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29 minutes ago, sirineou said:please forgive my ignorance .
but what are kafir grains? I am familiar with Kaffir limes and the leaves we use in soup but not familiar with kafir grains
I tried googling it but it was confusing, Is it a fungus you grow?
KEFIR, not Kaffir
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15 minutes ago, gamesgplayemail said:yes if it is sour it contains the bacteria, SURELY !
The longer you brew it, the more lactic acid, SURELY?
The point is to convert as much of the lactose to lactic acid as you can. This takes time at 15C+
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On 5/31/2020 at 10:11 PM, redwood1 said:
Sorry some of us just will not accept this forced to eat alone insanity...
Ate at 2 other restaurants this week, both on the same table without screens.
Reef Cantina (Mexican) and Zen (Japanese).
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4 minutes ago, gamesgplayemail said:
I disagree because you are wrong !
Who decided that kefir needs to be thick ? this is idiot.
If your milk with kefir grains is sour, it means that it it kefir milk ! nothing else !
Yes my kefir is also not creamy but it is very sour and it is the proof that kefir has been eating lactose ! try to prove otherwise ?
My kefir is always in the fridge and it's not bitter at all, this is pure BS.
yes my kefir is very very sour by keeping it in the fridge and adding new milk everyday, and only low fat milk.
You should try to think instead of repeating what is written and repeated by idiots all over the world ! Did they experience anything ? of course not !
Most people are just like you, drinking daily kefir since 10 years and not even knowing this !
You cannot brew kefir overnight in the refrigerator. You will have a very limited lactose to lactic acid conversion which requires temperatures above 15c. Please don't come in to this long running thread, despelling nonsense and flaming.
The only point you are correct on is that is doesn't matter if the kefir is thick or thin, but the thinness should come from producing kefir whey, not from pure, unfermented milk. What you're drinking is partially brewed kefir, with emphasis on partially as most of it is still milk.
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On 6/4/2020 at 1:59 PM, samtab said:
hello, my kefir is more liquid than creamy and I do not like to drink creamy kefir, is it wrong ?
i brew it mostly in the fridge and keep it out only few hours a day.
Everybody is talking about creamy kefir as if it was a rule, but i think liquid kefir is easier to drink, just wondering if it contains all the bacteria ?
of course it is sour (more than some of the creamy kefir that i tried) and I am ok with it.
please confirm that it is ok to drink liquid kefir ? thank you so much.
You are doing it right. As long as it is very sour, it is good. It doesn't really matter if it is thick or thin. To get kefir as thin (liquid) as possible, brew it until no more kefir whey separates in the jar. Keep it out in the heat longer and stir often. You should be able to brew it until the jar is 50/50 whey/curds. Leave some space at the top of the jar or it will end up leaking all over the bench as the whey pushes the curds up.
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On 5/8/2020 at 11:28 AM, simon43 said:
I leave my kefir milk outside the fridge, and drink it all the next say after the grains have thickened the milk. Occasionally I store excess kefir milk in the fridge for a couple of day.
As far as helping the stomach, being a science teacher, I should more accurately say that it helps the small intestine to efficiently perform its process of energy and nutrient transfer from digested food inside the gut and to the adjacent blood capillaries. Your gut needs 'good' bacteria to operate correctly, and kefir milk has those good bacteria.
There is also a lot of scientific evidence that a healthy gut improves one's overall immune system. I make no claim that drinking kefir milk will protect you against Wuhan Flu, other than that having a healthy immune system does provide increased protection against pathogens. But I have not been ill in any way for the past few years, no colds, flu, stomach problems etc etc, and I live in less than optimum sanitary conditions in Burma and Laos ????
You say you haven't been sick for the past few years. Does this coincide with your kefir consumption. Were you always sick before you started drinking it?
I can most definitely say my digestive system works far better, and bowel evacuations last seconds rather than minutes. I cannot make any comment about colds or flu protection as occasionally I will get it, but not often. I can say that if I do have an upset stomach from something I've eaten, a few glasses of kefir quickly fixes it.
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On 4/23/2020 at 4:27 PM, rech said:If you drink kefir milk daily you do not even need to brew anything in advance.
Just keep a jar / bottle in the fridge and drink it when you want. 24 hours in a fridge is enough to get kefir the next day. And if it stays longer it's ok also.
I wonder why people need to explain again and again something so simple. Maybe some people gave up drinking because they were not smart enough to brew it easily ? Nothing to plan, nothing to do, keep it in the fridge and add new milk when you drink some.
