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Cake day: June 12th, 2023

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  • The engineers and managers at NASA are not stupid, and they are not cavalier with astronaut’s lives. They’ve read the Rogers Commission and CAIB reports, and many of them remember Challenger and Columbia firsthand. But they exist in a context.

    That context is a moon program that has spent close to $100 billion and 25 years with nothing to show for itself, at an agency that has just experienced mass firings and been through a near-death experience with its science budget. The charismatic new Administrator has staked his reputation on increasing launch cadence, and set an explicit goal of landing astronauts on the Moon before President Trump’s term expires in January of 2029.

    I really don’t think it’s a stretch to say the first thing isn’t really a factor at all in why this is being rushed, this is 100% down to Trump wanting either a distraction or to be able to say “well I put someone on the moon”


  • Depends on the item

    Anything with a print or similar (e.g. football shirts with numbers) should definitely be inside out

    Socks definitely out…side…out(?), don’t ask why, they just are

    Things with buttons or zips that might catch on other things get turned inside out too (unless that would exacerbate the issue)

    I think unless I’m forgetting something everything else is que sera, sera

    Oil and odour, etc won’t really be affected by inside out or not, that’s more down to the detergents/temperature you’re using. Though caveat, a lot of modern clothing is designed to be washed at 30°C so it’s pretty much all about the detergents you use these days. And on that note, if you’re having issues with stuff not coming out feeling/smelling completely fresh at lower temps, look into ditching the fabric softener for soda crystals and/or a laundry sanitiser additive (Dettol make one that’s good). Both were game changers for this guy who has a tendency to get pretty sweaty in summer.











  • I’ve never seen any phone tell me why someone is calling, only who

    Frankly, I’ve gotten to the end of many phone calls and still not known why someone thought they needed to interrupt my day with a phone call.

    I’m glad this is an increasingly common view though tbh, we all got phones in our pockets a few decades ago, and no one really stopped to set the new line of etiquette that: yes, 99% of the time it’s pretty damn rude to think what you want to talk about with someone is more important than anything they could possibly be up to at that moment. Because that’s what cold calling someone without arranging it first really is, when you boil it down


  • Tbf the kind of cultural fusion cuisine you get when another culture successfully imports another culture’s cuisine, is super interesting to me. I’d say this stands separately from intentional fusion restaurants, this is more something that happens organically as a cuisine is adapted to the ingredients and tastes somewhere away from where it is invented.

    The classic examples are Tex-mex and British curries, but every country has a few things like this. Japanese Italian is a pretty cool experience, not least of all because now I think about it there’s some places that are straight up Japanese/Italian cultural fusion, but others are more Japanese/Italian-American, so this thing can go deeper. And don’t get me started on the godlike German/Turkish magic happening on the streets of Berlin

    Always been a fan of trying local cuisine when I’ve travelled, but I’ve more recently been trying to add places like the above into the mix, as it’s genuinely always been interesting to me