My mom does this game where we have a bunch of random (and generally cheap crap) gifts and a some dice. We roll the dice and have to trade, steal, open or leave with the gift. The kids seem to enjoy it and we generally have a good time. The key is to have a decent gift and something crazy that is like 'where did you get this.' we recently introduced this to a friend group... There's not a legendary homemade necklace that looks like someone named groodle made it 2k years ago.
...as a Hispanic male... This is Hispanic as fuck... There's like an sub culture of weird 'buy a barbie and make some other extravagent doll for decoration' and this is clearly an offshoot...
Beeper is a good, easy solution. And it has a few platforms that might entice your family (FB, x, Whatsapp, signal, etc). It's basically matrix with a bunch of bridges preset up.. it can be self hosted if you really want to be privacy focused... I like it as it makes the login experience much easier than a traditional matrix app (like it just email them a code each login)
@verdantbanana maybe i wasn't super clear... my issue isn't with heavy metals and what we should do about them. my issue with the article is that it lacks actual data what one could compare with regulatory levels globally... like regardless if it's true, my beef is with the lack of meat to the article.
As someone in the industry, I hate these articles. Yes, heavy metals matter and generally come from over usage of pesticides... But this article does what many are doing lately... Not giving values. Some heavy metals are naturally occuring and are at low levels with no risk... Without values this is bullshit. Reminds me of the girl scout cookies thing...
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