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Hibiscus tea is my favourite cold drink in the summer, I could drink pitchers it, I probably would if I didn't care about it burning through my teeth enamel.
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We are people from all walks of life with one aim: To make it impossible to own a huge polluting 4x4 in the world’s urban areas. How to deflate an SUV tire, with lentils: :nocars:
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@neauoire Drivers don't share 45% of the urban landscape well except with each other, and SUVs take up the most space when you look around. Their employers would probably sympathize, as they also are very likely to drive SUVs. Andreas Malm writes that a driver might inconvenience or even injure cyclists and pedestrians and easily escape consequences, but the retaliation in response to nonviolent reversible inconvenience is often frothing with threats of violence or law-enforced. Lentil away IMO Followed the moss-covered shores of Hathayim to a small opening among the fallen trees and spotted a little pile of shells with a thick layer of dust cemented on top. I wonder when someone last cultivated this oyster bed, how many years it has laid there undisturbed. A hundred years, a thousand years? I've been thinking about documentation lately. I'm writing all these notes on the permacomputing wiki about would be an ideal resilient software or hardware. And uxn roms most often than not will fail these checks. One thing that I hate is that, if you happen to loose the Noodle README, or never got it in the first place because you used a direct rom link. Then the application itself has no menu, and is not self documenting in any sort of way.
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@neauoire my favorite pattern for self-documenting software: standard toolbar (that is also keyboard navigable w/ alt) with keyboard shortcuts listed next to the menu entries. i believe blender does this (blender generally has a quite good ui, blender can be confusing but i don't think the ui is to blame).  I wonder if there's such a thing as guerilla gardening geocaching. Planted wheat, barley and mustard greens at 50°8.409'N 124°56.842'W Planted lentils, mung beans and radishes at 50°8.527'N 124°40.195'W
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Went back to check up on the lentils and fenugreek seeds I've thrown around. I expected one or two seeds per mudball to sprout, not all of them. Wrote a very professional email, began with "Dear such and such" even ended it with "Regards", the whole thing. Accidentally sent it 6 times.
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Last winter: "The stars are gonna be so bright up north!" Scratch that, the sun doesn't set.
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   Ways people have tried to describe sign languages via text: https://aslfont.github.io/Symbol-Font-For-ASL/ways-to-write.html via @haetch I've been meaning to write alt texts for pictures of sign language gestures. It's super hard to describe hand position in a way that you can actually visualize them, and I'm starting to wonder if there isn't prior art for these. I realize that the overlap of blind people who sign must be super small, but I'd still like to have them as to have textual descriptions of the gestures for plain-text documentation. Any suggestion welcome ✋
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@neauoire you could get inspiration from descriptions of hand mudras. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_mudras_(yoga)    Oh, the joy of semantic web! Alas, not a lot of web writers use the full potential of the W3 standards, maybe because they are too much: Sailed back to the nearest little inhabited nook we could find with a cellular antenna so we could upload our slides for NIME 2022. It'll be our second talk done entirely with our little slideshow program Adelie. Rekka has drawn a bunch of beautiful slides for this, I will share it as soon as it goes online. None of the American vessels that we encounter up here are flying the American flag, I have never seen that before.
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 @neauoire Even a majority of my "apolitical", "apathetic", or "moderate" (quotes intentional on all of those) acquaintances are remarkably ashamed to be from this dystopian shithole these days. I'm not surprised. I also see fewer US flags stateside this year There is truly almost nothing beyond our natural beauty, and I suppose relative technological/financial means compared with a good chunk of the world population, to be proud of this place for lately. Or even to feel neutral about this place
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@neauoire The way I think of it, ruin is an accumulation of complications, hindrances, wounds, driving a system toward quiescence. The seeds of ruin are planted slowly, and fruit suddenly. Last week I planted mung beans and lentils on a tiny island. There was a big downpour after I planted the legumes, today, most of them were already poking their heads out. Today, I went back and planted spelt and oats. Next time I go back I'll put some radish in. @neauoire when you do guerrilla planting like this, do you just put the seeds in a shallowish hole and cover them up or is there a more sophisticated process? like sprouting them before?
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 @neauoire @rek yooo i gotta recommend a topical short story for y'all now: Big Jelly by Bruce Sterling & Rudy Rucker https://www.rudyrucker.com/transrealbooks/completestories/#_Toc34  > A standard Type-C/micro USB port can be inserted into or removed from a USB port for more than 10,000 times(if you insert or remove your data cable three times a day, it should last for more than 9 years) *Looks at dead micro cable connector that is 6 months old and was disconnected once a week at most*
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 @neauoire I love type C. What I dint understand is why they opted to have a male interface have a female slot and the female interface have a male input. That's awful for durability. You have a tiny thin piece of plastic holding all the connectors that the male plug inserts around, it's just crazy.  @neauoire |
@neauoire does it really have an effect on enamel?
@neauoire Do you boil the hibiscus and let it cool off or do you let the flowers steep in cold water?
@neauoire hibiscus tea damaged enamel?? Do you add citric acid?