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⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Plant Slurs⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:
But do make wine from them…
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Plant Slurs⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:
Brambles can be valuable plants, providing shelter and food for many small animals and tasty blackberries for people. But, if they become noxious, they can spread quickly and choke out all other plants. They spread by rooting from the plant tips and even if you dig up the root system, any little piece of root can and will re-root and grow a new plant.

Either move the shed to get at it - all of it - or you honestly may need to resort to herbicide to kill it. It sounds like you have fought them mechanically and are losing the war. I would recommend consulting your local garden center for the best herbicide to apply to kill them.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨we are creators⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:
Even their technology was driven by war. No human civilization has been immune that. Maybe in story books, but never in the real world.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨we are creators⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:
My Great Grandfather lived that change. He went from walking, horses and buggies, steam engines, with no telephones or electricity, to sitting on a couch next to me and watching the first Apollo moon landing. He saw more insane changes to this world than we will ever probably see. But…

It took 2 world wars and millions of dead to drive all that change in that time period of one life. War is the great driver of technological leaps. I’m not sure I feel the need to drive tech advances that fast at the cost of all those lives. Slow and steady might be a better path to travel.

Still, within my lifetime, which much like my Great Grandfather I’m nearing the end of, there have been great changes that everyone just takes for granted. The internet has caused a great disruption in the world. You have access to nearly all the information this world has in an instant. No matter where you are. No more going to a library to look up outdated information in a card catalogue. You can talk to nearly anyone on this planet at any time. When I grew up, we had a party line we shared with 5 other families. And using that phone was expensive. You got billed for each phone call for the duration of that call. You can do business with almost every business on this planet directly. Or Amazon/Walmart/Temu yourself to death if you want. All we had as the Sears or Wards catalogue to mail order from. And then you waited a month to get your order.

You can affordably travel to London, Paris, Tokyo, and nearly everywhere else in a matter of hours. There are re-usable space rockets now. And while the stars might still be just out of reach, there is nowhere in the solar system we can’t go if we really want to. The planets are ours for the taking as soon as we want them. Even true self driving cars are a solid possibility now.

Those are just a few of the things I’ve seen change. And there are many more. But we seldom notice and just take them for granted.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What sort of grill needs a firmware update lol⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:
I do. I almost always cook over indirect heat. But many people don’t. That’s why they prefer gas over charcoal. And when they try, they make the mistake of using briquets instead of real wood charcoal. The sand has never added any flavor to the cooking.

To be truthful, I do have an LP smoker that’s setup for cold smoking. It’s much easier to to control over the 2 or 3 days it might take to cold smoke bacon or ham. And a LOT less work.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What sort of grill needs a firmware update lol⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:
While I agree that real charcoal is superior in every way, a good grill and the person running it needs to be able to control the temperature while cooking. It might be just fine to burn those hot dogs or hamburger patties, but if I want to roast a potato or an onion, I need to be able to control the heat to something less than the surface of the sun.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What sort of grill needs a firmware update lol⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:
I’ve got a bluetooth temp probe set too. I use it in my smoker. I’m not trusting that expensive piece of meat to the whims of the gods. I need to know what the temperature of the meat is and when it hit’s the target temps.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨All downhill from there⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:
Oh, you want a classroom lesson. After the kill you have one of two choices. You can either cut up the animal and carry it home in pieces, making multiple trips to do so if alone. Or you can process the animal on the spot. Taking a few days to do so.

If you are persistence hunting, you are almost always hunting in a pack. And everyone can carry something back to the camp. Remember: Not everything is going to be brought back. A moose will dress out maybe at 50% at best. And you leave what you can’t carry or don’t want behind. Modern hunters often do similar today. If I can’t get a pickup or 4 wheeler to the spot, I field dress the deer and cut it into quarters and make a couple of trips to carry the meat out. A 200lbs deer will yield about 90lbs of edible meat-- give or take. Easily carried out by one person in 2 trips.

Or you can process the carcass on the spot. It was a common hunting technique in the North Americas to run a herd of animals like bison off a cliff to kill or cripple them. It might take a day or two to set things up, but as the hunt began and the herd was funneled to the cliff, the rest of the group, those that weren’t able to actively participate in the hunt, would follow at a distance behind the hunters. When the herd was run off the cliff, everyone would set up camp right by the kill area and simply eat and process as much as they wanted for later. Again, leaving behind what they couldn’t process or want.

All this information is available by a simple search if you want to know more. A method I highly encourage everyone to use to gain knowledge.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨All downhill from there⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:
Meh, zombie infestations are easily prevented by simply the shoe laces together of the dead. Thus preventing them from even walking.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨All downhill from there⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:
Not according to Atlanta’s 39-50 record this season. They ain’t even going to make the wildcard round. Even my pathetic Minnesota Twins are 10 games better than that. And they are still under .500.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨All downhill from there⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:
I live where we have plenty of wolves and black bears around. Even a cougar or two now. Ain’t a one of them that like being around a human. Much like crocodiles and hippos, the crocs understand that if you mess with a baby hippo, a much large hippo WILL turn you into a nice pair of shoes, a purse, and a brief case in a heartbeat.

Though to be honest, there are a couple of places I’ve bumped a cougar and seen tracks that when I go there alone, I do carry a pistol for self defense. Cats ain’t smart and it’s always better to have a means to be safe than sorry.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨All downhill from there⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:
'Yotes ain’t so proud as to not scavenge a human encampment when no one was looking…
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨All downhill from there⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:
Moose hunters just shoot them these days. The only time anyone is running any more is when they are headed to a charger for their phone because the charge is down to 10%
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨science⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:
That ain’t science. It’s engineering doing what marketing asked for.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨We live wasted lives⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:
The truth is people choose to live wasted lives. They could choose to do something fulfilling but don’t. Even cavemen probably wasted their lives being scared something was going to eat them.

