#Salt production

[dknuth]

Salinas Grandes Salt Production

Of course, the main income from the salt flats is not from hotels but from salt production. We walked to the village's salt production area.

They cut large holes in the salt down to the underlying clay to produce salt for human consumption. Water is allowed to flow into the hole from the surrounding salt. Over several months continued evaporatration of water from the hole increases the salinity and pure salt crystals form.

These salt crystals are removed when the hole is filled with salt.

Salt is also harvested for industrial purposes. For this, a few centimeters of the top of the salt flat are scraped. Of course, this contains dust and other impurities and is not used for consumption.

Finally, they can break out large chunks of salt, and farmers use these as salt licks for their animals.

So the village gets income from the salt flat from harvesting salt for different uses, as well as from the hotel. All this provides an additional income strear for a village that otherwise relies on llama herding.

[ultrachoppedpenguinbouquet]

City of Salt

[southeastasianarchaeology]

Si Thep: Where Dvaravati Art and Pre-Angkor Influences Meet

via Thai PBS, 25 September 2023: Si Thep, Thailand's "Lost Hindu Town," gains spotlight with UNESCO recognition. A blend of Dvaravati, Hindu, and Khmer arts await discovery.

via Thai PBS, 25 September 2023: Si Thep, an ancient town in Phetchabun Province, Thailand, has recently gained attention due to its UNESCO World Cultural Heritage recognition. Known as the “Lost Hindu Town,” it was rediscovered in 1904 and has remained relatively obscure compared to other Thai historical sites like Sukhothai and Ayutthaya. The town is a melting pot of Dvaravati, Hindu, and…

[paladinsbrainrot]

AND THE FLASHBACK IS IN EP 4 ****SORCERER**** ???????? OH OKAY SO IT'S FOR REAL WILL'S EPISODE

[queen-of-hawkins-why-ler]

“Stranger Things will still be a good show even if Byler isn’t endga”—let me stop you right there bc if anything other than Byler endgame happens then Stranger Things will have a worse final season than Game of Thrones and deserves to be the laughingstock of the internet forever and deserves to be shat on forever.

[faunandfloraas]

The Nobleman or 양반 (yangban): The smiling face represents the bluff and composure that an aristocrat is often known to have. The chin is a separate piece from the top of the mask, and the actors can lean forward and back to make the mask smile or frown as needed.

This monk who abandons his doctrines, or 취발이 (chwibari): Chwibari was originally a monk, but he had no intention of joining the monastic order, so he came down to the world and wanders. Represented with a forehead full of wrinkles and spots.

The widow or, 부네 (Punae/bune): represented to be a widow, or a kisaeng ( a woman who sang, danced, or played an instrument to provide entertainment for company at a drinking party), or a mistress of the Yangban. She has a very small mouth, round cheeks and forehead- giving a general look of happiness good-humor.

[buffetlicious]

Newly launched, the Farmhouse White Chocolate Low Fat Flavoured Milk (S$3.73 per 946ml pack) brings a delicious and dreamy taste of winter wonderland to the tropical Singapore. Taking a sip, one can detect a whiff of vanilla-like white chocolate, complemented by the freshness of milk from Australia. Sis also bought the Cafe Latte Low Fat Coffee Flavoured Milk that is flavoured with Arabica coffee beans. The milk is thick with a nice fragrant of coffee plus it is low sugar and low fat to boot.

Paired the milk with a wedge of the White Lotus Seed Paste Mooncake with Egg Yolk (美心蛋黄白莲蓉月饼) from Hong Kong MX Mooncakes (香港美心月饼). Still left with one mooncake to slowly savour and then I have to wait for another year to enjoy it again.

Selected images courtesy of F&N Foods and here.

[uncanny-tranny]

I love you smile lines and worry lines and grey and white hair and wrinkles and purple spiderweb veins and the process of aging and living in a body that is standing the test of times. I love you experiences that make you wiser and stories that make you laugh, and every little process that happens to get to the point where you have so many memories because you have the fortune to be here and be so radiant

[retropopcult]

Moron Salt Wacky Packages, Die-cut Series 1967

[miraculouslbcnreactions]

Fixing Gabriel's Writing via a Corruption Arc

Like it or not, Miraculous considers Gabriel Agreste to be a loving father. If he wasn't, then you wouldn't get things like the season five ending or this bit from Queen Wasp:

Gabriel: (guilt-ridden) I don't want to break our promise, but… I can't keep putting our son in danger. Style Queen was supposed to be my masterpiece… but even she failed. I feel like I've done all I possibly could, you know? I'll never be able to fulfill my wish without Ladybug and Cat Noir's Miraculous. (Scene shows Emilie in her coffin) Forgive me, Emilie. I'm giving you up, Nooroo.

