Comment by Civitello
6 days ago
What a perfect opportunity to link to one of my favourite candies https://waskstudio.com/products/sealed-fate-candy-packets
Balls of hard candy shaped and packaged like silica gel!
6 days ago
What a perfect opportunity to link to one of my favourite candies https://waskstudio.com/products/sealed-fate-candy-packets
Balls of hard candy shaped and packaged like silica gel!
Also a perfect opportunity to link to one of my favorite comics https://onegianthand.com/post/188730414621/silica-gel
The big bags of that candy also come with an actual silicagel packet to keep humidity from ruining the candy, so it's always a fun game of "guess what's edible".
What a perfect opportunity to link one of my favorite podcast episodes https://99percentinvisible.org/article/beyond-biohazard-dang...
Why danger symbols can’t last forever.
> Benford was brought in to help calculate the probability that someone or something would intrude on the site for as long as it remains dangerous — approximately the next 10,000 years. It turns out, few things (outside of organized religions and ritualized traditions) last that long.
What a weird thing to say. No organized religion or ritualized tradition has ever lasted that long.
In the post-Hellenistic world yes, but I remember reading something about an aboriginal fire ritual that had been practised by indigenous people in Australia for something like 12000 years. I think there are also very long traditions of ritual practice in Native American peoples. Because these traditions were passed down orally or through generational practice they have gradually been lost which is sad.
I think there’s also a cave in the Middle East where there is evidence that it had been a ritual centre for 30000 years.
And you could probably make a relatively convincing argument that the ‘dying and rising god’ tradition that underpins Christian ritual is just a syncretic continuum going backwards from Jesus Christ to Dionysus to Osiris to Iah to moon deities - the moon being a ‘dying and rising’ entity, which itself underpins a wide tradition of fertility ritual.
So although it’s a stretch there is maybe some logic behind the statement!
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Vsauce Michael approved! https://www.youtube.com/shorts/OEYqWMHyhtM
What a fun little website!
Every time I stumble onto it I have to resist not buying five gimmicky things.
My favorite is the Short Sided Ruler.
Perfect for April 1st.
I'm earnestly surprised those are legal. Here's another idea, sweet fruit juice concentrate in a drain cleaner bottle. What could go wrong?
How about a cleaning chemical packaged to look like fruit juice? Fabulous.
Do they have candy that looks like Tide pods?
Got to ask why?
self explanatory, it's dessi-can instead of dessi-cant
Why not?
Why ask why? Try Bud Dry.
Lolimsorandom/imsoedgy types have plenty of space to work in, without messing with child safety.