how? they’re smooth plastic. nothing to hold onto the flavor.

what you really want are the blue velvet seats on Philadelphia’s Market-Frankford subway line

pay off all my other debt instantly, use a couple k to replace broken things i put up with, make a 6 months’ expenses emergency savings account, and invest the remainder in something relatively low risk that hopefully gives dividends equal to or greater than the monthly payment amount for this loan

my life would be relatively unchanged unless that investment dividend was crazy

meditation and early hypnangogic sleep stages, just watching my brain do weird brain shit. sometimes I get this insane, intense sensation of being/observing something formless and simultaneously infinitely large and infinitely small. like my location/place neurons doing some kind of existentially overwhelming hardware stress test lol

that’s good to know, but the reason i wear as little fragrance as possible is that smells (good or bad) distract me severely 🫠

I have one, they’re super great astringents for stopping bleeding of small cuts :D sadly they’re not very effective on my level of sweat/stink 😭 though they are better than nothing so I use mine as a backup when I’ve run out of aluminum chlorohydrate antiperspirant. They are indeed cheap if you know where to look, and I’ve never had one run out (I just drop them and they break 😂)

of note, potassium alum / any alum mineral does actually contain aluminum ions by definition. they are known to be non-irritating to some people who have a reaction to more mainstream antiperspirant ingredients (e.g. aluminum chlorohydrate, aluminum chloride) hence their popularity as an alternative

sadly i am a stinky/sweaty lady and require antiperspirant, not just deodorant. which I did actually attempt to make myself once. i bought aluminum chlorohydrate powder and then proceeded to not make the time/effort to make an antiperspirant gel/spray out of it for about 5 years before giving up, admitting to myself it was an abandoned project, and tossing it along with components for several other abandoned projects in a pre-move cleanup 😑

fortunately I’m actually good on soap for now between Kirk’s Coco Castille unscented and my hipster friend’s homemade unscented olive oil soap :]

shampoo and conditioner have been difficult. I like the CeraVe ones I currently use but have to decide if I’m satisfied with their performance enough to justify the price. 😬 though if I do decide that I’ll likely get them online for cheaper next time I run out

it is a big dumb scam that unscented things usually cost way more than scented.

me spending a bunch of time and money to find and buy unscented stuff:

I avoid calling it AI because I like to be as specific as possible when referring to software types

at 31 i barely caught the tail end of Good Internet Days but i sure fuckin miss it

similarly, cats don’t usually express emotions with their face (and often don’t express them at all)

from what I’ve heard from my software engineer friends, a decent coder with standard knowledge of CS and the language they’re using will always write better (more optimized, more debuggable, etc.) code than currently available LLMs

even if the “fraction” is closer to 1 than 0, the heavy lifting here is done by “look what they need.” vibe coders need gigantic climate destroying machines to write code that isn’t as good as what an educated programmer writes running on a burrito and coffee

Don’t move cities stop ignoring her red flags and go to the fucking gym

yeah fuck you if you wanna enjoy the morning in the park i guess

protein molecules can’t be stored as fat, but their energy can be.

TIL it’s more effective to put the fan ~1 m from the window

unfortunately I cannot put the fan ~1 m from the window because my apartment is cramped af :[

I think it depends on the place and also what stage of life you moved at

the gist I get from fellow New Yorkers is that we don’t give a shit if you’ve been here 3 weeks and call yourself a New Yorker, as long as you don’t say “I’m from [borough]” cuz that’s for natives only

yes

sample size of me supports this hypothesis

I mean, unless you wanna be unhygienic about it, the amount of preparation involved and gadgets/accessories available to make it easier certainly lands it in hobbyist friendly territory

plot twist: under the hoodie they’re absolutely jacked