No shade at the other answers, but I feel this is the only answer to the actual question concerning “overpriced” items. Even OP’s example, they are getting something for their extra expense: convenience. The others are things that people are buying even though there are less expensive alternatives available, but I don’t think anyone would say they aren’t at least getting a perceived value for the extra cost.

On the other hand, we have historic RAM prices to get an idea of true value, and it is only speculation that is driving up the cost. The RAM hasn’t gotten any better, it’s not even new, it cost you more than it should, but you need it, so you have to suck it up and pay a premium while getting nothing extra in return.

The process combines spent grain with oyster mushrooms to produce a protein-rich base for products such as vegan nuggets and sausages.

I went looking to see if there were more details, and the German Gretranke News (Beverage News) had this article that explains it in more detail.

In the pilot plant, brewer’s grains are processed into a protein-containing mycelium mass with the help of fungal fermentation. The aim of the project is to develop a technical solution that allows breweries to produce proteins directly on their own site – without additional personnel costs. The plant is currently used to optimize the fermentation process as well as the quality of the end product, an oyster mushroom-based mycelium.

According to the company, the process works regardless of the type of spent grain used - for example from barley, wheat or rye. The aim is to standardize the processes by 2026 under different operating conditions and thus prepare for market maturity. The mycelium mass produced is currently used for tests in food processing, for example for the development of meat alternatives.

In the long term, Eat Beer wants to offer a platform solution that can be adapted to different brewery structures. “Each company works with its own raw materials, recipes and processes. Our system must be flexible enough to reflect these differences,” says Managing Director Malte Nordmann. In the future, the software will control the entire fermentation and production process on a site-by-site basis.

Raw pellets:

Processed into “bratwurst”:

Sounds somewhere between regular mushroom growing, except the mycelium matrix is the end goal rather than formed mushrooms and the process to make tempeh. Looks and sounds very exciting!

The first stream I was using to watch it was from Canada, so I just mainly got patriotic Canadian ads, but that stopped and I ended up on one from Sky Sports. Since it was the UK, I got the bonus of no ads at all!

Every bit counts! Good luck! 🦎

I volunteer at a wildlife rehab clinic. I don’t get to treat the animals, but we get to do all the other work. I feed them, clean their area, check them to make sure their recovery is going well, we weigh them, prep various food mixes and formulas. There’s a ton of housekeeping like dishes, laundry, and sterilizing crates. I’ll also greet people that arrive with animals and grab one of the staff to get the intake started.

We also have events where I’ve directed cars where to park, ran games for the kids, and answered animal questions. I got put on the open house planning group so I will help plan and build new activities, and if we we’re able to get a new owl ambassador by then, I will run meet and greet things with it. I also got asked to help design some new shelters due the various raptors.

Our shifts are 4 hours, one day a week, from April through September, but I’ve been participating in random things over the winter.

I like working with animals because most of their injuries are caused by humans, and they are unable to advocate for themselves. I get to work with amazing people and see a ton of rare animals most people don’t even know we have. It can be difficult to see severely injured animals, have a lot die on you, to see people crying bringing in hurt animals, especially little kids, but there is also the reward of seeing animals recover and return to their homes.

I’m mainly there for raptors, but the most touching story was a little boy found a bumble bee with a damaged wing. He took it to his parents and he wanted to help it. They dialed us up and he asked if we could fix his bee. We can often fix butterfly wings, but bees are too tiny, and he was near the end as it was, but we set that bee up in a terrarium with soft bedding and half an orange, and for the rest of his days, we took care of that bee like any other animal we’d get through our doors.

I don’t even know if I can say what it is, but Frieren justs hits differently than near anything else I can think of. It just yanks you from sweet and peaceful to dark and intense and back like it’s no thing.

The biggest thing I could say, is that by following Freiren’s perspective, you see what it would be like to be someone near immortal who sees that as normal, and how she starts to understand the timescale of humanity like we’re funny little mayflies with lifespans like a flash in the pan. But as she takes the time to actually get to know humans, she learns that our short lives give us a strengths that elves and demons will never be able to grasp.

It’s a slice of life and a fighting show in one. Characters and the world get really fleshed out, and they feel a lot more like real people. It’s a good balance been cute and fun and some killer battles or competitions. I’d think most people would get hooked right from the first episode, but it really gets to full awesomeness during Ep 3.

100% this. I “played” guitar and bass for about 20 years, doing tabs and YouTube lessons. I could do plenty of stuff passably, and have been in a few bands and played a few shows in public that went fine.

I got a Rhodes piano for free, and started doing the same learning on my own. My wife signed me up for 6 months of lessons with a real teacher as a gift. I learned so much in my now 2+years with her than the 20 years on my own.

You can get any lesson you want somewhere online, but it isn’t tailored to you or what you want/need to learn.

My teacher asks me what my goals are, and she figures out how to get me there. She sees where I’m at, can pick pieces and lessons to study that aren’t too hard or too easy, and corrects me before bad habits set in. I’ve learned the benefits of reading sheet music vs tabs, I’ve learned scales and how to apply them, and everything I learn is in proper order to allow it to make sense!

As I spend more time learning with her, all the random stuff I “learned” in my own actually clicks into place because I’m getting taught it all in proper context. It’s like building a kit by having someone read you the instructions step by step as opposed to you just opening a box full of pieces and trying to figure out what it is you’re building randomly as you go.

The photos make it look like a movie set. It doesn’t look anywhere near 1400 years old. They must have been so excited to find a place like this.

That is amazing! Can’t wait to get some more photos of that. Thank you so much for tagging me.