The reason why people need to explain again and again is because people like you are giving out bogus information.
If you are adding kefir grains to cold milk, and keeping it in the refrigerator full time, you are not drinking kefir at all because it is impossible to brew it this way in the refrigerator. As stated in numerous posts above, the kefir will brew in the refrigerator if you have a large mass of kefir grains and you leave it there for weeks, but as also stated, the kefir you get this way is quite bitter and slimy compared to kefir brewed outside of the refrigerator. This indicates too much yeast action and not enough bacterial action. It's the bacteria that converts lactose to lactic acid, giving kefir the very sour taste it should have. For this to occur, temperatures above 15C are necessary.
What you are drinking is perhaps slightly soured milk at best.
The perfect kefir is thick and very, very sour. Nearly as sour as pure lemon juice. It should be hard to keep a straight face when drinking it. It takes some practice to get it right.
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5 hours ago, hotandsticky said:
I think they probably did.
The government certainly didn’t say one person per table - it was a case of that restaurant’s interpretation of social distancing.
I agree with the OP and, whilst I would not have told them where to stick their restaurant, I would not accept this ‘new normal’ interpretation from a restaurant.
Nonsense. Each restaurant is given a maximum number of diners allowed inside at any time, and it's calculated by the number of tables in the restaurant. All shops in the mall have a maximum customers allowed inside at any time and the number is displayed at the entrance. My hairdresser even had a maximum allowed inside the salon, which was only 4.
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5 hours ago, seajae said:We just went out for dinner for the first time in a few months, wife daughter and myself, went to a japanese retaurant in a shopping centre, sat down and were told we could not sit together, only one person allowed at a table. This would have meant we could not talk to each other without yelling and that we couldnt even see each other due to the high backs on the booth seating or order food for all of to share so I stood up and told them where they could stick their restaurant and walked out. I am aware there are rules in place but not single seat dining, the other restaurants etc in the shopping centre had more than one person at each table so it was just the restaurants own rule. As we all live together and eat together every day this was really over the top to say it was so we wouldnt spread covid, it was a good restaurant when we have been before but they have now lost a customer with their total BS rules, they actually offered my wife a 20% discount if I came back & ordered after I had told them what I thought of them and their BS rule. No other customers were even in there so maybe they dont agree with their single seat tables as well, shame as their food was always good
My wife and I had to sit at 2 different tables at a Japanese restaurant yesterday. These are the rules set not by the restaurant, but the local governing body. I find your harsh behaviour toward the restaurant unfair. We had a nice meal under the circumstances and did not complain. How should the restaurant know who lives together and who can safely eat together. Another thing you should consider is that when people eat at a restaurant, they take off their masks, so the distance becomes more important when people are not wearing masks.
If you see some restaurants not enforcing the same restrictions, then those restaurants are disregarding the rules currently in place for restaurant dining. In the Mall, EVERY restaurant I saw had such restrictions. In restaurants which allow more than one person to sit at a table, they have screens separating diners.
You are punishing the restaurant for restrictions that are not their doing and certainly not their choice. Why not help them out? It upsets them more than it upsets you. Maybe you can find a restaurant where the seats are low and you can still chat to your friends/family who are sitting at different tables.
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10 minutes ago, stevenl said:
Are in the US mail in ballots and absentee ballots the same btw?
How would you suggest absentee ballots should be sent? Carrier pigeons?
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1 minute ago, simple1 said:
Fair enough, but really a defection as we are talking to national Presidential elections. trump's claim of extensive mail-in voter fraud is total rubbish including his other ridiculous claims e.g.
As MIT elections scholar Charles Stewart and National Vote At Home Institute CEO Amber McReynolds, two leading experts on voting by mail, said in an April op-ed, those figures come out to 7.1 cases per year nationwide and an average of three convictions per state in the past 20 years, accounting for just 0.00006% of all votes cast in that time.
Some hair splitting, but a good investigation into factual info.
I showed cases where people were caught and convicted. This is probably the tip of the iceberg... and with the level of hatred for Trump and desperation to remove him, it could be done at a very high level and change the balance in some close states.
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46 minutes ago, Phil McCaverty said:
How do you know its a "he"?
Admit it, you have no idea who the fact checker is or their political leanings.
How do I know it's a "he"?
I already stated his name in a previous post that you were too lazy to read.
Yoel Roth looks like a he. What do you think?
