always been a fan of “character saves themselves by being clever and becoming indispensable” and also any female characters with more agency than their time period usually would have portrayed them with

They have been determined to be more than 2000 years old and their construction is not recorded in any historical documents.

Although near each other, uniform in construction and design, and apparently made for the same unknown purpose, the caves have no cross-connecting passages, even though excavating a small tunnel would have required very little effort compared to the task undertaken to excavate any one cave.

my theory? ancient secret base for either some rich person or some government. or maybe religious or artistic in nature, given the ornamental wall carvings and aesthetic design

I wonder how long it took to dig all of that by hand. that’s nuts.

that fucking rules

you could probably rig up a steampunk sun-following mirror positioning system by just using a shitload of math and astronomical data to pre-program a daily turning system for each individual mirror

the mirrors themselves probably(?) get hot enough that you could put a steam or Stirling engine with its hot side on the back of the mirror surface & power each mirror’s sickass cog-analog pivot system

then you just need someone with a handlebar moustache and/or wild frizzy hair to ride a mechanical horse around the mirror field punching in the set points for all the mirror turners every morning, mumbling under their breath about the astronomer’s numbers being slightly off and having to compensate with the mech-horse’s built in calculator, which naturally takes forever as the horse can only display the numerical results by tapping its hoof

but maybe you could also do it semi-automatically and non-electronically by designing a mechanical feedback system that uses mirror surface temperature as its input data? like if the temperature drops enough, a bimetallic strip or fluid-filled piston engages a gear clutch or something

modern photovoltaics have these beat in absolutely every category except maybe coolness factor

if one tenant refuses to pay rent, the landlord does several months of housing court paperwork to evict them and loses a few months’ rent. if they have a significant number of units, that’s just business as usual

if all the tenants in a whole building refuse to pay rent at the same time, the landlord is in a financial chokehold. not only would fees for multiple eviction proceedings likely drain their business account, the business account also won’t have new money coming in until all the evictions are completed and a fuck ton of new tenants are found. that’s unrealistic for all but the most gigantic corporate housing conglomerates. the threat of bankrupting the business is the bargaining pressure

been wondering what the heck was the correct fancy numerical word

the deciding factor was whether they choked on it so you wouldn’t even need poison, just 3 day old baguette

also imagine getting accused of something and made to do this trial but you just randomly swallow wrong because you’re a human and there’s like a 5% chance of that happening every time you eat anyway

is this because of that post about the pigeon button experiment? hahahaha

this is really fascinating. not only are pigeons not as dumb as I thought, they apparently have an eye for art

It really sucks that they don’t work for everyone :(
I hope you do find some medicine/strategy combo that works for you 🤞

It is odd that it was a combo, given the general medical consensus is to avoid more than one stimulant at a time!

I’m someone with ADHD on amphetamine salts benefiting from the side effect of weight loss. My health has improved significantly

I wish the world wasn’t so Puritanical about substances that are psychoactive but have legitimate medical uses. Fuck knows it’s hard enough to get my medication to just be a productive member of society, when we could also be giving it to a certain subset of people who struggle with their weight, and it’s a well-known and well-documented treatment with minimal dangerous side effects unlike several newer less tested weight loss drugs :/ Which ALSO face stupid Puritanical stigma!

my brain: heehee funee camel fight painting
[realizes it’s depicting a real thing] oh :(

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yagi–Uda_antenna

so that’s what they’re called

maybe some kinda really directional antenna? like a laser but for the radio range of EM

need to have line of sight and accurate aim, however

script kiddies wrecking corporate security is funny
prompt kiddies doing it is just depressing

I love these places because I enjoy window shopping for kitschy souvenirs, but intensely dislike owning souvenirs. So I just spend an inordinate amount of time gawking at (what I consider to be) wildly ugly and/or impractical merchandise, maybe buy a snack, and leave.

I am not immune to the trap but it takes my time moreso than my money lol

biochemistry so often does some paraphyletic fuckshit

biochemistry does not know about our human categorizations, nor does it care 😂

I’m really scared of contracting this because a lot of delicious desserts I like contain carageenan

also:

AGS can induce life-threatening intolerance to medical products including medicines, vaccines, antivenoms, infant formula, sutures, contact lenses, tattoo inks, and glycerin-based soaps and surfactants. Alpha-gal is found widely among nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drugs, analgesics, and other common drugs.

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that’s actually really uplifting to know, thank you for posting this. :)