The_v
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- Comment on redwoods 17 hours ago:
Depends on where it’s located.
In some areas with very active fire suppression, they allowed massive buildup of material to burn. This is what happened to Yellowstone and a bunch of national forest around the west and into Canada.
In other areas drought is causing more frequent and hotter burns. This is what is is happening in the Southwest now with the mega-drought.
- Comment on A good tool? 3 days ago:
Hmmm… wait a minute I have nightmares about this one - JDE
- Comment on Modern Windows in a nutshell 1 week ago:
If you turn off a few of Microsoft’s more insane tracking in the privacy settings, it disables the autosave “feature”. The autosave fucked up version tracking badly enough that it was nice to have a global kill button.
I have found that turning off most new “features” that Microsoft makes recently is usually for the best.
- Comment on Sony is raising all PS5 console prices in the US by $50, starting tomorrow 1 week ago:
A cheap SSD upgradeand a PS4 plays PS4 games the same way a PS5 does.
- Comment on Anon tries to meet girls at college 1 week ago:
2.5 years. So is it a couple or a few? I started college when I turned 16.
I ended up being a burned out after my 2nd year in college and I turned 18. I had also amassed some savings by working so much. So I bought a ticket to Europe and bummed around for a couple years. When I started back up I was the same age as everyone else.
- Comment on Anon tries to meet girls at college 1 week ago:
I was pretty shy when I started college and have always disliked social events. I skipped a few years in highschool so I was young when I started. Combined with working 30+ hours a week to pay for college and my social life was pretty dead.
My junior/senior year I decided to sit next to the most beautiful woman in class on day one. I would then smile, say hello, and leave them alone. Then smile, say goodbye at the end of class and leave.
A few weeks of this and most of them started talking to me a bit before or after class. By mid-terms I was friendly with a few beautiful women and had a couple dates. The last quarter of my senior year, I sat down next to my now wife.
I did get called out by my wife on knowing so many beautiful women when we were dating. She was a bit annoyed but I did sit down next to her after all.
- Comment on Broccoli Blooms 2 weeks ago:
B. oleracea gets all the fame.
B. rapa never gets the respect it should.
en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brassica_rapa
Bok Choi
Bomdong
Choy sum
Komatsuna
Mizuna
Napa Cabbage
Rapini
Tatsoi
Turnip
Yellow Sarson
Oil seed Mustard
- Comment on Stunning new data reveals 140% layoff spike in July, with almost half connected to AI and 'technological updates' 2 weeks ago:
Some?
Never met one I would consider intelligent. They tend to excel at being related to people who own the company or kissing ass. Neither of of which takes that much brains.
- Comment on If I wanted to bury a hard drive for archival purposes (e.g. Country becoming Dictatorship), how to keep the contents from being damaged and where is the safest place to bury it? 3 weeks ago:
Leave a USB drive in a drawer for a couple of years and you can prove this one at home.
That’s why my backup drive is an old spinny hard drive.
- Comment on Damm WaterCatholics 3 weeks ago:
Heres the whole picture that I took with my cheap point and shoot camera I carried around.
- Comment on Damm WaterCatholics 3 weeks ago:
The watermelon picture. It’s crunchy red.
- Comment on Damm WaterCatholics 3 weeks ago:
It’s always fun when that one pops up.
Seedless watermelon against catholics -
I took that picture.
- Comment on Call of Duty and Battlefield 6 will both require Secure Boot on Windows 3 weeks ago:
The bug riddled bullshit they lauch with is never worth what they expect people to pay. I don’t even buy games anymore until they are 3-5 years old. By then it’s usually getting close to an acceptable finished product.
- Comment on Anon starts to believe 3 weeks ago:
It’s been my career for over 3 decades now. I have traveled the globe as an expert on the subject until the constant travel messed up my health. Been to every continent but Antartica. Currently I am running my own business selling seeds farmers/others as the most overqualified salesman around.
- Comment on Anon starts to believe 3 weeks ago:
Dutch, red clover are both good options. Dutch will only grow a 6-8" tall. Red clover can get up to 18". The micro clover pipolina is one that I personally like and only gets 2-3" tall…
In difficult spots subterranean clover can survive. It’s an interesting species as it’s seeds are formed underground like a peanut.
- Comment on Anon starts to believe 4 weeks ago:
The nodules in the roots are the happy little homes that the plant provides for the bacteria to grow and reproduce in.
