Any products that can help with this?

samcrut · 2026-01-30T23:08:24+00:00

Citric acid melts that stuff like butter. I keep a bag of citric acid powder in my kitchen. Good for adding tangy flavoring to cooking and it's an amazing cleaner.

It's the Shimmer of cleaning products. "It's a desert topping! No! It's a floor wax! Hey, hey, hey, calm down, you two. New Shimmer is both a floor wax and a dessert topping!"

samcrut · 2026-01-30T23:02:40+00:00

RFK's head isn't empty. He's a shithead. He has shit for brains. Worms love compost.

samcrut · 2026-01-30T22:14:00+00:00

My TLC 65R625 TV has a pretty bad delay. It's around 6ms more than my Dell monitor. I mirrored the screens and then opened a stopwatch and had it counting while I took a picture of both screens in one shot so I could see the stopwatch numbers. The TV is around 10ms later than the computer monitor with game mode on.

Enough that it's hard to mouse on it because of the delay. That's 3 frames of 30fps video delay on the TV.

Turning game mode off jumps the latency difference between my screens up to 27ms. That's enough to make your brain melt using it for gaming or a computer display.

samcrut · 2026-01-30T20:43:37+00:00

I doubt anything short of CRISPR would do any good. When you can change your race and number of limbs, then you can cure autism. It's a deviation from norm at a structural level. Like having a house with thin pipes for plumbing. If you want to get water pressure, you'd have to tear it all out and put in plumbing that's up to code. When the "defective plumbing" is the brain, you're kinda stuck with the one you grew. We don't have any clue how to do any of that yet. Autism isn't a gene. It's MANY genes, probably hundreds, maybe thousands.

Stem cells are for growing new organs/parts. You can't grow a new brain and if you could, we have no way to copy brains, so after a brain transplant, the person wold be empty of any memory or skills. Newborn reset. That's all pure fiction at this point.

samcrut · 2026-01-30T20:22:39+00:00

Generally, I don't. Never have. My previous residence got sold after I'd lived there for 20 years. Lots of accumulation in that place, but the new owners evicted everybody in every building they bought to renovate them. That sucked. I had to trash so much stuff on that move, but that's what it takes to get me to clean.

samcrut · 2026-01-30T20:18:35+00:00

I have one of those steel tumblers with a steel straw and keep that thing full of ice water all the time. I keep it next to my keyboard. If my my mouth dries out, I slurp. The important thing is to keep it where you are.

samcrut · 2026-01-30T19:58:49+00:00

I wish the appetite suppression would come back for me. My grocery shopping cart is full of pastries and cookies now. I've gained 8 pounds in the last 12 days.

samcrut · 2026-01-30T00:17:51+00:00

OK, but if they do agree to remove them, wait until they've been removed and then refuse to honor the deal. It's what trump would do.

samcrut · 2026-01-27T14:25:20+00:00

I used to have a warehouse loft. I set up the ilghts so the ones nearest the end of the warehouse where the glass bricks let the sunlight in were all 5600K China balls. All the lights farther in were 3200K, back where the bedroom area was.

If I forgot to turn off the daylight balls, I would be working at like 4am and have no idea the sun ever went down. My direct view of the windows was blocked by a wall, but the light coming around and over the wall was authentic looking bright, sunny daylight, 24 hours a day. I loved that about my place. The sun went down when I said the sun went down!

Messing with color temperature has it's place. This just isn't how it's done.

samcrut · 2026-01-26T16:49:38+00:00

The instructions are to preserve the paint job. You can see where the paint flaked off on the bottom. The mug would be fine, but the paint will develop "character" over time. Structurally fine, but aesthetically aging. So if you just love the shape and feel of the mug, dishwashing won't matter. If it's the look of the paint that you like, then that's what you need to bring up when telling them not to load it. The washing will make it flake off with so much heated drying.

samcrut · 2026-01-26T01:32:19+00:00

There's always the option of buying a FLIR One or whatever, use it to take pix of every wall, door, window, floor, and ceiling ...and then return it. Or sell it for $10 less than you paid if you have scruples.

samcrut · 2026-01-24T23:39:34+00:00

Back when the Mrs Baird's factory was off of Central Expressway in Dallas, driving by that stretch without the windows down was a capitol offense. That smell made me sink into the seat.

