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the most dogshit useless decimated search engine in the entire world:

Rit DyeMore dye for synthetic fabrics does not work like regular Rit dye. Standard Rit may not give us the brightest or longest-lasting colors, but it is popular because it's relatively easy to use in a variety of different applications. You can dye on a stove, or in a bucket or a sink. You can tie dye it and process that by leaving it in a trash bag in the sun. If you hate your roommates, you can even dye fabric in your washing machine. You will generally get a decent result with any of these, because natural fibers are able to hold onto pigments.

Rit DyeMore is popular because it's literally the only easily-available product that can even remotely attempt to perform the near-impossibly task of dyeing polyester fabric. It's popular because basically nothing else will do what it does. It's also popular because people are familiar with how easy Rit classic dye is and they think that using DyeMore will be the exact same process.

This is not true. This is not true because honestly we shouldn't be able to dye polyester at all anyway. You may say but hey, Dollar-chan, I see brightly colored polyester fabrics all the time! They're bright and cheerful and they don't fade when you wash them. And that's because a lot of polyester fabric isn't dyed. This comes down to the fact that polyester is plastic. It's great plastic, but it's plastic. It's plastic the same way this thing is plastic:

[image description: yellow and red Little Tykes Cozy Coupe children's foot-propelled car]

This thing is not dyed. They start out with red and yellow plastic pellets, and then melt and form those plastic pellets into the shape that they want. Polyester fabric is the same thing, except that the shape that we want is for it to be thin hair-like strings that can be turned into cloth. The easiest way to get red or yellow polyester fabric is going to be to start with red or yellow polyester plastic pellets, and then turn them into polyester fibers for polyester cloth.

If I wanted to make an orange Cozy Coupe, I could mix the yellow and the red pellets together, and then when they're melted, the colors would mix and I'd get orange. If I want to make orange polyester fabric, I can mix yellow and red pellets together and get orange polyester fibers. The important thing about this process is that the pigment isn't transferring on its own. We're not moving a pigment onto the fibers. We're mixing plastics and then reforming them. If you want to keep your plastic in the state it's currently in (coupe or fabric, your choice) and just change the color without changing what it is, you have a different situation.

It is extremely difficult to change the color of polyester plastic once it's made. That's actually one of its big advantages. The color's in the plastic, so it won't fade when it's washed or exposed to the sun. It just won't come off. That's very cool. When humanity is long gone, your XL Twin bedsheets you got conned into buying in 2009 will still be bright green and purple in the landfill.

But it comes with some limitations. One of those is that, if you want to change the color of polyester plastic, you're going to have to play by its own rules. There isn't really very much wiggle room out there for how the procedure should work. Actually, it's kind of amazing that there is a possible stovetop dye procedure for polyester dye. As anyone who does sublimation on polyester knows, which is a thing that I'm sure everyone has done, you set the heat press for 350-400F for sublimation. We can't set our stove to 350F because water boils at roughly 200F. Once the water is boiling, it stops getting hotter, so if your water is boiling at 212f then you're never going to have a dye bath at 350F, so you'll never be able to dye the fabric at the same temp that you sublimate it.

Rit DyeMore allows us to do the impossible. To get polyester dye to accept a pigment at a temperature under the boiling point of water, a lot of what we'll call Spooky Yucky Chemicals have to be used. One of the reasons why its so important to read the DyeMore instructions is that you really do not want to accidentally ingest this product. You don't want to get it on places that you don't want to get it. I don't know what's in it but I've never eaten any of it and I'm not dead, so that all sounds solid to me.

You're violating the very laws of nature by attempting to dye polyester at all. This process does not want to work. Back as recently as 2010, home dye of polyester fabrics was not actually considered possible. This means that, if you want this to work and have any kind of long lasting results, you better read the instructions, do what they say, use your "please" and "thank you"s. Tell the dye you appreciate it. Give it everything it asks for and maybe it'll actually do what it told you it would do, because it's looking for any reason at all to make the process fail.

So no, unfortunately, you can't tie dye with Dyemore. You can't sponge dye, ombre dye might look very weird. You're already right on the edge of breaking the laws of physics. Just be grateful that it works at all.

