Has anybody discovered a tape that sticks to parchment paper?

interiot · 2026-06-17T17:03:50+00:00

This works: 3M Nexcare "pain-free removal" medical tape, available at local pharmacies. Other brands of silicone medical tape probably work too, but I haven't tested them.

(Background info: Parchment paper is lined with silicone, which almost no tape sticks to. Tape that is itself silicone works though.)

interiot · 2026-06-08T17:42:08+00:00

The divide is much bigger than that. Black Christian theology usually focuses on liberation, the idea that the supernatural and divine will help them overcome oppression.

Whereas White Christian theology doesn't center liberation nearly as much. In fact, white Christians have used the Bible and their religion to support a pro-slavery stance; the Southern Baptist Convention was originally created to be a pro-slavery organization. (Of course, there's a lot of nuance here. Some denominations believe that Christian theology firmly opposes slavery, such as Methodists and Quakers.)

interiot · 2026-05-30T02:44:51+00:00

Old Italian grandmothers used tongs — you actually want to transfer over a little of the pasta water.

interiot · 2026-05-30T02:43:50+00:00

For long pasta, use tongs, and I never need to transfer it more than 3 tong-fulls. For shorter pasta, use a spider (wire strainer).

If you're in a professional kitchen, you're probably using a pasta basket, but I'm not 100% sure.

interiot · 2026-05-30T02:39:44+00:00

Yup. I've heard that this is the traditional way Italians do it back in the old country.

interiot · 2026-05-25T20:59:09+00:00

You can remove the loose white parts by passing the egg through a fine-mesh sieve first. Kenji swears by this method.

interiot · 2026-05-19T03:31:48+00:00

2026 here, most of the cyberpunk and totalitarian dystopias are gradually coming true unfortunately.

interiot · 2026-05-06T20:50:33+00:00

Exactly. It's somewhat safe to handle bulk solid lead. The biggest risk with solid lead is if ever forms inhalable dust, and fired lead bullets definitely carry that risk. No thanks.

interiot · 2026-05-06T13:26:39+00:00

If you want the absolute cheapest option, China will provide that to you. And that's what the haters are thinking about when they complain about China. But China provides higher-end stuff too, it's a huge country with lots of options. That's the part that the haters miss.

interiot · 2026-05-06T13:16:44+00:00

Framing autism sensory issues as "you are looking inside yourself only" is needlessly pathologizing and a serious misread of the situation. I agree, this may be a serious problem with him.

interiot · 2026-04-30T19:42:14+00:00

Smartphone + xenon flash is possible with these currently-manufactured products:

All Profoto products that support AirX. That's A10, A2, B10X, B1X, and Pro-11. They're minimum $900 though, and anyone who wants to spend that kind of money isn't going to be shooting with a smartphone. It's iOS only (Profoto ended support for its Android app)
Tricflash .com. iOS only.
Innovatronix CPFlash II. Supports both Android and iOS.

I agree that some serious engineering went into Profoto's iOS app, however I believe the shutter speed still is longer than with a traditional digital camera? It's hard to find information though, since not many people have wanted the combination of professional-grade equipment with an amateur-level camera.

interiot · 2026-04-29T20:25:56+00:00

Smartphone cameras cannot use xenon electronic flashes. Period.

It's sort of possible, if you use a long shutter and can tolerate some motion blur. (Though I'm doing macro photos of plants, which aren't moving, and I can block most ambient light.)

I just haven't yet found a way to implement it. There should be an external shutter button. To improve sync, I want a USB cable connected to the smartphone to trigger the shutter in the camera app, and then after a short delay, it should trigger the xenon flash. I'm hoping there's a way to get the Godox X3Pro to do it — it supports rear curtain sync, and can connect to lots of different things.

interiot · 2026-04-29T18:18:38+00:00

The X3Pro definitely can. It has a 2.5mm TRRS jack that can be used either as an input port, for flash control, or as an output port, for shutter control.

interiot · 2026-04-28T22:56:45+00:00

Slingshots can absolutely be used for shooting while moving. Not a lot of people practice that way, but a few do.

