For anyone interested in what they used:

“Individuals assigned to the olfactory enrichment group were provided with an odorant diffuser (Diffuser World) and 7 essential oil odorants (rose, orange, eucalyptus, lemon, peppermint, rosemary, and lavender; from The Essential Oil Company, Portland, OR) in identical glass vials that each fit into the diffuser. They were asked to turn on the diffuser when they went to bed, and the odorant was released into the air during the night for 2 h when they first went to sleep. They rotated through the different odorants each night.”

When I worked at Taco Bell in high school, if we ran out of sauce it always damn near started a war.

Sorry, customers, I’m not in charge of the shipments!

Never underestimate a kid with free time

There have been concerns of a real estate crash in China for several years, with different problems than the potential real estate crash that could happen here in the United States.

That being said, China “on the edge” is certainly a title meant to get you to click on the link. Economies wax and wane, after all.

https://www.cnn.com/2023/08/20/world/luna-25-spacecraft-moon-collision-intl/index.html

We’ve just had more information come out, and it appears you’re right about the rushing! I’ll eat crow on that

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I’m trying to have a discussion about innovation in space, something that goes beyond Russia, and has a clear history.

Sorry I didn’t bag on Russia enough, I thought you guys were doing a good enough job of that already without me

What? It clearly states in the article they knew it was risky… I would consider that rushing.

Glad it was unmanned. There’s enough senseless death in the world.

If you take a look at the lunar missions for space race, you’ll see many of them happened within a year of each other. It’s a wonder there weren’t more failures!

Compare that to today, where it took almost 20 years of planning for the Hubble telescope to come into fruition.

You shouldn’t rush things in space. This is just the latest reminder.

I’m never eating oysters again

I’ve lived In rural areas in the U.S. all my life. Internet is always atrocious because the only ones that provide services out those ways know that they have no competition.

Luckily, I’ve had a great company come in and now have fantastic internet after they set up the infrastructure, but I still think about those days I had to use Windstream.

If you’ve never read up on the late bronze age collapse, I suggest you do it if you feel like being depressed.

I used to think censorship worked. Now I think that just encourages troubled individuals to find an even worse echo chamber somewhere on the internet.

I don’t know what the right answer is regarding some of the parties in these lawsuits, I just see more and more stuff get censored and it never seems to get any better.

I love megathreads for when I have to sleep through an event and I want a detailed recap