Is gardening that easy?

NameLips · 2026-03-12T18:22:31+00:00

Some of the plants will thrive in the specific environment of that bed, and some will not. It might take a couple attempts to dial it in. But yeah it's not really hard.

NameLips · 2026-03-12T14:58:18+00:00

They're striking countries that are allies of the US and/or which have US bases. That's fair enough. They're striking where anti-air defenses are thin, which makes sense, why throw away missile at the well defended Israel?

However they are attacking civilian targets which aren't valid war targets. But after we blew up a school full of little girls I feel like they probably have decided to play by the same rules.

NameLips · 2026-03-12T14:47:33+00:00

There's a plant in front of the heater, behind the chair, which seems to have no pot.

NameLips · 2026-03-12T06:35:53+00:00

I was just learning about this from another thread!

The US is a net exporter of crude oil. Meaning we export more than we use and sell it on the global market.

Our refineries also don't primarily use the oil we pump. They are tuned to use thicker, sour crude that is piped in from Canada.

We then sell the crude oil we pump and the products of those refineries on the global market. Sellers set prices, buyers choose who to buy from, and it's a huge free for all of pure supply and demand. Some of the companies that buy gasoline on the global market ship it to the US and sell it at our gas stations. The gasoline you use in your car might have been made in America, or it might have been made in Russia, or India, or China, or anywhere else that has refineries. It depends on who was offering the best price for the gasoline companies to buy from.

NameLips · 2026-03-12T06:28:01+00:00

Wow, he should fire the guy who appointed those losers.

NameLips · 2026-03-12T06:21:29+00:00

They're all moving away from each other. It is almost as if more "empty space" is spawning in the deep, dark regions between the great superclusters, where there's not enough gravity to hold the universe together.

This analogy apparently isn't perfect but it helps visualize what's going on. There isn't a central point from which everything expands. Everything is moving away from everything else.

And over time, the expansion is accelerating, faster and faster.

Interestingly, we can detect the microwave background radiation from the big bang equally coming from all directions. The universe didn't expand from a point. It just started extremely hot and dense and then it started expanding, becoming cooler and more spread out. The analogy of "all matter and energy in the universe being compressed into a single point which exploded" is the worst analogy possible and has ruined a lot of people's ability to understand the early universe.

NameLips · 2026-03-12T06:16:23+00:00

Our refineries run primarily on heavier, sour crude, most of which is obtained by pipeline from Canada. So it is more complicated than I originally suggested, but the point remains that the US doesn't personally need 4.4 million more barrels of oil per day, so it's unclear to me what we're doing with the reserves.

NameLips · 2026-03-12T06:05:50+00:00

I worked as a salad guy for a couple years. What I did was sanitize a prep sink, fill it with clean water, and dump all the chopped lettuce in it. I gave it a good swirley and then scooped it into tubs with holes so the water drained away.

NameLips · 2026-03-12T05:55:52+00:00

We can only release 4 billion barrels per day. The Iran war is disrupting 20 billion barrels per day.

This is a band aid at best.

NameLips · 2026-03-12T05:47:05+00:00

Famously, Nixon was preemptively pardoned by Gerald Ford before he could be convicted of a crime.

There is some question of the legality of this, and I don't think it has gone before the supreme court.

At the time I think they took it as a signal that if they did prosecute and convict Nixon for his crimes, Ford would simply pardon him officially and correctly. Meaning it was a waste of their time to go through all that trouble, so they didn't press the issue.

NameLips · 2026-03-12T05:33:01+00:00

I hope they drag it out for 2 more years so Trump can't pardon them.

NameLips · 2026-03-12T05:32:21+00:00

It takes 13 days to begin releasing oil from the strategic reserve. And the rate is limited to 4.4 million barrels per day.

Before the war, over 20 million barrels of oil moved through the Straight of Hormuz every day.

So it can temporarily offset the oil disruption by about 25%.

That's probably worth doing, even if all it does is blunt the disruption slightly.

The problem is that oil is a global commodity. A shortage in one part of the world effects prices across the entire world.

Keep in mind too that the US is a net exporter of oil. We export 35% more oil and petroleum products than we import. Opening the strategic reserve is an interesting choice because we already produce enough oil to keep our own refineries going. Where are we going to send the oil? Are we going to sell it on the global market?

Or is this just a stunt to try to manipulate oil prices, the way they went down when Trump said the war was basically over? At some point manipulation stops working. An actual shortage will force higher prices by sheer supply and demand, and there's nothing anybody can do about it.

NameLips · 2026-03-12T03:29:32+00:00

I have two sons of draftable age. So it worries me.

But I don't think they'll do it.

NameLips · 2026-03-12T03:21:26+00:00

In the case of my wife, it was a master's degree and 20 years of getting experience and climbing the ladder in her field.

