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  • It takes a lot of time to design a new, official US coin. I'm sure this is a "commemorative" "coin", worth about the metal it's printed on, being sold for excessive amounts to rubes. The only thing I'm uncertain about is whether the money goes to the shithead in the White House or some random grifter trying to cash in.

  • You can blame bird flu for high egg prices at the grocery store.

    Which is exactly why there were high prices a couple years ago and why they've been slow to come down. I want to start seeing little gleeful Trump stickers pointing at the egg prices, going "I did that!"

  • I was trying to solve a betweenle a couple weeks ago, had it down to the words immediately before and after the word-for-the-day, and couldn't think of it. I went to three different AI engines and asked them what word was between those two, alphabetically. All three engines repeatedly gave me "answers" that did not occur between the two words. Like, I'd ask "what 5-letter English words are alphabetically between amber and amble, and they'd suggest aisle or armor. None of them understood 'alphabetically'.

  • For right now? Ice cream. No, seriously. Ice cream will help cool down the injured area and improve healing.

    If you want flavor, you should be able to take most foods and puree them in a food processor or blender.

    For myself, one of the keys was to have a variety of flavors at a variety of temperatures - nothing too hot at first, though! Cold things like ice cream, cool things like V8 or cottage cheese or tuna salad, room temperature stuff like bananas and spoonfuls of peanut butter and jelly, warm stuff like scrambled eggs and refried beans. Have mashed potatoes, sure, but you can pour gravy over it!

  • They directed ICE to target people who are accused of serious crimes, but they also told them to round up anyone they run across during those searches. It's not going to be very long before they're just indiscriminate raids.

  • I have a small rock from Antarctica.

    I have a necklace with a piece of 6,000 year old bog oak on it.

    I have tiny pieces from three different meteorites: one from outer space, one from the moon, and one from Mars.

  • There's a mismatch between how many audio channels the broadcast/stream is sending vs how many your equipment is set up for. You can change the setting on the TV, but will likely run into a similar issue with a different broadcast at some point.

    Honestly? I just force-set my tv to mono sound. I don't mind not having stereo sound, and it forces the volume to be normalized.

  • I said I'd put more effort into the work, not that I was putting no effort into it. Like, my grandad was an amateur photographer and I have all these negatives of his work. I can't afford the money to get them scanned professionally (so many negatives!), but I bought a pro-sumer grade negative scanner and am scanning them myself. Unfortunately, as I said, there are a lot of negatives, and it takes me around one hour to process each roll. It's gonna take me another year to scan all the negatives.

    Then I have an entire bookcase of photographs that need to be scanned (only a small subset of these are granddad's work). Again, I can't afford to get them scanned professionally, but I have a decent scanner for the PC, so that's what I'm working with, but it'll take a long time to scan in and process all those photos.

    My uncle was a professor and the university taped some of his lectures; a different aunt was a very small-time actress and has maybe 200 VHS tapes of her performances. Granddad was a local musician, so we have some audio tapes of that. Etc, etc, etc.

    Everything needs time and concentration, and I'm only one person. It's gonna take me years to finish everything.

  • I'd put more effort into recording family history. Why aren't I doing so now? Because it's a lot of work and I don't have anyone to help me with it. It includes scanning photos, scanning negatives, and labeling and organizing all the pictures; converting reel-to-reel takes, mini-cassettes and audio cassettes to digital, and labeling those; converting VHS to DVD and labeling those; finding and transcribing family recipes and organizing them into an annotated cookbook; transcribing old letters from the early to late 1900's in various handwriting styles, and every medium from faded pencil to blotted fountain pen to hurriedly scrawled ballpoint, in everything from tissue-thin airmail paper to fragile student notepaper to cat-pee'd-upon cards; and writing a short biography of the various people who are pictured, recorded, written, etc, in all the various media.