It’s the production location, not the storage location. The nitrogen is incorporated into proteins and used all over the plant. It’s especially concentrated in legume seeds.
For example winter peas can produce up to 400lbs/acre of nitrogen during its growing season (newer varieties like Icicles etc). If you removed the top and the seeds you remove around 350-375lbs of N. So you get 25-50lns of N per acre if you leave just the roots. So it’s best to incorporate the entire plant in when the seeds reach soft dough stage.
- Comment on Anon starts to believe 4 weeks ago:
A dwarf Dutch Clover like mini or micro clover is what you are looking for. Some It’s a smaller form that blends very well with grass and requires very little maintenance.
Some people use standard forage type ladino or Dutch Clover. I have even seen some people use red clover (trifolium pretense).
You can get it by special ordering it online or a local seller with turf grass dealer/distribution contracts.
It’s best to buy the seed innoculated and coated.
It’s seeded at around 2-3bs/acre so a little goes a long ways.
- Comment on Anon starts to believe 4 weeks ago:
Depends on the species of grass
Hard Fescue & Sheep fescue have it beat.
Tall fescue is about equal.
Blue grass, fine fescues, and perennial ryegrass require more water.
- Comment on Anon starts to believe 4 weeks ago:
Slight clarification: Dutch Clover (trifolium repens) under nitrogen deficient conditions, at temperatures above 50F and below 95F, and with the correct rhyzobium species present, with soil pH between 5.5 & 8.0, can produce nitrogen that is stored in its tissue.
When clover is mowed and the clippings mulched back into the soil, the decomposition of the leaves adds nitrogen to the soil. If you remove the clippings the nitrogen goes with it.
Clover doesn’t just release more nitrogen into the soil, it takes a bit of work.
- Comment on My foot found the worst Lego that can be stepped on. 4 weeks ago:
As a parent two sons who have moved on from the Lego stage to the driving and girls stage…
Bahahahahahahahahahaha!!!.
No more shuffle walking around the house for me!!
- Comment on Bird 4 weeks ago:
Which is why a lower protein (spring/fall) koi pellet is a bit better. They also absolutely love it.
That’s why I have to chase the female mallard duck out of my koi pond every spring. If she gets some of the koi food she makes a nest and raises babies.
- Comment on You don’t see articles like this about moms with three two jobs who still manage to take care of their kids. 5 weeks ago:
Very large companies run themselves by inertia alone… until the c-suite fucks it up trying to make more money.
- Comment on parking 1 month ago:
It’s a storm runoff ditch. They are about 20-30cm wide and 0.5-1m deep.
Gotta pay attention when walking around them.
- Comment on M'ananas 1 month ago:
- Comment on parking 1 month ago:
It is an old Soviet design. Many countries in the old Soviet block states have this. I just about did a one legger down them a couple times in Uzbekistan.
- Comment on Bisexual Flowers 1 month ago:
Cliestogamy - flowers that pollinate themselves.
- Comment on Thanks to the "you need to buy a new PC for running W11" bullshit, scammers are selling ewaste at full price to inexperienced people 1 month ago:
My newest computer is 5 years old. I see no reason to upgrade anything.
I use my 11 year old laptop with Linux mint on it as well. I maxed out the RAM on it and swapped in a Sata SSD, it boots in under 40 seconds and does everything I need it to do. It’s one of those cheap underpowered Celeron processors as well.
- Comment on Hey.. 1 month ago:
For me, stopping, getting out, and getting some coffee wakes me up for 2-3 hours. I also listen to audiobooks as I drive to keep my brain working. A good engaging story is better than a nap for me.
- Comment on Lateralized sleeping positions in domestic cats 2 months ago:
Study was done by watching YouTube videos.
Anybody else have phone camera that inverts the the image during processing? I have had a couple over the years.
- Comment on Custodians 2 months ago:
Organic farming releases as much of more “poisons” than conventional. Just because those poisons “natural” doesn’t mean they are not harmful. Coppersulfate, pyrethrins, spinosad, neem etc are all indesciminate killers. Rotenone is a banned organic pesticide because it’s linked to Parkinson’s.
The 3/4 number gets a lot worse when you know we really don’t need to farm as much land as we do. If we stopped subsidizing idiotic farming practices and invested heavily in infrastructure, we only need to use 1/4 of the land we do. That includes feeding all the animals. If we migrated to a plant based diet it would be around 1/10th the current land usage.