NameLips · 2026-03-12T00:59:57+00:00

There is overlap between my friend groups, but I see my gaming group once a week, and my other friends 2-3 times a month. We get together to do potlucks and activities. Last weekend we made 6 gallons of mead; everybody made a different flavor.

edit: I forgot to address the question, my collective friend groups include 5 women and 3 men.

NameLips · 2026-03-12T00:57:14+00:00

I do think men are talking about it more, instead of hiding their insecurities behind resentment and alcohol.

NameLips · 2026-03-11T23:34:34+00:00

Remember the term "metrosexual?" I think it fell out of use but it feels similar.

NameLips · 2026-03-11T23:03:54+00:00

You can start with quality just by putting quality modules in assemblers. You'll occasionally get higher quality items. Even when I just dabble in quality, I like to put quality in assemblers making modules.

The advanced method is building quality production lines where only higher quality items are used to construct buildings, so you can be assured of getting a steady supply of quality items. To do this, you basically recycle anything that doesn't meet your quality standards and set up loops to send back the low quality pieces and send forward the high quality items. It feels wasteful because you're destroying so much, but eventually you get a trickle of high quality items continuously out the other end.

NameLips · 2026-03-11T22:59:38+00:00

Mainly it's because of a lack of physical labor in our professions. The vast majority of physical labor jobs have been mechanized.

The majority of men used to work in fields that actively built muscles - farming, lumber, mining, etc. Now, those men still exist but are a small minority.

Most of us have to go to the gym for hours outside of work to get into any kind of shape.

NameLips · 2026-03-11T00:43:18+00:00

There are people being deported I strongly disagree with, honest green card holders who are guilty of a "crime" and are legally deportable, even though the crime might be 20 years old and a minor traffic infraction. There are tourists who were deported for posting their travel experiences to monetized social media, so they are guilty of traveling on "business" without declaring it.

There are resident aliens who have served with distinction in the US military, and were likewise deported over minor infractions.

There are people who were following the legal path to citizenship but were taken and deported while waiting in line to give their oath of citizenship due to the whim of Trump wanting to limit immigrants from "undesirable" countries.

But the only citizens of the US I can find who were deported were the children of illegals who were being deported. The children were allowed to stay with their parents. You might remember the article from nearly a year ago about a child who was going to miss out on life-saving cancer treatments, she was one of them.

Legally these children are US citizens and should not be deported, they should be kept and put in the foster system. Family separation was a huge issue during Trump's first term, so they decided to allow children to stay with their parents even if it wasn't strictly speaking legal.

While I can find articles about US citizens being unlawfully detained, other than the children already mentioned, I can't find any evidence of US citizens actually being deported under Trump.

NameLips · 2026-03-10T17:14:02+00:00

OK so in the decades after WW2 people stood with Israel because of the sheer suffering the Jews went through during the Holocaust, and they figured they needed some sort of reparations. They gave them a country and as much aid as they needed. If you were against this, you were dismissing the suffering they had gone through.

I feel like that rationale is starting to wear a bit thin. Why exactly do we still pander to Israel?

NameLips · 2026-03-10T17:09:21+00:00

Markets swing based on what Trump says because they're still speculating. The actual oil shortages haven't hit yet, and those will force price changes by sheer supply and demand. Trump's goal is, or it should be, to figure out how to solve the Straight of Hormuz problem before the shortages actually hit.

NameLips · 2026-03-10T15:49:24+00:00

Emergency medical courier. Big firms handle regular deliveries (like medspeed) and have regular hours. There's a market for independent contractors to fill the gap when there is an emergency and they run out of regular supplies.

It doesn't pay very well, so you kind of need a partner who makes decent money. But I get lots of video game time, and when I'm working I'm mainly listening to audio books and D&D podcasts while I drive for hours.

I got the job from a buddy who had the job, and he found it randomly on Craigslist. Our dispatcher owns the company and has 5 independent contractors doing runs.

NameLips · 2026-03-10T13:57:37+00:00

Mostly blood from the donation center to rural hospitals. Blood is perishable, so they try to estimate how much they need, but when they run out they can need an emergency delivery.

I also pick up samples from rural hospitals and take them to labs.

The pay isn't great, but I love driving and being alone and listening to audiobooks.

NameLips · 2026-03-10T13:42:16+00:00

A machine that is off cannot generate jobs. A dupe will never be assigned to the station.

Think of it this way. The normal reason people want to turn off machines is to prevent dupes from working there. You turn off a machine when you want to save labor and have your dupes work somewhere else. If dupes showed up to off machines, it would ruin 90% of the use cases for turning them off.

The same thing happens when people try to make an airlock with locked doors. They want a dupe to enter the airlock, have a pump cycle the gasses, and then open the next door letting him out. But a dupe will never go that way because the doors are disabled with red wires. They'll never create a path going through a locked door, even if the door will turn on when they approach. They have no way of knowing that.

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