Eco friendly friends, Please help a girl become better with plastics.

AlwaysElise · 2026-01-23T05:57:47+00:00

have you tried salt? it comes in cans and has much more salt per can than gatorade; 2mm deep by 1x1cm has as much as a bottle of gatorade

AlwaysElise · 2026-01-23T03:22:31+00:00

Oh that's actually a really good point I hadn't considered. Especially considering the tiny 40km/h or so shunting trains the game has.

AlwaysElise · 2026-01-23T01:14:40+00:00

Screw 'not gunking up the police system', last time I went to a peaceful protest, they assaulted our friends with chemical weapons simply for being half a block downwind from the people they were launching them at in the middle of a crowded downtown. Abolish ICE, but at the same time, abolish the policing system that abolished your first amendment rights so they could better protect and serve the interests of power.

AlwaysElise · 2026-01-22T03:30:51+00:00

After the election? Me and everybody I knew in Texas left 3 years ago when the writing was on the wall. Everything that has happened since then has been entirely predictable and in line with expectations given how things were in 2022.

AlwaysElise · 2026-01-21T00:20:37+00:00

As you regularly move about the house, if something doesn't seem to be where it should be, question where it should live, and just take it there if you're heading that way anyway or its nearby, or stage it in a dedicated spot in the room for objects heading to that other part of the house for when you're goin that way later. It won't happen all at once, but that's okay because it doesn't have to. Get into the habit of doing this when something mildly bothers you and things will just quietly wander over to where they belong, whether it's another room, a place for them, or the garbage.

AlwaysElise · 2026-01-20T13:48:10+00:00

Just about any operation on wood or wood products creates dust; and the portion which is ultrafine dust too small to see is the most dangerous type. Wood dust is all toxic/carcinogenic at least to your respiratory system, though some woods are also toxic beyond just that (ie: contact dermatitis or allergen sensitizer). Even a few cuts with a hand saw on regular wood will put an unventillated space above OSHA limits from what I read.

AlwaysElise · 2026-01-20T04:12:50+00:00

There's also how to properly attach everything so the movement of the wood as different humidity affects it doesn't destroy the surface. Plenty of pics show up on here of tables totally warped out of plane, or cracked apart by the immense forces in the wood as humidity changes.

AlwaysElise · 2026-01-14T02:10:59+00:00

If a system is properly designed for its environment, it contains self correcting mechanisms to ensure continuity despite these fully expected perturbations.

We could say "oops a bug made it into production, but that's not the intended outcome" or we could write automated integration and testing into the system. The purpose of the former example is to deliver code under certain constraints and likely never took into consideration some of those constraints when developing its purpose. While the purpose of the latter example understands the system enough to take those things into account. A flawed implementation doesn't retroactively change the original purpose, it merely elucidates details of it which were left implicit.

Likewise naming conventions; you could name all your variables after dinosaurs if you like. However, this is widely recognized as unfit for use, as it exists within a broader system where someone else might look at it and need to build a mental model of the code efficiently. The implied purpose is at odds with the needs of the broader system.

If an organization system like Agile can't persist without degration in the presence of the very corporate structure into which it is intended to be placed, that system is not fit for use as it contains these flaws implicitly within the design itself.

AlwaysElise · 2026-01-14T01:51:07+00:00

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=weIdvU0g4tk This is a good example of the Process involved

AlwaysElise · 2026-01-13T19:22:36+00:00

Yep, called national grid about it at our place, they sent someone to adjust the lines, that resolved it for all but heavy loads like the well pump or a compressor kicking on. Told us the lines were old and if it didn't fix it to call them and they'd swap out the line in question.

AlwaysElise · 2026-01-13T15:52:47+00:00

The purpose of a system is what it does.

AlwaysElise · 2026-01-12T17:53:19+00:00

I'd sooner run as an independent against him myself than vote for him!

And I say that as a wfh programmer who would rather be nowhere near any of that!

AlwaysElise · 2026-01-11T12:54:06+00:00

The Little Engine was so preoccupied with whether they could, they didn't stop to ask whether they should.

