I have chocolate mint and I find its not as hardy as other varieties.
It does really well with fairly wet and shady conditions (I had it under my elevated rain barrels and it did great, but didn’t spread beyond that) and poorly otherwise (since moving the rain barrels and exposing it to constant sun, it doesn’t want to grow much at all, much less spread).
Idk how much that’ll help your quest, but perhaps it will :)
The joins appear to be tape, so yeah probably pretty lightweight. As much as hard foam, wooden dowels (most likely because cheap and still light) and paint can be.
But all of the weight is on her shoulders, so as long as she doesn’t fall over, shed be fine either way.
Also looks like the hole her head goes through has enough space that if it falls it might just come off entirely.
I don’t understand what this means. Is this like reading and not absorbing it or something? I genuinely can’t relate to that either, just not how things work for me, but reading with your eyes not your brain makes no sense to me either way.
Thats a solid point. I don’t have friends in the area to bring into that plan, but no reason I can’t go hang out away from home for the day all the same. I enjoyed the subway when I visited Boston, partly because I didn’t really have anywhere specific I needed to be, just exploration.
If mine are any indication, they’ll go hunting for bugs before they start scratching at stuff or eating plants. Even when I give mine pulled weeds the first thing they do is look for bugs on them. Those are the real prize.
They have an amazing eye for slight movement, and are quite good little hunters (they really like catching mice as well). If you don’t give them time to destroy everything, and keep your eyes on them.
As a bonus they poop while they eradicate, and they do some mild scratching of the surface which is good for the soil.
I just found out that I qualify to use public transit for free in my area.
It’s thus a damned shame I basically never see a bus. I hate driving, but public transit here isn’t much of an alternative.
Still, i’ll probably go ride it around for no real reason just to increase the use of it, since it runs anyway. More riders means more expansion of services, right? Riiiiiiight?
It would have to be very slight indeed, since the wax needs to be close to neutrally buoyant in order to rise and fall with the heat currents.
It also helps (when combined with a tiny amount, like 1/64 tsp, of bone meal) with chronic diarrhea. I had a cat who was sick for a long time and his food needed both in order to firm up his stools enough to express his anal glands naturally.
Exactly why basically that is my goal :)
I’m technically too urban to be entirely off-grid, legally, but I see no reason I can’t minimize my draw with a separate breaker system. Whole place needs to be rewired anyway because it’s ancient. Knot and tube ancient.
But most people aren’t willing to go through that, and I cant blame them because there aren’t any incentives to doing so, and most people don’t realize how much cheaper used solar farm panels are, so it just seems like a really bad deal. And for most, who would have it installed for them, new, maybe thats true. Used with mostly-self-install is much cheaper. Even better if the whole deal needs to be re-wired anyway.
It depends on the proportional savings. Not to me, I understand how math works, but to most people.
They’ll drive across town to save 5 cents per gallon on fuel, with a vehicle that has a 10 gallon tank (a total savings of half a dollar) but often wont drive the same distance for a product thats $10 lower than wherever they are if the product costs $500 to begin with.
I’ll be gay to save any money. Doesn’t matter to me. You got some other discount I don’t have to prove? Sure I’ll say I’m a disease vector for $2. Oh, you have a student discount where I save $1? How handy that I still have my decade-old student ID on me and always do because it doesn’t have dates on it. Why yes I did look up the local zip code to save $0.25/person on admission!
Yes, thats exactly what they do. No net metering, no discounts or rebates, nothing, but if your power flows back into the grid, they sure will charge for it at the exact same rate as if they created it themselves, and charge you as much as they can get away with to eat into your savings (some utilities around here even make you pay a monthly fee to have your own solar on “their” grid…). No surprise hardly anyone here has solar; it’s generally not worth having unless you can guarantee you use all of the power yourself.
My locality is mostly hydro power, we don’t even really have peak/off-peak rates, just pay the same all the time regardless because they can’t easily adapt to demand anyway. And like yay renewables and stuff, I’m super on board with that aspect, but I’m not on board with having a monopoly on the renewables, since my area is not typical of the state.
