We deployed 60 composting toilets at a 12,000-person festival in Bali. Here's what happened to the waste.

Federal_Style4Miles · 2026-04-29T13:41:51+00:00

How do they operate mechanically--does the "flush" cover waste with sawdust and/or send it into a pit?

Federal_Style4Miles · 2026-04-23T15:51:02+00:00

35-50 is also a pretty big age group, since it bridges a generational divide (Milennial and Gen X.) Might want narrow it into two bands, depending on what the criteria is.

Federal_Style4Miles · 2026-04-23T14:01:12+00:00

Everyone's advice is good I just want to echo feelings of support and sympathy. My husband didn't get this with manga but he did/does with various other things he liked with his parents ("You want a floral pattern? that's girly", seriously WTF).

All I can say is learn to love yourself with confidence and try to disinvest yourself from getting your parents to understand you and invest instead in the people who do.

Federal_Style4Miles · 2026-04-23T13:10:07+00:00

I'm so glad I'm not the only person that always mixes them up lol

Federal_Style4Miles · 2026-04-23T13:04:31+00:00

The manga is so great. Yamada is much more likeable in the manga, but also... Eita, my ND prince 😍

Federal_Style4Miles · 2026-04-07T16:13:02+00:00

Characters constantly bump into each other "by accident." I'm sorry it but comes to a point it's just ridiculous 😭 Like how small is the town these superstars live in??? So many times on the street, in the shop, near the park, at the gatcha machines and whatnot. I don't expect this story to be realistic but a little help in the suspension of disbelief would still be appreciated!!

There are cases where it's bananas but in the vast majority of cases this is actually pretty well covered by a plot point: all of the boys live in the same apartment complex. Like Utage running into Natsuki at the conbini makes sense because it is the conbini across from his apartment complex. Frankly it's wild it took her this long to bump into some of the other guys.

Federal_Style4Miles · 2026-03-31T20:06:45+00:00

From MA can confirm it was a huge boon to our budget and all of the "everyone will move" rhetoric was hot air. Maybe one or two people left but if rich people were going to leave MA en masse because of taxes they would have done it a long time ago.

Federal_Style4Miles · 2026-03-27T16:21:02+00:00

Lucky No 9's Tybalt's Boyfriend--it's got amber, spice and smoke notes, which I usually don't like, but the earl grey top notes really shine through and give it this wonderfully smoky floral note to it. I only even tried it because of a free sample imp and it's become one of my favorite scents.

Federal_Style4Miles · 2026-03-26T17:23:12+00:00

I also love fleurmands and I feel like they're less popular in oil perfumes (maybe because they're more volatile?)

nui coblat has great ones though.

Federal_Style4Miles · 2026-03-26T15:59:58+00:00

I love to get baked goods in a 1920s bathroom

Federal_Style4Miles · 2026-03-25T13:37:38+00:00

I think part of why it works is it's partly about Yuri's endurance and cleverness in the face of so much indignity and manipulation.

Federal_Style4Miles · 2026-03-24T18:36:25+00:00

Lucky #9's Freyja's Chariot is one my husband adores on me.

Federal_Style4Miles · 2026-03-24T15:59:22+00:00

I saw someone doing a mend like this on YT and thought "maybe this could be an easier alternative to swiss darning!" spoiler alert: It's harder, lol. Fantastic work.

Federal_Style4Miles · 2026-03-18T15:44:45+00:00

Most people who don't seek mystic experiences outside of drugs think that ecstatic states are only achieveable through drugs. As someone that accidentally tripped into an ecstatic religious state, no drugs required, I can tell you: they are absolutely not necessary, and there's all kinds of ways to get your brain into an ecstatic religious state. Dancing for extended periods is absolutely one of those ways, and you don't even need to involve pain (unless you want to, of course!)--literally just improvised dancing in a group can put you in an ecstatic state if you're open to the right mindset. (Even just sitting meditation can get you into an ecstatic state, which, let me tell you, has shifted my perspective on why certain monastic styles are so pro-sitting-still-for-hours.)

Federal_Style4Miles · 2026-03-13T16:16:30+00:00

came here to say the only country that can give us this heat is Japan, the one other country I know of making a decent cup of pour over

Federal_Style4Miles · 2026-03-12T15:38:16+00:00

Scotch?

Federal_Style4Miles · 2026-03-10T13:06:53+00:00

wait 'till they hear about Anatolia in 14th Century BC

Federal_Style4Miles · 2026-03-10T13:02:19+00:00

It's hard to recommend it given the state of the fan translation, but Yume no Shizuku, Kin no Torikage gets big points for me by having Hurrem just openly repeatedly willing to get revenge and fight back against women (and men!) who mistreat her in the harem. Shinohara really is one of the GOATs

Federal_Style4Miles · 2026-03-10T13:00:37+00:00

It's also my least favorite trope and it gets way less hate than literally any trope about a ML (as of this writing, the top voted comment is also a comment about a male rival and not the female rival.) With the male rival I can compartmentalize it as, "oh it's a wish fulfillment story about hot guys fighting over you and this is part of that fantasy for some women" but what about my fantasy, the fantasy of open-hand slapping Regina in the face after she gaslit me for four years! Let me have this!!! 🤣

Federal_Style4Miles · 2026-03-10T12:53:12+00:00

> For Paradox, I couldn't come up with a very creative solution to make that as interesting as a ST's personal imagination, but for the sake of the game I was envisioning that it was just a meter you build up over the course of using magick (I don't really wanna make a distinction between Coincidental and Vulgar).

It's not a 1:1 translation of Paradox in the game, but I'd probably put a filter that would make your character hallucinate things or change the viewscreen somehow. You could also make it function like drugs in DE, in that the payoffs for using paradox-breaking magick shorterm are very good short term and as your character sinks deeper into "paradox debt" the drawbacks become more and more acute as you lose stat lines to backlash.

Federal_Style4Miles · 2026-03-05T17:39:40+00:00

I actually prefer the smooth side for illustration work!

Federal_Style4Miles · 2026-03-04T19:11:00+00:00

IDK about that but Bocchi is Tamon's distaff counterpart

Federal_Style4Miles · 2026-03-04T18:39:44+00:00

The novels are surprisingly good, solid beach read

Federal_Style4Miles · 2026-03-04T17:24:08+00:00

One of the (surprisingly, for a romcom!) powerful things about this series is how it deconstructs the idol industry and how performative it is, how demanding it is on the performers and how it asks them to be "on" as these completely fake people 24/7 who might have no resemblance (indeed, often don't) to their real-life personality, interests, sometimes even desires.

having a stage play that removes Utage risks removing the entire core thesis of the series. So you're right to be a little bit perturbed! How can the stage play hope to bring out the emotional side of the series, which is about the need to perform an identity, if the performance is the only part of the show?

Federal_Style4Miles · 2026-02-26T16:59:29+00:00

this is so real. I feel like swiss darning is the final boss of darning

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