But this side of him only shows up in big dramatic moments. When it comes to his more general writing, he's a full out cartoon villain and terrible parent, which is why I've said there's a lot of valid ways to write him. His character is wildly inconsistent. This is a problem that is easily fixed via an actual corruption arc where he goes from somewhat decent parent to monster. There's a couple ways to do this, but here's how I'd do it in the context of keeping canon mostly intact:

Early seasons needed to make Gabriel come across as more openly grief stricken. Really highlight the fact that Emilie's death changed something major about him and his relationship with his son. This is one of the reasons I like a more nuanced Chloe. If you let her and Adrien be actual friends, then you can have her make statements to indicate that Adrien used to be quite close with both of his parents and that Gabriel used to be a good father. You can also have Adrien make statements like this to Plagg, I just like the Chloe angle more as she's more blunt while Adrien is more likely to hide his pain/focus on the positives.

Have Gabriel be unwilling to send akumas to areas where Adrien is. Episodes like Riposte should be impossible as Gabriel will be wholly unwilling to let akumas go after his son. This also lets you justify Adrien being locked up. As is, Gabriel just comes across like a jerk. If he's only banning Adrien from going out in order to keep his son safe? Well, he's still a jerk, but at the very least, he's a jerk who worries about his son's physical well being. Origins saw Adrien sneaking out of the house, so keep that element and make this be the reason he gets caught up in akuma attacks.

As time goes on, Gabriel gets more desperate and more willing to take risks. Lots of things could trigger this such as Ladybug always resetting everything, making him feel less concerned about hurting others. After all, he'll fix everything with his wish and, if he fails, then Ladybug will do it for him. There's really no way to lose here. Style Queen could become a turning point where Gabriel finally willingly put Adrien at risk and he feels awful, but make that also be the closest he's ever come. Have Gabriel decided that risking Adrien is worth the cost if it brings them back Emilie.

After that, things start to go downhill. Gabriel draws away from his son more and more due to guilt, but he's convinced he's in the right because he wants Emilie back so bad. The ends justify the means and all that. This can lead into several different types of endings, but the general feeling of Gabriel's final ending should have an element of pity. He's a villain, but he's a villain many could easily become.

This is the kind of path canon needed to walk if they wanted the season five ending to feel realistic. As is, it's going to read as total nonsense to most fans because they're going to go off of the way Gabriel was played in your standard, monster-of-the-week episode. They're not going to think about those core characterization episodes that were supposed to define Gabriel because those episodes are just too uncommon and too antithetical to the way Gabriel tended to be written.

[dknuth]

Salinas Grandes Salt Production

Of course, the main income from the salt flats is not from hotels but from salt production. We walked to the village's salt production area.

They cut large holes in the salt down to the underlying clay to produce salt for human consumption. Water is allowed to flow into the hole from the surrounding salt. Over several months continued evaporatration of water from the hole increases the salinity and pure salt crystals form.

These salt crystals are removed when the hole is filled with salt.

Salt is also harvested for industrial purposes. For this, a few centimeters of the top of the salt flat are scraped. Of course, this contains dust and other impurities and is not used for consumption.

Finally, they can break out large chunks of salt, and farmers use these as salt licks for their animals.

So the village gets income from the salt flat from harvesting salt for different uses, as well as from the hotel. All this provides an additional income strear for a village that otherwise relies on llama herding.

[armzsoup]

Hayao Miyazaki's Poor Man Salt Flavoured Ramen Recipe

Turn the volume ON 🔊 and note down the recipe // Miyazaki cooking his recipe for the Ghibli animation crew at lunch during the production of Spirited Away — and it's so warm and comforting to see him pleased with people enjoying the dish he made :)

[crazykuroneko]

If this is true and everything goes smoothly (amen!), we can get S3 in Fall 2025

[hornychristianprincess]

just wanted to let everyone know that i am 23k words deep in my next fic for taesan and should hopefully have something for ya'll to chew on soon 🫡

[bootlegdvdmenu]

oh this is gonna have disastrous consequences on the Roark enjoyer population.

[buffetlicious]

Magnolia had recently launched a new limited edition Salted Caramel Low Fat Milk so naturally we bought a carton to taste. It’s now available at NTUC for S$3.63, but you can get two for S$6.55 till 1 July 2024. Pouring myself a cup, the colour is off white or a very light shade of eggshell white if you asked me. Considering it tasted sweet, I am amazed that it got a Nutri-Grade B. The savouriness from the salted caramel isn’t as pronounced, coming in as an aftertaste with the unmissable warm and rich caramel filling the mouth.