What would a conspiracy community be about? Done right, I get the relationship between a science interest and a ‘skeptic’ interest, though I find it’s not often done right.

However my impression of ‘conspiracy’ is a strange paranoia that has nothing to do with science, and sometimes goes directly against. What kind of topics would be there?

First I got a wall but Firefox reading mode got me through.

The relevant parts:

How Can You Avoid Getting Bit?

In order to avoid tick bites, wear long clothing, stuff your pant legs into your socks and consider treating your clothes with permethrin insecticide to avoid unwanted passengers. Environmental Protection Agency–registered tick repellents, especially those containing DEET, are also effective at keeping the parasites and other bugs away. Avoid obvious tick habitats such as shady brush, even if it’s in your own yard. When you return home, throw your clothes in the dryer and do a thorough check for ticks on your body. Ticks love nooks and crannies, so pay extra attention to damp spots such as your armpits or the backs of your knees. Also check your dogs because dog ticks can carry Rocky Mountain spotted fever, which can also infect humans.

Even with these preventive measures, if you see a tick lodged on you, skip the matches or nail polish and resist the urge to pick it off with your fingers—you’ll only leave the tick’s mouth lodged into the skin. Instead use tweezers and pluck at the site of the bite as close to the skin as possible. If you’re planning to go camping in areas with known high tick counts, carry fine-tip tweezers—they could save your life. The CDC advises to consult your health care provider after noticing a tick bite if you start to experience flulike symptoms such as headache, chills or fever. It’s always best to catch tick-borne illnesses early.

If you’re not in the Americas, the Rocky Mointain Fever won’t be relevant. But for example, in Europe, Tick Borne Encefalitis (TBE) is a big problem. Information on this and even other countries:

https://www.ecdc.europa.eu/en/tick-borne-diseases

I am playing it right now! It was at 20% sale a few days ago. Don’t know if it’ll get even more discounted later.

It is nearly perfect for the deck. I only have a small grievance with moving things in the inventory. It takes a long while to step through the slots. But maybe I’m doing something wrong.

Tunic is also on my wishlist. Crossing fingers!

In my Colombian homecity in the andean region, yes. One can drink straight from the tap, but most people prefer to refrigerate it first, because they feel room water tastes wrong. When I was younger my family used to boil it due to more uncertain regulations and myths, but they stopped.

In Sweden, definitely yes, but now I got used to drinking room temperature water, and I can’t go back. So definitely directly from the tap here.

Is this a reference to something?

I enjoy writing by hand, but I do look forward to a good e-ink device (Products like the remarkable have a subscription model and it’s closed hardware and software, which is a big negative to me). Waiting to see how projects like PineNote evolve.

For now I just write on which ever notebook is closest to me. The act of writing is more important than actually storing information somewhere outside of my head.

Agreed, I’m neither a man nor an incel but I’m diagnosed autism and ADHD and even with diagnoses and a lot of help on paper this is extremely frustrating. Too many therapies that are based on neurotypicals and we’re only beginning to scratch the surface of why they don’t work. Too many of us end up feeling deeply misunderstood and hopeless. I have to constantly keep up with autism research only to be able to speak my mind and avoid losing more years to failed attempts. I’m lucky about the people that surround me to have stopped me from increased resentment and many types of maladaptive coping mechanisms.

This is just a teaser and I’m looking forward to the finished images.

However it always amazes me how disappointingly non-detailed pictures of planets can be even on the most powerful telescopes. Because they’re that far away! It takes something like Cassini going all the way there to give us a better look.

That said, the most powerful view of Saturn for me was the one I saw with my own eyes through a local telescope. It was just a little blurry thing but just actually seeing it there with the ring shape with my own eyes was indescribable.

Ohh such a nice stand and such growth!

Thank you!

Exactly! What if I’m removing the ones that would otherwise have the best chances‽

I deleted my posts but not my account so that I can keep deleting them.

At the rate of one gram per hour.

I wonder how this works in places like my family home in Colombia. There’s municipal gas distribution for gas stoves. An electric stove for the majority of the population involves a prohibitive cost, both initially when buying the stove and ongoing, due to electricity costing much more than gas.

On the other hand, houses over there tend to be open to the air, where vents are not even needed because there’s very little separation between the air inside and outside.

And I wonder if the stove gas used varies a lot between places and how that might affect the presence of benzene.

The instance I’m on is for science! mander.xyz

Edit: I take back my recommendation. Mander.xyz refuses to defederate with the most toxic of communities so far. And it’s leaning heavily into the “free-speech” way and being open to Meta. Example: https://mander.xyz/post/927735

I’m moving elsewhere.

Exactly, my home instance is mander.xyz but I’m subscribed to this community and saw this post in my feed.

De donde es esto? Tienes algun link?

I take meds and I will never fold. Best I can do is actually doing the laundry.

Oooh that’s beautiful