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What are some easy but fun things to make by hand? or ways to not look at a screen as much?
  • I make my own hotsauces and chili salsa's. You can go crazy with recipes, while it can't really go wrong. I also give them to friends who love them.

    A friend of mine makes his own ciders (apple or pear). Very cheap to make with minimal investment. Easy to learn, hard to master.

    I've been looking into making cheese, which apparently is also easy to do, and only requires some special cloth so low investment too.

    If you're not into food/drinks; my gf crochets and knits. She learned it from youtube, and can make some cool stuff!

  • What's your real-life superpower?
  • I was talking to a friend about this who never heard of synesthesia, and though I was messing with him. I challenged him to write 50 random words on a piece of paper to which I would add colors. He took the paper, and a month or so later he read each word, to which I was able to flawlessly respond with the corresponding color. He did my chores for that week (we were roommates at that time).

    That's basically the only time it somewhat benifitted me. The rest of the time it's people asking what color their names are whenever the topic comes up :)

  • Australia's 'retirement age' just became 67. So why are the French so upset about working until 64?
  • It's good to know that in France, there is a required number of "working years" next to the retirement age. So for many people 64 is already not an option as they went to university for example. I often hear people argue that the French shouldn't complain because in country X it's age Y, but for a lot of French it's already Y or >Y (I don't know the exact details though as I'm not French, but have family there. So feel free to add or correct me)

  • I crave mental lint. What are some interesting facts that the hivemind (you) have stored away?
  • About 360 million years ago, trees had evolved lignin and cellulose, allowing them to get big. However, no bacteria that could digest these woody substances had yet evolved. In fact, those bacteria would take another 60 million years to arrive. All this time huge trees kept growing, crashing into the swampy ground, and piling up on top of uncounted other trees, getting buried deeper and deeper into the ground. Over millions of years, subjected to the heat and pressure of deep burial, the carbon in these trees was converted into the fossil fuels we know and love today – coal, oil, and natural gas. All the fossil fuels we use were produced during this 60-million year period.
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