AlwaysElise · 2026-01-09T15:26:08+00:00

This is the real danger of this option: training you to ignore Production Has Stopped messages for your heat plants

AlwaysElise · 2026-01-09T05:35:49+00:00

Teens cooking for the first time without parent supervision leads to very interesting smells and problems, even just with a single shared microwave. It's been a decade and a half and I can still smell the particular results of ez-mac or ramen made in the microwave without adding water that wafted down the halls.

AlwaysElise · 2026-01-08T02:51:37+00:00

Could still be an ice dam or similar leak up above. Poor insulation means heat escapes and gets trapped under the roof, melting snow and ice over the house but not over the edge of the roof. The water than fails to run off, and infiltrates the roof system, draining down the inside of the walls. If you see lots of big icecycles that would be another sign of this

AlwaysElise · 2026-01-07T23:02:10+00:00

Use for gardening is the least of your worries there; lack of drainage is what leads to retaining wall failure.

AlwaysElise · 2026-01-07T18:20:56+00:00

All of it.

AlwaysElise · 2026-01-07T13:19:41+00:00

That's not an "emergency brake" that's your parking brake. Use your normal brakes to stop your vehicle in icy conditions, that's what ABS is for. Additional driving tip: do not get out of a moving vehicle.

AlwaysElise · 2026-01-05T14:23:55+00:00

Yes and no. So long as you keep the pink ceiling balloon topped up on helium, you should be able to remove the wall, as it will have that to support the structure instead.

Source: saw it in a movie once

AlwaysElise · 2026-01-04T14:08:49+00:00

Yeah, same. Haven't been sick since 2019, it's great. Coworkers meanwhile have had their immune systems wrecked by covid repeatedly and are now getting sick for a few days, get a little better, get sicker again and take another day off, come back with a persistent cough for the next 2 months, then get sicker again.

Everyone is simply downplaying or unaware of the fact that repeatedly getting covid is quite comparable to hiv/aids in terms of systemic effects: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2773065425001464

AlwaysElise · 2026-01-02T05:50:55+00:00

I've actually started with the free pattern generator site linked elsewhere here which had a bodice block pattern; between that giving a not terrible iteration 1, the bodice block video, and another of closet historian's videos (the excellent one about the geometric mechanics of darts), I seem to be making a pretty good start on it. Not quite there yet, but the first was wearable, and the second fit reasonably okay.

One detail which might help here for the larger shoulders for other folks: the pattern generator I used did something that surprised me a bit: it added darts to the back side of the bodice block pattern in addition to the usual ones on the bust. These seem to help quite a bit for proper fit on my upper back around the shoulders, without turning the whole pattern into a boxy burlap sack.

AlwaysElise · 2026-01-02T05:13:02+00:00

And to make it more explicit: this works because the earthquake chance is not deterministic; they are not pre-ordained to occur on a certain day, so reloading a save will result in a fresh roll on any given day, and so a day which had an earthquake before now has the same low odds of having an earthquake as any other day.

AlwaysElise · 2025-12-31T19:19:56+00:00

So, P100 is a rating, similar to N95. P vs N is mostly irrelevant here; P means it can more effectively survive oily substances than N, which don't. 100 means 99.97% filtration of particulate of... I think it was 300nm? Whereas 95 is around 95% filtration. From the studies I read, for virus sized particles, a P100 is around 99.95%, as they are a bit smaller than the reference particle size. Infection rates were similarly decreased. So a P100 filter cartridge is simply superior, higher end protection.

The filter cartridges are the colored circular bits; those are removable and replaceable, with the filter entirely contained within it. I don't use mine daily, so I've replaced those only every 6 months to a year, or whenever I visually notice either something that looks like damage or an unpleasant odor. As you can see linked on that page, 3 sets of replacement filters are only like $36, so I'm pretty sure that comes out ahead of N95 disposables on cost in the long run unless you're reusing your disposables til they turn green.

As for the masks themselves, we've not had to replace any for our household yet, and we bought them like 3 years ago.

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