looking for the snarky link between &quot;blind googling&quot; and blindness caused by drinking improperly distilled alcohol.

I have always wanted to set up an old timey whisky still in my woods on the creek. I have no idea how to make a still.Any way you could point me toward a reliable source for how to build and operate one? I don&#x27;t trust the results from blind googling anymore.

&gt; For example, I think a lot of us don’t want to sit in front of a still for 30 minutes waiting for it to come up to temperature at the beginning of a distilling day.Idk, I find driving a still to be pleasurable. To each their own.Hot ethanol seems to have the refractive index to make it sparkle like a diamond. I recommend trying distilling if you like to brew things. It&#x27;s a fun hobby.

A lot of my family has lived in a West Virginia valley since before the Revolutionary War. For most of that time, we have held a generalized contempt for the law and those who would tell others how to live their lives.I think for other people, it&#x27;s similar, and we either don&#x27;t care or appreciate the fact that it&#x27;s a way to rebel.

You can do it legally, but I think the point is that many people think that home distillation is like home brewing of beer (legal and fairly easy as long as you don’t sell it). It isn’t. The Feds control distillation much more strictly, and as the site you referenced pointed out, even possessing an unlicensed still in some states is illegal.

I don&#x27;t agree with &quot;strictly&quot; illegal.1 - it depends on what you&#x27;re distilling.<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.distillate.org&#x2F;laws&#x2F;list" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.distillate.org&#x2F;laws&#x2F;list</a>2 - while federally illegal to just get a still and start churning out spirits, ... <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.ttb.gov&#x2F;regulated-commodities&#x2F;beverage-alcohol&#x2F;distilled-spirits&#x2F;permits" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.ttb.gov&#x2F;regulated-commodities&#x2F;beverage-alcohol&#x2F;d...</a> a free permit and some paperwork (okay a lot of paperwork) lets you.Disclaimer: I don&#x27;t hold any licenses or permits related to alcohol, but as a holder of a half dozen other ones, I believe it would be surmountable to do this legally if you really want to.

&gt; find much evidence of home distillers getting bustedAgain, depends heavily on the country. Some countries don&#x27;t care about the theoretical&#x2F;actual impact of committing a crime, and will chase and charge you regardless if it&#x27;s for private use or not (which, kind of also makes sense). In my personal experience, Sweden is one of those countries, I&#x27;m sure there are more out there.

This falls into the “how would they know about it?” category, but that doesn’t mean it’s not illegal or that you wouldn’t get prosecuted if they happened to find it. Sort of like growing your own personal stash of marijuana.

I think you’d struggle to find much evidence of home distillers getting busted. If you’re not selling the stuff, you’re probably not the TTBs concern.

Distillation, when done improperly, can result in very toxic substances. It requires care and craft and since alcohol is not only a drug but a transformed product (like LSD or meth), it is perfectly fine that some state-level supervision apply: anything ranging from plain interdiction to controlled production. Note that the level of control usually depends on potential health issues and culture, it is not usually strictly bound to the product itself, since we can observe variations from region to region.

I mean it&#x27;s illegal to grow marijuana or synthesize LSD at your home in most of the world.

Any such law displays a gross disrespect for basic freedoms. The more people that ignore it the better. You&#x27;d do as well to outlaw sewing your own clothes.

Definitely be careful before embarking on home distilling. In many parts of the world (and many parts of the US) it&#x27;s pretty strictly illegal.

iSpindel is cheaper than a manual hydrometer and it&#x27;s automatic (and thus safer for the cultures). If you don&#x27;t want to track&#x2F;collect data about the fermentation or whatever, then don&#x27;t, but many find it practical and pleasurable.<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;opensourcedistilling.com&#x2F;ispindel&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;opensourcedistilling.com&#x2F;ispindel&#x2F;</a>

I&#x27;m really at a loss as to the why distilling needs anything requiring OSS. It&#x27;s worse than my washer&#x2F;dryer&#x2F;dishwasher wanting&#x2F;requiring WiFi access. You put your mash in a vat to ferment. You bring that mash to boil in the still. You collect the output.

It&#x27;s the same process as regular training, but instead of a single token for your cost function, it&#x27;s top-k logits.

You aren’t the only one. I wonder how distillation of LLMs is done, didn’t research it and hoped this might be a solution. Well, it might be a solution but one that come with more hallucinations.

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