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I don't use any dyes in my soaps, and I've kept a sample of every batch I've made. I will say, olive oil "Castile soap" has ended up being the whitest after curing for about a year, even though it starts out green

As a kid I used to constantly hear that english is one of the hardest languages in the world to learn, but now that I think about it, this is surely false, right? English *spelling* is goofy but the language itself is surely one of the easiest to learn

Q: "Now that AI can real-time translate stuff, why aren't subtitles available for any video in any language" A: turns out when they invented the video subtitle format they made it bitmap images instead of text, so it's inaccessible to translators

There's something weird about the discourse where they treat Bluesky as a failure because it didn't demolish Twitter's marketshare. There are some folks who didn't switch that I miss, but I genuinely prefer Bluesky to Twitter, it might be smaller but it hasn't failed bsky.app/profile/bren...

another thing that drives me insane is when police "declare unlawful assembly." You can't just Michael Scott away a constitutional right

Seems like some people are expecting this to play out like the BLM protests but seems like the govt will be way less sympathetic this time.

lmao The Sun has a livestream of the “LA riots” on YouTube and when you click on it it’s a bunch of troops standing around doing nothing you can literally hear birds singing in the background what a time to be alive

a lot of them did this and I hate it. Doordash ruined restaurants bsky.app/profile/goli...

extremely funny that they're doing the "lost in translation" thing with someone whose first language is english bsky.app/profile/drag...

I see this too old thing with med schools but not phd programs or law schools, what's up with that? bsky.app/profile/kevi...

Reports that ICE ran a barricade and hit protesters in LA

One thing I learned while flying out west is that I apparently don't show up on those body scanner things. Both airports were unable to get a scan

I remember comments from ICE itching for this sort of thing decades ago. They all had this idea that they could "solve" the issue in a day if only the government would let them off the leash. Has to be demoralizing for them to find out their whole world view was incorrect bsky.app/profile/schn...

Trump could be the first president to lose an entire military division in a home depot parking lot

someone should get a projector and project the hammer and sickle on Trump's parade

I would like to call attention to the fact that they're clearly advertising it as a cheating machine. "Learn calculus in 2 weeks" is clearly tying to say, if you haven't been to class in months this machine will help you cheat your way to a good grade bsky.app/profile/karl...

I think about this often. Plumbing isn't hard to learn at all but what stops people from learning it as a side gig is the need for a license, the need for liability insurance, etc. You're either a plumber or not, there's no gig-plumbers bsky.app/profile/mtsw...

I was talking to some boomers and a thing they all agreed with was that when ATMs came out they'd short-change people about half the time

And their coverage of the third Reich wasn't any better bsky.app/profile/ceej...

Trump is going to make the full circle from getting a major union endorsement to declaring a major union a terrorist organization, isn't he

If I started a third party I'd probably name it the Blue Moose party just to confuse school kids when they get to the TR section

This was the logo of the Allied Expeditionary Forces led by Eisenhower that led the D Day invasion.

also I'm sorry but if you make $55k/year from tweeting you're definitely not "broke"

One of the best things about Posting is you never know what obscure preoccupations your followers have. There will be a guy who has followed you for years and never said anything but then one day you disparage applesauce and he activates like a sleeper agent and dedicates his life to destroying you

I don't get what they think they're going to accomplish by locking the top schools out of the accreditation process. Do they think this will jedi mind trick employers into not noticing that these are the smartest and hardest workers around bsky.app/profile/jbeo...

ugh now that I'm ready to weave they've discontinued the color of yarn I was going to use. Stupid fashion cycles drive me crazy

Elon is maybe having a Stalin character arc and I don't think we should forget about all the evil he has done but like, maybe wait till we're done with Trump to circle back to Elon bsky.app/profile/dart...