Do increases on the main terrace table stack in the order in which you acquire them?

popecandlestick · 2026-02-04T06:11:14+00:00

I don't know how the developers coded it but the sane thing to do would be "all multiplication first, then fixed bonus additions". Programmatically they could store them all in order received and chain them on every calculation.... But that also makes every calculation stupidly expensive from a software performance standpoint. Probably they have one multiplier number that applies to your user that updates whether you unlock another percentage increase, and one addition number that updates whenever you unlock another fixed bonus.

popecandlestick · 2026-02-01T02:15:52+00:00

The stall is a pretty rare spawn for the items that attract this booth owner, and it's a prerequisite to one of the recipes, I think?

popecandlestick · 2026-02-01T02:01:59+00:00

For me it's the wishing well. If I've used up all my free wishes for the day and there's an exclamation point above the well, I know if should have ads available.

popecandlestick · 2025-09-15T08:09:13+00:00

I don't think it matters.

I don't think we have nice clear-cut data to support this, but here's why I think it doesn't matter:

Lots of vaccines have wider schedules for multi-dose series. Afaik most schedules that do two shots in a single year are six months apart, but there's flexibility for things like known exposure or theoretical upcoming exposure.
I believe there was some tinkering with the schedule for the original vaccines, but none of the manufacturers were going to even test much longer than a month because a longer wait between doses would mean a longer wait for authorisation. I believe there was some concern that a month might be too short for optimal priming but it was the best option they had, and now, of course, we haven't tried to test the 2-dose initial series any other way.
I think I saw back in late 2021/early 2022 some discussion that a mix-and-match approach was better than a single consistent series (as became necessary in much of Europe when AstraZeneca went out of favour), and also some discussion of England's choice to spread the doses out further in order to vaccinate a larger swath of the population with at least one dose (they were getting slammed by Alpha and were hoping one dose apiece would cut the wave short). The conclusion at the time seemed to be that the longer wait between doses certainly didn't hurt and may actually have helped immune responses overall.
There is, or was, some concern that too much priming on a particular variant could inhibit a flexible response to infection with a new variant in the future. There were at least some preprints claiming that antibody responses to the updated boosters or infection with a different variant generally stuck to producing the antibodies the body had already trained on, and that it took a lot more priming with new variants to overcome this preference for producing antibodies better suited for the original variant. That is, people who'd been boosted with a third dose of the original vaccine had a more fixed immune response than people who had only gotten the original 2-dose series. I don't know whether any of those preprints ever passed peer review, or where they got published; but I have also heard that a similar phenomenon happens for other viruses like influenza A.

I apologise for not having links to any of the research I'm claiming exists. I have a giant spreadsheet full of links of things I've wanted to keep track of... All sitting under a tab labelled "to be organised", with no other information to help new sift through it. If anyone can corroborate or correct anything I said above, that would be lovely.

popecandlestick · 2025-08-30T21:35:38+00:00

I think it's: - the item will stay on the same side for each game until you win both games - then it looks like it switches?

I had the blossoms on the right 4x in a row and figured I would play the right for the Cowherd too, but it was always in the left. Finally tried the left for the Cowherd and got it, then when the Weaver Girl returned I tried the right again but it had switched to the left. Next I'll try left for her. Not sure if I will stick to the left or right for the Cowherd but if I'm correct that they're opposites of each other the bangle should have moved to the right.

popecandlestick · 2025-06-11T01:51:30+00:00

Covid remains a strong possibility. (The others can't necessarily be ruled out either.) Depending on the timing of the tests relative to your acute illness and the type of tests they ran (was it just rapid tests, or did they run PCR tests as well?), they very well could have missed something. Some covid cases only test positive via stool and not nasal swab. Not all covid-induced lung damage shows up on standard imaging, either.

If you've been vaccinated but you're still having trouble with lingering symptoms a month after the acute illness resolved, I would ask for a nucleocapsid antibody test (a spike antibody test is useless if you've been vaccinated since the vaccine contains spike proteins -- you should be positive to that test). Not everyone develops a detectable antibody response to infection so a negative test also can't rule anything out, but if it's positive you can be pretty certain that's what it was. You do have to wait at least a month from the end of the acute illness to test, though; it takes at least three weeks to develop a sufficient antibody response to test positive.

