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I would normally agree with you on the “get good” sentiment being obnoxious to deal with but…. nature doesn’t fuck around. People who go into the wilderness unprepared can and do die.

It’s not just bears and starvation that can kill you. You can get sick, get infections, get poisoned, get frostbite, hypothermia, heat stroke, and many other afflictions that will either ruin your trip, ruin your life, or kill you if you’re unlucky enough. Even just something as simple as scraping your knee on a rock can give you a staph infection that costs you your leg, a risk that can be averted just by wearing a pair of jeans when walking in the woods.

But besides all that: camping is way more enjoyable when you do some basic research, make a plan, and do the basic preparations you need for the plan to be successful. If you’re not willing to do that then you probably shouldn’t go camping in the first place!

Maybe? But probably not indefinitely.

Yes! And you can mix and match with regular habaneros to tune your own spice level until it’s perfect. You can basically achieve any spice level between zero and full habanero by combining in different ratios!

I’m not sure! What you can do though is use habanadas together with a habanero as a way of diluting the heat. If it’s a saucy dish you can just cook with a small piece of one as needed, then use nadas for the main pepper flavour.

If it’s something like a stir fry then just cut the pepper, remove the seeds, then stir fry with half or two halves of the seeded pepper, then remove or otherwise don’t eat it. It’s common in Chinese dishes to include a very hot pepper that you’re not supposed to eat which just imparts a bit of its heat to the dish (because it’s not chopped up or crushed it doesn’t release too much heat unless really cooked a lot).

A quick warning for people interested: do not make a sourdough starter unless you intend to bake bread at least once a week. A sourdough starter is basically a pet that eats flour every day. If you don’t bake bread regularly then you’re going to be wasting tons of flour feeding this thing that you don’t even use!

I made that mistake and wasted a ton of flour before finally giving up because I really didn’t have the time for it. It’s not just about using some starter to mix a dough and then letting it rise and then bake. You gotta do bulk rise, stretch and fold, proof, shape, and bake. The timing can vary specific to your starter, the temperature of the dough/room, the dough hydration, and more. This means monitoring the rise and proof to make sure you don’t under/over rise. It takes a lot of practice. It’s a legit hobby to learn how to bake really good bread.

Really confused on the purpose for this. Pepper growers have a petty good handle on how to dial up/down the heat level of peppers (stress tends to increase the heat). We also have people breeding tons of new varieties of peppers with different shapes, colours, flavours, textures, and heat levels.

Check this out:

These are habanada peppers. A variation on the habanero, they have no heat at all! Similar flavour but zero capsaicin, just like a sweet bell pepper.

C sort of implies B or A. If he causes them then he doesn’t prevent them because either he can’t or he doesn’t want to. It would be kind of weird if he caused a terrible thing and then prevented it before it happened.

Thanks! I’m glad you’re doing better now too!

My dad moved a lot actually. He lived all over the country. He moved to be close to his parents (my grandparents) who helped raise me.

I’m sorry you experienced the hardships you did. Are you saying you’d rather do a 10 year prison sentence in Norway instead of the poverty you experienced on the street? That’s pretty unfathomable to me.

Anyway, I never said anything about it being “free and easy.” Life is hard. But being in prison is neither free nor easy, even in a fancy Norwegian prison.

I am a Canadian man but not young. I’m baffled by the trend towards social conservatism by young men. They idolize Andrew Tate and abuse their female teachers. It’s pretty awful. It’s like the whole incel movement took over young boys’ minds.

Yeah I don’t get it. I’m trying to convince people that it’s better to be free than in prison and they’re not buying it?! What?

I think people create prisons for themselves in their own minds. I’m saying choose the situation you’re in. You’ll be much happier for it! Some people don’t want to be happy though. And they’ll resent you for even suggesting it!

Is that the poverty only experienced by a true Scotsman?

I’ve never had to live on the street, if that’s what you’re asking. I was raised by a single father. We had as many as 4 roommates at various times, including alcoholics and drug addicts. I’ve had to call the police on some of them. I’ve had to stay at my grandparents’ while my dad drove across the country as a salesman just to pay the bills.

I dropped out of high school at age 16 and only managed to go back and finish in my 30s. I got into university and graduated with a degree, thanks to generous government loans and grants. Now I got my first job post-graduation working in a mail room at age 41.

Was my life easy? No. But I wasn’t living in a slum in central Africa drinking contaminated water and suffering from Guinea worm disease. I think anyone in North America who grew up in a working class home is a long, long way from that kind of poverty.