Instead of getting old fighter jets from Russia for those drones they sent, they'd probably have been better-off getting civilian helicopters.

I haven't used Lightroom or this, but there's apparently an open-source software package named Darktable that's similar.

I haven't used it, but it looks like there's a program called pulseeffects that can do some real-time processing for PulseAudio, including that:

https://www.maketecheasier.com/improve-linux-pc-audio-with-pulseeffects/

EDIT: For more-generally applying effects, there's also a Linux "audio effect plugin" standard called LADSPA, large library of those, and I know that I've seen ways to apply it to streams in realtime.

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https://askubuntu.com/questions/43950/how-can-i-apply-a-ladspa-plugin-to-a-pulseaudio-stream

If you wanted to do something like reverb or pitch-shift all the audio being played back, I expect that that'd let you do that.

You can order blackcurrant drinks online, as well as getting extract.

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It sounds like the problem was that they could host a fungus that affected other plants, but it's been allowed on a state-by-state basis for some decades after they found a resistant variant.

https://www.grunge.com/879107/heres-why-blackcurrant-was-banned-in-the-us-for-over-50-years/

By the end of the 19th century, farmers noticed that blackcurrants had introduced an invasive species called blister fungus that killed white pine trees, per Business Insider. The fungus solely spreads through blackcurrants rather than from pine tree to pine tree. That means the U.S. was faced with a choice at the time: blackcurrants or the white pine. With national forests highly valued for the timber industry sales used to develop the U.S. as we know it, they chose to protect the white pine.

In the early 20th century, the U.S. government made it illegal to farm blackcurrants and put forth resources to eradicate all Ribes plants from the environment, according to Business Insider. Interestingly, European agriculture met this fungus long ago when it was introduced in blackcurrant plants, but they didn't rely on white pine as fiercely as the U.S., and the "white pine was sacrificed to retain the Ribes," according to "History of White Pine Blister Rust Control: A Personal Account."

Blackcurrants come back

After more than half a century, scientists discovered a new variant of blackcurrant that was resistant to the fungal disease that threatened the white pine. Without the threat to the timber industry, the U.S. government "left it up to the states to lift the ban" blackcurrants in 1966 (via Cornell University). It wasn't until 2003 when New York, where blackcurrants were most heavily produced in the late 19th century, became the first state to uplift the blackcurrant ban in the continental U.S. Since then, some other states like Connecticut and Vermont have also rescinded their bans. But neighboring Massachusetts and Maine (or "The Pine Tree" state) are some of the many other states in which such bans remain (per AHS Gardening, Mass.gov).

That said, heirlooms do have all kinds of crazy flavors and differences.

Yeah, I'd bet that some of them don't last as long as the standard red tomatoes that you get in the store, but looking through heirloom tomatoes is kind of a trip, from a visual standpoint. Grocery stores seem to have pretty much standardized on about three red ones -- and I'm not saying that they're bad, but it does kind of mean that people don't get to see a lot of variety. Unfortunately, I'm not a huge fan of just eating tomatoes plain, so never got super-interested in obtaining them, but they do look damned cool.

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Here's a retailer that has images:

https://www.tradewindsfruit.com/tomatoes/

goes through looking for some interesting ones

• Black Beauty

• Cascade Village Blue

• Dark Galaxy

• Dwarf Lemon Ice

• Flaming Burst

• Gobstopper

• Green Grape

• Green Zebra

• Kryptonite

• Midnight Tiger

• Mint Julep

• Painted Lady

• Thai Pink Egg

• Violet Jasper

My favorite type of apple is Jazz. It's less-sweet than the Honeycrisp, which tends to be more-widely-available.

If you just want more intensity, maybe use an extract? I have some blueberry extract that I wanted to try adding to coffee. It's pretty potent.

Something like this:

https://www.amazon.com/OliveNation-Pure-Blueberry-Extract-Ounce/dp/B004E7A33E/

Couple drops go a long way.

Pineapple guavas. I can get them where I am sporadically, but they don't ship incredibly well.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Feijoa_sellowiana

Feijoa sellowiana[2][3] also known as Acca sellowiana (O.Berg) Burret,[4] is a species of flowering plant in the myrtle family, Myrtaceae. It is native to the highlands of southern Brazil, eastern Paraguay, Uruguay, and northern Argentina.[5] Feijoa are also common in gardens of New Zealand.[6] It is widely cultivated as an ornamental tree and for its fruit. Common names include feijoa (/feɪˈʒoʊ.ə/,[7] /-ˈhoʊ.ə/,[8] or /ˈfiːdʒoʊ.ə/[9]), pineapple guava and guavasteen, although it is not a true guava.[10] It is an evergreen shrub or small tree, 1–7 metres (3.3–23.0 ft) in height.[11]

Ripe fruit is prone to bruising; difficulty maintaining the fruit in good condition for any length of time, along with the short period of optimum ripeness and full flavor, probably explains why feijoas are not exported frequently, and are typically sold close to where they are grown. However, intercontinental shipping of feijoa by sea or air has been successful.[10]

Because of the relatively short shelf life, storekeepers need to be careful to replace older fruit regularly to ensure high quality. In some countries, they also may be purchased at roadside stalls, often at a lower price.

