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Cake day: June 10th, 2023

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  • Absolute worst case scenario if you are unable to get a replacement, you can get a pane of glass and either score and cut it yourself (diamond or silicon carbine and a ruler to score, and then either a drop of water on the score lines and snap or put a bit of string soaked in lighter fluid and set it on fire on the score line, once it’s heated dip it in cold water or pour cold water on and it should split along the score).

    Use youtube to actually see how it’s done.

    Or go to a window maker (or if your hardware stores do it) and ask if they can just cut a pane to size for you.




  • Elvanse is my daily driver, initially started at 30mg and went down to 20, stayed on that for a few years, eventually back up to 30mg where I’m at now.

    I have been on it something like 8 years total. And I think 66KG starting weight.

    Remember everyone’s dosage is different.

    You want the medication to be barely perceptable for long-term stability, you don’t want to chase any rush you have the first time you use it, as that will just end up being higher and higher doses.


  • There’s a burnt down and abandoned manor about 10 minutes walk from me, now owned by the Freemasons, has a hermitage carved into the sandstone (or limestone idk) cliff face, as well as a tunnel leading from the local castle to the manor as a means of escape (something like 1.5 miles).

    The hermatige is pretty small, about 10x10 foot in the main room, with a super high 15-20ft ceiling.

    There’s another mystery cave carved into the cliff, which is about 30x15 foot with pillars supporting the ceiling carved out of the rock.

    The manor has been used in one form or another basically continuously since the crusades, and then intermittently before then, earliest record is a Roman reference to a spring around the location, there is also a Saxon era water mill






  • The immediate issue I can see is not much to do with the base aspect of things, but more to do with the risk of salination of soils and water, but without solid numbers to go off of it’s hard to know what the impact could be.

    I’m curious if this could be made to work with elemental potassium, which doesn’t carry the same risk of salination or possibly even the liquid NaK alloy (which would carry the approximately half the risk of salination potential)




  • We already have a people being ‘nostalgic’ for plastic straws… It’s depressing that so many people are so willfully selfish that the slightest change or inconvenience to their life is met with such backlash.

    On a related note, Uranium glass isn’t dangerous at all, it’s production was phased out for nuclear weapons and reactor research, not because of any threat or harm from the glass.

    Nowadays you can even get virgin uranium glass again.

    Vitrifying (turning to/encasing in glass) nuclear waste is one of the better ways of storing it as no chance of leaking, etc.



  • So these and a couple other types of bricks I’ve seen (ones with multiple holes to for masonry bees(?)), have surprisingly high costs for what they are.

    While I don’t take issue with the stated reasoning for the inclusions of the bricks; I am curious why the the cost is so high, and by extension, who (if anyone) is profiting off of the high costs of the bricks?

    If the these become required, will every brick manufacturer be able to produce them, bringing the price of them down?

    Are there any obvious unforseen issues with using them?

    Is there a limit on their lifespan?

    Do they need cleaning by the homeowner?

    Fundementally, I think if there aren’t any glaring flaws with the requirement for these then this would be an easy win for Labor to add



  • I’m actually not too sure how right you are here, my last cat was a chunky boy at 7kg, let’s say that the upper end 68mg is the LD50, I’m roughly 70kg, 680mg of coffee would be very uncomfortable and unpleasant, but I don’t think I’d be hitting the LD50.

    LD50 in humans is probably around 100mg/kg, fatal doses are 150-200mg/kg