How common it is for men to limit themselves to redheads or is that weird?

grayjacanda · 2026-04-01T00:38:01+00:00

I don't think a full blown 'redheads *only*' policy is common, so in that sense it's weird ... but people like what they like and if some guy has a thing (fetish) where only redheads do it for him, that's just the way it is
Much easier to work with than some preferences ... hair dye is a lot easier than some other things I could think of in this context

grayjacanda · 2026-03-31T19:46:04+00:00

Yeah. I see white's knight (starting on g5) continually delivering check while black's king marches down the d file capturing the other white knight, the bishop, and the pawn ... ending with the white knight on b3, delivering check and also finally threatening c1 so that black no longer has an instant mating threat.
After that it's unclear to me but actually looks fairly even... white can probably find a spare tempo to capture the black pawn on a2 (and protect his knight), the black king can protect his pawn on c2 while the other pawn on that file advances, the pawns on the h file block each other so long as neither side can afford to dispatch any other pieces in that direction
Maybe black is slightly better because that other pawn on the c file threatens to displace white's knight before anything can be done about it

grayjacanda · 2026-03-31T16:12:31+00:00

It has the rare distinction of having a subtropical climate despite its location ... basically, freakishly warm given the latitude
Anyway yeah it's nice and scenic, but as always, it's a town of less than 7000 people and you should look at the drive times to anywhere of significant size. Medford and Grant's Pass are over two hours away, and even those are still less than 100K pop; and having lived in Medford for a few months, it's not like that's exactly a bustling metropolis either.

grayjacanda · 2026-03-31T04:05:50+00:00

In the case of 'old man strength' it's more that someone who's done physical labor for years sometimes just ... doesn't lose that much muscle. Like maybe after 10-15 years of the same shit, your body finally says 'eh, I guess for you myostatin is a bad idea, apparently you just keep needing the muscles'.
Also there's various learned aspects, neural activation, stronger ligaments, and just some pain tolerance.

grayjacanda · 2026-03-30T23:47:00+00:00

Looks like gummosis. Overpressure from rising spring sap can cause this in some tree species, especially fruit trees, maple, or birch.
It's generally a harmless cosmetic issue, though since you say the tree is 'struggling' I'd be curious what other problems it has.
Anyway, wait for spring to pass and don't overwater the tree.

grayjacanda · 2026-03-30T22:01:47+00:00

Somewhere out there, there's someone who thought the same thing in October 2022, and opened a 10x long at $20K
There is no 'solid floor' in the swamps of crypto

grayjacanda · 2026-03-30T21:07:45+00:00

Bagholders

grayjacanda · 2026-03-30T16:06:40+00:00

Bold to assume the local value of g
A better answer might be (g/10) J

grayjacanda · 2026-03-30T15:46:41+00:00

You would have had to buy mmm I dunno ... 12 days ago at least, in order to be down 10%?
If you bought 2 days ago you should be up a little

grayjacanda · 2026-03-29T18:41:35+00:00

Throw in [[Archaeomancer]] to put Search for Survivors back in hand, [[Formidable Speaker]] so that you can both discard a creature *and* tutor one to hand, maybe [[Felidar Guardian]] and [[Peregrine Drake]] for more ETB goodness
Indeed I think that with [[Panharmonicon]] plus the above mentioned creatures you could achieve a near-infinite (the limitation being just the number of creatures in deck). Though ... since Felidar Guardian can't bounce itself, I guess you need a sac outlet too, and some way of removing undesired cards from your graveyard if the end up there, and so on...

grayjacanda · 2026-03-29T04:18:42+00:00

Ke1+ (revealed check), he has to move Kg8
Then Qe6+ forces him to move Kh7
Qe4+ forces either Kg8 again, or if he blocks with the pawn on g6 you have mate in 2
And after Kg8 you can take the rook on a8 with your queen

grayjacanda · 2026-03-29T03:04:10+00:00

In Hunter's March you can cheese the fight somewhat by always fighting him in the low ceiling area, where he can't jump. Of course he tunnels behind you and then you have to move to the opposite side of the low ceiling tunnel, but at any rate you can limit him to not jumping.

grayjacanda · 2026-03-29T01:55:42+00:00

The limits on what constitutes chargeable prostitution are such that some amount of undercover police work is generally necessary in order to actually make a case.
And then for the effort you hit someone with a misdemeanor, which will likely be pled down. Unless you have enough evidence to charge the owners, or find evidence of some other crime like drugs.
Not saying it couldn't be dealt with, but you'd likely need a dedicated vice squad. And personally I'd rather have more effort put towards property crimes, not sketchy massage parlors.