Feijoas may be cool-stored for approximately a month and still have a few days of shelf life at optimum eating maturity.[10] They also may be frozen for up to one year without a loss in quality.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Durian

The unusual flavour and odour of the fruit have prompted many people to express diverse and passionate views ranging from deep appreciation to intense disgust. Writing in 1856, the British naturalist Alfred Russel Wallace provided a much-quoted description of the flavour of the durian:

The five cells are silky-white within, and are filled with a mass of firm, cream-coloured pulp, containing about three seeds each. This pulp is the edible part, and its consistence and flavour are indescribable. A rich custard highly flavoured with almonds gives the best general idea of it, but there are occasional wafts of flavour that call to mind cream-cheese, onion-sauce, sherry-wine, and other incongruous dishes. Then there is a rich glutinous smoothness in the pulp which nothing else possesses, but which adds to its delicacy. It is neither acidic nor sweet nor juicy; yet it wants neither of these qualities, for it is in itself perfect. It produces no nausea or other bad effect, and the more you eat of it the less you feel inclined to stop. In fact, to eat Durians is a new sensation worth a voyage to the East to experience. ... as producing a food of the most exquisite flavour it is unsurpassed.[a]

Wallace described himself as being at first reluctant to try it because of the aroma, "but in Borneo I found a ripe fruit on the ground, and, eating it out of doors, I at once became a confirmed Durian eater". He cited one traveller from 1599:[b] "it is of such an excellent taste that it surpasses in flavour all other fruits of the world, according to those who have tasted it." He cites another writer: "To those not used to it, it seems at first to smell like rotten onions, but immediately after they have tasted it they prefer it to all other food. The natives give it honourable titles, exalt it, and make verses on it."

While Wallace cautions that "the smell of the ripe fruit is certainly at first disagreeable", later descriptions by Westerners are more graphic in detail. Novelist Anthony Burgess writes that eating durian is "like eating sweet raspberry blancmange in the lavatory". Travel and food writer Richard Sterling says:

its odor is best described as pig-excrement, turpentine and onions, garnished with a gym sock. It can be smelled from yards away. Despite its great local popularity, the raw fruit is forbidden from some establishments such as hotels, subways and airports, including public transportation in Southeast Asia.

Other comparisons have been made with the civet, sewage, stale vomit, skunk spray and used surgical swabs.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Luther_Burger

A Luther Burger, or doughnut burger (among several naming variations), is a hamburger or cheeseburger with one or more glazed doughnuts in place of the bun. These burgers have a disputed origin, and tend to run between approximately 800 and 1,500 calories (3,300 and 6,300 kJ).

I mean, China was always gonna develop, and then the much larger population was going to dominate.

The war exacerbates it by isolating Russia, but China was gonna grow in relative strength.

I mean, if the Threadiverse has enough volume to be useful, someone -- probably many people -- are going to be logging and training things off it too.

DePape, according to prosecutors, was driven by conspiracy theories and had plans to tie the former speaker up and break her kneecaps if she lied to him.

How was an inflatable unicorn costume involved?

In prior testimony, DePape told the jury he planned to wear an inflatable unicorn costume and upload his interrogation of Speaker Pelosi online.

Well, that sounds kind of grotesque.

Kind of stands out to me more than the Canadian bit.

Ah, gotcha, thanks. Wasn't aware that the explosion itself had an effect.

I mean, it's not age. I just don't follow celebrity news or listen to rap. I could name maybe three rappers. Don't listen to country music, could name maybe one performer there. Couldn't name any Indian music performers, to pick a random genre. Or K-pop. Or folk music.

I might have a better shot at some rock or electronica musicians, at least band names, but I couldn't tell you anything about their personal lives.

EDIT: Well, I guess...let's see now. Elvis, Michael Jackson, Kurt Cobain, guess I could rattle off that they had untimely deaths that drug use contributed to. Elvis gained a lot of weight, Jackson had serious issues from plastic surgery. Picked that up from retrospectives or obituaries at or after their deaths, though. Beethoven was deaf.

I couldn't tell you anything about the lives of celebrity professional sports figures either, though I know that there were many dramas that made the sports news over the years and I'm sure that there were no shortage of people who did follow them.

It will have the potency of a god, and the knowledge of 4Chan.

Why would the USB electronics be particularly likely to fail relative to other electronics on the drive?

Does fire destroy rations?

It doesn't destroy, say, chargrilled meat, so I assume that it doesn't destroy rations.

If not, the problem is just tripping the trap without being hurt, and you can do that by taking off your armor or weapon or something and throwing it at the trap from a distance to trigger it.

I don't think I'd really like giving up my present diet for the one that my hunter-gatherer ancestors were required by circumstance to eat.

Might also depend on where you are. I understand that in Finland, it's extremely common to drink milk all the time, whereas in East Asia, where adult lactose intolerance is the norm, adult milk consumption isn't really a thing at all.

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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_milk_consumption_per_capita

Yeah, Finland's #1.