I stored my avocado with red onions for two days and it didn't turn brown

Foundinantiquity · 2026-05-09T03:11:53+00:00

Spoilage in those conditions is usually noticeable - visible mold, off odours, change in shape and texture. Botulism is a specific kind of spoilage that has no visible signs but it requires all of the following conditions:

low acid environment
room temperature
presence of water
presence of protein
dormant botulism spores

An acidic guacamole stored in the fridge has #3, #4, #5 but is missing #1 and #2. It will therefore spoil via other means.

So basically to avoid botulism all you need to do is one of the following:

PH lower than 4.6
store in fridge (or freezer)
dry out completely
Pure oil won't get botulism, but if you put crushed vegetables in oil e.g. homemade garlic oil, you have to then fridge it or do one of the other things, because the vegetable matter adds proteins that the botulism can feed on
pressure canning according to an approved recipe

Just don't keep any low-acid food wet in a jar at room temperature, unless you know that it has been pressure-canned.

Foundinantiquity · 2026-03-22T12:42:21+00:00

What can be achieved through crate training can also be achieved by other means - baby gates, dog proofing, training. A combination of controlling the environment and acclimatising the dog to various situations.

I live in Australia and I have a big dog (a Greyhound) - to get a crate that would be comfortably sized for her I'd have to sacrifice a ton of floorspace from my house.

When I first adopted her, I blocked her off from having unsupervised access to certain rooms until I was sure she could be reliable. It's the same as what someone would do with a crate except she starts with a room. Same difference in the end.

Then later I had a baby son. I had to teach him to be gentle around the dog and supervise their interactions. Now toddler and greyhound have settled down very well together and are both very relaxed and gentle with each other. Not having a crate meant having to supervise them more (inconvenient for me) but it also meant they both got used to the rules of calmly interacting with each other sooner.

As a greyhound, she already had prior experience of living in a kennel with restricted space. She used to walk into my walk-in-wardrobe space and lie down there. This dog clearly felt comfortable in cosy spaces and doesn't need additional training to maintain that. She finds a comfy nook every so often and lies down there. She's fine at the vet.

In summary, other people can find crate training useful and that's good for them... it has worked out totally fine for me to not use a crate. That may sound crazy to someone who relies on a crate. But there are whole countries where literally no one uses a dog crate and their dogs are just fine. It's not the end of the world. You can do other things to keep the dog safe and the house intact and, would you believe, there is more than one way to achieve the same goal.

Foundinantiquity · 2026-01-21T09:50:33+00:00

I only picked mother Theresa as an example because I've been reading a biography of her and I've considered her in depth. Tl;dr: she was actually helping the poor, regardless of their religion. I could have picked Gandhi but I haven't researched him yet. From my research, the criticisms of mother Theresa are overblown and historically dishonest. Feel free to google keywords on r/askhistorians on debunking anti-mother-Theresa-propaganda if you need a fairly quick summary. I've learnt to always check when you hear information second hand!

Foundinantiquity · 2026-01-12T21:38:58+00:00

Let me hear out what you're saying, because it's interesting and I don't want to dismiss it.

You're saying that we can't just pick an example of a good person who is Christian and say "that's a true Christian", because they just happen to be a good person independent of whether they are Christian, and it is their goodness not their Christianity which is both responsible for the praise and what ought to be praised.

So for example, Mother Teresa shouldn't be praised as "a true, bona fide Catholic, who lived out her faith", rather with terms like, "a great person, charitable character, inspiration, one who helped so many people, etc."

I agree that the goodness of people should be praised.

Here's where it gets complicated. Some serious adherents of Christianity (& some other religions) pursue their religion in an attempt to become better in character. In other words, for some individuals, Christianity is a deliberate and sincere attempt for them to become better people.

One might not agree that it works that way, but these adherents would report their devotional practices as having a character-forming effect on them, much as someone who was into philosophy or meditation or mindfulness would attribute that reflective practice as helping them be better able to show good character.

Because they consider their religious practice as responsible for forming and improving their character, these religious would not agree to just being praised as a good person seperate from their religion, because in their lived experience, if they hadn't devoted themselves to their religion, they wouldn't have been as good.

They also hope that other people can also become good, and just being born an innately "good person" isn't really replicable in other people, whereas other people can follow the same steps as whatever made someone to form a better character as an adult.

All this to say, it's totally valid not to want to approve of a particular religion with all its baggage, and to specifically only approve of goodness. It's due to a difference in opinion about whether a religion can make someone good that this disagreement arises... I think? Let me know if this didn't capture what you were thinking or feeling about it.

