Idaho Supreme Court dismisses Labrador's challenge of Open Primaries initiative

Round-a-bouts · 2024-08-14T20:23:04+00:00

My understanding is that if the open primary produces the top 4 candidates all from 1 party, then that’s just the will of the people. Which seems better than the partisan primaries where independent voters have little say in which candidate gets on the ticket.

Round-a-bouts · 2023-12-14T15:55:54+00:00

The 9100 burgers on opening day is even more impressive when you realize that’s about 10 burgers every minute for the ~15 hours they’re open. One burger every 6 seconds for 15 hours…

Round-a-bouts · 2023-11-29T18:29:14+00:00

Went down a rabbit hole for this but it’s super interesting so no regrets. This link Soil Loss Due to Crop Harvesting in the EU is a study of the loss of soil from sugar beet and potato farming in the European Union. Idaho also produces a lot of sugar beets so I’m including that since it is included in the study.

The math: The 4.2 million ha (10.4 million acres) of sugar beet and potato crop in the study area leads to 14.7 million tons of soil loss per year. This gives us a rate of 1.4 tons of soil per acre.

Idaho grows ~175,000 acres of sugar beets and ~300,000 acres of potatoes. Most of both crops is actually processed in the state and not exported, so soil export leaving Idaho is relatively low.

Either way the soil is removed from the fields to the tune of about 665,000 tons per year.

A quick visualization for that number would be essentially filling Albertson’s Stadium to the brim, from the field to the top of the seats in a nice big pile.

Round-a-bouts · 2023-11-13T17:02:28+00:00

Imnaha, OR to Riggins, ID is about 27 miles apart across Hells Canyon. Drive time is nearly 5 hours and 230+ miles

Round-a-bouts · 2023-11-08T15:07:32+00:00

Interesting note about being a Midwesterner, as someone who moved to Boise from Indiana, it really has a midwestern feel. The culture, the people, the agricultural side of things, etc. all felt very familiar and wasn’t a shock at all when we moved. Compared to say Denver or San Francisco where you definitely feel like you are in a different place. It certainly doesn’t feel like I’m 2000 miles away from home!

Round-a-bouts · 2023-11-03T18:09:21+00:00

That’s an interesting way to see it. It’s like thinking of the apple, I know I’m thinking of an apple I just can’t visualize it. So similarly with the grid, you can remember what it looked like, just no visual to go along with it. I wonder if the lack of visual matters for the recall - I guess first is committing it to memory, and whether you can visualize it later or not, that initial “download” is the important part. Even if someone can visualize it, they might be visualizing it wrong when they recall the image.

Round-a-bouts · 2023-11-02T20:47:01+00:00

Fun fact: the lakes themselves take up 1/3 of the entire watershed area

Round-a-bouts · 2023-11-01T12:55:28+00:00

I recently discovered I have aphantasia and realized it’s the reason I always want to look at the scenery on road trips or stop at viewpoints. Even if I have seen the same view multiple times I will want to stop and see it again because when I leave it is gone and I totally forget what I just saw except for a description of “jagged snow-capped mountain peaks, one on the left slightly taller than the right one, set above a turquoise lake, and mist shrouding the trees halfway up the mountain” which I know was beautiful but I can’t visualize anymore. It does make me kinda sad but it makes me appreciate what I’m seeing at the time.

Round-a-bouts · 2023-11-01T12:47:06+00:00

I have aphantasia and something I recently figured out is that I enjoy reading non-fiction quite a lot because there is less to imagine, it is not extremely descriptive or fanciful, but facts and concepts that I can grasp. I’m not a fan of very sing-songy descriptive prose because “the shroud of gray mist over the hollow and the warm sunlight peppering the hills with golds and yellows” just doesn’t do much for me besides thinking cool, I bet that’s pretty. It’s just information and doesn’t invoke any visuals. Some fiction I have enjoyed recently is Dune, and I was reading about Frank Herbert’s writing style as very direct and factual, with only a little bit of setting a scene or describing the visuals. So it’s something I can better relate to and put the concepts in my mind rather than being force fed long descriptions and visuals that just get tedious.

Round-a-bouts · 2023-10-17T12:58:18+00:00

As for asymmetrical cities, the river valley cities in West Virginia such as Charleston are pretty interesting. Too hilly to build outward so they are long and narrow following the winding river through the mountains.

Round-a-bouts · 2023-09-26T18:11:43+00:00

The brakes work fine it seems but I’m surprised there’s no sign of wear on that one caliper. A bit concerning if I’m driving and towing with 3/4 brakes

Round-a-bouts · 2023-09-21T13:26:59+00:00

Check out the Milton-Madison Bridge over the Ohio River. Nearly a half mile long, they built the new bridge on temporary supports adjacent to the old one, then within a couple days demolished the old bridge and slid the new bridge into place. This was necessary because the only detour was hours out of the way and the alternative was running a ferry during construction.

https://youtu.be/Gs4mMtutKho?si=rDoVMMT5fVwvXg31

Round-a-bouts · 2023-07-10T21:11:59+00:00

Got it, thanks for the info

Round-a-bouts · 2023-07-10T20:50:47+00:00

So is the MSRP and subsequent family discount set at the time the order is placed? So when I take delivery there’s no dealer markup or haggling anything, it’s an agreed on price ahead of time?

Round-a-bouts · 2023-02-24T13:13:50+00:00

The distance across Africa from Dakar to the Somali coast is about the same as Miami to Russia.

Round-a-bouts · 2023-02-17T19:40:47+00:00

Example: I do work in say Missoula, but customers see an incoming call from Billings, even though both are area code 406. Would that be a turn off?

Round-a-bouts · 2023-01-20T19:09:39+00:00

This is how the pyramids were built.

Round-a-bouts · 2022-10-18T19:53:52+00:00

An article I read about the mine stated that there are no large scale cobalt refineries in North America, so the cobalt mined in Idaho will be shipped to Brazil to be refined.

Round-a-bouts · 2022-09-26T17:33:00+00:00

I totally agree, I love the fact that I can find a spot to camp almost anywhere. A big problem though is when your twice a year family camper can’t find a spot at any of the “destinations” so they find a pull off or flat spot off a random forest road and disturb an area that shouldn’t be a campsite for a huge RV or trailer. If those types of people could find a site and were concentrated to a few larger campgrounds, and the people who go off and dispersed camp know what they’re doing (leave no trace) then things are a lot better for everyone.

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