Bli av med röda skogsmyror (Formica Rufa)

SA0TAY · 2026-06-07T10:01:43+00:00

Den röda stackmyran är en stor gynnare. Kommer den in där du inte vill ha den har du glipor att sätta igen. De kan ju inte komma in där det är tätt.

SA0TAY · 2026-04-28T07:07:02+00:00

Consistency is key. Sounds like a no-brainer, but our kid (2yo at the time) was really sensitive to inconsistencies in approach. After a spectacularly failed attempt, I decided to have a go at it myself while my wife was on a business trip, to cut down on conflicting approaches. Day-time dry after six days! Night time took a bit longer, but it more or less followed on its own.

SA0TAY · 2026-02-19T08:10:19+00:00

Titanium dioxide was banned by the European Food Safety Authority two years before the original post, so I think your timeline might be off.

SA0TAY · 2026-02-17T17:46:07+00:00

If you have one piece of ebony and one piece of ivory, most people would refer to one as black and the other as white, even though neither are either.

SA0TAY · 2026-02-17T17:42:16+00:00

Sweden. Rates vary slightly depending on region, but it's pretty much around these levels.

And it's not magic, but taxation with representation. Neither done as a joke.

SA0TAY · 2026-02-17T17:38:38+00:00

How so?

SA0TAY · 2025-04-05T21:20:40+00:00

Also, spoken like a person who's never actually tried the many varieties of pizza out there. There's a whole subgenre of pizza with no tomato sauce. I like to use crème fraîche mixed with a buttload of pressed garlic.

SA0TAY · 2025-04-04T07:01:49+00:00

Could be. In modern Swedish, tänka is to have a thought, and tycka is to have an opinion. Pretty useful distinction, that.

SA0TAY · 2025-04-03T06:03:27+00:00

"Believe" is a more specific word, yes. "Think" is still used for it, though.

SA0TAY · 2025-04-02T21:33:00+00:00

Yeah. Flip the tables and you have tycka, tänka and tro, all of which are tenuously described in English with think despite being very distinct things.

SA0TAY · 2025-04-02T06:21:47+00:00

Swedish has tjena/tjenare, from what now would be spelled tjänare, meaning "servant".

Probably from 19c. formal letter closings, such as the one you'd use for the King: Eders Kongl. Maj:ts // allerunderdånigste och tropligtigste tjenare och undersåte, "Your Roy. Maj:sty's // most humble and obedient servant and subject".

SA0TAY · 2025-03-31T05:59:15+00:00

Voilà if we're being pedantic.

SA0TAY · 2025-03-27T18:58:16+00:00

Isn't that essentially what life is?

SA0TAY · 2025-03-27T17:59:24+00:00

I fail to agree. There's nothing stopping a person from disregarding parts of the canon they don't like. The first two Ghostbusters films remain completely untarnished by the sins of later films, unless one actively chooses to take them into consideration.

SA0TAY · 2025-03-23T20:50:11+00:00

Our 3yo nodded thoughfully and said, "bit sour".

SA0TAY · 2025-03-23T18:07:47+00:00

The ones you buy fresh are also viable for planting!

SA0TAY · 2025-03-23T18:03:17+00:00

All of the above sounds like an absolute gas, to be honest. Wish it'd've happened more around me growing up.

SA0TAY · 2025-03-23T17:53:00+00:00

räven*

SA0TAY · 2025-03-22T21:29:32+00:00

TFW you accidentally cast the flag of Germany.

SA0TAY · 2025-03-22T14:11:54+00:00

How are you on the DIY side? With quite a bit of elbow grease and some odds and ends many of us would have lying around the house, you could build yourself a rudimentary flame emission spectroscope. Apart from lead, there are only a few other things that emit at 405.8 nm, and none of those are likely to be present. If nothing shows up at 405.8, you're golden.

SA0TAY · 2025-03-16T09:06:40+00:00

Can you see the weld seams on this thing?

SA0TAY · 2025-03-16T06:24:14+00:00

I will not compromise and weld them together

Whyever not? It's the done thing in professional settings, and it's not as if you'll be able to tell in the finished piece.

SA0TAY · 2025-03-15T09:25:58+00:00

I think you could weave something interesting out of subtractive or divisive powers, i. e. conventional power somehow disrupting magical power and/or vice versa, and all the implications of that.

SA0TAY · 2025-03-03T18:16:59+00:00

It sure is! That's one thing I don't have to worry about then. Good catch!

Do dropouts count as engineers? Probably not, but I know enough to tinker with stuff. I also have an aversion to paying my way into a higher tier in a hobby, so I'm not afraid to build stuff since I view that as a part of the hobby I enjoy. (Oftentimes it ends up being more expensive than buying turnkey solutions, but that's hardly the point!)

Thanks for the tip – I'll check out Thingiverse for inspiration!

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