If you work with your hands, rest with your mind. If you work with your mind, rest with your hands.

There’s a lot of crossover here but off the top of the dome:

Hand-based hobbies -playing music -cooking -woodworking -lifting weights, running, climbing -building dioramas/models -art (needle craft, drawing/painting, sculpting) -**casual video games **

Mind-based hobbies -puzzles -fast paced video games -programming -learn a new language

Those in bold are what I do. Also starting to learn art. It’s one of the lowest barrier to entry hobbies. All you need is paper and a pencil.

I’m in her new district, and I don’t see many yard signs for her out here. I, for one, am excited to vote against her.

The shopping list feature is the most used part of my Alexa, followed by morning weather report while I feed the animals, and then occasional music.

Lies of Locke Lamora is beautifully written gritty fantasy. Thus far there are 3 books in the series.

I’ve never read the Warhammer 40K books so I can speak to the quality of writing, but the series definitely matches the genre of interest.

Ooh didn’t know about windows + arrow keys. Super useful!

If someone is using meth in prison, the whole prison should be shut down.

Lower interest rates also affect personal loans. Lower rates makes a new car more affordable.

Skin cancer is a bitch.

No clue. I tried to Google the article but to no avail.

I remember reading an article a month or two ago about a guy ordering a bunch of precursor amphetamines from China, and the distributor was able to route them through Mexico. He called it “simple” to acquire.

Influenza spreads better in the winter, but Covid seams to peak twice through the year, once in summer and again in winter. The best way to track it is through wastewater surveillance. This is the US tracking dashboard, not sure if Canada has something similar. https://www.cdc.gov/nwss/index.html

City builders and colony builders are major time sinks. Anything with micro-tasks. I just need to finish this one building, I just need to finish this prisoner recruit, I just need to … And then it’s 3 am and you have to wake up at 6 for work. Civilization games do this to me too.

Literally every single thing I’ve learned about Tim Walz has been super uplifting.

A lot of 3D printing patents from the 80s and 90s expired between 2010-2020, clearing the way for commercial 3d printers and a million innovations. I’d call them honorary 21st century inventions, since the patent holders squandered the technology in the 90s.

https://www.finnegan.com/en/insights/articles/how-patents-die-expiring-3d-printing-patents.html

It’s not strictly privacy-focused but The Goblin’s Notebook is designed exactly for your use-case. It has markdown, object connections, every object has a player visible setting, so your players can access known content while you keep secrets hidden. There’s a free tier, a mid tier at $1.50 and an unlimited tier at $3 dollars a month (managed via their patreon).

Great question! For the US, you will need a degree in Molecular Biology/Microbiology or a Medical (Laboratory) Technologist. You’ll then either need to live near the city where one of the few private companies that do wastewater testing ar e(my case), or live near a public health lab that does ww. Pretty much all state public health labs do it, but city/county level varies immensely. For the government route, look at APHL or NACCHO to find information on your local public health labs. There are a few universities that also do ww testing, for example I know University of Illinois, University of Missouri and Michigan State are all doing a bunch of wastewater work.

Feel free to DM me if you want more information.

As Philpo said, we mainly do covid, but we can do Norovirus, which is a common GI virus that can give you the shits.

Love to hear it! 2 years ago I had no idea that I’d be working with wastewater but here I am now!

Anyone out here reading this, write to your senator about increasing funding to public health!

Wastewater-based epidemiology. Basically we track infectious diseases in wastewater, and the results guide public health decisions.

Absolutely. If premium was 7 bucks a month I would subscribe today, but 14 a month is insane!