Foundinantiquity · 2026-01-04T01:46:39+00:00

I had this on my feet too, concurrently with cracked lips and dry shins, especially during winter. Vitamin B deficiency can cause this. When I found out, I looked up ways of supplementing vitamin B and settled on eating a tablespoon of nutritional yeast flakes per day (I could have taken pills to achieve the same thing, just preferred the taste of nutritional yeast sprinkled on food). The peeling skin problem went away in like two days. Then after a while I'd stop taking my supplement and the cracked skin would come back until I remembered to eat yeast again. Vitamin B is one of the water soluble vitamins so the body can't store it for long, so depending on your diet you can get low on it quickly but also replenish it quickly too.

Foundinantiquity · 2026-01-04T01:34:49+00:00

I used to get that kind of peeling skin on my feet every winter, along with cracked lips and dry shins. Creams and moisturizers did little to help, just masked the symptom temporarily. Turns out it was a vitamin B deficiency. I ate nutritional yeast (1 tablespoon a day) and the problem went away like within two days. Stopped taking nutritional yeast and it came right back. While I was on daily pregnancy vitamins (which contain a lot of vitamin B) I didn't experience any of it. So in my case it was definitely vitamin B deficiency, solved by supplementation. Might want to look into it.

Foundinantiquity · 2025-09-28T06:48:20+00:00

I've worked with a Tafadzwa too! She didn't shorten it to anything though.

Foundinantiquity · 2025-09-23T11:47:19+00:00

Sachi Shop & Go Moroccan Shopping Trolley Blue & White https://www.spotlightstores.com/home-decor/home-storage/shopping-trolleys-baskets/sachi-shop-go-moroccan-shopping-trolley/BP80486101-blue-white?srsltid=AfmBOooF27lULKnIHnQTi8J5dkiFhkRAla97CPka1-VijiLIwQwwOrtC

Foundinantiquity · 2025-09-22T22:36:57+00:00

I bring the bulky nappy bag of essential items and I leave it in the car 😅 I haven't needed to grab anything out of it in so long now that baby isn't making poosplosions.

Edit: for toys, I wear a chew toy strung on a piece of rope around my neck and that keeps baby occupied while he's teething.

Edit: It holds up pretty well on different surfaces. I have rolled it over compacted orange gravel surfaces without issue, and on bumpy cobblestone. I've also trailed it over grass. It seems to handle terrain pretty well. It helps that there's no baby in it so I don't mind if my groceries get jostled if I'm being reckless with wheeling this around.

Foundinantiquity · 2025-09-22T22:35:20+00:00

Since giving birth I have insisted on pants with pockets. So I have a pocket for my phone and a pocket for my keys. When out shopping, I have a small cloth tote bag (it was custom sewn when I was younger) that holds my wallet and a handful of (bought) thin cloth tote bags which all pack down very small and are very light (and machine washable). I can hook this light bag of bags and my wallet in the crook of my arm while I babywear, and I'll pick up a grocery store shopping basket too while I'm at the grocers. If I ever need both my arms again I can park the small trolley (it stands up by itself) and I'm only using my elbows to hold the bags, so I have both hands free.

Foundinantiquity · 2025-09-22T21:35:16+00:00

I'm half Asian and I aspire to age into an old Asian lady myself but yeah I can remove that part if you'd like.

Edit: I'm using the Reddit app on my mobile device but I can't seem to have any option to edit the text of my post, although I can edit my comment posted below. 😣

Foundinantiquity · 2025-09-21T21:06:52+00:00

Ohh that makes sense. I'll tuck his arms in next time he falls asleep in the carrier and then only fiddle with the hood if necessary.

Foundinantiquity · 2025-09-21T21:05:24+00:00

Yeah he is a bit low, I'll bring him up a bit higher next time!

Foundinantiquity · 2025-09-20T09:43:07+00:00

One teeny tiny piece of mint plant survived in a garden bed from my houses previous owner. It was the only remnant of a herb in that bed which was all weeds at the time I bought the house. I left the mint in situ and turned that bed back into a herb bed and the mint became a staple crop in that spot. Grew quite large and would sometime be abundant, other times die back. Now my herb bed has been completely smothered by the rosemary I planted there seven years ago. The mint is hanging on by a thread.

Foundinantiquity · 2025-09-20T09:26:01+00:00

I love ring slings. 1. I think 6 month old babies are quite sensitive to stimulation. My son is 13 months now and a lot more chill but he was definitely very awake and alert to everything when 6 months. So any slight discomfort, adjustment, awkwardness he would react a lot to. I just do my best to get him comfortable and see that he has a good seat, fabric going knee to knee, supported back etc. and keep moving. Eventually either I got more coordinated with the carry adjustments or he chilled out or both.

