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Basically, they are being stored too long, because Honeycrisp season is only in September, and the apple industry in Washington state is trying to provide them year round.

This is compounded by the subtle effect of the trees being adapted for Minnesota, whereas Washington’s climate is much warmer.

Oh that’s interesting, thanks.

So no one misunderstands, there are over 3000 species of mosquitos, but most biting species of mosquitos only go after birds/amphibians.

Only a small number of species (single digit percentage) go after mammals. And even less than have been found to be vectors for disease.

The basic point is that yes, we can wipe out selected mosquito species via eradication programs (like sterile mate release) with zero consequence outside of healthier people, because human hazardous mosquitos aren’t unique to the ecological niche they fill.

I’m 4/10 on that one as far as name recognition. Similar to you, I can only could think of one song from lady Gaga. Eminem is the only one which multiple songs come to mind, not that I could name them.

I grew up on 90’s and early 2000’s college radio, and am now a Doom/psychedelic rock kind of guy, and spend a good amount of time and money curating what I love.

I am disconnected from pop culture. It has repeatedly failed to deliver what I enjoy, and typically comes bundled with advertisements so I have no reason to pay attention to it.

Long overdue

Sounds like you have your answer of “don’t use it” then.

GitHub: https://github.com/opengarage

Website: https://opengarage.io/

Looks to be related, opensprinkler: https://github.com/opensprinkler

This is me.

I can easily eat nothing for a day or two, though my longest was 3 days. Working out has been helpful because now I have an intellectual need to ensure I get enough calories and my macros. I can also way overeat if I have things I like available because there’s never really a “stop” signal that’s not being physically full. The only times I experience a “yeah ok I’m good now” is with extremely rich cheesecake sickening me (having still overeaten it) or 70% dark chocolate boring me. The later along with green apples are the only snacks I dare to keep around, because I’m not all that interested in eating them lol.

If I tried to go to bed when I’m tired, I’d end up doing so 2-4 hours later than the previous day, end up being awake at night and sleeping (poorly) during the day until it cycles back around and the insanity repeats all over again. Even if I’m extremely tired for some reason, it still takes at least an hour to actually fall asleep, followed by waking up multiple times during the night to toss and turn. The phenomenon of my head hitting the pillow and the next day showing up happened once when I was traveling, and was wonderful.

I’ve historically been very poor at recognizing when I’m being emotionally affected by things or stressed, which I would describe as feeling more like an android that a human, though that’s improved these past few years.

Listening to my body is still important, but I can’t intuitively just understand what it’s “telling me”, rather I need to track the consequences and intervene.

Incidentally, I am both autistic and spent much of my childhood trying to manage that hazards of my parent’s unstable emotional states rather than my own.

There was a game called “SILENT THUNDER: A-10 TANK KILLER II” my father had in his collection that I’d ruffle through as a kid.

While the gameplay (brutal flight sim) wasn’t that compelling to child me, it had a full soundtrack made of multiple genres that lives in my brain to this day, especially “Monk’s revenge”. In fact, I think it was setup so that you could put the disk in a CD player and have it play as an audio disk. No idea if any of it counts as “jungle”, but it’s very much 90’s electronic game music.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z9c6PPlkvBE&list=PLc3TVNLOqs...

I hadn’t noticed the announcement of the vulnerability, looks like it’s nothing I care about for my “thread model”.

https://www.theverge.com/2024/9/4/24235635/yubikey-unfixable...

>“The attacker would need physical possession of the YubiKey, Security Key, or YubiHSM, knowledge of the accounts they want to target, and specialized equipment to perform the necessary attack,” the company said in its security advisory. “Depending on the use case, the attacker may also require additional knowledge including username, PIN, account password, or authentication key.” But those aren’t necessarily deterrents to a highly motivated individual or state-sponsored attack.

Yep, I literally only learned it was cross platform last year when I noticed it as a package dependency.

Mind you, I’m not a coder, and more just a Linux homelab hobbyist.

The lesson is that Reddit is not real life, and that calling half the country racist sexist fascist inbred stupid genocidal monsters turns out to not be a winning strategy.

Whether democrats finally learn that lesson is another thing. I am not optimistic on that.

I’m a 38 year old male in the USA and I’ve had two out of three shots of gardasil 9, with my third (final) in a few months. There are multiple strains, so even if you have one, the vaccine will protect against the others.

You have to bring it up to the doctor yourself though.

Incidentally green apples are the only ones I still enjoy either raw or cooked, because they aren’t sickeningly sweet, and they store decently so they are on hand when I want one.

>then you're making bad decisions and you should do better.

Please be mindful that this sort of talking down to people poisons conversation.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

>Be kind. Don't be snarky. Converse curiously; don't cross-examine. Edit out swipes.

