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Cake day: June 17th, 2023

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  • I mean, you CAN make wine out of Concord grapes, but it still tastes like Concord grapes after fermentation. Many places that lack the more temperate climate of France or coastal California make a lot of wine out of Concord and similar grape varieties bred from native grape species that are in many cases more disease resistant and tolerant of extreme temps. Overall, they tend to be sweeter wines(though concords technically have a lower natural sugar content on average than many traditional varieties) and often they get mixed with other fruit wines (blackberry, blueberry, strawberry, and even another native grape called a muscadine) because they aren’t easy to extract a lot of tannins out of, and are a real one trick pony from a flavor perspective. Many attempts have been made to breed grapes that exhibit more “traditional” wine flavors, to varying degrees of success.

    That being said, this is some real prison hooch territory and there’s zero reason to do something like this with as accessable as winemaking kits are these days. Now if you’re in a prohibition type scenario maybe it makes at least some sort of sense.


  • What is this, non credible defense? If you believe that, then nothing matters and all options are on the table including preemptive action, because you either assume that MAD is enough to stave off that stupidity or you dont. But…this is all bullshit propaganda and saber rattling so who really cares.


  • They’ve been held at bay for over a year by a smaller army with at best 20+ year old “B stock” conventional munitions often Jerry rigged to give half the capabilities they have when used as intended. Russia is a paper tiger who would get the Iraq revolutionary guards treatment inside 3 weeks if they start shit against the finns. And nobody outside Putin himself is suicidal enough to start throwing nukes.


  • Yep. Most people clutching their pearls at this story don’t have any idea how difficult it is to actually build anything outside a gen 3 Glock or an ar-15. And those have “80% kits” that basically say “drill hole here” available on the market. Try finding a hi point, lorcin, or even Taurus or low end S&W pistol, or cheap shotgun(like a Stevens or Remington 870) receiver(because that’s most of what comes into these guys who have businesses like this), and you’ll find out it is a) cost prohibitive, b) still has to go through a nics check bc there’s nobody home building much of anything (well, the hi point may be the odd one out bc there are 3d printed frames you could make). What they do end up doing is a lot of business with guys refurbishing grandpa’s old deer or duck gun.