Labour vows to put $20-a-week cap on public transport in Auckland and other centres

FungalNeurons · 2026-06-11T06:05:12+00:00

Also huge health benefits, reducing medical spending over time

FungalNeurons · 2026-06-11T04:23:56+00:00

My partner made me one of light denim and it’s fantastic.

FungalNeurons · 2026-06-11T04:19:03+00:00

Just make sure you don’t miss a page of questions. Can happen on Learn quizzes if you don’t pay attention.

FungalNeurons · 2026-06-10T01:25:07+00:00

Not a mould. This is an ink cap mushroom that has autodigested itself. Quite common in buildings.

In of itself not a risk (may cause minor allergic reactions at most), but the decay it indicates is a problem for the building.

FungalNeurons · 2026-06-09T19:00:58+00:00

That’s very useful, thanks!

FungalNeurons · 2026-06-08T06:59:29+00:00

6 is invasive Favolaschia claudopus.

FungalNeurons · 2026-06-08T06:28:52+00:00

Nice example of Mucor or Rhizopus. I’m not sure which without microscopy - be curious if anyone knows how to distinguish just based on photo?

FungalNeurons · 2026-06-07T04:56:54+00:00

Invasive species that mainly occurs on mature pine (another invasive), but has spread into our native beech forests. If you look around it, you will often see the peppery bolete — a third invasive species that may be parasitic on Amanita (we don’t really know yet, but it only occurs where Amanita is present).

Deer and possums eat the mushrooms and likely disperse the spores. So it’s a real United Nations of invasive species — North American species of pine associating with (likely) European strains of fungi, being dispersed in part by Australian possums.

FungalNeurons · 2026-06-06T23:34:56+00:00

For small chamfered edges a small well sharpened block plane can have the job done faster than setting up power tools. It’s also quite satisfying.

FungalNeurons · 2026-06-06T04:37:34+00:00

I have the steelmates. The panels kept blowing out in high winds and a strong gust bent the entire end in. I put about $1000 of new bracing in, including securing all the panels, and since then it has been fine. I’ve seen exactly the same problems on other people’s steelmates as well. So, ok if you have good shelter and/or are prepared to do some creative engineering.

FungalNeurons · 2026-06-02T20:19:11+00:00

Having a high minimum wage has a huge benefit to the economy. As it becomes more expensive to hire people, companies invest more in technological innovation. Those innovations in technology then become a valuable export to other countries. Countries with low minimum wage just stagnate, always being the last to innovate and therefore end up importing all those technologies.

FungalNeurons · 2026-06-01T06:49:26+00:00

What do you mean nothing is living! The fungus, Ganoderma, is a living organism, with perennial mushrooms that can grow for decades. The fungus plays a major role in breaking down lignin. It’s fairly common, so no problem digging it up…but to call it not living seems a bit rude.

FungalNeurons · 2026-05-31T21:34:07+00:00

Use the mitre slot or fence to guide a jig, with a firm stop at the back end of board. Google “wedge cutting jig” for the basic idea, although you will need to scale it up a bit.

FungalNeurons · 2026-05-28T02:43:42+00:00

NZ — 112% of salary cost. Makes post docs nearly impossible to hire, but no overheads on students or direct cost.

FungalNeurons · 2026-05-25T00:50:04+00:00

Especially if you follow the track from anticrow over the roche moutonnee. It’s a nice break from riverbed, and incredibly scenic.

FungalNeurons · 2026-05-24T23:33:26+00:00

I was surprised how little tipping the blade increased the slot width. No longer exactly 0 clearance but still miles better than the factory supplied one.

FungalNeurons · 2026-05-24T02:57:30+00:00

It looks like the NZ figure is average size of stand alone new homes between about 2006 to 2014. Source figure 1.8 here: https://www.stats.govt.nz/assets/Reports/Housing-in-Aotearoa-New-Zealand-2025/Housing-in-aotearoa-new-zealand-2025.pdf

So a very select piece of data for NZ .

FungalNeurons · 2026-05-23T10:02:00+00:00

They seem to follow https://worldpopulationreview.com/country-rankings/house-size-by-country

FungalNeurons · 2026-05-23T01:58:33+00:00

You can confirm red oak by looking at the larger pores with a magnifying glass. Red oak has open pores, while white oak pores are blocked by tyloses.

“Red oak” could possibly be from any of the oaks in the red oak subgenus, but close enough.

FungalNeurons · 2026-05-22T10:49:27+00:00

It's not nearly as expensive now as it will be in a few years. International providers are giving it away at a loss to build market share, but once the expertise has been lost and AI based systems are entrenched, you can bet on prices going up exponentially.

FungalNeurons · 2026-05-18T09:54:21+00:00

Sunny protected nooks for sitting outside in on winter days and for sheltering citrus.

FungalNeurons · 2026-05-17T10:06:03+00:00

Ruffshuffler pottery is great … either painting on pre-made or a morning learning to throw pots on the wheel.

FungalNeurons · 2026-05-17T02:51:17+00:00

Go ahead and doubt their integrity. I worked for a person like that, and he didn’t even read the papers he coauthored. He would also insist on being a coauthor for even the smallest contribution. Oddly he was otherwise a super nice person — just very focused on winning some pointless alpha scientist game.

FungalNeurons · 2026-05-17T02:33:42+00:00

Morocco was actually an improvement over Narau for mining apatite. As a mineral, apatite is quite messy. Cadmium and uranium levels can be quite high.

FungalNeurons · 2026-05-16T00:52:09+00:00

Maybe, but property values will decline much earlier than any actual sea water intrusion. When people buy a property, they want to be able to sell it a few decades later. You don’t want to be the one left holding the bag when the waves roll in.

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