If life gives you all the lemons, guard them jealously until your enemies die if scurvy.
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Cave Johnson circa 1990:
There's enough sugar in natural lemon juice to ferment well enough to get the job done. All you need to add is time and open air for the first day, and you'll have an endless supply of alcohol.
Once you see bubble start forming seal it up to keep excess and less wanted bacteria from piling in, unseal to vent the building co2 on the regular, and when the bubbling dies down, drink up. If you save some starter from your last batch to toss into each new batch it will help get a happy yeast colony growing faster, for more faster drunky.
Better watch out for those "lemon stealing whores"!
I always preferred "when life gives you lemons, jam them up life's tailpipe."
Pretty sure that’s a Nemco 55850.
Best citrus juicer ever made, and one of my most cherished possessions.
https://www.webstaurantstore.com/nemco-55850-manual-heavy-duty-easy-citrus-juicer/591N55850.html
It looks great but what's with the price?
Build quality (over 10 pounds of solid metal, no plastic parts), completely disassemble-able/maintenance friendly, replacement parts available (and have been for over a decade), and the 20:1 leverage gets a ton of juice out. Like enough that I have to drastically adjust recipes that say things like “the juice of two limes”. And not that this makes it better, but does affect the price, it’s made in the US. The target market isn’t residential, it’s busy bars with fresh squeezed citrus, and for that, the speed, reduced waste, and durability (and lack of tiring out your arm) make up for the cost. For residential, it’s a ridiculous splurge. When I bought it, they went for $400 and I found it on sale for $320. I’m guessing the cost of aluminum has gone up since.
Makes sense.
I loved this comment. It felt exactly like when you ask a car salesman the price of a car and they start telling you a bunch of other facts about the car to distract you from hearing the answer to your own question. Very genuine to the actual experience.
The person I responded to asked “what’s with the price”, presumably after seeing the price. Not “what’s the price”.
Damn my bad, I totally misread that.
"When life gives you lemons on the condition they take 99% of your earnings, make 100 lemonades."
- The grind mindset "alpha males" teach.
Ah yes, The Aperature Laboratories Life Gives You Lemons Launcher, a tool developed to inspire the technicians working on the combustible lemon to work faster.
Then I'm gunna burn your house down! With lemons!
The machine was preprogrammed with over 1000 unique belittlements prerecorded by Cave himself which would play randomly each time a lemon was launched.
I don’t have sugar, but how about a cute picture of a fox?
funny thing about lemons, life didn't give them to us. We crossbred them into existence. We made the lemons.
Don't care, gonna make life take the lemons back anyway!
Demand to see life's manager! Make life rue the day it thought it could give FireRetardant lemons!
When life gives you lemons and you make a ton of lemonade, you're going to need every container available to piss in.
Just a couple of posts above was the news about the Mullvad CEO being a white suprematist. ‘Nuff lemons.
Man, can't these people just be normal?
Capitalistic pigs can’t be normal, because money > morals, but only until a civil war starts where people hunt those pigs down. I am eagerly waiting for this.
Thanks for heads up. Would’ve auto-renewed Monday.
What are you switching to?
Sorry afk. Not sure yet. Few days load balancing on cheap/free services that I usually only use for low priority traffic. Due diligence just takes me longer than it used to so I don’t know yet.
For temporary solutions, DDG and AdGuard-VPN are reliable and check the boxes usually considered most important, but they don’t offer the power user / enterprise features some need to replace mulvad.
Before Mulvad I used NordVPN. So I may reevaluate them first, but in truth I’m close to just skipping all of this and paying the fuck off fee to run my own servers.
I can recommend AirVPN. Switched to then after Mullvad removed port forwarding and haven't had a single problem since.
Why AirVPN? Is it as good as Mulvad?
Even better since they support port forwarding. They're also a privacy focused. It is founded by privacy activists and has been like that since inception. I haven't heard any bad stuff about the people behind it.
Nice, thanks. I'll take a look at it.
Do you happen to know who owns them, if they've been raibed already and how that went?
It is created by privacy activists and is still run by the original owners. I haven't heard of any raids but they're using RAM servers so raids would be inefficient anyway.
Damn that guy can piss
Jarate!
Don't worry, it'll get worse
Turned it into a free back massage, very innovative!