I’ve heard that some people keep certain makeup in the fridge to avoid bacteria growth and help make it last longer. Plus things like face masks and various skin treatments.

Plus alcohol… yeah…

Trogon the Birdinator

This seems really cool. The article is a bit technical for my understanding level, but I wonder if it works on hemophiliacs?

This series is one of my favorites. Really well designed and paced. I was sad when I’d finished them all. Cool how they got created too. I don’t recall all the details off the top of my head, but I believe it was a team of students.

But cuddle you anyway! (Sorry about the death from cuddles though.)

Intouchables

You’re likely thinking of this quote from a 1981 BBC interview in the series The Pleasure of Finding Things Out:

“I have a friend who’s an artist and has sometimes taken a view which I don’t agree with very well. He’ll hold up a flower and say, ‘Look how beautiful it is,’ and I’ll agree. Then he says, ‘I as an artist can see how beautiful this is, but you as a scientist take this all apart and it becomes a dull thing.’

I think he’s kind of nutty. First of all, the beauty that he sees is available to other people and to me too, I believe. Although I may not be quite as refined aesthetically as he is … I can appreciate the beauty of a flower.

At the same time, I see much more about the flower than he sees. I could imagine the cells in there, the complicated actions inside, which also have a beauty. I mean it’s not just beauty at this dimension, at one centimeter; there’s also beauty at a smaller dimension.

The fact that the colors in the flower evolved in order to attract insects to pollinate it is interesting — it means that insects can see the color.

It adds a question: does this aesthetic sense also exist in the lower forms? Why is it aesthetic? All kinds of interesting questions which the science knowledge only adds to the excitement, the mystery and the awe of a flower. It only adds.

I don’t understand how it subtracts.”

It should…it’s a direct reference to it.

Hmm…saved by a steak sauce, I’m willing to give it a shot!

I see it more about the level of curiosity one has, rather than a typical / atypical division.

Yes, as a NT personally, both options are available depending on what I need to accomplish. For my brain to have no thoughts I have to actively meditate, and that’s really hard and has taken a lot of training and practice.

As for what I like or not, there’s some degree of control over it, but what’s key for me is an awareness of why I have likes / dislikes and the level of tolerance for them along a spectrum.

I’m NT, and “thinking about thinking” is how my brain works. A lot of “normal” brains do, but there’s a HUGE spectrum of how introspective people are.

It cracks me up because obviously “Dallas” is right there in the name for that one. Yes, absolutely Dynasty was ABC’s answer to Dallas (on CBS) and they are SO similar. I’ve had a handful of people who are totally convinced Dynasty took place in Texas and get angry and refuse to believe it when the internet says otherwise (or I point out Denver’s downtown is in the opening credits). Mandela effect I guess…

That was originally called Dynasty II: The Colbys, but they probably dropped the first part to make it easier or something. It follows the same characters though. Basically a failed reboot.

Dynasty.

So many people think it took place in Texas…it was Denver, Colorado and surrounding areas (although a lot was filmed in California).

It was a nighttime soap opera that tackled a lot of socially tricky topics (being gay, oil & gas industry, women’s rights, Joan Collins’s wardrobe). Until it got weird and aliens and shit showed up.

Yeah, I threw up in my mouth a little when I read that.

That works too. Feudal lords are the new slumlords, but also the OG slumlords.

I know you (probably) meant landlord, but your typo cracked me up. I shall now go pray to my elevator gods for continued ascension.

I can personally attest to watching in 3B-vision. It was excellent, you hoser.

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