also as far as we can tell most food safe plastic isn't even safe 🫠

I'm gay but I'm a lady so a regular log cabin is already pretty butch if I build it 😁

I would say start with hobby-based circles. Look for local events and meetups (concerts, games, hobby shop events, etc.) as a way to meet people.

If you happen to like TTRPGs, in my experience that's a fast track to very close friendships that tend to have the deeper level of connection you're describing. My guess is because TTRPGs require good communication, the comeraderie tends to come naturally faster than any other given group of people. It's never a guarantee, but it's certainly worth a try if you're already into tabletop games or are curious to get into them

I hope you find excellent homies ASAP, wherever you find them :]

I just got a new job at a place where my coworkers are really into seasonal decorations, so I'm low key excited for winter

With math, is it arithmetic that gives you trouble or the actual symbolic manipulation of mathematics?

I am hot garbage at keeping track of numbers but turn those fuckers into letters and (at least for me) it's off to the races. Then I just convert everything back to numbers in the last step before jamming it all into a calculator. This method saved my ass in 400-level biochemistry courses. (Annoyed the shit out of the grad students grading my exams, I'm sure...)

You may be better at "math" than you think :]

depending on what you're taking it for those 10 minutes can be worth it

I think it's more likely that the consistent quality is a side bonus from most of 3M's customers being other corporations, not individual consumers

If 3M only sold painter's tape to the public, most of the public will buy it whether it's crap or not because most of the public only needs to put up with painter's tape occasionally

However if a large commercial real estate company who goes through palettes of painters tape suddenly has to start ordering 1.5x as many palettes because some of the tape is defective, they'll threaten 3M with cancelling a multi-million-dollar contract that will hurt 3M's quarterly spreadsheets.

That is until inevitably someone at 3M gets the idea to start producing a cheaper "consumer grade" painters tape and then everyone who doesn't have a relative in building maintenance who can swipe a pro grade roll for you is SOL

• LineageOS: my Android ROM of choice

• LineageOS for MicroG: the ROM on my second phone where I quarantine my use of apps that refuse to work without Google services (mostly stuff I need for business travel e.g. Amtrak, Google Maps)

• Aurora Store: allows installation of most Play Store apps without login. I mainly use this on the MicroG phone, but it's also needed to get the ProtonMail and ProtonCalendar apps (only ProtonVPN is on F-Droid)

• TrackerControl: allows fine tuned domain blocking on a per-app basis. Often allows you to block just ads and trackers but still be able to use an app or at least many of its features.

• Arcticons: monochrome line art icons (because I hate fun and want my GUIs to look like a terminal)

• AsteroidOS Sync: WearOS replacement. AsteroidOS still has a long way to go, but I doubt WearOS would play nicely with LineageOS and I don't want all the tracking anyway.

• Bubble: bubble level by woheller69 (a true F-Droid GOAT)

• FlorisBoard: afaik, only FOSS gesture typing Android keyboard (besides AnySoft, which doesn't seem to work consistently)

• GMaps WV: fairly locked-down web viewer for Google Maps (sadly OSM just doesn't have a usably complete business directory where I live)

• Lawnchair: launcher with all the features I want except being up to date on F-Droid

• Librera: the PDF reader on F-Droid that I hate the least. (Anyone got any better recommendations?)

• NewPipe: ad-free Youtube player with locally stored subscriptions and playlists. An IzzyOnDroid fork with SponsorBlock is also available.

• QKSMS: my SMS app of choice

• Signal: because I can't convince my friends to switch to Briar

• SpoTube: pirate ad-free Spotify that works by looking up tracks on Youtube. Is therefore limited by what's available on YT and sometimes plays wrong tracks, but you can't beat the price :] Even interfaces with a Spotify account to play and edit playlists.

