TYVM! I unfortunately actually am photosensitive, so that’s a dealbreaker sort of out the gate. I’ll have to wait for that to be patched. I appreciate the info, though!

How does postmarketOS handle for you on your Fairphone? I’ve got a Fairphone 4 running e/OS and have been debating the best options for when I finally need a new phone.

I’m not saying I couldn’t see cases where I would seriously consider using calculus in a sewing pattern, but it’s really not used in sewing pattern creation basically ever unless someone already knows it and has a very specific use case. I suspect the OP meant “calculations” or something similar and mis-typed.

Source: I still remember a fair amount of calculus and I sew

I suggest watching these videos from Float Head Physics. They’re just some of the clearest and most intuitive explanations of relativity I’ve seen, and any other explanation I give here would just be me attempting to paraphrase him.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zkv8sW6y3sY https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vitf8YaVXhc

He has a whole playlist on special relativity which is really insightful if you want an even deeper dive, as well as playlists on other things like general relativity and quantum mechanics, all of which are based on building intuition instead of starting with complicated math equations.

He’s the first one to get me to understand the Twin Paradox’s solution! Everywhere else was just like “because of the acceleration,” which never made sense to me and is in fact NOT related to the solution! Hell, his videos are responsible for the only science meme I’ve made and posted here myself.

It’s relativity of simultaneity. It’s always relativity of simultaneity.

It is! Seriously one of the best physics educators out there.

Nope. In your frame of reference, they will still be moving at the speed of light.

A) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wiBsfvW5AWY

B) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i88ipC8GebA

And just for good measure on a more intuitive understanding of special relativity, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vitf8YaVXhc and https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zkv8sW6y3sY

I love this guy’s videos; the best I have ever seen difficult physics concepts explained, based on intuition and not equations.

I like a good bowl meal. The template is grain/pseudo-grain, legume, two or three veggies, sauce. So you could have a quinoa and chickpea bowl with pickled red onions, kale, and roasted red peppers, topped with a hummus tahini sauce. Or a black bean and rice bowl with pickled jalapeños, grilled corn (which is also technically a grain but it still works as a vegetable) and chopped red tomatoes, with an avocado crema sauce. It’s extremely flexible, easy to make, and good for meal prepping. You can add an additional protein if it’s still not filling enough, like fried tofu or crumbled tempeh or seitan “chicken”.

It’s far from the only way to make an easy, filling veggie meal, but it’s one of the easiest frameworks for people used to the “meat, carb, vegetable side dish” style of meal.

Very good point! Would love to see that researched as well.

Does this imply that pigeons don’t experience the Uncanny Valley? Does it mean that we can determine whether non-human animals experience the Uncanny Valley? Because I would love to see a deep dive into how common that is in the animal kingdom.

Would you describe him as a friend of yours?

Hamsters are specialty pets which require specialty care and knowledge and I wish to God that more people understood this.

Just checked out both drip and Bluemoon, both FOSS from F-Droid with local only data

Bluemoon lets you import data from Flo, but to export data from Flo, you need to make an account with Flo, it seems. (It also let’s you import data from Clue, but I don’t use Clue.)

drip lets you import data just from a CSV file, nothing that seems specific to any app format. So far I like drip a lot better, TBH; the UI is more intuitive to me, and it seems more featureful. Its prediction also lines up with Flo after putting in data since January.

However, I have just downloaded both apps. My plan is to keep Flo around for one more cycle while I compare it to the others, then kick Flo to the curb for becoming enshittified spyware, with sad nostalgia for the life-changing product it originally was to me.

Right now, I am not seeing luteal vs. follicular phase estimated with just period data on either, though, which is annoying. I want a rough sense for the purposes of some tailored nutritional stuff, but I’m not looking to get pregnant or anything and really do not wish to bother with the trouble of taking daily temperatures. Flo currently gives me that. I know it’s basically just adding 15 days but I still like having the at a glance feature.

EDIT: Adding Mensinator, another FOSS one on F-Droid, to the trial. Looks like this one offers an import feature, but I have no idea what format it’s expecting, because it couldn’t find my export from Bluemoon. Mensinator does provide the option to just mark a day as ovulation, which neither Bluemoon nor drip offer. It does at least seem like drip tells you if you’re in the first or second half of your cycle on the individual day profile for the day of, but I want something I can use for meal planning. Mensinator may be the best suited for me so far, but I will give them all time.

Also, bafflingly, when I attempted to export my data from drip, it provided me a “share file” option to share the .csv file without a simple option to just…download it.

EDIT 2: Now that I’ve had some periods to trial this out, Mensinator is my personal winner. Easy enough to use, good predictions, and predicts ovulation without having to do daily measurements. Feel free to play around with options yourself to find which suits you best, though.

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Slow cooking caramelized onions 100% works. The liquid can be drained near the end for a flavorful broth, and you can leave the lid off for the last few hours to let any straggler liquid evaporate if you want them really jammy.

That sounds amazing.

In my experience, slow cooker caramelized onions are pretty reasonable to make in bulk, then freeze into a lump in your freezer that you keep telling yourself you’ll totally use in a recipe until you forget about its very existence, rediscover it once it’s a freezer burned mess, and reluctantly throw out, telling yourself that surely next time you bulk prep caramelized onions for some recipe that calls for them, you will not make the same mistake.

Er, I mean, have you tried slow cooking caramelized onions? It takes longer but it’s so hands off!

To break from the pineapple upside down cake chorus, maybe a Dole whip sort of thing?

I’ve never had a bean variety I disliked, but black beans are my favorite and most common bean craving.

I think least favorite goes to baked beans, if I can count those as a kind of bean. I don’t like their weird sweetness + smokiness combo (sweet + smoky can be good, but here it never worked for me) and also I have a Pavlovian negative association between them and being dragged to cookouts where people were like “Sure, we have a vegetarian option! Baked beans! … It’s cool that they have bacon in them, right?”

If I can’t count baked beans because they’re not a variety of beans, then Lima beans. There are good Lima beans, but if you run into them in the wild, they’re probably mushy and poorly prepared.

As for black-eyed peas, I like to cook them up in an Instant Pot with seasonings of smoked paprika, nutritional yeast, chilli powder, and hefty amounts of garlic and onion, then stir in a cooking green at the end and eat them with corn chips or over cornbread. Oh, and drizzle them with a good extra-virgin olive oil and add a splash of lemon juice before serving.