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Cake day: August 29th, 2024

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  • 3 cups flour and a little extra
    1 cup water and a little extra, preferred filtered or distilled
    1/6 cup molasses
    1 tablesp oil, type in this case I used olive oil but for a less complex flavor you can use canola or soy
    1 teasp salt
    1.5 teasp active dry yeast

    I also used a fistful of sourdough starter which originally was dry yeast, flour, and water in a jar with a valve that I feed several times a week. If you don’t want to use sourdough then simply use 2 teasp yeast instead of 1.5.

    For optional sweetness you can also add 1/6 cup honey and/or 1 tablesp sugar

    Mix it by hand, it should eventually become smooth, soft, able to stand on its own, and lightly sticky. If it is too sticky add flour, if it is too tough or falling apart add water.

    Roll and flatten it repeatedly, then cover with a wet cloth or plastic and let rise for at least 1 hour, can be left overnight for a stronger sourdough taste. If the yeast took then the dough should at least double in size. Oil parchment on a pan that fits in your oven. After the first rise, roll and flatten repeatedly again. On the last flatten and roll tuck the ends underneath so it makes a classic loaf shape and move it onto the pan. Let rise again under wet cloth or plastic.

    Bake at 390 for 30 to 40 minutes, check often until it is appropriately browned but not burnt.

    After removing from oven cover with a wet cloth. The bread comes out hard but should soften within minutes. After that you should wait a while before sealing the bread in a plastic bag, if you do so too early moisture will accumulate in the bag and it wont last as long.

    Roughly 1800 calories.


  • There are some limitations to the Filibuster:

    • things that don’t require a senate vote don’t get a filibuster
    • confirmation hearings for secretaries and judges don’t get a filibuster
    • certain types of bill such as budgets, so long as they avoid specifically off limit contents, don’t get a filibuster so long as they can pass the house again

    Also of note is Trump’s term could get a lot shorter if after the midterm elections the 53 GOP senate seats became closer to 40 and/or if enough GOP were convinced to vote to remove Trump.

    Any Democrat is better than Any Republican.






  • finitebanjo@lemmy.worldOPtoFuck Cars@lemmy.worldHorses ARE Forever
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    24 hours ago

    It’s questionable whether horses would still exist for any other purpose considering we created them and brought them around the world. The only untouched wild horse left in existence is Przewalski’s horse from Central Asia, and some reintroduced/invasive NA wild mustangs.

    Without animal husbandry they would probably be about as rare as buffalo, currently only 500,000 and at one point only a confirmed 325 existed.

    The way I see it, horses currently have it pretty good on average with wide spaces, very little work to do, and they tend to live full lives as they’re not usually bred for meat. Probably happier than the average human.














  • Clearly not enough. Bird Flu kills 90% of infected birds, if culls and management had been more efficient then it wouldn’t have spread as much as it has.

    I believe even as far as January over 134 Million poultry in the USA had perished and another 111 Million birds between February and March.

    Canada, despite sharing borders and markets, has seen much lower casualty rates because their farms are smaller, about 25k birds average compared to US farms as large as 1 Million birds.

    Whatevers going on in the USA is because of lack of government intervention, and it absolutely will continue to get worse under Trump.

    Luckily there have been no new major outbreaks in March, leading to a decline in price, for now.