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  • Yes, I’ve been through several cheap ones now and I finally shelled out for a PetLibro one that knocks the others out of the water entirely. Highly recommend. Encourages my cat to drink and runs much more cleanly and quietly than the others. Plus there’s no slimy pump cable dangling around and being generally annoying when I go to add water or clean it.

    I’m partial to this company as I got their auto feeder a while back and that had also been pretty solid. So now they match 😸 I’m sure there’s other good ones out there though.

    Issue with the cheap ones is the filter systems tend to be poorly thought out so all sorts of junk gets past them. Also, if any light shines into the tank it’s impossible to keep up with algae growth without dumping the entire tank every other day. Which wastes water and defeats the purpose of the tank.







  • I once had pasta with whole mussels mixed in. Could never be too sure my next bite wouldn’t have a big chunk of shell in it. Shit was expensive for what it was too, they definitely could have paid some guy just to stand there in the kitchen and remove the shells as it goes onto the plate for what we were paying. Not a radical opinion this just reminded me of it.







  • I deleted it a long time ago because it just wasn’t a good way to learn a language for me and progressively got worse at that with each update. It always felt less about learning and more about keeping you in the app as often as possible for as long as possible.

    Anki is the gold standard but I never got around to making a deck

    Clozemaster was cool when I kept up with it. Nice little exposure challenge and takes advantage of spaced repetition. So far my favorite despite it being so simple.

    I also liked lingo quest (edit: it’s called lingo legend) for a short while

    Still looking for something comprehensive, not enough attention is paid to actually teaching sentence structure, which is essential for languages like german, which is what I’m learning. I think lingodeer (?) tried to do this and it was good but the app wasn’t as polished as I would have liked it.

    Currently not practicing, need to get back into it. Might just read a textbook, I picked up Hammer’s German Grammar and Usage a while back. I believe less and less in learning by app. Just take a class. All of my real progress has been through in-person classes, the apps are just maintenance.





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    Doesn’t need to be high pressure to send up particles. Mythbusters did an experiment to see if toothbrushes kept in open air actually collect any fecal matter from the air and they found the toothbrush collecting fecal contamination even far outside of the bathroom. I’m not sure if they did tests with the lid closed.

    Every time you flush a toilet, it releases an aerosol spray of tiny tainted water droplets. So if, like many people, you leave your toothbrush in the vicinity of a toilet, does that mean it’s regularly bathed in bits of fecal matter? MythBusters Jamie Hyneman and Adam Savage uncovered the dirty truth to this myth by covering a bathroom with 24 toothbrushes, two of which they brushed with each morning — the others they simply rinsed every day for a month.

    As experimental controls, the MythBusters kept two untainted toothbrushes in an office far away from the lavatory. At the end of the month-long trial, they sent their toothbrush collection to a microbiologist for bacterial testing.

    Astonishingly, all the toothbrushes were speckled with microscopic fecal matter, including the ones that had never seen the inside of a bathroom. The confirmed myth unfortunately proved that there’s indeed fecal matter on toothbrushes — and also everywhere else.

    It makese sense… for example there’s those ultrasonic diffusers out there which send a constant stream of aerosolized water droplets. All it takes to do that is a small pad at the bottom that vibrates at the right frequency (above hearing range in this case, hence ultrasonic). It doesn’t take that much and the extent it happens in the average toilet just isn’t perceptible.