The_v
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- Comment on parking 3 days 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 week ago:
- Comment on parking 1 week 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 week 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 2 weeks 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.. 2 weeks 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 3 weeks 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 3 weeks 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.
- Comment on Custodians 3 weeks ago:
GMO are a tool.
Some GMO’s are a good idea. Virus resistance for example was the first GMO I worked with in the 90’s. Papaya ringspotvirus is an excellent example.
Some GMO’s were a mediocre idea and an overall failure. Like all the efforts with SAMase for improving shelflife. Aka the GMO tomato.
Some GMO’s are downright stupid and irresponsible. Like the RR in corn, soy, alfalfa, etc. Its lead to a massive over-application of one chemistry. Creating resistant weeds in all production zones. Or dicamba resistance is soybeans that’s fucking up all the remaining trees, shrubs, and forbs.
- Comment on Custodians 3 weeks ago:
Yeah, only half of that statement is correct. Organic is overall more damaging to the environment for most species. The lower yields = more acres needed for cultivation.
- Comment on Safety first 3 weeks ago:
Yeah no. Those are tyvek suits that are used for pesticide application. To complete the outfit they need some nitrile gloves and a fitted respirator.
For pollen isolation there a whole bunch of different techniques depending on the species. None of them involve getting dressed in one of those uncomfortable monstrosities. I used gel caps when I bred cantaloupes and honeydews (the types used for medications). Slap one over the top of a pollinated flower and it keeps the pollinators away.
- Comment on Frigging peas 🫛 5 weeks ago:
sci-hub.se/https://doi.org/10.1093/jhered/esw058
He did a little massaging of the data.
- Comment on frienemies 1 month ago:
Being a scientist today means you are “smart” in a very narrow and limited area of expertise. Outside of that area, shit goes downhill fast.
I can’t find the link but scientists and academics are thought to be heavily targeted with affinity fraud schemes because they rarely report when they are duped.
- Comment on Remember, kids! Unregulated capitalism is not your friend! 1 month ago:
Barrels were reused until they could no longer be repaired or salvaged. Cooper’s had steady guaranteed work for their skills.
Consumption was mostly at the public houses/taverns for the lower/middle classes.
- Comment on Remember, kids! Unregulated capitalism is not your friend! 1 month ago:
Well your going to wish you weren’t so curious with this one. Source of this information: several museum visits around 30 years ago after a pint or three, so the info might be warped.
Gin is a double-distilled 40% or higher spirit flavored with juniper + other flavors.
The source of the alcohol was any carbohydrate or starch source. Whatever was cheapest. It was mostly wheat and barley at the time but just about anything else cheap could be used like rye, turnips, etc. For the cheapest rotgut the ingredients was stuff considered unfit for animal feed (rodent feces, insect damage, molds, water damage, etc).
Since their ingredients were highly questionable, their input cost was minimal. Heating was from coal. They also started making larger batches which further reduced down the cost.
Logistics - Canals at this time period was the most important logistic. One donkey pulling a barge could move as much as 50 wagons. Tons of goods were transported cheaply and efficiently on the barges. The gin was shipped in casks/barrels like beer/ale. Bottles were very expensive and reserved for the elite.
Public sanitation consisted of a gutter on the side of the road. The entire city smelled like the open sewer it was.
The gin was not served in bottles. It was served like beer or ale into cups/mugs/communal tankards etc … mostly earthenware, leather or wood.
- Comment on 8 years of RBF 1 month ago:
Growing up in Montana, we had a herd of around 20 mule deer on the bottom fields.
With a little bit of time you can easily tell them apart. There is quite a bit of variation in their appearance; head shape, body size and shape, ears, coloration, etc. When the bucks start growing their antlers every one is different as well.
- Comment on Makes sense 2 months ago:
Veiwers who have worked with a lot of PhD’s:
So they are going to make a extremely complicated evil plan only to be foiled by obvious oversight that only an idiot would miss.
- Comment on To whom it may concern 2 months ago:
When I was first out of college I used to get 8-10 of pre-payed envelopes every week. I kept a PO box for my mail that I would check weekly.
I would have maybe 1 or two pieces of real mail and a full box of junk.
So I started folding up the junk mail I to the 8-10 prepared envelopes every week. This was all done at the counter next to my PO box and dropped mailed back right then.
It was quite cathartic.
- Comment on This is how we do it 2 months ago:
Hey now for every 5,000 “No’s” there’s the coveted 1 “Maybe but more data is required”.