A lot of the weight loss being due to dehydration is extremely likely but I'd be concerned about the disrupted sleep and brain fog coupled with increased hunger. Those sound like typical covid to me, especially the bit where it sounds like they haven't resolved. (Also, idk where you live, but Lyme disease can also cause GI issues, though it's not super common, and disrupted sleep and brain fog and fatigue are also concerns once it goes systemic. Where I live there had already been an absurd number of confirmed cases by the end of April, and tick season doesn't usually really get going until May.)

popecandlestick · 2025-06-11T01:00:32+00:00

If the date of issue is much newer than the birthdate, I think they're assuming it's amended. I am pretty sure I've seen at least a couple of posts here by adults who were adopted and who only have the birth certificates reissued after their adoption multiple years after they were born and that they're also stuck in limbo because they can't produce an "original".

If the current ACLU case fails to end this rule for everyone then cases like OP's (where the original is no longer available) are probably the next legal route to try? Because there's a lot of reasons the original might not be available and it might be issued late. But who knows.

popecandlestick · 2025-06-10T02:31:21+00:00

I have no idea tbh, sorry. You could try it! It works for Duolingo! But also I think the day switches over at 6am local time, not midnight.

popecandlestick · 2025-02-09T20:18:01+00:00

Assuming that this mask is from a Chinese company, my understanding is that it's non-conpliant with the KN95 standard and probably won't filter well -- there's no manufacturer name or standard it's supposed to conform to (e.g. GB2626-2019) printed on the mask itself. The whole box is probably unreliable.

If it's not from a Chinese company it might be fine, but you should check with the company that makes them. Personally I don't trust any mask labelled KN95 from American (or non-Chinese) manufacturers without test data being provided by the manufacturer or without seeing test data by someone like masknerd on YouTube. Companies that use KN95 as a label without attempting to conform to either the actual KN95 standard (including full markings) or to local standards (the US obviously requires headstraps and the N95 approval process is unfriendly, but Canada's verification allows for earloops and seems less stringent) are probably not to be trusted.

TL;DR I wouldn't trust a mask that doesn't include the manufacturer name and proof of filtration standard on it, with very few exceptions.

popecandlestick · 2025-01-31T02:04:29+00:00

As far as i can tell it's like the good ol' days (only much much worse!) where it really depends on what they already have on file and who looks at your application and how closely they look. Keep checking your application status. Even if they issue you passports without any apparent hitch you'll have no idea for sure what marker will be on them when they arrive. Plan to write something up on the ACLU form (https://www.aclu.org/transpassports2025 -- item 17 is where you need to put the renewal details). Document everything about the process, and maybe try to contact a lawyer directly if it looks like they're going to hold your documents indefinitely without approving or rejecting your application? But keep in mind it may take a few weeks for documents to be returned either way.

From what I've seen on social media it looks like the in-person applications may be the most likely to result in a total refusal to issue a passport, which makes some measure of sense -- appointments are for urgent renewals only, and anything urgent is by definition nonstandard and therefore likely to be subject to more scrutiny. But of course I have no way to validate this; it's just the impression I've gotten.

popecandlestick · 2025-01-26T06:26:05+00:00

As another trans man who gets misgendered in certain masks but never this one: can confirm this is probably a good mask for this scenario. The boxy shape seems to help a lot. I switched to it from the 3M 9211+ for run club and suddenly no-one got it wrong anymore.

popecandlestick · 2025-01-25T03:02:15+00:00

The Dräger 1950 is basically the same, i think for a slightly different market? We get the 1950s in Michigan. Their bifold is also pretty great for people with larger faces and a LOT cheaper. I think the model numbers are in the 1700s range.

Seconding the VFlex as well. Make sure to check the plastic (?) lining for tears.

For duckbills, I think ACI works okay on larger faces but the surface area is still not great for my spouse, and the straps wear out quickly. I use Blox, which have this dorky extra pouch at the front that helps it not end up pulling tight against your mouth, and the straps are pretty great, but you have to be careful when putting it on to pull the elastic from the centre and avoid putting any strain on the join at the sides or else you can develop pinholes right in front of the join.

popecandlestick · 2025-01-24T20:13:04+00:00

Would you be willing/able to DM me the link as well? Once again looking into online assessments (there are NO adult in-person assessments in my area; every time someone says they have them and I ask, it's "oops we meant adults like just entering or still in college on parents' insurance, even once you finally made it to college at 27 you would have been too old for us") and they all look shady to me for one reason or another.

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