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The pull of the #mushroom cultivation rabbit-hole is profound.
You can grow oysters on cardboard? Seriously? Cardboard?
I have access to an infinite supply of cardboard + all sorts of empty food-grade containers I can divert from recycling every day.
And I have quite a number of chefs I can hand any mushroom producing container to once it starts fruiting.
Oh Hell Yea!
Anyone else find clips of "USA! USA!" chants at the Olympics chilling?
I heard that at least three times as sound-bites on NPR, and each time I thought "Yikes", and "1936".
Wow. I almost wound up not filing my taxes this year.
H&R Block's site is filled with promotions and gotcha paid stuff that you have to opt out of over and over again while going through filing steps.
I'd gotten to what *looked* like a step you couldn't pass without buying an optional service. And so I thought I was done.
Finally realized after getting a few "let's finish" emails that that step *could* be passed without buying something (just a different design and color choices for the "buyme" clicks so it looked like the first was auto-selected).
After passing this point finally, there were many more steps and many more promotions to opt out of, but finally it's done.
So with only three days left, I NOW have my taxes filed and got through it without being forced to purchase anything.
Those ads almost cost me over $600.
Oh, you have a website?
Cool, I'll go check it out.
Oh, you have an app?
Yuck. Sorry to hear that.
Alright. They didn't ignore freefall and rotational pseudo-gravity *entirely* in Project Hail Mary -- they just did the worst possible job with it.
That would be bad enough in any film, but these were *major* parts of the plot and major challenges worked around in the story!
And they just side-step it all entirely -- it's like there's a narrative "gravity switch" where sometimes things just "float" and usually not... and down is always down.
Wow. Either Tylenol or Ibuprofen actually work. Not sure which, but one of the above very much does relieve pain very much quicker and more effectively than I recalled.
I woke up with bad neck pain a couple nights ago, and it's stuck around ever since with a headache to keep it company.
I'd spent a few hours off and on in the shower under hot water that failed to help in any real way for a day and a half.
I *finally* walked to the grocery store and got a bottle each of Ibuprofen and Tylenol, took one of each and noted the time... I figured if I didn't notice anything improving in the next half hour, I'd climb back into the shower.
15 minutes later, feeling noticeable less pain and by 20 minutes no neck pain (or headache) left at all... Huh.
That's actually pretty darn amazing.