Child rape victims are now being forced to give birth in some states: https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/article/2024/aug/11/chil...

For monsters wearing human skin, the cruelty is the point.

Wow no kidding, I actually watched the whole thing.

The stop motion of the build was very satisfying. It’s also amazing how smoothly it moves, even being as heavy as it is.

I really appreciate your responses (and ones others have made elsewhere in this thread), they give much better insight into what someone is going through internally than the clinical definitions I see.

Movies and TV shows are things to watch with friends/family. It's awkward and annoying for sex scenes to come up.

I had an old coworker that said the same thing, calling it nearly like getting a sort of high. He had been gifted some tobacco plants by a local tribal community he had a good relationship with. So basically the only thing he’d smoke was his homemade cigars that was its own involved process. Seems like a great way to limit intake and actually enjoy things. That said, I hate smoking, and find even campfires noxious most of the time so it’s not for me.

Even if you don’t smoke, tobacco plants are definitely something to trying growing in the garden once. They are beautiful and their scent is wonderful and carries quite a ways. They start off as night flowering for hawkmoth pollination, then switch to day flowing for hummingbirds when they start getting fed on by hawk moth larvae.

A phrase that sticks with me on describing an aspect of friendships is “insincere hostility”.

I think I originally encountered it from one of Andrew Hussie’s works.

A lot of people don’t realize just how many mosquito (and closely related) species there are, and how few actually go after humans/mammals. Most just go after birds or reptiles/amphibians exclusively.

In the ag fields where I work in the Willamette valley of Oregon, most of what I actually come across during the day are non-biting midges that look like mosquitos. Coming across actual mosquitos during the day is a rare thing because whatever species we have here tend be out during very short seasons or only when it get’s dark. Far different from Michigan or Minnesota imo.

Mind you, you can absolutely find mosquitos if you go out looking for them in the woods.

The very low amount of biting mosquitos that I noticed is actually my big reason for having originally moved here, since bites for me tend to be dime-quarter sized and intensely itch for 2-4 weeks, avoiding mosquitos is a high priority. I’ve yet to find any chemical that adequately deals with the itching, and while heat based solutions like hot water or thermal sticks work they are still only temporary.

Unfortunately, the pollen levels here are a special hell of its own. If you aren’t allergic, you will be. I use a PAPR respirator when out in the early summer during grass pollination.

For real though, the massive amount of pollen (trees in spring, grass in early-mid summer) in the Willamette valley is a legit reason for people to never move here.

There’s Argon in those? Interesting. I wonder if anyone’s tried adding an electrode for plasma effects.

edit so it turns out, at least a significant part of inaturalist is in fact open source of some kind. I never realized, I’ll have to look into this more. I appreciate you getting me to take a second look https://github.com/inaturalist

This may be exactly what I need: https://www.inaturalist.org/sites/network

Do you use any kind of protectant, like dielectric grease or Deoxit? I find applying to both the equipment and battery contacts saves a lot of headaches on my work phone, ATV, trailer lights connectors and anything else powered I use in the field.

On a related note, I wish there was some sort of software system where I could ID weeds and insects with photos and locations at various levels of confidence (“possibly”, “probably”, keyed out, genetic testing) at different taxonomic levels and both self host my results while also automatically contributing to a larger project.

There are various projects out there (like plantnet) but I don’t want to burn massive personal effort curating in a system that isn’t my own first and foremost, due to inevitable enshittification. At the same time, I want others to benefit from what I do, in particular local growers and naturalists. Things like PlantNet also tend to be “majority vote” on ID, meaning a whole lot is often close, but wrong. For example there is a regional plant specific to my area called Willamette Navarretia. Those that don’t realize this will easily confuse it with very similar looking species found most elsewhere in the western US, and last I checked it wasn’t in PlantNet.

https://www.oregon.gov/oda/programs/PlantConservation/SiteAs...

https://www.inaturalist.org/taxa/165663-Navarretia-willamett...

Incidentally, most repairs to an HVAC system are quite self serviceable.

The channel https://www.youtube.com/@WordofAdviceTV/videos has saved me a lot of money.

On a complete tangent on the topic of “home maintenance you should know”, hot water tanks should be purged yearly (to get rid of the debris collecting on the bottom), and have a sacrificial anode rod to stop corrosion and should be replaced every ~3 years (magnesium) or ~5 years (aluminum)

Telling people they are morally bankrupt sinners (slothful and gluttonous) and heaping guilt and shame on their shoulders has unsurprisingly failed to stop the issue.

Why do you think that telling people to “just stop being fat” will suddenly start working?

What the fuck are you doing with that link?

Here’s the link without the bullshit: http://razzaminipainting.blogspot.com/2016/07/non-metallic-m...