Just this year I learnt you should carve out the top (stem) part. Apparently there’s some nutrients/water, magic, or something, left in it; and if you leave it uncut it will help the rest of the pumpkin look better for longer.

Cut out the bottom, or a hole in the back, instead.

I didn’t go to the dentist for 4 years, moved & Covid & postponing making an appointment 50-100 times. I severely regret not going sooner.

They unfortunately do, but at that age the brain is still partially goo:

According to the National Organization of Victims of Juvenile Murderers, cognitive function develops concrete to abstract between the ages of 12 and 15. This means that a person can genuinely understand that specific behavior brings specific consequences. However, research has shown that a teenager’s brain does not resemble an adult’s fully matured brain until they reach their early 20’s. Source: Google’s summary for "has a 12 year old brain developed enpugh to understand murder

I have always like GPS essentials for various other location tasks. While I have never used it, there’s a track mode under streams. Data can be exported in a handful of formats.

Very interesting research!

SUMMARY

Cigarette smoking is a well-known risk factor inducing the development and progression of various diseases. Nicotine (NIC) is the major constituent of cigarette smoke. However, knowledge of the mechanism underlying the NIC-regulated stem cell functions is limited. In this study, we demonstrate that NIC increases the abundance and proliferative activity of intestinal stem cells (ISCs) in vivo and ex vivo. Moreover, NIC induces Yes-associated protein (YAP)/Transcriptional coactivator with PDZ-binding motif (TAZ) and Notch signaling in ISCs via α7-nicotinic acetylcholine receptor (nAchR) and protein kinase C (PKC) activation; this effect was not detected in Paneth cells. The inhibition of Notch signaling by dibenzazepine (DBZ) nullified the effects of NIC on ISCs. NIC enhances in vivo tumor formation from ISCs after loss of the tumor suppressor gene Apc, DBZ inhibited NIC-induced tumor growth. Hence, this study identifies a NIC-triggered pathway regulating the stemness and tumorigenicity of ISCs and suggests the use of DBZ as a potential therapeutic strategy for treating intestinal tumors.

https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2024.01.02.573853v1

Depending on the chair and how you position your butt cheeks, you can sometimes sneak out a fart silently.

My teeth are so tight I can sometimes barely get floss down between them. A brush would have no chance of cleaning the whole sides of the teeth.

Zero water claims to remove all PFAS, and you can get a pitcher for ~$30.

Lazy Chicken

1. Pour about a centimeter white rice in a baking dish. I prefer something a 20x30cm tempered glass one, but I’m sure you can use whatever.
2. Add frozen vegetables on top.
3. Dissolve a chicken broth cube hot or boiling water, pour into dish, add water to a bit above the rice.
4. Place frozen chicken legs on top, or whatever other frozen chicken pieces you’d like.
5. Generously season chicken.
6. Stick in oven for about an hour at 200°C.

You might need to add boiling water while it’s cooking, but after making it a couple times you’ll know about how much water is needed from the start.

Great intentions, but I’m a bit worried about how the non-contact breath detection will work, if you’re sober and giving your wasted friend(s) a ride home from the bar. BAC detection by touch might be better, if they can make it work that is.

Seeing how cars with Super-cruise have eye tracking, why not roll impaired & distracted driving into one safety package.

Eye tracking has become a reliable neuroscience tool for identifying the eye movements that are linked to impairments caused by alcohol use disorders. For example, a machine-learning model has been developed to detect alcohol intoxication based on a person’s eye gaze and eye closure. (From Google’s generated cliff notes)

Disabling a vehicle if the driver isn’t looking at the road for x seconds might be a bit drastic. I could imagine e.g. muting the volume if not at the very least glancing at the road every 2~3 seconds. Would piss off a lot of people, then not long thereafter teach them to pay attention to where they are going.

Neither side is ‘good’ or remotely acts like it in this conflict/war. The only good guys around are the medics & doctors trying to keep people from dying, volunteers trying to keep people from dying of lack of food/water/warmth; and of course all the innocent civilians who are caught up in this clusterfuck.

Get some wool laundry balls and whatever scent she’d like in essential oil, add a couple of drops to one of them, or 1-2 drops to each ball if you want to be fancy. If that isn’t enough for her, pour white vinegar in the fabric softener compartment of your washer.

In a lot of towns your only grocery option is Walmart, unless you wanna drive 1+ hours. In small towns/villages you might only have a dollar general within that distance. Large corporation slaughter small businesses when they move in.

There is a voting system like that, and it works quite well:

In a nutshell, votes are first counted in a district; if I’ve candidate had enough votes to secure a seat they do so, but all the remaining votes and votes above the count needed to win the seat, are pooled into a larger region. A number of seats are then assigned in the larger region, depending on which exact system is used, ‘unused’ votes from the region might be pooled on a state or national level afterwards.

The problem is you’d have to build not just schools, but entire neighborhoods so they are walkable + tunnels under any larger roads between them, or maybe guarded crossings would do here and there. While it could certainly be done, the majority of the US is built to be car centric from the ground up.

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Do not store your dirty underwear hermetically sealed! Stick it in a mesh or paper bag, something it can release the pent up humidity through; or you’ll get some really nasty laundry.

For Pokemon trainers, I’m no expert, but wouldn’t they just stick their clean clothes in one poke’ball & dirty laundry in another?

For other parents: PBS Kids Video It has a bunch of stuff, can be cast to a TV for toddlers; or put on a tablet for older toddlers.

For paid streaming services, we have decided to limit ourselves to two at a time. Once we’re bored with one, we cancel it and do another for a while.

DEA Hartford Task force and state police detectives received a tip that suggested Soule was operating a clandestine psilocybin mushroom growing operation at a home on Lyon Road.

Fuck people who snitch on a grow-house, especially when it’s mushrooms which neither stink or bother anyone.

Soule admitted to investigators that the mushrooms were in fact psilocybin, which is labeled as a “schedule 1″ controlled substance. State police said a schedule 1 controlled substance is defined as drugs, substances and chemicals that are not currently accepted for medical use and have a high potential for abuse.

But more than anything, fuck the fucked up legacy of fucking Nixon. The only reason there isn’t accepted medical use, is because the government and DEA made it really hard for researchers to be allowed to use shrooms (& weed) in research. It’s ridiculous that especially shrooms are in the same ‘dangerous, addictive and no mental health benefits’ category as heroin.

Looks an awful lot like Cnlinko LP12 (PDF) 2 pin connector. Ø12 also looks about right from your pictures.