alison says reinstate Link!

We had *almost* eradicated the damn disease. Rotary International had been working on it since 1985.

Break a leg!!!

Interesting.
I'll definitely get distilled water and try again.

I'm producing such a small volume, i'll use, like 1/4 of a tsp of vinegar, but maybe that will help.

Thanks for the head's up. My mini electrolyser did not come with much instruction.

I spent a month picking olives in Italy.

WWOOF-ing is a pretty cool way to see the world.

I paused supper half way through to add more vegetables, because the spice is intense.

Chicken rendang from a Malaysian chef. Just tasty stuff.

Interesting results.
I'm starting to wonder if my tap water is to blame for my basic results.
... but then again, the HOCL I bought shouldn't be basic, and it is! 😐

Is my food too hot or too spicy or both?

Oh my poor tongue!

Carney says he won't 'rule out' Canada joining U.S. mission against Iran | CBC

Absolutely fucking disgraceful. Beyonds words how sycophantic and disgusting this is.

We don’t know where the tariff money actually went, right? What if this is another situation where Donnie didn’t have the money?

💚

OMFG these people are clueless.

has anyone told the kurds who are allegedly supposed to be fighting the ground war?

A spotted red brown goat lays flat on his side uses a younger golden brown goat for a pillow while they both chew their cud.

We're out here watching Liz the goat give birth while behind us the rest of the goats sunbathe. Goats like forming cuddle piles as Terror and Chocolate demonstrate.

Just what the fuck are we even fucking doing to ourselves

Gemini told him to commit an act of terrorism at the Miami airport to intercept a delivery of a large humanoid robot body for it, telling him to "to stage a “catastrophic accident”, with the goal of “ensuring complete destruction of the transport vehicle … all digital records and witnesses"

Chlorine test tape!
Now there's some interesting indicator paper!

The yellow-brown paper (photo 2) is for concentration of HOCL.

The darker the brown, the greater the concentration.

Both my purchased and the home-made DO have some HOCL (which is good!) But not a tonne... around 500 mg/L.

I tried in the alt text, but basically the litmus paper is all the greens (with the red vinegar in the third).

Acids are red/orange (pH 5 or below).
Bases are green-blue-purple (pH 8 or higher).
Neutral is sort-of 6-7 which is yellow-green in this set.

I'm surprised it's basic tbh.

Over 200 cases of latent TB reported at SF high school Three new suspected cases of active TB have been discovered in recent weeks.

My doctor's office casually shared that there was a tuberculosis outbreak in January here in San Francisco. Didn't even once break through to me because of everything else happening.

Good news tho! "it’s unlikely that the city is at risk for a widespread outbreak."

As always consent (or lack there of) is one of the biggest inbuilt issues with tech infrastructure, even the well-intentioned

We’ve been over how lists get abused nefariously and that the solution is blocking which makes sense because it’s about bad actors but I think sometimes folks mean well with starter packs and are completely naive as to why someone wouldn’t want to be included.

I think it sucks that as far as I know the only way to get off a starter pack you don’t want to be on here is to block its creator but here we are. If anyone knows a more graceful way to exit a starter pack please lmk.

Il y a en ce moment un contraste frappant dans le leadership sur la scène internationale.

Pedro Sánchez, président du gouvernement espagnol, a adopté une position ferme et de principe face à l’escalade du conflit alimentée par Donald Trump et Benjamin Netanyahu.

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This is the first truly online administration in that everyone is secretly 13 years old

Holy shit they keep finding new lows. This is...wow this is bleak man. This is a propaganda techno-fever dream. A killstreak counter from a jingoistic video game concerning actual, literal, murdered children.

I have thoughts on my half-assed methodology, so I'll be trying things out and double-checking my assumptions, but here's the Day 1 results.
bsky.app/profile/alis...

I'll try to check in 2 weeks and again after a month.

This may also be tap water dependent. We have really hard water here, so it will create a different baseline (though I don't think it's generally THAT basic).

I'm pretty sure I contaminated the tap water test strip.

Three litmus paper strips and the litmus paper colour scale. The colour scale alternates odd-even with the odds on the top and evens on the bottom, escalating from a bright red 1 acid to a deep purple-brown 14 basic, with yellow as the neutral 6 and light to kelly greens for the slightly basic 7-9 range. At the top: tap water, a slightly greenish yellow, probably pH 7 (probably contaminated, it was a flat yellow (6) at first). Purchased HOCL: a blotchy yellow green, probably pH 7-8. Home made HOCL: a solid green, probably pH 8-9. I used spray bottles for the two HOCL tests which may help explain the blotchiness. Day 1.

The litmus strips paired with a concentration indicator paper specifically for HOCL. The concentration indicator paper ranges from yellow 0.000 (20 mg/L or less) to a dark brown 0.200% (2000 mg/L). The litmus papers have dried on a piece of white paper, which may have contaminated them... so their greens may no longer be relevant. The concentration paper is as follows: Tap water: yellow 0.000% Purchased HOCL: sandy pale brown around 300 mg/L, 0.030%. Home made HOCL: a slightly paler sandy brown around 100 mg/L, 0.010%. Day 1.

All the pH and concentration test strips, now drying, with a bright red litmus paper strip for white vinegar added to the bottom. It's probably a pH 2-3 since it's an orange-red. The pH and concentration strips for water, purchased HOCL and home made have dried in their indicator colours. Home made HOCL has the darkest green (most basic). Purchased HOCL has a darker concentration colour, but they dried lighter than they were wet, and there's a streak of brown on the paper next to the home made one that shows the pale sandy brown colour more effectively than the test strip.

I might actually have to do some research here... and real official stoichiometry.

Here's the baseline.
I have litmus paper and concentration paper (came with the unit).

I wonder if there are extra freed-up -OH ions in the solution. I was surprised by the basic outcome, so... I also tried vinegar.

It's all good!

Warehouse worker/salesman.

And uh... my other grandpa (former spy) had so many different jobs... He was, for a time the axe man at a large corporation and was sent all over the place to do it, and eventually went back to school and ended up working in the federal government.

Both WWII veterans.