The_v
@The_v@lemmy.world
- Comment on return 2 krebs 3 days ago:
How about the Citric Acid Cycle then?
- Comment on Git dat h-score, girl. 4 days ago:
- Comment on plump pumkins 5 days ago:
I probably should work on getting the bush type plant mutant into the giant pumpkin germplasm again.
The first tests were had a 400lb pumpkin into a 8’x8’ plot. They split and cracked however.
- Comment on grocery shopping 1 week ago:
In my area the self checkout systems at the grocery store often fritz out an don’t register the item. This is even after they beep. It’s truly wonderful. I consistently get 50% or more of the items in my cart for free. Nothing they can do to me either. They have me on video scanning every item. If their system buggers up the total it’s on them.
If they want somebody to catch computer errors then there’s a thing called “pay a employee.”
- Comment on Landlords are parasites 1 week ago:
During the last housing bubble, you could rent the same place for less than 1/2 the cost of buying it. Renting and investing made more sense then.
Currently buying a house is overpriced but rent is even more so.
The best financial decision right now is to live with your parents your entire life. If you don’t have a parent you can stay with, then a tent and cardboard boxes in the park it is.
- Comment on crop candles 2 weeks ago:
Some varieties of apples blooms are frost sensitive. Others can shrug off a frost and not really care. It’s a generic difference in the cultivars.
www.degruyterbrill.com/document/doi/…/html
So if you see a big ass fan in the orchard, it’s because the grower wanted to push a variety that is not well adapted to the local environment.
- Comment on crop candles 2 weeks ago:
A sudden freeze will not kill the vines. Grapes are extremely tough. It can hurt the flower buds though. A severe enough freeze can cut the yield.
For wine grapes less fruit in the bunches = lower quality wine.
- Comment on crop candles 2 weeks ago:
It’s an old cheap method.
We have much better ways of protecting crops from frost including reusable netting/row covers with supplemental heat from electric heaters. However they cost more so…
- Comment on Should Neutron Stars be Added to the Periodic Table? 4 weeks ago:
Figure 3’s label.
“Chlorine atoms are shown in red.” got me.
- Comment on Kinky 5 weeks ago:
A rancid unholy stench from the depths of hell wafts imin from the outside as the door opens. Your are temporarily blinded as tears come to your eyes.
“Hello,Uncle Mike.”
- Comment on FIFY 1 month ago:
I always tell people that a bonus is imaginary and should never be considered as part of a job offer.
If you do acheive a partial amount one year the next year the “calculations” to get one will change to fuck you over.
- Comment on THIS JUST IN: FBI suspects Kirk was likely targeted, more info to come 1 month ago:
Not usually in my experience. Almost all target shooting is on relatively flat ranges. Especially not for ranges that short.
For those that don’t know, when firing down the slope the effect of gravity decreases the bullets velocity loss. So the bullet transverses the distance in less time and drops less over a given distance.
When firing up a slope the bullet loses velocity due to gravity. So it drops more due to the extra time it takes for the bullet to transverse the distance.
- Comment on THIS JUST IN: FBI suspects Kirk was likely targeted, more info to come 1 month ago:
If you have a regular 30.06 bullet with a rifle sighted in at 200 yards, it will hit around 5" lower than you aim at 250 yards depending on the gun and conditions.
If you have it sighted in at 300 yards and aim for center mass right the bullet will hit around 5" above where they are aiming.
In both conditions the bullet hits the neck area.
- Comment on THIS JUST IN: FBI suspects Kirk was likely targeted, more info to come 1 month ago:
Hmmmm… think about how hard tracking a sniper would be on a university campus via surveillance cameras if they dressed to fit in. A black computer backpack from big box store combined with a university branded outfit and hat. Then walk into highly congested areas like a student union building and make a quick change into a different university branded outfit.
They could then walk to public transit with the crowd of people as the officials shut down the school.
Yes well trained people with the right software could eventually figure it out but it would take time.
The longer it takes the more chance the shooter gets away.
- Comment on Not even hidden smh 1 month ago:
Corn smut is better.
- Comment on A conundrum 1 month ago:
Rent vs mortgage - gotta put a caveat on that one.
Renting = landlord gets all the money but has to maintain the property.
Mortgage - bank gets all the money and you get a partial refund if you sell. You pay for the upkeep. A mortgage is not really an “investment”, you usually lose money on the deal if you live there. It’s cheap rent from the bank.
It basic math to see which one is better long term. Usually the mortgage wins because of of the partial return. However if you can’t do the upkeep yourself, renting is often a better financial decision.
There have been times when renting was the smarter financial decision. Like the housing bubble in 2003-2007. You could rent places for 1/2 what it would cost to buy them per month.
- Comment on Usernames are very personal 1 month ago:
My wife and I created a funny named joint e-mail account when we were engaged for all the wedding stuff (we got married in '01). Over time it sort of morphed into the default address for all bills, schools, family, etc. Anything that both of us should be aware of.
The username has since became the default for most of our joint online accounts as well. It’s pretty close to the perfect username. It is distinct, short and easy to remember. Best of all it’s always available.
- Comment on redwoods 1 month 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? 2 months ago:
Hmmm… wait a minute I have nightmares about this one - JDE
- Comment on Modern Windows in a nutshell 2 months 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 2 months 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 2 months 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 2 months 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 months 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 months 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? 2 months 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 2 months ago:
Heres the whole picture that I took with my cheap point and shoot camera I carried around.
- Comment on Damm WaterCatholics 2 months ago:
The watermelon picture. It’s crunchy red.
- Comment on Damm WaterCatholics 2 months 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 2 months 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.
