> The canonical risk of canning is botulism, which is fairly rare but bad > enough that anyone who cans should be aware of how to prevent it
As I recall the thing is that it's easier to prevent with some vegetables than others, and with some it's hard enough that you'd probably best not bother canning them. I feel like tomatoes were the specific example in my conversation but I'm second-guessing that because tomatoes are generally acidic and you get bacterial issues in canning when you don't get things acidic enough. But maybe it's something to do with porosity or something, I dunno. (I could look this up, of course, but then one rabbit hole would lead to another and I'd never find my way back here.)
> this is why a lot of people think things are awful right now even > though crime has been trending down for decades
Yeah, that's partly what I'm getting at. The other part is, when you hear about it, do you identify where it's happening and who it's happening to as being places like where you are and people like you (as opposed to somewhere else / other people)? I suspect that as news becomes less and less local all the time, there's less of a sense of crime, or anything, happening somewhere else, to other people. But I don't know, and it would be an interesting thing to test somehow. It's possible that the politically charged polarization of rural and urban identities yields an opposite effect, too.
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> enough that anyone who cans should be aware of how to prevent it
As I recall the thing is that it's easier to prevent with some vegetables than others, and with some it's hard enough that you'd probably best not bother canning them. I feel like tomatoes were the specific example in my conversation but I'm second-guessing that because tomatoes are generally acidic and you get bacterial issues in canning when you don't get things acidic enough. But maybe it's something to do with porosity or something, I dunno. (I could look this up, of course, but then one rabbit hole would lead to another and I'd never find my way back here.)
> this is why a lot of people think things are awful right now even
> though crime has been trending down for decades
Yeah, that's partly what I'm getting at. The other part is, when you hear about it, do you identify where it's happening and who it's happening to as being places like where you are and people like you (as opposed to somewhere else / other people)? I suspect that as news becomes less and less local all the time, there's less of a sense of crime, or anything, happening somewhere else, to other people. But I don't know, and it would be an interesting thing to test somehow. It's possible that the politically charged polarization of rural and urban identities yields an opposite effect, too.