* You know how Van Halen had a contract rider demanding bowls of M&Ms with the brown ones removed?

They later claimed that was all a test to make sure venues were reading their contracts. Clever!

BUT WAIT, that claim itself is actually false. I fact-checked it.

Snack Stack exclusive:

this boycott picket is part of the National We Ain't Buying It call for boycotts from November 27 through Cyber Monday - weaintbuyingit.com - The target orgs are Target, Amazon and Home Depot.

Macy's bought their IP

Could be workable with a Macy's baby registry?

www.macys.com/registry/baby

I'll be honest, I'm surprised so many people have this reaction to searching for zip ties in general!

Because a month ago I checked a hardware store & an Office Depot and neither had them. But Google Maps pointed me to a home goods store that did

(Luckily for me, I wasn't using them for crimes)

bsky.app/profile/donm...

It's 2017 so Trump was already elected

To me it sounds like they're saying MeToo is on track to take Trump down. Not that taking Trump down will end MeToo

I bought one of their shirts because it looked more like an actual dress shirt than a typical hiking shirt—seemed useful for travel

Sorry to report it's not at all breathable and therefore useless to me as a hiking shirt

And up close there are "technical" details so it's weird as a dress shirt too

Her pinned tweet (still) says of Mamdani: "When I critique him, it's because I expect more from someone who knows better"

So yeah, while I think she's wrong...they're trying to make this "the left eats itself" when it's really not. She never claimed he sold out the cause. It's just a critique

She never said he sold out the Palestinian cause by condemning this. She objected to his framing, while calling the actual swastikas "reprehensible"

Her pinned tweet supporting Mamdani is still there

I disagree with her about this issue but there's no need to misrepresent her position

Thank you writer's room!

(Most outlets calling it for Mamdani)

I just cannot fathom the mindset of someone who would pay for AI-generated stock photos

I'm mostly wondering if there are PM2.5 thresholds that could tell me, "this public place has 2000ppm CO2 because of the gas fireplace, but the air is actually safe to breathe without a mask because they have great HVAC filtration"

And if not PM2.5, would something else work?

Low CO2 means low infection risk, and measured easily with an Aranet CO2 monitor

But higher CO2 doesn't necessarily mean higher infection risk. The air could be filtered, or CO2 could be coming from a non-human source (e.g. gas stove)

Is there a portable monitor that could identify the latter?

50% of the air is recirculated (with filtration)

So even though the air has been replaced, the filters don't remove CO2 from the portion that's recirculated

But because the other portion is outdoor air, you don't see 5000+ ppm like you can in cars that recirculate ~100% in that mode

The article is misleading

Vance used vague wording, so that an uninformed person might think he was talking about Native Americans in the modern-day US

But actually I think he was mostly trying to imply that Latin American people would be doing child sacrifice if not for Catholicism