I want to do something like that but just have the solar circuits entirely disconnected from the grid, running stuff like fridge, freezer, water heater, car charger, etc (depends how many watts my panels can actually manage in practice; I don’t have a ton of space). all without being able to draw from the grid at all.
My state is pretty shitty about solar, and I don’t particularity want to give the electric company my surplus power for free for them to turn around and profit from, so fuck ‘em, ill figure out how to perfectly balance my use with my capacity and just save the spend.
So thats where rimworld got the shitty planet generation from. Seriously, I want big contiguous oceans. Not like I can use the vast majority of the planet anyway.
True, we do need some labor to keep things functional.
However, I can confidently state that at absolutely no point in my life have I ever worked for an employer in which my labor was an even a tiny net benefit to society. All of my jobs have been to further the profits of some rich fucks. I’m fairly certain a sizable chunk of the population is in the same boat.
With very few exceptions, my labor has gone toward things that don’t actually need to be done at all, like support for a tax company that wouldn’t exist if the IRS worked the way it should. The closest I’ve come to being actually useful in 40 years of life was working document compliance for a food production company. A job which could easily be automated through keyword searches, and probably has by now. Or maybe working at the chicken hatchery back in high school would count if you really stretch. Tho since we supplied newborn slaves to egg farms, I think it’s not a net benefit. I’d rather see local production for communities than big inter-state inhumane operations like that one. You don’t need a hatchery capable of putting out 80k birds every 2 days to ship around the country if you just let chickens have somewhat normal lives within the communities they support like we’ve done for all of human history until very recently…
Don’t get me wrong, I’ve applied for all sorts of public welfare jobs. DNR, fisheries, environmental outreach, museum work, etc. there just simply aren’t that many jobs with tangible benefits to society that I’m qualified for and interested in doing. And if that’s the case for someone with a STEM degree and great interest in making a positive impact, I can’t imagine someone not actively aiming for that would do much better.
I would gladly put a portion of my time and energy toward supporting the social fabric if that was actually an option that replaced bullshit jobs one does just to survive. I’ll even gladly do my time in sewage/waste disposal. Idgf, if it matters and isn’t forever, I’ll do my share no matter how unpleasant. A rotating schedule of people who opt-in locally to do needed labor would keep people connected and engaged with community efforts, and teach them about what it takes to keep their little bubble running smoothly. And that sounds pretty great. Sure sure volunteering exists and could fill that need to contribute, but I don’t think, in this current environment, that that’s really a viable option for most people. Working for free in what should be down time in a capitalist dystopia that caused the problems you are volunteering to try to mitigate is… not something most people can justify the time on or afford to do, you know?
I have 5 hammers, 2 identical drills, and 4 box cutters because of this.
I have some 20 pair of scissors for the same reason.
I don’t even want to know how many screwdrivers I’ll find when I pack my shit to move.
Object permanence is a big problem. A big expensive problem. I can set something down right in front of myself and lose it basically immediately.
Oh! My first dm assigned me the god-like magical being role! It started as a group campaign and ended up being just me and her husband, and I was super new to it, so she wrote out a whole thing that my character was unaware of, and the entire story became finding out about this.
My own backstory probably sucked, but my character was a fire genasi mix who was trained as a mage blade. She was purple with white eyes due to badly botching her familiar summoning spell, so she ended up with a thievy purple monkey (incapable of following directions, unless I critted the roll) instead of the phoenix she was aiming for.
The dm snuck a giant gem into my inventory thanks to that sneaky thieving monkey (which caused a lot of problems, as you can imagine of a familiar that doesn’t obey fucking anything.) it ended up being an artifact from her ancestors, and unlocking the secrets of it brought out my latent goddessness.
So that was a blast.
Thanks for bringing up those memories! It was so long ago now…
Well sure, there used to be a lot more horses that died annually, back when they were a primary means of transport.
It’s still wild to me that many parts of the developed world simply don’t use screens on windows.
But from what I can tell its also mostly places where people don’t even have AC because it simply never gets that hot.
Must be nice. (I don’t have AC yet, but I’m an outlier in my area, and I hope to add it this year because a heat pump would be an absolute blessing even if I still need to use my gas furnace as backup)