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I'm quite sad that i didn't get to see Dune in the cinema, seriously thought about going if things had started to decrease where i live but then Omicron appeared and i figured i would rather stay alive than watch a big screen.  Herb talk: Cilantro (strange way to spell coriander but whatever), for me the fresh herb has a slippery/slimy quality and tastes a bit soapy but i have no issues with the dried version. Do the chemicals involved not survive the drying process?
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In the US, coriander is the seed. I can't drink Dr. Pepper anymore. It used to be my favorite soda but I'd drink it while drinking loads of cough syrup when I was addicted to DXM. Now every time I taste it I just taste cough syrup. 
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Professor Shark posted:What makes Creed’s Erolfa so distinctive? Sea air is the loving best. I spent a summer in Chicago years ago, and one of my happiest memories of coming home was just standing on the doorstep in the evening just smelling the air. Chicago was fun but it smells terrible. Nothing but dust in every direction. vvv Nah, I lived right on N. Marine Drive, Lake Michigan smells like mud. vvv Pookah fucked around with this message at 12:45 on Jan 27, 2022 |
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The great lakes smell better than the ocean, the atlantic and med in particular smell awful  Also it's only the past few months I've gotten my sense of smell back after covid in 2020 NYC, and I'm all about smells now. Smelling rules. I took it for granted, now I'm obsessed.
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Fuschia tude posted:I'm pretty sure coke is flavored primarily with a bunch of the brown spices, especially nutmeg. It's supposed to taste like the kola nut (hence the bit of the name that isn't the bit that everyone tells you about), but they dropped the kola from it even before they dropped the coca bit because it's rare, hard to cultivate, and an utter bitch to consistently extract.
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Edgar Allen Ho posted:The great lakes smell better than the ocean, the atlantic and med in particular smell awful It depends on a lot of factors imo: I’ve smelled Atlantic air that has gagged me, depending on the time and location. Cold, early morning sea air smells amazing. It has a salty menthol-y quality to it. Edit: Smell Appreciation in the COVID Thread
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Involuntary Sparkle posted:I didn't bring it up myself, but Dr. Pepper is a spiced cherry flavored carbonated beverage. The main characteristic flavor compound in cherry (real cherries and cherry flavor) is benzaldehyde (same as almonds!). So there can be some flavor connection between cherry cough syrup and Dr. Pepper depending on the flavor used in the cough syrup. Ohhhhh! I've always felt almond extract smells like black cherry and it was very confusing until now. Professor Shark posted:Edit: Smell Appreciation in the COVID Thread  General Bullshit > COVID-19: Smell appreciation thread
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Plague House Update! Older son and Wife are still isolating of course. Wife was pre-symptomatic and now has what I'd call an average cold. Nasal congestion, fatigue, and sore throat, mostly. Older son has been starting to feel better already, and is keeping my wife company. I had some fatigue yesterday but I think it was just all the anxiety plus sleeping on the couch. No symptoms at all, today. I spit-tested again this morning and will find out tonight if I'm infected yet. Younger son is also symptom-free and the school is requiring him to return so... That's where he is. I think it's extremely dumb.
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Involuntary Sparkle posted:I didn't bring it up myself, but Dr. Pepper is a spiced cherry flavored carbonated beverage. The main characteristic flavor compound in cherry (real cherries and cherry flavor) is benzaldehyde (same as almonds!). So there can be some flavor connection between cherry cough syrup and Dr. Pepper depending on the flavor used in the cough syrup. This is cool. Now tell me why when I try to make a raspberry chocolate torte I lose the raspberry flavor no matter how much chambord I put in.
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goddamnedtwisto posted:It's supposed to taste like the kola nut (hence the bit of the name that isn't the bit that everyone tells you about), but they dropped the kola from it even before they dropped the coca bit because it's rare, hard to cultivate, and an utter bitch to consistently extract. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_v._Forty_Barrels_%26_Twenty_Kegs_of_Coca-Cola The US government sued coca cola for false advertising, and coke proved in court they use tiny trace amounts of coca and kola, with all the cocaine removed.
