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Any of those tests for phosphates? Apparently thats what theyre adding here to combat lead pipes. But it has funny effects on our tap...

"Watch out! I know Fung Fu and Karate and Tai Chi and dozen other Chinese words!"

Google tapwater testing near me. There's lots of places - building supply stores such as Home Depot have kits for you to send a sample...

What is the elementary proof that the product of two (or n) primes plus one is, itself, a prime? (I must have this wrong. 7x11+1=78)...

Can't be that weird. I listen to Al Di Meola (Elegant Gypsy). :-p

OK, that is freakin' awesome.

This is what I wonder too, of course. Although, this one would seem to send a counter-productive message: it's making a mockery of AI...

https://www.tomshardware.com/tech-industry/artificial-intelligence/stressed-out-llm-powered-robot-vacuum-cleaner-goes-into-meltdown-durin...

Two things now I find weird about the What's New page (my de facto home page for PF). The Latest Profile Posts at the bottom I have...

Yes, definitely include dreams as you see fit. Not only a dream sequence where the reader experiences the dream, but a character may...

Also very wierd. (But modern, and electronic, so not comparable.) but I love it. (Not sure why link is busted. Here's the link...

They own a flock of sheep, one of which was also sick. So... The six sick Sikhs' sixth sheep's sick.

First draft: Vara kicked against the heaving sea, salt stinging her eyes. Around her, tooth-fish flashed like knives, circling closer...

True, but I don't need a dream sequence to do that. (Unless, I suppose, it's buried in her unconscious.) This is a chase/survival...

I'm writing a (pre)historical novella (it's set in 20,000BCE). Pre-written word but it's assumed that they are otherwise similar to...