He’s got that ol’ New York City Metropolitan Area Transit Authority Blues again, momma!

SEA and Astrum

Can confirm. The one thing that bugs me about Astrum is the clickbaity titles (along the lines of “The Image That Shocked NASA Scientists!”, that sort of thing), but don’t let that turn you off and away, the content is solid and the tone is much more grounded than those stupid faux-populist titles, which I’m sure the author chooses to gain traction with YouTube’s skewed algorithmic tyranny.

Another channel I’d love to add here is ParallaxNick, who does astronomy and science history videos, this man is a poet and a scholar, deserves a million subscribers and more.

Sauerkraut acidhead… sounds like any of the members of Can, Amon Düül or Neu!

I’d like to try that on a crunchy baguette.

This one might be a little different.

I eat only once a day, but it’s a big one, right before bed.
When I order takeout from… say my favorite burger place in town, usually a double cheeseburger, I ask that they apply no mayo, mustard nor ketchup, as I will reheat it all on the air fryer/toaster oven then apply condiments, don’t want the bread to be getting soggy for hours before dinner.

I also tell them to put the lettuce, tomato, onion and pickles on the side, for the same reason. I bring my own reusable containers for the separate things, to create no plastic/styrofoam waste. That includes tiny ones for the dressing and for the runny cheese for the fries.

Which reminds me of the fries - back home, hours later, I will refry them for a minute or two, they come out almost as good as new.

But this all being home, I can also play around with the burger. Such as stuffing it with a full onion, thinly sliced and caramelized on low heat with olive oil, pepper and a dash of Lawry’s seasoned salt. Maybe also sliced mushrooms sautéed in butter. I’ll also add a few extra slices of yellow heirloom tomato.

One last thing: while the onions are caramelizing on the toaster oven, I’ll also put another tray with a handful of asparagus in olive oil, pepper and garlic salt.

Like a friend described it, I like tuning the burger!
As in “car tuning”, custom burger mods.

When our classmate stood at the front and read it from a piece of paper the following day, we were all already tuned out of that class for the rest of the semester, I wasn’t paying attention. In fact, I might be remembering the name wrong, I can’t be certain.

This one is a little different. On the first week of some college introductory economics class, the teacher was basically just reading from the textbook we all had, some historical figure who was a member of the “Council Of Seven” or something like that, when a student raised her hand - “Ma’am, what was the Council Of Seven?” - the teacher paused, and said - “Can you bring it tomorrow, as assignment?” - and actually giggled. This was in the 90s, pre-internet, looking up something like that was not a trivial task.

The teacher might have thought she was being cute and/or deflected her own shortcomings, but the actual effect was that we immediately lost all respect and trust for her, no one ever raised a hand again in her class, we all immediately went into rote robot mode for the rest of the semester, disengaged on a gut level.

Ah! My mind read everything but the “arthropods” bit, it got mentally nuked to vapor, processed “animals” in all the broad glory of the term.

This makes spiders only the second known arthropod species, after bees, to sense and use electric fields.

But birds use the magnetic field to navigate, correct?

Because humans don’t feel Earth’s electric field, its role in biology is often overlooked.

Speaking of the magnetic field, there is purportedly an Aboriginal group in Australia that uses a subjective form of orientation terminology baked into their language or syntax, that forces their speakers to maintain an intricate and complex awareness of their surroundings and place in them.
Anyway… these people seem to be able to sense fluctuations in the Earth’s magnetic field, for example - they can tell when a solar storm is hitting the atmosphere.

You know which chocolate disappeared then came back?
Cup O Gold, it has a creamy coconut center.
I went for something like two decades without it, imagine my surprise at suddenly eyeing it at the Fry’s Electronics checkout line!
To this day, I find it at the Smart & Final market chain.

Oh, you just reminded me of one.

Back in the 90s and up until the early 00s, at diners I used to ask for a Dr Pepper and when the waitress said - “is Mr Pibb okay?”, I’d answer - “even better!”

Then they changed the formula and name to Pibb Xtra or some stupid thing like that.

In the past week on YouTube, on channels about math and physics, I started getting a constant bombardment of online casino ads. The predatory enshittification is intense anywhere you look.

The long-term goal was to make and keep people as dumb and ignorant as possible. What a parasite.

I feel personally attacked.

Although it wasn’t full coding in the strict sense of the term, it was stuff that required elaborate connections between tables in a Filemaker database. It felt like every single meeting they had these little fucking brainfarts, sitting lazily in their chairs with a relaxed but bad posture, “Can you get this thing to do this other thing for me?”, there was a passive mindlessness to the tone of voice, like they were fiddling out loud with their brain, tickling themselves, trying to come up with shit on the spot.

EDIT: they were the kind of mindless assholes who, when they found out my vacation was upcoming, suddenly had a shitload of urgent requests for me to do. Like they conjured things out of knee-jerk reaction, like their minds were nothing… nothing… nothing… PANIC!!!.. nothing… nothing…

If it was just one language and writing system as a choice, I might say Japanese.

There are so many different characters in their writing as symbols instead of phonetic sounds, that bookstores in Japan are divided into sections, in which one has books that use… say 500 characters, then another section with books that use 1200 characters, or 5000, or 10,000, or more!
To read Japanese or Chinese with a mastery of over 10,000 symbols might be my choice. The richness and depth of those writings must be something incredible.

My second choice, for shits ‘n’ giggles, might be something like Sumerian or Akkadian, in the original Cuneiform!

“Contract management”, I think it’s called.
You hire the services of one factory or laboratory to do your manufacture and packaging, another company for distribution and marketing, another for accounting, etc. You can build a good-sized company with one employee: You, the owner.

Here’s a good band name for ya:
Los Nahuatls

One time many years ago, I was at a beach right by the town of Maruata in the state of Michoacán, was extremely surprised and intrigued when I was told that the people of that town spoke Nahuatl as their second language, when everywhere else in the surrounding region spoke Tarasco as their second language.

If I had to speculate, I’d say Maruata was founded as an Aztec outpost at some point in time, then when the Tenochtitlán fell, they were left to their own devices, on their own. It has to be something like that, right? Fascinating little cultural/historical footnote, in any case.

The people who built the stone towns of Gobekli Tepe and Carahan Tepe in Anatolia in Turkey, built and lived their villages so long ago, that the very first historical civilization recognized as such, with cities and writing - the ancient Sumerians - are closer to us in time than to those hunter/gatherer people, who lived near the Atlas Taurus Mountains foothills and the rivers and tributaries that eventually merge into the Eufrates further downstream.

peanut rubber for WWII

Ok, it sounds like you’re making shit up, although I know it’s true.
There was also hemp oil and hemp rope, used extensively in planes and ships. Then it got criminalized (or re-criminalized, I forget) right after the war ended. Gotta keep those Dupont execs rolling in the patents money, amirite!

Still, this is some gourmet Willy Wonka fantasy material.
Has a comic/manga made GWC into a steampunk superhero scientist yet?

More like low-budget sci-fi dark comedy masterpiece!

To check if this is your kind of jam, try this on for size:
We first meet our intrepid hippie, country music-listening astronauts in the midst of a multiple-year mission to blow up distant planets using thinking bombs.
Due to an onboard accident a few years back, many essentials got blasted into space, including all of the toilet paper.