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8:12 AM

o/

anyone seen the parrot around lately?

8:35 AM

@Luuklag nope. Hope she's fine...

8:52 AM

Ewww, how is this a thing?:

Charcoal toothpaste.

Meta Andrew T.

@Luuklag @ShadowWizardIsVaccinatedV3 she's fine, just saw a post by her on somewhere :)

@Rob heard of it before, appears to be bad for you

@MetaAndrewT. Yeah noticed she was last online on chat 10h ago, so she probably still lives, right @Tinkeringbell ;)

SPArcheon

@JourneymanGeek yeah. That.

@Luuklag Yes, but you also look ugly when using it; a mouth full of black foam.

SPArcheon

@Rob considering that basically every Bear Grizly like tv shows ends up with Indiana Rambo Jones of the day professing the awesome powers of charcoal as forest-tooth-wash wonders... I am not surprised.

Thinking about it, isn't charcoal also used in water filtering?

9:06 AM

Talc would be no better, butt your breath would smell like a baby's ...

@SPArcheon yeah active charcoal adsorbes a lot of polutants

also medication

@Rob youre not going to walk around like that

OR ARE YOU

9:22 AM

@Rob actually I'm using black toothpaste myself for a while.

It's really black, making black foam, but teeth aren't black after washing. Feels more clean. :D

@MetaAndrewT. but not chat

Meta Andrew T.

9:43 AM

@ShadowWizardIsVaccinatedV3 but she's fine, although not for chatting purposes :p

@Luuklag I read about the riots?

I don't think she lives in a 'big' city no? the idiocy is mostly around rottadam?

10:28 AM

@JourneymanGeek No I think the riots were not near her. And I think she is wise enough to head home when she gets caught up in one.

10:45 AM

or stay home. I'd be more worried about one of her siblings

10:58 AM

@MetaAndrewT. yip

@JourneymanGeek oh my, she did mention several times her own brother is one of those "idiots" who are against vaccines, no?

@JourneymanGeek heh, yeah.

SPArcheon

11:48 AM

in Winter Bash 2020 on The Stack Exchange Network Chat, Dec 24 '20 at 9:15, by Yaakov Ellis

@Derpy I almost put in a question about Shadow

Will Shadow gets his mention this year?

12:17 PM

@Luuklag Definitely! I'll be online more next week, once vacation is over ;)

@Tinkeringbell Good for you!

@ShadowWizardIsVaccinatedV3 but not like talc.

12:33 PM

@Luuklag chat on mobile is kinda doable, but slow ;) so I'll be back once I'm back to work and in boring meetings ;)

@SPArcheon hmm?

@Tinkeringbell have fun!

@Rob talc?

?.?

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1:20 PM

@ShadowWizardIsVaccinatedV3 What do you mean "talc ?" ? - Have you never heard of:

Talc

Talc, or talcum, is a clay mineral, composed of hydrated magnesium silicate with the chemical formula Mg3Si4O10(OH)2. Talc in powdered form, often combined with corn starch, is used as baby powder. This mineral is used as a thickening agent and lubricant; is an ingredient in ceramics, paint, and roofing material; and is a main ingredient in many cosmetics. It occurs as foliated to fibrous masses, and in an exceptionally rare crystal form. It has a perfect basal cleavage and an uneven flat fracture, and it is foliated with a two-dimensional platy form. The Mohs scale of mineral hardness, based on...

1:45 PM

Nasaem Air Freshener with ambergris

Truth in advertising!

1:58 PM

@Rob yes but how is it related to the black toothpaste?

I used talc during army service

White powder.

5 hours ago, by Rob

Talc would be no better, butt your breath would smell like a baby's ...

@Rob oh, OK, missed that one.

We never used talc for our babies butts.

Spray your air freshener!

Only some expensive paste.

@ShadowWizardIsVaccinatedV3 That's for the good: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Johnson_%26_Johnson#Baby_powder

2:12 PM

@Rob phew, I'm glad!

It's amazing how many lawsuits that company has against it, as bad as Bayer / Monsanto.

yeah

And to fix it, they split.

cnbc.com/2021/11/12/…

didn't read too deep into it, but it's something about current lawsuits going void due to company change.

Or at least stalled for long time, which will buy them time, literally.

@ShadowWizardIsVaccinatedV3 or one company is stuck with the liabilities

@JourneymanGeek yeah, sacrifice a limb to save the body.

2:32 PM

@ShadowWizardIsVaccinatedV3 I don't see that in the article you linked to, I see this:

> "Its yet-to-be-named consumer products company will also inherit litigation stemming from lawsuits over claims that its Johnson’s Baby Powder causes cancer, allegations the company has vehemently denied.

@Rob oh, I saw this in Hebrew article a week ago

> Gorsky said the consumer division has four brands alone that generate more than $1 billion in annual sales. By separating it, the company can provide “even more agility” and “a better opportunity for capital allocation,” he said.".

@ShadowWizardIsVaccinatedV3 I guess it was poorly translated, this article says they're offering over a hundred billion for various suits: reuters.com/business/healthcare-pharmaceuticals/…

@Rob indeed.

It may not be enough but it's something.

2:51 PM

@ShadowWizardIsVaccinatedV3 To spin-off the companies must all be solvent, this is audited by another company; they can choose which company takes the liability but they must transfer enough money for it to operate and pay it's debts - otherwise it doesn't split, the parent can go bankrupt: webcache.googleusercontent.com/… (webcache because server hosting article is down).

Exploding turkeys and how not to thaw your frozen bird: Top turkey questions from our Cooking Stack Exchange

@Rob oh, that's interesting.

Feeds

Eira May on November 24, 2021

You’ve got questions, we’ve got Seasoned Advice on how to prepare the perfect Thanksgiving meal.

@Feeds well cooked onebox.

Kevin B

3:11 PM

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A: Can you thaw a frozen turkey in a dryer?

They are too late for a lot of people who have already had Thanksgiving months ago: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thanksgiving#Observance

All sorts of important info there:

2

There is a shelf-like thing some dryers have that you can attach to the back for drying shoes. The shelf doesn't move, the items on the shelf don't move, and the otherwise empty dryer revolves around it so there is warm air flowing etc. If you did this, and the turkey was sitting on a tray to col...

Q: Could Stack Exchange be less American-centric?

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In the loop survey, a question wrecks my mind: Note that this survey has been updated; the original version had far fewer options which staff explained was a mistake. Of course I selected Other: Human as an answer. Yes I identify as such. This question feels so USA-centric. The USA has a...

@ShadowWizardIsVaccinatedV3 At least the not-American parts of the world still get black Friday "deals".

YOU SHALL CONSUME!

tru dat!

3:27 PM

To be fair... I fell for it this year, and bought a small stockpile of laundry detergent. XD

lol

I bought espresso capsules, 100 for 100

And cookies as bonus

(4 more packs of 10)

Heh. Predictable :P

Normally it costs at least 200.

(NIS, currently 200 NIS are 63 USD)

Got three bottles of detergent for 10, usually that'd be around 25 :P

@Tinkeringbell nice!

Here it cost 20 NIS normally

Wife buys so dunno if she bought in some BF deal.

3:34 PM

Yeah, and it's something I actually still needed so ... Not a total waste of money ;)

Yup, something you can just stash. :D

I love stashing stuff XD

A bit too much, I still have about four and a half boxes of random junk to sort through that I stashed in my bedroom back home XD

@Tinkeringbell careful, house might literally fall apart.

:D

(real case in Germany)

Heh, four and a half box hopefully won't do that!