u/king_barnacle

Preferably dessert/sweet adjacent. I planted a fig tree before ever trying a fig and honestly I don't like them lol, I think they're a bit of a textural nightmare. Extremely sweet though. I think they're good once they've been cooked and transformed, like blended or chopped up. Unfortunately I now have a billion every year to ponder on. The opossums take care of about half for me but I still have buckets full.

I've tried most recipes on the first handful of Google pages at this point and am looking for new options. Thinking of a fig mead next but want some more things to try, "rare" recipes if you will. Any recommendations?

One of my favorite pastimes is listening to court cases. I'll sometimes listen to them as they happen, and then at a later point listen to an edited version with commentary. Part of why I find commentary interesting is just that a lot of the interpretations just wouldn't occur to me. So much "this wording here is very awkward" or "look at his face here, he clearly feels x". Lots of commentators will point out things that they think would sway the jury and I just don't notice it. Obviously I can take in facts and see discrepancies, but the more emotional or subjective aspects are lost to me. Anytime I hear about someone coming off well to the jury due to their charisma I just don't see it. What I can say is that while I have a hard time sensing what others would consider charisma, I do notice when people have a severe lack of it on the stand.

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Just makes me curious, to other autistic people who view court cases or have actually served on a jury, how do you take in information? How differently are you perceiving things from others around you in the context of trials and law?

To preface this, my packages are marked hold for pickup as the label is made. I've previously had issues with hold for pickup, mainly in that they're never actually marked as ready for pickup on the tracking, or alternatively are marked as delivered once they land in the post office. I've received wildly mixed answers from post office staff. some have told me they're not allowed to give me a package until it says it's ready for pickup, someone insisted the postman would deliver a pink slip which I could then use to pick up the package, multiple times had others tell me the package is probably just lost only to call me 20 minutes after I leave to say they found it.

What's the deal here? When I look online people don't seem to have as many issues as me but both of the closest post offices to me have given me the same run around. Is it actual policy that they can't give me a package if the tracking doesn't say it's ready? What exactly is going wrong that this keeps happening?

I have a very small kiln, the interior space is maybe 6x6", and it's kind of a PITA to use typical risers and shelves. For shelves I have to cut them down to fit and most risers just take up a lot of my very limited space. Can I just fire some pieces to use? From what I read online the main issue is structural integrity, but in this small a space I'm of course not dumping 10lbs or even 1lb on top of it. It's mostly for when I want to do lots of tiny things like test tiles and trinkets. Thoughts on how something like this might hold up?

I've been dabbling a little with clay and would like to make my own pots. I'm not even sure if it has an exact name but I love the style typically used for staging lophs. The extremely textured, scraggly, rock or bark like pots. Asking here because it seems to be a style largely characteristic of xeric plants, especially lophs.

Does anyone know of any resources or guides as far as making these textures? Just from eyeballing it I can assume they're hand built and use grog heavy clays but that's about it.

I know it's probably easier to get patterns made using end grain, but outside of that, is there a reason people don't use edge grain for anything but stripes? Would the board be any weaker? I'm mainly wondering because I like complex patterns but prefer my board as thin as possible, and end grain of course has some barriers there that edge grain does not. Or is the barrier there because it's made of many small pieces glued together where edge grain usually isn't?

For example corals, bryozoans, zooids. At least to the human eye these things appear to be one singular organism but it's actually a bunch of tiny ones together. Why is this not seen in terrestrial animals? At least as far as I'm aware, colonies on land are largely composed of distinct individuals. Why has something like a Voltron ant never evolved?

Edit: some people are misunderstanding my question so just to clarify, I'm talking about colonies of animals that, if you were to pick them up, would be one singular object or rope that stays together