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RegularOpossum

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RegularOpossum··on Linus Tech Tips channel hacked
Their WAN Show is gonna be interesting this week.
RegularOpossum··on The Coffeeshop Fallacy (2011)
As a pretty decent hobbyist photographer this runs through my head every time someone suggests I do it for a living. The only happy wedding photographer I know is by his nature more business oriented and I don't have that edge.
RegularOpossum··on ‘Compostable’ plastics no longer able to be composted in Boulder
Yes, during warmer months I just food scraps into my tumbler and I put yard waste in a separate setup. However, during the winter the tumbler ices up and opening it becomes a process.
RegularOpossum··on ‘Compostable’ plastics no longer able to be composted in Boulder
Ah that makes sense. I recall the bags I purchased were marketed for home use, guess I got had.
RegularOpossum··on ‘Compostable’ plastics no longer able to be composted in Boulder
I expect this to be the start of a trend based on my own personal experience. I bought some "compostable" bags for my kitchen scrap bin that I would then dump in my outdoor composter. Six months later when I went to get my compost, large pieces of bag not only remained but had harded into solid chunks. Took an hour to sift out the chunks from the compost.

Edit: turns out I was ignorant of how they actually work.

RegularOpossum··on Turn your backyard into a biodiversity hotspot
I've got multiple bee homes for all different sizes. Showing off our orchid bees to visitors is one of my favorite yard activities.
RegularOpossum··on Sea life bounced back fast after the ‘mother of mass extinctions’
Oceans as an ecosystem are fascinating. This is simplified but on land the food chain is usually something like Plant-Herbivore-Predator but in the ocean the food chain is much longer, algae-Zooplankton--Predator-Predator-Predator-Predator-Predator-Predator-Predator. There's so much opportunities in the predator niche in the oceans that land animals keep going back to the ocean, because the evolutionary challenges were regularly worth it. This truly is a blue planet.
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