I was torn last week between talking about this or something that was more in my wheelhouse, like ceiling fans. I believe I made the right choice.
This is my review of Highwater Brewing Break Apart Orange Cream Ale:
The reason I decided to table this a week later is because I wanted to see how everyone reacted. It appears nobody seemed to notice. What happened?
Twitter (now X) under the ownership MuskCo. acquired a license to facilitate payments in cryptocurrency from a regulator in Rhode Island. While PayPal, the venture that actually made him a billionaire, began doing this years ago, PayPal does not have a social media apparatus attached to it.
This tracks with his stated goal to turn Twitter X into a WeChat style “everything app.”
So what exactly does WeChat do? Well …everything. It operates like a messaging app from your phone like What’s App and Telegram, except nothing is encrypted. It allows for payments to be made like Apple Pay, and face to face messaging like Skype or FaceTime. It even acts as a dating app like Tinder (or Grndr if you are so inclined) with location services enabled. The trouble is WeChat is owned an operated by Tencent, a Chinese tech company that makes no secret they share the data collected with the ChiComs. It is Orwellianism in practice. So integrated into Chinese society, nearly everyone in China including visitors uses it and is nearly impossible to function day to day without it—because the ChiComs are in fact watching everything you do.
Since MuskCo. appears to be adding a form of payment makes this only one step closer to a reality. That he is utilizing cryptocurrency however does imply he is doing it outside the present system of banks and state regulatory agencies but still making everyone’s transactions available to the public since blockchain transactions can be tracked by the public. So would the finished product look like an “open and honest” version of WeChat where everyone including the ChiComs and communists within our own government are watching?
I don’t know, but my only poor experience thus far with Twitter X is still being put into the doghouse over answering Luke Rudkowski’s question honestly. Okay Mr. Free Speech absolutist. Maybe it will just resemble tyranny by the group of Puritan Geeks Elon Musk hired to run Twitter X.
When was the last time you cracked open a can of ice cold Genesse? It was years ago for me, when I had absolutely no idea what the hell a cream ale was. Well this is sort of like that with a twist. Imagine drinking an Orange Julius and watching the perky 16 year old working there dump a beer into the blender along with raw eggs. That doesn’t sound so bad right? In fact I would go so far as to saying that’s actually preferable to drinking this again. The first one I thought, “this is weird.” My opinion didn’t really change after drinking the second or third. Its not that its bad, it’s just…weird. Highwater Brewing Break Apart Orange Cream Ale: 2.1/5
“because the ChiComs are in fact watching everything you do”
As opposed to the U.S.?
It’s a low bar but the ChiComs crawled under it.
“Imagine drinking an Orange Julius and watching the perky 16 year old working there dump a beer into the blender along with raw eggs. That doesn’t sound so bad right?”
Actually, it does.
I was with him right until “there”.
Hell, it’s been awhile but I don’t even have to imagine it.
Sounds like you’re gonna love this beer.
Probably an Xmas break visit home several decades ago cuz we don’t have that around here.
I would try thing. Orange? Good. Cream? Good. Ale? Good!
I think I’ve only had it out of a keg.
I can’t remember the last time I’ve had the standard Gennie Cream Ale, but their Ruby Red Kolsch was a fine summer beer.
Elon needs to unlock Twitter. Making people have to login to read it is bullshit. It also prevents anyone from getting around blocks and blocklists. People on the right can’t read many people on the left, and vice-versa. Which leads to people being more in a bubble, and the current Mexican stand-off.
No pun intended.
Narrator: It was intended.
Mexican stand-off
Boooo! Boo this man!
I made a beer float once. Unbelievably horrible.
How drunk were you when you got the idea?
Sounds more like he was high.
Not too drunk as I recall, but also only 17-18 years old. Kind of a, I’ll try anything* once, kind of thing.
*within reason. Or only slightly unreasonable.
What kind of beer?
I have a vague memory of having a beer float made with a stout or porter that was pretty good. Possibly at Stone in Escondido, but it doesn’t appear to be on their menu anymore, so maybe it wasn’t good.
Some shitty light lager. Miller Lite, IIRC.
I would try again with a good porter or stout.
I was right, it was was Stone Smoked Porter.
I was going to say, a Guinness float is pretty standard here at the more upscale Irish pubs. There’s also a couple of creameries that have partnered with breweries to use the wort (prefermented beer) to make ice cream. That is amazingly good.
MS your willingness to repeatedly take one for the team is appreciated. That beer sounds terrible.
Thank you
Stupid question… how is it that these healthy young men are cavorting around a soccer field in Poland right now, instead of doing what their healthy young male countrymen have been commanded to do?
