If you are in a financial position to do so, donating your wages for the day (or as much as you can afford) to an organization trying to affect positive change would show support without direct participation. If financial support isn’t feasible at all, then just try to avoid spending any money day-of and share the importance of the strike with people you know. Every little bit of contribution helps, and we can’t afford to let perfect be the enemy of good right now.

There used to be a small icecream chain in SoCal called HugLife. Best icecream I’d ever had, vegan or otherwise. Incredible, creative flavors (matcha cookies & cream, earl grey, thai tea, etc.), creamy, incredible. Whenever I visited the OC to see friends and family, I would go at least 2 or 3 times, even getting noticed once hitting 2 locations in one day. I finally moved to the area, tried the icecream again, completely awful, but I figured it was a bad batch. Come back a couple weeks later, and they tell me it was this location’s last day, icecream is once again bad. Figure they were downscaling, so I went to their last remaining location in Long Beach, and it was still bad. They just put up their closure notice. My fiancée and I think that they started losing money after expanding so quickly (they went from 1 to 3 locations in like 5 years) and had to change their recipe to cut costs, but changing the recipe made the icecream suck, so they went into a spiral of cutting quality to compensate for low traffic, then traffic reduces because of poor quality. My heart aches over the fact that the best icecream I have ever tasted went down the drain the moment I lived within driving distance.

I avoided shorts on YT religiously, but as people sent them to me and they became more tuned to my preferences, I began absent mindedly scrolling them. I fucking hated it, I would realize I had wasted so much time idly swiping. I started running revanced specifically to turn that shit off on my phone so that the temptation wouldn’t exist. So happy with my decision. I don’t think it rotted my brain, but it made my phone a landmine for shit content, scammy ads, and wasted time.

Accessing mbin as a firefox PWA is a nice way to use it outside of your main browser on mobile.

Very minor, but I very recently changed deoderant after not being able to find the one I usually use. I just got to a clinic for a medication infusion and it has completely worn off, being replaced by the smell of stress sweat from traffic, and now this poor nurse has to smell me while I get my medicine, so I am mortified.

I like making hot sauces and salsas, so I wanted to get a wide variety of pepeprs. I have made fermented hot sauce and really like it, so I want to do that some more, as well as trying my hand at pickling.

I live in CA, and with the current economic situation, I really wanted to help supplement my pantry/fridge with some every day use veggies as well. I love gardening, so it is good for both my mental health and my wallet, which is a win-win.

I also have a lemon tree and an apricot tree. The lemon tree is crazy productive, but the apricot tree hadn’t been pruned in years and was struggling after a heatwave last summer, so I think this year will mostly be growback while it gets healthy after some major pruning.

My edible garden, including a ton of different peppers, 6 parisian cucumbers, 2 types of Zucchinis (black beauty and cocozelle), Winged Bean, 3 types of Tomatoes (July 4th, Cherry, and Cherokee Purple), Tomatillos, Okra, Boysenberry, Mint and Basil. I am also cloning my tomatoes as gifts for friends.

I am starting to get cucumbers, half of my peppers are flowering/fruiting, and my tomatoes/tomatillos just started flowering. I have also upgraded the trellises for my beans/cucumbers with more suitable sticks/rope for climbing.

My peppers in increasing order of spice. Peppers marked with * are plants that I bought last year that I managed to barely overwinter and am trying to recuperate.

• Yum Yum Sweet (0 Scoville)
• Mellow Star Shishito (~200 Scoville)
• Mexibell (100-2.5K Scoville)
• Numex Joe E. Parker Anaheim (500-2.5K Scoville)
• Purple Jalapeño (3K-5K Scoville)
• Purple Serrano (8K-22K Scoville)
• Serrano* (10K-23K Scoville)
• Pequin (30K-60K Scoville)
• Thai bird’s eye* (50K-100K Scoville)
• Scotch Bonnet (100K-350K Scoville)
• Chocolate Habanero (~350K Scoville)
• White Peach Ghost (~1M Scoville)
• Death Spiral (~1.3M Scoville)
• Carolina Reaper* (~1.6M Scoville)

I was curious and looked, Jeppsons does actually sell malort spritzers sold in a can! Never seen one irl, so probably not very popular, but it does exist oddly enough

Sip of malort is too much malort. I have to correct myself though, Jeppsons does sell malort spritzers sold in a can, which is more in line with how to actually use malort in making a cocktail, but still probably nasty.

That is just a can of beer, I don’t think you can get Malort in a can. Old Style is a cheap pilsner from the north mid-west

Chrohns pill 4× daily, adderall 1-2× daily, multivitamin 1× daily, D-Vitamin 1× daily, so 7-8 per day. I am 29, so I have gotten a head start on my pill quota. I start back up on injections for Crohns next week, so four of those should be going away in the next month or so.

Yup, though the $50K was specifically the R&D cost to develop a technique for making the lens. It used a nano-scale pattern on glass to focus light via diffraction, as opposed to standard refractive lenses or mirrors. The ultimate goal was to develop a process for manufacturing these lenses en masse, for deployment in a large particle detector where traditional lenses wouldn’t work. They succeeded, and nowadays (6 years later), they can basically print the pattern using the same techniques as in microchip manufacturing. Back then, though, there was just then one prototype that represented that $50K of research, so I am really glad I didn’t fuck it up haha

In my first year of grad school, I was visiting a colleague’s lab and was asked if I wanted to test some of their new diffractive optics. I said sure and started toying with the big lens on the table, no gloves, no precautions other than trying not to drop/smudge it. After about 5 minutes of geeking out over the fact that a perfectly flat, transparent lens was focusing the light, I asked how much it would cost to get one sent to my lab for an experiment I was working on. He said that it was the only one of its kind in existence, but the manufacturing r&d cost for it was over $50K alone. My heart nearly fell outta my chest.

The smell was anything but dull, but the clean up itself was pretty monotonous. Better than canning my monitor though!

Thanks!

This is the first time they have ever done this, so I am not too worried. On the rare occassion they mark, it is usually at ground level.

I have tried dried orange slices to protect my xmas tree, but they just knocked the fruit off and played with them haha. The only deterrent I have found with them is fake pine scent, which I hate as well, so I think I’ll just keep my office door closed when I am not in it

I am very happy that 75% of my PhD in particle physics was hands-on lab work doing detector R&D. Sure, creating simulations and doing data analysis are immensely important, and skills I had to develop, but I think that many scientists are being done a disservice by not getting the opportunity to see how their work will interface in the real world.

It is the only scent that gives me a headache, and I think its overrated on top of that. Give me a minty, give me pine-y, give me fruity, literally any other scent profile.

Every time the LHC fires a collision, we continue to descend into increasingly less likely realities where the world doesn’t blow up.

Only if you bring your own TP. I have a bidet, so you’ll leave clean, but soggy.

The former owner in this instnce was my Fianceé’s grandmother, and I know for a fact that she was a draino fiend. Sweet sweet lady, but I definitely had some not-so-nice mutterings about her after the 3rd pipe crumbled under my channel-lock pliers during repair. And whoever welded a dwv fitting onto the wall stub (which I know wasn’t her) has a special layer of hell waiting for them.