In the meanwhile, there’s someone here that may enjoy this even more than me!

@MisterNeon@lemmy.world

The Critic was amazing.

Most hoots will be them guarding their territory. Owls have a home range of a few miles they will defend. They will allow a mate and first year offspring in that area, but anyone else is typically unwelcome, as they need to protect their food supply and safe resting areas. Both are limited and crucial for their survival.

Owls can identify each other by their hoots. They are unique just as you can tell other humans’ voices apart.

They have a vocabulary of around 2 or 3 dozen sounds, but owls are capable of all kinds of noises and non verbal cues as well.

While not helping people directly, wild animal rescues usually only require one 4 hour shift a week. I do weekends and we have plenty of openings where we could use more help. You can’t just come and go as you please, you pick a shift at the start of the season (March/April to Sept/Oct) and stick to it so we can know we at least have minimal staff. Our shifts are split 8-noon, noon-4, and 4-8.

You will meet a ton of great people, see some truly amazing sights, experience the strength and delicateness of nature, and provide a valuable service to your local ecosystem.

And don’t feel bad “just donating money!”. We can’t do anything without cash. Wildlife rescue doesn’t receive any public money anywhere in the world I’m aware of, and I’m sure many causes are the same way. Yes, groups need people’s time, but we could do a thing without supplies or just plain paying utilities and all the boring overhead costs.

I started with guitar, then bass, then piano.

Guitar over only really played for fun with other people. I’ve played bass in 3 bands, 2 of those publicly. Piano I’ve played solo at recitals and publicly a few times as part of an ensemble group. Guitar and bass were self taught, so I plateaued early on, but I take piano lessons now. I also have a sampler/drum machine I play around with and use to make backing tracks to practice the other instruments.

I’m not very good at any of them in my own opinion, but it doesn’t take much to have fun. I think it’s harder to be good alone than playing with other people, though as an introvert, it’s hard to get over the initial hump of getting together with people.

Owl is a doll.

Here’s a baby Saw Whet Owl, one of my fav owl babies.

It’s really tough anymore to post positive content here. It feels like spitting on a fire to put it out.

I’m from the US, but I’ve always tried to include everyone in my posts, at the price of looking ignorant every now and then when I get things wrong, but it’s nice when I’ve had people from across the world remark how they’re pleasantly surprised to see something local to them being covered by a non-local. I’ve learned so much in return from just having brief interactions with users from other countries, just by showing some genuine interest in them, their languages, and their home countries. But outside of my own posts, it’s hard to find a place on Lemmy where there doesn’t seem to be things looking to drive a wedge between us.

I used to be able to jump into random posts, even if it was something I wasn’t very familiar with, to try to get conversations going, but so many news/political posts just feel rigged to get people riled up, and I’ll scroll through and not find anything to interact with a lot now.

Plenty of people tell me that I’m doing something important by doing positive stuff here. I really like the small community we’ve got of people that regularly interact. It’s hard to feel like I’m making any kind of difference though. I’m going to show up as long as people are talking to me, but there’s plenty of times I ask myself why I don’t just devote this time back into music or my volunteer work. I’ve dropped all my news and politics podcasts at this point because I’m sick of hearing it all. I censor myself on discussing animal rights issues because I don’t want to add to the pile of negative stuff to worry about. I’ll keep at it the best I can, but a lot of people here are sure making it an exhausting effort some days.

No problem!

Get to the feed setting from the menu here

And then the settings all the way at the bottom

Or from here

Then

And scroll to the bottom for filters

Note: it will block other words, so if you block trump and musk, you won’t see things about trumpets or muskrats, at least as of a while back. It was blocking one of my own posts, and I bug reported it, but then was told it’s a pretty basic filter.

It was a blast. We went to grab breakfast on our way out of town and this place popped up as I was looking for the best breakfast along the way. It intrigued me that a pharmacy was the number 1 rated breakfast spot.

It’s Lincoln’s P&G. Half the place is a regular pharmacy, and the other is a diner/soda fountain. This is the menu with the soda specials and they have a bunch of old photos of the place on this page.

They advertised top notch pancakes, which I’m usually meh about, but these were light and had a nice crispy outside that seemed to set them apart. Good stuff if ever anyone is ever passing through there.

I like the olde tyme medicine / cocktail bitters type taste!

I had a fun time last year outside of Pittsburgh there was a diner that had the original soda fountain in it, and I ended up talking with the soda jerk about a lot of the oddball ingredients and he gave me some of the phosphates and I was tasting them straight up and mixing them with flavors in different proportions and such.

A-Treat has an online store now, with the brown and white birch beers both available, as well as the pumpkin cream and cranberry ginger ale holiday flavors, which I also love. There’s a few other Pennsylvania birch beers, the PA Dutch red version and the clear Kutztown ones are on Amazon I saw, but the A-Treat is the most local to where I live.

I mainly just talk about things I’m genuinely interested in. That makes me naturally more conversational in my posts, comments, and replies.

When someone replies to me, I want to acknowledge their contribution, so I try to at least say something relevant to their comment. Hopefully it’s something that can get another reply out of them or someone else, but you at least want them to feel their comment was appreciated more than just an upvote or a one word response. I think that encourages them and others to comment again, as even if you can’t add much to that current thread, you show you’re there and open to conversation and that you are willing to engage if they speak up first.

I will reply to people that comment on my old posts because I’m still interested in the original topic (I posted it after all!) but if I’m reading someone else’s post and it’s much over 24 hours old, I’m usually assuming they’ve moved on unless others are still interacting with it as well.