I wanna know the cutie’s name!!

Lmao, it’s a tasteful detail to be sure 😂

Also hello, neighbor! 👋😊

Hello! Hope you are well, in spite of missing home ❤️

Ay, hello neighbor! 👋😊

Hello neighbor! Hope you have a lovely day today 😊

Lol, thank you, me too! 🙃

Hope you have a lovely day!

Lol

Durham based, they made their mascot gnu /s

Hello from North Carolina! And thank you for participating in the election 😊

No worries, congrats on voting 😊

Hope you have a good one!

Yep! Same principle. if you’re wearing them to advance your sleep timing or have an easier time getting to sleep early enough, most of the research is on using them for the 2-3 hours before sleep to prevent light exposure from delaying the natural secretion of melatonin.

Though it’s worth noting there are interventions for insomnia that make way more sense to do first, like good sleep hygiene, and melatonin I believe 3 hours before intended sleep time, with an ideal dose of around half a miligram (I say “I believe” because I learned a bit ago the research now actually indicates even earlier for my sleep disorder and I’m not sure whether things have changed for insomnia as well) Most people take waaaaay too much melatonin.

But like if you like the glasses they certainly don’t hurt 🤷‍♂️

Because my sleep schedule is so late I get sunlight at bedtime and darkness in the mornings, which… Isn’t great 😅 That also means if I need to go do things during business hours like vote I’m out in the sun and then have to go to sleep when I get home

The glasses help a bit, but at a certain point the sheer light intensity of the sun will still significantly delay your circadian rhythm, regardless of whether you’re blocking the most activating parts of the light spectrum (blue-green, mostly blue) so I’m thinking I might try getting a cheap pair of those super geriatric fitover sunglasses I can pair with the orange ones lol

Hello from Durham! My grandparents are out in Greensboro

I hope you have a lovely day today 😊❤️

I’ve never even heard of that movie; I didn’t watch many growing up and am really enjoying getting around to all the classics, I’ll have to make a note to watch it!

They’re infield terminators with orange lenses

If you have insomnia (specially sleep onset insomnia where it’s hard to get to sleep, not the kind where it’s hard to stay asleep) or delayed sleep phase disorder (what I have) they can be helpful

They’re not the specific glasses typically used on the studies (uvex skyper glasses made by honeywell), but those have a hard nose bridge which hurts my nose if I wear them for the durations the studies were on, and a guy did independent testing for a bunch of the blue light blocking glasses and found these did slightly better while being much more comfortable :)

If anyone has questions or would like me to grab the study or the webpage for the guy who did the testing lemme know and I can go find the links :)

Edit: I forgot to mention, a lot of people actually really like these (yellow tint glasses) because some feel they increase their contrast perception. So they’re sometimes worn when motorcycling on a rainy day, or other times where more contrast might be helpful. For me it feels subtle, but my dad immediately commented on it when he tried them.

They’re infield terminators with orange lenses

If you have insomnia (specially sleep onset insomnia where it’s hard to get to sleep, not the kind where it’s hard to stay asleep) or delayed sleep phase disorder (what I have) they can be helpful

They’re not the specific glasses typically used on the studies (uvex skyper glasses made by honeywell), but those have a hard nose bridge which hurts my nose if I wear them for the durations the studies were on, and a guy did independent testing for a bunch of the blue light blocking glasses and found these did slightly better while being much more comfortable :)

If anyone has questions or would like me to grab the study or the webpage for the guy who did the testing lemme know and I can go find the links :)

Edit: I forgot to mention, a lot of people actually really like these (yellow tint glasses) because some feel they increase their contrast perception. So they’re sometimes worn when motorcycling on a rainy day, or other times where more contrast might be helpful. For me it feels subtle, but my dad immediately commented on it when he tried them.

Personally I don’t really mind opt out unless the choice isn’t clearly presented to people for them to decide.

Like if during installation one of the steps is “share anonymized data” and the switch is in the on position by default, I really don’t mind that. Usage data is massively helpful from a UI/UX perspective and in terms of user testing, doubly so for open source projects without as much resources for doing that kind of testing otherwise.

