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They’re going by the 50’s as presented by b&w tv - The Honeymooners, Father Knows Best, Leave It to Beaver, My Three Sons.

Even if you’re raised in a culture that has vampires, sometimes you still get caught out. I remember watching some vampire series pre-Buffy and the whole poppy seed thing left me totally flummoxed.

You’re welcome!

I don’t bother with the exact ratings, but it has to be water resistant. If you’re researching phone options, open a tab in desktop view and go to Versus.

There’s also the Guitang Group in China. They have a massive farm that grows sugar cane, which is processed at their sugar refinery and then sold. But the sugar refining process generates spent molasses, so they built a plant that takes the spent molasses and creates alcohol, which they then also sell.

The alcohol plant also creates alcohol residue, so they built a fertilizer plant that makes the alcohol residue into fertilizer, which they use on their sugar cane farm.

The sugar refinery also has crushed sugar cane as a result of their processing, so they built a plant to turn the crushed sugar cane into pulp, then a paper mill to turn the pulp into paper, which is sold.

The pulp plant creates a black liquid as a side product, so they send that through an alkali recovery process; the recovered alkali is sent back to the pulp plant to create more pulp.

The alkali recovery process also creates a white sludge byproduct so they built a cement mill. They take the white sludge from the alkali recovery process, along with the filter sludge that comes out of the sugar refinery, and make cement.

So they wanted to sell sugar, but they’ve limited pollution and waste, improved their plantation’s output with inexpensive fertilizer, and also get to sell alcohol, paper and cement.

Mbin has a browsable / searchable list of magazines, but I’m not sure how to get to it from Lemmy.

Instead of focusing on the efforts of individual persons and households, I think more effort should be focused on industrial symbiosis - identifying industrial waste and side streams that can be useful inputs into the products of other industries, and connecting those industries.

For example, you might have a local electricity-generating station that takes some of the steam that’s created as a side effect of their process, and sends that steam to an oil refinery located next door. The oil refinery has a water hook-up and sends regular water to power station for their power generation, but they also send their treated effluent water for the power plant to use in cleaning as well as stabilizing fly ash, and they also send over their flare gas as an extra energy source for generating power.

The oil refinery could send it’s excess gas to a gypsum board manufacturer just down the road; the gypsum board manufacturer could also get most of it’s gypsum from the power plant’s sulfur dioxide scrubbers.

The power station could also send more of it’s excess steam to a nearby pharmaceutical manufacturer; the pharmaceutical manufacturer could send some of the bio-sludge waste it produces to local farms as fertilizer, and the rest of the sludge might get processed into biofuel for the power station. Hot water from the pharmaceutical plant could be sent to the local wastewater treatment plant, which generates sludge, which could be sold to a soil remediation firm.

The power station could use it’s excess heat to heat a bunch of local homes, some local greenhouses, and then they could also send some more excess heat to a fish farm. The sludge from the fish farm could be used as fertilizer at local farms.

The power station’s fly ash and clinker could be sent to roadbuilders and cement manufacturers, and the oil refinery’s recovered sulfur could be sold to a sulfuric acid manufacturer.

Such a theoretical symbiosis could prevent 200,000 tons of fly ash and clinker and 80,000 tons of scrubber sludge from going into a local landfill; 130,000 tons of carbon dioxide and 4,300-5,300 tons of sulfur/sulfur dioxide being released into the air; and 1,000,000 cubic meters of sludge headed to either the landfill or the sea.

Oh, wait - that’s not fantasy, that’s the Kalundborg Eco-industrial Park in Denmark. It’s not 100% recycling, but it’s fucking glorious.

I think the texture thing with impossible burgers has to do with cooking them a certain way. I’ve had them at restaurants where the texture was great and others where it was abysmal. I don’t bother with them at home.

I’m delighted for more options, though I’m mostly past the point of wanting a substitute for a certain type of meat; I just want more vegetarian options. For decades, the only vegetarian options most restaurants had were salad or pasta tossed with whatever vegetables they had left over in the kitchen, both of which you knew were quick and cheap options for the restaurant and which you’d have to pay close to the same amount as the meat dishes. There were more options for ethnic vegetarian food, but a lot of them don’t have much texture (seriously, what is with so much Indian food) or are either bland or over-spiced. The over-spiced thing goes to some of the frozen foods as well - looking at you, Amy’s.

Regardless, it’s nice to be able to go to a restaurant and have actual options, or go to a grocery store and not being reduced to looking at the tofu and beans again.

Morningstar for vegetarian bacon (you can just pop a few slices in the microwave for like 90 seconds), Lightlife for hot dogs.