- Comment on *hands to an undergrad* 2 months ago:
When you work with high value goods long enough in any field you get desensitized to it. However you compartmentalize it in weird ways.
I think nothing of ordering $800K worth of stuff at work. Then I get home and refuse to pay $8 for a fancy coffee because it’s ridiculous.
- Comment on Movie theaters are trying everything to bring audiences back — from pickleball to cocktail bars 3 months ago:
The main draw of movie theatres was a better entertainment experience. A good movie on a large screen with excellent sound.
At my home I now have a 60" TV, surround sound speakers, comfortable couches and the ability to watch any movie/tv I want for free from pirate streaming sites. It’s better than any movie theater in my opinion.
The problem, there’s nothing I want to see. The vast majority of stuff produced due to the extreme consolidation in the film industry is absolutely trash. Lack of competition has led to film studios producing mediocre garbage in a never ending quest to make guaranteed money.
So my teenager uses the setup to play video games on.
- Comment on Never before had I felt intensely jealous of a tapir 4 months ago:
It will grow up to be a magnificent steed to ride into battle with.
- Comment on BRASSICAS 4 months ago:
Made from a completely different species.
Sinapsis alba regular mustard.
Brassica juncea spicy mustard
- Comment on BRASSICAS 4 months ago:
Mustard the condiments is from the seeds of different species. There are two types, oriental Brassica juncea and white mustard _Sinapsis alba _ that can be used.
Brassica juncea has been cultivated for a long time. With lots of different cultivars.
- Comment on cilanto 🌿 4 months ago:
It’s likely linked to OR6A2.
I had a coworker who had this gene and TAS2R38, the one that makes people taste bitter stronger.
We ended up on several multi-country business trips together every year. So we were eating all sorts of local cuisine.
I always tried to sit where I could see her face during any meal. It was comedy gold at times.
- Comment on Layoffs every 2 years 4 months ago:
The place was a toxic cesspool at the time. An investment group had purchased 7 different companies and forced merged them in the space of 3 years and went on a massive hiring spree. The company I started with was 350 people. The company I left was over 4,000 people
It was an illegal layoff that I could taken them to court over. However the in-house lawyer knew what was going on and made them give me one hell of a severance package to stop me from suing them. I basically got everything I reasonably would have gotten if I sued.
That ended up being the most profitable year of my life.
My boss ended up CEO for a few years. It didn’t go well.
- Comment on Layoffs every 2 years 4 months ago:
I am on my 3rd layoff in 10 years.
First one I had all sort of dirt on my boss who was kissing ass to climb the corporate ladder. I was a massive liability as I knew what a waste of space he was. They laid me off with some really week excuses and a years wage/benefits to keep me quiet.
Second one we got a new CEO who decided to make massive changes to the company “to make it more profitable”. It hasn’t shown a profit since and the layoffs are a yearly tradition now.
The last one was this past fall. Smaller company over-invested when times where good. Then the market turned around and they are in trouble. One of those small “family” businesses, me and 20 others got kicked out of the family.
So as of now I have my own business. I am on track to make 100% more than I ever have before working for someone else.
Just for shits and giggles I also have an interview tomorrow for a C-suite position in a tropical country. It’s too fucking cold here.
- Comment on Sounds like a problem for them, not me. 5 months ago:
It started when the company I worked for had a policy against supplying dual sim phones. I have had my personal number for close to 20 years so I am not letting it up. So I carried two phones. At first I was annoyed but over time I got used to talking on one phone and using the other for notes and reference.
Now that I am self employed having the two phones is a habit with how I work.
- Comment on Sounds like a problem for them, not me. 5 months ago:
I hit the point in my professional life when I just stopped asking for time off.
I started using phrases like “I will be out from July 15th to August 9.”, “I won’t be in that day.”, “Sorry that conflicts with my schedule.”.
For a while I kept getting random calls for stuff while I was on vacation. That’s about the time I started carrying 2 phones. The work phone and laptop got left at home.
- Comment on Jeep Introduces Pop-Up Ads That Appear Every Time You Stop 5 months ago:
This is not that new.
Android auto would allow apps to play ads when the car was in park.
After using the ad support version of Pandora for most of a decade, when the full screen video ad popped up on my 2016 work truck, it was immediately and permanently uninstalled. I used 128gb microSD in my phone instead.
I’ve never used a streaming service for music again.
