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I hate to ask, but did you actually read the article? The word terroir is used twice, both times attributed to the same person.

Terroir is not what the article is about.

Grapes grown two miles outside of the Rutherford Bench that are clones of ones in the Bench appellation do not gave these notes. That notion of flavor specific to place is what terroir is.

That again isn’t inherent to terroir as Brazil and Paraguay are far too large to talk about distinctions that come from a specific place.

How is your second statement true? Its exactly the Côte discussion, if opposite sides of a valley matter then larger distances do as well. Terroir is about a specific place, it does not matter if the distance is 2 miles or a thousand, terroir is the difference.

If you want to argue that terroir is more important in some crops and less in others I would agree.

The Democrats are up in arms about this (because it’s illegal as fuck) but there’s quite a bit of right wing push back, even from everyone’s favorite cumsucker plastic surgery disaster Russian asset pundit Laura Loomer

Loomer said she loved Trump and would “take a bullet for him. But I have to call a spade a spade. We cannot accept a $400m ‘gift’ from jihadists in suits.

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/may/13/trump-qatar-plane-maga-republicans

No, it was me. I use SimpleX first, with Signal as a backup.

I know terroir is a marketing point, that’s without question. But, that’s not the focus of the article.

Terroir originally applied to grapes, it now applies to many more things. I can tell you, IMHO, where the best cashews come from, or peanuts, oregano, avocados, sumac, buckwheat, or sage. The same things apply to other crops besides grapes. The Côte Chalonnaise vs Côte d’Or is real, as is the difference between Yerba Mate from Paraguay vs from Brazil.

The idea that American Oak expresses terroir rather than species specific traits is not logical.

Ok, I don’t know enough about it. Is that stated in the article though? Because I can’t find it. Even if it did say that (spoiler, it does not) I would not find that very surprising. I have been mushroom picking and I said ‘there’s a bunch here’ and they said ‘don’t bother, they’re shit’. The difference was one side of a 20 metre valley to the other. Soil, sun, drainage, and a lot more really matter.

I honestly have no idea what you are talking about.

Terroir applies to many things. A sheep cheese made in the same style on the island of Pag in Croatia, and one in Iberia are not the same. Likewise, a San Marzano tomato grown in Australia is not the same. AOC, DOC, PDO, and many classifications exist for reasons beyond protectionism. In any case that’s not what the article is about.

Yes American oak and French oak have different tastes but it isn’t as if I could put a glass of whiskey in from of an expert and have them guess where the wood came from whereas doing so is a common test for grapes in wine.

Nowhere do I see that contested in the article, in fact it says the opposite.

No one at Tucson’s Hamilton Distillers knows exactly what wood the cognac barrels holding whiskey are made of.

“Probably Spanish oak?” one employee ventures a guess.

The article, which obviously I found interesting, is about the journey of a barrel. I thought others might find it interesting as well. I had no idea they were as long lived, or put to so many uses.

I just had this happen.

what’s your WhatsApp?

don’t use it

telegram?

don’t use it

messenger?

no

how do I contact you then?

do you have SimpleX or Signal?

???

then call me

how?

This was with a woman in her late 50’s, she would have had a landline at home growing up

I don’t really understand how he could use this as Air Force One. Engineers would have to go over it for any issues, Secret Service would check it for any kind of bugs, then it would need kilometres of new cabling, plus whatever else goes into an aircraft the president uses. Idk, different avionics, countermeasures, escape pod for Snake Plisken to find, etc.

it deviated from its planned route at Isola del Giglio, Tuscany in order to perform a sail-by salute

That part seems contentious, it’s never been made clear in any source I could find that the statement is true. Previously they had done so, and with approval, this time there is nothing to back it up. There was supposition that he was trying to wow his girlfriend.

In the end he hit a rock that the Illyrians were aware of, and had turned off the ‘bro, there’s a big fucking rock in front of you’ computer warning.

L’ Anon

If you don’t need to have an account you can try using Stealth on Android. It scrapes content (available in settings) . i use it with Orbot and don’t have any issues, though others have reported problems.

I only use it for search re-directs though. It does let you ‘subscribe’ to subs, but since you don’t have an account you cannot post, comment, or vote.

They also covered this on 24 April. It’s good to see it in the news.

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/apr/24/neo-nazi-group-the-base-leader-russian-spy-allegations

It isn’t much used, but cardamom is actually really good with peach. And cinnamon of course.

This part probably didn’t impress her too much

“But do you realize it is dark and here we can’t see anything…” he said. (According to news reports Wednesday, Schettino is now explaining that he abandoned the ship because he “slipped” into a lifeboat)

https://worldcrunch.com/world-affairs/captain-de-falco-would-be-hero-of-concordia-sinking-saw-his-orders-lost-at-sea/

Sorry, can’t find a better source.

There was also a quote from schettino where he’s (finally) realized what’s going on. He’s talking to de Falco, and asks to speak to his mother. de Falco shouts at him something like “oh, you need your mommy now?”.

Salsify fritters

the cleric blamed mass media for fostering so much “sympathy for anti-Christian lifestyles choices” that “when people hear the Christian message it often inevitably seems ideological and emotionally cruel

Imagine being at that revelation, then saying to yourself ‘no, my interpretation of skydaddy is correct’

If you are not familiar with it, here’s the link to Calibre. It has everything you need to manage your device. Transfer, backup, view, edit titles and descriptions etc.

https://calibre-ebook.com/

I just looked it up and my Kindle was released in 2010. I don’t know if newer ones last that long.

I never let it connect to internet, I never had an Amazon account. Since it doesn’t connect to the internet, or an account, it is mine. Calibre does a great job of managing it, and backing it up.

Others will know of things that are more up to date. I was mostly commenting about e ink.

If you want to read comics/ Manga I would think you want something with color, I have no experience with that though. There are many modern ereaders that do offer color e ink.

And yes, I have a few dictionaries in different languages on my Kindle.

Besides the low effort reading with e ink, there is also excellent battery life. I still get 10 days with my 15 year old device. That may or may not be important to you.

To be clear, I am not recommending a Kindle, since 1) fuck Amazon 2) maybe the new ones are shit, I don’t know. I am recommending an e ink device if you are an avid reader. They won’t do anywhere near as much work as even a cheap tablet, to me that is a bonus. If I’m reading I want to do that, no notifications, no work calls, etc.