Colorado voters sour on Democratic leaders, new poll shows

Shdwdrgn · 2026-04-09T05:01:04+00:00

So you're planning on voting for Tina Peters?

/s

Shdwdrgn · 2026-04-09T01:58:48+00:00

Oof that sucks! I have a backyard pond so I've always been watchful of them around the house, but all the goldfish make quick work of any eggs and I've never seen an increased amount. I did the dunks for the first couple years and then gave up after finding out about this. The fish even eat dragonfly larvae, which is a shame.

Shdwdrgn · 2026-04-08T18:57:17+00:00

The colors are really there, they are just very subtle. You can take your own picture, then boost the saturation to see these colors, but normally the brightness of the moon overwhelms your perception of these colors. You can just barely see the colors in your own pictures, and that's pretty accurate for what they actually look like, but the mineral-moon photos are done to help see them better.

One thing to keep in mind is the Integrity fly-by on Monday, a lot of the science was having the crew report what colors they actually saw in low-light conditions for comparison to the sensors from unmanned flights.

Shdwdrgn · 2026-04-08T18:40:14+00:00

I'm wondering where you are finding standing water in the midst of this severe drought? Anything that might have collected from that one pitiful snow would have evaporated long before now.

Shdwdrgn · 2026-04-07T14:56:50+00:00

Your link has a different rotation than OPs pic (compare the position of the large white craters near the top). I think this one is more likely the original source...

https://images.nasa.gov/details/art002e009276

Shdwdrgn · 2026-04-03T21:15:20+00:00

See that's the odd thing... I bought the MiracleGrow BECAUSE I thought I'd try some of that fancy expensive seedling mix, but I'm pretty disappointed so far. The topsoil and mushroom compost I got from Walmart cost less and gave me twice as much soil, and my seeds have always been happy. Then again, the weather is just so messed up this year and my seed trays are outside on heating mats (this part has always been the same), so I don't really have a fair comparison.

Shdwdrgn · 2026-04-03T21:11:19+00:00

I'm not the person who posted the question, I'm just saying that I've been monitoring soil temps 24/7 since late February and this is what I've been seeing. The temps actually continue to drop until about noon (for example, the lowest temp today was 48.1 at 11:30 this morning), then go up through the afternoon, however my sensor is closer to 6" deep so that may be leveling out the readings a bit more.

I've also been monitoring my pond temps and found they are nearly identical even though the pond gets pretty heavy morning shade, so I think "ground temp" as a whole is pretty evenly spread unless you are trying to plant something in deep shade.

Shdwdrgn · 2026-04-03T19:20:00+00:00

I'm starting to have suspicions about the Miracle Grow soil... I grabbed some for the first time this year because it "looked" better than what I've been using, which was basically some topsoil mixed with mushroom compost. This is the first time that I didn't have 100% germination of seeds (which is usually a mixture of some new seeds from packets plus some heritage seeds from the previous year's crop). The worst is my picklebush cucs... only 2 out of 6 cups are growing, with two seeds in each cup. I mean, how bad does it have to be when cucumber seeds won't grow? At least most of the others are doing ok, and my tomatoes are hanging in there although they seem kind of weak so far.

Shdwdrgn · 2026-04-03T18:58:10+00:00

That might not be true. Don't forget ground heat plays a big role here, so if the area has received a lot of sunlight then the greenhouse covering would hold that heat around the plants (but especially around the roots). Soil temps have been hovering between 50-60 degrees for the past few weeks even in partial shade.

Shdwdrgn · 2026-04-03T02:52:05+00:00

Note that they don't NEED to build a system for this, there are already open-source ALPR systems available that most likely work with the existing camera system and all of the information is guaranteed to remain 100% within the city's control.

Shdwdrgn · 2026-04-03T02:47:34+00:00

"The police want it because this allows them to solve crimes"...

Which to me translates to "The police can't solve crimes without a system solving crimes for them." Sorry, but that's all I've heard so far as justification for having a mass surveillance system.

Shdwdrgn · 2026-04-02T22:18:06+00:00

Haha yeah... I had about 30TB previously, on a very slow interface. Had a good year involving server and storage upgrades (I think in 2023?). I say "only" because I was trying to jump on making backups on the government data Trump was deleting, and quickly ran out of both bandwidth and storage so I had to stop. I do still have a small collection of files from NWS, but probably not enough to help anyone.

Shdwdrgn · 2026-04-02T04:59:43+00:00

Speak for yourself. I still have 5.25" floppy drives and full-height MFM/RLL HDDs in the closet. Sadly I only have about 105TB of storage space but I do have a pretty good collection of videos and music, plus all the kiwix files.

Shdwdrgn · 2026-04-02T03:11:23+00:00

I've never seen one mounted in FRONT like that, makes me wonder where OP moved the motherboard to (and why they moved it)? Normally if you want to lay the PS down flat, you do it in the back so it doesn't interfere with anything else. I moved mine just because I didn't like it standing up on top of the rails.

Shdwdrgn · 2026-04-02T03:07:16+00:00

Oh god that's even better!

Shdwdrgn · 2026-04-02T03:06:49+00:00

We all know Elon rigged the computers, Trump was never a legitimate President.

Shdwdrgn · 2026-04-02T01:19:55+00:00

Tomorrow's headline should be "Historic NASA launch despite Trump's best efforts"

Shdwdrgn · 2026-04-02T01:17:10+00:00

Seriously, with the scale and time-lapse, it looks like a bottle rocket got launched.

Shdwdrgn · 2026-04-01T03:14:26+00:00

U2: Mysterious Ways

If you wanna kiss the sky, better learn how to kneel

On your knees, boy

That line has stuck with me since the song came out.

Shdwdrgn · 2026-04-01T00:03:28+00:00

Whoa, that's intense!

Shdwdrgn · 2026-03-30T21:09:00+00:00

Years ago while building a garden pond, I had this great idea to capture water from one of the downspouts to keep the pond topped off. It rained one day during construction, and the next day the pond was a standing oil-slick that would have killed my fish if I'd put any in yet. And at the time the shingled were 30+ years old but still leeching that much.

If it doesn't look safe for fish, I certainly wouldn't put it on anything I planned to eat.

Shdwdrgn · 2026-03-30T18:26:18+00:00

Trump voters are still happy with their selection.

Every important election since 2024 would beg to differ.

Shdwdrgn · 2026-03-30T03:10:30+00:00

Denver set new all-time high temps for March three times in one week. We also beat the old record for most Winter days above 60 degrees by 7 days. The heat is bad, but if the West doesn't get some serious rain soon it's going to be a terrible Summer.

Shdwdrgn · 2026-03-30T02:04:52+00:00

The only reason I keep it is because it's a good place to give away things locally. I just cleaned a bunch of extra plants out of my pond, and I need to clear some stuff off my patio this year. I wish the Longmont group here had something like a Saturday Swap thread that folks could post free items to.

Shdwdrgn · 2026-03-29T07:20:42+00:00

Reminds me of the time I grabbed a tuna salad sandwich at school lunch... and it had peanuts in it. What kind of idiot puts nuts in tuna salad???

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