understand what I was guessing.

Not bothering further with you.

EDIT, directed at other users (the above won’t understand anything too complex): my guess was correct, chiltepín is indeed a landrace.

The link also mentions «Chiltepins are often referred to as the “mother of all peppers”, but it has a more recent rich history along the US and Mexico borderlands». This explains rather well that 1) the chiltepín pepper was introduced there, and 2) why the American nationalist is throwing such a cringe tantrum, at the idea peppers originated elsewhere.

Well if you’re going back millions of years to extinct species, sure

If you don’t, then there’s no “OG pepper”. Multiple species in the genus have been domesticated, cross-bred, spread, and used by funny monke “MOUTH HOT”.

Glabarisculum definitely may be a landrace, but it’s also still the likely progenitor of all extant Capsicum annuum varieties

Both things are mutually exclusive, since landraces require previous domestication. If it’s a LR then even for that specific species it isn’t the OG, the OG would be its ancestor.

Yes, you would. Save the following into a file and you’ve downloaded a pizza!

Note: I’m listing ingredients for a single pizza, enough for two people. Scale them up as needed! I’ll also list things as percentage of the weight of the flour, for the bakers out there.

Dough:

• 250g=100% wheat flour. 10% gluten is fine.
• 150ml=60% water at 30°C. You can increase the amount of water once you’re used to doughs, but 60% hydration is a good start. Also, it’s fine if the water is a bit colder, you’ll just wait longer; but do not use hot water, you’ll kill the yeast YOU MURDERER.
• 10g=8% oil. Veg oil is fine here, EVOO is a waste because the taste is baked away.
• 6g=2.4% sugar. Some people use honey; up to you. You won’t eat it — the yeast will.
• 4g=1.6% salt.
• 2g=0.8% instant yeast. Amounts can be eyeballed.

Toppings:

• eyeballed amount of olive oil. This one needs to be olive oil.
• tomato passata. No, not sauce. It should be pure tomatoes, mashed. You can make it at home from Roma tomatoes if you want, just remember this is not a bloody torrent, so no seeds. Tomato puree, tomato paste etc. work fine too, as long as it isn’t the sauce you’d add to pasta when you’re overworked because of capitalism. If it’s too concentrated it’s fine to water it a bit but don’t go overboard. Ah, season it with salt and pepper.
• 200g mozzarella. Preferably low moisture (easier browning), low fat (unless you like those puddles of butter, I don’t), and low-ish salt (I’ve bought salty moz’ once for a lasagna and it ruined the whole thing).
• The toppings of your choice. Yes, even pineapples if you want. If unsure, ham/salami and olives are a safe bet.
• Oregano. A pizza without oregano is a sad pizza. Without oregano the other pizze would look at yours and say “failure~”.

1. Mix every dough ingredient. There’s no fluff like “separate solids and liquids”, just mix and knead the dough well until smooth.
2. Leave the dough inside a larger closed container, over your desktop tower. Go play some AAA game you pirated, those that make GPU and CPU go brrrr so the dough gets warm.
3. After some time (30min? 2h? It depends on weather), the dough should have at least doubled in size. Punch it to get rid of those excessively large air bubbles, sprinkle some flour over it (so it doesn’t stick), then spread the dough over a table or already in the pan you’ll bake it.
4. Wait a bit more. Half hour, a full hour, it’s fine. The dough should re-rise a bit.
5. Pierce the dough over and over with a toothpick, to avoid excessively large bubbles. It’s fun to watch pita becoming a balloon, but this is pizza, OK?
6. Bake it in a pre-heated home oven at the highest temperature it reaches, until slightly golden. Pizzeria would bake it with the toppings already, but odds are your home oven doesn’t reach 6000°C like their ovens do. Also, don’t brown it completely, it’ll go back to the oven soon.
7. Remember that “eyeballed amount of olive oil”? Brush it over the already baked dough. Then use the same brush (no washing!) to spread the passata. Then spread the cheese, toppings, oregano. Be generous with the oregano.
8. Re-bake the whole thing. If your oven has an upper heating element for grilling, use it. Then serve it immediately.

I’m copyrighting this recipe so you need to pirate it. Just kidding — it’s public domain. Enjoy.

The “OG pepper” is likely already gone: the Capsicum genus started branching off 17mya, way before we humans colonised the Americas. It was probably from the Andes as it’s where you have the biggest clade diversity; including barely domesticated species, such as C. chacoense and wild ones like C. eximium:

If I had to take a guess chiltepín is probably a landrace, a wild-ish descendant of domesticated C. annuum.

It’s not just an orthographic resource — it’s a tendency of AI chatbots!

(I use them a lot, too.)

It’s a bit of idealism from my part, but I’m hoping way more than just forcing us (people in general) to stop being online: I want to see all this crap backfiring and prompting the formation of a parallel internet. One that is user-friendly, but corporation-hostile, even at the expense of small convenient bits. Mostly from parts of the “old internet” being glued together: the Gemini protocol, the Fediverse, TOR, etc.

I don’t think the point is to leave the bots out. It looks more like grabbing even more info about you, because you can know a lot about the person just telling them to wave their hand on a cam:

• sex, gender, skin colour, age
• do they have calluses? This hints profession
• do they bite the nails, leave them to grow too much, or carefully trim them? This hints psychological factors
• what’s on the background? Even a blank background hints the person is a bit more privacy-conscious.
• etc.

Days without Meta violating basic principles of honesty, dignity, and decency: zero.
Days without Meta reverting harmful decisions only because people outraged at it: zero.

(And no, neither counter is broken. They don’t reach one… because.)