One thing that became clear to me after watching a TronicsFix video on YouTube where he fixes 18 Joycons is that the “silent” killer of Joycons (inasmuch as I don’t hear much about it) is the R shoulder pad - that little button snapping off the contact seemed to be the downfall of like half the Joycons, and is a much…

Ironically the ten digits we use every day are referred to as Arabic numerals, however Arabic has its own digits. I’ve edited it to reflect (somewhat) the Arabic 5, and translated “five” to Arabic instead of “fife” transliterated:

Obviously you are the duck expert, but why is the starting point identifying the drakes, and then trying to break them up during the act? Why not separate them from the get-go?

I’m in the minority in thinking it looks cool, but I’m also a sucker for retrofuturism. But my ‘shop is what it will look like after being in my house for a day with small kids running around:

reminds me of New Donk City:

A local cafe brought these in fresh from somewhere every Friday morning. Chocolate (like rugelach), cinnamon-sugar (best due to the caramelization), peanut... I went through them all. I had to stop picking them up on my way to work because I wound up eating the whole thing by morning’s end.

Raisins...!? The ants on a log served in my childhood home and nursery school were superior in every way as they employed chocolate chips to mimic the eponymous hymenoptera. Not sure who decided to ruin the fun with grapes that have lost everything good about them...

Know in some circles as the “Oh Yeah, Those” trilogy

so you’re saying this little fan is not as powerful as an industrial refrigerator?

We have a spot locally that makes yogurt-based fruit smoothies with boba (I usually stick to the fruit flavored ones with juice which I guess isn’t technically boba but they have tapioca too). I am (was) hopelessly addicted to it.

having never played the original, looking forward to playing this on the crapper!

I tried making the Toffee Matzo today because I overbought (have my Mom OBM’s genes) and was looking for a way to use some up... and the spatula I was using inexplicably flipped up and I deeply burned my finger as the caramel stuck to it for a bit before I could wash it off in cold water. So, now I hate matzo even…

Crazy — what is the Japan’s government’s laws regarding essential business/going out?

True, however a concern related to mask-wearing is the false sense of security which the masks could bestow on the wearer, causing people to break social distancing rules of 6 ft. etc. because they think they’re “protected”.

Exactly, that is what I meant by “unknown coronavirus carriers”, i.e. unknown even to themselves.

WHO has been saying this from the beginning, and hasn’t changed their guidance:

The masks don’t prevent the wearer from being infected, but rather from infecting others. On the one hand, from a macro perspective, everyone wearing masks is great because it prevents those unknown coronavirus carriers out there from infecting others and slows the spread. On the other hand, I feel bad for people…

TIL that Black Locust is the strongest tree in North America, and the honey made from its nectar is one of the sweetest varieties there is.

As you’ll (unfortunately) be writing about this for a while yet, to clear things up, Covid-19 stands for coronavirus disease 2019; you get the disease from being infected with the novel coronavirus (aka SARS-CoV-2), which causes the disease. So the title of your post is tautological and the first paragraph should be…