But if it’s burried in a settings pannel somewhere, that sucks and doesn’t respect user agency

Thats how I feel anyway 🤷‍♂️

Bigtime

is an awesome newer car and motorcycle channel, they split off from donut to go do their own creative stuff after donut go bought by a big soulless media company

Fortnine

is an amazing motorcycle youtube channel with absurd production quality and directing often worthy of full length documentaries

Berm peak

is a super well produced mountain biking and bikes channel

Lab Muffin Beauty Science

If you’re into science based skincare I absolutely adore her, she has a chemistry PhD and a specialization in cosmetic chemistry. She spends a lot of time debunking baseless skincare marketing which I don’t really need since everything I know about skincare I learned from her and various other science focused youtubers, but I absolutely adore her informative videos that are guides to various aspects of skincare, or an exploration of how to competently interpret research

Adam savage’s Tested

channel is a lot of fun if you like maker content, he’s just as energetic and charismatic of a character as he was back on Mythbusters

Hybrid calisthenics

is a wonderful exercise fitness and wellness channel where the guy running it is just an earnest, kind, compassionate human being who offers advice that meets people where they are and helps them progress, regardless of their current ability level. He went viral a while back for a video talking about how you can do exercise at any level, even if you’ve literally never done a pushup in your life, where he demonstrates modified versions of bodyweight exercises that make them more accessible, or even more difficult so that people can work their way up to their goals from any starting point. People fell in love with his personality and attitude of compassion.

My absolute favorites for cooking are:

Adam Ragusea

does an amazing job of making recipes realistic and approachable for home cooking, and his background as a journalist results in incredibly high quality research videos that are unbelievably informative

internet shaquille

unprotentious while focusing on technique, has a fantastic delivery style, it’s hard to describe exactly what makes him special, but the videos are phenomenal and he often gives great life advice

J Kenji Lopez alt

the goat. Super knowledgable, especially regarding the science of cooking, and is a well respected name in recipe development. His videos are him with a gopro camera strapped to his head while he prepares the food and talks about it’s origin, how he likes to make it, etc. Its like having an expert demonstrate for you in their home kitchen while casually chatting about all the knowledge they have to share about a given recipe

Chinese cooking demystified

the absolute best source for traditional chineese cooking, and food history lessons to boot. I love their delivery style, and their videos always give a ton of historical and cultural context and are a joy to watch)

Lemme know if you’d like more food youtubers, these are my absolute faves though, and all offer very different perspectives on food (sometimes disagreeing with eachother) while usually teaching at least as much about technique, how to approach cooking, and their own personal philosophy when developing recipes as they do the specific recipe itself.

Brian David Gilbert

makes a wide range of bizarre nonsense and I adore him. Comedy sketches, horror short film kinda stuff, incomprehensible fever-dreams, a guide to the united states health insurance mess that somehow manages to be as funny as it is depressing, goofy music, unironically wonderfull music, recipies. He used to make polygon’s unhinged video series called unraveled, his personal channel is even better and even more unhinged

We learned things a long those lines a couple times when I was in highschool not that long ago, but I also went to a weird highschool so I’m not sure how much that generalizes

Thats fair. A na miata is basically my dream car, I hope to someday daily one in spite of being from the 90s 😅

I mean, a lot of cars have a genuinely phenomenal life span, if you don’t mind getting something that isn’t shiny and new you can probably get like a 2012 Toyota or Honda and drive it till the wheels fall off. My dream car is from the 90s and people still generally regard them as fairly reliable

Eventually it’ll be an issue, but that does leave a lot of time for nerds and hackers to find a way to gut networking stuff while telling the car it’s still intact. Dunno if we’ll ever see an open source car OS compatible with the systems in major manufacturer’s vehicles, but privacy workarounds feel like they could be pretty realistic

Awww, thats genuinely really lovely, I’m so pleased to hear it’s gone really well for them