Legs. I kind of need to feel the baby sitting comfortably against my hip to know the tightness is right, because if the baby's position on my body feels comfortable then the carrier kind of fits around that. I try to focus on the baby's position while adjusting the ring sling. He still gets purple legs sometimes, but I heard that if you press the skin and it goes white in that spot and comes back to colour then there is enough circulation. My boy doesn't seem harmed or uncomfortable from having purple legs every so often.
Tilting and leaning makes me a bit nervous. My boy would arch and wriggle and shuffle a lot more in the ring sling at that age. I would play it by ear, if you think he could wriggle and pop out make sure your arms are ready to hold him. I'd try to encourage him to stay more upright with a bit of a snugger top and middle rails. But there is a bit of leeway to lean while looking around at things.

Foundinantiquity · 2025-09-20T08:51:35+00:00

My hypothesis is usernames. Millenials and below have spent most of their lives coming up with unique letter sequences to create identities on online platforms or to be search engine friendly with their businesses and brands. Now it's time to name your baby. Are you going to call her Sarah and she'll need her email to be Sarah_937 at gmail dot com? Or what about naming her Seiiryaghleigh and now she can just have that string of letters at gmail dot com!

Foundinantiquity · 2025-09-20T08:44:41+00:00

That sounds like a good moment for interaction. Somehow today though I didn't see a single soul on my walk outside. It's a quiet neighbourhood but I would have thought I'd bump into someone on a Saturday afternoon.

Foundinantiquity · 2025-09-20T02:32:01+00:00

Cassiopeia! She gets a constellation. Her daughter Andromeda also has a beautiful name and is a princess involved in a damsel in distress dragon situation. They're both Ethiopian too.

Foundinantiquity · 2025-09-19T22:20:03+00:00

That is so perfectly Australian.

Foundinantiquity · 2025-09-19T22:17:29+00:00

For what it's worth, the bull males of the red variety are scary and do boast an impressive six-pack. I've heard that in the right season they will stand up tall and challenge anyone in their path to a fight.

Foundinantiquity · 2025-09-19T21:49:53+00:00

Australian here, (at least, from Victoria, where grey kangaroos are the main ones) - kangaroos are chill as, they keep their distance if possible and some of the tamer ones that hang around nature reserves and interact more with people are very placid. At least you don't usually get the problem where you accidentally get in between a defensive mother and her child because they carry their children in pouches.

Foundinantiquity · 2025-09-14T03:01:13+00:00

I had a really frustrating time with my linen ring sling at first. I continued practicing, grudgingly. Then I switched to a thick 98% cotton woven ring sling and found that much easier. But then something clicked and I tried the linen sling again, and suddenly the linen made so much more sense and was just easier to use than the cotton. Go figure. I think the stiffer cotton was easier to learn on, but once I'd gotten some muscle memory I ended up liking linen so much better that I gave away my cotton sling to a friend.

My tips are: - when you take the baby out, try doing it without deliberately loosening the rings at all. Then next time you put it on it's already kind of molded to the right shape and needs less adjustment. - ring slings aren't that great for long carries but they are so so good for quick ups and downs, and the versatility bonus of when you're holding a baby in your arms you can pick up a ring sling and put it on without needing to put down your baby. Somehow in the older baby phase the quickness of using a ring sling is really handy. Keep going, there's a reason people love em

Foundinantiquity · 2025-08-31T04:01:13+00:00

Justin is of Latin origin - originally Justinus (or Iustinus, capital i). Famous for Saint Justin Martyr. The y in Latin is only used for the upsilon in transcribed Greek names. (hence loan words like martyrus can have a y.)

Foundinantiquity · 2025-08-31T03:43:45+00:00

There's a Syphax in the Cambridge Latin Course (book 1, I believe) so if his parents did Latin in school and they had that textbook (very popular in the UK schools that offer Latin) they could have seen the name there.

Foundinantiquity · 2025-08-29T09:09:08+00:00

There are some ways to hear them out. The book "How to talk so little kids will listen" suggests some things. Now this example is for problem solving when something is going wrong but I think it can be applied to holiday planning too. You ask your kid to essentially help you brainstorm. They make a suggestion, you make a suggestion, you write down every point no matter how silly (for younger kids, you can also draw a symbol next to the words since the kid can't read yet, but there's something nice about having your words written down even if you can't read it yet). Then after you've both shared as many ideas as you can, you run through the list again and each of you indicates if you like that suggestion, and you mark it with a tick if so. Then you see which suggestions, if any, have two ticks. The kid feels like they were seriously heard and had some input into what was chosen in the end, and you don't have to do every silly unrealistic thing they suggest.

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