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For a while, I was under the impression that all spiciness, or burning sensation in food flavoring, would come from capsaicin, the compound that causes it in chili peppers. Then I realized that Sichuan peppers are a quite different kind of heat. Wasabi (horseradish) is different yet again.
How many hot-flavored compounds are there? At least five!
Kalsec: "The Elements of Heat"
Because so many people (or bots) hated the photo I shared yesterday, here’s another one!
Join me in the fight for OUR collective liberation!
Who mourns for Morn?
@bigzaphod A being of profound wisdom…
@beep No worries, it happens. And to be honest, Apple would do good to explain how these things work in the UI.
@notthatdelta Mice have tiny nails - I am very impressed that you managed to paint them!
@neil I use a wire mesh trap, and they tend to grip the wires with their toes passing through the mesh. It's super easy to just dab some on from outside. Of course it kinda gets all over the foot, not just the nails... but they're not paying me, it's fine!
(Picture is a trap similar to the one I use, you get the idea).
Extremely Rare Blog Post! In which I catch y'all up and say goodbye (to the blog).
https://lauralemay.com/blog/not-the-end-but-also-the-end.html
@lemay 🫡
It's QUITE COOL how the old Roombas find their way back to their charging dock without a camera or GPS or anything like that. The dock has an infrared LED and the robot has an infrared receiver (which is one "well actually" away from being an LED itself) and all the robot knows is, is this light getting brighter or dimmer as I'm turning these wheels in different ways.
And how do it know when it bumps into something? The front bumper compresses and puts a little bit of plastic in between two infrared LEDs.
And how do it know when it's about to fall down the stairs? It shines infrared downwards out of one LED and it bounces off the floor and up into another LED.
And how do it know how to follow a wall? It bounce the infrared off the wall
And how do it know to stay out of the forbidden room? Someone put down a little box with C cells in and an infrared LED and it sees that particular frequency of pulses and it turn around and go somewhere else vroom
It's just following the lights
Why do I still hear about Discord
@thankfulmachine every time I use it I think about the zombies from System Shock 2 saying this https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W9BcpSqbgS4
YouTube
Be kind to yourself.
Finally showing yall more church service notebook doodles
I've restored some changes on to of Mastodon v5, like using an icon with two check marks for "mark as read" instead of always showing a "0 unread" bar and a text label for "mark as read" (issue opened: https://github.com/mastodon/mastodon/issues/41579).
Mastodon v5 has some good UI stuff, but some changes are really unnecessary and bad for UX. Having my most-used feature, the notifications button, at the bottom is messing with my muscle memory. I'll get used to some changes, others not at all, and some honestly need fixing and more work. Glad we have the fork - we already have a dozen features that are either restored or custom.
#MementoMoriSocial #MastoAdmin #Mastodon #Mastodon5 #Mastodonv5 #NewMastodon #MastodonUI
I could talk all day about Black voter turnout but to understand what -actually- is propelling the Democrat rise right now you also have to pay attention rural white voters in majority white districts.
Places like North Carolina's 11th district it easy to see how candidates like Jamie Ager won.
A focus on TRUE working class Southern politics.
- FEMA funding
- Cheaper health care
- Lowering inflation
- Ending Trump corruption
https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2026/11/03/us/elections/results-north-carolina-us-house-11.html
Now don't get me wrong the US left & DNC tea leaves readers like me will debate who gets credit for these "blue" wins until the heat death of the universe.
But one thing is clear Trump and the Republicans lost BIGLY. They have no one to blame but themselves
And we're all laughing at MAGA for putting their electoral future in Trump's hands.
Only time will tell how that shit stain on American history will react (probably bombing Iran more) but for now this week is funny af
Just to state really clearly what is going here.
The New York Times is leading an information warfare operation to mislead the public that Chuck Schumer has the votes, and is the inevitable next Majority Leader.
This is not the case. Schumer has significant opposition both from new and incumbent Senators.
We have see the New York Times use this disinformation tactic many times before.
Do not be misled.
https://mastodon.online/@mastodonmigration/117536299911092203
@mastodonmigration I saw their headline and concur with your analysis. They want him in and mislead to achieve that.
@Lstn2urmama @Sea1Am @pinhman the folks doing 500km a day - truckers - are in a different class of vehicle. A class that theoretically should be much easier to electrify than consumer vehicles. But as we saw with the startup in B.C. making electric logging trucks, the provincial and federal governments not only aren’t interested in supporting them, they continue to support systems that make it very hard for businesses to innovate in transportation.
For the rest of us though, the vast majority of cars and trucks on the road do no more than 100km a day. My commute is on the high end, 160km a day, and I have been doing it in an EV since 2019.
Technology and capability is not the problem anymore. It is *all* about governments and corporations wanting to continue the status quo at all cost.
https://sustainablebiz.ca/edison-motors-set-to-begin-building-hybrid-electric-semi-trucks-in-bc
@chris @Lstn2urmama @Sea1Am @pinhman
These are some interesting investor requirements. Someone has done homework, and already survived previous funding rounds.
@breakfastgolem @leah @Louisa @triz Aeschylus' flyswatter.
@Rob_T_Firefly @breakfastgolem @leah @Louisa the winch of agnesi
@Canageek Do you have some links? All I find is the one incident from June.
@ludovic They are older, from the marketing of Cyberpunk 2020, they had repeated pro-gamergate comments and transphobic comments: I didn't follow them for a few years after that. It shouldn't be hard to search for 'GOG Gamergate" to get sources.
I haven't followed them for a few years after that, but I did hear a theory that CD Projektred sold them off to quit dealing with their PR issues, no idea how true it is, but it seems this keeps happening
@ai6yr
What a cute little critter...
https://animalfact.com/bear/
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