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For anyone looking for a cheap home made jerky method that can be done in regular bog standard oven, try this pork teriyaki jerky method. It's super simple, and requires no equipment.

https://youtu.be/NGMIIGpo5Zw?si=MpI41_o9we-3ej89

Edit: Also, keep that bit about pork tenderloin to yourselves OK? Definitely don't let anyone know that it's a ridiculously cheap cut that you can use to make an absolutely delicious Pork Wellington (definitely don't look up Alton Brown's recipe for it). And certainly don't let anyone know that if you put it in a sous vide with a little olive oil in the bag, it comes out as one of the juciest, most tender cuts of meat you've ever eaten in your life, for less than the price of the cheapest, toughest shoe-leather steaks they sell at the grocery store. Everyone is sleeping on this incredible cut of meat, and I would very much like to keep it that way.

Yeah, the trick with both liquid smoke and fish sauce is to use way less than you think you need. You'll notice I'm only putting a teaspoon in about a full cup of marinade, and that's enough to give a very distinctly smoky flavour. You can easily cut that back to a half or quarter teaspoon if you prefer it more subtle.

For fish sauce, I'm going to start out with the same kind of measures. I'll probably go with 1tsp and then adjust up or down from there. If you can taste the fish sauce in the finished product you've used too much. And yes, brand absolutely matters. I only ever use Squid brand fish sauce personally.

I've got a big old bowl of freshly cut eye of round from my local butcher marinading in the fridge right now. Tomorrow it'll go in the dehydrator (I'm lucky enough to have one built into my oven. I'm also very lucky to have a local butcher. Sadly not something most people have access to).

My current marinade is as follows:

• ¼ cup dark soy
• ¼ cup light soy
• ¼ cup water
• 2tbsp maple syrup
• 2tbsp worcestershire sauce
• 1tsp liquid smoke
• LOTS of cracked black pepper

Optionally, add red pepper flake for a little spice. You can also up the amount of worcestershire if you like.

For my next batch I want to try adding a little fish sauce and MSG to really up the umami.

Also, I really like how making your own jerky allows you to control the grain pattern. I don't mind a little chew to mine, but my wife likes it to come apart nice and easy so for her I cut across the grain. I have a vacuum sealer that I got on clearance, so I'll batch up little packets of jerky for her to take into the field. It's so much better than the jerky she gets in her issued rations.

Sadly, finding the time and energy to do stuff like this can be a challenge. I'm fortunate in that I work from home, so I can throw this stuff in the oven before my day starts and then just pull it when it's done.

It is terrifying that this is happening in our country, and that our likely next prime minister supports it.

Both of the recent Japanese Godzilla movies (Shin Godzilla and Godzilla Minus One) actually do an excellent job of neutralizing the military factor.

Conventional infantry tactics from 1945 certainly don't work. We haven't fought like that in forever.

Modern infantry tactics would be "Sit inside my nice warm armoured vehicle while the gunner shreds everything with a 25mm autocannon." And I think that would work just fine against zombies.

Also any competent military shouldn't have the slightest difficulty getting headshots on a slow moving target that isn't trying to evade or use cover.

They could start by upping wages. It takes a year or more of the most brutal training for can imagine just to get into some of the trades in the military, and they get paid peanuts for it. Some of that training can literally kill if you fuck up. Yet there are service members living in tents or out of their cars because they can't afford rent.

That's precisely my point. This is price fixing, very obviously so, but it's almost impossible to actually prevent because at some point as long as people in an industry can share information and have an incentive not to undercut each other, behaviour that is indistinguishable from price fixing - even if it could not legally be defined as such - will inevitably emerge. When I say this is price fixing, that's not a legal judgement, just an observation of what the behaviour clearly is, regardless of how it would be legally defined. If it looks like a duck, etc. I'm going to call it price fixing because that is the ultimate effect that it has.

Hence my point that ultimately the only solution to this is aggressive rent controls.

YieldStar is basically an outsourced price fixing scheme. The app assembles data on average rents in an area from across all the different landlords who use the app, and then recommends the "optimum" price for rentals in the area. "Optimum" of course means "The highest rent this market will bear."

The users will, of course, claim that this isn't collusion because they're not directly communicating with each other, and it's not price fixing because "they're just following the recommendations of the app." The whole thing is just criminal conspiracy outsourced to a third party, and the reality is that it's pretty much impossible to stop stuff like this from happening somehow. This is exactly why aggressive rent controls are essential to protecting renters.

I'm a random civilian and I've actually gone through more vetting than Pollievre. And this fucking asshole thinks he deserves to be Prime Minister. Absolutely insane that anyone takes him seriously.

Also don't fight at night. Or in the Arctic circle. Or really anywhere during winter. Or sandstorms. Dust storms. Overcast days. Rainy days. Snowy says.

Y'know what, just conduct all your warfare during beautiful clear sunny weather at daytime. Why would you want to fight in crappy weather anyway?

"Get rid of Trudeau! Wait, no, not like that, my entire electability is based on hating him!"