I can’t believe this was only a year ago. It feels like forever.
MyTurtleSwimsUpsideDown
joined 1 year ago
Agreed. When someone tells you they have been mistreated, do not simply dismiss them. Consider them as earnestly as though they are telling you the truth until it can be established that they are, in fact, not. In this case the accusations were taken seriously, evaluated, and found wanting. System working as intended. (This time)
Way to dial down the temperature…
I have a few observations
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Body temperature > room temperature. Lukewarm/tepid kinda occupies the space between. It is technically warmer than its surroundings, but does not provide a substantial warming effect to the body.
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Lukewarm is used almost exclusively for water, whereas room temperature is a reference to air temperature (either the current or a desirable one) Water and air exchange heat with the human body in different ways and at different rates. Room temperature air is fairly neutral to the body, but a 68F/20C swimming pool is rather chilly, and a 90F/32C room is not what I would call lukewarm.
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Warm & cool both have an implication of comfort whereas hot & cold have more an implication of danger or discomfort. Maybe there is something to thinking about these on more than one axis: relative temperature vs desirability or pleasantness.
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Context is weird. For things that are supposed to be “hot”, either “cool” or “cold could mean room temperature, above room temperature but also not quite “warm”, or hotter than “warm” but below a target, expected, or usable temperature.
I hide gold coins (but any kind of fun token will do). Who doesn’t like a finding a gold coin?
It started when I used to do leprechaun cosplay. When you do that, you inevitably will get asked where your gold is hidden, so I got a bunch of cheap plastic coins to hand out when I got “caught”, or to “drop” if chased. For the heck of it I started slipping them in my friends’ bags and costumes while they were out.
Eventually this lead to hiding them in peoples homes when I visit, and reverse pickpocketing friends: pockets, purses, hoods in winter so they will fall out when they flip them up to go outside, behind wall art, inside a skein of yarn someone is knitting from…
I think my biggest get was slipping one into a theater director’s shirt pocket while they were talking to someone else. And the biggest surprise might have been one I put in an attic ladder hatch so that it fell out when they went to go up there months later.
I think it might be “gaysh”? but I’m happy to be corrected. I’d been pronouncing it “gay-us” until just recently 😂. Irish words are weird.
Capitalized “Sigil” (sig-əl) in this context is a made up place-name from D&D lore. It is a homograph to the actual English word “sigil” (sij-əl) They are pronounced differently for the same reason I can name my storm barbarian “Barnacles” (rhymes with “Hercules”).
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Chamel Linux, because of the chameleon.
Then since Tumbleweed is a rolling release, that would make it Patchy Chamel
What. The. Fuck!
On one hand PFAS are getting removed from industrial, consumer, and firefighting uses because it escapes into the environment and our water supply. On the other hand, the EPA asks the question “what if we sprayed it directly on the environment and our food?”