Humans greatly overestimate probabilities which favor them. So, we're all pretty sure we no one will spontaneously burst into spiders except politicians and billionaires.
When you make jello, the boiling water lets the gelatin form bonds, which trap the water in the little cells because liquid water likes to glom onto it's neighbors and it makes it hard for it to get out. Hence it wiggles instead of seeping water or splashing.
If you heat it, the gelatin bonds break and it goes to liquid.
If you leave it at a low temperature with good ventilation, the water molecules will randomly break their loose bond with their neighbors and fly out of the gelatin cell they're in. As this happens, the gelatin will contract (it "wants" to be about the size of the powder in the box, but it's caught squishing water) and get rigid, since the gelatin protein is naturally pretty hard (think bone or cartilage).
If the gelatin is too thick, the outer layers will get thin and rigid before the inner, and things will crack. It'll happen to Jello in the fridge after a bit if you leave it uncovered, which is why you put some plastic wrap on it.
All that to say, get your jello about a quarter of an inch thick and leave it in front of the air conditioning vent under your bed, then file it down on the roughest surface in your room.
I wish didn't get bored of jobs so easily. Like, getting to use a cutting torch sounds fun, but I know that by the time I was any good at it I'd be sick of it already.
This line never made sense. Does anyone WANT to work? I don't think most want to spend majority of their life making someone else money. Like I'm sure some people find fulfillment in their jobs but for most who are just cogs in a machine, pretty sure they don't want to work. They HAVE to work to make a living.
I sure would love to not work and focus on building/maintaining communities, a job in public works would be ideal but they don't pay enough and require too much.
I feel like the only way to respond to that shit is with a simple, "Nobody has wanted to work ever."
If either: people had the option to get paid at their current rate but not have to do their current job at all anymore...or the opposite, that they were expected to keep working at their current job but were told they'd no longer receive any pay for it ever again...how many do you think would still keep working at that job?
Way less than 1%.
Because (very nearly) nobody wants to work. They want money, and the most common way of getting money is... you guess it...to work.
The whole point of employment is that you're performing a task that nobody is going to just do for free because they like it...so whomever wants that task to be done has to offer an incentive to get people to do it instead of literally anything else.
And, yeah, it wrecked me. I would have had to deal with the same stuff eventually, since the arthritis and back issues are a family thing, but I would likely have been still working until around now instead of then without the rigors of the job.
There was a lot of good in the job, but the price was high.
One great thing about side quests is that you can do them alongside main quests. So while the side quest isn't great for farming gold, they can fill in the gaps in the main quest.