And OMG the media slobbering all over Ukraine is nauseating. There is another nation playing here too, guys.
Lots of countries have elite athlete exemptions to military service.
During wartime? And a supposed existential one at that?
Meanwhile ordinary men between 18 and 60 are banned from leaving Ukraine, subject to conscription, and men between 18 and 25-27 are being enslaved.
Fuck Ukraine and fuck western politicians for continuing this waste of life.
While we’re at it, fuck Russia for invading Ukraine and kicking off this war.
+1
Still bullshit.
I remember back during the Balkans fighting there was an elite male tennis player on tour who was urging Clinton to send u.s. boots to save his nation.
So you still drank 3 of them in a row…sounds awful…
Big Slide Brewery at Lake Placid had an awesome “beermosa” at their brunches (not sure if it’s off the menu post-covid, haven’t been back up there since ’21) – worked really well with some of their sours (excellent blueberry one last time I was there).
Well actually, I drank four.
On a related note, the data collection situation is getting worse with cars, TV’s, and home appliances spying on everyone.
I’ve been looking at TV’s and their different operating systems (all new TV’s a basically computers now). From what I read, to use a Roku TV, you have to register your name, address, and provide payment information — even if you don’t don’t buy any streaming services through the TV.
Also looks like all the new TV’s have crap remote controls to encourage you to use voice control so they can listen to you.
Does anyone know the difference between Android and Google TV? Are there Android apps that won’t work on Google TV? The big Sony in the living room is Android, but it doesn’t need to be on the internet or require any sort of account. I wonder if these new Google TV’s will require having a Google account? If it is connected to the internet, is there any way to prevent the mic and camera?
Haven’t tried using any tv apps since I had issues at my last place – find it much less “trouble” to use the apps through my xbox or (previously) my blu-ray player. Seems a bit better that way IMO.
Google TV is the new name for Android TV. My Sony has it. I don’t use any of the TV search or “recommendation” (i.e. ads) functionality, you can turn it all off with one option in settings.
– You do not need a Google account (I don’t have one)
– I am not aware of a camera on my television – if there is one, they’re not telling
– The remote has a mic but supposedly it’s only listening when you hold a button
“– You do not need a Google account (I don’t have one)”
OK, good. (I don’t have one either.)
“– I am not aware of a camera on my television – if there is one, they’re not telling”
That’s how it does ambient light correction.
“– The remote has a mic but supposedly it’s only listening when you hold a button”
Who knows? I don’t trust any of them.
I’ve been shocked at how hard it is to find a plain old big screen TV/monitor without all the “smart” crap. The very few I’ve seen have been hugely expensive commercial models.
If I would hit the streets of miami during spring break, what questions would you like to see me ask people?
What did you answer that got you in trouble ?
It’s the screenshot in the article, surely.
He answered as any man would. Frankly, I’m perplexed that anyone would have any other question for scantily clad coeds on spring break
I can think of a few:
“Are those real?”
“I don’t suppose you have a twin sister?”
“Would you like to have a religious experience?”
When was the last time you cracked open a can of ice cold Genesse?
Decades ago.
I give up. It is one of those days when gremlins follow me around everywhere giggling and thwarting every thing I try to do.
Neighbor called for aid. His truck is stuck in his yard. I cant find my tow chain. Second neighbor shows up to assist us….he cant find his tow chain either. We use one of my heavy tie straps. Strap breaks. Try to dig the truck out. I trip over my shovel and smack my head. How long does it take for Tylenol to kick in?
Need to break up some concrete blocks in the yard. Takes me half of an hour to find a hammer. I have a dozen of them, all but one is AWOL. Now I cant find my chisel set.
Ok, I will make a copy of the family tree that my nephew wants. That is safe, right? Fuck, it is on two sheets of drafting paper and I can only find one of them.
I give up. I will make a big glass of root beer and watch TV with Mrs. Suthenboy. Now the goddamned ice maker quit.
Sit in the corner and be still and quiet? Surely….never mind. I will probably discover a leak in the roof. I really do give up. Today is just not my day.
I hate it when I can’t find a tool I know I own.
Right next to discovering you have duplicates because you forgot you already had one.
Buy another one, and when you go to put it away, you’ll put it on top of the old one.
Ask me how I know.
My recovery rope is in the back of my suv. Brand new and unused.
Cheer up Suthen, things can always get worse.
Uppity bastard
The test flight and explosion left a crater in the ground, flung concrete debris into nearby tanks and other equipment, and impacted sensitive habitat that is home to some endangered wildlife. It also sparked an approximately 4-acre fire on state park land.
Environmental and cultural heritage nonprofits sued the FAA after the first Starship test flight, alleging the agency failed to conduct an appropriate environmental review before authorizing SpaceX to move ahead with its launch plans in Boca Chica. SpaceX joined the FAA as a defendant in that matter.
The Starship program is critical to the future of the company’s Starlink satellite internet business. A global network of more than 4,000 satellites, SpaceX’s Starlink provides internet service to more than 50 countries.
While the service has enabled battlefield communications in Ukraine, Musk has also used Starlink to influence battlefield strategy and outcomes there. He ordered engineers to withhold Starlink’s satellite network service over Crimea in order to thwart a Ukrainian attack on Russian warships, according to a new biography of the CEO.
Oh, no, not the endangered wildlife habitat. Capitalism run amok.
Almost as bad as being Putin’s Puppet.
Funny who gets standing to sue for shit.
Anything “eco” related? “Has a pulse”.
It is the legal equivalent of “Don’t be unattractive.”
It’s funny because it’s true.
4 whole acres?!?! I hope Gaia can recover quickly.
But 6500 acres of mirrors on the desert is good.
That’s how Gaia does her makeup.
I made a beer float once. Unbelievably horrible.
You should have put some pineapple in it.
I made a Dr Pepper float once and it was horrible. I can’t even grok what a beer float would be like. Shudder.
Uck. I am imagining it. And I hate it.
Funny who gets standing to sue for shit.
The EPA has a list.
Environmental justice
For the second time in a month, the Environmental Protection Agency has fined Suncor Energy for violations at its Commerce City oil refinery.
Suncor will pay $760,000 after it produced gasoline that did not meet federal standards for reducing ozone pollution during the summer months. The Canadian company will pay a $160,000 financial penalty for the violations, plus an additional $600,000 to fund a program to buy electric lawn equipment for local governments, schools and residents in Commerce City and north Denver, according to a consent agreement approved by the EPA’s Environmental Appeals Board.
The money for the electric-powered lawn equipment will be distributed to the community in 2024 by the Regional Air Quality Council, the agency announced Wednesday.
What a fucking joke.
Three letter agencies run the country.
They didn’t put enough corn juice in?
About that corn juice…
https://heartland.org/opinion/ethanol-causes-more-ozone-than-gasoline/
It’s almost like the intervention is for reason(s) other than the stated one(s).
It’s almost like the intervention is for reason(s) other than the stated one(s).
Water is wet. News at 11.
These are by far the most thought provoking beer reviews ever published.
Thank you
I agree. I enjoy your reviews.
These are the gun safes that I use: SecureIt CEO adresses Liberty Safe and secret access codes
I have a TreadLok. 30 years old, give or take. Mechanical, as Allah intended. It does still have the OG combination, which may still be on file with them although how they would match my safe with the combination, I have no clue.
I figure by the time they get to my safe, I’ll be dead anyway.
That’s the spirit!
Seriously though, we cannot trust the courts to do the right thing these days.
I have a Stack-On biometric safe. I could beat my chest and declare they’ll have to cut off my thumbs to access the safe, but they really just have to find where I keep the spare key.
Pepperfest was ok. Big turn out too.
Two vendors from last year I was looking for weren’t there though. 😞
The skies went dark and opened up here. ☔
Same here. Also 🌩🌩
Yeah, the heat wave ended but the unpleasant fug air isn’t going anywhere anytime soon.
Yesterday, it rained for the first time in three months. Also dropped below 100. Fantastic. It’s going to rain most of the week and stay in the 80’s. I may tale vacation time and enjoy it.
When was the last time you cracked open a can of ice cold Genesse? It was years ago for me, when I had absolutely no idea what the hell a cream ale was. Well this is sort of like that with a twist. Imagine drinking an Orange Julius and watching the perky 16 year old working there dump a beer into the blender along with raw eggs. That doesn’t sound so bad right? In fact I would go so far as to saying that’s actually preferable to drinking this again. The first one I thought, “this is weird.” My opinion didn’t really change after drinking the second or third. Its not that its bad, it’s just…weird. Highwater Brewing Break Apart Orange Cream Ale: 2.1/5
I might try it once.
Jack’s Abbey had a delicious blood orange wheat. This one might not be as good, but I think it would be worth a try.
MikeS I found your beer! Also, bringing along some Raspberry Tart from them as well, and Point Cookies and Cream Stout.
YAAAAAAS!!!!!!!11
I’ve had the Raspberry Tart. It’s also very good.
The stout sounds interesting.
Back from Tejas!
Well, until Monday when I ship out to Cali for 2 weeks. Time enough to cut the grass, do laundry, and have sexy time with Jugsy.
TALL CANS!