To me, it felt like some of the best sleep of my life! The gibberish out of my mouth afterwards thou...well it was a good laugh for my spouse, which is a happy sight seen upon opening my eyes.

There are plenty of skills involved to develop and improve here like floating, body position, kicking, breathing, etc. Plan it out and make it count!

The kid is starving and child protective services isn't a free lunch program. Is the effort of potentially displacing the kid to foster care really solving the immediate problem?

Foster parents are also paid most places. Even purely in financial terms, for each child in foster care over something like this you could feed a lot of children instead, and avoiding the harmful effects of unnecessary interventions.

That's a very funny video! I'm curious to see if I can get my swim club to do something like this :-)

So when you go to brush your teeth you don't wet the toothpaste and toothbrush from the tap? Is it the fear of tap water that centers around this? I am curious about this as it seems the answers carry some cultural significance.

No - toothpaste is in part an abrasive. If it's wetter, the abrasive is less effective at removing biofilm/plaque, and the chemical components are diluted in situ. Your mouth is plenty wet enough as-is.

That implies toothpaste isn't designed with this water dilution in mind, as that is common practice. If I don't wet it beforehand it's too thick and doesn't get distributed as easily.

So like intuitive photographic memory?

More like "Oh i remember what you roughly want, i rememeber basic steps of reaching it just not details, lets generate the details" vs. "learning x steps from noise to image".

You make the way of reaching your target faster.

This helped me, thanks!

Dismissing this event though when the toxicity is right there on display feels like a passive response for a community as active as HN.

I learned from a chef a while back to apply a thin layer of lemon juice to the smooth face of the avocado to prevent it from browning quickly.

I can usually pick a good hass based off skin tone and feel from the palm of hand if the skin is just beginning to pull away from the face when most ripe.

I tend to store it in the fridge to prolong its ripened state.

They are a daily use in my household for adding calories while more closely preserving the Keto ratio.

This is what I was looking for, in the article as well as comments. Lemon juice has also worked for me, especially in combination with the sealed plastic wrap, but I was not scientific about it and was hoping for some mention of testing this in the article!

The ascorbic acid in lemon juice is doing the work here. If you’d like read up on the science as to why it works the terms you need are polyphenol oxidase, which are the enzymes primarily responsible for browning in fruit and veg. Then also look into the Fenton chain reaction and how’s it’s interfered by ascorbic acid binding to quinones. It’ll probably be easier to find this if you focus on wine science, more so than fruit and veg in general.

I use lemon juice. It works, inasmuch as anything works.

I mainly use avocados to make guacamole, and my recipe includes lemon juice. If there's half an avocado left over, I splash lemon juice on, then wrap it in plastic film and refrigerate it.

I do this as well, and also with guacamole I’m going to hold, after putting it in a container I’ll smooth the surface, squeeze lemon/lime juice on top and press plastic wrap down onto it to keep a film of juice on the surface. Keeps it from browning and adds to the flavor for next time, when you can just stir it in.

Having lived on a Caribbean island, I can relate to this visual sensation. Let me only tell you further that when coupled with the auditory expeience of the rhythmic ocean waves washing against the shoreline, it amplifies the entire encounter for me.

Orient Point on Long Island had the same thing. Kind of shocking given how built up the whole island is.