Before you go out and spend a lot of money on stuff, check local resources - tool library, your neighbor, estate sales, etc. You’ll still want your own stuff eventually, but setting up your first home is expensive and there’s going to be hundreds of things you need to pick up. Borrow what you can, pick up what you can’t borrow or will need regularly as inexpensively as possible.

First day or two move-in pack, packed completely separately from everything else, and preferably moves with you in the car so you know where it is: two full sets of clothes, plus nightwear. Cash - for pizza, or tipping, or whatever else might come up. Toothbrush, toothpaste, deodorant, comb. Shower curtain, washcloth, towels. Shampoo and body wash. Soap for the bathroom sink. Paper towels. Flashlights. Phone chargers. An assortment of bandaids. Sharpie. Packing tape, garbage bags. Drinks. I’m another bag: pillows and one set of bedding.

The most basic toolbox: regular and Phillips screwdrivers, both small and large bits. Hammer. Vice grip, a couple of adjustable wrenches (large and medium), pinch nose pliers.

My best advice: buy a box of heavy-duty quart and gallon sized Ziplocs and a sharpie. As you put things together, you’re going to have parts left over (“if installing on a wall, use mounting plate A; if installing on a ceiling, use mounting plate B”, etc). Every time you have leftover pieces, even if it’s just a couple screws, put them in a separate Ziploc, and label it with a description and the model number of the item: “hoover vacuum, model xyz345”, “phillippe cat door, model 17b”, etc. Get a decent sized box and all those spare parts go live there together. When you need it, it’s in the box, kept separate by the Ziploc, and labeled. And every five years or so, to through the box and, if you no longer have the item, either get rid of it or move it to general use (is, the spare screws).

Is the issue time spent prepping food, or being bored while you’re prepping food? I prep my lunches on Sunday night. Sunday night, I sit in front of the tv, with one of those folding tray tables in front of me, and I make 10 salads, one for lunch and one for dinner for the next five days. I’m very heavy on the veggies and moderately light on the lettuce, so they’re pretty filling.

I vary things among the salads so it doesn’t get boring: I’ll toss bits of apple or some raisins, off maybe split one of those single-serve fruit cups among a few; toss different cheeses or hard-boiled eggs or bits of meat in others, etc. The veggies and stuff go in the bottom, lettuce on top so it doesn’t get crushed during the week. Salad dressing goes in an old pill bottle on the side. Anything I was too keep crunchy - croutons, tortilla bits, etc - goes in a Ziploc on the side. Takes me less than half an hour to make 10 salads.

If there’s leftover veggies, I’ll make snack bags: veggies in a Ziploc, sometimes plain, sometimes with a pill or other bottle of dip-able flavoring: dressing or dip or peanut butter.

You could do the same kind of in-front-of-tv prep for homemade soup mixes (add hot water and let sit) or overnight oats (do the dry ingredients into your eating container, cut up any fruit into a separate bowl, then add the fruit and dairy the night before), etc.

I live in New Jersey, so I usually notice I’ve left the state because I’ve driven over a bridge into a large city - that’s usually my first clue.

I don’t think stuff like that happens in Canada or US

sigh. I can’t speak for Canada, but unfortunately it does happen in the US: California, 1980’s. Colorado, 2010’s. And the one that brought it to my attention, New Jersey, 2006:

The indictment was the first set of charges to come out of a widening scandal involving scores of funeral homes [that sent the bodies for cremation] and hundreds of bodies, including that of “Masterpiece Theatre” host Alistair Cooke, who died in 2004. The investigation has raised fears that some of the body parts could spread disease to transplant recipients.

I got 13. You’re more than welcome to the spares …

About 20 people, mostly Nicole variations and a bunch of trolls.

About 175 communities. I have absolutely no interest in sports, anime or related, and I’m very limited in the foreign languages I speak.

Oh no!!! I hope it turns up tonight, from under the couch or something.

Oh, hey, easy way to check under/behind furniture, if you’re un-agile like me: turn recording on on your phone, then bend over and pan your phone past the area you want to check, then watch the video.

Hey, JFP, the internet wants to know if you found your wallet? And if yes, where was it?

Am I eight years old now in 2025, or eight years old way back then?

If you’re not at home, did you leave it at home this morning? If you’re at home, have you checked the laundry pile?

All the supposed comics - Will Ferrell, Adam Sandler, Ben Stiller, Steve Martin, etc. Even a lot of Jim Carrey’s stuff - the humor is sophomoric at best.

Tawny Kitaen and Alex Kingston. I can’t stand them, they’re nails on a blackboard. It’s why I gave up on NuWho. Gal Gadot, but that’s mostly because her acting is wooden and characters uninteresting.