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36 minutes ago, simple1 said:
You're making the allegations, the onus is on you to back up your accusation with factual info from credible sources. if you decline to do so one can only come to one conclusion; you've got nothing.
Done. The evidence you wanted to see that you could have easily found on your own but were too lazy to search for - in a post just above... choosing instead to believe the BS Twitter "fact-checking".
What is your onus? To believe everything you read?
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7 minutes ago, RJRS1301 said:
You are not paranoid, they really are watching you
Dude, I'm Australian and definitely not paranoid about what goes on in US politics.
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1 hour ago, Phoenix Rising said:Which lies are you referring to?
One lie.
Twitter fact checker: "Trump falsely claimed that mail-in ballots would lead to a 'Rigged Election'... Fact-checkers say there is no evidence that mail-in ballots are linked to voter fraud."
This is the lie, as there is lots of evidence of absentee voter fraud for anyone that cares to look for it, and it's surprisingly easy to find.
The following site lists 1071 proven instances of voter fraud.
https://www.whitehouse.gov/sites/whitehouse.gov/files/docs/pacei-voterfraudcases.pdf
The one we are looking for is: FRAUDULENT USE OF ABSENTEE BALLOTS.
If you scroll down, you will find many cases of this particular type of voter fraud. They are listed by state. I scrolled down to G: Georgia and counted 47 cases of absentee ballot fraud. Some people were charged and sent to prison. In some cases they won an election as a result of this fraud.
Here are some examples:
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Olivia Lee Reynolds
OUTCOME: CRIMINAL CONVICTION
Fraudulent Use of Absentee Ballots Olivia Lee Reynolds was convicted of 24 counts of voter fraud. While working on the 2013 campaign for her boyfriend, Dothan City Commissioner Amos Newsome, Reynolds filled out voters’ ballots for them and told others for whom to vote. Her fraud had definite consequences: Commissioner Newsome won reelection by a mere 14 votes, losing the in-person vote by a wide margin but winning an incredible 96 percent of the absentee vote. Newsome himself faced pressure to resign as a consequence. Reynolds was sentenced to serve six months in a community corrections facility. She is appealing the conviction.
Karen Tipton Berry
OUTCOME: CRIMINAL CONVICTION
Fraudulent Use of Absentee Ballots Ms. Berry pleaded guilty and received a two-year suspended sentence. The former Pike County Commissioner narrowly won--and then lost--her 2008 reelection bid when 10 absentee ballots were found to have been fraudulently cast in the election. Ms. Berry was charged with mailing an illegal absentee ballot.
Connie Tyree, Frank “Pinto” Smith, Booker Cooke, Jr., Flephus Hardy, Garria Spencer, Althenia Spencer, Racing Commissioner Lester “Bop” Brown, and Spiver Gordon
OUTCOME: CRIMINAL CONVICTION
Fraudulent Use of Absentee Ballots The Birmingham Office of the U.S. Attorney and the Alabama Attorney General conducted an extensive joint investigation of absentee ballot fraud allegations in Greene County in the November 1994 election. By the end of the investigation, nine defendants pleaded guilty to voter fraud and two others were found guilty by a jury. The defendants included Greene County commissioners, officials, and employees; a racing commissioner; a member of the board of education; a Eutaw city councilman; and other community leaders. The conspiracy included using an assembly line to mass produce forged absentee ballots meant to swing elections in favor of preferred candidates
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4 minutes ago, simple1 said:The crux of the matter is for you or others who object to Twitter fact check of trump to demonstrate it's incorrect, not that the fact checker has a prior history of criticising trump which in essence is 'so what'.
No, the crux is that his "fact checking" is not fact checking at all AND he's a Trump hater with a political agenda.
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1 hour ago, simple1 said:
What are the 'lies' with Twitter's fact check content of the two trump posts?
You can do some work too... state his facts and I'll counter them for you.
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26 minutes ago, Tie Dye Samurai said:
Lets just examine that...why is fact checking so scary for the Trump supporters. If the fact checks are lies, they will be exposed...if the facts checks are true then Trump will be exposed...I mean we are just trying to shed light on the truth, right? At the end of the day the truth is what is important, correct? So what is wrong with fact checking...and if Trump does not like being fact checked, why shouldn't he delete his account and move on to more "accurate" platforms to distribute his message instead of trying to censor free speech? Freedom of speech surely allows for fact checking....right?
No, wrong. The problem is that fact checking is not fact checking at all. It's a political activist with an agenda pretending to be a fact checker. I indicated who was responsible for the fact checking in a post above.
