stelelor

"Only those who do not seek power are qualified to hold it." Plato knew what was up.

Unlike trees, plastic is not self-renewing. So when humanity goes extinct, there will no longer be a steady supply of plastic for these microbes. They will crash just as quickly (geologically speaking) as they arose.

Since deep-fried pickles are a (delicious) thing, I bet this is better than it looks. Warm salty dough meets juicy tangy pickle, then the cheese bridges the textures and provides a savory background. I'm converted.

I could see water chestnuts in a fruit salad, although they're technically corms, not tubers.

A salsa of tomatoes.

"schwa" is true neutral aaaaand now I need to see the vowels' alignment chart

Does the field have a cornerstone forum where amateurs mingle with pros? For example, there are several professional astronomers and astronauts on Reddit, and telescope builders on CloudyNights.com. Atmospheric optics has atoptics.org.uk. The chess community has lichess.org. Places like that could be a good place to post about your idea without going into the technical specifics. Hopefully, other members of the community would let you know if you're going down a promising path, and refer you to a specific pro/academic to further discuss your idea.

Works perfectly on my phone, maybe try landscape orientation and vary the distance?

You're already doing more than most people in terms of reducing your footprint. I take it there aren't any bulk stores where you live?

Europe will welcome them with open arms.

The next step in the authoritarian playbook will be to limit the movement of educated people. Soon enough, those people won't be able to leave even if they wanted to.

You might be onto something with the knock-off theory. I had Walmart shirts and underwear with the cornucopia logo.

That makes sense, that it would be your subconscious alerting. In a similar vein, whenever I know I need to shower first thing in the morning (as opposed to before bed), I often dream of showering on the bed. Yes, like standing on the mattress on top of all the sheets and pillows and blankets. Or at least somewhere in the bedroom, like on carpeted floor next to wooden furniture. I HATE those dreams so much but they keep happening.