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Did you miss a digit? 207 hours is like... nothing. I've spent more than that on video games I still suck at.

Jesus Christ. Shit like this makes me realise how fortunate I am. I just returned to the dentist after a few years of neglect, and the plan they put me on for the work I need came to a couple of hundred. That's a root treatment, a couple of fillings and crowns, and a couple of scalings. We like to complain about the NHS a lot, but really, that just means no new exuberant purchases for a couple of months for me. Your life is literally in danger. I feel like such an entitled fuckwad.

Porn doesn't need to give consent to be watched though. Watching something is very different from engaging in an agreement with another person.

If it is true that pornography encourages such acts... it isn't necessarily true that a relationship or sexual encounter around CNC will.

In porn, the consent is implied, because these are performers, there are witnesses etc however I would assume for the most part the consent never actually happens on camera, you won't see them discuss limits and safe words, because that's not part of the product. This means that the porn is portraying rape, not CNC. To have the consent as implied in CNC would also be rape. I agree that rape is not something we should be encouraging, CNC is not rape.

Greetings

Thanks for the AMA, sorry I'm late, I really hope this question will find you.

I work in the Whisky industry over in Scotland. Of late I've been delving into the rabbit-hole of trying to compute the best way to blend (and vat) our product. As I'm sure you know you can put the same ingredients into the same type of cask and still get different results, with temperature and location and age of the wood contributing to the product. Mixing those different results together however will ideally yield something consistent. However the number of combinations, once you also consider different ages, grains/malts, and different woods is astronomical. So to make a single vat of a desired product, there are many combinations which will give you what you need, but in turn leave you with different stock profiles. Some of which will be better suited to your forecasts than others.

How do you deal with this challenge? Is your product profile small enough that it isn't a concern? Do you perform any kind of stock analysis? Do you have any method of testing your liquid other than your nosers and tasters? For instance using spectroscopy to measure the colour or composition? I'm aware it's common in the industry to keep the blending process shrouded like some black magic. Do you or have you ever considered the science behind it though, and how it can be exploited for additional quality and/or efficiency?