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Cake day: August 15th, 2024

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  • My grandpa had an interesting twist. He was working bartender for a community charity event (this probably would be illegal today, but in the 1950s), and the other guy starting taking off his apron “I can’t work here, those kids coming this way will tell my parents to not buy from my business if I refuse to serve them” (remember, 1950s, it was illegal to serve alcohol to kids, but odds are half the community only cared about that law if they thought the state police would find out, which in this type of event there was reasonable odds of).

    My grandpa responded “oh don’t worry, if you don’t want to serve someone just send them to me”

    “oh, is that why you were sending all those kids to me with a ‘he’s the boss’?”

    “Yes. That is also why they put two people who don’t know each other on this job - odds are we don’t worry about the same kids”






  • problem is a phone only works if you have it on you. Grandma falling often is a case where she doesn’t have a phone (often grandma in this case is in mental decline and wouldn’t think to use the phone if she had it).

    A privacy respecting device that can hear “help” and general cries/grunts to get help when needed is what the world really needs. This is much more complex than the ask, but it is the real need here. For me what the OP was asking is enough, I just need to inform a kid in a different room dinner is ready.


  • algae releases oxygen, but then consumes the oxygen again latter when the energy is needed. There is just a surplus that isn’t consumes - everything that makes up the cell isn’t recombined, also oils and such may result as well. Sometimes this surplus rots/burns thus converting back to CO2, but other things can happen (sink to the bottom of the sea where there isn’t spare oxygen to recombine with). Not all recombining is perfect either, sometimes you get coal as a result. The vast majority is recombined, but there is a lot of algae and so just a little bit of difference makes for a massive amount that isn’t. (not near enough to make up for all the fuel humans are burning - but overall the earth seems to have been slightly net negative in CO2 before humans started burning fossil fuels for energy)






  • No, only downsides. Your jelly is more sugar than fruit, what passes for bread is an abomination, and peanut butter is typically more hydrogenated oil than peanuts…

    Every once in a while I make loaf or real bread - but I can never keep it in the kitchen long enough to put anything else on it because it is so good. Not that real bread needs help anyway.

    My grandma used to make some jelly without all the non-fruit additions (is this Jam?). I have also made peanut butter from just peanuts (and you can even buy this in stores). These would be required to have a good PBJ, but as I said, I can’t keep real bread around long enough to see if there would be any upside to such a creation - my guess is hiding the flavor of real bread means this too is a downside but I will never know.