VVVVVV sequel?

The Stillness of the Wind is a short, peaceful, beautifully scored farming game that will fuck you right up. Have a huggable blåhaj nearby.

On the bright side, you can make a fun piece of chalk with jawbreaker-style color flecks that can be used to draw a forensic outline around your carcass after the DuPont sponsored social murder.

To educate downvoters: Yes, “essential oil” health advice is a common bullshit indicator! But! They’re the standard pharmaceutical for this task, found in kits like this one used to train food and beverage scientists. Any diverse set of strong familiar smells can work.

I worked in a related field and got my ass kicked by long COVID shortly after the start of the pandemic. This is a good starter on the biology involved, a journal article from Nature, unpaywalled: https://web.archive.org/web/20220623072436/https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-022-01628-9

Treating anosmia from brain damage is the same for post-COVID as for a car accident or getting gassed in WWI: you diligently breathe in the olfactory training kit and try to vividly remember those smells.

Pull quote: “Sometimes, the sense of smell recovers spontaneously after injury. The olfactory nerve is the only cranial nerve that can repair itself when damaged, and olfactory sensory neurons — cells in the upper part of the nose that recognize different odorant molecules — renew themselves periodically throughout life.“

edit to add, extreme sympathies to anyone who has found themselves experiencing this!

e2: corrected link

don’t think gaben deserves any more protection from covid than the general public

I think gaben deserves the world’s sickest powered respirator with RGB lights and holographic Team Fortress 2 unusual hat visual effects.

Glad to hear the court will require N95s at least.

Does anyone have a solid understanding of calculus and access to the Scales of Anubis? I need to compute a Fractional 9/11s per Mooch ratio

♂【薔薇　Ｂａｒａ Tｒｅｋ】🥀🌹

Why did my phone just notify me to “KILL THE STRELOK”?

Post Owns, submitted to BestOfLemmy.

Any stories of wine in Asturias? The wines of cool-climate neighbors in Galicia and País Vasco get well-deserved acclaim, and Rioja sits nearby and prints money; do you know of any brilliant vintners in Asturias doing fascinating things?

Please also feel free to discard that question if you prefer to discuss Asturian cider and beer!