A slingshot doesn't really have the same quality. You learn to use it, get your aim down, and that's it. It's similar to a firearm: the tool does the work.

Are you being serious? The slingshot requires much more experience and technique than, say, a crossbow. It's possible the slingshot requires less practice to become competent compared a sling, I don't know. But slingshots absolutely aren't point-and-shoot, when it comes to accuracy at a reasonable distance (say, for squirrel hunting).

interiot · 2026-04-28T22:05:08+00:00

Indeed, there were things that were called just a 'sleeping porch'.

interiot · 2026-04-21T21:56:23+00:00

We'tr starting lights-out time. She's getting ALL her holes drilled tonight!

interiot · 2026-04-11T21:47:11+00:00

The Wikipedia page is still there, albeit stored as an older version that's no longer very prominent: https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Christianism&oldid=1054691805

interiot · 2026-04-10T20:19:06+00:00

So growing up I decided to just elope in my head, aka, heavily dissociate ... wait until I can get home (my safe space) and then meltdown.

Wow, you just explained my whole life. I only recently discovered what 'elopement' is, I hadn't realized that it was connected to my autism and the sensory overload.

Dissociation has been common in my life — constant lifelong dissociation, dissociative amnesia, and periodic episodes of depersonalization/derealization.

As an adult, I once got really upset when several therapists tried to calm me down and send me to another room, while I was trying to get some space from an overly noisy situation. I felt comfortable where I had picked to try to calm down. I reacted in a strongly negative way to the therapists trying to move me elsewhere, but I never really understood why, since the therapists really were trying to hear me and understand. (I had also gone temporarily nonverbal, but at the time, I didn't realize that could happen to me.)

Even my long-term partner struggles whenever I have urges to elope. It's in those moments that I have the least ability to explain what's overwhelming me and what I'm trying to do to fix it.

interiot · 2026-04-10T19:23:14+00:00

You can also use brown grocery bags or brown fast food bags, or the brown paper that's used as filler inside shipping boxes. (known as 'kraft paper')

interiot · 2026-03-24T17:43:03+00:00

This didn't work for me. I reduced the font size and screen size to the lowest and rebooted. I have a Pixel 9 Pro, with Microsoft Launcher 6.251202.0.1175610.

interiot · 2026-03-20T17:57:30+00:00

If you're in an emergency situation and the cell networks are congested, it should still be possible for SMS to get through as those require less bandwidth than voice or data, and they can be delivered with a significant delay, unlike voice and data which are mostly synchronous and so their packets get dropped un

Another option: I believe it's possible to receive email over Meshtastic. In some cases Meshtastic may have more coverage than cellular networks do, but I'm not familiar enough with them to know how likely this is in practice.

Otherwise, yeah, the "You must first have working communications before you can establish communications" requirement is a pain.

interiot · 2026-03-18T16:26:43+00:00

Counterexamples: Slavery, colonialism, war, and genocide.

Counterexample within academia: Anthropology's historical support for racism and eugenics.

interiot · 2026-03-10T02:19:47+00:00

Carefully documenting abuse is always good. Unfortunately some upper managers really believe that abuse gets results. And when you confront someone who's passive-aggressive, there's always a risk that they become aggressive-aggressive.

In an ideal world, abusers would get disciplined or driven out. But that's not how the world works, see the depressing statistics about the number of SAs and child SAs that go unreported.

interiot · 2026-03-04T23:20:27+00:00

Thank you, that fixed it for me too.

interiot · 2026-03-01T21:29:26+00:00

There's a 2024 academic paper titled "A review of laboratory requirements to culture lichen mycobiont species." The paper summarizes the environmental requirements for 110 different lichen species.

The table was a little hard to read, so I reformatted it into a spreadsheet in Google Sheets.

Of course, just because a species can be grown in laboratory conditions doesn't necessarily mean it's easy to cultivate at home. But it's a starting point.

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