[…] We could cook wheat like we cook rice. That would leave out the pasta making process and therefor way less energy usage. If we soak the whole wheat before (like we soak beans), it would be even less energy usage.

Pastiera napoletana is the dish you are looking for, and it’s delicious:

It’s made with grano cotto – cooked wheat grain – which unfortunately takes much longer to cook than pasta does:

The wheat needs to be soaked at least 24 hours before it is cooked. When using durum wheat (the usual in Southern Italy), it needs to be soaked for 3 days and the water needs to be changed each morning and each evening. With our soft wheat, 24 hours is sufficient. The wheat is then cooked with milk, lemon zest, and butter until it is al dente. This takes about an hour and a half, or half that time with a pressure cooker.

Don’t forget PFAS contamination: https://www.ewg.org/interactive-maps/pfas_contamination/

Ah, the intersection near Reservoir station. It’s changed now; for the better, but millions spent due to car dominance, with the government passing it off as public transport and bike network spending.

Google satellite photos are well outdated, but street view has current imagery if anyone wants to explore.

Here’s some more recent aerial photos from Nearmap:

Seems like twitter might be blocking mastodon domains from a public list somewhere? Even a link to a very small (public) instance was blocked. A link to a single-user instance however, was not blocked.

Interestingly… a link to that same (not blocked) single-user instance but with another (blocked) instance’s domain in the path of the url was blocked.

Hmm… What if… twitter.com was listed as a mastodon server?

Fuck open space. Cars and overconsumption for the win?

Corpse wrapped in a hessian sack, dropped upright into a hole dug in a field with an auger; no headstone, just GPS coordinates.

https://www.funeralguide.net/blog/upright-burials

Salmon farming in Australia:

Salmon farming exposed: Does the industry’s ‘green image’ stack up? | Four Corners: https://invidious.snopyta.org/watch?v=xLIph7Ct-rQ

To be fair, there is promise in sustainable aquaculture, in the same way sustainable agriculture is possible. Unfortunately indifference/greed/capitalism doesn’t seem to favour responsible aquaculture practices.

Land-based aquaculture using azolla as feed: https://theazollafoundation.org/azollas-uses/as-a-livestock-feed/

Mussel (and some other shellfish) aquaculture: https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2022/mar/05/can-mussel-farming-restore-the-uks-damaged-coastline-aoe

https://ecotippingpoints.org/our-stories/indepth/china-biogas.html

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If a raster image version would be ok, one avenue to look into is opening up the network tab in developer tools in Firefox, and browsing through all the pages. You may need to zoom in to ensure high enough resolution images are loaded.

At the end of this, click the cog button and “save all as HAR file”.

Then you’ll need to write some code to extract and correctly order all the page images then feed that into a pdf generator tool.

I got as far as manually inspecting the HAR file with some tool and noting that page images are indeed there, but my need for the textbooks lapsed so I did no further work.

(/c/fuck_cars@lemmy.ml)

Diesel loco trains are so much nicer (quieter) to travel in.

Electrification of a diesel loco hauled service just involves replacing the locomotive.

Yet… you have a problem: a device-wipe-on-sms app is not available for iOS.

https://www.scinapse.io/search?query=phaseolus vulgaris fermentation digestibility

Covid panic? More people driving to avoid catching covid on public transport, thus killing more people on the roads?

Taking 2019’s US road toll stats as a baseline, 2020+2021’s “excess” road toll was between 5 and 6 million extra people.

The US covid death toll for 2020+2021+2022 is about 1 million people.

Please note this is just conjecture – correlation is not causation, etc.

Going by the stats here:

• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Motor_vehicle_fatality_rate_in_U.S._by_year
• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/COVID-19_pandemic_death_rates_by_country

Bring a post hole digger and dig the holes a metre deep.

Hmm… would it be too much to paste some of these up around the local schools?

Not wasting any timber here!

Another option is to use a filesystem such as btrfs or zfs which stores checksums in metadata, then use the included tools to verify file integrity and identify bit rot.

https://btrfs.readthedocs.io/en/latest/btrfs-scrub.html

https://openzfs.github.io/openzfs-docs/man/8/zpool-scrub.8.html