https://www.yahoo.com/entertainment/why-31-old-supported-parents-152807538.html
Interesting, so this guy was derailed by a DUI and claims he's been subject to "setbacks", and he's entitled to being accommodated accordingly.
Dang, I was hoping of a story of someone with REAL SETBACKS like buddies stabbing you in the back. Or a professor failing your final exam denying you the degree because he despises you. (ultimately, career derailment in most sub-25 male cases)
Well, I guess I come across those stories often enough, it's just that they tend to focus more on the many victims vs. the perpetrators perspective, rarely is the perpetrators perspective brought fully to public light. I guess partially that's because, unlike this guy, they aren't usually trying explain their misanthropy in justifying their deeds, no doubt because nobody would sympathize, in fact, it'd probably do the opposite and worsen the sentencing. Some of them more or less go for the "I'm crazy" angle hoping to avoid the death penalty.
Oh well, I guess some of us are lucky for being /actually/ culpable, not simply arbitrarily scapegoated and subjected to treachery.
After taking a look at tree damage pictures and evaluating the risks of fallen trees, and reviewing the kinds of trees that fall around here (usually smaller trees with less extensive roots and dead trees that fall after the base has rotted out.), I decided the risk of a "from the front" tree falling episode is fairly minimal and if one does fall, it shouldn't cause life-threatening damage, and the back will be protected by a tree guard that will act like a trellis (for grape vines and whatnot), so I can simply go ahead and continue construction.
The guy was telling me of what he has to do, shoveling the dirt away from the base of the tree exposing the root ball, and then pushing it over with his (excavator?), and I thought about whether I want these giant dirt craters in my front... lol...
Feels like I got 2hours of sleep last night, which is unusual.
Think I'm going to be taking a step from the American Indian stepbook and reduce the sugar intake. Seems like the high banana intake is specifically causing a low-grade form of nausea, despite the peanut and coconut intake. Seems like eating fish just recently got rid of that low-grade nauseating stomach feeling, indicating the role of (likely) sugar in that.
https://www.organicfacts.net/health-benefits/fruit/squash.html
They were famously one of the Three Sister crops, cultivated by Native Americans, who eventually shared them with European settlers. These three vegetables were commonly grown together and included corn (maize), beans, and squash. They provided the staple elements of the diet of early American culture and a number of other cultures throughout the region.
I read this as "beans,squash and [fruit]".
Now, the corn that American indians ate, was that sweet corn or field corn? The latter doesn't have (significant) sugar, commonly used in tortilla making.
https://www.history.com/news/hungry-history/indian-corn-a-fall-favorite
Looks like they actually ate "flint corn", distinguishable from field corn (has dent), which doesn't have a lot of sugar.
So, it looks like in fact, the indians ate very small amounts of sugar in fruits and whatnot.
I guess that makes sense, considering how difficult fruit is to grow vs starch vegetables (flint corn, squash, beans), and how rare it tends to be in comparison in the gardening setting. Vegetable gardens tend to be far more productive than fruit trees. I wonder if vegetables tend to have a far wider "consumption window"? Fruits are often only available during harvesting season when they ripen.
Looks like the native japanese grow pumpkins and sweet potatos. Pumpkins are a squash variety.
Looks like squash consumption is nearly universal in indigenous cultures.
And flint corn looks like it was often consumed as cornmeal, added to meals (such as beans), or soaked until it split opened, and fried over a fire.
It looks like it was often nixtamalized in an alkaline solution (limestone I believe).
Hominy is made in a process called nixtamalization. To make hominy, field corn (maize) grain is dried, then treated by soaking and cooking the mature (hard) grain in a dilute solution of lye (which can be produced from water and wood ash) or of slaked lime (calcium hydroxide, i.e. from lime (material) as in limestone, not from lime (fruit)). The soaked maize is washed. Alkalinity helps dissolve hemicellulose, the major glue-like component of the maize cell walls, loosens the hulls from the kernels, and softens the corn.
Let's see, how much nixtamlization do I want to be doing, lol.