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I bought a kobo (2022 maybe?) pretty much entirely because (at the time anyway) it had the best on-device integration with Overdrive. not sure if kindle, nook, etc still require you to browse and check out books on a secondary device and then sync but I appreciated the kobo getting rid of that step. still using it and still happy.

Nice branding.

I wonder how much butterfly habitat has been/is being replaced with data centers?

this site never fails to impress me with how in-depth it is. I (re) started running several years ago and the world of shoes is dizzying. I still don't have a great grasp on it but I'm glad I've found some shoes that are reliable for me. Fairly certain that I experienced this phenomenon that the author pointed out: "...if a shoe is too soft and bouncy, it can make your stabilizer muscles work harder just to keep things steady." Hard to say for certain but I've found those really soft/bouncy/lightweight shoes are fine for me over short runs (such as a 5k race) but are terrible on longer runs due to this phenomenon.

the episode about the ice breaking up - where everyone is acting out of character - is one of my favorite episodes of television. great show.

Been said, but you can outright buy Capture One with no subscription. I am a fuji shooter and have been using C1 in this way for quite a while now.

this is outstanding.

that's an insane amount of noise at 200 ISO.

I would be just fine with a return to Craigslist but it's still mostly useless in my neck of the woods despite once being the main (digital) tool for p2p sales.

I have a similar story. I quit in like 2016 or so and 9ish years later I wanted to shop for a used car for my oldest kid. I know already, of course, that Facebook now holds a monopoly on peer to peer sales of goods like that so I tried to make a new Facebook account. I was denied at the creation and told I had to try again with a video of my face (which I begrudgingly did) at which point I was denied AGAIN and told there was no appeals process.

I tried it (PopOS) on my old gaming laptop. It worked when it worked but when it didn't, it REALLY didn't. Linux unfortunately does not support my preferred (which I use semi-professionally) photo software, either (Capture One). Linux desktop feels like nuclear power to me - I've tried switching many many times over the last 20 years and it's just never quite there. I even use a lot of the open source solutions for office software etc. already, just on Windows.

incredible project but unless I'm misunderstanding what he is comparing it to, this is only a few hundred dollars/euros less than a used leica m digital body per a quick ebay search.

assuming that you're talking about a driver's license, you're leaving out the important steps of passing driving tests and, more importantly, having a car.

thank you.

We're counting down the days to August 30 in our house as my spouse is a NASA contractor who works at a program with a current expected budget cut of 40%, IIRC. I sure hope these bills pass and the cuts don't happen, but it's abundantly clear at this point that optimism is pretty foolish.

~25 years ago I could have taken you to multiple entirely dead streams within a 20 minute drive of where I grew up - and you don't get very far in 20 minutes on Appalachian roads. Over large swaths of my home state, in fact, I could have done that from most people's homes. This is no longer the case, and a huge number of streams are now recovered or recovering. The surface water problems are by no means gone, but some of the recoveries that I've witnessed - the North Branch of the Potomac River is a good example - are breathtaking. That river was as dead as a doornail in the 90s and is now a vibrant, healthy wild trout fishery. It is still a post-industrial river, it still has dams, run-off issues, wastewater inputs, etc, but it is a far cry from what it was.

I'm not going to dispute your over-arching point (because I know the data very well), but as a lifelong resident of Appalachia, I can assure you there has been some real and significant reduction in the negative environmental impact of fossil fuels. It's a small comfort and mostly just for those of us who live here, but it's real and visible.

The video of this was the first big file that my brother and I downloaded from the internet circa 1995-6 or so. It took a long, long time over our measly 14.4 connection but it was worth every minute.

The median home price graphic and statistic is pretty astonishing. This site:

https://dqydj.com/historical-home-prices/

has the same data in a format where you can adjust the time period of the graph; Late 2019 to May 2022 looks like the steepest curve in the data (goes back to 2/1953) by a long shot. Despite being a home owner (or maybe because of it - I haven't thought about this stuff in a long time) I'm a philistine on the topic but charts and statistics like this make it pretty clear why so many people have essentially given up on buying a home.

> The degree of "El Nino" influence is presumably known, and if its strength is not related with global warming in complicated and unknown ways it would be good to overlay it as a distinct effect.

A brief web search suggests this presumption is incorrect and that climate change is having an effect on the cycle, rendering this division somewhat meaningless - the old El Nino is "gone," in a sense, and only the climate change effected one remains.

from: https://research.noaa.gov/2020/11/09/new-research-volume-exp...

“No two El Niños or La Niñas are perfectly alike,” Capotondi said. “We’ve seen how diverse ENSO events can be. This diversity adds another degree of complexity for understanding how climate change will influence future ENSO events.”

So how are ENSO impacts likely to evolve in the coming decades?

“Extreme El Niño and La Niña events may increase in frequency from about one every 20 years to one every 10 years by the end of the 21st century under aggressive greenhouse gas emission scenarios,” McPhaden said. “The strongest events may also become even stronger than they are today.”

and here is the full book: https://agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/book/10.1002/978...

lone star ticks and dog ticks are relatively easy to spot as they are "big" in the grand scheme of things, but they are still pretty tiny. deer ticks, the primary carrier of lyme disease, are notoriously small and very hard to spot. as I understand, the really tiny ones (often referred to as "seed ticks" because they are the size of tiny seeds) are very unlikely to actually carry lyme disease because they will not have attached to a carrier yet (they aren't born with lyme disease), but I don't have a reference handy for that and I don't want any tick attached to me, big or small, in any case.

No, off trail - hunting, fishing, mushroom hunting, flipping rocks, playing around etc. Ticks are everywhere that animals are in my experience, however, and a hiking trail is no exception. Tall grass does seem worse but I’ve had many days in big woods where I ended up with ticks.

Just seeing this now - as other posters have stated, I use the low concentration clothing treatment, the Sawyer brand specifically. It works very well and even seems to last for the time period advertised on the label (6 weeks I think).

It's worth taking the time to learn to ID the lone star tick if you haven't already as it is thought to be the main carrier, per the CDC page linked from the original article [0]. I use permethrin pretty religiously these days, especially since lyme disease is now ubiquitous in my region, and I've been impressed with the results. Where previously a half-day in the woods might result in as much as a dozen ticks on my clothing and person, I basically never find them now. hoping that permethrin use doesn't some day come back to, pardon the pun, bite me (or anyone else), but it'll have to do for now.

[0] https://www.cdc.gov/ticks/alpha-gal/index.html

13,500 mi is... not much. would have assumed it to be much higher since this article is only concerned about carbon. it's a bit of a shame this article didn't also do this analysis for the other pollutants emitted by gasoline cars.

yes.