No Man’s Sky. Pretty sweet deal, I think.

I’d just start mining random stuff to put together to make better mining gear to mine better and more stuff.

Then just get on my dinghy and explore the 'verse while looking out for a better dinghy. Maybe plop down a few bases on nice planets, rinse and repeat.

heh, I can also hear myself blink sometimes in a quiet room. my thyroid tests are inconclusive though.

have you considered getting your thyroid checked? anecdotal evidence, a former colleague mentioned they had thyroid issues (on the hyper side) and could hear their pulse in their head before solving it. somehow that bit of info stuck with me

isn’t NATO a defensive treaty? which would mean no obligation to participate in actions of aggression?

regarding your edit there, I guess most people stopped reading at ‘essential oils’ without knowing where this was going.

this is one (the only?) actual medical use for these things - their main thing is that they smell in a certain way that is consistent, so you use them to retrain your sense of smell. that’s it. no taking internally or applying to skin or whatever. just take the stopper off the wee bottle, sniff and repeat for as many bottles as you can be arsed.

when I had covid-19, I didn’t have so well defined scents on hand, but I did have several colognes I could sniff, and I knew fairly well how they were supposed to smell and could use those to gauge my senses. fun times, they were…

was it brunost by any chance?

Fully agree with you there. I can never fully relax around family and it’d probably be a nightmare living with them.

aye, no idea what the fuss is about. had grasshoppers and mealworms as snacks. nothing mind-blowing but surprisingly tasty for all the infamy. salty snacks, so went great with beer. turn them into flour and use for falafel/köfte, I’m thinking it’d probably build very well with the slight umami. bad side though would be that if you’re allergic to seafood, you’re probably allergic to these critters as well

guessing supernatural

heh. TIL. thanks for that!

on licence. right, what’s that, then? will they have any other sort of restrictions once they get out at minimum 36?

using a microwave is the only way I can actually cook rice perfectly. I don’t own a rice cooker and stovetop is just a sticky mess

I am afraid to ask this but what cavities are you referring to? Do biohackers feel the need for more cavities usually?

I remember reading on that other site at some point about airline pilots and the ‘guard’ channel which is supposedly used for shitposts. Any pilot on here that can confirm? This about the discipline of airline pilots.

I mean, all life on Earth is basically carbon based and that’s how oil formed in the first place, organic matter burried deep and left there for a very long time. We’d just have to find a way to put organic matter in the places we extract oil from now.

Living things already pull carbon out of the atmosphere (via plants, for instance - plants pull carbon from the air and nitrogen from the soil, and along with water build up all manner of sugars and proteins. animals then eat those and they become the building blocks for the animal’s body). They also put some back as byproducts of metabolism - CO2 for higher organisms, methane for some bacteria. Living things just go through a cycle and none of the carbon remains locked away, as it was in the case of oil deposits. All that oil was at some point huge hunks of living, breathing, eating, multiplying beings. So we wouldn’t actually need to form it into a solid rock before disposing of it.

I don’t know, maybe we can just dig an extremely deep pit and shove all our organic waste down there. Or make some very sturdy concrete tombs (similar to nuclear waste, minus the lead) and just seal it all away, but it’d have to be completely sealed so as not to seep into the environment around it. Or deep enough so that it won’t contaminate groundwater if it does.

because saying you’d need to build a power plant for every 72 homes would not make the technology very attractive

quoth Rage Against The Machine:

‘fuck you, I won’t do what you tell me’

Ah, you are a person of culture(s) as well, I see

probably not the first thing that springs to mind when thinking synthetic yeasts, but I cannot wait for a yeast that gives raspberry flavours to beer and can ferment at basically any temperature.

evolution is mainly a haphazard process where something gets carried over because it offers some advantage to the organism at that specific time in that specific environment (be it looks, as might be the case of humans, or survival as in antibiotic resistance for bacteria).

going back to brewing, humans have been breeding yeasts for fun and profit since we discovered we like beer/wine/mead and everything else that ferments. a less haphazard process but still error-prone, to be sure.

I would be skeptical about any significant developments in multi-cellular organisms, though. that involves a lot of moving parts that need to talk to each other in just the right way. also some ethical challenges there, which will most certainly come up (remember cloning?). for a sneak preview, just look at unethical dog breeders.

Huh, I always thought pineapples and tomatoes were canned in non-aluminium tins that also have a coating on the inside to prevent corrosion. Them tins don’t really feel as soft as a beer or soda can.