Ethiopian food is the one great cuisine to come out of Africa. Ethiopians are hard-working entrepeneurs. I was so happy that when I lived in Dallas there was a good-sized Ethiopian community and so we had a huge range of Ethiopian restaurants.
Now I'm in Utah where there are only two (2) Ethiopian joints and they're within a block of each other. I miss their food. Several nations have made recipes based on raw meat (steak tartare, carpaccio, hackepeter, carne apache) but the only one I loved and wanted more of was kitfo, which has such a strong beef flavor.
One of the cool things about their food is that they are Coptic Christians, and they obey fast days. So they fast from meat every Friday, all through Lent, and on various Saints' days. One Ethiopian woman told me they had to abstain from meat for like a third of the year. As a result they have a vibrant, delicious, and varied vegetarian cuisine.
When I'm specially hungry I order the vegetarian platter with doro wat or lamb tibs or other meat in the middle. When I'm just normally hungry, I get the vegetarian platter. All Ethiopian places serve this.
The Strait of Hormuz has been closed for 8 days. Everyone thinks this is about oil. This is about what oil becomes. 92% of the world's sulfur comes from refining oil and gas. Close the Strait of Hormuz and you don't just lose 20 million barrels of crude per day. You lose the feedstock for sulfuric acid, the single most produced chemical on Earth. Sulfuric acid is how we extract copper. It's how we extract cobalt. Without it, you can't make transformers, EV batteries, or the substrates inside every data center on the planet. One chemical, made from one feedstock, shipped through one chokepoint. The cascade goes further: Qatar ships 30% of Taiwan's liquefied natural gas through Hormuz. Taiwan has 11 days of reserves left. TSMC, the company that makes 90% of the world's advanced chips, draws 8.9% of Taiwan's total electricity. No gas, no power, no chips. Then food. 33% of the world's nitrogen fertilizer feedstock moves through the Strait. Half of all humans alive today exist because of synthetic nitrogen. Sulfur, semiconductors, food. That makes three supply chains, one 21-nautical-mile chokepoint, and zero domestic alternatives at scale.
@TrappTechnology can you please help with a hosted email related case that I opened with @Brinkster that is not resolved yet? Issue is still not resolved more than 10 days
@levelsio@NicoloLuccini You can get best coffee in Ethiopia, birth place of coffee. You are right that the Gov wants to export all the good coffee but 50% ends up here as there is strong coffee drinking culture.
Noise is a secret destroyer of productivity.
It is secret because it impacts cognition, not effort, so we don’t notice, but a 10db noise increase (from a dishwasher to a vacuum) lowers productivity by 5%. Noise is also greater in poorer neighborhoods... https://t.co/RaIAsSudyY
@kevin2kelly Ethiopia's calendar has 13 months: 12 months each with 30 days, and a 13th month with 5 days, extending to 6 days every 4 years during the leap year.
@fortelabs Ashburn, VA? That is where Microsoft east cost data centers are and it may be VPN or corporate access. Other cloud providers have data centers there as well.