backing your post up, this compatibility chart lists ethyl alchohol as having excellent compatibility with nylon, contrasting with isopropyl alchohol as potentially being severely degrading:
What Chemicals are Compatible with Nylon?
although of course as they note 'nylon' is a class of plastics...
gleditsia starts bearing seeds at around ten years. theyre polygamodioecious in nature so each tree will have either mostly male or mostly female flowers but still have a few perfect flowers which is why there can still be a few seedpods even on 'seedless' male cultivars. since it reproduced...
vietnam offered to completely eliminate their tariffs on american goods and was rebuffed:
but that wasnt good enough:
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so i guess thats the intended trade solution for vietnam? whenever us citizens buy goods from vietnam, vietnam cuts a check to the us government for the same amount...
correct, theyre protecting a pre-existing industry. if we didnt have two cows to rub together and then enacted tariffs on farming equipment, dairy separating machinery, pasteurizers, trucks, fuel, grain fodder, etc ad infinitum then it wouldnt be very profitable to try and start a dairy farm.
the tariffs perform their function exactly, they keep dairy products out of the country except for those which have been deliberately negotiated for by the united states, protecting the canadian dairy industry and those 220000 jobs and the $20 billion it adds to canadas gdp.
the liberation day...
theres a cap on duty-free dairy imports but its never been hit because of various other provisions of the agreement negotiated between the united states and canada that make it a difficult target. but the reality is not a single pound of american cheese, yogurt, or butter has ever actually been...
sadly the reality is that while tariffs can protect industry, they cant create industry out of thin air. a country requires industrial policy first, of which the united states has none. enacting tariffs without simultaneous subsidization of domestic industry simply means the cost of private...
ive purchased black walnut syrup from tonoloway farm in virginia, which had a sort of butterscotch/brown sugar flavour, and once i saw a site for a place in ohio which had once sold sycamore syrup but it hadnt been updated for years. still want to try butternut syrup
tapping urban trees reminds me of a friend whose family still speaks in hushed tones about the year they accidentally tapped a maple above the cottages septic tank
im going to have to stock up with some of this year's harvest, i love to keep the darkest grade of maple syrup around. any of yall tried other tree syrups like birch? they're more niche products that are harder to find and you definitely pay a premium but i really dig birch syrup, it has a very...