According to the manufacturers, the Quadro Tracker could be used to detect items as varied as drugs, weapons, explosives, specific people, golf balls, alcohol, precious metal, dead pets or wild game animals. In the most expensive version of the device, costing $8,000, the user could insert Polaroid photographs of the item or person to be detected.[6] According to Quadro Corp., "Quadro units have been designed to locate people from a photograph, as well as from a fingerprint. Thus missing prisoners, or escaped prisoners can be located with ease. The machine will identify an individual, no matter what disguise or surgery is undertaken. It has been tested over a distance of 500 miles, and will track, we believe, at any distance."[3] The device could supposedly even detect drugs after they had been ingested by a person. A marketing brochure stated: "The tracker will also locate specific drugs in solution. This means that even a person who had been using drugs will have traces in their bodily fluids, blood, etc. Thus the Tracker will indicate people who are using drugs, as well as those who are merely carrying it. Therefore extreme caution should be taken if searching a person, or making accusations, as they may, indeed, not be carrying drugs on them!"[3] Quadro Corp. claimed the device worked by oscillating "static electricity produced by the body inhaling and exhaling gases into and out of the lung cavity" to "charge the free-floating neutral electrons of the signature card with the major strength of the signal".[3][4] The device's mechanism supposedly contained conductors, inductors and oscillators.[6] It was claimed to be able to detect drugs hidden in air-tight containers, a bomb inside a building from outside or a criminal suspect 15 miles away.[7]

The FBI commissioned the FBI Laboratory's technicians and Sandia National Laboratories to examine the device. They found that the Quadro Tracker contained no electronics whatsoever. It was merely an empty plastic box in which the only metal parts were a couple of wires and the antenna, which were not connected to each other. The antenna was merely a transistor radio aerial.[4] Attorneys for Quadro Corp. later contended that the inductors and oscillators supposed to be inside the device "aren't the type usually thought of by electronics experts".[6] The "locator chip" was shown to be equally fake; one example put on display by the FBI contained dead ants that had been frozen and stuck onto paper with epoxy glue.[4]

The ideal system of any authoritarian punitive force, is the Roman system of Decimation. Victims are chosen completely at random, in a proportion that's not high enough to cripple the population, but high enough to instill fear and compliance. The driving force is not the fear of consequences itself, but the idea that the random nature of the consequences was justified and ordained by the gods, and that the soldiers could have avoided this fate if they policed each other better.

1984-style Panopticon surveillance makes authoritarians seem more competent and less wastefully violent than they really are. Real-life oppressive states don't need to know what you're doing, they just need an algorithm to tell them who to punish. Even if that algorithm is as dumb and inaccurate as a dice roll or a look at the color of your skin, it fulfills its purpose.

If you're looking for a good, centralized collection of fundraisers for people and organizations doing on-the-ground work in Minnesota right now, someone on Bluesky put together a great resource hub for things like food support, rent relief, mutual aid, and immigrants' rights centers that I'd really love to see spread around.

And if you're local to the Twin Cities, there's a "Take Action" section with links to ways to get active, as well as some resource guides for legal observers, etc.

we are being terrorized, and we are under fascist occupation, and we are being economically deprived. these community members are keeping many people afloat right now and they need donations to keep up the work.

v3nmo is @ powwowgrounds (name should show up as robert rice)

you can also donate to community aid network mn, another mutual aid group that distributes groceries to low-income and vulnerable homes in minneapolis.

It's literally easier to list the stores where the items were distributed. Here's a partial list of recalled items:

Beverages: Diet Coke, Sprite, Pepsi, Mountain Dew, Arizona Iced Tea, Gatorade, Red Bull, Snapple, Canada Dry

Candy: Hershey’s, Reese’s, Kit Kat, Snickers, M&M’s, Skittles, Starburst, Sour Patch Kids, Haribo, Swedish Fish, Jolly Rancher, Mike and Ike

Salty snacks: Pringles, Takis, Chex Mix

Pantry staples: Cheerios, Quaker, Chef Boyardee, Kraft Mac & Cheese, Ragu, Heinz, Hunt’s

Medications: Tylenol, Advil, Motrin, Aleve, Excedrin, Pepto-Bismol, Benadryl, NyQuil, DayQuil, Tums

Personal care: Colgate, Crest, Vaseline, Always, Tampax, Trojan, Dove, Axe

Pet food: Purina, Friskies, Meow Mix, Fancy Feast

The FDA is urging customers to destroy any of the affected products they have right away. Gold Star will also provide refunds, and you can call the company at 612-617-9800.

Additional articles: here and here

The Associated Press posted videos showing aid trucks entering the Gaza Strip through the Rafah Crossing this morning. However, in the past several months, Israel has blocked around 70% of aid trucks from reaching malnourished Palestinians.

Prior to 2023, almost half of all food in Gaza was produced locally, and now everyone is starving and dependent on aid that must be approved by the very people who destroyed their food systems.

Their family (verified on the @gazavetters list, #198) is constantly balancing the costs of healthcare and the costs of food--but human beings need both to survive! We cannot live without both.

Opening Rafah Crossing will be lifesaving to many Palestinians like Ahmed who need to reach better-resourced hospitals. The crossing is not yet open to Palestinians in either direction, though many sources predict that it will be soon.

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12 year old me: