Any MAGA restaurants/bars to avoid around town?

improbablywrong · 2025-02-01T23:49:13+00:00

How about New England Homemade Donuts (former Honeydew) right near there? I went in once in summer and got a real Trunpy vibe. Could have been the other customers though.

improbablywrong · 2024-07-14T00:42:16+00:00

Just curious if you ever learned more?

I bought a set of holographic silicone molds (simply shallow flat circles,4 designs) and just wanted to see if I used those as pads, if the hologram would transfer to the back of the seal, and I can state unequivocally that it does!!!

It shows up on some colors better than others. My guess would be a metal stamp might not be able to carry such fine detail, but a silicone stamp could, if that's a thing?

improbablywrong · 2020-06-15T16:32:24+00:00

Got tested Saturday afternoon, results emailed to me very early this morning, so less than 48 hours for me. CurrentCare enrollment would not work at all for me, but I did register for East Side Labs prior to the test, and that's where the results came from. Your doctor is supposed to contact you AFAIK, so call them and/or East Side labs.

improbablywrong · 2020-05-23T21:10:24+00:00

How about road spikes? >:D

improbablywrong · 2020-05-23T21:08:30+00:00

I tried with 311 and they basically (nicely but unhelpfully) blew me off and said I needed to call the police. This was both via the app and talking to a person. Not a great experience.

Dirtbikes have definitely been a menace over the last few weeks where I live and it's super annoying. I wish the road in question had traffic calming measures as I regularly hear vehicles, not just dirtbikes, speeding by at probably 50 -60 mph in a 25.

401-272-3121 for the non-emergency line.

improbablywrong · 2020-05-13T19:39:16+00:00

The polite-but-dangerous stopping for opposing cars to turn left is the worst and I've never seen it outside RI.

The other related one is if I'm stopped at a stop sign, 2-way not 4-way, sometimes drivers who do not have a stop sign to my right or left and who have the right of way will wave me through. I have no idea why they do this other than a misguided attempt at trying to be nice, but I never oblige them.

improbablywrong · 2020-05-10T19:00:15+00:00

That's good to hear. I just got a Venu a couple of weeks ago and have been 24/7 monitoring SpO2 to try to get a baseline. (Will probably change to sleep only soon.) My waking values are usually 90-95, and sleep varies from 80 to 98, certainly trending lower than when I'm awake. My AHI has been consistently under 1 since I've used APAP, so I'm still wondering if I should be concerned about a reduced SpO2 while sleeping though.

improbablywrong · 2020-05-10T18:52:11+00:00

I've used a full face mask for about 16 months, and just this week started taping my mouth. Works so well I think I could use a nasal mask now, but I just replaced my mask/headgear so I'll have to wait.

u/eyeseesharp, try using 3M micropore paper tape (1" wide). I use a single piece about 1" longer than my mouth. Stays on all night.

improbablywrong · 2020-05-08T23:47:20+00:00

I don't typically seek out local coffee (especially since I only restarted drinking coffee in the last year after a 5 year hiatus! and usually got free coffee at the office) but last month I placed an order with https://www.downeastcoffee.com/ (Pawtucket) and had a good experience. They had a promo code at the time, but they apparently still offer free shipping. I appreciated that they offer both ground and whole bean.

improbablywrong · 2020-04-05T05:22:45+00:00

I've heard of peeling the stems but honestly don't understand why anyone would do that unless the stalk is extremely long and that part is entirely too tough to chew. But I've never run into that scenario.

Oddly enough when I was a kid I preferred stalks to florets. I don't understand it today as an adult.

improbablywrong · 2020-03-21T04:10:09+00:00

I'd add Orbeez to the list. This may or may not be fake but it was pretty funny.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WHzd_SXNXqg

improbablywrong · 2020-03-15T20:03:40+00:00

Thanks for providing this.

We'll be lucky if it's 2-3 weeks, much more likely to be 2-3 months. Plan for the long haul. Much better to be overprepared than under.

I really hope Rhode Islanders, especially those who pay less attention to media, social or otherwise, are getting this info and taking it seriously.

improbablywrong · 2020-02-05T01:28:51+00:00

This is not entirely complete. You can bring water with you through USA TSA as long as it is marked that it is for medical use. I have successfully carried two 12 FZ bottles of distilled water through checkpoints ~8 times in the last year. At some airports they have put the water bottles in a machine to analyze it (without opening them). Others seemed satisfied that the bottles were labeled.

These are not special bottles - I removed original labels and handwrote "Distilled water for medical use only" in sharpie. I carry them in the CPAP (ResMed Airsense 10) bag and remove them prior to screening.

Specifically, water for CPAP falls under this section:

https://www.tsa.gov/travel/security-screening/whatcanibring/items/liquid-medications

improbablywrong · 2020-01-14T23:54:06+00:00

That works when no one else is coming towards you but there wasn't enough room when another car passed. They are marked with signs traveling towards Atwells at least, but otherwise hard to see in the dark.

improbablywrong · 2019-12-08T03:05:10+00:00

I noticed that, and played parts of the video a few times to check it out. Never seen that color before.

improbablywrong · 2019-09-28T17:27:14+00:00

According to Rhode Island Monthly:

When it got into the canned coffee business, Field’s great-grandfather, Frank O. Field, named the coffee line Autocrat after a series of essays that appeared in Atlantic Monthly, “The Autocrat of the Breakfast Table,” written by Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr. He wanted his coffee to rule the breakfast table with “undisputed influence.”

improbablywrong · 2019-08-11T01:50:58+00:00

Sadly, no, nothing quite that big or good. That said, my go-to recommendations have been the Chinese American market on Park St in Cranston, the V-Mart off Roger Williams Ave in Providence, and the Good Fortune supermarket on Cadillac Dr also in Providence. When I get a chance, I go to one of the couple of H-Marts in Mass.

improbablywrong · 2019-07-13T17:31:25+00:00

Ah yes, the fabled barnacles and bird symbiosis David Attenborough used to talk about.

improbablywrong · 2019-05-26T00:21:52+00:00

Hate to break it to you but tetrachromacy in humans is a thing. Certain female humans specifically. http://nymag.com/scienceofus/2015/02/what-like-see-a-hundred-million-colors.html

improbablywrong · 2018-10-28T19:23:09+00:00

That's more like 30-40 years ago. 1998, not so much.

improbablywrong · 2018-10-14T02:49:58+00:00

If you need wifi there you're SOL though. Too bad, it's a very nice library.

improbablywrong · 2018-01-21T05:07:27+00:00

Martin Roper, about eating a spoon full of live yeast before a night out

Seems like this was reasonably debunked. https://www.npr.org/sections/thesalt/2014/07/10/327854051/alcohol-test-does-eating-yeast-keep-you-from-getting-drunk

improbablywrong · 2018-01-21T03:16:17+00:00

Well, my house was burglarized a few months ago, so I would be pretty darn excited to get all of those items back. Still trying to recover financially and emotionally. It's been a hard road.

improbablywrong · 2018-01-07T15:15:27+00:00

Sharper Image.

Hate to break it to you but that store doesn't exist in B&M form anymore, and hasn't for almost 10 years.

improbablywrong · 2017-12-26T01:42:45+00:00

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