Nutrition labels in Germany often list "celery powder". That's not because the product needs any celery flavor (the powder is pretty much tasteless, as far as I understand), but because customers may be wary of "Natriumglutamat".
Manufacturers need to label every ingredient, so they don't use chemically synthesized MSG, but celery powder, which is virtually identical, but customers think it's organic and healthy, as opposed to the evil chemical MSG.
It wouldn't suprise me if celery was relatively rich in glutamate given its use in stocks and mirepoix, but I think that celery powder is mostly used for its nitrate and nitrite content as a meat curing agent.
Celery salt, at least, is a game changer when making things like stews, gravies and sauces.
If I’m making a ‘western’ dish (for want of a better phrase) it is an essential ingredient to get the depth of flavour into the sauce. The only thing which I find is equally as good at attaining that depth is… celery
This is a common food labelling hack in the US when a manufacturer has a product like sausage or bacon which would normally be treated with sodium nitrate (curing salt) to maintain color and taste. When 'nitrate-free' became something the organic food crowd wanted to see on the label but grey meat was not going to be appealing in the package you suddenly found a lot of recipes that included some sort of celery extract because it was high in available nitrates.
tl;dr in the US this was more about nitrates and color of packaged meat than it was about glatamates.
I love BSG2K, but I‘d still give that title to Babylon 5. it doesn‘t have the modern political references, but its got a coherent vision and incredible world building.
Prepare to work for it. Series were longer back then, and all of season 1 is slow. Later season 2 starts to reward this effort. There are a couple of episodes in S3 & S4 that aren't great. Otherwise - S3 and S4 are absolute top notch. They blow the shit out of any TV made before or after, on every level and in every way. Be prepared for B5 to set a standard everything else fails to meet by a very, very, very long way. Try to avoid spoilers.
The deconstruction of falling stars.. the jailbreak plot device was implausible to me when I was younger, somewhat plausible when I was introduced to VMs, and now with LLMs we're probably already there.
S1 isn’t great, it’s more adventure of the week to get used to the characters, life on the ship etc. is not bad but it’s pretty dated. But it sets the backdrop for 3 seasons that changed TV reaching out even today - planned multi season story arcs.
I was enjoying The Expanse until the Marco Inaros arc started. From that point onwards the show felt rushed, mostly repeating the formula of so many other shows, and sidestepped all the alien bits that could have been interesting.
I much preferred BSG, even though it had plenty of boring "west wing in space" episodes.
I thought the political episodes were some of the most interesting ones. I love how Apollo grew up to challenge the attempted coup and ultimately became President as the series wound down. Also loved Richard Hatch's Tom Zarek character and the religious cult formed around Gaius Baltar.
All in all, I really enjoy all the moral greys in the series.
That is rather of of how I think the books as well. Alien space magic exists. Every once and a while a researcher discovers some mini Cthulhu, how do the humans respond?
It is a book about human drama. If you lean too heavily on space magic, the human component becomes uninteresting because there can always be some unknowable deus ex machina that flips the world on its head.
I imagine this is how contact with abandoned alien technology would play out. Chances are it’s totally incomprehensible to humans and if you are unlucky enough to turn it on, it’ll bite you in unpredictable ways.
Both were indeed great. It is a shame that B5 is so terribly underrated. Michael O’Hare as the commander was its one big negative - he was so wooden it was painful. Then Bruce Boxleitner came on board and he was amazing.
BSG2K still gets the nod from me though. It was next level.
This is inaccurate, Freenet has very little to do with blockchain/cryptocurrency and it's not "paid" - it's 100% open source like previous versions of Freenet.
You may be thinking of "ghost keys" which aren't strictly part of the new Freenet but are complementary to it. You can find out more about ghost keys here: https://freenet.org/news/introducing-ghost-keys/
Of course not. They have their own crawler (Heritrix, an open source Java crawler) and archive in WARC format. It‘s serious archiving, they want to preserve reply codes, HTTP headers etc.
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