Haven’t done a puzzle this small in ages. It was nice to finish a puzzle in a single evening 😊

Stand in awe of the full harvest from our persimmon tree!

This is the first year it’s produced so we are very excited. I know what you’re thinking. We harvested too soon. But my wife actually likes them still crunchy and we have to harvest before the deer get to them…

Some people out there seem to be confused, but I always vote in every local and every national election for every office and every ballot initiative since I was 18 years old. Some of my greatest civil rights heroes have fought and died so that we can all vote and I honor their memory in the ballot box every single time. 

To some of us, especially those of us like myself who have been scheduling secretaries for US senators, it often seems like a morally reprehensible choice between compromised corporate Democrats and fascist-minded Republicans. Where I live in California, I have the luxury of voting my conscience for president for third-party candidates that better align with my ideas of justice and equality. 

But in any and every contested race, as my mom Mary Morello always said, we have to fight the fascist every which way we can, recognizing that even if there's but an inch of difference between two candidates, there are a lot of vulnerable people who could be greatly harmed in that inch. So vote your ass off, but don't just exercise your right to vote. Exercise your right to fight for, organize for, struggle for, and manifest the kind of world you'd like to really see without compromise and without apologies before, during, and after election day. And let's stop the fascists every which way we can. Power the people.

The biggest argument for the answer being “Yes” would seem to be their contributions to the Kessler Syndrome but I’m really not that up to speed on how severe or critical the situation currently is.

Maybe I’m oversensitive? We all know our votes here are public record, but to me it seems like weird, obsessive, and unhealthy behavior.

It definitely is a red flag for me to the point where I wonder if I shouldn’t just outright block people who go around making it known it’s something the participate in.

There would a lot of problems with the feasibility and enforceability of such a project, but putting that aside…

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Figured I’d post this in case anyone else came by trying to figure out what the heck was going on…

So today was coffee station deep clean day including descaling my coffee maker.

After running the descaling solution through the coffee maker, I wanted to soak the shower head in the solution since it was pretty hard hit with scale and the brief contact with the solution while brewing wasn’t enough to clean it up.

So I dumped the hot descaling solution in a stainless steel bowl with the shower heat and left it to soak.

When I came back to check on it (30-60 minutes) everywhere the bowl was in contact with solution was purple. When I touched the purple tint it turned black (I really regret not having taken a photo at this point). It turned out the purple was just residue but the black underneath was (etched?) into the bowl.

I tried scrubbing with dish soap and water, which helped a bit but the bowl was still dulled and dark where it had been in contact with the solution. I then hit it was barkeepers friend which left me with what you see in the photo.

I guess my question is “what the heck happened?”. My best guess is that the bowl is not actually stainless steel and the solution ate off whatever was giving the bowl its shine? The shower head is also stainless steel and it was unaffected in this way. In fact the solution did successfully remove most of the scale build up on it.

Thoughts?