Slatlun

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[–] Slatlun@lemmy.ml 4 points 2 days ago
  1. In my experience creamer is meant for coffee/tea. It is not the same as cream. I think it even has less fat than half and half. I would check the nutritional labels against the dairy equivalent to see the comparative fat content. If all else fails, you might be able to find coconut cream in the canned food section.
[–] Slatlun@lemmy.ml 5 points 5 days ago

These are real, current legs. The front 2 of the insect norm of 6

[–] Slatlun@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 week ago

The developer also posted on Mastodon: https://infosec.exchange/@divested/113308051603906364 Looks like it was patched but that hasn't gotten to F-droid yet

[–] Slatlun@lemmy.ml 17 points 1 week ago

This was kind of cool https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nsg81Tn3s28 I didn't like the first wall example because the clicking cadence changes, but the field and trees were very clear

[–] Slatlun@lemmy.ml 2 points 1 week ago
[–] Slatlun@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 week ago

I absolutely agree that there should be a official name. My problem with birds is that there are 2 official names. The American Ornithological Society approves both of them (kind of). One is Latin/Greek/whatever in Genus species format - that is the one for science literature and taxonomy. The other is in English and silly in my opinion because that's where people will use it to say nonsense like there is no such thing as a seagull.

[–] Slatlun@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 week ago (2 children)

There are weirdly rigid common names around birds. There is a whole thing about renaming them right now. They are essentially regulated terms that low level pedants respect. They are the same types of people who would correct you for calling Frankenstein's monster 'Frankenstein'.

The plant community is better. You could call a "sunflower" a "tall flower" and nobody would care. You might get a "oh, I've never heard that one" but never "there's no such thing as a 'tall flower.'" They just fall back to the scientific names when clarity is important.

IMO common names should just be useful. I will call any gull a seagull when talking to non-bird people because that is a term that is commonly understood and how effective communication works.

 

F-droid is telling me that there is a security vulnerability in Mull. Does anyone know what it is? F-droid doesn't provide details, and I can't find anything relevant on Mull's side either. I am assuming it is some out-of-date library but would like to know the risk?

[–] Slatlun@lemmy.ml 19 points 3 weeks ago

Wait. Was I not supposed to be talking about this? Next you're going to tell me that sewage treatment is an innapropriate dinner party topic.

[–] Slatlun@lemmy.ml 3 points 1 month ago

Absolutely! The positive emotions are easily the best of humanity.

[–] Slatlun@lemmy.ml 3 points 1 month ago

I hope you don't feel that was an attack because the fact that it wasn't one will never override the emotional response if you feel it is. If you do feel that way, there is probably no reason to read on. You'll be wasting your own time.

For the record, I didn't say I agree with anything the right puts forward, I don't see room to compromise on things I care about, and if you're talking US I think the "center" is left of the two presidential candidates.

You're absolutely right those are facts (and those facts get totally ignore by people because the are in conflict with their emotions), but the reason you're looking at those stats is also emotion based:

Climate change will hurt blank (too many to list) and I LIKE blank (or am AFRAID of blank) so climate change is bad. Access to abortion is good because I VALUE people lives. All children should have food because I WANT to live in a world where everyone, especially those without agency, can be happy, healthy, and get at least a fair shake. Those are my motivations. How we get there is policy. That's when facts become relevant.

Understanding how we all make decisions based on emotions will help you understand yourself, your motivations, and help you convince people around you that they should also value the same things as you. Practically, you need to go a step further than facts. Ask yourself why that chunk of data is important to you. When you cite it, why would the other person care? Because people are dying? Why does that matter?

[–] Slatlun@lemmy.ml 7 points 1 month ago (4 children)

This is a long one, and I want to start by saying that your comment is a super popular belief. Even so, I think misses the mark a little bit.

Everything in the political sphere is emotions based. 'Murder is bad' isn't some ultimate truth. We care about other people and ourselves. That emotion then leads to the reasoning that murder is bad and should be illegal. Same goes for everything else.

What conservatives tend to do is say 'murder is bad' and 'there is a group that I hate'. They then abandon the truth of what murder statistics tell them and blame it on the out group which justifies the second emotion. They're not wrong because it is emotionally centered (again we all do that). They're wrong because they aren't willing to examine that emotional motivation vs reality.

All of that to say that if we think the problem is emotionality we are probably making similar mistakes even if the outcome is better. To paraphrase a very true statement in Futurama - There is no scientific consensus that life is valuable.

[–] Slatlun@lemmy.ml 21 points 1 month ago (5 children)

I think the point is that there isn't a good enough reason to put internet in a car that negates the risk of it.

It is like adding lead to food. It's a cheap sweetener with no calories. You can argue that cheap sweeteners aren't important to you, but I don't think you can argue that it isn't a good reason. It just isn't a good enough reason to negate the risk.

 

With a sweat bee on it for good measure

 

Shown in its native habitat

 

This plant works hard to clean the water I keep out for wildlife. This one grabbed up so much nitrogen/phosphorus that it got pot bound in one year. I split it in half so each half has twice as much room to grow this year.

 

tldr: urban woodland edges around Boston are accumulating carbon faster than expected because the soil microbiome is less functional than in more rural systems. How long that will work as a C sink is unknown.

 

I have been running lineageOS on my OnePlus 2. I liked it, but Lineage has stopped supporting my phone. There are two options that I have been able to find as replacements - postmarketOS and /e/OS. Any thoughts on those or other recommendation? Anything that gets security updates, is open source, and is functional meets my needs.

 

The large flowered collomia (Collomia grandiflora) is just starting to bloom around me. They are annual and have cool blue pollen (typically pollen is yellow). You can see the pollen on the anthers at the center of each flower.

I am going to keep tossing these out into the ether unless I hear differently from the group. I have been doing flowers just because their showy, but if anyone has requests let me know (eg trees, sedges, garden plants). Also, I have been avoiding having pollinators in the photos on the assumption that any animal makes most people ignore plant. Any thoughts on that?

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submitted 3 years ago* (last edited 3 years ago) by Slatlun@lemmy.ml to c/plants@lemmy.ml
 

This one is meadow-foam (Limnanthes douglasii). It's annual that is native to prairies of the west coast of North America. Smells great, looks cool, and bugs like it. Comercially, similar plants are grown for the oil from their seeds. The seeds off this one will just fall where they want to sprout up in spring of '22.

 

For me it is my phacelia (Phacelia tanacetifolia) blooming. I throw some seed down wherever I don't have other plans because the bugs love the flowers? What have you got going?

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