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submitted 3 hours ago* (last edited 3 hours ago) by Varyk@sh.itjust.works to c/lifehacks@sh.itjust.works

If your shower is spraying in different directions or looks kind of grosd, that's almost always mineral buildup.

pour a few cups of white vinegar in a plastic bag, dunk the shower head in there, leave it alone for a few hours, and it'll come out clean.

you can shake it every hour to make sure the vinegar gets everywhere and the broken down minerals get out of the way, but it's not really necessary.

I soak overnight sometimes, but that's usually not necessary.

White vinegar leaves no residue, no smell, won't damage your rubber or plastic seals, is cheap and safe to use.

vinegar is crazy useful, I'm sure it'll make a reappearance in this community soon.

[-] Varyk@sh.itjust.works 12 points 4 hours ago* (last edited 4 hours ago)
[-] Varyk@sh.itjust.works 3 points 4 hours ago

oh my god yes. yusssss. YES! I'm playing this.

[-] Varyk@sh.itjust.works 2 points 10 hours ago* (last edited 10 hours ago)

nice. If that's the same document I'm thinking of, then. I think I've actually read the whole document before haha.

yea, thats it.

I read about everything I could, triangle craft related, after I saw that video.

If you check out the 2001 national press conference, the French minister of defense talks about a UFO they tracked that rose up on an axis of about 30° or so and then accelerated without inertial dampening, which is exactly what David fravor and all the pilots who saw the tic tac say about the craft acceleration. bob lazar says the same thing, but boy adding that guy to the equation doesn't help anything.

[-] Varyk@sh.itjust.works 2 points 14 hours ago

it looks like there's a secret NASA transmissions 2!

okay, now I know what they are, I'm going to try and find some high quality versions of these docs.

agh, I'm busy right now but I'm going to get on this as soon as I have a free minute.

[-] Varyk@sh.itjust.works 2 points 14 hours ago

oh MAN i think that's it!

I can't watch it in full right now, but I tracked through it quickly and the guy that starts talking and being interviewed by a second person who's not the regular narrator at about 23 minutes sounds like the guy that I remember.

his methods sound similar to what i remember and definitely some of the footage, like the spherical space objects passing behind the space tether experiment or behind the space shuttles around 28 minutes as evidence that they aren't just video artifacts passing along the camera frame just grabbed me again.

thank you so much for finding this! his research methods are extremely fundamental and scientific and he's only looking at evidence, and is very careful to preserve and show that evidence, not even talking about ships or aliens or anything, he's just trying to show that there is something there in space that isn't explained away by video artifacts or blurry footage, because some of the NASA footage is incredibly clear and he has dozens of tapes.

great find! i'm going to watch this again in full and then try and find out what he's up to these days.

maybe the most stunning short video I've ever seen(that was absolutely taken down, the thread was removed, I've never seen it again) is a clear, stationary video of a triangle craft coasting slowly down a suburban street or city block and at one point It's so low and so tilted that the street lamps from where the guy is taking the video obscure the front of one wing of the craft, and behind it, the mountains and the neighborhood behind the craft are being obscured as well.

I shared that with like everybody when I found it just as a "find the error here or the obvious hoax here" and none of us could and then a day later it was gone and I've never been able to find it again and through serious accidental misfortune, our hard drives both physically broke through stupid everyday accidents within like a week of each other and we lost the video.

I found similar videos, but not as clear or as seemingly genuine as the triangle craft video was, although we didn't have the time to examine it we would have liked, so if you come across that one I'd be crazy interested to see it again.

Anyway, thanks so much for coming back with that documentary!

I will be watching it on that sometime today.

you should check it out, that guy, the video editor at around 23 minutes or whatever has some amazing things to point out with photos on video evidence from what I remember, and I spotted a great example of the space circle passing behind the NASA ship at minute 28.

woo!

rabbit hole, let me back in!

[-] Varyk@sh.itjust.works 2 points 16 hours ago

oh yeah, weird.

[-] Varyk@sh.itjust.works 3 points 16 hours ago

"their lighter ran out of fluid so they took it as God said to stop smoking."

most paranormal events I've looked into seem to fall into this category.

The national press conference and those documentaries at least contain basic, practical evidence of UFOs with reliable testimony.

there's actually another great documentary that I have not been able to find again featuring a lifelong film editor, and he has really interesting footage of weird super high speed lights around NASA spacecraft from official NASA footage.

at normal speed they look like random blinks of light or reflections.

The film editor slowed the footage way down to look at the video frame by frame and there are discreet red and blue objects moving in toward parts of nasa spacecraft, circling around, pausing, hovering for a while, and then moving out away from the spacecraft.

he also has really interesting footage of the sts-75 space tether project, where these massive shapes in the background that are assumed to be video artifacts are actually passing behind the space tether, implying that they are actual vast objects in outer space rather than video artifacts.

unfortunately, I've been trying to find this documentary again for years and have been unsuccessful.

I'm just mentioning it in case you come across it on your journey, let me know, I'd love to watch it again.

[-] Varyk@sh.itjust.works 2 points 16 hours ago

All the online stuff says that the most effective treatment for hypermobility consistent low-impact joint exercises and minimal excess body weight.

[-] Varyk@sh.itjust.works 4 points 17 hours ago

spoiler formatting is wrong so the spoiler is not hidden.

it needs a title and then start the word another on a new line

[-] Varyk@sh.itjust.works 6 points 17 hours ago* (last edited 17 hours ago)

You're making the assumption that the encounters people post about anonymously on the internet are real.

