Hopefully just food grade mineral oil and beeswax if it was a wooden bowl.

It was one of those you might get at Pier 1 or Kohl’s back then and had a really plasticky coating. Not my best moment.

Unfortunately mineral oil is derived from petroleum. I don’t care if someone says it’s food grade, I wouldn’t want to eat it.

Paraffin wax (chocolate), polyethylene glycol (toothpaste), vanillin (vanilla flavoring), benzaldehyde (almond flavoring), and the plastic coating on medicine pills are all derived from petroleum.

You've likely been eating or using food grade petroleum products your whole life.

Yes, there are lots of people who do this. Type A personality from my personal experience lets the tail wag the dog at times and food has a schedule printed on it so it’s just an easy thing to do just follow the directions and schedule and fuck all context.

Life seems easier if you have the ability to put blinders on and never question why?

Because we all have to collectively wade through all the bullshit spewed by bots and people who don't even understand why the bullshit was generated or would be able to recreate the same bullshit with the exact same prompt.

Bullshit all the way down. That will be generative AI's final legacy.

Authors use AI to write papers. Reviewers use AI to review them. The community uses AI to summarize them. It is very convenient and weird.

Your post is excellent. Context really changes everything!

As a whole though I would say large orgs generally bring stability and stability can be boring to our brains that have evolved from thousands of years of living hand-to-mouth.

Large ceramic indoor potted plants are wonderful thermal mass vessels.

Do you mean real plants in a ceramic planter? Why is that better than furniture or rugs, for example? Water content?

Three dimensional volume for one. Ceramic and soil also will hold the heat you get from sunlight and radiate the heat back out into the environment.

Thermal mass is the key and potted plants provide that with the large volume of soil combined with the ceramicpot that if placed into sunlight will absorb the energy and radiate it back out and keep the room warmer.

Avoid shiny plastic

For lobster at least, the sweetness of the meat decreases as a lobster gets bigger though it's more than just the same level of flavor compounds being spread across a smaller amount of total mass.

Thanks for sharing.

The world needs more examples of perseverance leading to success. I think a lot of people think success should come without perseverance. Maybe it works that way for some people but it sure doesn't for me.

Cheers

> My understanding is that it's about 20% longer for ships coming from Asia. That means a 20% reduction in annual capacity for those ships/shipping companies, which is pretty massive.

Not to be a total nit but thought it worth pointing out that 20% longer transit time for a particular transit route likely does not directly translate to a 20% reduction in annual capacity as port delays for on/offloading and other factors also determine annual capacity and they can be extremely variable as well.

Fair enough, it was just meant to connect the dots on how a longer trip also means lower capacity.