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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨if you workout and run, would you recommend a merino wool base or mid layer for autumn/winter? or am I going to break it?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I run outdoors year-round in weather down to 20°F in a climate with high humidity. Above 40°F I wear old beat-up tshirts, a thick hoodie, and leggings-style running pants. Below 40°F I replace the T-shirt with some old REI house-brand light- or mid-weight base layers, and I toss a pair of cotton exercise pants over the running pants (I bought those years ago for less than $15) and wear a cheap woven hat and my junkiest gloves. If it’s raining I’ll replace the heavy hoodie with a water-repellant windbreaker + light weight hoodie.

  In other words my running wardrobe is comprised almost entirely of my oldest, most beat-up clothes, most of which were originally just cotton or other cheap non-technical materials purchased years ago at a fast-fashion store at the mall or used from a sporting goods store. I do invest in decent socks (I highly recommend darn tough for their durability), but unless you’re braving truly cold temps, very long workouts, or cannot return indoors shortly after working out,* you really don’t need anything fancy for year-round exercise. For what it’s worth I’m also a woman and I get cold very easily.

  *The main problem with cotton is that it will not keep you warm when wet, so if you like to take a long cool down walk or hang out on a park bench for thirty minutes post-workout you should go with wool or synthetic material. But as long as you’re returning to a warm indoor space before your exercise warmth dissipates, this shouldn’t be an issue.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why do I fart all the time when I'm trying to sleep?!⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Obligatory: I am not a doctor, I don’t know your life.

  Jumping off the other comment suggesting a low-fodmap diet, do you have other health problems? What sounds like an extremely unbalanced diet (possibility in combination with a round of antibiotics or an episode of food poisoning) may have resulted in a condition called SIBO (small intestine bacterial overgrowth), specifically an overgrowth of methane-producing bacteria. I’d recommend getting tested.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨🤢🤮🤢⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Magnolias have entered the chat

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Blood Meal⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  There are vegan blood meal alternatives out there to resolve this exact conundrum.

  But the reality is, unless your plants are being grown hydroponically in a sealed warehouse or similar, chances are real good that they are feeding on decaying animals (either directly or indirectly) whether you like it or not. They’re mostly insects and annelids and such, but still animals.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Too many looks.⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Not a paleontologist, but these renditions seem shockingly consistent for a dinosaur. T-Rex for example went from full upright to balanced to covered in feathers in half this timeframe. And let’s not even talk about poor iguanodon…

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Hummingbird Feeders⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Feeders are okay, but the real joy comes from watching hummingbirds feed at flowers. In my experience they’re big fans of fuscias, and I’ve also seen them at fireweed.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Gen Z is actually taking sick days, unlike their older coworkers. It’s redefining the workplace⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Also dependent on the state. Some states mandate minimum sick leave, others don’t. Then there’s the issue of paid vs unpaid: if you’re living paycheck to paycheck it doesn’t matter if you have all the unpaid sick leave in the world, you’re not going to use it…

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Centipedes Don't Fuck⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Sooo are centipedes like fruit flies and not engage in any real form of sexual selection, or is the female going around judging the fuck out of every jizz pile she encounters?

  “Mmm-mm, look at that poor viscosity; a low-quality male clearly produced this. This one on the other hand: deep color, firm texture, nice and sticky… clearly produced by a male with the superior genes I want to pass along to my offspring.”

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Camouflage⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Okay but if Arizona and New Mexico’s mountain regions get forest cutouts, central Washington needs a grasslands cutout to represent its shrub-steppe habitat.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Cats⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Obligatory “wet food is much better for cats if for no other reason than the moisture content”

  Cats are apparently one of those species that’s used to getting most of their fluids via their prey, and can be bad at drinking enough water when fed a dry food diet (in my experience this is highly dependent on the individual cat: some are “picky drinkers”).

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I need new glasses. The only insurance-approved place I can shop online will cost $250 with my needs. I went to a "cheap" glasses website that doesn't accept insurance: $250. Yay, America.⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I think Costco glasses are a good deal, even if you have to buy a one-year membership to get them. Don’t know if they’re available online, but don’t you want to try glasses on in person to make sure they fit and are comfortable?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Aspirations⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  A major turning point in one’s academic journey is when you go from struggling to compose a lengthy and impressive essay to struggling to compose a concise and accessible essay (otherwise known as the “too-short-and-basic to too-long-and-pompous shift”). Sometimes this takes leaving academia and realizing that your masterpiece work doesn’t mean shit if no one bothered to read it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨EUROBEE⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Yeah but people don’t make a big deal about “save the deer!” and then start a cattle ranch

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨EUROBEE⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  This is one reason why I love my native lupine plants. They occasionally get honeybee visitors, but I’ve noticed honeybees struggle with getting the flowers open to access the nectar. Bumblebee lands and his big fat body causes the flower to open right up. Gee it’s almost like they co-evolved!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Don't you all get tired of the constant negativity?⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I think it’s because a lot of things are bad (and many are getting worse) yet the only power most people have to do anything about them is to raise awareness of the issues, which means engaging with negative news. Sometimes it can be hard to tell what’s real news and what’s rage bait; sometimes non-news can seem like news when it’s part of an ongoing pattern (such as “Elon’s dumb take of the day”). I think there’s also some degree of trying to maintain one’s sense of reality. To the previous example, despite being a massive fuckwit, Elon is still among the wealthiest people in the world, is incredibly influential, and has maintained some degree of fanboy army; posting/reading/discussing/upvoting an article about what dumb thing he said today is grounding for some folks because it reinforces reality by demonstrating that yes, he is still a fuckwit, even though somehow everything still hasn’t come crashing down around him like it karmically should.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Miracle cures⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I thought this was going to be about turmeric’s lead contamination problem…