• Standard Notes: E2E encrypted cloud-synced notes. Also accessible by web browser, which has saved my ass a few times while phoneless

• Weather: by BeoCode on F-Droid

• VLC: everyone's favorite traffic cone boi

KOBEEEEEE

Isn't the ultimate issue enforceability? For a dev to be awarded some of the profit made off an open source project:

1. A whistleblower would have to discover, gather, and publish evidence that the software was being used to generate profit
2. The dev would have to win a court case against the company

It would be fuckin rad if that happened and a dev got a huge payout and a legal precedent was set. But it'd be more rad if we didn't live in a society where this was an issue in the first place :[

Unciv if you enjoy sacrificing hours of your life :)

Your mom dies, your brother runs away so now your dad spends all his time looking for him, and your village gets overtaken by fascists, oh and you're like 12. Somehow it's your job to save the world though.

Old Bay seasoning
batteries (when I have to use disposables)
Command hooks

I use AsteroidOS since afaik it's the only working FOSS watch OS. It's still pretty bare feature-wise. Everything has to be done via PC terminal, even loading custom background images. There are basically no apps published by the community.

BUT now I have a watch on my wrist instead of in a drawer, it interfaces with my LineageOS phone, and it's not uploading all the details of my boring life to Google :]

I need to learn how to fuckin code...

Well There's Your Problem is an international treasure

Pod Damn America, Trillbilly Workers' Party, and Chapo Trap House are also a good time

that's called having a Sony Xperia XZ2 Compact and living in the US where they shut down all the 3g towers and all the carriers, including MVNOs, blacklisted its VoLTE capability >:[

—passive aggressively typed on the dinner plate of a phone that i had to replace my nice tiny XZ2c with

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-022-12460-6

Here's a pretty recent paper on this. I only skimmed it but boy does this seem wacky. It is in Nature, though, so I guess it's at least somewhat serious...?

If this ever gets ported for NewPipe and/or LibreTube it'll be sensational

The fact that it exists makes me happy :]

looking forward to the day Oddysee isn't mainly alt right weirdness (I'm not a fan) and tinfoil hat level privacy nerds (I am a fan, but I have other interests too...)

Fennec is such a godsend

blasphemy. they're powered by tiny crabs

butt air dryers, like hand air dryers, are good in theory but horrible in practice. they blow toilet air around and blast infectious particles EVERYWHERE :[

I believe it's based on Civ4 by default but can be modded to be more like 3 or 5

Chili lime flavor made with True Citrus lime powder + regular chili powder

Bonus: grind in a mortar & pestle to get a much finer powder that sticks to the popcorn better

I honestly wonder how much of this could be prevented by doing patient blood/tissue cultures to see what grows

The cynic in me says these things aren't being done as often as they should be because they're expensive and insurance companies like to fight to not pay for them

inpepcion :]

the internet is for

1. porn
2. cat pictures
3. poop talk

they said badly described

Agreed, that's the good stuff

I grind the yeast flakes and salt in my mortar & pestle to get a fine powder that sticks much more easily

1. Fight great-uncle, save world
2. Fight dead alien, save world
3. Do dragon acupuncture, end world

holy shit i thought i was the only one
all other cheese curls taste greasy and overseasoned in comparison

also the entirety of 1970s savory jello abominations

Lychee and rambutan can be found at asian markets and are very pleasant

This caused me to cry-laugh and share with all my math nerd friends who know topology. (I'm sure they will be 100% fine with this.)

I tried tapping the top area of a comment. It displays a gray bar as click feedback but doesn't seem to collapse anything. Am I just being a noob?

Edit: updating fixed it :]

Good on you for just casually getting a computational physics degree without inherent math talent... like holy shit that's impressive!

I have also cried over coursework on linear algebra as well as electricity and magnetism :') Brutal stuff.

That's a fantastic talent. Creativity is one thing but quick improvisational creativity is a whole other level

For monologues: do you do ok improv-ing dialogues? If so maybe you could trick your brain by thinking about how a monologuing character is kind of having a dialogue with different parts of themself

this is true

you're mother porkin right