Olive oil was found.

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I wasn't sure I had any left.  The other day I began rooting around.  And, low and behold, I found the other bottle.  I bought two, came that way, but of better quality at a slightly reduced price by buying two at a time.  And, I am sure it is actual extra virgin.  You can find you.  But, to be sure?  You have to find certified.  And, really?  I'd go with European.  Our FDA is completely compromised.  Not that their aren't forgeries.  China, it's what they do.  Though quite a few countries do that, just not to that level.  Simply, there are no guarantees in life.  Certainly not in commerce.  You can't afford guarantees.

I have more on the way.  It seems to hold up well enough, in the basement, closed up.  But, this one has been brought up, and put into use for my first vinegar and oil salad dressing in some time.  Tasty.  Really.  I used a red wine vinegar, that comes with the mother, as well as spices and herbs.  I always put at least a bit of hot spice in there.  Just enough for me to get the idea of hot, but without actual heat, this time.  It... would probably bring most of you to your knees.  If I want it to have actual heat, for myself, I have to use habanero at least, though ghost pepper and carolina reaper are what I keep on my shelf for more like a... bit of heat.  Even those, unless I use like a tablespoon, are really only... more spicy.  They aren't hot, unless, as mentioned, I bury the food in the flecks.

Wonderful.  Truly.  And, a cool meal.  Still hungry though.  Perhaps another salad?  I want meat, but it's just a bit hot for it.

I checked outside at about 18:30, it was 87, at 97% humidity (according to my gauge).  Earlier, when it was still 90, it was more like 87% humidity.  So the gauge does go down.  I still think it might be a bit broken, with water inside.  Though, since it is going down, and back up, maybe it is accurate?  Seems crazy to me.  I haven't ever seen it 100%, or this close.  But, then, I have always been reading from inside the house, and that is reading 49% (down here, near the computer).  I just don't know.  

I did look, at one of the more common weather services.  It is reading 28% humidity?  Very strange.  And, while I have doubts about that, I think, by feel, that is far closer than the 97% I am getting.  Just... saying.  Perhaps the wood the meter is attached to has absorbed moisture, and the heat is steaming it out?  Though, and again, I don't completely trust "the news".  They have an agenda and won't stop from crushing real newsmen or the truth to push their agenda.  Must suck to have spent so much money, and crushed so many people, to be absolutely disbelieved be everyone with an eye even partly able to be on the ball.

Now, fanboys, of either side, BRICS or the US/Euro boondoggle, are both going to find it doesn't work out well.  At this time, China lost complete face.  Now, was that planned?  As much by them as by the West?  Some like to believe that China is independent and Sovereign.  Much like Russia.  No more than the US, at this time, or the European Union, or even Britain.  Everyone is working for someone.  And, it's looking, more and more, like that someone is the same one.  And, not a good one.

As to China?  I have almost no doubt they will eventually attack Taiwan.  No choice.  That much lost face, for a dictator type, is too expensive.  If your frienemies, in a communist country's rulership, smell fear or weakness, they will come after you.  If he loses, expect a heart attack, stroke, early retirement to "spend time with family", or such.  It won't be a revolt, as we know them.  If he wins, expect an attempt to strongarm Taiwan into surrender.

China cannot beat Taiwan straight out.  They don't have the ships, or enough air superiority to get enough of those ships, with enough men, over the sea between the two, or supply and resupply those troops.  Now, as with Tibet, they defeat of Taiwan wouldn't come from the outside.  It would be from the inside.  So, whoever could turn off radar?  Or shut those and other defenses down?  Or leave this or that open for attack without any early warning?  That person, or those persons, should be observed very closely.  Between bribery and attacks on their family in the mainland, to all sorts of tactics, China will be trying to control those people.

As well, politicians have to be watched, so they don't simply surrender.  But, barring that, China doesn't have a way to win.  And, even then, I think it may well end up being far messier, from internal separatists, than is expected.  Not that it would matter, at that point.  Look at what has happened to Hong Kong... completely kompromat.  All fight gone.  Crushed, owned, done.  And far quicker than anticipated.  Though, once a few things happened, I realized it was over.  Thanks, Britain.  Between selling out and their weakness, not sure they had much choice.

But, China is going down.  Russia is going down.  The West is going down.  This is a war without bombs, but is just as effective.  Don't be surprised if, near the end, as the ability of nations to withstand this onslaught, that nukes don't fly.  If, too, I am suspecting that is exactly what the West wants.  And, they may get it.  It's a numbers reduction.  Plus, as people eventually sort out the vax thing?  The whole covid thing?  Without nukes falling down, I think some of the 1% would otherwise end up either chased down and murdered in the streets, or tried and then rightly hung.  For them, nukes probably seems better?

We'll see.  Closer to a nuke slugfest than we have been in a long, long, time.  Perhaps, in truth, closer than ever.  It'll start small.  Think Taiwan.  Perhaps Ukraine, or some of the near NATO nations importing weapons into Ukraine.  Tactical, small, targeted, limited.  Though were it goes from there will be a whole other thing.  With bidet in office, and the jobber right behind him, I could see a full or partial retaliatory.

Tick-tock, tick-tock, we'll see.