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I hate leaf blowers with the passion of 1000 suns.⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  That would be great IF you could convince the city that thoroughly-entrenched tools like leaf blowers and lawn mowers and motorized vehicles fell under nuisance laws. Chances are the mayor and most of city council use these things (or pay someone who uses them). The problem is that most people either love these things or don’t find them obnoxious enough to warrant action. Even if you somehow could get them to fall under nuisance laws, enforcement would be complaint-based, and who’s going to risk pissing off their neighbor for being a snitch Karen?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I hate leaf blowers with the passion of 1000 suns.⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I know everyone hates HOAs because they’re usually petty and dumb, but this is where I think they’d actually be helpful. Designate certain neighborhoods as “quiet zones” where similarly obnoxious activities (that have reasonable, quiet alternatives) are banned: no motorized leaf blowers, lawn mowers, souped-up motorcycles or muscle cars. If you want to own one of those things, don’t move into that neighborhood.

  I’ve come to realize many people feel “forced” to move to incredibly space- and resource-inefficient (and thereby ecologically-damaging) places like suburbs and exurbs for basically two reasons: better schools, and in an attempt to escape asshole neighbors. Sometimes it’s so that they can themselves be the asshole neighbors, but generally people are trying to live in a “nice” neighborhood not over usual HOA things like house siding color and properly-concealed trash cans, but rather for a general desire for peace and quiet. I know I dream about living on 40 acres not so I can start a dairy farm, but to escape the various forms of pollution (primarily noise, air, and light) emitted by my current neighbors. But I wouldn’t feel the need to do that if my neighbors had similar desires as I and limited things like car idling, porch lights, and landscape-related noise. Meanwhile the neighbors upset at me for keeping my yard wild to support wildlife could have a neighbor with similarly bland yard maintenance standards.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Niches⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Confirmed. There are many, many lupine species, however, and each have their own growing conditions. So I’m not sure about the “sandy soil” bit (likely it’s because the seedlings do better in sandy soil?). A single lupine plant will produce thousands (tens of thousands?) of seeds each year, and the plants mature quickly (some are annuals, but even the perennials grow at a prodigious rate once established in the right conditions). Because of their ability to reproduce and spread quickly in the right conditions (i.e. lacking competition) they are used in places with severely depleted soil to revegetate (they were introduced in Iceland for this purpose with resounding success, although now they have the problem of a prolific non-native species).

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Big Science⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  The replier doesn’t even know the plural for “company”

  Why are we elevating this anti-intellectual drivel?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Kennedy Running Mate’s History: $1 Billion, Cocaine, a Fling With Elon Musk⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Well that was a rollercoaster the article byline did not fully prepare me for.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Spikey bois⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Hedgehogs of the sea. Their babies even look the same!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨rollin' coal⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Fukisima

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Forams⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  “Hoshi-zuna no Hama” (星砂の浜) literally means “Star-sand Beach”

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨epidemiology⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Oh shit, is that why nobody attended the 2009 Time Travelers party? No one wanted to be the person who killed the great Steven Hawking

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨'They don’t have enough’ – schools in England are running food banks for families as millions struggle to feed their children, researcher says⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  The peak of the cost-of-living crisis may have passed

  Has it?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨It's not enough to touch grass⁩ ⁨⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  There are native grasses that can be kept as maintained lawns, such as blue grama (although the recommendation is to cut it a little taller, 3-4"). It’s not going to be emerald green like Kentucky blue, however if you live in a dry area with watering restrictions your lawn will be the greenest on the block for sure!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨It's not enough to touch grass⁩ ⁨⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  “I’m not a bigot; I used to be a liberal but then some strangers said mean things to me on the Internet so now I’m conservative”

  This is what you sound like.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨It's not enough to touch grass⁩ ⁨⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Except most grass, especially border areas like front lawns and street medians as well as corporate-owned lawns like around a drive-thru or suburban offices, gets zero use. It’s one thing to have a dedicated play area in a yard or park that’s cut grass; it’s another thing to have the entire property as cut grass.

  Everyone in my neighborhood has large cut grass lawns. There’s mostly retired folks here are very few children. I spend a lot of time outside yet can literally count on one hand the number of times I have seen people out in those yards for a purpose other than cutting the grass. If you’re not going to use it at least let the dandelions grow so the bees have something to eat!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The end of landlords: the surprisingly simple solution to the UK housing crisis⁩ ⁨⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  You’re correct, I’ve amended my comment accordingly (I had mixed up demographic trends in California with national tends). However given that the article spends a lot of time comparing now and the 1970s, when there was a statistically significant difference in household size in the US, I feel that my point still stands, that we should know if there has also been a similar decrease in household size in the UK over the last half-century.