I started out choosing work that wasn’t all that fulfilling as a toolmaker/engineer. I didn’t find a lot of satisfaction in needing to hit impossible deadlines. So I ditched that career and became an EMT and finally a medic with a side helping of firefighter/rescue in several small and very rural communities that have shortages of trained responders. And just before I retired I taught some math in my tiny rural school because teachers are hard to get there. I never got rich with money or fame but that wasn’t what mattered.

I feel like my life was not wasted for the most part. That I made a difference for the people and the world around me. In the small handful of years left to me, I can go satisfied I did what I could. You could too if only you would choose.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Sincerely, your literally poorest europoor.⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:
Then don’t be such an enabler europoor.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨wtf⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:
I live in Minnesota USA-- The Land of 10,000 lakes. It’s actually 14,380 bodies of water 10 acres or larger. 117,000 if you add the waterbodies/ponds smaller than 10 acres. I’m sitting in my house drinking my tea and looking at the lake I live on. Minnesotans own 14,505 registered watercraft per 100,000 people-- the most in the US. And all of us spend LOT of time fishing on them. But it would be extremely illegal to use nets or traps to fish for them. (There are carve outs for Native Americans to do some limited netting).

So historically, eating fish on a non-commercial scale has been an important thing in this region since before European settlers showed up. But it has never been the main source of meat due to the general extra work it takes. It’s still easier to stick an arrow, (even a well thrown rock), into rabbit or squirrel. And a far bigger payout in calories to shoot that arrow into a white tail deer, elk, or moose with less effort than a fish.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Sweatshop⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:
But, but, they sometimes hand out freeze pops in hot weather! How much more can you want?
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨wtf⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:
Fishing is fun and good, but you still need access to water with a fish living in it. But a sharp stick or a rock is still cheaper and easier. Even a bow and arrow is very low tech and easily fashioned.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨wtf⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:
Seafood requires a lot of expensive resources to acquire. Boats, nets, traps, baits, access to the water, and not to mention the inherent risk of being on the ocean. Better to hunt herbivores on land.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨wtf⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:
In order to bake an apple pie you must also create the universe.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨wtf⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:
A lion can hunt because they come with weapons biologically attached. Humans not so much. And even you could fashion a spear with little effort. Which by your definition would make you a apex predator. And it did so for millennia.

I’m an old toolmaker that still has a small shop. I could make firearms from scratch if I wanted to. There is nothing special or complex about them. But I choose to purchase them from stores. So perhaps that demotes me from being a apex predator.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨wtf⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:
Large predators have a species memory that tells them in general messing with a human scent can easily lead to a bad day for you. Because we have spent millennia hunting and killing them. So they have learned to avoid us directly.

This does not mean that that in certain instances, such as starvation or if they feel cornered and trapped, that you can’t get hurt by them. So when I go out into the forest, and where I live we have black bears, wolves, and now permanent cougars-- and not the ones you might find in a bar on Friday nights either --the only one of those three I find a bit dicey to be around is the cougars. Bears and wolves really don’t like people and make themselves very scarce very fast once they know you are there if there is an open escape route they can take.

Big cats, on the other hand don’t appear to be the brightest bulbs in the box. And tend to be more of an issue for humans mucking about in the wilds where the cats are found. When I do venture out into areas that I have seen sign or even worse, spotted a cat, I do tend to carry a pistol for self defense in those areas. I’ve not needed to use it and very much hope not to ever need it. But being ‘forearmed is to to be forewarned’ so to speak.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨wtf⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:
That and the easy free meals and wamr place to sleep for not much effort in return.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨wtf⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:
Smart apex hunters always conserve as much energy as they can during a hunt. Because you don’t know when your next meal might show up. And firearms do make hunting a more sure thing. Hunting game, of any kind, is high risk-- higher reward effort. Most hunters go home empty handed or with little to show for the effort. But, if you do get it right, the effort can be handsomely rewarded.

So if you are smart enough to develop ranged weapons, you eagerly use them to hunt supper.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Order of magnitude is a hell of a drug⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:
The last 4 years of my working life, I taught some math in my small rural local school. I introduced a tradition of calculating Pi from scratch by various “silly” means. All shamelessly stolen from Matt Parker of Standup Maths fame on Youtube. The students, (4th through 8th grade), were always highly entertained and may have accidentally learned some math…

When you least expect it, Pi is there.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Order of magnitude is a hell of a drug⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:
Not according to her. And I ain’t about to argue the point with her…
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Order of magnitude is a hell of a drug⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:
As a retired mechanical engineer, the joke is that we don’t really remember the value of Pi, but we think it’s somewhere around 3. But maybe we should use 4 just to be safe.

In any case, I have to remember 3.14 because one of my Daughters was born on Pi Day. Which, according her, is the second most important day of the year, just right behind Christmas Day, when she was growing up. So when she got into high school that meant that we had to bring enough pie to be served in each of her math classes on that day. (Oddly enough she prefers cheese cake over pie on her Birthday).

Now I’m not saying being born on Pi Day influenced her life any, but she has a PhD in Mech Engineering.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Innövative sölutiön⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:
Those machines are referred to as slitters. I designed and built 2 for 3M Abrasive division back in the 1990’s. Talk about a process that involves less than reliable hardware, (I never met an air bar or pneumatic web sensor I didn’t hate), and enough wishful thinking to achieve the speeds 3M wanted them to run at that would make an Alchemist proud. I was constantly amazed that my designs even worked at all.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Innövative sölutiön⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:
As someone who spent a few years teaching math, this would be a cause for celebration! I would have had a classroom pizza party the next day. This is creative usage of problem solving math that I could only dream about a classroom of students could come up with.