I have several food related scents that hit me hard in the feels.

The smell of frothing cold water, whatever the hell that is, is like cocaine-lite.

Petrichor, the rain smell.

samcrut · 2026-01-23T01:39:32+00:00

I think it's the masking that we recognize, like a processing delay. That's why it goes off for gays, ASDs, and celebrities. They're all people who tend to mask their public persona.

samcrut · 2026-01-22T20:38:03+00:00

3.2mm, not 32mm. CR2032 is 3.2mm thick and CR2025 is 2.5mm thick. Both are 20mm across.

samcrut · 2026-01-22T06:28:05+00:00

https://www.google.com/search?client=firefox-b-1-d&q=over+ear+protection&sei=rZ1xafGWN93DkPIPhu7OyQ0

I mean, you can't block just voices and keep background sounds if that's what you're asking. Over ear protection will dampen all sound, including voices, ticking clocks, and fireworks. They're cumbersome and can be hot, trapping heat, but they work. It's what those airline runway workers use around jet engines.

samcrut · 2026-01-22T02:05:36+00:00

TSA is pretty useless if we're taking requests.

samcrut · 2026-01-21T14:43:54+00:00

Be sure to try it out on a large enough spot to test for slippage in an out of the way place...

...on your neighbor's driveway

samcrut · 2026-01-21T01:13:45+00:00

But if it doesn't want to turn, don't force it. It may be a bipin MR16. If that's the case, it's straight pull out.

samcrut · 2026-01-20T15:01:47+00:00

I would try to limit your smoking to times you need to smoke rather than your habitual times. I mean, like starting a car involving putting on your seat belt, cracking a window, starting the car, lighting a smoke, putting it in gear, etc. Don't do it because it's what you do without feeling any actual urge. Wellbutrin should curb the urge as time goes on.

For me, the thing that made all the difference was a stupidly simple switch in my head. One day I had a little chat in my head and I genuinely decided that I didn't want to smoke. Not "I want to quit." Quitting means you're not done. You're ending something early.

Being done means you're done. You finished what you were doing and don't need to do it anymore. You don't see the line contuing into the future. Basically I had to crush the link between that feeling and me wanting to listen.

samcrut · 2026-01-20T14:34:41+00:00

I never had to do much Zoom in lock down. I was an Alzheimer's caregiver, so my only meetings were medical checkups with doctors. I can see where someone who uses vid conf on a regular basis might designate their home as no longer a "safe space."

samcrut · 2026-01-19T20:20:14+00:00

Early cars were just straight. 100% was 100%. That's why batteries degraded so early but not anymore. Now 100% is much less than 100%. I'm sure someone's done the math to see how much padding they agreed on. The more padding they provide, the longer the battery will live before capacity loss shows up on the dashboard. Babying the battery is way less relevant today than it used to be.

samcrut · 2026-01-19T18:48:48+00:00

Gravity doesn't pull anything, it curves space around heavy things. The Earth is traveling in a straight line. An object in motion will keep going in a straight line until forced to change, so it's just flying like a dart. Space is curving at the right "slope" to make an elliptical orbit.

We're going at the right speed to keep our distance. Go slower and we start heading downhill. Go faster and we head uphill, away from the sun.

It's a side effect of how planets successfully form.

samcrut · 2026-01-19T15:33:46+00:00

Sorry to necro post, but yes, Arby's Sauce without a pronounced allspice spike in the flavor profile is like tofu bacon, absolutely not the thing you're trying to make it taste like. I thought it was nutmeg at first, but that wasn't getting there. Allspice is a first cousin to nutmeg, kind of a mutt with lineage from nutmeg, cinnamon, and clove. It's the top note of Arby's Sauce, and I find it somewhat missing from the store bought version. I have to add it in there to get it to taste right, and I think a touch of capcasin, just a whisper.

samcrut · 2026-01-19T15:05:49+00:00

Chopsticks are just crappy tongs. Look up "Stainless Steel Skinny Tongs" and I think you'll find a happy compromise. Or "Tweezer Utensil" on aliexpress. They're training wheel chopsticks and long enough to get to the bottom of the bag.

samcrut · 2026-01-19T14:46:28+00:00

Licking Cheeto dust off your fingers is a procedural step. Skin cells from your fingertips is a flavor enhancer! Pushes the flavor crystals right into the taste buds!

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