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Professor Shark posted:What makes Creed’s Erolfa so distinctive? Oh I've never heard of that cologne, I had to look up what it was. Unfortunately I'm not a fragrance scientist! I live on the Pacific coast and the smell of the ocean is always one of my favorite things. So I looked it up, that's a marine fragrance and a lot of people say it does smell just like the ocean. And from what I could find, apparently the smell of the ocean is largely characterized by dimethyl sulfide. https://www.acsh.org/news/2021/07/20/what-gives-ocean-its-wonderful-smell-vile-chemical-15667 DMS is important in a lot of things (it gives berries their distinctive tastes), too. But in higher concentration, it's pretty gnarly. Oracle posted:This is cool. Now tell me why when I try to make a raspberry chocolate torte I lose the raspberry flavor no matter how much chambord I put in. Raspberry is just one of those really difficult flavors to capture in food. Chambord doesn't have a lot of raspberry character, unfortunately. Does the recipe call for raspberry jam? Also on the cola side, Coca Cola is a combination of seven different flavors: lime, lemon, orange, neroli (orange blossom), cinnamon, coriander, nutmeg. I actually used to work in the same compound where the Coke flavor was blended, that section was protected by crazy amounts of security and 12 foot high razor wire. Involuntary Sparkle fucked around with this message at 16:54 on Jan 27, 2022 |
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Tunicate posted:https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_v._Forty_Barrels_%26_Twenty_Kegs_of_Coca-Cola
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Tunicate posted:https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_v._Forty_Barrels_%26_Twenty_Kegs_of_Coca-Cola United States v. Forty Barrels & Twenty Kegs of Coca-Cola I know things like this exist, but this still caught me off guard.
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I went and saw Spiderman in a chud state theater and me and my girl were the only masked ones in there lol. Didn't get covid, it was a good movie. Welp, guess that balances out the other anecdote.
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When you wear a mask you’re telling the world you hate the [insert country name here] flag and hate freedom
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Cancel Spotify and listen to Toxor Minimal radio all day https://www.radio.net/s/toxorsminimal
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Got a Moderna booster yesterday. Sore arm, but nothing crazy. The hilarious part is while I was waiting, I got a notice from my kid's school that someone in their class has lice. They no longer notify people when someone has COVID-19. This world doesn't make any loving sense.
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Well I'm sure they know everyone has it already so no need to notify right? Death and disease is the status quo now.
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Comfy Fleece Sweater posted:https://twitter.com/Bob_Wachter/status/1486773650929831940?s=20 JUST THE FLU!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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Comfy Fleece Sweater posted:https://twitter.com/Bob_Wachter/status/1486773650929831940?s=20 Well at this point its 20 unvaccinated idiots for every 1 old sick vaccinated person.
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Comfy Fleece Sweater posted:https://twitter.com/Bob_Wachter/status/1486773650929831940?s=20 it's probably like 2x that
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mom and dad fight a lot posted:Got a Moderna booster yesterday. Sore arm, but nothing crazy.  There's a paragraph in Das Kapital (Ch 15, section 9) where Marx talks about this wrt tuberculosis. Suffice to say that this sort of thing has been a problem for quite some time: Marx posted:...the capitalist mode of production, owing to its very nature, excludes all rational improvement beyond a certain point. It has been stated over and over again that the English doctors are unanimous in declaring that where the work is continuous, 500 cubic feet is the very least space that should be allowed for each person. ... The very root of the capitalist mode of production, i.e., the self-expansion of all capital, large or small, by means of the “free” purchase and consumption of labour-power, would be attacked. Factory legislation is therefore brought to a deadlock before these 500 cubic feet of breathing space. The sanitary officers, the industrial inquiry commissioners, the factory inspectors, all harp, over and over again, upon the necessity for those 500 cubic feet, and upon the impossibility of wringing them out of capital. They thus, in fact, declare that consumption and other lung diseases among the workpeople are necessary conditions to the existence of capital. Zugzwang fucked around with this message at 20:50 on Jan 27, 2022 |
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How are u posted:Well at this point its 20 unvaccinated idiots for every 1 old sick vaccinated person. This variant
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Finally out of isolation for my own covid infection. I was going to hit the gym last week, so I took a rapid test first to make sure I was clear (I've been stockpiling rapid tests so that I can basically do snapshot testing whenever I need to go somewhere around other people). Alas, it popped positive. I ended up having a few minor symptoms (a headache that was about on par with what I had after getting my booster) that went away quickly, and stayed in isolation until I finally tested negative. How did those test results go? Well, here's the journey:
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LanceHunter posted:Finally out of isolation for my own covid infection. I was going to hit the gym last week, so I took a rapid test first to make sure I was clear (I've been stockpiling rapid tests so that I can basically do snapshot testing whenever I need to go somewhere around other people). Alas, it popped positive. I ended up having a few minor symptoms (a headache that was about on par with what I had after getting my booster) that went away quickly, and stayed in isolation until I finally tested negative. How did those test results go? Well, here's the journey: Does having a negative test mean you're not actually contagious, or does it just mean the test is not detecting Covid?