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16 minutes ago, Tie Dye Samurai said:And now we are at the heart of it....Trump needs Twitter more than Twitter needs Donald Trump. As I said before, if the fact checks are lies, surely people can think for themselves and ferret out fake news where it lives and breathes...that must really sting...letting people think for themselves and not depend on Donald Trump to think for you.
Irrespective of who needs who more, we're a long way from Trump needing to delete his account and start using another platform. Watch this space. I will make a prediction that Trump's Tweets will not be fact-checked going forward.
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2 minutes ago, robblok said:
Politicians might lie but I never seen a president that lied as much as Trump and does as many U turns as Trump. Constantly lying shifting the blame even burning allies to keep himself safe.
Trump really is the worst, I normally don't really care about American presidents one way or the other but the things this one says and does is so extreme and stupid that i formed an opinion about it.
Yes your right part of the problem is a two party system. I already said that could be a possible reason for voting for him even when they realize he is a liar and a cheat.
I'm just having trouble with your first comment: "politician might lie".
The goal of any politician is to be popular and to win elections. I don't think they "might lie". I think it is a certainly.
Most countries struggle with a 2 party system. We have the same problems in Australia. We don't have much of a choice on election day.
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3 minutes ago, Tie Dye Samurai said:
I was wondering...if Trump is not happy with Twitter....in the competitive market place that is social media platforms, why doesn't Trump just delete his Twitter account because he is obviously dissatisfied with them now and take his business and millions of followers elsewhere? Then POTUS would not have to suffer the slings and arrows of this indignity inflicted upon him by Twitter and their deranged leftist agenda of thinking for yourself. I mean how dare somebody choose to put ALTERNATE FACTS up for the world to see....I mean if the truth is out there, surely people can look at the fact check links and think for themselves....but at the end of the day, If The Donald is not happy, he should go to another social media provider for his information distribution needs. I am sure many many platforms would love to be the Official Media Presence of Donald Trump. Then he can tell them what to do, how to do it and when it needs to be done. Surely the fake news leftists deranged outlet of Twitter will whither and die on the vine (no pun intended), all tweets will forever and always be classified as fake news and Big Orange will have slayed yet another Enemy Of The People. Then he can get to work on eradicating the real enemy...Toronto and their newspaper.
"When you buy a TV, you don't buy Sony if you want RCA." - The Transvestite Hooker in Risky Business
Or stay with Twitter and have them discontinue adding politically biased fact-checks that are lies. That's the easiest way forward.
The person in charge of this so called "fact-checking", called "head of site integrity" is Joel Roths, an anti-Trump, political activist.
Let's explore some of his best work:
Roth also once referred to Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell as "bag of farts" and donated to Hillary Clinton's presidential campaign in 2016.
On January 22, 2017 Roth tweeted: "The 'you are not the right kind of feminist' backlash to yesterday’s marches has begun. Did we learn nothing from this election?"
That same day, Roth also wrote to Twitter: "Yes, that person in the pink hat is clearly a bigger threat to your brand of feminism than ACTUAL NAZIS IN THE WHITE HOUSE."
Roth's anti-Trump posts resurfaced Wednesday and prompted many to question the Twitter employee's personal integrity.
In July 2017, Roth tweeted: "How does a personality-free bag of farts like Mitch McConnell actually win elections?"
A year before that he wrote: "I'm just saying, we fly over those states that voted for a racist tangerine for a reason."
In September 2016, Roth admitted he donated $100 "to Hillary for America" - adding in his tweet: "We can't f*** around anymore."
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2 minutes ago, stevenl said:I am not batting for anyone, only correcting your post.
Of course you are. This is the 3rd reply to me about Robblok's post which I quoted. I've been "sparring" with Robblok for many years. He doesn't need you to defend him.
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2 minutes ago, Opl said:
All Trump needs from his followers is to be constantly praised ( "Thank You Mr President", etc..) , this is an insult to their intelligence -
All presidents enjoy praise. It's an ego driven job. Even after their terms are over, they are concerned about their legacies.
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5 minutes ago, stevenl said:
His next sentence did change the meaning of his first sentence. But also see his reply, where he confirms your interpretation is correct.
No it did not change his opinion on Trump voters. There's no need for you to bat for Robblok as he has a high IQ and can easily defend himself.
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Does Anyone Use Or Need Kefir Grains?
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This is the strangest place for troll posts.