Fun fact, the inventor of Vaseline recommended eating it, and ate it every day.
Chesebrough lived to be 96 years old and was such a believer in Vaseline that he claimed to have eaten “more than a teaspoon” of it every day.[6][7]
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Chesebrough?wprov=sfla1
How to explain the big words to eleven year olds? I’m not sure i know.
Hormone: chemical messenger that your body uses to influence how you grow, whether you’re hungry or full, or whether you’re about to run or react.
Puberty: how your body changes as you grow from a child into an adult.
Estrogen: a type of hormone everyone has, which women have more. It causes body changes in puberty (???)
Testosterone: a type of hormone everyone has, which men have more. It causes your voice to lower in puberty, body changes, etc. (???)
Endogenous: produced by your own body for its own use?
Exogenous: produced outside of your body, but used by your body?
Yeah, it is one of the best manuals I’ve ever read.
Huh, interesting. This is something i associate more with millennials
I’m in the picture and i don’t like it.
I don’t want to read the 5 page manual when i only want o know a paragraph’s worth of informaion from it. The problem is, which paragraph 😭
And if i read the whole thing and remembered it, I would have a more complete mental model for next time.
But I’m typically drawn to breadth rather than depth. I read the whole TIS-100 game manual, but don’t usually manage to read man pages in full.
Social pressure to be dumb is a hell of a drug
Ok Clint Eastwood
Even in the context that the person couldn’t count easily called the it help desk, they could raise it as an accessibility issue.
And the fun thing is, disability is the one minority group that anybody can join, if something bad happens to them, and making things more accessibile for the disabled usually improves the lives of everyone! Like curb cuts and elevators helping parents with strollers in greater numbers than the wheelchairs they are designed for.
degeneracy is a fun word
Not just young people, but they help
Needoh consumption
I really like waking up to bird song.
One unexpected benefit is that i recognize it now as the signal to wake up, but it is usually subtle enough that it doesn’t wake other people up in the same room, especially if i turn on rising volume.
Wow! Same wavelength!
It is such a good song.
The style is alt pop rock bullshit, so it might not be your bag, but Weezer has a whole album of covers from that era, and I am absolutely enamored with that album, the “teal” album.
Also featuring this banger of a music video:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mk5Dwg5zm2U (Africa)
Liking Jack Johnson’s version more than the classic sure makes me feel a certain way, but right on.
Same with Waiting for Superman, but I’ve always liked Iron and Wine’s originals more than his covers
One dance cover of the Flaming Lips that i really like probably more than the original is Utah Saints’s version of Feeling Yourself Disintegrate. (But it is so good by being in opposition to the original – it wouldn’t be good if it was the only version). https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7LMsz3klt6s
Boys of Summer - The Ataris
Don Henley’s 1984 version is nice, but this early 00s power pop version hits so good.
Mastodon can be good for that if you find the right accounts
What are these things
I came here to say the same thing. Cheese is the cheapest pizza. A lot of places have a one-topping deal now too.