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Random mermaid
The issue was Wil's catastrophically awful attempt at combining two random numbers, producing a non-uniform distribution. I killed it with fire at first sight, rashly, without considering what damage it had inflicted on the database in the 9 months it was deployed.
As long as something is kept at roughly boiling temperature, it can be bacteria- and mold-free basically forever. It really doesn't matter if it's 'fresh'. People used to have what they called 'perpetual stews', which was just a pot hung over a fire and kept boiling continuously for weeks or even months at a time. They'd basically just toss their leftovers in there to be eaten later, and you didn't get sick from it because it's always hot.