Alexander
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I do not have a lawn, I have several ha of forest and grassland. I have about 25 nest boxes for wild birds, occupied 2/3 (last year I had a huge owl living in one!) and countless other nests, several snakes, snails and frogs, lynx and I see bear tracks and scats now and then. I keep bees and allow wasps to build wherever they like, there are lots of bumblebees everywhere and birds sure have something to eat. I mulch a lot and keep loads of rotting leaves. I mow with scythe when I absolutely have to clear small area. I know there are fireflies in Finland.
Never saw a single blink.
I’ve seen them once in my life, in Smoky Mountains, about 10 years ago. It was pretty much spiritual experience. The darkness came alive. I cried when I saw their luciferase smeared over windshield and glowing long after the creature was dead. I knew lots of lore about them, saw them in mass culture - never realizing I never saw one myself, even though I take care to notice all living things around, from bacteria and yeast to mycchorizal networks.
I live in Europe.
Thanks!
Just another a bit of advice: remember to reeeeeally carefully inspect grants; in many cases (almost always - but not always, I had some luck there in the end) they require supporting paperwork and other stuff that would effectively require you to spend resources comparable to grant funds themselves just to handle grant issuing party relations. Or they steal the IP in the end. Grants are dangerous poison, for once you have a team writing reports in payroll and rely on grants, it’s very hard to drop this, and people would rebel, and firing someone because you are not applying for grants in near future is very hard and often too unethical to do.
Whoa, I’m in their shoes right now!
Ok, the shoes are uncomfortable af and have holes, but mine are clean! I’ve lived with this tech company for 4 or 5 years now, and I never ever stained myself with VS bullshit. I might go bankrupt this month, I had harsh betrayals and market fluctuations beating the shit from me. I’ve got store with sales that are just too slow. I’ve delayed salaries for almost a month (except mine, I haven’t made any money for myself this year lol). I still refused to go for all those investor traps and I’m proud of that. Worst case - I’ll just go bankrupt and start over!
With investments, you’ll never get out clean, without betraying yourself. There will always be compromises. And you won’t get very much richer in the end, it’s a game where those “bad guys” will inevitably burn you unless you’ll become one of them. The rich will get richer and you’ve participated in burning the world? Not cool.
I’ve been there. I had in my hands technologies that save the world. I had nuclear waste treatment technology tested in Fukushima. I had sub-10 nm lithography in 2014 (and we showed it to Intel in hopes they’ll just hire us back then). Investors never want to save the world, they want coke and whores and to burn us all. Decision makers will keep messing things up. Only grassroots are sustainable.
(please do come to my store buy some weird stuff before it’s gone and I’m losing everything and starting another company again: https://store.zymologia.fi/)
Gosh, this post and especially all the comments singing with unison to my dream cheered me up, I’ve got to go do something good now!
With kids, it’s more like 20 seconds or 4 minutes, still as risky
Alexander@sopuli.xyzto Solarpunk@slrpnk.net•Fighting air pollution: Boat + bike delivery service to lower car traffic inside cities (at 4:21)0·13 days agoThose could be row boats too
Where I live now, having more that one lane is a luxury few places could afford. I still slow down and move towards shoulder if I see The Secret Hints (those funny blinky yellow lights that do not seem to work in many, many cars).
Hah, when I lived in the US, I was 100% certain that if a road has limit, I can always, in worst imaginable conditions, just nail it and go with limit (I lived down south, ok, in Texas, but traveled all the thing).
Now in Europe this is absolutely not the case. I don’t mean Autobahns even, just regular roads in Finland are, well, just slow down if not sure, ok?
Alexander@sopuli.xyzto Science Memes@mander.xyz•If you can't make it yourself, store bought is fineEnglish10·14 days agoOverpriced dophamine
yes, it’s about 5km/h lower than what panel says, I use GPS to fuel my ego! This bike is not made for speed.
I can drive fast and pull 4wd cars from snow with this car (I pulled dudes on RAMs from Grand Canyon snowy roads with 2010 Corolla), I just don’t want to.
Yeah, that’s me on Prius, driving deliberately not above speed limit to laugh at your funny face when you pass and then not shine my high lights at you feeling moral superiority.
Alexander@sopuli.xyzto People Twitter@sh.itjust.works•US Military never really trained for these types of dog and pony shows0·14 days agoRussians be like “they can’t march, maybe they can’t even clean a toilet bowl with their fork or fuck and tortue a child, we totally win”
Alexander@sopuli.xyzto Science Memes@mander.xyz•That's not how any of this works.English7·17 days agoThat’s awesome, perfect conversation starter. Very smart design (and cute). Art with impact!
Alexander@sopuli.xyzto Homebrewing - Beer, Mead, Wine, Cider@sopuli.xyz•Spruce tip beer ('tis the season)English0·18 days agoOvercooled sugar syrup (what people usually make by heating sugar in water and then cooling down) would technically be a suspension of sugar nanoparticles in saturated syrup. This should totally be more potent for chemical extraction than pure sugar, even after extraction of fluids into it which could only saturate it into syrup phase.
Throwing alcohol into beer preparation souds like illegal move in Finland an USA afaik, LOL
Alexander@sopuli.xyzto Linux@sopuli.xyz•Why don't most distros support listing packages and system settings in text file(s)?0·18 days agoConfigs certainly change faster than systems, I have to adatp it to hw and tasks every tima. So, pacman -S base-devel
Alexander@sopuli.xyzto Solarpunk@slrpnk.net•Solarpunk instance going offline for awhile was like a true solarpunk experience0·19 days ago99.999% uptime guarantee is a silly thing, once you realize that all things that have to be just available all the time - some health or security or manufacturing lines - get 10 minutes downtimes easily with all these fancy nines. It’s just some cliche to disempower us punks.
Alexander@sopuli.xyzto Homebrewing - Beer, Mead, Wine, Cider@sopuli.xyz•Spruce tip beer ('tis the season)English0·22 days agoActually, ectraction must be possible with honey then!
Alexander@sopuli.xyzto Homebrewing - Beer, Mead, Wine, Cider@sopuli.xyz•Spruce tip beer ('tis the season)English0·22 days agoI don’t really think they heated that much, it’s oven temperature, and water was not driven away.
I think you are correct on “melting” part.
Ultimate heatpipe if condenser is replaced with reflux. Well, that’s what heatpipes are.
I remember cooking scrambled eggs on amd topped with a few coins.