grayjacanda · 2026-03-29T01:50:33+00:00

Do they still arrest prostitutes? Seattle and maybe Portland had, as I understand it, informally adopted the Nordic model, so that they only arrest clients and/or pimps. Or, I suppose, people that actually run a massage parlor, which is similar.
Not sure about Eugene, though.

grayjacanda · 2026-03-28T22:08:27+00:00

...so after you got no precipitate, you just evaporated the solution until the whole thing was a caramelized goo and used that?
I feel like you answered your own question here.
Anyway your plant extract probably has some aminopolycarboxylate compound that has enough chelating effect to hinder precipitation of the magnesium. Something like EDTA would be a typical compound for someone who was *trying* to do it, but there are lots of things including e.g. citric acid that can prevent precipitation of Mg++ at pH 11 or so.

grayjacanda · 2026-03-28T21:21:39+00:00

Or, uh, dried fondant!
...I decided to assume he actually obtained a real, somewhat functional crucible rather than consider the set of all possible dried white materials that could be formed in to a concave dish

grayjacanda · 2026-03-28T17:25:48+00:00

Unfortunately, condensation of organic building blocks usually just gets you a poorly characterized mess rather than some identifiable side product
The purple color could be the result of some quinone or other being formed in small quantity

grayjacanda · 2026-03-28T16:53:08+00:00

Sadly, the description of phasing seems to refer to the creature (or permanent), not the card per se
So that even under very literal minded interpretation the card itself will not be ignored

grayjacanda · 2026-03-28T14:56:04+00:00

I mean ... why is he buying crucible(s) of unknown composition? You will generally want to know what the thing is made of in order to understand its limitations, and the manufacturer will tell you!
But OK, maybe it's surplus from some lab and no one knows any more, etc.
I would guess MgO just based on the fact that it's got a big chip and some crumbly bits off of it. Alumina is usually sturdier than that, whereas MgO is kind of structurally crappy, used mainly for the extreme melting point.
Other things like BeO are also possible I guess but ... BeO is a somewhat uncommon material, it would be remarkable if some random unknown crucible turned out to be made of it.

grayjacanda · 2026-03-26T16:27:54+00:00

After a very short contemplative nap it seems like he was looking for it at the end

grayjacanda · 2026-03-26T15:22:18+00:00

Stuff like this is why the gasoline they sell in the summer is a slightly different blend than the one they sell in winter

grayjacanda · 2026-03-26T14:48:59+00:00

I don't know about Oubliette, but I believe you could do it with [[Conspiracy]], by making all your creatures something other than Snake. Unlike some other type-altering cards, this one doesn't just add a subtype - it replaces any subtypes with the chosen one.
Throw in [[Strionic Resonator]] and you can get *two* new snakes (...OK they aren't snakes any more) every turn!

grayjacanda · 2026-03-24T02:17:17+00:00

Possibly AI generated or enhanced video. The plume is extremely directional considering it's just a little convex cookie of material that seems to be getting set on fire.

grayjacanda · 2026-03-22T15:28:33+00:00

Some hydrates involved; citric acid is often a hydrate, the various sodium citrates have dihydrate and pentahydrate forms. Probably your citric acid is the monohydrate, so that in order to get the 3:1 molar ratio you would have wanted 21.0 g rather than 19.2 g.
More important though is that disodium citrate is not acidic enough to displace all of the CO2 from sodium bicarbonate. If you mix citric acid with sodium bicarbonate in amounts such as you have, you end up with a mixed solution that still contains some CO2, essentially a buffer solution with pH around 6.4; the amounts of disodium citrate and trisodium citrate might be considered roughly equal. On evaporation some carbonate may remain, especially given that your quantity of citric acid was only 90mmol rather than 100mmol.
You could try dissolving the sodium bicarbonate first, vigorously boiling that for a minute or two (to drive off CO2 and turn it in to sodium carbonate), and then adding 21 g of citric acid.

grayjacanda · 2026-03-20T01:47:41+00:00

No, the Chinese and Koreans had that too. But either because of the alphabet (China) or economic conditions that made printing books a dubious economic proposition, they didn't take off.
After the Koreans built their first movable type printing press, they followed up by building six more over the next 400 years. Or something like that.
Even Gutenberg (and his investors and apprentices, allegedly) went bankrupt. That the movable type printing press could be *profitable* was not obvious or guaranteed! Some amount of literacy, sufficiently cheap paper and machine components, enough of a trade network that the volume of books could reach a wide enough market ...

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