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Cake day: June 17th, 2023

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  • Yes, that’s how science starts.

    The first LED was a little glow of light from a spec of rock. They turned that into dim red and green indicator lamps a couple decades later. Decades later yet, someone figured out how to make a blue LED c. 1999 and, subsequently, how to then add a Uv-reactive yellow coating to give two opposite colors in significant luminance, creating the white LED seen absolutely everywhere now. The people who got lime green LEDs to work as power-on indicators didn’t know how or when we were going to use LEDs as headlights


  • but I never would have said “hey hold on, I need to use an extra product before I eat my turkey sandwich”.

    It’s amazing how many things we completely fail to question. Your parents said or didn’t say something, showed the action or inaction was completely normal, and then you autopiloted indefinitely until something is specifically called it out. I continue to find new things wrong with my dad’s statements. It’s… Infuriating when I figure it out. Usually happens when I go to say it out loud as fact to someone else. That triggers the internal fact check mechanism.

    This has been going on for decades.


  • Adhd? “this is how… Sits”. I bet your brain sent the command to type “my cat” but made a a cogntivie connection to house sitting based on the sound of your head voice is it tried to generate the sentence faster than you could type. Like it already voiced out to “sits” while your finger were still on “Ho”. Idk, I catch a similar mistake weekly. Usually more like typing a homophone or like my fingers just start trying to sound out the word they thought they heard as my head voice has raced ahead.

    I’d love to learn more about how communication works in our brains and how it varies between modes. I could see fingers and voice being the same part, but does hearing route a different way? How similarly does the head voice work?

    Then, there’s the part where something like 10 or 20% of the population doesn’t even have a hear voice. And from there, those with the strongest head voice make micro movements of their vocal chords when thinking, while those with no voice make no movements at all.

    Fucking la gauge, how does it work



  • I recently came across Steak N Shake’s site (USA fast food burgers, maybe heftier than McDonald’s I guess?). It has a section called “seed oils” where it goes all-out on transitioning away from seed oils and into beef tallow that’s free of “additives, preservatives, and chemicals”

    This is the first I’ve learned of seed oils being an enemy. Is this a USA thing? I don’t see how whatever “chemical” requirement is placed on cow oil can’t be applied to seed oils. Just feels like fear mongering about spooky “chemicals” when the word applies to every single compound in our lives, but it carries a big scary negative connotation when you say “chemical”.

    Burger made from cow meat. Potato soaked in cow oil. Wash it down with cow juice sugar sludge.