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Comfy Fleece Sweater posted:Does having a negative test mean you're not actually contagious, or does it just mean the test is not detecting Covid? The latter. LFTs are fairly insensitive and you can definitely have enough virus in your system to spread with a negative, but it's fairly unlikely that you're still contagious with a negative at the end of an infection, particularly a very mild one. Current UK guidance is two negative tests on consecutive days to be sure, but that's as much about the likelihood of false negatives as to do with the likelihood of still being contagious - although I do realise UK guidance maybe isn't the *best* baseline. (Props to OP for apparently well-disciplined testing though; the biggest cause of false negatives is people not doing the test properly, to get that run of positives at least proves your brain-scraping skills are excellent)
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Comfy Fleece Sweater posted:Does having a negative test mean you're not actually contagious, or does it just mean the test is not detecting Covid? It's not exactly a useful metric of contagiousness, no. You still need to isolate for (whatever period is mandated), of course, but exactly how contagious could you be while still testing positive after 7 days? Who knows. Nevertheless an interesting experiment, if you have the test kits to spare. I would have just saved them for later and gone out after the week had passed.
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Hollismason posted:I'm more curious as to where the hell you got all those tests? Yeah that seems kinda wasteful.
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coronatae posted:drat what happened on 1/25 did you give yourself a nosebleed when you swabbed? Yeah, little bit. Hollismason posted:I'm more curious as to where the hell you got all those tests? https://ihealthlabs.com - Which was recommended somewhere earlier in this thread. They now limit orders to 5 packs (each pack has 2 tests) at a time, but back in December they were allowing larger orders. I just put in another order for 5 packs the day before this happened, which got delivered yesterday. Theoretically, my 4 government tests will also arrive eventually.
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How are u posted:Well at this point its 20 unvaccinated idiots for every 1 old sick vaccinated person. or someone with cancer, or kidney disease, or someone with aids, or someone on immune suppressants. There's this persistent myth that the only vaccinated people with severe outcomes are 95 year old obese people. With no risk factors, yes, you're most likely going to be fine if vaccinated, but there's a lot of risk factors, and not all of them are visible or even known to the person.
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enki42 posted:or someone with cancer, or kidney disease, or someone with aids, or someone on immune suppressants. There's this persistent myth that the only vaccinated people with severe outcomes are 95 year old obese people. With no risk factors, yes, you're most likely going to be fine if vaccinated, but there's a lot of risk factors, and not all of them are visible or even known to the person. Well I'm not one of those in one of those pools so I'm pretty confident the vaccine is going to ensure I'm just fine. I'm not going to spend my life worrying about what happens if i suddenly get kidney disease and then get covid.
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mom and dad fight a lot posted:Got a Moderna booster yesterday. Sore arm, but nothing crazy. Respond with an angry note about how lice don't kill people and that it's every parents right to let their kids bring lice to school and you are going to report the school for violating the hippo act
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Are there any half-face 3M respirators that have a diaphragm so people can hear what you're saying? I've been happily wearing the full-face model with diaphragm for 2 years now and people can hear me clearly, but my boyfriend and parents are not going to go for that. I got my parents to wear the half-face and the main complaint last time was they'd have to pull it away a bit so cashiers etc. could make out anything they said. edit: Only model I can find are these, but they don't take the circular filters I already have and instead use a weird click-thing? https://www.grainger.com/product/3M-Half-Mask-Respirator-55MY59 Zero VGS fucked around with this message at 03:14 on Jan 28, 2022 |
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Zugzwang posted:It does through the lens of "the authorities care most about keeping the economy going and maintaining the illusion of normalcy" I've heard a lot about this book, is it worth reading?
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Zero VGS posted:Are there any half-face 3M respirators that have a diaphragm so people can hear what you're saying? I've been happily wearing the full-face model with diaphragm for 2 years now and people can hear me clearly, but my boyfriend and parents are not going to go for that. I got my parents to wear the half-face and the main complaint last time was they'd have to pull it away a bit so cashiers etc. could make out anything they said. The only 3M half mask with a voice diaphragm is the HF-800 series, which is also the only half mask that takes their “Secure Click” cartridges. Some goons like this model. I don’t. It’s heavy, it pinches my nose, and the Secure Click cartridge format limits the availability of cartridges with no advantages for particulate filters. It’s a different story for gas cartridges, where the format allows for greater surface area and greater breathability. Honeywell makes a worse half mask with a voice diaphragm, the RU8500. MSA makes the Advantage 900, with a voice diaphragm and filtered exhalation. I haven’t used it, but there are a couple goons out there who have. Platystemon fucked around with this message at 03:52 on Jan 28, 2022 |
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