That's a pretty big leap.

ceepypasta has countless paranormal stories, but that's specifically a creative writing hub.

that doesn't mean there's no evidence for paranormal events, but there are way more stories than there is any evidence for those stories.

I like documentaries:

"I Know What I Saw"(2009)

about the Phoenix lights, with video footage of UFOs and corroborating testimony from reliable witnesses.

The 2001 National Press Conference where high ranking government officials from around the world get together to share their experience and evidence of UFOs specifically, some details of which are corroborated by the tic-tac video released, which is probably the closest you're going to get at the moment, since It's official government video of a UFO backed up by the testimony of experienced navy pilots.

Out of the Blue(2003) is good also.

Small Town Monsters is a production company with great documentaries on cryptids, but are all anecdotes and testimonies and don't include any reliable evidence that any of the creatures exist.

The last time a cryptid became real was a century ago when mountain gorillas were undisputably documented after legends of ape-men floated around for a long time.

giant squids were more recently verified on video, but they are a half dozen meters long rather than the kraken-sized things people are still expecting. I wouldn't be surprised if we found larger squids eventually, but we don't have any on film yet.

[-] Varyk@sh.itjust.works 4 points 18 hours ago* (last edited 17 hours ago)

i see.

it's a lot easier to find graphic real life horror because human violence is very common, verifiable, and happens everyday.

you aren't going to find verifiable paranormal videos of aliens or bigfoot anywhere online because there's no verifiable evidence of aliens or bigfoot, ghosts or other paranormal experiences.

there are good books, movies, podcasts or sites that investigate paranormal events, but there isn't a trove of "real" paranormal videos somewhere simply because there isn't enough evidence at this point for a lot of paranormal events like chupacabra encounters or alien abductions.

[-] Varyk@sh.itjust.works 4 points 18 hours ago* (last edited 18 hours ago)

do you want to post stuff? lots of people use YouTube.

do you want to browse through videos?

how are you defining "good"?

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"Acceptable" mass casualties.

All of the emotional and moral discussions in this book are extremely well expressed and kick you in the gut.

spoilersI was surprised that Ax was still wavering so strongly this late in the series, but it makes perfect context for his absolute shock at Cassie's betrayal.

Everyone can see now that Rachel has a problem with enjoying violence and can't stop herself from indulging anymore.

the opening scene with Ax letting someone go free and Rachel rescinding that action was brutal.

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submitted 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago) by Varyk@sh.itjust.works to c/lifehacks@sh.itjust.works

tldr: yes it works; brita filters don't filter out alcohol and do filter out particulates.

set one filter aside in the fridge for your booze of choice, put it in the pitcher when it's time, filter your booze a few times, put the booze filter back in the fridge and use your high quality liquor for whatever you want.

this came about while I was in China because their 白酒, rice liquor, was the worst spirit I had ever tasted.

I have tasted a $5,000 bottle and a $5 bottle of 白酒 and the difference is negligible, both hovering around "wastewater" level.

I remember hearing about this lifehack and so I gave it a try with the Chinese rice liquor and after filtering it one time I could drink it like any medium shelf liquor, whereas before the filtering it literally smelled like rubbing alcohol and I'd want to immediately vomit taking a shot.

so I started testing other alcohols and doing blind taste tests with friends, and literally every single time, and I did a couple dozen blind taste tests, people voted the filtered liquor tasted better.

i started filtering vodkas and gins a lot for my own drinks or parties.

it works with any alcohol since brita filters don't filter out alcohol.

My filters lasted for months, I kept them bagged in the fridge until I filtered a new bottle, poured the vodka through the filter half a dozen times and then put the vodka filter back in the fridge.

It's a simple, easy way to get high quality vodka or gin for mixers and a great way to get any shitty alcohol tasting much better.

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Bay-bayyyyy! (sh.itjust.works)
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submitted 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) by Varyk@sh.itjust.works to c/lifehacks@sh.itjust.works

Heat up a pot of water(i use a brining pot) to a simmer, pour it down any drain and that clog is gone.

You don't need to boil anything and the exact temperature does not matter.

fill a big pot with tap water, heat it up to a near simmer, dump it directly down the drain.

That'll give the clog a good punch and the weight of the next gallon or two you heated up will get rid of the rest of it.

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spoilersRachel's sisters meet ax and That's how they react to him.

everything ax does makes me crack up, but this struck me as particularly funny.

It's a great spot of comic relief in an otherwise very bleak run.

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submitted 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) by Varyk@sh.itjust.works to c/youshouldknow@lemmy.world

I used sink plungers in toilets pretty much my whole life until i scrolled across a similar diagram one day and discovered the truth.

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War.

spoilersA human in morph dies right away so you know what you're getting into, then things are pretty much exploding and bring destroyed for the whole book while they protect a governor, which seems like a bit much until you reach the end of the book and the governor announces the yeerk invasion to the world.

which is a really great ending.

funny note, Marco talks about how did are ax great long-distance flight morph, and finished them to the reliability of a 747.

Maybe that was correct twenty years ago, when Boeing still did maintenance on their planes with sturdy materials.

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What happened in the vegan community?

I hadn't heard about any of this until seeing that ToS post.

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Anne Clark - Boy Racing (www.youtube.com)
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Science Morphs (mander.xyz)
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submitted 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) by Varyk@sh.itjust.works to c/lifehacks@sh.itjust.works

when tax time comes around, you fill out an IRS form called the FEIE, the Foreign Earned Income Exclusion.

Check the "physical presence test" box, fill out your total income for that year, then write down the dates that you were not in the United States and where you were.

10 minutes, one extra form, no income taxes.

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