JudahBenHur

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[–] JudahBenHur@lemm.ee 2 points 1 month ago (3 children)

ok but its really nothing like salted caramel..

that salmiak is ammonium chrloride, not sodium chloride which is whats in salted caramel.. and salted caramel is balanced between salty and sweet. I've had sweedish salmiak candy that is essentially a hollow cylinder of licorice that melts to a point that it dumps a quarter teaspoon of ammonium salt onto your tongue. no salted caramel comes anywhere near that, and for gods sake why would it

[–] JudahBenHur@lemm.ee 2 points 1 month ago

truuuust me she's tried everything you can think of. I find it surprising that she cant remember right as in correct as in dominant hand but she cannot. its honestly a little baffling

[–] JudahBenHur@lemm.ee 2 points 1 month ago

I dont have this problem and thats tricky for me also

[–] JudahBenHur@lemm.ee 38 points 1 month ago (12 children)

this is a very real condition. my wife has a phd in experimental physics and can NOT remember which is which. if she looks at her hands she has a trick (the L your thumb and index fingers make is the correct orientation) but say "turn right!" to her and you might have well just made the muted trumped voice from the old peanuts cartoons

[–] JudahBenHur@lemm.ee 10 points 1 month ago

I just got my absentee ballot. Had to show where I registered and provide signature.

[–] JudahBenHur@lemm.ee 1 points 1 month ago

you dont mail them back all at once, you collect them and send them back in the envelopes they provide.

they are very, very light.

mail trucks go from my community mailbox to the city centre, then to the other hub whether or not my few ounces of brush heads are in there.

Nothing is perfect. Take biodegradable trash bags for example. There's a higher carbon cost to make those than thin petro-chemical regular bags. You need to weigh up landfill waste vs energy costs with everything, but with more energy. Same with mining for lithium for EV batteries.

Nothing is perfect. This, I believe, is a better choice.

[–] JudahBenHur@lemm.ee 4 points 1 month ago

yeah.. well maybe keep it in mind for when it craps out on you. or you could consider ditching it (while recycling the battery properly) just to stop buying new heads that'll be around for millennia after we're both dead

[–] JudahBenHur@lemm.ee 22 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (4 children)

SURI. They're made to be able to be repaired so you won't have to replace it, and the heads are made with vegetable based plastics that you mail to them to actually get recycled.

The battery lasts for weeks and weeks, it has a UV sterilizing travel case and is the best electric toothbrush I've owned.

From their website:

Every toothbrush you’ve ever owned still exists.

Each year 4 billion toothbrushes are thrown away; enough to circle the earth 12 times.

Which is why we need to take toothbrush design back to first principles. If we can do our best to make each component reusable or recyclable, we can do more with less.

trysuri.com

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