The_v
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- Comment on geological contingency plan 2 days ago:
Molecular biologist: repeatedly spike their samples and reagents to cause random failures. Eventually lack of sleep from running it “just one more time” will kill them.
- Comment on Forever young 4 days ago:
My kids who are teens/20 year olds.
“Dad why are you always playing in a tank or a plane on BF?”
Me “Because I am old.”
I used to have reaction times like that made other people weep. I was constantly on watchlists for cheating and even banned by a few poor losers in private servers. Those days are well in the past now.
- Comment on Oechslegrad 6 days ago:
Slight clarification
A brix meter measures soluable solids in the juice. A major portion of which is sugar.
Changes in Brix does not slways correlate exactly with sugar content as other soluable solids are included in reading. Things like like carotinoids etc. A little something to pay attention too when comparing varieties.
- Comment on Had to look this up 1 week ago:
Allow me to hit me with my cane. The Manchester blast was fucking loud.
- Comment on When she got that hot spathussy 🥵 1 week ago:
Eastern Skunk Cabbage.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Symplocarpus_foetidus
The western skunk cabbage is yellow and quite pretty, from a distance.
- Comment on bract 2 weeks ago:
A bract is a modified leaf, that usually doesn’t look anything like a regular leaf.
- Comment on Save us!!! 2 weeks ago:
October 25th is the date that most stores pull down the Halloween stuff and transition to Christmas stuff. It’s not unusual for most stores to have zero Halloween stuff on the shelves on Halloween.
The seasonal arrival of Spirit in the many empty commercial buildings has made this worse. Regular stores bring in less merchandize and are often stocking Christmas stuff 2 or 3 weeks before Halloween in my area.
- Comment on 3 weeks ago:
My work truck looks like this most days. I spent 4-6 hours per day driving in remote areas/off-road.
I have more sensitive gear and equipment I need for my job in the back seat The bed is also usually full of equipment that is not as sensitive.
I keep a cooler full of water and several boxes of granola bars inside.
So whenever I fill up the tank, I spend a few minutes tossing trash out of the truck. It’s the only way I have found to keep the pile of mess somewhat under control.
Once I year I clear out the truck and have it detailed to start fresh on the dirt buildup.
- Comment on My collection is growing 3 weeks ago:
Almost there…
A small cordless drill with a torque setting plus a driver set. A short flexible bit holder for the tight spots.
Drop the torque setting all the way down then use the drill for most of the work. Then finish tightening with a reacheting screwdriver.
- Comment on return 2 krebs 4 weeks ago:
How about the Citric Acid Cycle then?
- Comment on Git dat h-score, girl. 5 weeks ago:
- Comment on plump pumkins 5 weeks 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 5 weeks 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 5 weeks 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 1 month 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 1 month 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 1 month 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? 2 months ago:
Figure 3’s label.
“Chlorine atoms are shown in red.” got me.
- Comment on Kinky 2 months 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 2 months 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 2 months 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 2 months 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 2 months 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 2 months ago:
Corn smut is better.
- Comment on A conundrum 2 months 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 2 months 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 2 months 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 3 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 3 months ago:
A cheap SSD upgradeand a PS4 plays PS4 games the same way a PS5 does.